November 30, 2025 • 29 mins
The Life of Riley is a classic old time radio program that aired in the 1940s. It centered around the domestic life of a bumbling but lovable man, Chester A. Riley (William Bendix).
In this classic Christmas episode, Riley is going crazy trying to guess what's in a mysterious Christmas present that came in the mail.
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In this classic Christmas episode, Riley is going crazy trying to guess what's in a mysterious Christmas present that came in the mail.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
Here he is folks.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
During the day, he's busy acting in the forthcoming movie
A Bell for a Donno. But tonight he's just a
big kid eagerly waiting for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
The first Christmas Eve, I remember, my Grandma told me
to go out on.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
The porch and drag in the U log.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
The U log turned out to be Grandpa.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
The American Meat Institute present William Bendix in the Life
of Riley. The meat people of America providing a great
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food for a great nation. But there are many other
things besides meat that the meat industry supplies to a
fighting nation. Fats for explosives, the other for shoes, and
many other military uses. Warm fleeces for flyers, jackets, wool
for sturdy uniforms, life saving extracts, and drugs for military hospitals. Yes,
(01:11):
an industry that learned years ago to use everything. But
the squeal provides hundreds of essential materials for vital wartime needs,
and now on behalf of all those engaged in supplying
meat to the nation. The American Meat Institute presents the
Life of Riley. Well, it's the week before Christmas, and
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all through the land people are busy sending and receiving
gaily wrapped packages. War worker Riley has just added the
living room of his California bungalow with two such packages.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
And his arms. Well what's that you got there, Riley?
Christmas presents yelm for me? Something I can really use?
Who get intee?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Dad, you very.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Good friend of mine. Me see they like that A
new hat? How do I look?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Well?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Don't you think those pork pie hats are a little
too youthful for you?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
No, the man in the store said, I got the
perfect face for.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
A pork pie hat.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Oh what's in the other package?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Pops cigars?
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Oh but Dad, your fam Waldobinny always gives you cigars
for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
But the trouble with Wald those cigars, I can't figure
out how to smoke 'em and not be in the
same room at the time.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
You're right, Potu.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
The only way to get what you want for Christmas
is to buy it yourself.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Or what's eating on you?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Junior?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Look what ann Henny sent me from Brooklyn ear mops
in California.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Oh, I'll cheer up. Maybe Uncle Baxter in Boston will
send you some snow.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Huh, Junior, Aunt Henny's package is marked do not open
until Christmas.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
I know you knew, and you opened it. Oh what's wrong, Junior.
It's against the spirit of Christmas.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Why, yes, he should have waited until Christmas morning when
we all open our presents.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Oh geez.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Besides, it ain't just the idea of opening a package,
it's what's behind it.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
It shows you ain't got willpower. Oh maybe not, bruh,
I just have it. Those in it beg this boy.
Don't take after me, no willpower, No, but he has
got your good. Look. God, that's sweet, dumpling.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I can't argue because it's true.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Listen, Jr. You gotta develop willpower.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Remember life is just a bowl of cherries, which means
there are lots of pits you can fall into. Only
willpower can save you from the pitfalls o the door.
Anybody who ain't got willpower ain't fit to fight the
battle of life.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
God take me for it.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I got willpower this morning at the plant when big
Jim Anderson stepped on my foot on purpose where it's
three hundred pounds, I had enough will power not to
punch him in the nose.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Daddy, was a package for you, here for me? Hey, sure,
wrapped up pretty, isn't it. Oh? Who's it from? Riley?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I don't say, but according to the postmark, it comes from.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Uh, Walla Waller, Walla Waller. Let's see, who do I
know in the South Pacific.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Fob Walla Waller is a city in the state of Washington.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Oh, Walla Waller.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Well, we don't know anybody in Walla Waller.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Well, maybe some friend of dad moved to Walla wall
Walla Waller. Who do I know? Who do I know?
Who could have been? Who could have been?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Riley?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Just because it comes from Walla Waller, you don't have
to say everything twice.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
I wonder what's in this box?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Too short for slippers, too flat for military brushes, it's
too light for.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
A bowling ball.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Don't rattle, don't smell, don't leap. Wish I knew what
was in it?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Well, guessing won't get you anywhere.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, I've better open it and find out.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Yes, still met it?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Pop, Look what it says.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
They're on the bottom of the sticker. Oh, do not
open until Christmas.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Oh, thanks for bringing it to my attentions.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
I'll just leave it the way it is until Christmas.
You're better after the lecture you just gave Junior unwilled.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Don't worry about me.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
If I say I won't open it until Christmas, I
won't open it.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Oh, last Christmas, you open the present you got newly Dirk,
and ahead of time I was a business.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Thing, so I know how much to spend on his presence.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Go on, You always die of curiosity every package you
ever get.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
Not me.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I ain't the least bit curious about what's in that package.
It's kind of thin, ain't it.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Well, just so you won't be tempted to open it all,
put it away, good, on.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
The shelf in this closet. Good, and I'll lock the
close good? No, no, no, don't don't don't lock the closet. Well, see,
I told you, JR. It ain't what you think. It
ain't on account of the present.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
But then why don't you want the closet locked?
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Proud that in case of fire the mice won't be
able to escape? All right, then I won't lock it.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Okay, as far as I'm concerned, this package don't exist.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
A JR.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Remind me Christmas morning to open it?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I show on you.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Yeah, well we'll see.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Come on long now, time is up here. Come on, kids, suffer.
Oh we'll be in a minute.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Listens, Babs, I bet your dollar to Nicola pop opens
that package before Christmas?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Smarty.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
You always want a sure thing, you know, Daddy can't
hold out to Christmas.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Hey, Babs, what where is that mouse trap we had?
Speaker 4 (07:37):
That? That's that's only made dublin. Why aren't you sleep?
But I'm just going to to get a glass of water.
