April 26, 2024 • 38 mins
Leave it to Beaver Podcast (Season 2 Episode 17) Beaver Plays Hookey
Distracted by a construction company digging holes, Beaver and buddy Larry Mondello are late for school and decide to skip classes altogether to avoid getting yelled at by the principal. But when the hungry boys head for the nearest supermarket for lunch they find themselves on a live, promotional television program, unaware that Wally and June are watching them from the television in Wally's bedroom.
Distracted by a construction company digging holes, Beaver and buddy Larry Mondello are late for school and decide to skip classes altogether to avoid getting yelled at by the principal. But when the hungry boys head for the nearest supermarket for lunch they find themselves on a live, promotional television program, unaware that Wally and June are watching them from the television in Wally's bedroom.
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All right, everybody, welcome tothe Leave It to Beaver Podcast. We
hope everybody's doing great today. Hopefullyyou've had a wonderful week. I am
John and joining me as always ismy partner, my pop Stan aka Ward.
Hey, everybody, how are youdoing? How is everybody doing?
I hope they good? For aday early here because we have a little
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birthday celebration tomorrow. We got thebirthday girl tomorrow, birthday my wife.
We are glad to be here.There we go, where all set?
Hi? Guys? What is goingon? Tom? Tom is here?
Hey? Tom? How are youtonight? Tom? Is wonderful to see
you. I hope everybody else that'sgoing to be jumping on here shortly is
doing great. Hey, Deborah,how are you? Hey? Deborah?
We hope everybody's having a great weekbecause your we've been so far, my
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friend, you're talking to me.Yeah, it's been absolutely phenomenal. You
know, I've been feeling great.I've been out the driving range there with
the big cannon and just hitting theball like a maniac. And my lovely
wife took her first flying lesson todayfor real at sixty one. And man,
I know my son's probably sick ofhearing about it. But I'm not
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the most incredible magical thing. Itcould have been a Ward in June moment.
She just took off in the wildblue yonder, and I mean by
herself. It's awesome. It wasawesome, it was fantastic. I was
thinking a Ward in June when wecame home. What would it have been?
What would Ward have done? Ithas been great, So I'm very
and seeing everybody last week, Iwas so pleased about that. I was
telling you, Hi, I hada ton of views and everything. Oh
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yeah, we had a great somuch guys. Hi, Brenda, how
are you, Tom says I thoughtyou guys were off the air. No,
Tom, I was just out ofthe country for about five weeks.
So unfortunately I was out of thecountry for well, not unfortunately. It
was a great time. So Iwas out of the country for five weeks,
Tom, so I had no timeto It was like the Godfather.
I had a sudden out. Hewas up to some band, sent me
out to do some bad things andsomething happens to him. Yeah, so
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they We're definitely not off the air. We are never going to be off
the air at any point in time. We're going to be doing this for
as long as we possibly can anduntil we're done with this show. Looking
at me, course, I'm old. I might be off the air,
but that's what I'm saying here.I don't know. I could be off
the year. Man, he's seventyfour. I don't know. I get
as much time as like. No, we will never be off the air.
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But I do take off once ayear Tom, as does Dad for
a little bit, so and everybodyelse. I do take off once a
year, sometimes a little bit longer, sometimes twice a year, for about
a month at a time, becauseI like to head out and enjoy life.
Actually, I'm off all year long. Yeah you're retired, man,
I'm not so. I work allyear long and I like to go out
and venture out across the world alittle bit. It's always a fun hobby
of mine. So we're never offthe air. We're always going to be
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here, always going to be here, joining everybody. Thanks for hanging with
us, of course, thank youeverybody where. We apologize if it was
a little longer than people expected thelast time, but we will always be
here. Good week and thanks Whilefor your wife Stan, Tom says,
that's great. My dad was asmall plane pilot. Excellent, that's what
this is. It's amazing. I'veflown in small planes before. I don't
mean to start that again, butI'm so proud of her. It's really
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amazing. You guys have some hardbark on you to jump in that thing
and take the take the Yeah,this is our instructor. Is fantastic.
You jump right in your first minutethere, man, I mean, you're
really doing stuff on your own.He's got dual controls obviously, but it's
phenomenal. Absolutely. Well, it'sbeen a wonderful week. It's been a
beautiful week out here. The weatherhas been great. Spring is in the
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bloom here in New York, andI hope everybody wherever you're at in this
world, it's beautiful where you're attoo, And you guys are in joined
the spring. And we got agreat episode tonight. So before we get
into the episode, just a quickhousekeeping that I always do right off the
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the merch. We have no beavermerchy here. I'm kidding. I want
to see no beaver merch. No, we don't have any. I think
that. I think Jerry Mathers hasthe market on that one cover. Yeah,
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no, no, we're not goingto do that. I don't think
anybody wants see r no faces onon a T shirt. If you wanted
one that bad, we'll just getWe'll make one up for you. Tom
said, I was afraid of flyingas a kid when my dad flew.
