July 20, 2025 • 29 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Mother, our past forty percent brand flakes, really the best
tasting cereal of them?
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Are?
Speaker 3 (00:06):
Well, your father says so, and father knows best.
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Yes, it's father knows best.
Speaker 5 (00:21):
Transcribed in Hollywood starring Robert Young's father. A half hour
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Speaker 4 (00:46):
It is often said.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
That quotes, women are never stronger than when they arm
themselves with their weakness unquote.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
One of the most common.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Weaknesses among the weaker sex seems to be a complete
lack of ability to repair mechanical devices, such as, for example, automobiles. Well,
we'd better begin this morning at the White Frame House
on Maple Street, where Betty Anderson is broaching a certain
automotive idea to her mother, while some bud divides his
attention between a comic book and their conversation.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Like this, Well, what I'm trying to say, mother is well, yes,
just what are you trying to say, Betty? Well, there
are certain cold facts nowadays that one must face quite
utterly Oh, I agree, But what are some of these
cold facts?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
We can't ignore them?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Mother, I said, I agreed, but just what take Janie Lickett,
for example, she drives her own car to school?
Speaker 6 (01:38):
All well, just what does that take?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Kevilyn Kramer, she drives her own car.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I see, so you feel that you are Shallowise Roman, ready,
I get the idea. Well, it's not so much for me, mother,
but I think that it's quite a reflection on you
and father to have a daughter who has to walk
to school or depend on someone else.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
For a ride.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yes, well, we've managed to bear up under that stigma
so far.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
It wouldn't have to be a new car, you understand.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
I'm sure it couldn't be a new car.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Just some little old last year's model would do.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Well, I don't know about the model, but I've sort
of been thinking along those same lines.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Oh, mother, you mean I can't have a car.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Well, I wouldn't say that exactly, but I have thought
it'd be handy if we had another car in the family.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
However, that's something your father will have to decide, not me.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Well will you ask him about it?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Mother?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Will you?
Speaker 7 (02:37):
Hey, Betty, I got an ideese Bud.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
We're talking.
Speaker 7 (02:40):
Yeah, but I gotta go.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
On reading your comic book. We're having a discussion, okay.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
I won't tell you my idea.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Then idea about what?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (02:50):
Something?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Oh? Now, don't be like that.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
What is it? You want to drive to school? Don't you?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (02:56):
All right? Do you want to hear my idea? Or
don't you?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Certainly?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I do?
Speaker 6 (03:01):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (03:02):
I'll let you borrow my motor scooter?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Prime, Well, what's.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Wrong with that?
Speaker 6 (03:08):
What's wrong? He says?
Speaker 7 (03:10):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Mom?
Speaker 7 (03:11):
Do you see anything wrong with her?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Don't get me in on this discussion. I have to
go out in the kitchen and get lunch on the table.
Your father'll be here any minute.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Well may. As a matter of fact, he's late. I
wonder what's keeping him.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
You will ask father about the car idea, won't you? Oh?
Speaker 6 (03:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Maybe maybe you should bring it up. Sometimes he's more
receptive to your ideas.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
There's nothing wrong with that motor scooter idea.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Mother, Just how do you think I ought to put it?
Speaker 6 (03:38):
That's hard to say. I'd do it as tactfully as possible, though, is.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
The I'm not thinking of myself? But it's a reflection
on you approach any good.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
If you can work it around to where.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
He thinks it's his idea, you'll have a better chance.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
My motor scooter has just been repainted.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I don't care if it's got a wrong paper on it.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
I wouldn't be.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Seen then on that contraption.
Speaker 7 (04:03):
Boy, that's gratitude for you.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Well, I've got to get out in the kitchen and
I've got a home.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Well there he is, Betty, good luck.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Sorry I'm late. There's lunch cold by now.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
No, I haven't put it on the table yet. I'm
going to do it now.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Father, Oh, princess, I'll come out and help you.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Margaret, Father, just a minute, I want to ask you something.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Oh well, what is it? Betty? Hi? Bud oh?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (04:24):
Dad?
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Will fall come.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Out in the kitchen you can ask me there. The
reason I'm late, Margaret, is because I got held up.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
In the traffic jam.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Some car got stalled right in the middle of the
intersection that opened forth.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
It was a woman driver, of course.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
What do you mean, of course?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Well, they're always stalling their motors. It seems they always
pick out the worst places to.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Do it too, don't mail drivers' cars have a stall.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Oh sure, occasionally, but at least they know what to
do about it.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Father, this woman had no idea what to do, not
even a vague notion.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
What did you expect her to do?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Leap out and crawl under the car and tear out
the transmission valves whatever.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Is in there.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
No, but just a little simple, rudimentary knowledge would have
helped her fix it. Another fella, and I had to
get out and get her started.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
That was gallons?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Have you?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
All that was wrong was the float.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
And the carburetor gotten stuck, and all she had to
do was simply tap it.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Kathy could have done it.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
H Well, next time I need a carburetor tapped, I'll
get hold of Kathy.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Well, I know one thing they ought to pass a.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Law against women.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
No, a law requiring women to pass some kind of
an elementary automotive test before they allow them to drive.
