May 2, 2025 • 29 mins
A sitcom centered around a teenage boy and his family, capturing the trials and tribulations of adolescence with humor and heart. The show's relatable scenarios resonate with audiences.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
In just a moment, enjoy the Aldrich Family. But first
election Day is almost here. Studio eight h Heary a
place of feverish activity for.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
NBC's combined radio and TV.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Coverage of the biggest political event in twenty years. A
staff of two hundred and fifty men will relay the
latest news. Fifteen of the top commentators will analyze the results.
The network newsmen will have the mon robot, the electronic
brain to compute important trends as ballots.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Pour in from forty eight states.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Yes, Tuesday, NBC will be the nation's headquarters for election returns.
Now it's the Aldrich Family on NBC Coming Mothers. Yes
(00:54):
it The Alridge Family is transfised. Written by Clipper dolf Bed.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Even though everyone knows him because he lives in.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Your house, or next door, or somewhere in your memories,
no one has yet been able to define the typical
teenage American boy.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
All you can say is that he exists.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
In the person of Henry Aldridge. And when you say that,
you cross your fingers. The scene is the Alridge Hallway.
The time is just before breakfast.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Hello, Toby, Toby, are you listening? Yes, Henry, but I'm thinking, well.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Never mind, thinking, Toby, didn't you say you pay me back?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I'm going to just as soon as I get some money.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
But Toby, I'm going to a party Saturday night. And
if you don't pay me the fifty cents, I can't
get the trousers I need. Henry, just a minute, Toby, what,
Homer tell him?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
If he doesn't pay, you'll sue. Sure, listen, Toby, would
help me any if I loaned your pair of trousers?
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
How would that help? I've wanted a brand new pair
of slacks and I.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Need that fifty cents before I can pay for them.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
We made some kind of business arrangement? What business arrangement?
Speaker 6 (02:03):
Well?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Would it help you any if I paid your five
cents every.
Speaker 7 (02:06):
Week on what I owe you?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
No, go on, Henry, tell him you'll sue.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Yeah, Toby, if I don't get that money, you can
expect to be sued.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Look, Henry, i'll call you back in just a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
You'd better Okay, you wait right there by the phone.
I'll see what I can do. Okay, So long, hand,
thanks for calling so long? What do he say, Henry?
What's a nice thing? Homer, that's a nice thing, Henry.
Did you know that when you're in a position like
the one you're in, you can get a bill collector?
You can sure, My father will give you the names
of two or three you could get.
Speaker 8 (02:34):
Yes, Father, I just put a letter for you on
the living room table.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Oh gee, whiz? Who's it from? I didn't notice Homer
come on into the living room. Why don't you get
a collector and scare the daylights out of Toby. I'd
certainly like to Henry.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
Your breakfast is getting cold.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
I'll be right there.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Mother.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
You asked for three eggs.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
You know, yes, Mother, I'm practically starved this morning.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Is your letter from a girl?
Speaker 7 (02:56):
Henry?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Oh? Gee whiz?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Who's it from? Henry?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Gee whiz? What does the letter say? Oh?
Speaker 7 (03:03):
Boy?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Is it bad news? Hen Will you please stop breathing
on me?
Speaker 9 (03:08):
But who's the letter from?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Henry? The public library? Oh? The library they want you
to join? Well, not exactly.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
I borrowed a book there, see, and now suddenly it's overdue.
Or when did you take it out? Sometime last December?
They say she was Homer. I think they made a mistake.
I could almost swear it wasn't until last January.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Are you sure? Sure? I'm sure.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I remember distinctly that in December I didn't feel like
reading on account of Christmas.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Oh boy, And they charged two cents a day January, February, March.
We're up to November. It'll be more than five dollars.
Five dollars just for one copy of Huckleberry Fended. I
didn't even read. Well, why didn't you return it after
two weeks?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I told you I hadn't finished it. That's what I
get for trying to improve my mind?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Five dollars? How much do you have?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Well, just enough to pay for my slacks, provided he
pays what he owes me.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Then forget about the book. The thing for you to do, Henry,
is to crack down on Toby. But what about the
library book? All a public library will ever do is
send your letters? And what harm can that? Do you
really think? So, Homer? Sure, they can't afford to get
too tough.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
They don't want to lose you as a customer, Henry.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
After all, they hardly ever go as far as they
did with George Bigelow. What did they do to George?
They called in his mother and father and went to
see the principal.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Oh boy, Henry, I want you to come in here
and eat your breakfast.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Mother. I don't think I want any breakfast.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
What's the matter.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I couldn't eat a thing.
Speaker 9 (04:47):
What are you doing, Henry?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I'm just looking for something. Mary, Oh my.
Speaker 9 (04:50):
Goodness, you don't have to tear the bookshelves all apart,
do you?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Don't worry? I'll put everything back. Mary, has any phone
call come for me this morning?
Speaker 9 (04:57):
Not that I know.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
It isn't that strange. Every time I've called Toby the
line was busy.
Speaker 9 (05:02):
I thought you were just talking to him.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
But it wasn't Toby. I was talking to the Centerville emporium.
What about Well? I canceled a pair of trousers I
happen to have ordered.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
Well.
Speaker 9 (05:11):
Mother says you should get ready for lunch right away.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
All right, worry you know miss Bowford, Miss Popford at
the library.
Speaker 10 (05:18):
Oh my goodness, missus Bofford. She scares me, Henry. She
has the most terrible temper.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Is that right, Henry?
Speaker 7 (05:25):
You want it on the telephone?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Well, gee, wiz, it's about time, Henry.
Speaker 9 (05:29):
Don't let your lunch get called.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I want to tell that Toby a thing or two. Hello, now, listen, Toby.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
It's mister Henry Ouldridge.
Speaker 9 (05:37):
What's that I'd like to speak to mister Henry Oldridge.
This is high this is the centervillein Porium.
Speaker 11 (05:42):
Oh oh, I'm very sorry, but our manager says it's
too late.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
To cancel your trousers.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
What so?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
But gee wiz, I don't want them.
Speaker 9 (05:50):
I'm sorry, but those trousers have been altered to your measurements.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
But I can't use them.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Another users come up through my money, I see, and
it is though I'd warned them, you still got them.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
We've even got all you cut off the bottom. I see.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
Well, I'll tell all mister Sweeney, thank.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
You very much, and tell them that if I see
anybody in my.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Size, i'd be very glad to send them in. I'm
excited to you.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
Thank you, good night, Henry.
Speaker 12 (06:14):
Yes, mother, Henry, did I just hear you canceling your
order for those new trousers?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Yes? Mother, but why dear well who boy? You know
how it is with new trousers.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
I'm afraid I don't who she was after awhile you
get tired of looking at them, and then I'd wear
them to the.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Party Saturday night when it's over. What use would I
have for them? You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Mother?
Speaker 12 (06:35):
No, dear, but I'm sure you're being very sensible. Now
please run out and get ready for lunch. I have
something I made just specially for you.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I've got to answer the phone first.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Hello, Toby, Hello, Oh, Homer, listen, Homer, this is mister Sweeney.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Who mister Sweeney from the Emplorium? Oh? Did your girl
tell you why?
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I explained everything she did. And we try to treat
our customers fairly. But young man, do you understand what
the business transaction is?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I can't use the trousers. Neither can we. We can't. Well, look,
do you know Huckleberry Finn?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
No, but we have a great many customers and I
can't be expected in all of them. Well, you see,
I've been in a very embarrassing position with those trousers.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
You'll be much.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
More embarrassed without them.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
What I mean is they were ordered especially for you.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Will you please call for them? Didn't I make it
clear I can't use them?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Well, I'm not very fond of light blue? Would you
please ask your father to come to the phone.
