Dick and Henry's White House Christmas with the Carpenters

THAT'S QUITE A FAMILY!

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Garry Sladlemier, Jim Rose and Company kfab's Morning News this
Friday edition. And yes, my friend, it's time to once
again travel back to the Nixon administration. And I think
it was a Friday Rosie when Richard Nixon through a
little concert as he did every year for the White

(00:20):
House staff, and and the people in the White House
booked the Carpenters, and this just popped up on the
morning show. I can't remember how many years ago, but
it had something to do with Nixon. Nixon was back
in the news and for some reason, and you asked, well,

(00:40):
here you go, let's with that, let's revisit.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Yeah, isn't that beautiful day?

Speaker 1 (00:47):
The Christmas rushes through guys have performing at the Nixon
White House.

Speaker 2 (00:56):
Brother Richard Carpenter at Christmas time? You why dare you
have a wonderful boy.

Speaker 1 (01:03):
Marry Christmas stills the president.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
Do you think she'd go out with me? Henry? Is
that all you ever think about? It's Christmas? But I can.
Let should be quiet and listen.

Speaker 1 (01:19):
Dream time all right, miss same with you very well.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Holiday a journey?

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Where's Jerry Ford? He'd love this? Something new our Jerry.
But every day a holiday when I'm Sparrow never comes
so much I put on these concerts. I wish you

(01:54):
could for the staff from Sparrow never comes.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
I wish you every day.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
I don't think he's very loyal, mister pleasident Henry.

Speaker 3 (02:07):
Who's that young man playing the drums?

Speaker 2 (02:15):
A brother.

Speaker 3 (02:17):
Christy his name is. That's quite a family, sh mister President.
You want me to try to find spirroal see, I

(02:42):
think I could get an autographed in We Three Kings
this Orient are of orient oh fall whatever?

Speaker 1 (03:00):
That must go back about twenty years two thousand and one. Uh,
that was it. Roger Olsen who former producer Roger Omaha
Olsen was really really just on the floor with this,
which is hard. But when we got the that's quite

(03:21):
a family. That was the sort of genue mode of
the Roger just tumbled over laughing. I'm laughing at him
as much as all the impressions. But we had got
a crane and pick him up.

Speaker 2 (03:32):
Yeah, that was well.

Speaker 1 (03:34):
Now we can start.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
Now we can start Christmas season right.

Speaker 1 (03:37):
People ask for years about that, and they go, how
much did you rehearse that?

Speaker 2 (03:41):
There was no There was no rehearsal.

Speaker 1 (03:44):
It was purely improvisational, and they did they marvel at
that