July 30, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mother, Why does daddy insist on Instant Sanka coffee?
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Your father says, instant Sanka is one hundred percent pure
coffee and the only instant coffee that lets him sleep.
And your father knows best.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Transcribed in Hollywood, starring Robert Young's father.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
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Speaker 4 (00:29):
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(00:50):
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(01:11):
Tenderly speaking, there's nothing especially exciting about lunchtime on Saturday,
but excitement ran fairly high on a recent Saturday noon
at the White Frame House on Maple Street, when Jim
phoned from his office that he was coming home with
some news for the whole family Immediately, speculations began flying
thick and fast like this.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Well, didn't father even give you a hint what this
big surprise was?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
No, Betty, he just told me he'd tell us what
it was when he got home, and he should be
here by now.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Didn't he even give you one tiny little hint?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
No, you know as much about it as I do.
Oh I know is that he sounded pretty excited over
the phone.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Maybe he struck oil and we're rich millionaires.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Let's not get our hopes too high.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
He probably bought himself a new golf club.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
No, no, he said this concerned all of us.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Oh, I can hardly wait, can you?
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Bab uh?
Speaker 6 (02:02):
Huh? What's his stuff from the bowl? Mom?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
That stewed prunes? And it's not stuff? It's good for you?
Better eat some.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
How do you know? You haven't tried any yet?
Speaker 6 (02:15):
I can tell I'll eat some, though. Man's gotta eat.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Oh I heard him, I hurting he's home.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Well, don't get excited, just stay there. You haven't finished
eating yet.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I'm not hungry, Margaret. I'm hold yes, dear, oh boy.
Maybe he's going to take us to the movies. Some surprise, that'd.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Be Well, we're all assembled, I see the full membership.
That's good.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
What is it, Danny?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Har I just take it easy, kitten, I'll tell you
what's the surprise? Danny.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
We'll let him tell it. Squeegee ah turn blue girls,
girls all right? Father, go ahead? Now, Well, so what's
the big surprise?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
You sounded awfully excited over.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
The phone, and with good reason.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Well, don't keep us in suspense any longer.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
Ladies and gentlemen, Dad, Oh hello, Bud, ladies and gentlemen,
what is it, Bud?
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Please pass the prunes.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
For heaven's sakes, Bud. How can you think of stude
prunes at a time like this?
Speaker 7 (03:18):
Well, a man's gotta eat now. Then if nature boy
has enough prunes to keep him quiet.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Here it is, Margaret.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
Do you remember a few weeks ago I mentioned that
the Home Office had written me about certain changes coming up? Yes,
well it turned out better than I figured. I got
the word today they want me to take over the
Chicago Office.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Chicago, Jim, you you really mean it?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Got the wire from moles j himself right here here.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Read it for yourself, Oh, Jim, I can hardly believe
the Chicago.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Oh father, can we go do Daddy?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Sure you'll have to. We've got to pack up and
move there.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Wait, I tell Patty Davis, Oh father, this is so exciting.
I mean, but really, father.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yes, it sure is.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
You know this could lead to a vice presidency someday. Honey,
But old man, what have you got to say.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
About all this?
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Pass the poons? Please?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
But is that all you've got to say about this
world shaking event?
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Ah? What were you saying? I guess I wasn't listening.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
I was just thinking how good these poons tastes, considering
the fact I don't like them.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Oh fine, Jim, I can hardly believe that. Chicago.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
What's all this about? Chicago?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
We're moving there, numbskull.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Moving there us?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Really, Daddy, Can I call it Patty Davis and Tylor?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Sure? Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Wait a minute, trimp, I'm gonna call Joe first and
tell him. Oh man, this is crazy.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
I'll get it. I'll get it.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Gee, Chicago, we can go to the theater every.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
Night, well not every night, but we can see a
lot of the good shows in Big League Baseball every day.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Oh oh, just a minute, Betty, it's for you.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Well, oh him, I don't want to talk to him.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Well, he's waiting.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Let him wait. Serves him right that I'm moving away.
Let him have Jamie Leggett. I don't care.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
The least you can do is talk to him.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I am never going to talk to that that recredit
Romeo again.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Okay, I'll tell him that.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Oh no, you don't.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
I'll tell him women women, women, Margaret, you look a
little stunned.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Well I am. It's not every day you pack up
and move to Chicago.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yes, ral where tomorrow afternoon? Well I just love to go, Ralph,
but unfortunately we're moving to Chicago tomorrow morning.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Oh we're not. It'll take us at least two weeks
to get squared away around here.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I am not kidding.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
It'll take us that long to sell the house.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Sell the house. Wouldn't it be better if we just
rented it?
Speaker 6 (06:11):
What?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
At least at first?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
I'm afraid not. We'll need the money to buy a
place in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I don't know why you should be so upset, Ralph.
You can take Jane log it tomorrow. You seem to
be quite enamored of her.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Well, it certainly looked like it to me.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Hurry up, Nny, hang out to Lula.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
I gotta call Joel.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Just put it all in a letter and send it
to me in Chicago. Yes, we are movies, aren't we?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Father?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Not tomorrow morning? We're not?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Father says Yes, Well, I don't know about tonight. I'll
sing it over call me later, I will goodbye. You
know what he'll probably do now? He probably will call Janie.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
Well, you told him too.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
He's deceitful, that's what he is. But I'm next on
the phone, or you're not.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I am.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
Well, let's get this phoning over with. We've got a
lot of planning, a lot of packing. This would be
a good time to get rid of a lot of
old junk too. No, he was dragging a lot of
stuff to Chicago.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
We don't need.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Oh is Joe there?
Speaker 7 (07:17):
When bud gets through, Margaret, you'd better call the junk man.
We can make a nice deal in a lot of old,
worthless stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Joe.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Hey boy, if I got something cool to tell you? Yeah, man,
this is real nervous. We're moving to Chicago. Chicago. Well
just a minute, hey, Dad, what state's that in?