It's a dangerous thing, women whizzing around in cars knowing
nothing about what.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Goes on under the hood.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Uh huh not?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Then, Betty, what was it you wanted to ask me?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Nothing?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Here's another thing about your average.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I'll tell you what Betty wanted to bring up. It's
about our having a second car in the family with Hey,
Jeanie Liggett father, she drives her own car to school,
and Evelyn Kramer and Eloise.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Growner Marogaert, Did I hear you correctly?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Well, there are times when a second car would certainly
come in handy lots of times. I need to go
to the market when you're at the office, and I
could drive.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
It to school.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Just a minute here, Oh, it's not so much for me, father,
but it's a kind of a reflection on you to
have the only daughter at school.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
I wait a minute, Are either one of you aware
that any car you buy nowadays will run well over
two thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Well, it doesn't have to be a new one, no,
just some little second hand thing.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
Last year's one is plenty good enough.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
The last year's model costs as much as a new one.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Almost all right, then we'll sell for a new one.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
I don't care, Betty, Honey, we just playing can't afford it.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Besides that, I just got through telling you how I
feel about this whole situation.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Well, other families seem to have two cars and survive.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Hate, Betty, I got another idea for you. I was
just talking to Claude Messner.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
That's all I need to know about that idea.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
Well, now, wait, Claude said, the Williams. You know the
Williams down the street.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I know where they live.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Well, they want to sell that green coop you know,
the one you always see that driveway?
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Really do they?
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
And boy is it cheap? One hundred and sixty five bucks.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Father, did you hear that? Yes?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
I heard it.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
I must say, this is all very neatly timed. I
congratulate all of you.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Well, we didn't know about this before, father, honest, we
didn't know.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
I just never found out about it.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Well before we lose our heads completely. Let me ask
you one question. What kind of a car can you
get for one hundred and sixty five dollars?
Speaker 7 (07:47):
You can get that green coop?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yeah, I've seen that car. It's in good condition.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
How can you tell?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Because I've seen it and it's still real shiny.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
It real shining. That makes it in good condition. Huh?
Did it ever occur to you that the motor is
the important thing? Oh?
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Well, I'm sure it's got a motor. Or what time?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
For one hundred and sixty five dollars, it must be
completely broken down.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Or else it's about a nineteen nineteen model.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Claude said, it's in nineteen thirty seven, see their father.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Well, now, let's be sensible about this. Let's say we
can get it for that. Let's even say that it
will run, which I doubt. What are you gonna do
when it breaks down? We'll get it fixed, Get it fixed,
all right.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
There's a fifty dollars repair bill right there, and that'll
go on for the.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Life of the car.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
I tell you, I just can't afford to keep up
an old wreck like that. But father, and furthermore, I
just don't have the time to take care of another car.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
You won't have to, father. We'll take care of it,
won't we.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Mother, Certainly that I've got to see. Yeah, well, I
don't see anything.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
I can just see the two of you in overalls,
with grease all over your faces, cleaning a few spark plugs.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah, I'll be the only kid in junior high with
a grease monkey for her sister.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Do you keep out of this? Smarty?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
You girls plan to join the mechanics Union.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Just let us worry about all that.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
You mean you're.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Serious about this, Margaret, Well, certainly, why not?
Speaker 5 (09:25):
You mean you and Betty will actually take the full
responsibility of the car keep it running in good condition
if I buy it.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
Absolutely, But where is this car?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Like I told you, It's in the Williams driveway, just
half a block down the street.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Come on, let's take a look at it. Okay, one
hundred and sixty five dollars. I'll believe it when I
see it.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
Claude said it was okay, and you ought to know
because he was over there.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Hey, mother, do you think you'll really buy it?
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Of course he will.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
He's going to buy it now, just to prove to
us we can't keep it running.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Well, I think we can. I don't know anything about
a motor.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Well, don't worry about that.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I don't know a generator from a carbonator.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Neither do I.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
But we won't have to. I know that car. It
run's fine, Mommy. Well, Kathy, it's about time you got home.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Where have you been over to Patty Davis's and Mommy,
they're going to have a bird show at the Strand
Theater this Saturday. Can I go?
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Well, maybe we'll see.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I'll drive you over in my new car, Kathy, if
I get it.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
You're getting a new car. Well, it's not exactly new.
It's a nineteen thirty seven coop.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Can I help steer it? Sometimes?
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Uh? Maybe?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Can I help steer when Betty takes me to the
bird show?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Now we'll see just what kind of a bird show
is this. I didn't read anything about it.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
It's just a regular bird show. I guess it's got
a lot of owls in it. Owls. Yeah, that's what
sunset this Saturday only special owl show. Oh, Kathy, that's
(11:15):
not a bird show. Why isn't it aren't owl birds?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
That just means that it's a late movie starting at midnight.
I don't care when it starts. I want to see it. Mother,
you explain it to her. I haven't time. I've got
to warm lunch up again. Everything is done cold. Now, look, Kathy,
is it a puppet show? No, it's a regular movie.
But they call people who stay up late night out
(11:44):
and go.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Out and look at your new jalope.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Is it here already?
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Sure?
Speaker 7 (11:48):
And the driveway? Come on?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Hey, I want to see it on mom, I get
to help stare.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Oh yeah, oh brother, look at it.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Now?
Speaker 6 (11:59):
That look's real nice.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
It's kind of well, a little fashioned, but it certainly
is shiny.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Yes, it's not only shiny, but it's clean inside.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
See oh yoo good seed covers Sunvisor. It's in great shape,
except for one little thing. What's that The motor won't run?
But that should be no problem for Betty and Margaret
Anderson Girl Mechanics.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
Well, now just a minute, you'll find all.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
The wrenches in the garage. But let's go in and
have our lunch, shall we. Oh, looks like Jim has
left Margaret and Betty with plenty of trouble on their hands.
But as long as you feel good physically, little troubles
(12:50):
seem to have a way of working themselves out.
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Speaker 5 (14:23):
Well, here's how things stack up at the Andersons right now.
Betty and Margaret insisted that if Jim would buy that
shiny little nineteen thirty seven coup for them, they'd.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Keep it running.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
They'd make all the repairs and keep that motor purring
like a kid. Well, the car is in the driveway
and is the motor purring. They can't even get it started.