Speaker 12 (07:36):
My father?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Your father, Well, he isn't here right now? Then may
I speak to your mother. Well, look, come to think
of it, I am fond of light blue. I'll be
down to get them. And when can we expect to see?
Would tomorrow be too late?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
That'll be fine, Thank you, sir, that's all right, goodbye, goodbye.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
I think it was the emporium. Listen, Mary, could you
loan me a few dollars?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Provided I pay it back a little each week.
Speaker 9 (08:04):
What's the matter with your own money?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
It's all tied up, you might say, in debts.
Speaker 10 (08:08):
I'm sorry, Henry, I just spent everything I had on
a dress for the party Saturday night. It's the most
beautiful blue. They call it huckleberry blue.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Huckle huckle Yeah.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
Are you ready for lunch?
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Children? Right away? Mother?
Speaker 7 (08:23):
How about you? Henry?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Well? Gee, mother, I'm sorry, but I couldn't eat a thing.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Hello? Is this doctor Bennington?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yes, missus Aldrich.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
I don't like to bother you, doctor, but mister Aldrich
and I are just a bit worried about Henry.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Something wrong with him?
Speaker 7 (08:48):
Well, he's simply not himself. He hasn't eaten more than
a bite in two days.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
That's pretty serious for Henry.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Does he have a rag?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
No?
Speaker 7 (08:57):
I haven't noticed.
Speaker 12 (08:58):
Anny, he just sits and hopes all day and he's
extremely nervous.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Well, I'll phone in the drug store and have a
tonic put up for it for doctor.
Speaker 12 (09:06):
We've always had a great deal of trouble getting him
to take any tonic.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
He fights it.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Well, maybe the exercise will give him an appetite.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You tell Henry that if he takes this, all of
his troubles will be over.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
All right, Thank you for calling missus Olrey, Thank you doctor.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Good day.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Mother, Yes, Mary, have you forgotten?
Speaker 7 (09:25):
It is ready oncoming? We went right ahead. Father, Yes,
Henry tobe that his call wasn't and no, there it
was a call I put in.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Did you see Toby today, Henry?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
No, Father, I haven't been able to get in touch
with him.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Well, you're not the only one, what.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Do you mean? Father?
Speaker 8 (09:40):
After trying to get his father on the phone all day,
I stopped in there on the way home tonight. We
discovered that somebody had plugged the phone so that it
only gave a busy signal?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Is that right? Is that right?
Speaker 7 (09:52):
Henry? You must eat something.
Speaker 12 (09:54):
If you don't, you certainly aren't going to any party
Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Mother Eleanor Wentworth expects me. She invited me personally.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Hell on Wentworth, you're going over to the Wentwest Saturday.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Yes, sir, that's where the party is.
Speaker 8 (10:05):
Alice, did you hear about mister Wentworth quite an honor?
What about him saying they were just elected chairman of
the board at the public Library?
Speaker 6 (10:13):
That what was he.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Mister Wentworth was? Yes, mister Wentworth, he's chairman of the library.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Do you have any objection me?
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Oh, gosh, no, I I was just surprised to hear that.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
With all his other work, why would he want to
be that.
Speaker 8 (10:33):
I think he'll find some way to work it out.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
Henry, turn around and let me look at you.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Something the matter with me?
Speaker 9 (10:40):
Sam?
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Don't you think we ought to have the doctor come
over and see Henry.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
If you think it'll amuse him?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Dear?
Speaker 7 (10:46):
I'm serious.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Now, mother. If there's one thing I don't want to see,
it's a doctor.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
Well, I certainly think we ought to drop into his office.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Tomorrow tomorrow, But I have a job that I'm beginning
tomorrow with who with missus Hoffman.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Was just to prove him all right? I'll eat some
dessert for you, Mary.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
How about the dessert.
Speaker 8 (11:06):
I'll bring it right in father, Well, please hurry, I
have a guest.
Speaker 12 (11:09):
Coming, and Mary, I want you to give Henry an
extra large portion.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
Sure, what are we having? Huckleberries?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Huckleberries, good old huckleberries.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
Huckh That reminds me, Henry.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Have you ever read Huckleberry Finn?
Speaker 8 (11:27):
If you haven't, you want to get it out of
the library.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
Sometimes, Yes, dear, weren't you reading it last winter?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I was, mother? But I were you married?
Speaker 9 (11:34):
Henry?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Thank you?
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Mary?
Speaker 9 (11:36):
Who's coming over tonight?
Speaker 7 (11:37):
Father?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Mister Wentworth?
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Mister Wentworth?
Speaker 5 (11:42):
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 9 (11:44):
Cleberry?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Mary found him on the back.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Well, I'm certain glad you dropped in, mister Wentworth. Sorry,
I can't stay any long time and you can count on.
This has all richen me to do everything we can
for the library.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
It's very good of you, Mistalbridge.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
Incidentally, if you want to raise more funds, why not
get some of the young people interested.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
You think they'd help.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Well, of course, let's get Henry down here.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
He's usually pretty good at organizing things.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Henry.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Oh, Henry strange. He was here right after dinner.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Well ask him dropping on my office someday I'd.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Like to have a talk with him. All right, I'll
do that. Glad you dropped in. Incidentally, I'll not seem
to think a great deal of Henry.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
Well, you know how Henry feels about Eleanor. He's looking
forward to coming over to her party Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Sam, Good night, mister Wentworth, and I Mistalbridge.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
That's Sam. Did Henry say anything to you about going out?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Not to me?
Speaker 7 (12:43):
Well, dear, I'm really worried now, Alice.
Speaker 8 (12:46):
Henry's a reasonably normal, healthy boy. There's nothing to worry about. Father, Henry,
is that you?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
What are you doing? I'm talking to your mother?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Are you talking to anybody else besides mother? No?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
You just missed, mister Wentworth.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Oh, I'm certainly sorry to hear that, Henry.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Where have you been?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Well?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Just out in the garage, I am. I just thought
i'd go out and see whether the car needed washing
at this time of night, zash.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Everybody knows the best time to wash your car is
when the sun's down. Mister Wentworth isn't coming back, is he?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
No, Dear, No, that reminds me.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
Mister Wentworth said, if you have time tomorrow, he'd like
you to drop into his office.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
He wants to have a talk with you with I
what for.
Speaker 8 (13:30):
It's regarding a matter of pertaining to the library.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
It is some money they're trying to.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Collect, you know, Father, I think i'll be going to.
Speaker 8 (13:38):
Bed, Henry, word, you're your bedtime?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Well, I know, but I think mother's right.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Maybe I am coming down with something.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Yeah, it's Henry Alder's. Missus Hoffman reporting for work.
Speaker 11 (14:02):
Oh, I'm sorry, dear, I'm afraid it's too wet for
you to rake the leaves this morning.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
She with Missus Hoffman. I need her in some money. Well,
I have several errands. You might run for me. Come
in while I answer the phone. Yes, ma'am, i'd be
glad to do anything. Hello. Oh, not at all.
Speaker 10 (14:21):
I'll be very glad to call him.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Henry.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yes, Missus Hoffman.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
No, mother wants to stick to you. She says, it's
quite important.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Oh, hello, mother, Henry.