It's a different experience for sure.But tonight we got a great episode.
We're up to this episode seventeen onseason two something new though. Yeah,
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you didn't see it. No,I always watched the show as to rewatch
them to make sure that I'm upto speed, and I wasn't being lazy
or anything else. I said,Hey, you know, I got to
do something different. I'm gonna flysolo here on this one. And I
mean I might have seen this show, you know, I know I've seen
the show, but I'm going togo cold turkey on it. It's called
Beaver Plays Hookies Replace Hookie with LarryMandela. Yeah, so Beaver and Larry
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decide to play hooky for the dayfrom school, and unbeknownst to them,
they end up getting put on asome type of like show on television.
And I believe Wally is sick andthat's why he's home. So they have
the television in his room. Ithink he's sick in this didn't yeah this
one. Yeah, So he's sickand they bring I think the TV up
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to the room. I think it'sthat he's sick, and Ward and June
are up checking on him and whilehe's got the local station on and they
end up seeing Beaver and Larry inthe middle of the day. I got
where they're where they're where they're atthis game show type thing, you know,
some type of show with this guy, and they're right onto television.
Do you know we had that witha guy. I have to say,
we're having a story for everything,and we'll start the show up. But
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this is a funny one. Atwork, I was a chief of service,
you know, and had tons ofstaff that worked, you know,
under my area of responsibility there,and one of the nurses was a time
in a tennis abuser and he wasout for almost a year. And this
was a union job, so ofcourse they play it right up to the
end there and then got an extensionand was still keep him on. People
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saying he's a time in attendance abuse. I said, well, what are
we going to do? The nextthing? I know about two weeks later
he happened to be a volunteer fireman. He supposedly had a back entry and
here's a big picture of him inthe paper. He's got like this eight
hundred pound woman. Yeah, hecouldn't he couldn't be anonymous, you know,
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I'm trying to say, he couldn'tlay low. It's why honesty is
always the most important thing, becauseif you're dishon, you're always gonna get
caught. He got he got didhe get fired? He didn't get fired,
but they that was a game.I'm never for finer, but they
should have done something to him.It was pretty terrible. He was out
there for a long long time.Karma got his ass though a little bit.
Well, it's gonna be a greatepisode tonight. So whatever you guys
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watch on whenever outlet, or ifyou just want to listen to us,
we'll, uh, we'll be havingit very lightly and faintly in the background.
But if you guys want to watch, check out check it out on
whatever app but that you watch.It's season two, episode seventeen, Beaver
play hooky. All right, let'sget going. Let's get it going.
All right, here's our intro.I can't wait till they move into the
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new house soon. I love thenew house so much more. My house
is getting painted and my house wasOh look at this. Listen to what
she says about his suit. Buttonsare president in the Thursday. She wants
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to know why he doesn't have hisblue suit on it on a Thursday?
Why why what does he have aThursday suit? Who? No, Yeah,
you know, I would guess itmight be a staff meeting at work
or something where you have to havea blue suit or something. Yeah,
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he had it on backwards and hispants. Oh my god, can I
get tattooed? Oh my god,imagine Wally getting a tattooed with June Cleveland,
my brother who's eighty five. Iremember when he got tattooed my father.
Did your dad want to kill him? My father almost did kill him.
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I remember when I got my firststickuffs. I remember when I got
my first tattoo, when I waslike twenty years old, and I came
home and I was afraid to showGrandpa, and I held I hid that
thing for a long time, wow, until he finally saw that I got
a tattoo. And then he toldme I looked like a horse's ass.
Yes, you know, I don'tthink they can say that here. No,
I don't think June's calling anybody ahorse's ass. On there, Beaver
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looks younger today, and this hedoes actually now see. I can't believe
that at his age, though,that she's put your pants on backwards like
that and try to leave. That'sa little four fetched to me. But
it's very funny. Do any ofyou guys remember these kind of coats with
those knit collars that Larry Mondelo has. I have a Mets jacket that's very
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similar to that. Yeah, Ihave a Mets jacket that I were in
the spring. You know, it'slike that Larry's got. Of course,
his big cuffs on his pants.Look at those white sneakers. Seriously,
Beaver looks like he has keds onor Converse or something. They've got the
blue label in the back that lookslike it's a pair of cats. Yeah.
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I always love the old coffee pot. Oh. Tom says, I
got my only tattoo at twenty.Most of us started at that point.