Jim and but are back in the garage getting some
tools for the two experts. Let's see what they're talking about.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I better put on my old clothes before Oh g Dad,
we'll have to help them fix the car.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
They don't know anything about.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
It, just a minute. Sound there's nothing wrong with the car.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
After we drove in the driveway, I reached under the
hood and pulled the wire off the coil.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
You did, Holy car will never start.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Not unless they put the wire back on. They'll never
find it.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Yeah, then, and your mother thought they were pretty safe
with all that big talk about keeping the car running.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Thought the car was in such good shape that they
could get away with it.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Well, I'm going to teach them a little lesson.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Grab the tools. I can't wait to see this need
Come on, keep a straight face. Button, don't say anything
about that wire and the coil.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
Hi won't. This is gonna be rich well ates, here
are the tools.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Oh, thank you, dear.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I'm sure you'll find everything you need here.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
But father, they're all dirtey.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Oh I'm sorry, Princess. I'd known you were going to
use them. Might have sent them to the laundry.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
All right, father, it's just greace, same stuff you see
me on your face every night.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Nobody asks you.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Okay, okay, stop arguing you too. Get a wrench or
something there, Betty, and let's fix the car.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
Rich rich.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Right here?
Speaker 4 (16:24):
All it sun no help in the audience please. The
girls don't need us.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
This is their car, and I'm sure they'll be able
to make any repairs that are necessary without our help.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Bety, you and your mother go right ahead. Button. I
won't bother you, will we?
Speaker 6 (16:38):
But heck no, Well, let's see.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
If the car won't go, it probably is because the
motor won't run.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
That's very good, very good.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Oh Father, don't stand there looking so pleased with yourself.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
I'm not prince. I'm on your side. I'm rooting for you.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
Yeah, so am io groop.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Will you too, please stand back. If you're not gonna
happ at least don't get in the way.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Just move back, Bud. They're liable to have this thing
running so quickly that will run right over you.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
You can't take chances, you know, all right, Dear, open
the hood, Betty, we'll look at the engine. Open the hood, yes,
just open it.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Let's see.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Want me to go in and get the can opener.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Father, meet, Bud, stop it, Bud, stop it.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
Here, Betty, the hood opens with this handle. Well, there's
the motor.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yes, here it is.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
They found the motor. Picty.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Sure, Hey, mommy, let's go go ahead, dear for a ride. Well,
we can't go for a ride just yet.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Angel, are you king.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Over to the davises? Why can't we go for a ride?
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Well, it isn't running just yet.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
We're fixing it. Sprout now, SKay out of the way.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
You're fixing it. Oh this is the end.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
And Kathy, Angel, I think you'd better run along.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
I mean you ladies will excuse us, I think, but
and I will run along too.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
You're excuse dear.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Come on, Bud, let's go in the house.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Isn't that just like men? They think they're so smart.
I like men. What are we gonna do?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Mother?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
All those thingamabob's and the murder are so much Greek
to me?
Speaker 6 (18:55):
What's greek?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Get in and push the daughter again. Let's see what happens.
All right, try it.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Again, you see, mother?
Speaker 7 (19:12):
Nothing?
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Well, things go round and around in there.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Why don't you kick it?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Mummy?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Look at father and but out there in the kitchen
window laughing at us, very buddy, ha ha ha. There
has to be some reason why it won't run.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Daddy drove it in the driveway. Hey, that's right, he did, of.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
Course he did. Now wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
If it won't run, now it could only be because
somebody did some simple little thing to the motor.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
You think father did this on purpose?
Speaker 6 (19:53):
I know he did.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
It's some simple little thing. How do we find it?
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Just look for something simple?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Don't look at me. These gadgets in here seem to
be tight.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
Than goes around.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Hm.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
What's this wire hanging loose? Here?
Speaker 7 (20:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:22):
That wire ought to go to something.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
There's a hole in this round box here. The wire
seems to fit in there. Try the daughter again, Betty,
that was it?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
But that was it? You didn't momy well, ruddy, no,
it comes perfectly.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Wait, father comes out. Don't tell me what we did? Father?
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Father?
Speaker 4 (20:54):
What happened? It's running?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
We fixed it, daddy?
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Hey, well, what did you do to it?
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Margaret?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (21:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
We just figured it out, and you and Bud were
so utterly positive that we.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Couldn't do it.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
I can't understand how you did it?
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Why not, dear?
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Well? I mean women don't usually that is ordinarily, father.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
We are not ordinary women. Well aren't you glad we
fixed it?
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Oh? Sure, just seems kind of.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
Uh what happened? Mother? I don't know? They just stopped.
Now what do you suppose is wrong?
Speaker 7 (21:38):
I thought you had it fixed.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
We did. What's the matter with this dumb old car?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Will?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
I'm baffled? But mother, it's no use, Betty, we give up, dear.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Well, Honey, don't just give up. Keep trying.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
Oh why should we pretend?
Speaker 3 (21:56):
You know perfectly well that Betty and I can't fix
the car. We haven't the faintest idea where to begin,
even Well, I'm.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Glad to hear you admitted, Honey, it ran before?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Why doesn't it run now? Darn car?
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Anyway, I guess you'll have to face it.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Your wife and daughter are pretty helpless around machinery.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Oh no, oh we are, dear.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I suppose a man could look into that motor, and
if he were clever, he'd find what was wrong in
a minute.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Well, I'm not a mechanic, you know that.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Do you think you could fix it? Father? It ran before?
Why doesn't it run now?
Speaker 5 (22:33):
I don't know how women drive cars around every day
without knowing at least something about the motor?
Speaker 6 (22:39):
Shall I turn in my driver's license?
Speaker 4 (22:41):
No? I was on a kidding, Honey. I'll see if
I can get the car running for you?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Will your father?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Hand me the pliers, Bud?
Speaker 5 (22:48):
But did uh huh, never mind, son, I think the
hydraulic cams and here have slipped out a phase with
the crankshaft differential.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
I think it's wonderful to that you know all these things.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
It ran before? Why doesn't it run now?