Speaker 7 (14:31):
Can you be through with Missus Hoffman's by three o'clock? Why,
I've made an appointment for you to see doctor Bennington.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Doctor Bennington, Mother, doctor Bennington.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Yes, there, used to give you a thorough going over.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Good Mother, I might be busy here all day. I
haven't got time to be gone over by noon.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
Henry, you want, Missus Hofman, remember at three o'clock, do
you hear me?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Yes? Mother, goodbye. Now here's what I.
Speaker 11 (14:53):
Want you to do first, Henry, Yes, ma'am, this book
goes back to the library.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Yes, missus to the library.
Speaker 11 (15:00):
Goodness, look at this, my my mind, it's two days overdue. Well,
I don't know what Miss Spofford will think of.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Me two days. Well, you just have to apologize for me.
Speaker 11 (15:11):
I understand that since mister Wentworth has been made chairman
of the board, they're starting a campaign about overdrawn books.
They are, after all, you can't blame them. Some people
keep a book out for as much as a month.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Look, Missus Hoffman, the son's coming out.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Couldn't I do something else for you instead of going
down to the library.
Speaker 11 (15:29):
I'd much rather you went down to the library, and
please tell Miss Spofford that if she has a copy
of a book called Crime and Punishment, I'd love to
read it.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Crime and Punishment, Yes, dear, and hurry, won't you? Yes, ma'am?
But are you sure you don't want me to.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Do something constructive instead.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
We'll return to the Aldridge family in just a moment.
But right now I'd like to give you some side
information on the NBC shows to be heard over most
of these same stations later this evening. First off, we're
all going to go over to the Harris Fay household
to visit with that suave sophisticate Phil Harris and his
long suffering wife Alice. And then we go from the
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There is a whole world of radio entertainment that's yours
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later tonight. Now getting back to the troubles of Henry Ridge.
Henry has just been notified that he's neglected to return
a library book which he drew out last December, which
he is now unable to find.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Well.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Hoping to earn enough to pay part of the fine,
he takes.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
A job with Missus.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Hoffman, whose first request is that Henry return a book
of her own to the library. The scene opens into
Haven's drugstore. The time is a half hour later.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Homer, won't you please help me out? Won't you please
do it for me? But Henry, I'm busy.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I've got some pretty important things to take care of,
like what like what? Well, I've got a date with
Willie Marshall to watch that new building they're putting up
a third in Maine. Boy, Homer, and you call yourself
a friend.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Have you ever in your whole life asked me to
do anything and I turned you down?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Sure? Last week you wouldn't lend me your binoculars?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
She was.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
You don't have to remember every little thing I thought
we were friends.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
We are friends, Henry.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Well, if you can't do a simple little thing like
going to the library and returning a book and maybe
getting another, all right.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
I'll do it, Homer. You'll never regret it.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Where I reach you right here in the drugs or
buy this telephone booth. I'll be calling Eleanor while I'm
waiting for you.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Why are you calling Eleanor?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I'm taking you to the movies tonight. I think it'd
be better if I met her someplace besides your house.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Oh, hear, Homer. All you have to do is give
this book.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
To miss Bonford and apologize for missus Hoffman's keeping it
over two days?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Shall I tell her you'll bring in Huckleberry Finn as
soon as you find it. No, Homer, don't worry you're
about that. Just give her this and ask her for
for for what?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Well?
Speaker 4 (18:38):
I think the name of it is crime doesn't pay.
Speaker 9 (18:55):
Did you like the movie Henry Well?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
I didn't care for it so much, Eleanor, all right,
I thought it was beautiful the way as long as
he lived his conscience bothered him.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Did you like that part?
Speaker 11 (19:07):
And all He's stolen when he was a boy was
an ordinary bottle of the milk.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
Didn't he suffer though?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Well?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I guess the suffering was pretty evenly divided? He listen, Elana,
would you mind walking up this street toward Homer's house?
Speaker 7 (19:18):
What bo Well?
Speaker 4 (19:19):
I waited at the Haven's drug store for nearly three
hours a day and he never did show up.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Now, I'll bet you wouldn't do a thing like that
to a person who me that's the first.
Speaker 12 (19:28):
Impression a person gets of you, that you're dependable and reliable.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Oh gee, I don't you take a person that? Whoa what?
Speaker 9 (19:39):
Henry Well?
Speaker 4 (19:40):
What I was gonna say is you take sometimes do?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I guess a person can't help it? Help what anything.
Speaker 9 (19:48):
You're awfully understanding of brothers?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Henry Well, I do study people a lot. They kind
of read their character.
Speaker 9 (19:55):
And that's what I like about you, Henry. You're so intelligent.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
I'll bet you do it a.
Speaker 9 (20:00):
Lot of reading.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Why, well, I like some books.
Speaker 9 (20:03):
I'll let you probably go up.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
And collect books.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I'll get over it.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
I mean, oh boy, who's that coming down the street
right under the street lamp.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
Oh it's miss Spofford Ms.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Bawford from the library and only what you might call professionally,
Look eleanor I still going to Homers.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Why don't we go down this way by Johnson's Kennedy Kitchen?
Speaker 9 (20:24):
Did you want to stop men?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah? I think it might be a good idea. Let's
walk real fast. Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 9 (20:30):
Look who's right ahead of it?
Speaker 7 (20:32):
Isn't that missus Hoffman?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
This is Hoffman?
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Oh boy, look Eleanor why why don't we go across
the street to Tillman's Hamburger Stand.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
It's a lot better, all right?
Speaker 9 (20:40):
Oh that's her. Why that's right over there.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
We can walk with him.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
He is Harry, Henry, Henry?
Speaker 12 (21:05):
Why did he say, Alice, sam The doctors doesn't seem
to know what the trouble is.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
No, there wasn't.
Speaker 12 (21:10):
Anything wrong with his eyes, and the dentist X rayed
every tooth in his head.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Well, I should put your mind at ease.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
No, dear, it doesn't.
Speaker 12 (21:18):
Doctor Bennington says, sometimes something very mysterious can happen to
a boy, and no matter how hard they try, they
can't find what's wrong.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
He simply goes into a complete decline.
Speaker 12 (21:29):
And when a thing like that happens, Sammy says, there's
only one safe.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
Thing to do. What's that take a trip to Arizona?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
All right, I'll take.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
It, Henry.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
What's in the box?
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Just a para Trouser's married, See a nice Leamporia made them.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
It's still to order.
Speaker 10 (21:56):
You might say, you better hurry if you're going to
the party.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I'm not going.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Because I'm not. Do you think i'd be wearing my
new trousers if I were going?
Speaker 9 (22:05):
Well, Henry, you don't have to jump at.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Me, jump at you? One did I jump at you?
Speaker 10 (22:08):
That's what mother and father were talking about.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
They said, you've turned so cross. They don't know you.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Listen, Mary, I'm in one of the most terrible predicaments
I've ever been in in my life.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
You know where I can lay my hands on a
copy of Huckleberry Finn.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
Sure you do.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
That's wonderful.
Speaker 9 (22:21):
Where the public library?
Speaker 3 (22:25):
She whiz? Mary, Henry.
Speaker 11 (22:26):
Yes, Mother, have you taken your tomic since dinner?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Wiz?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I've taken it five times today.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
That doesn't make any difference. You're supposed to take it
acid dinner.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Too, All right, Listen, Mary, I had a letter from
the library today. See another. Don't you know I had?
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Any?
Speaker 9 (22:43):
I keep my eyes open?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Well, Mary, All.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Miss Bofford says in this letter is that if I
pay the library the price of a new copy of
Huckleberry Finn, they'll forget the rest it's due.