Tom, it's when we made themistakes to get them. You never got
one. Yeah, I wanted to. I wanted to one time get when
I was into martial arts, geta dragon yep on my upper arm.
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But your mother said absolutely not.Yes, Tom, I'm a die hard
and I'm proud to admit it,even though we never have anything to cheer
about. I'm a diehard New YorkMets fan, Tom, I love the
Mets. It's hard to be aMets fan some days. Look at these
guys. They're getting distracted on anykind of thing. This was always fascinating
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when you see they're enamored with theconstruction machine machinery. Oh yeah, that
big uh, that big router bladethere, Boston fan. I just went
to a game a Fenway Park lastyear. The year before, excuse me,
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went to Fenway went to a gamethere. Actually the Yankees in the
in the socks it was a lot. Who's a Boston fan? Thomas?
Oh, my god? And Thomassuch a nice guy. How could you
be a Red Sox fan? Iam over the Yankees. I'll say that
I'm always won over for over theYankees, although I did love Ted Williams
and my god, Tom, didyou ever see Ted Williams play? Are
you old enough? Know? Whatabout you? You ever? You know?
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You probably want a hooky player?From school? Yeah? Not until
high school. I did it acouple of times because my girlfriend and grandma
and grandpa would be, you know, going out of town or something.
You see my brother for the day. No, I got nailed first time.
Fifty nine, he says, he'sfifty nine. I don't. Well,
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you look at those old trucks.Yes, oh man, there ran
over their books and their lunchboxes.Uh oh is that a tomato and beaters?
That's a tomato and my god,if you had a lunchbox like that
now from the sixties, the moneythat would be worth yeah, they would
be worth money. Fortune. Itlooks like he has a space thing on
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the cover on Larry Mondelos a tomatoon its own to go to school.
That's interesting. Yeah, I'm nota tomato either or a tomato fan.
Did you ever play tether ball asa kid, Yeah, absolutely, yeah,
I never did. I don't evenknow how to play the game.
It's funny. He's whacking around andstuff and try to get out of a
wrapper on the pole and stuff likethat. But I don't remember the rules
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or anything. But yeah, weplayed it, you know, we remember
we had it on the playground inelementary school. I know they don't play
it anymore. Yeah, we haddodgeball, kickball. We would play.
Uh, I don't know what youguys would play for recess. Tell us
what you would play, you knowfor recess. You know, as a
kid in school, we would playfour square all the time. You remember
four square. They had four squaresyou line up and each person being a
square and you'd be passing a ballaround and they'd have the person. You'd
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want to get to the king.You want to be the king. No,
we played slap ball. Slapball,you'd play box ball. You played
box baseball. We would do handballall against the against the walls and stuff
like that too, and then we'dalways play man hunt ups there you know,
like you know, like tag butmanhunt. Well, these guys in
the show tonight, they're sitting andtalking about all kinds of crazy things and
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uh, kickball for dev yep,she said kickball. Tom said love teatherball
and elementary yep. So he gotsick. That's why. That's what she
said. Mune is gonna get himright up to bed. Brenda said,
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dodgeball. Dodgeball is fun. Iwish I could still play dodgeball. We
played dodgeball very hard. Now you'dhave you'd be triggering everybody, but somebody
could. If you could, you'dyou'd whack somebody right in the dam and
you'd use those heavy rubber balls,not like they use now. We would
use almost like a soccer ball.No, it was a white ball.
It was like a soccer ball,and it would bang against the wall up
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there. Man, it's like crazy. There's a few other games I could
say we played, but I can'tsay the names of them now because you'd
be uh canceled for it. Butwe would always have Dodgeball was a great
one though. Yes, so they'rehiding behind the sign now, man,
look at that. I can't remembersigns like the solo I thought Larry Mandelo.
By the way, I'm sorry guys. When I when I look at
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things like clothing or whatever, hehas a pair of white bucks on.
Those are buck shoes. They'd havelike a pink sole that looks like buck
shoes. They're called bucks b UC S Bucks. Tom's not a fan
of dodgeball. Well, Dodgeball terrorizeda lot of kids, did It's funny
to see them hiding behind this woodensign, you know, and for to
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play hooky. Larry thinks he's goingto starve to death because he doesn't have
his lunch. That's right. Howmany of you played hooky when you were
Beaver and Larry's age are a littlebit older at some point. I never
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played hooky from school, you know, I never. I mean we would
leave sometimes and go out to lunchwhen we weren't allowed to when we could
drive, and I would do thatin high school. Yeah, we'd go
to the pizza store and everything elselike that. You weren't supposed to leave
the school grounds. We did thatall the time, did you Guys?