Go to sleep. Well, don't make it any more.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Nose h.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Boom, my head, my head, some biting me? Good Riley?
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Look a mouse trap?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
A mouse trap, junior? Do you know anything about this?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
I was just trying to catch your mouse, paw. I
never thought you would go to the closet in the
middle of the night.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Well that that could happen to anybody. I was going
for a glass of water.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
And I just happened to mistake the closet in the
living room for the ice box in the kitchen. I you, wow, dope, Benny,
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How are you well done? Oh?
Speaker 6 (08:59):
My him back? But I've been out walking my wife's
great day and and he simply refuses to take me home.
I'm exhausted.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Well here, I'll pull a dog home for you while though,
give me his lease.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Yeah, thank you, mister Riley. Sometime I'll do a favor
for you, like ironing some shirts or shirsh now hamilts.
For tonight, I'll make you sleep in your bed instead
of mine.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Well, do I want to ask your opinion? I got
a friend name and no name. See, but this friend
got a package mark do not open until Christmas.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Now my question is, mister Riley, the answer is no.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
No, under no circumstances should such a package be opened
before Christmas? Remember curiosity killed a cat.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Well, my friend ain't a cat. His son Junior.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Thinks he's a racky leaves traps around for him.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
Mister Riley, not only isn't it Christmasy, but anybody who
can't resist temptation is just a wishy, washy weakling without character.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
That's what I say. Well, though, well do I just
got a brain wave. The package says.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Do not open before Christmas, but I don't say do
not look inside before Christmas? Well, well, now suppose somebody
else opened this package.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
I won't do it.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
No, Yeah, but suppose somebody did open it, and then
my friend couldn't help finding out what was inside.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
That's true, technically he would be honest.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
I would say, you know.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Something like that happened in our house last year. This
dog here opened the package marks do not open until Christmas.
He did, huh yeah, and he just tore the wrapping
paper to shreds. Well, I couldn't help finding out what.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Was in it. You don't say, uh.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
By the way, well though, how's it about lending me
this dog for a little while?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Huh Why?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Well, I got a dog and you know what you hate,
caught your business?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Yeah, yeah, that's true. Take me.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
I haven't got a son like you have. I'll lend
you the dog.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Oh that's swell wild dog. And sometime I'll lend you
a junior. Come on, Hamlet, come on boy, hamlin quiet,
come on in here in the living room.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Come on, yeah that boy nah, Now you sit down
right over. Just let my hand out.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Of your mouth. That's an I'm gonna get something pretty
for you to play with, the junior over.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Don't say a word hammer huh ah.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
I listen, pop, Look what I got for you. See
the package, pretty little package.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I'll put it down right here in front of you.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I bet you're dying to know what's inside. You ain't
the only one.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
There's only one way to find out.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I amn't go ahead, go ahead if you feel like
sicken anything like like a package.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
For instance, sick it, go ahead, but good sicket, I'll
see you later, right Christmas? Well?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Every good?
Speaker 4 (12:39):
All? Yeah, Dublin, hello.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Dear you back to zoos.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Yeah, I was over the lee.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Listen to that.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
I don't hear nothing. I hear it, doll.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
It must be next door at Waldo's house.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
It's right in this house in the no no, no, no,
no pack Wait, don't bother look, Can I tell you
it's next it's in the living room. I wonder how
he got in, Peggy my package. He'll get in the
closet and tear open the package before Christmas. That would
be horrible. Well, I never did he do it, Peg,
(13:18):
I'm afraid to look it. Well, you'd better open your eyes.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
What Peg, I don't want to say.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
What's in my package?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
And my box?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
And cigars? He chewed up all my cigars? And look,
fuck my new hat. He's eating my hat. Stop at you,
you dog, oh modely, this is no laughing.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Well, cheer up.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
You're lucky. He didn't even touch your Christmas package. Well,
Ley's plan.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
Has gone to the dog, along with his kne you
have and cigars.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
In a moment, will return to Riley's mysterious Christmas package.
But right now, this is Ken Niles speaking for your
meat industry. You know, there used to be an old
song to wear something like this. If I can't get
the girl I want, I'll take the one I can get. Well,
that's pretty sporting psychology. These days at your meat store,
you're not always getting the exact cuts of meat you want,
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just when you want them. But listen, the meat industry
is handling the greatest tonnage in history with a critical
shortage of help. For instance, the number of hogs processed
this year has set a new record. The fact remains
that the needs of war often leave less choice of
meat for the needs at home. Here's how missus Niles
is meeting the situation. Geez, introduce me to cuts of
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meat that are not only usually available, but are unusually
good meat ideas I've never met before. Beef heart stuffed
with dressing. And that's some stuffed beef biscuit with vegetables,
hot tongue, served with a snappy horse ridy sauce.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Beef stew, or any.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Of the stews, including our old friend's lamb or mutton stew. Anyway,
you know it by now, but I'll say it again.
All meat, regardless of kind or cut, contains the same
highest quality protein. So we say meat is a yardstick
of protein foods because meat measures up to every protein need.
(15:24):
And now back to the Life of Riley with William
Bendix as Riley Well, the package Riley God label do
not open to Christmas still remains. In fact, so far
(15:45):
he has not broken his vow to the family. But
with a full week left to go before Christmas, our
hero's patience is near the breaking point. Right now, he's
studying a big book, reading.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Off names Yard bow Yerbert Galini, Yuzie, what.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Are you mumbling about in here?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
What's that big book? Zib sackle say?
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Oh oh, this, dumplin.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
This is the city directory of Walla, Walla. Oh are
you still trying to find out who sent you that package? No, no, no,
I'm just reading this for pleasure. Cebulovsky seasonble. It's nice
to know your fellow Americans, you know. I wish all
I had to do was read about who lives in
Walla Walla? Zoot sagu zuzz bah. I don't recognize the
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faces of any of these names.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I give up.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
I ain't gonna think about that darn package. Who's that?