Speaker 10 (22:52):
Well, I'm sorry, I can't lend you anything, Henry.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
Henry yes, Mother, almost down here he is. Homer's here?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Sure, lg whiz Homer? Where have you been for the
last two days? I was delayed, Henry.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Delayed by what?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Well? First it was the bulldozers, then it was the
steam shovel. But don't worry. I got missus Hoffman's book
to the library the first thing this morning. Boy, it's
about time.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
We'll hurry up.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Aren't you going to the party? Oh I'm not. Why not,
because I'm mister Wentworth. Well, mister Wentworth isn't gonna be there.
Speaker 11 (23:24):
He isn't.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I think somebody said he's gonna be out of town.
But you're not sure he's going to be I'm partly sure.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Well, come on, Homer, come on, aren't you gonna put
on your new pants?
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Well, I'll bring the box along with me.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
What, Homer, There's no sense in putting them on and
giving them wear and terry unless I'm absolutely sure I'm
going to the party.
Speaker 9 (23:55):
Jamie, what are you doing out here on the court?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Hello, Eleanor? Come on, Homer, Hi, come on, Eleanor.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
We won't be disturbing your father, will we?
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (24:03):
No, he isn't even in town.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
He isn't what'd you Leleino? That's too bad, didn't I
tell you? Henry, let's go in.
Speaker 9 (24:09):
Come on, Henry. Okay, there isn't anyone here but our
town and a few others. And miss Pofford, Misspowford, Yes
you know her, don't you?
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Yes, yes, sure, Miss Bonford from the library, Elenor. I
just happen to remember. Oh, my mother's home all alone.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
She is, Henry. Oh, why don't you have get.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
To come over?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
No?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
I think I better go home.
Speaker 9 (24:29):
Oh, Henry, you can certainly come in for just a while.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I'd liked Eleanor, but when my mother's alone, she likes
to have me with her.
Speaker 9 (24:35):
Oh, just stay for one game. In just a minute.
We're gonna play a literary game.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
A literary game, A literary game. Yes, I just happen
to think my mother's alone too.
Speaker 9 (24:46):
Thing in the world. Miss Pofford asked the questions, and
you answer and they're a prize.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Well I just couldn't enjoy winning a prize and I
with my mother home alone.
Speaker 9 (24:55):
Please, Henry, No, Henry, I'm not.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
Gonna let you.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
You're coming in if I have to pull you in.
Speaker 7 (25:02):
Please Illinois, Henry knowing me.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
If I'm going in, you are too.
Speaker 10 (25:18):
Why everybody please quiet?
Speaker 9 (25:22):
Miss Boffin is almost ready for the final part of
the game.
Speaker 10 (25:27):
The last three remaining in the literary contest are let.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Me see who are they?
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Miss Crawford?
Speaker 5 (25:32):
There, Goby Smith, Toby Smith, Omer bra Homer Brown.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
And now let me see who is the third?
Speaker 9 (25:38):
Who isn't it Henry?
Speaker 8 (25:39):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Yes, Henry l Rich.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Now all three of you boys will stand in the
middle of the room facing me.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am. In each of these
packages is a pride. Yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am. Miss Barford.
Can anyone take my place?
Speaker 9 (25:54):
I'm very sorry Henry, but you will have to take
your own turn in answering No, then, Toby, in order
to win what's in.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
This box I hold, you will have to answer a question.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Yes, ma'am. Now tell me what character in literature said
to be or not to be? To be or not
to be? Is that the end of the sentence? That's
the end of the question.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
Who said it?
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Shakespeare? Well, that's close enough.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Here's the box of why I believe it's six Linen Hanka.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Well, thank you very much. They're exactly what I've always wanted.
Speaker 9 (26:30):
Now, then, Homer, but what can you tell me?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Who was the leading female character in Ivanhoe in Ivanhll?
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Yes, she has to be female. I'm afraid inn Ivan
Holl Rebecca, that's right?
Speaker 5 (26:50):
What and and here is a lovely color box for you.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Now, then, Henry could want you to tell.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Me the name of the author of the book in
this last package.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
He yesked, Miss Pofford, it is Huckleberry Thinn Huckleberry Harry.
Speaker 11 (27:12):
She words Miss Popley's phasic when somebody get.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
Something cold and unham ice streamline he accident.
Speaker 9 (27:18):
She reads the book just as he went down. His
last words were Mark.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
Twain, mis Parford, why don't you just keep the book?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
I've got a feeling you're gonna get it back anyway.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
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The Aldridge Family is transcribed is written by Clifford Goldsmith.
Henry is played by Bobby Ellis and Homer by Jack Grimes.
Mister and Missus Aldridge are House Jamison and Katherine rot.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
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Speaker 1 (28:44):
Listen again next week, same time, same station, for another
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Speaker 3 (28:50):
Night Everybody.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
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Speaker 2 (01:11):
Even though everyone knows him because he lives in.
Speaker 1 (01:13):
Your house, or next door, or somewhere in your memories,
no one has yet been able to define the typical
teenage American boy.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
All you can say is that he exists.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
In the person of Henry Aldridge. And when you say that,
you cross your fingers. The scene is the Alridge Hallway.
The time is just before breakfast.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Hello, Toby, Toby, are you listening? Yes, Henry, but I'm thinking, well.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
Never mind, thinking, Toby, didn't you say you pay me back?
Speaker 3 (01:39):
I'm going to just as soon as I get some money.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
But Toby, I'm going to a party Saturday night. And
if you don't pay me the fifty cents, I can't
get the trousers I need. Henry, just a minute, Toby, what,
Homer tell him?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
If he doesn't pay, you'll sue. Sure, listen, Toby, would
help me any if I loaned your pair of trousers?
Speaker 5 (01:54):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (01:54):
How would that help? I've wanted a brand new pair
of slacks and I.
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Need that fifty cents before I can pay for them.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
We made some kind of business arrangement? What business arrangement?
Speaker 6 (02:03):
Well?
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Would it help you any if I paid your five
cents every.
Speaker 7 (02:06):
Week on what I owe you?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
No, go on, Henry, tell him you'll sue.
Speaker 4 (02:10):
Yeah, Toby, if I don't get that money, you can
expect to be sued.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Look, Henry, i'll call you back in just a few minutes.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
You'd better Okay, you wait right there by the phone.
I'll see what I can do. Okay, So long, hand,
thanks for calling so long? What do he say, Henry?
What's a nice thing? Homer, that's a nice thing, Henry.
Did you know that when you're in a position like
the one you're in, you can get a bill collector?
You can sure, My father will give you the names
of two or three you could get.
Speaker 8 (02:34):
Yes, Father, I just put a letter for you on
the living room table.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Oh gee, whiz? Who's it from? I didn't notice Homer
come on into the living room. Why don't you get
a collector and scare the daylights out of Toby. I'd
certainly like to Henry.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
Your breakfast is getting cold.
Speaker 5 (02:48):
I'll be right there.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Mother.
Speaker 7 (02:49):
You asked for three eggs.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
You know, yes, Mother, I'm practically starved this morning.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
Is your letter from a girl?
Speaker 7 (02:56):
Henry?
Speaker 3 (02:57):
Oh? Gee whiz?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (02:58):
Who's it from? Henry?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Gee whiz? What does the letter say? Oh?
Speaker 7 (03:03):
Boy?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Is it bad news? Hen Will you please stop breathing
on me?