Speaker 8 (07:38):
Over?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Heaven's sake? But you know that, didn't you learn in school.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Well, sure, but that was last semester.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Oh, I see, isn't.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
Chicago Estate, Daddy, No kidding, it's a city in Illinois.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Joe, it's an Illinois Yeah. Uh oh, just a minute,
dead name some big place in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Oh uh, Comiskey Park or.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Joe, we're gonna live in Komiskey Park.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
No, Bud, that's a basement.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Yeah, it's the high classes place there, big homes all that.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Oh me, hang out, Bud, I.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Gotta hang out now, Joe. I'll talk to you later. Okay, boy, goodbye.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
If Ralph takes Jenny, I'll die.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I'll simply die for goodness sakes. Patty, a minute ago,
you said you were all through with Ralph.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Well I am, but I don't want Jane to have
him either. Can I call Patty?
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Now?
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Look, Kitting, why don't you just run next door and
tell Patty in person.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
That'll be a lot faster.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Okay, Danny, I'll be right there now.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
The rest of you had better get upstairs and dig
into those closets. We'll make a big pile of everything
we're gonna get rid of. I'll start in the den.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Don't you want some lunch?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
First?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
No, I don't think I'm hungry now.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Well, everything's cold anyway, I'll call.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
The junk man. We're gonna have to take that phone
out of here. We'll never get out of town.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I'll get it, probably Jane and Ralph announcing their engagement.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Oh yeah, just a minute.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
For you, mother.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Oh oh dear, we'll never get started. Yeah, oh yes,
Missus Stewart, Yes, it's true. Jim's taking over the office there.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
You're getting around.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Well, we don't know yet. We thought perhaps we might
take a place in Comisky Park. Oh, Margaret, No, just temporarily,
that is.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Look, kids, we're not getting any work done standing around
the phone here. Let's get upstairs and get going.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Oh yes, it'll be wonderful, so many advantages for the children.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Margaret, call a junk man when you get through.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yes, Jim, what did you say, Missus Stewart, how come on, kids?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Okay, Dad, I'm going to have to have a lot
of new clothes. Father, I'm not gonna wear my old
Springfield junk in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Well, I'll let you in on a little secret, Princess.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
If this Chicago deal works out the way I think
it will, I have a hunch will be able to
afford a new dresser too.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Daddy, Yes, kitten, Daddy.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Mister Davis says, we're gonna have to move.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Well, that's what we're intending to do.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
I mean, after we get to Chicago.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
He said.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Comizzi Park is a baseball field.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I know it.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
That's what I've been trying to tell everyone. That's where
the Chicago White Sox play their games.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
They do. Oh boy, we'll get to see all the
games free.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Look, Bud, we're not going to live in Comiskey Park.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Where did you tell us we were?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I never said that we can.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
The junk man will be here in a couple of hours.
And I also call the real estate man so he
could put an ad in the Sunday Morning paper. Oh good,
and I, oh dear, there's the phone again.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
By George. I believe our leaving is the biggest new
in Springfield since Calvin Coolidge went through here.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Where was he going?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I don't remember. Come on, kids, upstairs, all of you,
it's for.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
You, Jim long distance. The home office is calling.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Oh is it?
Speaker 6 (11:15):
HJ?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I think so good.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I'll take it in the dam.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Come on, children.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Upstairs, now, all of you, okay, man gee I wish
we could leave tonight. What does Chicago look like? Is
it awful?
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Will be?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Hello?
Speaker 8 (11:32):
Hello Anderson? Jim, Yes, yes, this is he. This is
HJ oh Yes, sir, how are you? HJ Good Jim.
I think I've got some good news for you.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Well, I don't know if I can stand anymore today, HJ.
Speaker 8 (11:44):
Well, Jim, I've been talking with Letterley out there in Chicago. Yes,
and he's got all the results of his medical checkups
and whatnot, and his doc says that he's not in
such bad shape as they figure.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Oh well, that is good news.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
So he's decided to stay on and you won't have
to take over the Chicago office after all.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I I what.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
I guess you're pretty relieved, he Jim. Well, I don't
blame you the cumbersome job there. You wouldn't want it, no,
of course not. And you wouldn't want to move your
family there.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Well, no, of course this is going to be an
awful dispointment to them because they what you said, Jim?
Speaker 8 (12:18):
What you say?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I can't hear you very well? Uh nothing, nothing, Well,
I just.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
Wanted to pass the good news houndle you Jim.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Well, uh, yeah, much obliged keep.
Speaker 8 (12:27):
Up the good work there, Jim, keep up the old quoters,
and I'll see you at the district convention next month.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
Yeah, yeah, fine, goodbye?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Oh fine?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Father? Are you through with the poem?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Father? I'm gonna call Janey and find out why she
hasn't called me.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Betty. I just talked to h J and he why.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Are we getting popular? The reporter was just here from
the newspaper. The newspaper he heard we were leaving from
the real estate. Man, isn't this exciting?
Speaker 8 (12:57):
Father?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Look, Betty, I just had a horrible thought. What if
something should happen now to keep us from going? I'd
die if that happened, I'd simply die. Oh me, Well,
I've got to get upstairs and sort out my things.