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Mother?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
If you do something about your child?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Run along, dear, Oh, I found the trouble very simple.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Betty, your father has found the trouble.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
How do you like this? Just a wire off the coil?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Really?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
But a run in the house now, Betty, see what
Kathy's doing?
Speaker 1 (23:27):
All right?
Speaker 5 (23:28):
All right, here you are, honey, it's fixed, Just a
simple little wire off the coil.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
How did you ever find it?
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Oh? Honey, you women are wonderful.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Dad, you're sure a run all right? Now?
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
You better take it down to the garage in the morning, though,
and have it lubricated. Might need a couple of tires
on the back there.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
You will have to tell me all these things, dear Dad.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Have them check the front wheels and see if the
battery is okay.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
That pain will take a nice polished job too.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
It done all right, dear, I have to go in
the house now.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
You've been very patient with your helpless women.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
How can I help it. There's such lovely women. Dad,
all right, what is it?
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Bud?
Speaker 7 (24:13):
There's something I can't figure out here?
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Well, Son, it's very obvious. I've proved my point beyond
the shadow.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Of a doubt.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Betty and your mother had to admit that they have
overstepped themselves on this car repairing deal.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
I won my point right down the line.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Are you sure you won Remember Kathy kept saying the
car ran before. Why doesn't it run now?
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
The only way mom could have gotten the car running
was to put that wire back on the coil.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
And the only way it could have stopped is if
somebody pulled it off.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Oh, Bud, that's ridiculous. Your mother wouldn't. Why No, she didn't.
Why that's.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
Margaret Anderson.
Speaker 9 (24:58):
I want to talk to you now.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
While Jim hunts up Margaret, let's follow Bud into the
kitchen where he finds Betty and Kathy.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
Hey, where's the post them?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Right here? We're having a cup now.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
Better fix a gallon?
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Ted is offside.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
He'll need it.
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Speaker 4 (26:07):
Well, somebody has some explaining to do.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
In the white frame house on Maple Street, Jim Anderson
has finally located Margaret in the living room, and he
has a few questions to ask, like this, Margaret, Yes, dear,
I hesitate to say this, but I have a strange
feeling that I've been swindled.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
What do you mean, Dear.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Honey, believe me, no one could be as innocent as
you're trying to.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Look.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Oh me, Look, I'll confess that I took that wire
off in the first place to teach you and Betty
a little lesson. But why did you take the wire
off again after you had the car running? Why did
I You had me feeling like I was a pretty
big man fixing that little wire.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
You enjoyed it, didn't you.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
That's not the question.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
The question is why you really want to know, dear.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
I would like very much to know.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Well, when you came out and found we had the
car running, you looked so hurt and so disappointed.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
I realized I'd made a terrible mistake.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Mistake.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Of course, women have to be stupid about cars. Men
like it that way.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
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I think you're beautiful.
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Well, thank you, Johnny.
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You're the most beautiful woman in the whole world.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Thank you, Johnny. Mom, Yes, Johnny.
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Speaker 2 (00:05):
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Speaker 4 (00:46):
It is often said.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
That quotes, women are never stronger than when they arm
themselves with their weakness unquote.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
One of the most common.
Speaker 5 (00:54):
Weaknesses among the weaker sex seems to be a complete
lack of ability to repair mechanical devices, such as, for example, automobiles. Well,
we'd better begin this morning at the White Frame House
on Maple Street, where Betty Anderson is broaching a certain
automotive idea to her mother, while some bud divides his
attention between a comic book and their conversation.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Like this, Well, what I'm trying to say, mother is well, yes,
just what are you trying to say, Betty? Well, there
are certain cold facts nowadays that one must face quite
utterly Oh, I agree, But what are some of these
cold facts?
Speaker 1 (01:30):
We can't ignore them?
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Mother, I said, I agreed, but just what take Janie Lickett,
for example, she drives her own car to school?
Speaker 6 (01:38):
All well, just what does that take?
Speaker 1 (01:40):
Kevilyn Kramer, she drives her own car.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
I see, so you feel that you are Shallowise Roman, ready,
I get the idea. Well, it's not so much for me, mother,
but I think that it's quite a reflection on you
and father to have a daughter who has to walk
to school or depend on someone else.
Speaker 6 (01:58):
For a ride.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
Yes, well, we've managed to bear up under that stigma
so far.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
It wouldn't have to be a new car, you understand.
Speaker 6 (02:07):
I'm sure it couldn't be a new car.
Speaker 1 (02:10):
Just some little old last year's model would do.
Speaker 6 (02:14):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Well, I don't know about the model, but I've sort
of been thinking along those same lines.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
Oh, mother, you mean I can't have a car.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
Well, I wouldn't say that exactly, but I have thought
it'd be handy if we had another car in the family.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
However, that's something your father will have to decide, not me.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Well will you ask him about it?
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Mother?
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Will you?
Speaker 7 (02:37):
Hey, Betty, I got an ideese Bud.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
We're talking.
Speaker 7 (02:40):
Yeah, but I gotta go.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
On reading your comic book. We're having a discussion, okay.
Speaker 7 (02:46):
I won't tell you my idea.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
Then idea about what?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (02:50):
Something?
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Oh? Now, don't be like that.
Speaker 7 (02:52):
What is it? You want to drive to school? Don't you?
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (02:56):
All right? Do you want to hear my idea? Or
don't you?
Speaker 6 (03:00):
Certainly?
Speaker 3 (03:00):
I do?
Speaker 6 (03:01):
What is it?
Speaker 7 (03:02):
I'll let you borrow my motor scooter?
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (03:05):
Prime, Well, what's.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
Wrong with that?
Speaker 6 (03:08):
What's wrong? He says?