Speaker 8 (16:44):
It's Dick mey Odell, the friendly undertakeer.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
It ain't my favorite undertaker. Ah.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
You tinking readings, Riley, you're looking well.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
The Natural? Well? Thanks? I feel good too, well? What
brings you here there?
Speaker 8 (17:06):
Good? Just passing by? I had some free time on
my hands. Things are very quiet down at my place.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Yeah, I guess everybody's too busy.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
Christmas shopping aye, Yes, Christmas yo, snoil. I adore Christmas.
It's so good.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
I like Christmas too, especially the presents. Now.
Speaker 8 (17:35):
I got a passic that reminds me Riley. I found
out what my wife is giving me for Christmas. A
beautiful sports jacket.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Sports jacket, huh what color?
Speaker 8 (17:47):
Black? A light black?
Speaker 4 (17:55):
I'll bet you look good in it.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Speaking of presents, little boys, get me my favorite book,
The Good Uh.
Speaker 8 (18:06):
I love to bury myself in a book.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Well, The Good Earth is great for that, now, Digger,
I got a package you see.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
Ah, yes, do not open before Christmas.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Yeah, and I'm aching to know what's in it. But
I swore I wouldn't open it.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
I'm afraid I can't help you, Riley. I can't imagine
what's inside, and I haven't got X ray eyes.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Yes, i'll have just wait, digger, I know how I
can find out what's in there without opening it.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I'll have this.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Package X ray. Yes, sir, what is it you wish? Well, nurse,
I'd like to see this, Professor Geico.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
The professors just now?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Can I help you?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Well, I've seen an ad in the paper where it
says for two dollars and fifty so that you can
get an X ray phuoscopic treatment elect the licensed treatment scout,
Missergeant free Parking.
Speaker 8 (19:07):
Yes, yes, that's the pros.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Well, all I want is the X ray.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Take me your name Chester Ate Riley?
Speaker 7 (19:14):
Very well, mister Riley.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Now you go behind that screen and take your clothes
out for sure?
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Don't no?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Oh no, wait, we'll wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
I ain't. I ain't taking no clothes off.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Well, what part of your anatomy do you wish X ray?
Speaker 4 (19:26):
My package.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Here?
Speaker 7 (19:29):
It is?
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Oh, I see, well, we generally do people, but I
guess it's okay. Come back in a half hour. We'll
have the X take for thank you.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Pardon me, the nurse said. The nurse is out.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
I am professional, Geko can I interview?
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Well?
Speaker 4 (19:56):
I had an X ray taken. The name is Chester
Riley Riley.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Well, I see if I can find the.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Plate in this file now at S. J. Johnson, K.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
King.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Oh, here's my lunch.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
You Oh, here we have it?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Riley, just Raddy?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
What is the show?
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Professor?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Quick?
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Tell me?
Speaker 1 (20:22):
What is the show?
Speaker 4 (20:23):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
It just gave me a moment to examine the X ray.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
And lose all.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Ye got? What's the matter? Frankly, I don't see how
you can breathe According to this X ray, you have
no lungs. No lungs.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Oh you don't understand, you certainly don't.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
This is a remarkable case.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Better lie down.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
You may be dead.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Professor.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
You mean the X ray don't show nothing, nothing nothing.
I advise immediate taggery.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Listen, Professor, I don't need not taken out of me.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
You're right, you need jumping put in no link the
upper Well not.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Right now, professor. As far as my anatomy goes, I
got a motto which says do not open it through Christmas.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Well, junior, you were finished with your homework.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah, Pap, come here, Junior.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
I want to have a little talk to you. How
about what?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
While I've been thinking about how I bowled you out
for opening your presence.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Man Henny before Christmas, Well I decided that I was wrong.
Oh no, Papa, you were right. Ah, Junior, I was wrong.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
No, you are right, Papa.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Take me, Junior.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I'm always right. I was wrong.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
After all?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
What's so terrible about opening a package before Christmas?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Pop?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
You know, a thing like that shows a person's weak world.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Our fellow's got to resist temptation.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Remember, pop life is just a ball of cherry's. But
that doesn't mean they aren't pitfalls, Junior? Who taught you
nonsense like that?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
You did?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
There are times when.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
You shouldn't listen to me.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Now listen to me. Sometimes being weak willed is a
good thing.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Oh how do you mean?
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Well?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Look today I saw an expensive Christmas gift in a
store which I wanted to get for a certain.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Boy whom I've known personally for thirteen years.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
The gift was too expensive, but I was too weak
to resist, and so I bought it for him.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
You did, Pop?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
What was it?
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Ella? I'll give you a.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Hint it starts with an R R.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Yep row skates No, no, no, I said expensive.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Hi, I might as well tell you a bicycle.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
A bicycle, oh boy, you pop?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Bicycle doesn't start with an R.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Oh, this was a red bicycle.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
It wasn't. Wasn't that nice as me to buy us?
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Oh? Sure was? Any boy would appreciate a favor like that.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Sure what?
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
I'm glad to see that.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
We understand each other. Now listen, nobody'll know. I'll go
out of the room. Then you go to the closet
get the package.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
No, Pop, I won't do it.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
You won't. Why you you tricked me?
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Okay, from now on, we're through.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
We ain't our speaking terms. We're finished.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
I'll support you, I'll i'll put you through.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
School, I'll pay for your wedding. But from then on
you're on your own. What's going on here?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Oh? Oh, hello, Beds, Honey.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
See, I'm glad to see you here. Sit down here
next to your daddy.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Well dad, what's gotten into you?
Speaker 4 (24:17):
You know, Babs, I never appreciated you as much as
I should.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
When you were born. I wanted a boy, and so
I was a little annoyed with you.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
But Uh, today I changed my mind. I'm glad you're
a girl.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Something tells me you had a fight with junior.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Oh, Papa was trying to convince me it'd be okay
if you open this Christmas person now.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
H there's no harm in that, is there, Babs? Honey? Dad,
I'm surprised at you.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
After all, life is just a bowl of cherries with
pitts turn up, my own children turning against me.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Okay, that settles that.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I'm through with both of you.