Speaker 9 (03:08):
But who's the letter from?
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Henry? The public library? Oh? The library they want you
to join? Well, not exactly.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
I borrowed a book there, see, and now suddenly it's overdue.
Or when did you take it out? Sometime last December?
They say she was Homer. I think they made a mistake.
I could almost swear it wasn't until last January.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Are you sure? Sure? I'm sure.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I remember distinctly that in December I didn't feel like
reading on account of Christmas.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Oh boy, And they charged two cents a day January, February, March.
We're up to November. It'll be more than five dollars.
Five dollars just for one copy of Huckleberry Fended. I
didn't even read. Well, why didn't you return it after
two weeks?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
I told you I hadn't finished it. That's what I
get for trying to improve my mind?
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Five dollars? How much do you have?
Speaker 4 (03:58):
Well, just enough to pay for my slacks, provided he
pays what he owes me.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Then forget about the book. The thing for you to do, Henry,
is to crack down on Toby. But what about the
library book? All a public library will ever do is
send your letters? And what harm can that? Do you
really think? So, Homer? Sure, they can't afford to get
too tough.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
They don't want to lose you as a customer, Henry.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
After all, they hardly ever go as far as they
did with George Bigelow. What did they do to George?
They called in his mother and father and went to
see the principal.
Speaker 5 (04:27):
Oh boy, Henry, I want you to come in here
and eat your breakfast.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Mother. I don't think I want any breakfast.
Speaker 7 (04:34):
What's the matter.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I couldn't eat a thing.
Speaker 9 (04:47):
What are you doing, Henry?
Speaker 3 (04:49):
I'm just looking for something. Mary, Oh my.
Speaker 9 (04:50):
Goodness, you don't have to tear the bookshelves all apart,
do you?
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Don't worry? I'll put everything back. Mary, has any phone
call come for me this morning?
Speaker 9 (04:57):
Not that I know.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
It isn't that strange. Every time I've called Toby the
line was busy.
Speaker 9 (05:02):
I thought you were just talking to him.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
But it wasn't Toby. I was talking to the Centerville emporium.
What about Well? I canceled a pair of trousers I
happen to have ordered.
Speaker 7 (05:10):
Well.
Speaker 9 (05:11):
Mother says you should get ready for lunch right away.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
All right, worry you know miss Bowford, Miss Popford at
the library.
Speaker 10 (05:18):
Oh my goodness, missus Bofford. She scares me, Henry. She
has the most terrible temper.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Is that right, Henry?
Speaker 7 (05:25):
You want it on the telephone?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
Well, gee, wiz, it's about time, Henry.
Speaker 9 (05:29):
Don't let your lunch get called.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
I want to tell that Toby a thing or two. Hello, now, listen, Toby.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
It's mister Henry Ouldridge.
Speaker 9 (05:37):
What's that I'd like to speak to mister Henry Oldridge.
This is high this is the centervillein Porium.
Speaker 11 (05:42):
Oh oh, I'm very sorry, but our manager says it's
too late.
Speaker 7 (05:46):
To cancel your trousers.
Speaker 6 (05:48):
What so?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
But gee wiz, I don't want them.
Speaker 9 (05:50):
I'm sorry, but those trousers have been altered to your measurements.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
But I can't use them.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Another users come up through my money, I see, and
it is though I'd warned them, you still got them.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
We've even got all you cut off the bottom. I see.
Speaker 7 (06:02):
Well, I'll tell all mister Sweeney, thank.
Speaker 4 (06:04):
You very much, and tell them that if I see
anybody in my.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Size, i'd be very glad to send them in. I'm
excited to you.
Speaker 7 (06:11):
Thank you, good night, Henry.
Speaker 12 (06:14):
Yes, mother, Henry, did I just hear you canceling your
order for those new trousers?
Speaker 3 (06:18):
Yes? Mother, but why dear well who boy? You know
how it is with new trousers.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
I'm afraid I don't who she was after awhile you
get tired of looking at them, and then I'd wear
them to the.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Party Saturday night when it's over. What use would I
have for them? You know what I mean?
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Mother?
Speaker 12 (06:35):
No, dear, but I'm sure you're being very sensible. Now
please run out and get ready for lunch. I have
something I made just specially for you.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
I've got to answer the phone first.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
Hello, Toby, Hello, Oh, Homer, listen, Homer, this is mister Sweeney.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Who mister Sweeney from the Emplorium? Oh? Did your girl
tell you why?
Speaker 4 (06:53):
I explained everything she did. And we try to treat
our customers fairly. But young man, do you understand what
the business transaction is?
Speaker 3 (07:01):
I can't use the trousers. Neither can we. We can't. Well, look,
do you know Huckleberry Finn?
Speaker 4 (07:08):
No, but we have a great many customers and I
can't be expected in all of them. Well, you see,
I've been in a very embarrassing position with those trousers.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
You'll be much.
Speaker 2 (07:17):
More embarrassed without them.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
What I mean is they were ordered especially for you.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Will you please call for them? Didn't I make it
clear I can't use them?
Speaker 2 (07:27):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Well, I'm not very fond of light blue? Would you
please ask your father to come to the phone.
Speaker 12 (07:36):
My father?
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Your father, Well, he isn't here right now? Then may
I speak to your mother. Well, look, come to think
of it, I am fond of light blue. I'll be
down to get them. And when can we expect to see?
Would tomorrow be too late?
Speaker 1 (07:50):
That'll be fine, Thank you, sir, that's all right, goodbye, goodbye.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
I think it was the emporium. Listen, Mary, could you
loan me a few dollars?
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Provided I pay it back a little each week.
Speaker 9 (08:04):
What's the matter with your own money?
Speaker 3 (08:05):
It's all tied up, you might say, in debts.
Speaker 10 (08:08):
I'm sorry, Henry, I just spent everything I had on
a dress for the party Saturday night. It's the most
beautiful blue. They call it huckleberry blue.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Huckle huckle Yeah.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
Are you ready for lunch?
Speaker 5 (08:21):
Children? Right away? Mother?
Speaker 7 (08:23):
How about you? Henry?
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Well? Gee, mother, I'm sorry, but I couldn't eat a thing.
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Hello? Is this doctor Bennington?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yes, missus Aldrich.
Speaker 7 (08:42):
I don't like to bother you, doctor, but mister Aldrich
and I are just a bit worried about Henry.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Something wrong with him?
Speaker 7 (08:48):
Well, he's simply not himself. He hasn't eaten more than
a bite in two days.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
That's pretty serious for Henry.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Does he have a rag?
Speaker 4 (08:57):
No?
Speaker 7 (08:57):
I haven't noticed.
Speaker 12 (08:58):
Anny, he just sits and hopes all day and he's
extremely nervous.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
Well, I'll phone in the drug store and have a
tonic put up for it for doctor.
Speaker 12 (09:06):
We've always had a great deal of trouble getting him
to take any tonic.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
He fights it.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
Well, maybe the exercise will give him an appetite.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
You tell Henry that if he takes this, all of
his troubles will be over.
Speaker 7 (09:18):
All right, Thank you for calling missus Olrey, Thank you doctor.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Good day.
Speaker 5 (09:23):
Mother, Yes, Mary, have you forgotten?
Speaker 7 (09:25):
It is ready oncoming? We went right ahead. Father, Yes,
Henry tobe that his call wasn't and no, there it
was a call I put in.
Speaker 2 (09:33):
Did you see Toby today, Henry?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
No, Father, I haven't been able to get in touch
with him.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Well, you're not the only one, what.