Like with these guys, they arealways very wistful, They're always they really
don't They don't seem to be afraidof any kind of consequences. I always
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find that I would have been scaredsenseless as a kid. Yes, wouldn't
they have called home if you wereabsent though, Yeah, they would call
it. You'd have to come inthe next day with a note. Yeah,
that was the same for us,like they do it still now to
this day. If your kid's absent, you know, they call you on
the phone and let you know they'reabsent, and then you got to send
it a note and all that stuff. People would fake the notes. Oh,
get an older brother or sister whowrite the note. But at this
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time, you know, it wassuch a different world. I would imagine
that, you know, they wouldthe nurse would have called the school or
attendance to check to see where theywere. I don't this year. I
don't know what year this was.What nineteen fifty, nineteen sixty, This
is nineteen fifty eight right here,I believe eight fifty. I was in
school, of course, in schoolin the lower grades at this time.
But this would have been pretty daring. Yes, it would have been nineteen
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fifty nine. Actually, as I'mthinking about this, is this the fourth
grade? Yeah, this would bepretty daring to do this. But we
had kids in the seventh and eighthgrade who would cut school and things like
that. Tom said, never playedhooky. My parents would have murdered me.
Do you know we really had athing in New York City where they
would give you a juvenile delinquency cardif you played hooky. Did they have
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like truancy officers and stuff like youhad a truant officer? Yes, there
was a officer. I love lookingat this, like with the old signs
champagne flights, get away from itall. Look at the stewards as you
know for him now I can rememberbeing a young guy flying and flying with
studesses, where the whole, thewhole meals and all that kind of stuff,
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hot coffee. And look at Wally. This is how he's spending his
afternoon off from school. I can'tremember this. He's got the encyclopedia in
front of their school books with comicsstuck in the middle of it. I
love that. Bring the television setupstairs. You know what a treat it
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would have been to get the televisionor you had to be my parents.
And my parents were really sweet andthey bought me a TV set because they
thought I was a good kid.They never said. Only on senior skip
day and Tom said, one ofmy friends got busted by a truant officer.
Yeah. Look at the old marketthere too. God, I love
this, Yes, I love lookingat the nostalgia. Let's see how much
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six pounds for cents while for potatoes. That's a that's a heck of a
deal. TV star Marshall Marie isthere, presented by the chocolate rockets,
your favorite candy. So he's goingto go into the thing to get candy
bars here to eat, looks like, so he's going to be on TV.
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Yeah's your thing. Larry's stomach isleading them into trouble right now.
Hey, another thing on TV.Another story of work related story. We
are not allowed in New York State. I work for New York State.
You cannot campaign. Years ago wehad somebody taking time off supposedly sick,
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and they were on TV campaign fora political candidate. Beef Boo yon and
crackers all the time. That's aremedy. The doctor wild prescribed that,
and she puts it in a teacuptoo. That's exactly what the doctor would
tell you to do. Look atthat television too, one just like that
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those are the rabbit ears. Yep, it's got the rabbit ears. I
saw Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated on atelevision set like that. It's in a
tent to this television set. It'sin one of those big clown tents.
I mean the television show. Yeah, the television shon excuse me, look
at the Look at the old uhlook at the old cameras that they're using.
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Now that's why they're in the tent, because they have to have the
tent for light. Yeah, forthe lighting purposes. Oh my god,
look at this goofball. No,this was Do you have people Western people?
And guy's dressed up in his fullWestern get up with the chaps,
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and he's got a gun on theside too. Absolutely, such shooters.
We had guns like that, Deversaid. I work for the State of
Tennessee for the Bureau of Ethics andcampaign Finance. That is so such.
And no, no, Tom says, I remember rabbit ears while I'm getting
old. Yep, do you rememberputting tinfoil on the rabbit ears? Yeah,
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because you get an extra signal outof it or something like that.
Yes, and you would. Wehad a big antenta on the roof,
and that was a big deal tohave that. Do you guys remember for
Jesus forgive me for going down member, we got a quick commercial anyways,
Yeah, it's a commercial here whenyour TV would go on the blanket,
the TV repair him would come toyour house, yes, and he would
take a he would take a mirrorand put it in front of the TV
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set while he was working in theback of the set. We were talking
about this actually earlier this week onmy other show, that my wrestling show
that I do, uh, andwe were talking about the old days when
you get a pay per view andyou'd have to go to the cable company.
You or mom will go to thecable company. You get a special
cable box that you absolutely yes,you plug the cable box in if you
wanted the pay per view on aSunday or Saturday or whenever it was.
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And people, people like our youngeraudience on the show, like they don't
remember that. I can remember.It was a big deal. I particularly
with I remember face with Roberto durandLarry Holmes. They were on the radio.