You'd better get going too, Father, You'll be caught up
a tree.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
I'm already up the tree, way out on the end
of its longest limb. Well, it looks like fate has
dropped a real hot potato into Father's lap. In a moment,
(13:39):
we'll see how he solves this complex problem. But first,
here's a simple answer to a problem that may have
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Speaker 3 (13:45):
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Speaker 9 (13:46):
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(14:09):
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Speaker 2 (14:27):
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Speaker 3 (14:49):
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Speaker 4 (15:06):
The White Frame House on Maple Street is now the
scene of more crazy, mixed up emotions than any one
of its members realizes. In the face of the gay
moving Day preparations going on, Jim is having a difficult
time finding the courage and diplomatic words to break.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
The news that the Chicago deal is off.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
In addition, there is another strange turn of events beginning
to develop like this mother.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Yes, Betty, I kind of hate to say this, but well,
every time I come across a dress I'm going to
get rid of, it reminds me of some good time
I've had. And you know, I don't think I want
to move to Chicago. I want to stay here.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
For Heaven's sake. Don't let your father hear you say that.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Well what I meaning?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I know I have the same feeling. So many people
have been calling up, and you suddenly realize that this
is where all our friends are. I have to start
all over again, a brand new life.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Well do you think there might be some chance of
father reconsidering?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Oh no, you mustn't even suggest that your father has
his heart set on this, and if he thought for
one minute that we weren't in full accord, it would
upset him terribly.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yes, I know it.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
It's our duty as a family to go with your
father wherever his work takes him and make the best
of it.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I suppose so. But every time I get to thinking
of Jamie Leggett having Ralph all the word self.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Now, stop that, Betty, that's just something you're building up
in your own mind. You said you were through with
him anyway.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I am, but I don't want him to enjoy it
so much if I want him to suffer a little. Mommy,
how far Chicago?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Oh? Pretty far?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Is it too far? So I couldn't come back and
play with Patty on saturdays?
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Oh? My?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Is then I don't want to go.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Angel, We've got to go. Whatever you do. I want
you to make your father feel that this is the
happiest thing that ever happened to us.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Wait, gee, Mommy.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
This is very important, Kathy, so please do it. Promise.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Oh I guess.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
So. Now you get your boxes of old toys for
the throwaway pile, and Betty, will you help me carry
these things downstairs? Okay, say one thing for this move,
we're getting rid of a lot of junk we should
have thrown away years ago.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I wish father had never gotten that telegram from old
h J.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Well, there's nothing we can do about it. Now.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Maybe I could get a job here and rent a
little apartment.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
There's your father at the foot of the stairs. Remember
what I said.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Now, Okay, careful, don't trip there.
Speaker 7 (17:39):
You've got a lampard dangling mighty low I'll watch it
here here, let me take that.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Stuff, all right, fine here, y, I got it all Yeah,
I got it. I've got about three more loads just
like this upstairs.
Speaker 7 (17:53):
Well wait a minute before you get any more. There's
something I want to discuss. Yes, dear Margaret, I've been thinking,
and actually there are certain disadvantages to living in a
big city.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Oh, but think of the advantages. We're all very, very
happy we're going, dear.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Well it's the most thrilling thing I can think of.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Father it is huh.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Oh, I wouldn't miss this for anything in the world.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
M come on, we better get moving. We haven't time
to stand around here.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Well wait, Margaret, Uh, let's suppose that I turned down
the Chicago job.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Turn it down?
Speaker 7 (18:33):
Well, after all, it's a big, cumbersome office. I wouldn't
actually have much time to myself.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Oh now you hush that kind of talk.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Well, really, I'm not too keen about it.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Jim Anderson, you listen to me. If you do anything
to keep us from moving to Chicago, we'll never speak
to you again. So let's not have any more of
that kind of talk.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Well look, Margaret, Oh.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
There's the door to see who it.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Is yeah, okay, mother, Mother. He sort of sounds like
he doesn't actually want to go.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Well, certainly, but can't you see what he's doing. He's
noticed that our enthusiasm for the trip is wearing off,
and he's trying to give us an out, an out.
He's pretending that he doesn't want to go, so we'll
have the courage to tell him we don't want to go.
He's so considerate.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Well, maybe we should tell him.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Oh, heavens no, We've got to work all the harder
to convince him that we do want to go.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
It's the jock man, Margaret. Shall I tell him to go?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Of course not. We don't want to drag this stuff
to Chicago with us.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Well, I was just thinking, in case we decided not
to go.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Have him come in.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Well, okay, I want to get rid of it anyway.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Tell him to give us an estimate on that pile
of stuff in the living room. Kathy, hurry up with
those boxes of toys. The jump man's heremy Betty. After
you dump that stuff, there's more things up in our room.
Maybe you can get Bud to hell help you.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
He's down in the basement picking things over right in.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Here, sir Oway. That's fine.
Speaker 10 (20:08):
Nice place you got here, mister Anderson, Oh well, we
like it.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Not's a shame you're gonna leave.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
It well, to tell the truth.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
To tell the truth, we're glad to be getting out
of here, but Margaret, we need a change. It couldn't
have come at a better time.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Wool and clean the Chicago.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Huh, that's right, and we're all thrilled about it. What
do you think all this stuff is worth here?
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Eh?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
I'd have to look over see what we got here.
Speaker 10 (20:36):
That lamp is broke, that's not worth anything.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
It can be fixed.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
Hey wait a minute, what are these slacks doing in here?
I still wear those around the yard, and.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Well you're certainly not going to wear them in Chicago, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
There's something I've got to.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Tell you later, dear. Let's get this settle first.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
Yes, but hey, that's my fishing jacket in there. Well
it's all worn out, just getting nicely broken in.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Take that out of there. You folks better make up
your mind.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
What's in and what am it's all in?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
It ain't, Oh good, put it on the pile.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I took out a few things I want to keep.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I see. Well, wait a minute, the box is empty.
Just one broken doll is in there.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
Uh, Kathy, I'll bet you hate to leave Patty Davis
and all your little friends here, don't you.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
This is the happiest thing that ever happened to us.
Speaker 10 (21:35):
Dad, Do you want me to figure price on this
stuff or not?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Certainly? Go right ahead.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Why's Bud calling from.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
In the basement? Better see what he wants. He's supposed
to have some more things for the throwaway pile coming.
Speaker 10 (21:48):
Bod Move to this stuffs and say, bad shape. I
really shouldn't buy any of it, but yeah, can.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
You help me get this up the stairs? It's too
heavy for me?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
What in the world is it anyway? A log cabin?
Speaker 5 (22:01):
No, it's that raft Joe and I started building last summer.
Do you think it'll fit in the van?
Speaker 11 (22:06):
All right?