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Do you mean? Father?
Speaker 8 (09:40):
After trying to get his father on the phone all day,
I stopped in there on the way home tonight. We
discovered that somebody had plugged the phone so that it
only gave a busy signal?
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Is that right? Is that right?
Speaker 7 (09:52):
Henry? You must eat something.
Speaker 12 (09:54):
If you don't, you certainly aren't going to any party
Saturday night.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Mother Eleanor Wentworth expects me. She invited me personally.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
Hell on Wentworth, you're going over to the Wentwest Saturday.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Yes, sir, that's where the party is.
Speaker 8 (10:05):
Alice, did you hear about mister Wentworth quite an honor?
What about him saying they were just elected chairman of
the board at the public Library?
Speaker 6 (10:13):
That what was he.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Mister Wentworth was? Yes, mister Wentworth, he's chairman of the library.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Do you have any objection me?
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Oh, gosh, no, I I was just surprised to hear that.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
With all his other work, why would he want to
be that.
Speaker 8 (10:33):
I think he'll find some way to work it out.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
Henry, turn around and let me look at you.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Something the matter with me?
Speaker 9 (10:40):
Sam?
Speaker 7 (10:40):
Don't you think we ought to have the doctor come
over and see Henry.
Speaker 2 (10:43):
If you think it'll amuse him?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Dear?
Speaker 7 (10:46):
I'm serious.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
Now, mother. If there's one thing I don't want to see,
it's a doctor.
Speaker 7 (10:53):
Well, I certainly think we ought to drop into his office.
Speaker 4 (10:55):
Tomorrow tomorrow, But I have a job that I'm beginning
tomorrow with who with missus Hoffman.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Was just to prove him all right? I'll eat some
dessert for you, Mary.
Speaker 2 (11:05):
How about the dessert.
Speaker 8 (11:06):
I'll bring it right in father, Well, please hurry, I
have a guest.
Speaker 12 (11:09):
Coming, and Mary, I want you to give Henry an
extra large portion.
Speaker 7 (11:14):
Sure, what are we having? Huckleberries?
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Huckleberries, good old huckleberries.
Speaker 8 (11:21):
Huckh That reminds me, Henry.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Have you ever read Huckleberry Finn?
Speaker 8 (11:27):
If you haven't, you want to get it out of
the library.
Speaker 7 (11:29):
Sometimes, Yes, dear, weren't you reading it last winter?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
I was, mother? But I were you married?
Speaker 9 (11:34):
Henry?
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Thank you?
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Mary?
Speaker 9 (11:36):
Who's coming over tonight?
Speaker 7 (11:37):
Father?
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Mister Wentworth?
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Mister Wentworth?
Speaker 5 (11:42):
What's the matter with you?
Speaker 9 (11:44):
Cleberry?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Mary found him on the back.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Well, I'm certain glad you dropped in, mister Wentworth. Sorry,
I can't stay any long time and you can count on.
This has all richen me to do everything we can
for the library.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
It's very good of you, Mistalbridge.
Speaker 8 (12:04):
Incidentally, if you want to raise more funds, why not
get some of the young people interested.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
You think they'd help.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
Well, of course, let's get Henry down here.
Speaker 8 (12:13):
He's usually pretty good at organizing things.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Henry.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Oh, Henry strange. He was here right after dinner.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Well ask him dropping on my office someday I'd.
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Like to have a talk with him. All right, I'll
do that. Glad you dropped in. Incidentally, I'll not seem
to think a great deal of Henry.
Speaker 8 (12:30):
Well, you know how Henry feels about Eleanor. He's looking
forward to coming over to her party Saturday night.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
Sam, Good night, mister Wentworth, and I Mistalbridge.
Speaker 7 (12:39):
That's Sam. Did Henry say anything to you about going out?
Speaker 2 (12:42):
Not to me?
Speaker 7 (12:43):
Well, dear, I'm really worried now, Alice.
Speaker 8 (12:46):
Henry's a reasonably normal, healthy boy. There's nothing to worry about. Father, Henry,
is that you?
Speaker 2 (12:53):
What are you doing? I'm talking to your mother?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Are you talking to anybody else besides mother? No?
Speaker 2 (13:00):
You just missed, mister Wentworth.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
Oh, I'm certainly sorry to hear that, Henry.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Where have you been?
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Well?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Just out in the garage, I am. I just thought
i'd go out and see whether the car needed washing
at this time of night, zash.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
Everybody knows the best time to wash your car is
when the sun's down. Mister Wentworth isn't coming back, is he?
Speaker 2 (13:21):
No, Dear, No, that reminds me.
Speaker 8 (13:22):
Mister Wentworth said, if you have time tomorrow, he'd like
you to drop into his office.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
He wants to have a talk with you with I
what for.
Speaker 8 (13:30):
It's regarding a matter of pertaining to the library.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
It is some money they're trying to.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Collect, you know, Father, I think i'll be going to.
Speaker 8 (13:38):
Bed, Henry, word, you're your bedtime?
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Well, I know, but I think mother's right.
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Maybe I am coming down with something.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Yeah, it's Henry Alder's. Missus Hoffman reporting for work.
Speaker 11 (14:02):
Oh, I'm sorry, dear, I'm afraid it's too wet for
you to rake the leaves this morning.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
She with Missus Hoffman. I need her in some money. Well,
I have several errands. You might run for me. Come
in while I answer the phone. Yes, ma'am, i'd be
glad to do anything. Hello. Oh, not at all.
Speaker 10 (14:21):
I'll be very glad to call him.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
Henry.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Yes, Missus Hoffman.
Speaker 7 (14:26):
No, mother wants to stick to you. She says, it's
quite important.
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Oh, hello, mother, Henry.
Speaker 7 (14:31):
Can you be through with Missus Hoffman's by three o'clock? Why,
I've made an appointment for you to see doctor Bennington.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Doctor Bennington, Mother, doctor Bennington.
Speaker 7 (14:39):
Yes, there, used to give you a thorough going over.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
Good Mother, I might be busy here all day. I
haven't got time to be gone over by noon.
Speaker 7 (14:46):
Henry, you want, Missus Hofman, remember at three o'clock, do
you hear me?
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Yes? Mother, goodbye. Now here's what I.
Speaker 11 (14:53):
Want you to do first, Henry, Yes, ma'am, this book
goes back to the library.
Speaker 4 (14:57):
Yes, missus to the library.
Speaker 11 (15:00):
Goodness, look at this, my my mind, it's two days overdue. Well,
I don't know what Miss Spofford will think of.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Me two days. Well, you just have to apologize for me.
Speaker 11 (15:11):
I understand that since mister Wentworth has been made chairman
of the board, they're starting a campaign about overdrawn books.
They are, after all, you can't blame them. Some people
keep a book out for as much as a month.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Look, Missus Hoffman, the son's coming out.
Speaker 4 (15:25):
Couldn't I do something else for you instead of going
down to the library.
Speaker 11 (15:29):
I'd much rather you went down to the library, and
please tell Miss Spofford that if she has a copy
of a book called Crime and Punishment, I'd love to
read it.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Crime and Punishment, Yes, dear, and hurry, won't you? Yes, ma'am?
But are you sure you don't want me to.
Speaker 4 (15:45):
Do something constructive instead.
Speaker 1 (15:55):
We'll return to the Aldridge family in just a moment.