Speaker 8 (25:07):
How's the roast?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Riley? Good peg? Please tell your son to pass the soup.
Speaker 8 (25:13):
Hmmm, what.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Tell your daughter to do.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
The same with the pepper? What's going on here?
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Did you children have a fight with your father?
Speaker 4 (25:25):
No, Mom, he just asked. I did not. I did
not ask you to open my present for me. Oh
so that's it.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Riley looks for Heaven's sake, Will you do me a
favor and open that presence I got?
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Will Pollard? Please? Oh? Well, you're you're begging.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
Me, Yes, Dad, we all are.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Please open it. Oh you're pleading with me. Both say
that you're pleading with me? Right, all right, we're pleading
please open it? Wholl okay, just to keep peace in
the family.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I'll do it. I'm doing it against my will.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Oh that jor for heaven's sake, take off that mouse train.
I'll take it off later. First, I got a look
in a parcels.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Well, what's in it?
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Riley, We'll tell us dad, what is it? Nothing? But
it's full of nothing?
Speaker 5 (26:40):
No, pop, fuck, there's something at the bottom a card.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Let me see there's right now it it says, dear friend,
If you succumb to temptation and open this package before Christmas,
you have absolutely no willpower. Send two dollars immediate lead
to Professor Ludwig Stefanotti, box twenty seven, Walla, Walla, for
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his famous book entitled.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
How to Develop Your World Power shart service. Teddy me
a new kind of advertise, and you fell forth.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
The bow fell for it. That's haha, I know it
all the time, the honest I did.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
I rallies will be back in just the more. We've
talked about the importance to meet for breakfast, to start
the worker outright. But how about all you war workers
on the night shift when you come home in the cold,
gray dawn. It seems to me you're in need of
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a good, solid meal to finish off your workday rife.
Even if your breakfast israelly your dinner, you've been using
up bodily fuel tissues too, and those good breakfast meats
are the thing to replenish both. There's food energy in
that savory pork, sausage, bacon or ham. There's the right
kind of proteins in their meat he lean. So when
you open the door at home after that night shift
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and sniff the fragrance of spicy sausage hender ham or
tasty bacon browning in the pan, you'll know someone is
looking after your health as well as your appetite by
making breakfast meats part of your homecoming meal. For meat
is the yardstick of protein foods, because meat measures up.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
To every protein need.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
All these nutritional statements made about meat are accepted by
the Council on Foods and Nutrition of the American Medical Association.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
AHI.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
You'll imagine his professor thinking I need his book.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Oh boy, this is a good one on him, ha ha.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
On the level don't you think you should send for
the book.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
I'll give you a simple answer. Go to bed.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Junior's right.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
Riley whe the way you worry yourself sick about opening
that package shows you have absolutely.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
No will power.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Oh it, well, okay, I'm gonna show you how wrong
you are. I'm going to fill out coupon see and
I'm going to send it to this professor, and when
the book gets here, I'm going to read every word
of it.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
But no matter how many bills he sends me, I
ain't never going to send him to two dollars.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
I'll show him that I've got will power.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
They'll pass the Life of Riley on Christmas Eve, when
Riley has another Hillary's adventure and learns a lot more
about the true meaning of Christmas. Program is directed by
Don Bernard with music by Lou Cosmo. This is Cam
Niles in Hollywood Day LUs It's the Blue Nut Work.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Seven point thirty at k Eca, Los Angeles. Transcribe
Here he is folks.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
During the day, he's busy acting in the forthcoming movie
A Bell for a Donno. But tonight he's just a
big kid eagerly waiting for Christmas.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
The first Christmas Eve, I remember, my Grandma told me
to go out on.
Speaker 4 (00:18):
The porch and drag in the U log.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
The U log turned out to be Grandpa.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
The American Meat Institute present William Bendix in the Life
of Riley. The meat people of America providing a great
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food for a great nation. But there are many other
things besides meat that the meat industry supplies to a
fighting nation. Fats for explosives, the other for shoes, and
many other military uses. Warm fleeces for flyers, jackets, wool
for sturdy uniforms, life saving extracts, and drugs for military hospitals. Yes,
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an industry that learned years ago to use everything. But
the squeal provides hundreds of essential materials for vital wartime needs,
and now on behalf of all those engaged in supplying
meat to the nation. The American Meat Institute presents the
Life of Riley. Well, it's the week before Christmas, and
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all through the land people are busy sending and receiving
gaily wrapped packages. War worker Riley has just added the
living room of his California bungalow with two such packages.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
And his arms. Well what's that you got there, Riley?
Christmas presents yelm for me? Something I can really use?
Who get intee?
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Dad, you very.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Good friend of mine. Me see they like that A
new hat? How do I look?
Speaker 1 (02:08):
Well?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Don't you think those pork pie hats are a little
too youthful for you?
Speaker 4 (02:13):
No?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
No, the man in the store said, I got the
perfect face for.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
A pork pie hat.
Speaker 5 (02:18):
Oh what's in the other package?
Speaker 1 (02:20):
Pops cigars?
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Oh but Dad, your fam Waldobinny always gives you cigars
for Christmas.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
But the trouble with Wald those cigars, I can't figure
out how to smoke 'em and not be in the
same room at the time.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
You're right, Potu.
Speaker 6 (02:33):
The only way to get what you want for Christmas
is to buy it yourself.
Speaker 1 (02:37):
Or what's eating on you?
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Junior?
Speaker 5 (02:39):
Look what ann Henny sent me from Brooklyn ear mops
in California.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Oh, I'll cheer up. Maybe Uncle Baxter in Boston will
send you some snow.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Huh, Junior, Aunt Henny's package is marked do not open
until Christmas.