Speaker 7 (03:10):
How about that?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Mom?
Speaker 7 (03:11):
Do you see anything wrong with her?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Don't get me in on this discussion. I have to
go out in the kitchen and get lunch on the table.
Your father'll be here any minute.
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Well may. As a matter of fact, he's late. I
wonder what's keeping him.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
You will ask father about the car idea, won't you? Oh?
Speaker 6 (03:24):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:25):
Maybe maybe you should bring it up. Sometimes he's more
receptive to your ideas.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
There's nothing wrong with that motor scooter idea.
Speaker 1 (03:35):
Mother, Just how do you think I ought to put it?
Speaker 6 (03:38):
That's hard to say. I'd do it as tactfully as possible, though, is.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
The I'm not thinking of myself? But it's a reflection
on you approach any good.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
If you can work it around to where.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
He thinks it's his idea, you'll have a better chance.
Speaker 7 (03:52):
My motor scooter has just been repainted.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I don't care if it's got a wrong paper on it.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
I wouldn't be.
Speaker 1 (04:00):
Seen then on that contraption.
Speaker 7 (04:03):
Boy, that's gratitude for you.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Well, I've got to get out in the kitchen and
I've got a home.
Speaker 6 (04:09):
Well there he is, Betty, good luck.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Sorry I'm late. There's lunch cold by now.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
No, I haven't put it on the table yet. I'm
going to do it now.
Speaker 4 (04:17):
Father, Oh, princess, I'll come out and help you.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
Margaret, Father, just a minute, I want to ask you something.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Oh well, what is it? Betty? Hi? Bud oh?
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Hi?
Speaker 7 (04:24):
Dad?
Speaker 6 (04:25):
Will fall come.
Speaker 5 (04:25):
Out in the kitchen you can ask me there. The
reason I'm late, Margaret, is because I got held up.
Speaker 4 (04:29):
In the traffic jam.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Oh.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Some car got stalled right in the middle of the
intersection that opened forth.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
It was a woman driver, of course.
Speaker 6 (04:37):
What do you mean, of course?
Speaker 4 (04:38):
Well, they're always stalling their motors. It seems they always
pick out the worst places to.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Do it too, don't mail drivers' cars have a stall.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
Oh sure, occasionally, but at least they know what to
do about it.
Speaker 4 (04:50):
Father, this woman had no idea what to do, not
even a vague notion.
Speaker 6 (04:54):
What did you expect her to do?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Leap out and crawl under the car and tear out
the transmission valves whatever.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
Is in there.
Speaker 5 (05:03):
No, but just a little simple, rudimentary knowledge would have
helped her fix it. Another fella, and I had to
get out and get her started.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
That was gallons?
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Have you?
Speaker 4 (05:12):
All that was wrong was the float.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
And the carburetor gotten stuck, and all she had to
do was simply tap it.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Kathy could have done it.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
H Well, next time I need a carburetor tapped, I'll
get hold of Kathy.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Well, I know one thing they ought to pass a.
Speaker 6 (05:26):
Law against women.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
No, a law requiring women to pass some kind of
an elementary automotive test before they allow them to drive.
It's a dangerous thing, women whizzing around in cars knowing
nothing about what.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Goes on under the hood.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Uh huh not?
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Then, Betty, what was it you wanted to ask me?
Speaker 1 (05:46):
Nothing?
Speaker 4 (05:49):
Here's another thing about your average.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
I'll tell you what Betty wanted to bring up. It's
about our having a second car in the family with Hey,
Jeanie Liggett father, she drives her own car to school,
and Evelyn Kramer and Eloise.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
Growner Marogaert, Did I hear you correctly?
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Well, there are times when a second car would certainly
come in handy lots of times. I need to go
to the market when you're at the office, and I
could drive.
Speaker 6 (06:16):
It to school.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Just a minute here, Oh, it's not so much for me, father,
but it's a kind of a reflection on you to
have the only daughter at school.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
I wait a minute, Are either one of you aware
that any car you buy nowadays will run well over
two thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Well, it doesn't have to be a new one, no,
just some little second hand thing.
Speaker 6 (06:35):
Last year's one is plenty good enough.
Speaker 4 (06:40):
The last year's model costs as much as a new one.
Speaker 1 (06:42):
Almost all right, then we'll sell for a new one.
Speaker 4 (06:44):
I don't care, Betty, Honey, we just playing can't afford it.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Besides that, I just got through telling you how I
feel about this whole situation.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Well, other families seem to have two cars and survive.
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Hate, Betty, I got another idea for you. I was
just talking to Claude Messner.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
That's all I need to know about that idea.
Speaker 7 (07:06):
Well, now, wait, Claude said, the Williams. You know the
Williams down the street.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
I know where they live.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Well, they want to sell that green coop you know,
the one you always see that driveway?
Speaker 6 (07:16):
Really do they?
Speaker 7 (07:17):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:18):
And boy is it cheap? One hundred and sixty five bucks.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
Father, did you hear that? Yes?
Speaker 4 (07:25):
I heard it.
Speaker 5 (07:28):
I must say, this is all very neatly timed. I
congratulate all of you.
Speaker 1 (07:33):
Well, we didn't know about this before, father, honest, we
didn't know.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
I just never found out about it.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
Well before we lose our heads completely. Let me ask
you one question. What kind of a car can you
get for one hundred and sixty five dollars?
Speaker 7 (07:47):
You can get that green coop?
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Yeah, I've seen that car. It's in good condition.
Speaker 4 (07:54):
How can you tell?
Speaker 3 (07:55):
Because I've seen it and it's still real shiny.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
It real shining. That makes it in good condition. Huh?
Did it ever occur to you that the motor is
the important thing? Oh?
Speaker 6 (08:07):
Well, I'm sure it's got a motor. Or what time?