But right now I'd like to give you some side
information on the NBC shows to be heard over most
of these same stations later this evening. First off, we're
all going to go over to the Harris Fay household
to visit with that suave sophisticate Phil Harris and his
long suffering wife Alice. And then we go from the
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laughable to the supernatural for a theater guild on the air,
which brings you John Patrick's comedy Low and Behold Your
Stars this week will be Anne blythe Basil Rathbone, and
Jeffrey Lynne. With the elections coming up, NBC's coverage makes
it the nation's headquarters for election news. As a regular
Sunday feature, you can listen in on America's only public
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press conference, when Martha Roundtree and Lawrence Biva's Meet the
Press offers you a chance to hear the answers given
by one of the personalities in the news to questions
posed by a panel of newsmen and prominent public citizens.
There is a whole world of radio entertainment that's yours
for the dialing when you tune to this NBC station
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later tonight. Now getting back to the troubles of Henry Ridge.
Henry has just been notified that he's neglected to return
a library book which he drew out last December, which
he is now unable to find.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Well.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
Hoping to earn enough to pay part of the fine,
he takes.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
A job with Missus.
Speaker 1 (17:22):
Hoffman, whose first request is that Henry return a book
of her own to the library. The scene opens into
Haven's drugstore. The time is a half hour later.
Speaker 4 (17:32):
Homer, won't you please help me out? Won't you please
do it for me? But Henry, I'm busy.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
I've got some pretty important things to take care of,
like what like what? Well, I've got a date with
Willie Marshall to watch that new building they're putting up
a third in Maine. Boy, Homer, and you call yourself
a friend.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Have you ever in your whole life asked me to
do anything and I turned you down?
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Sure? Last week you wouldn't lend me your binoculars?
Speaker 2 (17:57):
She was.
Speaker 4 (17:57):
You don't have to remember every little thing I thought
we were friends.
Speaker 3 (18:01):
We are friends, Henry.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
Well, if you can't do a simple little thing like
going to the library and returning a book and maybe
getting another, all right.
Speaker 3 (18:08):
I'll do it, Homer. You'll never regret it.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Where I reach you right here in the drugs or
buy this telephone booth. I'll be calling Eleanor while I'm
waiting for you.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Why are you calling Eleanor?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
I'm taking you to the movies tonight. I think it'd
be better if I met her someplace besides your house.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
Oh, hear, Homer. All you have to do is give
this book.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
To miss Bonford and apologize for missus Hoffman's keeping it
over two days?
Speaker 3 (18:28):
Shall I tell her you'll bring in Huckleberry Finn as
soon as you find it. No, Homer, don't worry you're
about that. Just give her this and ask her for
for for what?
Speaker 2 (18:38):
Well?
Speaker 4 (18:38):
I think the name of it is crime doesn't pay.
Speaker 9 (18:55):
Did you like the movie Henry Well?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
I didn't care for it so much, Eleanor, all right,
I thought it was beautiful the way as long as
he lived his conscience bothered him.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Did you like that part?
Speaker 11 (19:07):
And all He's stolen when he was a boy was
an ordinary bottle of the milk.
Speaker 9 (19:11):
Didn't he suffer though?
Speaker 2 (19:12):
Well?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
I guess the suffering was pretty evenly divided? He listen, Elana,
would you mind walking up this street toward Homer's house?
Speaker 7 (19:18):
What bo Well?
Speaker 4 (19:19):
I waited at the Haven's drug store for nearly three
hours a day and he never did show up.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Now, I'll bet you wouldn't do a thing like that
to a person who me that's the first.
Speaker 12 (19:28):
Impression a person gets of you, that you're dependable and reliable.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Oh gee, I don't you take a person that? Whoa what?
Speaker 9 (19:39):
Henry Well?
Speaker 4 (19:40):
What I was gonna say is you take sometimes do?
Speaker 3 (19:44):
I guess a person can't help it? Help what anything.
Speaker 9 (19:48):
You're awfully understanding of brothers?
Speaker 3 (19:50):
Henry Well, I do study people a lot. They kind
of read their character.
Speaker 9 (19:55):
And that's what I like about you, Henry. You're so intelligent.
Speaker 7 (19:59):
I'll bet you do it a.
Speaker 9 (20:00):
Lot of reading.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
Why, well, I like some books.
Speaker 9 (20:03):
I'll let you probably go up.
Speaker 7 (20:04):
And collect books.
Speaker 3 (20:05):
I'll get over it.
Speaker 4 (20:07):
I mean, oh boy, who's that coming down the street
right under the street lamp.
Speaker 7 (20:14):
Oh it's miss Spofford Ms.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
Bawford from the library and only what you might call professionally,
Look eleanor I still going to Homers.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Why don't we go down this way by Johnson's Kennedy Kitchen?
Speaker 9 (20:24):
Did you want to stop men?
Speaker 3 (20:25):
Yeah? I think it might be a good idea. Let's
walk real fast. Oh, my goodness.
Speaker 9 (20:30):
Look who's right ahead of it?
Speaker 7 (20:32):
Isn't that missus Hoffman?
Speaker 3 (20:33):
This is Hoffman?
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Oh boy, look Eleanor why why don't we go across
the street to Tillman's Hamburger Stand.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
It's a lot better, all right?
Speaker 9 (20:40):
Oh that's her. Why that's right over there.
Speaker 7 (20:43):
We can walk with him.
Speaker 5 (20:44):
He is Harry, Henry, Henry?
Speaker 12 (21:05):
Why did he say, Alice, sam The doctors doesn't seem
to know what the trouble is.
Speaker 3 (21:09):
No, there wasn't.
Speaker 12 (21:10):
Anything wrong with his eyes, and the dentist X rayed
every tooth in his head.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Well, I should put your mind at ease.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
No, dear, it doesn't.
Speaker 12 (21:18):
Doctor Bennington says, sometimes something very mysterious can happen to
a boy, and no matter how hard they try, they
can't find what's wrong.
Speaker 7 (21:26):
He simply goes into a complete decline.
Speaker 12 (21:29):
And when a thing like that happens, Sammy says, there's
only one safe.
Speaker 7 (21:32):
Thing to do. What's that take a trip to Arizona?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
All right, I'll take.
Speaker 6 (21:37):
It, Henry.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
What's in the box?
Speaker 4 (21:50):
Just a para Trouser's married, See a nice Leamporia made them.
Speaker 3 (21:55):
It's still to order.
Speaker 10 (21:56):
You might say, you better hurry if you're going to
the party.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
I'm not going.
Speaker 1 (22:00):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Because I'm not. Do you think i'd be wearing my
new trousers if I were going?
Speaker 9 (22:05):
Well, Henry, you don't have to jump at.
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Me, jump at you? One did I jump at you?
Speaker 10 (22:08):
That's what mother and father were talking about.
Speaker 9 (22:10):
They said, you've turned so cross. They don't know you.
Speaker 4 (22:13):
Listen, Mary, I'm in one of the most terrible predicaments
I've ever been in in my life.
Speaker 3 (22:17):
You know where I can lay my hands on a
copy of Huckleberry Finn.
Speaker 7 (22:20):
Sure you do.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
That's wonderful.
Speaker 9 (22:21):
Where the public library?
Speaker 3 (22:25):
She whiz? Mary, Henry.
Speaker 11 (22:26):
Yes, Mother, have you taken your tomic since dinner?
Speaker 2 (22:30):
Wiz?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
I've taken it five times today.
Speaker 7 (22:32):
That doesn't make any difference. You're supposed to take it
acid dinner.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Too, All right, Listen, Mary, I had a letter from
the library today. See another. Don't you know I had?