Speaker 4 (02:58):
I know you knew, and you opened it. Oh what's wrong, Junior.
It's against the spirit of Christmas.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Why, yes, he should have waited until Christmas morning when
we all open our presents.
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Oh geez.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Besides, it ain't just the idea of opening a package,
it's what's behind it.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
It shows you ain't got willpower. Oh maybe not, bruh,
I just have it. Those in it beg this boy.
Don't take after me, no willpower, No, but he has
got your good. Look. God, that's sweet, dumpling.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I can't argue because it's true.
Speaker 4 (03:39):
Listen, Jr. You gotta develop willpower.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Remember life is just a bowl of cherries, which means
there are lots of pits you can fall into. Only
willpower can save you from the pitfalls o the door.
Anybody who ain't got willpower ain't fit to fight the
battle of life.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
God take me for it.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
I got willpower this morning at the plant when big
Jim Anderson stepped on my foot on purpose where it's
three hundred pounds, I had enough will power not to
punch him in the nose.
Speaker 4 (04:12):
Daddy, was a package for you, here for me? Hey, sure,
wrapped up pretty, isn't it. Oh? Who's it from? Riley?
Speaker 3 (04:20):
I don't say, but according to the postmark, it comes from.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Uh, Walla Waller, Walla Waller. Let's see, who do I
know in the South Pacific.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
Fob Walla Waller is a city in the state of Washington.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Oh, Walla Waller.
Speaker 1 (04:43):
Well, we don't know anybody in Walla Waller.
Speaker 4 (04:45):
Well, maybe some friend of dad moved to Walla wall
Walla Waller. Who do I know? Who do I know?
Who could have been? Who could have been?
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Riley?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Just because it comes from Walla Waller, you don't have
to say everything twice.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
I wonder what's in this box?
Speaker 3 (05:07):
Too short for slippers, too flat for military brushes, it's
too light for.
Speaker 1 (05:13):
A bowling ball.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
Don't rattle, don't smell, don't leap. Wish I knew what
was in it?
Speaker 4 (05:21):
Well, guessing won't get you anywhere.
Speaker 1 (05:23):
Yeah, I've better open it and find out.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Yes, still met it?
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Pop, Look what it says.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
They're on the bottom of the sticker. Oh, do not
open until Christmas.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Oh, thanks for bringing it to my attentions.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
I'll just leave it the way it is until Christmas.
You're better after the lecture you just gave Junior unwilled.
Speaker 1 (05:47):
Don't worry about me.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
If I say I won't open it until Christmas, I
won't open it.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Oh, last Christmas, you open the present you got newly Dirk,
and ahead of time I was a business.
Speaker 4 (05:55):
Thing, so I know how much to spend on his presence.
Speaker 5 (06:00):
Go on, You always die of curiosity every package you
ever get.
Speaker 7 (06:05):
Not me.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
I ain't the least bit curious about what's in that package.
It's kind of thin, ain't it.
Speaker 5 (06:13):
Well, just so you won't be tempted to open it all,
put it away, good, on.
Speaker 4 (06:19):
The shelf in this closet. Good, and I'll lock the
close good? No, no, no, don't don't don't lock the closet. Well, see,
I told you, JR. It ain't what you think. It
ain't on account of the present.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
But then why don't you want the closet locked?
Speaker 4 (06:35):
Proud that in case of fire the mice won't be
able to escape? All right, then I won't lock it.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
Okay, as far as I'm concerned, this package don't exist.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
A JR.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
Remind me Christmas morning to open it?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
I show on you.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
Yeah, well we'll see.
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Come on long now, time is up here. Come on, kids, suffer.
Oh we'll be in a minute.
Speaker 5 (07:00):
Listens, Babs, I bet your dollar to Nicola pop opens
that package before Christmas?
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Smarty.
Speaker 6 (07:05):
You always want a sure thing, you know, Daddy can't
hold out to Christmas.
Speaker 5 (07:10):
Hey, Babs, what where is that mouse trap we had?
Speaker 4 (07:37):
That? That's that's only made dublin. Why aren't you sleep?
But I'm just going to to get a glass of water.
Go to sleep. Well, don't make it any more.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Nose h.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Boom, my head, my head, some biting me? Good Riley?
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Look a mouse trap?
Speaker 4 (08:18):
A mouse trap, junior? Do you know anything about this?
Speaker 5 (08:23):
I was just trying to catch your mouse, paw. I
never thought you would go to the closet in the
middle of the night.
Speaker 1 (08:29):
Well that that could happen to anybody. I was going
for a glass of water.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
And I just happened to mistake the closet in the
living room for the ice box in the kitchen. I you, wow, dope, Benny,
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How are you well done? Oh?
Speaker 6 (08:59):
My him back? But I've been out walking my wife's
great day and and he simply refuses to take me home.
I'm exhausted.
Speaker 4 (09:11):
Well here, I'll pull a dog home for you while though,
give me his lease.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Yeah, thank you, mister Riley. Sometime I'll do a favor
for you, like ironing some shirts or shirsh now hamilts.
For tonight, I'll make you sleep in your bed instead
of mine.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Well, do I want to ask your opinion? I got
a friend name and no name. See, but this friend
got a package mark do not open until Christmas.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
Now my question is, mister Riley, the answer is no.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
No, under no circumstances should such a package be opened
before Christmas? Remember curiosity killed a cat.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Well, my friend ain't a cat. His son Junior.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Thinks he's a racky leaves traps around for him.
Speaker 6 (09:58):
Mister Riley, not only isn't it Christmasy, but anybody who
can't resist temptation is just a wishy, washy weakling without character.
Speaker 4 (10:08):
That's what I say. Well, though, well do I just
got a brain wave. The package says.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Do not open before Christmas, but I don't say do
not look inside before Christmas? Well, well, now suppose somebody
else opened this package.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
I won't do it.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
No, Yeah, but suppose somebody did open it, and then
my friend couldn't help finding out what was inside.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
That's true, technically he would be honest.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
I would say, you know.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Something like that happened in our house last year. This
dog here opened the package marks do not open until Christmas.