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Oh, but don't drag that thing up here?
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (22:08):
I don't want to leave it in the basement. There's
a lake at Chicago, isn't there.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Well? Yes, but do you think Joe could come up.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
And spend a couple of months with us so we
could finish the raft?
Speaker 7 (22:18):
But in the first place, Lake Michigan is no place
for a raft. And in the second place.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Dad, do I have to go?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
What I mean?
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Could I maybe stay here, live over at the Phillipses
or something.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
I well, I don't want to leave Springfield.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Dad. Well, thank heaven, someone wants to stay here.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
But I have news for you. We're not leaving.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
We're not.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
No, the Chicago deal fell through.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
Well what are we brewing up all the storm over
packing for?
Speaker 8 (22:50):
Then?
Speaker 7 (22:51):
Well it's hard to explain, but your mother and the
girls are so excited and so thrilled overgoing that I
just haven't had the heart to tell them differently.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Well, heck, I'll tell them no, no, no, no, no, wait.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
This has to be done diplomatically.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
You don't realize what a disappointment it's going to be
to them.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
What are you gonna do? What do they get all
packed up and then tell.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Them no, that'd be even worse.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
Maybe I'd better let them take a trip to Chicago
spend a couple of weeks there. Maybe they won't like
it as well as they think they will.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
You mean, you mean you and me batchet alone here?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Oh boy, that sounds real cool. Let's do it. Come on,
let's tell them.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Now, all right, I hope it works.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
It will we can get Joe and Claude to stay
with us too, and we can cook out in the
backyard and.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Don't let them hear you, let me do the explaining.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Well, no, I don't know. Maybe I better keep that
dress after all.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
Lady, will you please make up your mind?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I'll keep it now? Then how much for all the
rest of the things?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
All the rest?
Speaker 10 (24:02):
All this left is one broke the all dish and
a crack lamb thirty five cents.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
What's happened here?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Oh? I don't know, Jim. It's well, it just seems
hard to part with old things.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
I know what you mean. Go on, Dad, tell him, Eh, Margaret,
I have a suggestion.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Well, Jim, I have a suggestion too. Moving is well,
it's not easy just to pick up and move to
a new town on such short notice. Maybe you'd better
go on to Chicago and we'll come later.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Oh no, you've got to go.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
But we don't want to what we don't want to leave? Daddy? Kathy, Gee,
I forgot.
Speaker 7 (24:52):
I do mean to tell Wait a minute, now, what's
this about not wanting to leave?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Jim? You know that we'll go anywhere you want to.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
But we'dure rather stay here. We like Springfield.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Well you know what, so do why? And you know
something else? We're not leaving, We're not. I didn't get
the job after all.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Oh father, good for daddy, Good for daddy.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Holy call folks.
Speaker 10 (25:29):
Oh yes, please don't think me an impatient man, because
I ain't. But do you mind if we close this
big deal?
Speaker 12 (25:37):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (25:38):
Certainly?
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Now?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
What do we have?
Speaker 10 (25:40):
One busted lamb thirty five cent?
Speaker 7 (25:43):
On second thought, we'd better keep that what it was
a wedding present.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
But wait, here's five dollars for your trouble. Five dollars. Why? Oh,
I don't know. You might want to take a trip
to Chicago sometimes, Hello, Jerry Marshall.
Speaker 11 (26:11):
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didn't they? And you know, I think their reaction is
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Speaker 3 (27:10):
Well.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
In spite of the rumors flying around Springfield that the
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to London, the occupants of the White Frame House are
still solidly entrenched on Maple Street, and though life in
the household has almost returned to normal, the telephone continues
to echo the tumult of the day.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Like this, Oh no, not again.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Well, news travels fast in this town. Hello, Oh, how
are you Fred? Tomorrow night? That sounds great? Seven point
thirty good, I see you?
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Then you're who was that? Dear?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
That was Fred Spencer? They want us to come over
tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Oh Jim, we can't you know as well as I
do that it's a going away party. Why didn't you
explain there was no need to but we're not going way.
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I told you. News travels fast in this town. Honey.
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Tenderly speaking, there's nothing especially exciting about lunchtime on Saturday,
but excitement ran fairly high on a recent Saturday noon
at the White Frame House on Maple Street, when Jim
phoned from his office that he was coming home with
some news for the whole family Immediately, speculations began flying
thick and fast like this.
Speaker 1 (01:30):
Well, didn't father even give you a hint what this
big surprise was?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
No, Betty, he just told me he'd tell us what
it was when he got home, and he should be
here by now.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
Didn't he even give you one tiny little hint?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
No, you know as much about it as I do.
Oh I know is that he sounded pretty excited over
the phone.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Maybe he struck oil and we're rich millionaires.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Let's not get our hopes too high.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
He probably bought himself a new golf club.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
No, no, he said this concerned all of us.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Oh, I can hardly wait, can you?
Speaker 5 (02:01):
Bab uh?
Speaker 6 (02:02):
Huh? What's his stuff from the bowl? Mom?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
That stewed prunes? And it's not stuff? It's good for you?
Better eat some.
Speaker 6 (02:12):
I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
How do you know? You haven't tried any yet?
Speaker 6 (02:15):
I can tell I'll eat some, though. Man's gotta eat.
Speaker 1 (02:19):
Oh I heard him, I hurting he's home.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
Well, don't get excited, just stay there. You haven't finished
eating yet.
Speaker 1 (02:25):
I'm not hungry, Margaret. I'm hold yes, dear, oh boy.
Maybe he's going to take us to the movies. Some surprise, that'd.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Be Well, we're all assembled, I see the full membership.
That's good.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
What is it, Danny?
Speaker 2 (02:37):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Har I just take it easy, kitten, I'll tell you
what's the surprise? Danny.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
We'll let him tell it. Squeegee ah turn blue girls,
girls all right? Father, go ahead? Now, Well, so what's
the big surprise?