Speaker 5 (22:42):
Any?
Speaker 9 (22:43):
I keep my eyes open?
Speaker 3 (22:45):
Well, Mary, All.
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Miss Bofford says in this letter is that if I
pay the library the price of a new copy of
Huckleberry Finn, they'll forget the rest it's due.
Speaker 10 (22:52):
Well, I'm sorry, I can't lend you anything, Henry.
Speaker 7 (22:56):
Henry yes, Mother, almost down here he is. Homer's here?
Speaker 3 (23:00):
Sure, lg whiz Homer? Where have you been for the
last two days? I was delayed, Henry.
Speaker 6 (23:06):
Delayed by what?
Speaker 3 (23:07):
Well? First it was the bulldozers, then it was the
steam shovel. But don't worry. I got missus Hoffman's book
to the library the first thing this morning. Boy, it's
about time.
Speaker 7 (23:16):
We'll hurry up.
Speaker 3 (23:17):
Aren't you going to the party? Oh I'm not. Why not,
because I'm mister Wentworth. Well, mister Wentworth isn't gonna be there.
Speaker 11 (23:24):
He isn't.
Speaker 3 (23:25):
I think somebody said he's gonna be out of town.
But you're not sure he's going to be I'm partly sure.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
Well, come on, Homer, come on, aren't you gonna put
on your new pants?
Speaker 3 (23:35):
Well, I'll bring the box along with me.
Speaker 4 (23:37):
What, Homer, There's no sense in putting them on and
giving them wear and terry unless I'm absolutely sure I'm
going to the party.
Speaker 9 (23:55):
Jamie, what are you doing out here on the court?
Speaker 3 (23:57):
Hello, Eleanor? Come on, Homer, Hi, come on, Eleanor.
Speaker 6 (24:01):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (24:01):
We won't be disturbing your father, will we?
Speaker 5 (24:03):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (24:03):
No, he isn't even in town.
Speaker 3 (24:05):
He isn't what'd you Leleino? That's too bad, didn't I
tell you? Henry, let's go in.
Speaker 9 (24:09):
Come on, Henry. Okay, there isn't anyone here but our
town and a few others. And miss Pofford, Misspowford, Yes
you know her, don't you?
Speaker 7 (24:17):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (24:17):
Yes, yes, sure, Miss Bonford from the library, Elenor. I
just happen to remember. Oh, my mother's home all alone.
Speaker 9 (24:24):
She is, Henry. Oh, why don't you have get.
Speaker 3 (24:26):
To come over?
Speaker 1 (24:27):
No?
Speaker 3 (24:28):
I think I better go home.
Speaker 9 (24:29):
Oh, Henry, you can certainly come in for just a while.
Speaker 3 (24:33):
I'd liked Eleanor, but when my mother's alone, she likes
to have me with her.
Speaker 9 (24:35):
Oh, just stay for one game. In just a minute.
We're gonna play a literary game.
Speaker 3 (24:40):
A literary game, A literary game. Yes, I just happen
to think my mother's alone too.
Speaker 9 (24:46):
Thing in the world. Miss Pofford asked the questions, and
you answer and they're a prize.
Speaker 4 (24:52):
Well I just couldn't enjoy winning a prize and I
with my mother home alone.
Speaker 9 (24:55):
Please, Henry, No, Henry, I'm not.
Speaker 7 (24:59):
Gonna let you.
Speaker 9 (25:00):
You're coming in if I have to pull you in.
Speaker 7 (25:02):
Please Illinois, Henry knowing me.
Speaker 4 (25:04):
If I'm going in, you are too.
Speaker 10 (25:18):
Why everybody please quiet?
Speaker 9 (25:22):
Miss Boffin is almost ready for the final part of
the game.
Speaker 10 (25:27):
The last three remaining in the literary contest are let.
Speaker 3 (25:30):
Me see who are they?
Speaker 4 (25:31):
Miss Crawford?
Speaker 5 (25:32):
There, Goby Smith, Toby Smith, Omer bra Homer Brown.
Speaker 3 (25:36):
And now let me see who is the third?
Speaker 9 (25:38):
Who isn't it Henry?
Speaker 8 (25:39):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
Yes, Henry l Rich.
Speaker 4 (25:42):
Now all three of you boys will stand in the
middle of the room facing me.
Speaker 3 (25:46):
Yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am. In each of these
packages is a pride. Yes, ma'am, Yes, ma'am. Miss Barford.
Can anyone take my place?
Speaker 9 (25:54):
I'm very sorry Henry, but you will have to take
your own turn in answering No, then, Toby, in order
to win what's in.
Speaker 4 (26:00):
This box I hold, you will have to answer a question.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
Yes, ma'am. Now tell me what character in literature said
to be or not to be? To be or not
to be? Is that the end of the sentence? That's
the end of the question.
Speaker 8 (26:16):
Who said it?
Speaker 3 (26:18):
Shakespeare? Well, that's close enough.
Speaker 5 (26:21):
Here's the box of why I believe it's six Linen Hanka.
Speaker 3 (26:25):
Well, thank you very much. They're exactly what I've always wanted.
Speaker 9 (26:30):
Now, then, Homer, but what can you tell me?
Speaker 1 (26:33):
Who was the leading female character in Ivanhoe in Ivanhll?
Speaker 3 (26:38):
Yes, she has to be female. I'm afraid inn Ivan
Holl Rebecca, that's right?
Speaker 5 (26:50):
What and and here is a lovely color box for you.
Speaker 1 (26:57):
Now, then, Henry could want you to tell.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
Me the name of the author of the book in
this last package.
Speaker 4 (27:04):
He yesked, Miss Pofford, it is Huckleberry Thinn Huckleberry Harry.
Speaker 11 (27:12):
She words Miss Popley's phasic when somebody get.
Speaker 7 (27:15):
Something cold and unham ice streamline he accident.
Speaker 9 (27:18):
She reads the book just as he went down. His
last words were Mark.
Speaker 7 (27:22):
Twain, mis Parford, why don't you just keep the book?
Speaker 3 (27:24):
I've got a feeling you're gonna get it back anyway.
Speaker 1 (27:35):
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is for blood donations for members of our armed forces
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The Aldridge Family is transcribed is written by Clifford Goldsmith.
Henry is played by Bobby Ellis and Homer by Jack Grimes.
Mister and Missus Aldridge are House Jamison and Katherine rot.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Your announcer is Dick Dudley.
Speaker 1 (28:44):
Listen again next week, same time, same station, for another
sparkling half hour with The Aldridge Family.
Speaker 3 (28:50):
Night Everybody.
Speaker 1 (29:05):
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Football’s funniest family duo — Jason Kelce of the Philadelphia Eagles and Travis Kelce of the Kansas City Chiefs — team up to provide next-level access to life in the league as it unfolds. The two brothers and Super Bowl champions drop weekly insights about the weekly slate of games and share their INSIDE perspectives on trending NFL news and sports headlines. They also endlessly rag on each other as brothers do, chat the latest in pop culture and welcome some very popular and well-known friends to chat with them. Check out new episodes every Wednesday. Follow New Heights on the Wondery App, YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts. You can listen to new episodes early and ad-free, and get exclusive content on Wondery+. Join Wondery+ in the Wondery App, Apple Podcasts or Spotify. And join our new membership for a unique fan experience by going to the New Heights YouTube channel now!
Dateline NBC
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On Purpose with Jay Shetty
I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!