He did, huh yeah, and he just tore the wrapping
paper to shreds. Well, I couldn't help finding out what.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Was in it. You don't say, uh.
Speaker 3 (10:57):
By the way, well though, how's it about lending me
this dog for a little while?
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Huh Why?
Speaker 3 (11:03):
Well, I got a dog and you know what you hate,
caught your business?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Yeah, yeah, that's true. Take me.
Speaker 6 (11:10):
I haven't got a son like you have. I'll lend
you the dog.
Speaker 4 (11:14):
Oh that's swell wild dog. And sometime I'll lend you
a junior. Come on, Hamlet, come on boy, hamlin quiet,
come on in here in the living room.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
Come on, yeah that boy nah, Now you sit down
right over. Just let my hand out.
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Of your mouth. That's an I'm gonna get something pretty
for you to play with, the junior over.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Don't say a word hammer huh ah.
Speaker 7 (12:01):
I listen, pop, Look what I got for you. See
the package, pretty little package.
Speaker 1 (12:13):
I'll put it down right here in front of you.
Speaker 3 (12:17):
I bet you're dying to know what's inside. You ain't
the only one.
Speaker 4 (12:23):
There's only one way to find out.
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I amn't go ahead, go ahead if you feel like
sicken anything like like a package.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
For instance, sick it, go ahead, but good sicket, I'll
see you later, right Christmas? Well?
Speaker 1 (12:38):
Every good?
Speaker 4 (12:39):
All? Yeah, Dublin, hello.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
Dear you back to zoos.
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Yeah, I was over the lee.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Listen to that.
Speaker 4 (12:48):
I don't hear nothing. I hear it, doll.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
It must be next door at Waldo's house.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
It's right in this house in the no no, no, no,
no pack Wait, don't bother look, Can I tell you
it's next it's in the living room. I wonder how
he got in, Peggy my package. He'll get in the
closet and tear open the package before Christmas. That would
be horrible. Well, I never did he do it, Peg,
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I'm afraid to look it. Well, you'd better open your eyes.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
What Peg, I don't want to say.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
What's in my package?
Speaker 1 (13:24):
And my box?
Speaker 4 (13:27):
And cigars? He chewed up all my cigars? And look,
fuck my new hat. He's eating my hat. Stop at you,
you dog, oh modely, this is no laughing.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
Well, cheer up.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
You're lucky. He didn't even touch your Christmas package. Well,
Ley's plan.
Speaker 8 (13:58):
Has gone to the dog, along with his kne you
have and cigars.
Speaker 2 (14:01):
In a moment, will return to Riley's mysterious Christmas package.
But right now, this is Ken Niles speaking for your
meat industry. You know, there used to be an old
song to wear something like this. If I can't get
the girl I want, I'll take the one I can get. Well,
that's pretty sporting psychology. These days at your meat store,
you're not always getting the exact cuts of meat you want,
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just when you want them. But listen, the meat industry
is handling the greatest tonnage in history with a critical
shortage of help. For instance, the number of hogs processed
this year has set a new record. The fact remains
that the needs of war often leave less choice of
meat for the needs at home. Here's how missus Niles
is meeting the situation. Geez, introduce me to cuts of
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meat that are not only usually available, but are unusually
good meat ideas I've never met before. Beef heart stuffed
with dressing. And that's some stuffed beef biscuit with vegetables,
hot tongue, served with a snappy horse ridy sauce.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
Beef stew, or any.
Speaker 2 (15:01):
Of the stews, including our old friend's lamb or mutton stew. Anyway,
you know it by now, but I'll say it again.
All meat, regardless of kind or cut, contains the same
highest quality protein. So we say meat is a yardstick
of protein foods because meat measures up to every protein need.
(15:24):
And now back to the Life of Riley with William
Bendix as Riley Well, the package Riley God label do
not open to Christmas still remains. In fact, so far
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he has not broken his vow to the family. But
with a full week left to go before Christmas, our
hero's patience is near the breaking point. Right now, he's
studying a big book, reading.
Speaker 4 (15:55):
Off names Yard bow Yerbert Galini, Yuzie, what.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
Are you mumbling about in here?
Speaker 4 (16:05):
What's that big book? Zib sackle say?
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Oh oh, this, dumplin.
Speaker 4 (16:10):
This is the city directory of Walla, Walla. Oh are
you still trying to find out who sent you that package? No, no, no,
I'm just reading this for pleasure. Cebulovsky seasonble. It's nice
to know your fellow Americans, you know. I wish all
I had to do was read about who lives in
Walla Walla? Zoot sagu zuzz bah. I don't recognize the
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faces of any of these names.
Speaker 1 (16:38):
I give up.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
I ain't gonna think about that darn package. Who's that?
Speaker 8 (16:44):
It's Dick mey Odell, the friendly undertakeer.
Speaker 4 (16:49):
It ain't my favorite undertaker. Ah.
Speaker 8 (16:50):
You tinking readings, Riley, you're looking well.
Speaker 4 (16:59):
The Natural? Well? Thanks? I feel good too, well? What
brings you here there?
Speaker 8 (17:06):
Good? Just passing by? I had some free time on
my hands. Things are very quiet down at my place.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Yeah, I guess everybody's too busy.
Speaker 8 (17:18):
Christmas shopping aye, Yes, Christmas yo, snoil. I adore Christmas.
It's so good.
Speaker 5 (17:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (17:31):
I like Christmas too, especially the presents. Now.
Speaker 8 (17:35):
I got a passic that reminds me Riley. I found
out what my wife is giving me for Christmas. A
beautiful sports jacket.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Sports jacket, huh what color?
Speaker 8 (17:47):
Black? A light black?