Speaker 2 (02:53):
You sounded awfully excited over.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
The phone, and with good reason.
Speaker 2 (02:56):
Well, don't keep us in suspense any longer.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Yeah, I don't.
Speaker 7 (03:01):
Ladies and gentlemen, Dad, Oh hello, Bud, ladies and gentlemen,
what is it, Bud?
Speaker 6 (03:08):
Please pass the prunes.
Speaker 1 (03:13):
For heaven's sakes, Bud. How can you think of stude
prunes at a time like this?
Speaker 7 (03:18):
Well, a man's gotta eat now. Then if nature boy
has enough prunes to keep him quiet.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Here it is, Margaret.
Speaker 7 (03:25):
Do you remember a few weeks ago I mentioned that
the Home Office had written me about certain changes coming up? Yes,
well it turned out better than I figured. I got
the word today they want me to take over the
Chicago Office.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Chicago, Jim, you you really mean it?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Got the wire from moles j himself right here here.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Read it for yourself, Oh, Jim, I can hardly believe
the Chicago.
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Oh father, can we go do Daddy?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Sure you'll have to. We've got to pack up and
move there.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
Wait, I tell Patty Davis, Oh father, this is so exciting.
I mean, but really, father.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Yes, it sure is.
Speaker 7 (04:04):
You know this could lead to a vice presidency someday. Honey,
But old man, what have you got to say.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
About all this?
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Pass the poons? Please?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
But is that all you've got to say about this
world shaking event?
Speaker 6 (04:23):
Ah? What were you saying? I guess I wasn't listening.
Speaker 5 (04:28):
I was just thinking how good these poons tastes, considering
the fact I don't like them.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Oh fine, Jim, I can hardly believe that. Chicago.
Speaker 6 (04:41):
What's all this about? Chicago?
Speaker 1 (04:43):
We're moving there, numbskull.
Speaker 6 (04:46):
Moving there us?
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Really, Daddy, Can I call it Patty Davis and Tylor?
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Sure? Go ahead.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Wait a minute, trimp, I'm gonna call Joe first and
tell him. Oh man, this is crazy.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
I'll get it. I'll get it.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Gee, Chicago, we can go to the theater every.
Speaker 7 (05:01):
Night, well not every night, but we can see a
lot of the good shows in Big League Baseball every day.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
Oh oh, just a minute, Betty, it's for you.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Well, oh him, I don't want to talk to him.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Well, he's waiting.
Speaker 1 (05:17):
Let him wait. Serves him right that I'm moving away.
Let him have Jamie Leggett. I don't care.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
The least you can do is talk to him.
Speaker 1 (05:25):
I am never going to talk to that that recredit
Romeo again.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Okay, I'll tell him that.
Speaker 1 (05:32):
Oh no, you don't.
Speaker 7 (05:33):
I'll tell him women women, women, Margaret, you look a
little stunned.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Well I am. It's not every day you pack up
and move to Chicago.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
Yes, ral where tomorrow afternoon? Well I just love to go, Ralph,
but unfortunately we're moving to Chicago tomorrow morning.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Oh we're not. It'll take us at least two weeks
to get squared away around here.
Speaker 1 (06:05):
I am not kidding.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
It'll take us that long to sell the house.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Sell the house. Wouldn't it be better if we just
rented it?
Speaker 6 (06:11):
What?
Speaker 2 (06:12):
At least at first?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
I'm afraid not. We'll need the money to buy a
place in Chicago.
Speaker 1 (06:16):
I don't know why you should be so upset, Ralph.
You can take Jane log it tomorrow. You seem to
be quite enamored of her.
Speaker 2 (06:23):
Well, it certainly looked like it to me.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
Hurry up, Nny, hang out to Lula.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
I gotta call Joel.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Just put it all in a letter and send it
to me in Chicago. Yes, we are movies, aren't we?
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Father?
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Not tomorrow morning? We're not?
Speaker 1 (06:40):
Father says Yes, Well, I don't know about tonight. I'll
sing it over call me later, I will goodbye. You
know what he'll probably do now? He probably will call Janie.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
Well, you told him too.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
He's deceitful, that's what he is. But I'm next on
the phone, or you're not.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
I am.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
Well, let's get this phoning over with. We've got a
lot of planning, a lot of packing. This would be
a good time to get rid of a lot of
old junk too. No, he was dragging a lot of
stuff to Chicago.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
We don't need.
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Oh is Joe there?
Speaker 7 (07:17):
When bud gets through, Margaret, you'd better call the junk man.
We can make a nice deal in a lot of old,
worthless stuff.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
Joe.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Hey boy, if I got something cool to tell you? Yeah, man,
this is real nervous. We're moving to Chicago. Chicago. Well
just a minute, hey, Dad, what state's that in?
Speaker 8 (07:38):
Over?
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Heaven's sake? But you know that, didn't you learn in school.
Speaker 6 (07:41):
Well, sure, but that was last semester.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Oh, I see, isn't.
Speaker 7 (07:47):
Chicago Estate, Daddy, No kidding, it's a city in Illinois.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Joe, it's an Illinois Yeah. Uh oh, just a minute,
dead name some big place in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (08:03):
Oh uh, Comiskey Park or.
Speaker 5 (08:05):
Joe, we're gonna live in Komiskey Park.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
No, Bud, that's a basement.
Speaker 6 (08:14):
Yeah, it's the high classes place there, big homes all that.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Oh me, hang out, Bud, I.
Speaker 5 (08:22):
Gotta hang out now, Joe. I'll talk to you later. Okay, boy, goodbye.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
If Ralph takes Jenny, I'll die.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I'll simply die for goodness sakes. Patty, a minute ago,
you said you were all through with Ralph.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Well I am, but I don't want Jane to have
him either. Can I call Patty?
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Now?
Speaker 7 (08:39):
Look, Kitting, why don't you just run next door and
tell Patty in person.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
That'll be a lot faster.
Speaker 1 (08:43):
Okay, Danny, I'll be right there now.