Speaker 5 (08:12):
For one hundred and sixty five dollars, it must be
completely broken down.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Or else it's about a nineteen nineteen model.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Claude said, it's in nineteen thirty seven, see their father.
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Well, now, let's be sensible about this. Let's say we
can get it for that. Let's even say that it
will run, which I doubt. What are you gonna do
when it breaks down? We'll get it fixed, Get it fixed,
all right.
Speaker 5 (08:34):
There's a fifty dollars repair bill right there, and that'll
go on for the.
Speaker 4 (08:37):
Life of the car.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
I tell you, I just can't afford to keep up
an old wreck like that. But father, and furthermore, I
just don't have the time to take care of another car.
Speaker 1 (08:46):
You won't have to, father. We'll take care of it,
won't we.
Speaker 3 (08:49):
Mother, Certainly that I've got to see. Yeah, well, I
don't see anything.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
I can just see the two of you in overalls,
with grease all over your faces, cleaning a few spark plugs.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah, I'll be the only kid in junior high with
a grease monkey for her sister.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Do you keep out of this? Smarty?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
You girls plan to join the mechanics Union.
Speaker 6 (09:17):
Just let us worry about all that.
Speaker 4 (09:20):
You mean you're.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Serious about this, Margaret, Well, certainly, why not?
Speaker 5 (09:25):
You mean you and Betty will actually take the full
responsibility of the car keep it running in good condition
if I buy it.
Speaker 7 (09:32):
Absolutely, But where is this car?
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Like I told you, It's in the Williams driveway, just
half a block down the street.
Speaker 5 (09:41):
Come on, let's take a look at it. Okay, one
hundred and sixty five dollars. I'll believe it when I
see it.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
Claude said it was okay, and you ought to know
because he was over there.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Hey, mother, do you think you'll really buy it?
Speaker 6 (09:52):
Of course he will.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
He's going to buy it now, just to prove to
us we can't keep it running.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Well, I think we can. I don't know anything about
a motor.
Speaker 6 (10:03):
Well, don't worry about that.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
I don't know a generator from a carbonator.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Neither do I.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
But we won't have to. I know that car. It
run's fine, Mommy. Well, Kathy, it's about time you got home.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
Where have you been over to Patty Davis's and Mommy,
they're going to have a bird show at the Strand
Theater this Saturday. Can I go?
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Well, maybe we'll see.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I'll drive you over in my new car, Kathy, if
I get it.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
You're getting a new car. Well, it's not exactly new.
It's a nineteen thirty seven coop.
Speaker 1 (10:39):
Can I help steer it? Sometimes?
Speaker 6 (10:41):
Uh? Maybe?
Speaker 1 (10:43):
Can I help steer when Betty takes me to the
bird show?
Speaker 3 (10:46):
Now we'll see just what kind of a bird show
is this. I didn't read anything about it.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
It's just a regular bird show. I guess it's got
a lot of owls in it. Owls. Yeah, that's what
sunset this Saturday only special owl show. Oh, Kathy, that's
(11:15):
not a bird show. Why isn't it aren't owl birds?
Speaker 3 (11:21):
That just means that it's a late movie starting at midnight.
I don't care when it starts. I want to see it. Mother,
you explain it to her. I haven't time. I've got
to warm lunch up again. Everything is done cold. Now, look, Kathy,
is it a puppet show? No, it's a regular movie.
But they call people who stay up late night out
(11:44):
and go.
Speaker 7 (11:44):
Out and look at your new jalope.
Speaker 1 (11:46):
Is it here already?
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Sure?
Speaker 7 (11:48):
And the driveway? Come on?
Speaker 1 (11:49):
Hey, I want to see it on mom, I get
to help stare.
Speaker 3 (11:53):
Oh yeah, oh brother, look at it.
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Now?
Speaker 6 (11:59):
That look's real nice.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
It's kind of well, a little fashioned, but it certainly
is shiny.
Speaker 4 (12:06):
Yes, it's not only shiny, but it's clean inside.
Speaker 5 (12:09):
See oh yoo good seed covers Sunvisor. It's in great shape,
except for one little thing. What's that The motor won't run?
But that should be no problem for Betty and Margaret
Anderson Girl Mechanics.
Speaker 6 (12:26):
Well, now just a minute, you'll find all.
Speaker 5 (12:28):
The wrenches in the garage. But let's go in and
have our lunch, shall we. Oh, looks like Jim has
left Margaret and Betty with plenty of trouble on their hands.
But as long as you feel good physically, little troubles
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seem to have a way of working themselves out.
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Speaker 5 (14:23):
Well, here's how things stack up at the Andersons right now.
Betty and Margaret insisted that if Jim would buy that
shiny little nineteen thirty seven coup for them, they'd.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Keep it running.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
They'd make all the repairs and keep that motor purring
like a kid. Well, the car is in the driveway
and is the motor purring. They can't even get it started.
Jim and but are back in the garage getting some
tools for the two experts. Let's see what they're talking about.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I better put on my old clothes before Oh g Dad,
we'll have to help them fix the car.
Speaker 7 (14:55):
They don't know anything about.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
It, just a minute. Sound there's nothing wrong with the car.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
After we drove in the driveway, I reached under the
hood and pulled the wire off the coil.
Speaker 7 (15:04):
You did, Holy car will never start.
Speaker 5 (15:08):
Not unless they put the wire back on. They'll never
find it.
Speaker 7 (15:14):
That's pretty good.
Speaker 5 (15:16):
Yeah, then, and your mother thought they were pretty safe
with all that big talk about keeping the car running.
Speaker 4 (15:26):
Thought the car was in such good shape that they
could get away with it.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
Well, I'm going to teach them a little lesson.
Speaker 4 (15:33):
Grab the tools. I can't wait to see this need
Come on, keep a straight face. Button, don't say anything
about that wire and the coil.