Look at the screen right there andjust that's a fourteen inch I don't
even think it's that big. Ohno, that's yeah, that might be
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a seventeen. Yeah, you mightbe right. I could see that.
I remember when you got us ourfirst TV as kids, a thirteen inch,
and we thought it was the coolestthing in the world. Having had
thirteen inch TV in our room,I can't imagine there was too many stations.
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We had three and I lived inNew York City. Actually, you
know, hey, Barbara, howare you? My dad worked for Sears
and repaired TVs. He worked asa counselor after Navy retirement, work at
Sears when he needed a break.Oh, very nice. Yeah, it
was an art form. I'm sureto put those old TVs together and stuff.
Yeah. Oh boy, Larry andBeaver all right on TV now now
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June sees it. Oh boy,oh man, June is sitting down now.
Bought him again? Oh man,June looks mortified right now. Oh
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yes, the upstairs TV Tom saidwas always black and white. While they're
laughing at this, Oh boy,now they're lying on TV embarrassinger. H
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h oh. The TV guys gonnacall him out now, hm h.
This is more entertaining than the televisionprogram for them. What dope? Yeah,
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true, officer he's talking about Uhoh yeah to the front of the
joke on the TV show now,oh yeah yeah, and the in the
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day there you guys caught playing hockey, there's a there's a good chances you're
going to get a good thanking fromyour father or your mother. Oh,
she's going down there. I don'tknow who. I'd rather have come down
and grab me her or him.Wow, she's pissed. There you go
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now, she said to him.I don't know, she's pretty mad right
now. I might rather. Ithink I might have Ward pick me up
here and take my lumps immediately.I can't remember my mother coming to school
for something once you got in trouble. I know. I think I was
sick and she had to come andpick me up. What is he doing?
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He's dictating and it's a dictation machine. Okay, I just have to
use that all the time. It'slike, what would be the point I
have, like your secretary type somethingup for you. Transcriptions? Yeah,
okay, you have like a rubbertape or rubber belts on it, or
a tape, and then you'd addit to his secretary. Dad she would
transcribe whatever that's you still have mestill a transcriptions, Yes, he was
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a supermarket. To have your dadhave to come out when he's in the
middle of work, it's not onethat would I would want to be doing.
My mom did the disabling, andmy dad would say, listen to
your mother. Right. This wasone of the big skills you used to
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have if you wanted to be likea mid level manager, supervisor professional.
The ability to dictate, to thinkclearly and concisely, and write good reports.
Uh huh. Yes, you wouldn'tbe writing them out by hand.
You can dictate them here. Andif the media department, I've got to
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do some research. I'm trying togather what Ward does. Yeah, it
looks like he's in advertising. Yeah, because he's talking about the entertainment company.
They got a whole box of chocolate. Even Larry doesn't want it.
He knows he's in trouble. WhenLarry Mondelo is not shoving his face with
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more food, you know that heknows he's in trouble. Mistake. Everybody
saw your kid, and you know, being in a small town like that,
everybody and their brother, somebody's gonnawould have notified everybody and their brother
knows somebody there. It was anice thing about this show though, even
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though some of the ideas are implausible. Something times, maybe there are things
that kids do and kids are soconcrete and they're thinking they really don't think
about the consequences to anything else likethat. I don't know if it's if
it's an implausible you know, tothink with some of the things that they
did here, these are very believable, That's what I mean. You though,
you might think some of the things, yeah, plausible, like I
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do. Sure, the kids willdo stuff. Sure, and they're still
doing it to day. Sure.Yeah, it's like it's like the age
old thing. There's still doing sothat actually in the times that true,
and kids are on their lives likecrazy. I thank god, I've never
had that problem with the kids.You know, I'm knocking on wood,
you know, next week my kidwill skip school or something one day and
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I'll find out. But I've neverhad that problem. Cool. Oh boy,
doctor's making the house call again.Yeah, guilt has set in for
them both, that's for sure.Uh devera they know they're in trouble too,
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Tom says, remembering as a kid, neighbors would discipline you. Oh,
absolutely, Tom, Now if youtalk to the kid the wrong way
in the neighborhood. Oh. Absolutely. You know, everybody in the you
know, and their family be overat your house telling you what the hell
are you doing? That's a goodlesson. Yeah, well he wants them
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to own up to his own behavior. Yeah, she Look at the world
we live in today with people.Do you think this might be a good
lesson for people. You got tofollow the rules, follow the law,
and when you mess up, yougot to go face the consequences. You
got to go out. You gotto go out and tell the school yourself.