Speaker 7 (08:46):
The rest of you had better get upstairs and dig
into those closets. We'll make a big pile of everything
we're gonna get rid of. I'll start in the den.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Don't you want some lunch?
Speaker 1 (08:52):
First?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
No, I don't think I'm hungry now.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Well, everything's cold anyway, I'll call.
Speaker 7 (08:58):
The junk man. We're gonna have to take that phone
out of here. We'll never get out of town.
Speaker 1 (09:03):
I'll get it, probably Jane and Ralph announcing their engagement.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Oh yeah, just a minute.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
For you, mother.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
Oh oh dear, we'll never get started. Yeah, oh yes,
Missus Stewart, Yes, it's true. Jim's taking over the office there.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
You're getting around.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
Well, we don't know yet. We thought perhaps we might
take a place in Comisky Park. Oh, Margaret, No, just temporarily,
that is.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Look, kids, we're not getting any work done standing around
the phone here. Let's get upstairs and get going.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Oh yes, it'll be wonderful, so many advantages for the children.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
Margaret, call a junk man when you get through.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Yes, Jim, what did you say, Missus Stewart, how come on, kids?
Speaker 1 (09:55):
Okay, Dad, I'm going to have to have a lot
of new clothes. Father, I'm not gonna wear my old
Springfield junk in Chicago.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Well, I'll let you in on a little secret, Princess.
Speaker 7 (10:04):
If this Chicago deal works out the way I think
it will, I have a hunch will be able to
afford a new dresser too.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Daddy, Yes, kitten, Daddy.
Speaker 1 (10:14):
Mister Davis says, we're gonna have to move.
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Well, that's what we're intending to do.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
I mean, after we get to Chicago.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
He said.
Speaker 1 (10:23):
Comizzi Park is a baseball field.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
I know it.
Speaker 7 (10:27):
That's what I've been trying to tell everyone. That's where
the Chicago White Sox play their games.
Speaker 6 (10:32):
They do. Oh boy, we'll get to see all the
games free.
Speaker 3 (10:39):
Look, Bud, we're not going to live in Comiskey Park.
Speaker 6 (10:43):
Where did you tell us we were?
Speaker 3 (10:45):
I never said that we can.
Speaker 2 (10:47):
The junk man will be here in a couple of hours.
And I also call the real estate man so he
could put an ad in the Sunday Morning paper. Oh good,
and I, oh dear, there's the phone again.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
By George. I believe our leaving is the biggest new
in Springfield since Calvin Coolidge went through here.
Speaker 6 (11:03):
Where was he going?
Speaker 3 (11:07):
I don't remember. Come on, kids, upstairs, all of you,
it's for.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
You, Jim long distance. The home office is calling.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Oh is it?
Speaker 6 (11:15):
HJ?
Speaker 2 (11:16):
I think so good.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
I'll take it in the dam.
Speaker 2 (11:18):
Come on, children.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Upstairs, now, all of you, okay, man gee I wish
we could leave tonight. What does Chicago look like? Is
it awful?
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Will be?
Speaker 3 (11:32):
Hello?
Speaker 8 (11:32):
Hello Anderson? Jim, Yes, yes, this is he. This is
HJ oh Yes, sir, how are you? HJ Good Jim.
I think I've got some good news for you.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Well, I don't know if I can stand anymore today, HJ.
Speaker 8 (11:44):
Well, Jim, I've been talking with Letterley out there in Chicago. Yes,
and he's got all the results of his medical checkups
and whatnot, and his doc says that he's not in
such bad shape as they figure.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Oh well, that is good news.
Speaker 8 (11:54):
So he's decided to stay on and you won't have
to take over the Chicago office after all.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
I I what.
Speaker 8 (12:02):
I guess you're pretty relieved, he Jim. Well, I don't
blame you the cumbersome job there. You wouldn't want it, no,
of course not. And you wouldn't want to move your
family there.
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Well, no, of course this is going to be an
awful dispointment to them because they what you said, Jim?
Speaker 8 (12:18):
What you say?
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I can't hear you very well? Uh nothing, nothing, Well,
I just.
Speaker 8 (12:22):
Wanted to pass the good news houndle you Jim.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Well, uh, yeah, much obliged keep.
Speaker 8 (12:27):
Up the good work there, Jim, keep up the old quoters,
and I'll see you at the district convention next month.
Speaker 7 (12:32):
Yeah, yeah, fine, goodbye?
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Oh fine?
Speaker 2 (12:39):
Father? Are you through with the poem?
Speaker 1 (12:41):
Father? I'm gonna call Janey and find out why she
hasn't called me.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Betty. I just talked to h J and he why.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Are we getting popular? The reporter was just here from
the newspaper. The newspaper he heard we were leaving from
the real estate. Man, isn't this exciting?
Speaker 8 (12:57):
Father?
Speaker 1 (12:58):
Look, Betty, I just had a horrible thought. What if
something should happen now to keep us from going? I'd
die if that happened, I'd simply die. Oh me, Well,
I've got to get upstairs and sort out my things.
You'd better get going too, Father, You'll be caught up
a tree.
Speaker 7 (13:18):
I'm already up the tree, way out on the end
of its longest limb. Well, it looks like fate has
dropped a real hot potato into Father's lap. In a moment,
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Speaker 4 (15:06):
The White Frame House on Maple Street is now the
scene of more crazy, mixed up emotions than any one
of its members realizes. In the face of the gay
moving Day preparations going on, Jim is having a difficult
time finding the courage and diplomatic words to break.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
The news that the Chicago deal is off.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
In addition, there is another strange turn of events beginning
to develop like this mother.
Speaker 1 (15:29):
Yes, Betty, I kind of hate to say this, but well,
every time I come across a dress I'm going to
get rid of, it reminds me of some good time
I've had. And you know, I don't think I want
to move to Chicago. I want to stay here.
Speaker 2 (15:45):
For Heaven's sake. Don't let your father hear you say that.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Well what I meaning?