Speaker 7 (15:40):
Hi won't. This is gonna be rich well ates, here
are the tools.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Oh, thank you, dear.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
I'm sure you'll find everything you need here.
Speaker 1 (15:52):
But father, they're all dirtey.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
Oh I'm sorry, Princess. I'd known you were going to
use them. Might have sent them to the laundry.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
All right, father, it's just greace, same stuff you see
me on your face every night.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Nobody asks you.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
Okay, okay, stop arguing you too. Get a wrench or
something there, Betty, and let's fix the car.
Speaker 6 (16:20):
Rich rich.
Speaker 7 (16:23):
Right here?
Speaker 4 (16:24):
All it sun no help in the audience please. The
girls don't need us.
Speaker 5 (16:28):
This is their car, and I'm sure they'll be able
to make any repairs that are necessary without our help.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
Bety, you and your mother go right ahead. Button. I
won't bother you, will we?
Speaker 6 (16:38):
But heck no, Well, let's see.
Speaker 3 (16:44):
If the car won't go, it probably is because the
motor won't run.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
That's very good, very good.
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Oh Father, don't stand there looking so pleased with yourself.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
I'm not prince. I'm on your side. I'm rooting for you.
Speaker 7 (17:02):
Yeah, so am io groop.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Will you too, please stand back. If you're not gonna
happ at least don't get in the way.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
Just move back, Bud. They're liable to have this thing
running so quickly that will run right over you.
Speaker 3 (17:16):
You can't take chances, you know, all right, Dear, open
the hood, Betty, we'll look at the engine. Open the hood, yes,
just open it.
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Let's see.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Want me to go in and get the can opener.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
Father, meet, Bud, stop it, Bud, stop it.
Speaker 6 (17:40):
Here, Betty, the hood opens with this handle. Well, there's
the motor.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yes, here it is.
Speaker 7 (17:57):
They found the motor. Picty.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Sure, Hey, mommy, let's go go ahead, dear for a ride. Well,
we can't go for a ride just yet.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Angel, are you king.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
Over to the davises? Why can't we go for a ride?
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Well, it isn't running just yet.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
We're fixing it. Sprout now, SKay out of the way.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
You're fixing it. Oh this is the end.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
And Kathy, Angel, I think you'd better run along.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
I mean you ladies will excuse us, I think, but
and I will run along too.
Speaker 6 (18:38):
You're excuse dear.
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Come on, Bud, let's go in the house.
Speaker 7 (18:42):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Isn't that just like men? They think they're so smart.
I like men. What are we gonna do?
Speaker 3 (18:51):
Mother?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
All those thingamabob's and the murder are so much Greek
to me?
Speaker 6 (18:55):
What's greek?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Get in and push the daughter again. Let's see what happens.
All right, try it.
Speaker 6 (19:07):
Again, you see, mother?
Speaker 7 (19:12):
Nothing?
Speaker 6 (19:13):
Well, things go round and around in there.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
Why don't you kick it?
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Mummy?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Look at father and but out there in the kitchen
window laughing at us, very buddy, ha ha ha. There
has to be some reason why it won't run.
Speaker 1 (19:33):
Daddy drove it in the driveway. Hey, that's right, he did, of.
Speaker 6 (19:41):
Course he did. Now wait a minute.
Speaker 3 (19:45):
If it won't run, now it could only be because
somebody did some simple little thing to the motor.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
You think father did this on purpose?
Speaker 6 (19:53):
I know he did.
Speaker 1 (19:58):
It's some simple little thing. How do we find it?
Speaker 6 (20:01):
Just look for something simple?
Speaker 1 (20:05):
Don't look at me. These gadgets in here seem to
be tight.
Speaker 6 (20:14):
Than goes around.
Speaker 4 (20:17):
Hm.
Speaker 6 (20:18):
What's this wire hanging loose? Here?
Speaker 7 (20:21):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (20:22):
That wire ought to go to something.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
There's a hole in this round box here. The wire
seems to fit in there. Try the daughter again, Betty,
that was it?
Speaker 1 (20:40):
But that was it? You didn't momy well, ruddy, no,
it comes perfectly.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
Oh.
Speaker 1 (20:47):
Wait, father comes out. Don't tell me what we did? Father?
Speaker 7 (20:51):
Father?
Speaker 4 (20:54):
What happened? It's running?
Speaker 1 (20:56):
We fixed it, daddy?
Speaker 7 (20:58):
Hey, well, what did you do to it?
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Margaret?
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (21:03):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
We just figured it out, and you and Bud were
so utterly positive that we.
Speaker 1 (21:08):
Couldn't do it.
Speaker 4 (21:10):
I can't understand how you did it?
Speaker 6 (21:12):
Why not, dear?
Speaker 4 (21:14):
Well? I mean women don't usually that is ordinarily, father.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
We are not ordinary women. Well aren't you glad we
fixed it?
Speaker 4 (21:25):
Oh? Sure, just seems kind of.
Speaker 6 (21:29):
Uh what happened? Mother? I don't know? They just stopped.
Now what do you suppose is wrong?
Speaker 7 (21:38):
I thought you had it fixed.
Speaker 1 (21:39):
We did. What's the matter with this dumb old car?
Speaker 2 (21:45):
Will?
Speaker 3 (21:47):
I'm baffled? But mother, it's no use, Betty, we give up, dear.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
Well, Honey, don't just give up. Keep trying.
Speaker 6 (21:55):
Oh why should we pretend?
Speaker 3 (21:56):
You know perfectly well that Betty and I can't fix
the car. We haven't the faintest idea where to begin,
even Well, I'm.
Speaker 5 (22:05):
Glad to hear you admitted, Honey, it ran before?
Speaker 1 (22:08):
Why doesn't it run now? Darn car?