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I'm not going in and doing thatfor you, and I'm sure they'll
get detention for it too. Yep. Uh oh hi, Miss Landers,
dom dumb du dum. Can youimagine how lucky kids would be if they
could go back in time in atime machine for this kind of stuff?
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Wow? I know it's idealized,but it's really nice. You didn't make
it at all. Miss Landers.Looks beautiful at this point in time too.
She didn't live very long, right, No, she was a heavy
smoker. Oh my gosh, hmm, what's the matter with the there it
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is? Oh, she's aggravated.Yeah, you could see she's aggravated.
If you guys are watching this show, if I'm interrupting, No, what
a beautiful scene. I wish wehad a still of this. There's the
American flag, there's the handwriting.Look at look at the curs of writing
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is neatly on the board and itsbeautifully done. Yes, a reasonable assignment.
The teacher is dressed appropriately, he'sacting appropriately. I really like how
word made him go and explain wherehe was and what he did and be
honest and face the consequences for hisfor his behavior on stuff. And then
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she's given him a good lesson.Yes, yeah, Yeah, you're not
cheating anybody else by making yourself inright. Yeah, there for illness,
deliberately miss a day of school thatyou don't respect your school or an education,
good lesson. Yes, the schoolis supposed to be work for them.
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And what's one of the biggest problemstoday now people particularly after the COVID,
that they don't want to they're puttingin like false days of work.
Yeah, you're gold bricking. Yeah, it's the inevitable nature with remote work
a lot of times that some peoplearen't always as accountable or even back in
the day, there if you werein the military or certain jobs, or
(32:15):
you worked on whatever it is,you were a gold bricker. Brenda,
You're right, it is a goodpunishment. It's it's it's worse than you
could get hollered at by you know, by your by your mom or dad
to me when you got to gosit over there and face the consequences and
listen to your teacher tell you theseimportant lessons that you know what you did
has consequences, and you're cheating yourselfand you're not being a good person.
(32:36):
It's correct a discipline. Yeah.Yeah, she's not yelling at him,
she's not she's not brading him inany way. Here. She's telling him
very firmly, very very she's reallygiven him reality therapy with with behavior comes
consequences. She even ended it witha little smile there for him too,
right. And she's letting them copythe assignment down to the work. The
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spelling assignment on the board says copypages eighty seven and eighty eight, each
word four times neatly. Yeah,because repetition you know helps ye know,
quick commercial before the end here thiswas you know, I like doing this
tonight. I hope it didn't botheryou guys, you know, with me
talking over the show now, withthings like that, it was really nice
(33:25):
watching it with you or you know, or just watching the show, you
know, cold, I've seen allthe episodes, but I like to go
in. So, yeah, youknow, I've seen this before now,
but you can't remember every intricate detailof it unless you've watched it a million
times. I mean, there's there'sa ton of experts that probably could remember
every part of every episode. Imean, Brian Hummick knows it like the
(33:45):
back of his hand. He wrotethe bea Repedia and stuff. But you
know, for a lot of us, we've seen it many times or the
episodes, but you forget little intricatedetails. I like to just go in,
even if it's been a year sincei've seen it a couple of years.
I like to go and blind alittle bit. These shows like this
are very whimsical. Yeah, they'revery beautiful. That's why sometimes we pause
for a little bit because we're justkind of soaking it in with you and
(34:07):
just listening to what's going on totry to under you know, trying to
see the lesson or the moral ofthe story, whatever it might be.
Yeah, they just had a commercialfor Andy Griffith. I find that show
whimsical. I haven't seen Andy Griffithin twenty years. We should we should
do one. Yeah, we goadWally pulling that little glass milk out.
I bet you that tasted good.There's yeah, I don't think there's.
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I don't think there's gonna be nonsenseagain, after what he had to do,
no cell phones out, no newspapersout by the grown ups. You
know, they actually talked to oneanother and needed civilized breakfast with one another,
and they had things to distract themtoo. Back then, that was
those were four manners. Yeah,you had parents whould sit and read the
papers. And you don't never seehim really doing that though. I think
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I never see him at the breakfasttable doing that. They always said those
were those were very inappropriate behaviors toa guy like him. Yeah. Great
episode. Yeah, great episode.Man. We're almost done with season two,
unbelievably. Yeah, you know,we're almost done with season two,
and then we'll be on to seasonthree and just a couple of probably about
a couple of months. The nextepisode is the Garage, The Garage Painters.