Speaker 2 (15:50):
I know I have the same feeling. So many people
have been calling up, and you suddenly realize that this
is where all our friends are. I have to start
all over again, a brand new life.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Well do you think there might be some chance of
father reconsidering?
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Oh no, you mustn't even suggest that your father has
his heart set on this, and if he thought for
one minute that we weren't in full accord, it would
upset him terribly.
Speaker 1 (16:17):
Yes, I know it.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
It's our duty as a family to go with your
father wherever his work takes him and make the best
of it.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
I suppose so. But every time I get to thinking
of Jamie Leggett having Ralph all the word self.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Now, stop that, Betty, that's just something you're building up
in your own mind. You said you were through with
him anyway.
Speaker 1 (16:37):
I am, but I don't want him to enjoy it
so much if I want him to suffer a little. Mommy,
how far Chicago?
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Oh? Pretty far?
Speaker 1 (16:47):
Is it too far? So I couldn't come back and
play with Patty on saturdays?
Speaker 5 (16:52):
Oh? My?
Speaker 1 (16:53):
Is then I don't want to go.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Angel, We've got to go. Whatever you do. I want
you to make your father feel that this is the
happiest thing that ever happened to us.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Wait, gee, Mommy.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
This is very important, Kathy, so please do it. Promise.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
Oh I guess.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
So. Now you get your boxes of old toys for
the throwaway pile, and Betty, will you help me carry
these things downstairs? Okay, say one thing for this move,
we're getting rid of a lot of junk we should
have thrown away years ago.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
I wish father had never gotten that telegram from old
h J.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
Well, there's nothing we can do about it. Now.
Speaker 1 (17:31):
Maybe I could get a job here and rent a
little apartment.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
There's your father at the foot of the stairs. Remember
what I said.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Now, Okay, careful, don't trip there.
Speaker 7 (17:39):
You've got a lampard dangling mighty low I'll watch it
here here, let me take that.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Stuff, all right, fine here, y, I got it all Yeah,
I got it. I've got about three more loads just
like this upstairs.
Speaker 7 (17:53):
Well wait a minute before you get any more. There's
something I want to discuss. Yes, dear Margaret, I've been thinking,
and actually there are certain disadvantages to living in a
big city.
Speaker 2 (18:06):
Oh, but think of the advantages. We're all very, very
happy we're going, dear.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Well it's the most thrilling thing I can think of.
Speaker 3 (18:16):
Father it is huh.
Speaker 1 (18:18):
Oh, I wouldn't miss this for anything in the world.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
M come on, we better get moving. We haven't time
to stand around here.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Well wait, Margaret, Uh, let's suppose that I turned down
the Chicago job.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Turn it down?
Speaker 7 (18:33):
Well, after all, it's a big, cumbersome office. I wouldn't
actually have much time to myself.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Oh now you hush that kind of talk.
Speaker 3 (18:40):
Well, really, I'm not too keen about it.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Jim Anderson, you listen to me. If you do anything
to keep us from moving to Chicago, we'll never speak
to you again. So let's not have any more of
that kind of talk.
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Well look, Margaret, Oh.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
There's the door to see who it.
Speaker 1 (19:00):
Is yeah, okay, mother, Mother. He sort of sounds like
he doesn't actually want to go.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Well, certainly, but can't you see what he's doing. He's
noticed that our enthusiasm for the trip is wearing off,
and he's trying to give us an out, an out.
He's pretending that he doesn't want to go, so we'll
have the courage to tell him we don't want to go.
He's so considerate.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Well, maybe we should tell him.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Oh, heavens no, We've got to work all the harder
to convince him that we do want to go.
Speaker 3 (19:31):
It's the jock man, Margaret. Shall I tell him to go?
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Of course not. We don't want to drag this stuff
to Chicago with us.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Well, I was just thinking, in case we decided not
to go.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
Have him come in.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Well, okay, I want to get rid of it anyway.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
Tell him to give us an estimate on that pile
of stuff in the living room. Kathy, hurry up with
those boxes of toys. The jump man's heremy Betty. After
you dump that stuff, there's more things up in our room.
Maybe you can get Bud to hell help you.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
He's down in the basement picking things over right in.
Speaker 3 (20:03):
Here, sir Oway. That's fine.
Speaker 10 (20:08):
Nice place you got here, mister Anderson, Oh well, we
like it.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Not's a shame you're gonna leave.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
It well, to tell the truth.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
To tell the truth, we're glad to be getting out
of here, but Margaret, we need a change. It couldn't
have come at a better time.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Wool and clean the Chicago.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Huh, that's right, and we're all thrilled about it. What
do you think all this stuff is worth here?
Speaker 5 (20:31):
Eh?
Speaker 3 (20:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 6 (20:32):
I'd have to look over see what we got here.
Speaker 10 (20:36):
That lamp is broke, that's not worth anything.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
It can be fixed.
Speaker 7 (20:41):
Hey wait a minute, what are these slacks doing in here?
I still wear those around the yard, and.
Speaker 2 (20:47):
Well you're certainly not going to wear them in Chicago, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (20:51):
There's something I've got to.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Tell you later, dear. Let's get this settle first.
Speaker 7 (20:55):
Yes, but hey, that's my fishing jacket in there. Well
it's all worn out, just getting nicely broken in.
Speaker 3 (21:01):
Take that out of there. You folks better make up
your mind.
Speaker 6 (21:05):
What's in and what am it's all in?
Speaker 3 (21:07):
No?
Speaker 2 (21:08):
It ain't, Oh good, put it on the pile.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
I took out a few things I want to keep.
Speaker 2 (21:16):
I see. Well, wait a minute, the box is empty.
Just one broken doll is in there.
Speaker 7 (21:23):
Uh, Kathy, I'll bet you hate to leave Patty Davis
and all your little friends here, don't you.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
This is the happiest thing that ever happened to us.