Speaker 4 (17:55):
I'll bet you look good in it.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Speaking of presents, little boys, get me my favorite book,
The Good Uh.
Speaker 8 (18:06):
I love to bury myself in a book.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Well, The Good Earth is great for that, now, Digger,
I got a package you see.
Speaker 8 (18:15):
Ah, yes, do not open before Christmas.
Speaker 4 (18:19):
Yeah, and I'm aching to know what's in it. But
I swore I wouldn't open it.
Speaker 8 (18:22):
I'm afraid I can't help you, Riley. I can't imagine
what's inside, and I haven't got X ray eyes.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
Yes, i'll have just wait, digger, I know how I
can find out what's in there without opening it.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
I'll have this.
Speaker 4 (18:38):
Package X ray. Yes, sir, what is it you wish? Well, nurse,
I'd like to see this, Professor Geico.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
The professors just now?
Speaker 4 (18:55):
Can I help you?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Well, I've seen an ad in the paper where it
says for two dollars and fifty so that you can
get an X ray phuoscopic treatment elect the licensed treatment scout,
Missergeant free Parking.
Speaker 8 (19:07):
Yes, yes, that's the pros.
Speaker 1 (19:09):
Well, all I want is the X ray.
Speaker 4 (19:11):
Take me your name Chester Ate Riley?
Speaker 7 (19:14):
Very well, mister Riley.
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Now you go behind that screen and take your clothes
out for sure?
Speaker 3 (19:18):
Don't no?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
Oh no, wait, we'll wait a minute.
Speaker 4 (19:20):
I ain't. I ain't taking no clothes off.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Well, what part of your anatomy do you wish X ray?
Speaker 4 (19:26):
My package.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Here?
Speaker 7 (19:29):
It is?
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Oh, I see, well, we generally do people, but I
guess it's okay. Come back in a half hour. We'll
have the X take for thank you.
Speaker 1 (19:50):
Pardon me, the nurse said. The nurse is out.
Speaker 4 (19:53):
I am professional, Geko can I interview?
Speaker 1 (19:55):
Well?
Speaker 4 (19:56):
I had an X ray taken. The name is Chester
Riley Riley.
Speaker 1 (20:01):
Well, I see if I can find the.
Speaker 4 (20:02):
Plate in this file now at S. J. Johnson, K.
Speaker 7 (20:07):
King.
Speaker 4 (20:09):
Oh, here's my lunch.
Speaker 2 (20:17):
You Oh, here we have it?
Speaker 1 (20:20):
Riley, just Raddy?
Speaker 3 (20:21):
What is the show?
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Professor?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Quick?
Speaker 4 (20:22):
Tell me?
Speaker 1 (20:22):
What is the show?
Speaker 4 (20:23):
What's that?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
It just gave me a moment to examine the X ray.
Speaker 6 (20:27):
And lose all.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
Ye got? What's the matter? Frankly, I don't see how
you can breathe According to this X ray, you have
no lungs. No lungs.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
Oh you don't understand, you certainly don't.
Speaker 4 (20:46):
This is a remarkable case.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
Better lie down.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
You may be dead.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Professor.
Speaker 4 (20:52):
You mean the X ray don't show nothing, nothing nothing.
I advise immediate taggery.
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Listen, Professor, I don't need not taken out of me.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
You're right, you need jumping put in no link the
upper Well not.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
Right now, professor. As far as my anatomy goes, I
got a motto which says do not open it through Christmas.
Speaker 4 (21:30):
Well, junior, you were finished with your homework.
Speaker 1 (21:33):
Yeah, Pap, come here, Junior.
Speaker 4 (21:34):
I want to have a little talk to you. How
about what?
Speaker 3 (21:38):
While I've been thinking about how I bowled you out
for opening your presence.
Speaker 4 (21:42):
Man Henny before Christmas, Well I decided that I was wrong.
Oh no, Papa, you were right. Ah, Junior, I was wrong.
Speaker 1 (21:51):
No, you are right, Papa.
Speaker 4 (21:53):
Take me, Junior.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
I'm always right. I was wrong.
Speaker 4 (21:59):
After all?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
What's so terrible about opening a package before Christmas?
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:04):
Pop?
Speaker 4 (22:05):
You know, a thing like that shows a person's weak world.
Speaker 5 (22:08):
Our fellow's got to resist temptation.
Speaker 4 (22:11):
Remember, pop life is just a ball of cherry's. But
that doesn't mean they aren't pitfalls, Junior? Who taught you
nonsense like that?
Speaker 1 (22:19):
You did?
Speaker 2 (22:21):
Oh?
Speaker 1 (22:21):
There are times when.
Speaker 4 (22:22):
You shouldn't listen to me.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
Now listen to me. Sometimes being weak willed is a
good thing.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Oh how do you mean?
Speaker 4 (22:31):
Well?
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Look today I saw an expensive Christmas gift in a
store which I wanted to get for a certain.
Speaker 4 (22:38):
Boy whom I've known personally for thirteen years.
Speaker 3 (22:42):
The gift was too expensive, but I was too weak
to resist, and so I bought it for him.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
You did, Pop?
Speaker 3 (22:50):
What was it?
Speaker 4 (22:52):
Ella? I'll give you a.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
Hint it starts with an R R.
Speaker 4 (22:57):
Yep row skates No, no, no, I said expensive.
Speaker 1 (23:02):
Hi, I might as well tell you a bicycle.
Speaker 5 (23:10):
A bicycle, oh boy, you pop?
Speaker 1 (23:14):
Bicycle doesn't start with an R.
Speaker 4 (23:17):
Oh, this was a red bicycle.
Speaker 1 (23:23):
It wasn't. Wasn't that nice as me to buy us?
Speaker 4 (23:26):
Oh? Sure was? Any boy would appreciate a favor like that.
Speaker 1 (23:31):
Sure what?
Speaker 4 (23:32):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (23:32):
I'm glad to see that.