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I don't I don't remember this eitherI'm going to take a guess on
the garage painters that the kids dowith the kids mess up the garage,
or they're making a couple of bucksor something like that, maybe and they're
doing it that way. I that'sthat, that's my theory. I don't
I don't remember that one though.I don't remember that at all. That
was a great episode. Yes,well, we hope you guys enjoyed it
too. Any closing thoughts, myfriend, Uh, I guess the closing
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thought is that some of these episodesis they come along. Man, they
were appropriate to the world back then, and then for one period of time
everybody thought these were all idealized.Are they appropriate now? Yep. I
don't need to sound like an oldman. I'm going to go back to
the wayback machine. But they've gotsome wonderful values in here, just some
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great all around stuff. Yeah.It's really nice to have a shared reality
with things, and I shared thething that kids in the culture and your
family community aspire to. Yeah.Absolutely, you know where everybody doesn't feel
like they're a victim and they're youknow, all these problems out are nothing.
Yeah, not that they didn't haveproblems back then kids didn't misbehave or
do different things, but it wasthis isn't too far from the too far
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from reality. Tom said, thankyou for every No, thank you,
Tom, and thank you for everybodyfor listening. Very relevant today. Deffor
said, yeah, absolutely, Imean, we really appreciate ebody coming out
on a Friday night. We knowwe normally do it on Saturdays, but
like we said, we gotta tocelebrate Mom's birthday tomorrow, so we will
be back next week. I don'tthink Saturday is going to be a problem.
But if we had a problem onSaturday, we would schedule another night,
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another night next week. But Idon't think it's going to be a
problem to do it next Saturday.I don't think I have anything going on
next Saturday. I don't think youdo either. It nobody there was something
going on from just one second year. Thank you so much, folks,
for we were gone for quite awhile there and we had a huge number
of views for the show. Yeah. Absolutely, thank you for your support
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and always being so kind and lovelyand putting up with us rambling on about
the show and everything else like that. It's a wonderful privilege. Oh,
thanks with you Thank you, Brian, thank you Brenda, and Dever said
birthday wishes to your mom, Johnabsolutely Happy birthday to my wonderful mother Ramona,
she turned ninety three. I mean, sorry one, we all have
(37:36):
to mess with her a little bit. Well, everybody, we'll see you
all again next week. Have agreat weekend, have a great rest of
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it to Beaver Podcast.
All right, everybody, welcome tothe Leave It to Beaver Podcast. We
hope everybody's doing great today. Hopefullyyou've had a wonderful week. I am
John and joining me as always ismy partner, my pop Stan aka Ward.
Hey, everybody, how are youdoing? How is everybody doing?
I hope they good? For aday early here because we have a little
(01:56):
birthday celebration tomorrow. We got thebirthday girl tomorrow, birthday my wife.
We are glad to be here.There we go, where all set?
Hi? Guys? What is goingon? Tom? Tom is here?
Hey? Tom? How are youtonight? Tom? Is wonderful to see
you. I hope everybody else that'sgoing to be jumping on here shortly is
doing great. Hey, Deborah,how are you? Hey? Deborah?
We hope everybody's having a great weekbecause your we've been so far, my
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friend, you're talking to me.Yeah, it's been absolutely phenomenal. You
know, I've been feeling great.I've been out the driving range there with
the big cannon and just hitting theball like a maniac. And my lovely
wife took her first flying lesson todayfor real at sixty one. And man,
I know my son's probably sick ofhearing about it. But I'm not
(02:42):
the most incredible magical thing. Itcould have been a Ward in June moment.
She just took off in the wildblue yonder, and I mean by
herself. It's awesome. It wasawesome, it was fantastic. I was
thinking a Ward in June when wecame home. What would it have been?
What would Ward have done? Ithas been great, So I'm very
and seeing everybody last week, Iwas so pleased about that. I was
telling you, Hi, I hada ton of views and everything. Oh
(03:04):
yeah, we had a great somuch guys. Hi, Brenda, how
are you, Tom says I thoughtyou guys were off the air. No,
Tom, I was just out ofthe country for about five weeks.
So unfortunately I was out of thecountry for well, not unfortunately. It
was a great time. So Iwas out of the country for five weeks,
Tom, so I had no timeto It was like the Godfather.
I had a sudden out. Hewas up to some band, sent me
out to do some bad things andsomething happens to him. Yeah, so
(03:29):
they We're definitely not off the air. We are never going to be off
the air at any point in time. We're going to be doing this for
as long as we possibly can anduntil we're done with this show. Looking
at me, course, I'm old. I might be off the air,
but that's what I'm saying here.I don't know. I could be off
the year. Man, he's seventyfour. I don't know. I get
as much time as like. No, we will never be off the air.
(03:50):
But I do take off once ayear Tom, as does Dad for
a little bit, so and everybodyelse. I do take off once a
year, sometimes a little bit longer, sometimes twice a year, for about
a month at a time, becauseI like to head out and enjoy life.