Speaker 6 (22:11):
Anyway, I guess you'll have to face it.
Speaker 3 (22:14):
Your wife and daughter are pretty helpless around machinery.
Speaker 6 (22:18):
Oh no, oh we are, dear.
Speaker 3 (22:20):
I suppose a man could look into that motor, and
if he were clever, he'd find what was wrong in
a minute.
Speaker 4 (22:26):
Well, I'm not a mechanic, you know that.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Do you think you could fix it? Father? It ran before?
Why doesn't it run now?
Speaker 5 (22:33):
I don't know how women drive cars around every day
without knowing at least something about the motor?
Speaker 6 (22:39):
Shall I turn in my driver's license?
Speaker 4 (22:41):
No? I was on a kidding, Honey. I'll see if
I can get the car running for you?
Speaker 1 (22:45):
Will your father?
Speaker 3 (22:46):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (22:46):
Hand me the pliers, Bud?
Speaker 5 (22:48):
But did uh huh, never mind, son, I think the
hydraulic cams and here have slipped out a phase with
the crankshaft differential.
Speaker 6 (22:58):
I think it's wonderful to that you know all these things.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
It ran before? Why doesn't it run now?
Speaker 2 (23:07):
Mother?
Speaker 1 (23:08):
If you do something about your child?
Speaker 4 (23:10):
Run along, dear, Oh, I found the trouble very simple.
Speaker 6 (23:16):
Betty, your father has found the trouble.
Speaker 4 (23:19):
How do you like this? Just a wire off the coil?
Speaker 2 (23:23):
Really?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
But a run in the house now, Betty, see what
Kathy's doing?
Speaker 1 (23:27):
All right?
Speaker 5 (23:28):
All right, here you are, honey, it's fixed, Just a
simple little wire off the coil.
Speaker 6 (23:33):
How did you ever find it?
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Oh? Honey, you women are wonderful.
Speaker 6 (23:38):
Dad, you're sure a run all right? Now?
Speaker 4 (23:40):
Oh?
Speaker 7 (23:41):
Sure?
Speaker 5 (23:42):
You better take it down to the garage in the morning, though,
and have it lubricated. Might need a couple of tires
on the back there.
Speaker 6 (23:48):
You will have to tell me all these things, dear Dad.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
Have them check the front wheels and see if the
battery is okay.
Speaker 4 (23:56):
That pain will take a nice polished job too.
Speaker 6 (24:00):
It done all right, dear, I have to go in
the house now.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
You've been very patient with your helpless women.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
How can I help it. There's such lovely women. Dad,
all right, what is it?
Speaker 4 (24:12):
Bud?
Speaker 7 (24:13):
There's something I can't figure out here?
Speaker 5 (24:15):
Well, Son, it's very obvious. I've proved my point beyond
the shadow.
Speaker 4 (24:19):
Of a doubt.
Speaker 5 (24:20):
Betty and your mother had to admit that they have
overstepped themselves on this car repairing deal.
Speaker 4 (24:26):
I won my point right down the line.
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Are you sure you won Remember Kathy kept saying the
car ran before. Why doesn't it run now?
Speaker 4 (24:38):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (24:39):
The only way mom could have gotten the car running
was to put that wire back on the coil.
Speaker 4 (24:44):
That's right.
Speaker 7 (24:45):
And the only way it could have stopped is if
somebody pulled it off.
Speaker 4 (24:48):
Oh, Bud, that's ridiculous. Your mother wouldn't. Why No, she didn't.
Why that's.
Speaker 7 (24:57):
Margaret Anderson.
Speaker 9 (24:58):
I want to talk to you now.
Speaker 5 (25:10):
While Jim hunts up Margaret, let's follow Bud into the
kitchen where he finds Betty and Kathy.
Speaker 7 (25:17):
Hey, where's the post them?
Speaker 1 (25:19):
Right here? We're having a cup now.
Speaker 7 (25:20):
Better fix a gallon?
Speaker 4 (25:21):
Ted is offside.
Speaker 7 (25:22):
He'll need it.
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Speaker 4 (26:07):
Well, somebody has some explaining to do.
Speaker 5 (26:09):
In the white frame house on Maple Street, Jim Anderson
has finally located Margaret in the living room, and he
has a few questions to ask, like this, Margaret, Yes, dear,
I hesitate to say this, but I have a strange
feeling that I've been swindled.
Speaker 6 (26:27):
What do you mean, Dear.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Honey, believe me, no one could be as innocent as
you're trying to.
Speaker 4 (26:32):
Look.
Speaker 5 (26:33):
Oh me, Look, I'll confess that I took that wire
off in the first place to teach you and Betty
a little lesson. But why did you take the wire
off again after you had the car running? Why did
I You had me feeling like I was a pretty
big man fixing that little wire.
Speaker 6 (26:48):
You enjoyed it, didn't you.
Speaker 4 (26:50):
That's not the question.
Speaker 6 (26:51):
The question is why you really want to know, dear.
Speaker 4 (26:54):
I would like very much to know.
Speaker 3 (26:56):
Well, when you came out and found we had the
car running, you looked so hurt and so disappointed.
Speaker 6 (27:04):
I realized I'd made a terrible mistake.
Speaker 4 (27:07):
Mistake.
Speaker 3 (27:08):
Of course, women have to be stupid about cars. Men
like it that way.
Speaker 5 (27:24):
Start up again next week, but we'll be back with
Father Knows Best, starring Robert Young as Jim Anderson. Until then,
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Mom.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
I think you're beautiful.
Speaker 6 (28:06):
Well, thank you, Johnny.
Speaker 1 (28:07):
You're the most beautiful woman in the whole world.
Speaker 6 (28:10):
Thank you, Johnny. Mom, Yes, Johnny.
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Can I have wheatmeal for breakfast tomorrow?
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