Speaker 4 (23:33):
We understand each other. Now listen, nobody'll know. I'll go
out of the room. Then you go to the closet
get the package.
Speaker 5 (23:41):
No, Pop, I won't do it.
Speaker 4 (23:43):
You won't. Why you you tricked me?
Speaker 1 (23:50):
Okay, from now on, we're through.
Speaker 4 (23:53):
We ain't our speaking terms. We're finished.
Speaker 3 (23:56):
I'll support you, I'll i'll put you through.
Speaker 4 (23:58):
School, I'll pay for your wedding. But from then on
you're on your own. What's going on here?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Oh? Oh, hello, Beds, Honey.
Speaker 4 (24:10):
See, I'm glad to see you here. Sit down here
next to your daddy.
Speaker 5 (24:14):
Well dad, what's gotten into you?
Speaker 4 (24:17):
You know, Babs, I never appreciated you as much as
I should.
Speaker 1 (24:21):
When you were born. I wanted a boy, and so
I was a little annoyed with you.
Speaker 4 (24:25):
But Uh, today I changed my mind. I'm glad you're
a girl.
Speaker 3 (24:31):
Oh.
Speaker 4 (24:32):
Something tells me you had a fight with junior.
Speaker 5 (24:35):
Oh, Papa was trying to convince me it'd be okay
if you open this Christmas person now.
Speaker 4 (24:39):
H there's no harm in that, is there, Babs? Honey? Dad,
I'm surprised at you.
Speaker 3 (24:46):
After all, life is just a bowl of cherries with
pitts turn up, my own children turning against me.
Speaker 4 (24:53):
Okay, that settles that.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
I'm through with both of you.
Speaker 8 (25:07):
How's the roast?
Speaker 4 (25:08):
Riley? Good peg? Please tell your son to pass the soup.
Speaker 8 (25:13):
Hmmm, what.
Speaker 1 (25:16):
Tell your daughter to do.
Speaker 4 (25:18):
The same with the pepper? What's going on here?
Speaker 5 (25:22):
Did you children have a fight with your father?
Speaker 4 (25:25):
No, Mom, he just asked. I did not. I did
not ask you to open my present for me. Oh
so that's it.
Speaker 6 (25:36):
Riley looks for Heaven's sake, Will you do me a
favor and open that presence I got?
Speaker 4 (25:43):
Will Pollard? Please? Oh? Well, you're you're begging.
Speaker 8 (25:49):
Me, Yes, Dad, we all are.
Speaker 4 (25:51):
Please open it. Oh you're pleading with me. Both say
that you're pleading with me? Right, all right, we're pleading
please open it? Wholl okay, just to keep peace in
the family.
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I'll do it. I'm doing it against my will.
Speaker 4 (26:16):
Oh that jor for heaven's sake, take off that mouse train.
I'll take it off later. First, I got a look
in a parcels.
Speaker 5 (26:28):
Well, what's in it?
Speaker 4 (26:30):
Riley, We'll tell us dad, what is it? Nothing? But
it's full of nothing?
Speaker 5 (26:40):
No, pop, fuck, there's something at the bottom a card.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Let me see there's right now it it says, dear friend,
If you succumb to temptation and open this package before Christmas,
you have absolutely no willpower. Send two dollars immediate lead
to Professor Ludwig Stefanotti, box twenty seven, Walla, Walla, for
(27:04):
his famous book entitled.
Speaker 4 (27:06):
How to Develop Your World Power shart service. Teddy me
a new kind of advertise, and you fell forth.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
The bow fell for it. That's haha, I know it
all the time, the honest I did.
Speaker 2 (27:21):
I rallies will be back in just the more. We've
talked about the importance to meet for breakfast, to start
the worker outright. But how about all you war workers
on the night shift when you come home in the cold,
gray dawn. It seems to me you're in need of
(27:41):
a good, solid meal to finish off your workday rife.
Even if your breakfast israelly your dinner, you've been using
up bodily fuel tissues too, and those good breakfast meats
are the thing to replenish both. There's food energy in
that savory pork, sausage, bacon or ham. There's the right
kind of proteins in their meat he lean. So when
you open the door at home after that night shift
(28:03):
and sniff the fragrance of spicy sausage hender ham or
tasty bacon browning in the pan, you'll know someone is
looking after your health as well as your appetite by
making breakfast meats part of your homecoming meal. For meat
is the yardstick of protein foods, because meat measures up.
Speaker 4 (28:20):
To every protein need.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
All these nutritional statements made about meat are accepted by
the Council on Foods and Nutrition of the American Medical Association.
Speaker 5 (28:33):
AHI.
Speaker 4 (28:35):
You'll imagine his professor thinking I need his book.
Speaker 1 (28:37):
Oh boy, this is a good one on him, ha ha.
Speaker 2 (28:40):
On the level don't you think you should send for
the book.
Speaker 4 (28:44):
I'll give you a simple answer. Go to bed.
Speaker 5 (28:48):
Junior's right.
Speaker 6 (28:49):
Riley whe the way you worry yourself sick about opening
that package shows you have absolutely.
Speaker 1 (28:53):
No will power.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
Oh it, well, okay, I'm gonna show you how wrong
you are. I'm going to fill out coupon see and
I'm going to send it to this professor, and when
the book gets here, I'm going to read every word
of it.
Speaker 3 (29:06):
But no matter how many bills he sends me, I
ain't never going to send him to two dollars.
Speaker 4 (29:12):
I'll show him that I've got will power.
Speaker 2 (29:17):
They'll pass the Life of Riley on Christmas Eve, when
Riley has another Hillary's adventure and learns a lot more
about the true meaning of Christmas. Program is directed by
Don Bernard with music by Lou Cosmo. This is Cam
Niles in Hollywood Day LUs It's the Blue Nut Work.
Speaker 4 (29:31):
Seven point thirty at k Eca, Los Angeles. Transcribe
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