Speaker 10 (21:35):
Dad, Do you want me to figure price on this
stuff or not?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Certainly? Go right ahead.
Speaker 3 (21:41):
Why's Bud calling from.
Speaker 2 (21:43):
In the basement? Better see what he wants. He's supposed
to have some more things for the throwaway pile coming.
Speaker 10 (21:48):
Bod Move to this stuffs and say, bad shape. I
really shouldn't buy any of it, but yeah, can.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
You help me get this up the stairs? It's too
heavy for me?
Speaker 3 (21:58):
What in the world is it anyway? A log cabin?
Speaker 5 (22:01):
No, it's that raft Joe and I started building last summer.
Do you think it'll fit in the van?
Speaker 11 (22:06):
All right?
Speaker 3 (22:06):
Oh, but don't drag that thing up here?
Speaker 6 (22:08):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (22:08):
I don't want to leave it in the basement. There's
a lake at Chicago, isn't there.
Speaker 3 (22:13):
Well? Yes, but do you think Joe could come up.
Speaker 6 (22:15):
And spend a couple of months with us so we
could finish the raft?
Speaker 7 (22:18):
But in the first place, Lake Michigan is no place
for a raft. And in the second place.
Speaker 6 (22:23):
Dad, do I have to go?
Speaker 3 (22:26):
What I mean?
Speaker 5 (22:28):
Could I maybe stay here, live over at the Phillipses
or something.
Speaker 6 (22:32):
I well, I don't want to leave Springfield.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Dad. Well, thank heaven, someone wants to stay here.
Speaker 6 (22:40):
Huh.
Speaker 3 (22:40):
But I have news for you. We're not leaving.
Speaker 6 (22:44):
We're not.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
No, the Chicago deal fell through.
Speaker 6 (22:47):
Well what are we brewing up all the storm over
packing for?
Speaker 8 (22:50):
Then?
Speaker 7 (22:51):
Well it's hard to explain, but your mother and the
girls are so excited and so thrilled overgoing that I
just haven't had the heart to tell them differently.
Speaker 6 (23:00):
Well, heck, I'll tell them no, no, no, no, no, wait.
Speaker 3 (23:05):
This has to be done diplomatically.
Speaker 7 (23:07):
You don't realize what a disappointment it's going to be
to them.
Speaker 6 (23:11):
What are you gonna do? What do they get all
packed up and then tell.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
Them no, that'd be even worse.
Speaker 7 (23:20):
Maybe I'd better let them take a trip to Chicago
spend a couple of weeks there. Maybe they won't like
it as well as they think they will.
Speaker 6 (23:27):
You mean, you mean you and me batchet alone here?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 6 (23:31):
Oh boy, that sounds real cool. Let's do it. Come on,
let's tell them.
Speaker 3 (23:34):
Now, all right, I hope it works.
Speaker 5 (23:37):
It will we can get Joe and Claude to stay
with us too, and we can cook out in the
backyard and.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Don't let them hear you, let me do the explaining.
Speaker 2 (23:44):
Well, no, I don't know. Maybe I better keep that
dress after all.
Speaker 6 (23:49):
Lady, will you please make up your mind?
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I'll keep it now? Then how much for all the
rest of the things?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
All the rest?
Speaker 10 (24:02):
All this left is one broke the all dish and
a crack lamb thirty five cents.
Speaker 3 (24:10):
What's happened here?
Speaker 2 (24:11):
Oh? I don't know, Jim. It's well, it just seems
hard to part with old things.
Speaker 3 (24:17):
I know what you mean. Go on, Dad, tell him, Eh, Margaret,
I have a suggestion.
Speaker 2 (24:23):
Well, Jim, I have a suggestion too. Moving is well,
it's not easy just to pick up and move to
a new town on such short notice. Maybe you'd better
go on to Chicago and we'll come later.
Speaker 6 (24:36):
Oh no, you've got to go.
Speaker 1 (24:42):
But we don't want to what we don't want to leave? Daddy? Kathy, Gee,
I forgot.
Speaker 7 (24:52):
I do mean to tell Wait a minute, now, what's
this about not wanting to leave?
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Jim? You know that we'll go anywhere you want to.
Speaker 1 (25:01):
But we'dure rather stay here. We like Springfield.
Speaker 3 (25:08):
Well you know what, so do why? And you know
something else? We're not leaving, We're not. I didn't get
the job after all.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
Oh father, good for daddy, Good for daddy.
Speaker 6 (25:21):
Holy call folks.
Speaker 10 (25:29):
Oh yes, please don't think me an impatient man, because
I ain't. But do you mind if we close this
big deal?
Speaker 12 (25:37):
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Speaker 3 (25:38):
Certainly?
Speaker 5 (25:38):
Now?
Speaker 3 (25:39):
What do we have?
Speaker 10 (25:40):
One busted lamb thirty five cent?
Speaker 7 (25:43):
On second thought, we'd better keep that what it was
a wedding present.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
But wait, here's five dollars for your trouble. Five dollars. Why? Oh,
I don't know. You might want to take a trip
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Speaker 11 (26:11):
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Speaker 3 (27:10):
Well.
Speaker 4 (27:10):
In spite of the rumors flying around Springfield that the
Andersons were moving to Chicago, flying to New York, sailing
to London, the occupants of the White Frame House are
still solidly entrenched on Maple Street, and though life in
the household has almost returned to normal, the telephone continues
to echo the tumult of the day.
Speaker 2 (27:29):
Like this, Oh no, not again.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
Well, news travels fast in this town. Hello, Oh, how
are you Fred? Tomorrow night? That sounds great? Seven point
thirty good, I see you?
Speaker 2 (27:45):
Then you're who was that? Dear?
Speaker 3 (27:48):
That was Fred Spencer? They want us to come over
tomorrow night.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
Oh Jim, we can't you know as well as I
do that it's a going away party. Why didn't you
explain there was no need to but we're not going way.
Speaker 3 (28:00):
I told you. News travels fast in this town. Honey.
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