Actually, I'm off all year long. Yeah you're retired, man,
I'm not so. I work allyear long and I like to go out
and venture out across the world alittle bit. It's always a fun hobby
of mine. So we're never offthe air. We're always going to be
(04:13):
here, always going to be here, joining everybody. Thanks for hanging with
us, of course, thank youeverybody where. We apologize if it was
a little longer than people expected thelast time, but we will always be
here. Good week and thanks Whilefor your wife Stan, Tom says,
that's great. My dad was asmall plane pilot. Excellent, that's what
this is. It's amazing. I'veflown in small planes before. I don't
mean to start that again, butI'm so proud of her. It's really
(04:33):
amazing. You guys have some hardbark on you to jump in that thing
and take the take the Yeah,this is our instructor. Is fantastic.
You jump right in your first minutethere, man, I mean, you're
really doing stuff on your own.He's got dual controls obviously, but it's
phenomenal. Absolutely. Well, it'sbeen a wonderful week. It's been a
beautiful week out here. The weatherhas been great. Spring is in the
(04:54):
bloom here in New York, andI hope everybody wherever you're at in this
world, it's beautiful where you're attoo, And you guys are in joined
the spring. And we got agreat episode tonight. So before we get
into the episode, just a quickhousekeeping that I always do right off the
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the video, whether it's on Facebookor YouTube. So you tell them about
the merch. We have no beavermerchy here. I'm kidding. I want
to see no beaver merch. No, we don't have any. I think
that. I think Jerry Mathers hasthe market on that one cover. Yeah,
(05:39):
no, no, we're not goingto do that. I don't think
anybody wants see r no faces onon a T shirt. If you wanted
one that bad, we'll just getWe'll make one up for you. Tom
said, I was afraid of flyingas a kid when my dad flew.
It's a different experience for sure.But tonight we got a great episode.
We're up to this episode seventeen onseason two something new though. Yeah,
(06:01):
you didn't see it. No,I always watched the show as to rewatch
them to make sure that I'm upto speed, and I wasn't being lazy
or anything else. I said,Hey, you know, I got to
do something different. I'm gonna flysolo here on this one. And I
mean I might have seen this show, you know, I know I've seen
the show, but I'm going togo cold turkey on it. It's called
Beaver Plays Hookies Replace Hookie with LarryMandela. Yeah, so Beaver and Larry
(06:26):
decide to play hooky for the dayfrom school, and unbeknownst to them,
they end up getting put on asome type of like show on television.
And I believe Wally is sick andthat's why he's home. So they have
the television in his room. Ithink he's sick in this didn't yeah this
one. Yeah, So he's sickand they bring I think the TV up
(06:46):
to the room. I think it'sthat he's sick, and Ward and June
are up checking on him and whilehe's got the local station on and they
end up seeing Beaver and Larry inthe middle of the day. I got
where they're where they're where they're atthis game show type thing, you know,
some type of show with this guy, and they're right onto television.
Do you know we had that witha guy. I have to say,
we're having a story for everything,and we'll start the show up. But
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this is a funny one. Atwork, I was a chief of service,
you know, and had tons ofstaff that worked, you know,
under my area of responsibility there,and one of the nurses was a time
in a tennis abuser and he wasout for almost a year. And this
was a union job, so ofcourse they play it right up to the
end there and then got an extensionand was still keep him on. People
(07:30):
saying he's a time in attendance abuse. I said, well, what are
we going to do? The nextthing? I know about two weeks later
he happened to be a volunteer fireman. He supposedly had a back entry and
here's a big picture of him inthe paper. He's got like this eight
hundred pound woman. Yeah, hecouldn't he couldn't be anonymous, you know,
(07:54):
I'm trying to say, he couldn'tlay low. It's why honesty is
always the most important thing, becauseif you're dishon, you're always gonna get
caught. He got he got didhe get fired? He didn't get fired,
but they that was a game.I'm never for finer, but they
should have done something to him.It was pretty terrible. He was out
there for a long long time.Karma got his ass though a little bit.
Well, it's gonna be a greatepisode tonight. So whatever you guys
(08:16):
watch on whenever outlet, or ifyou just want to listen to us,
we'll, uh, we'll be havingit very lightly and faintly in the background.
But if you guys want to watch, check out check it out on
whatever app but that you watch.It's season two, episode seventeen, Beaver
play hooky. All right, let'sget going. Let's get it going.
All right, here's our intro.I can't wait till they move into the
(08:39):
new house soon. I love thenew house so much more. My house
is getting painted and my house wasOh look at this. Listen to what
she says about his suit. Buttonsare president in the Thursday. She wants
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to know why he doesn't have hisblue suit on it on a Thursday?
Why why what does he have aThursday suit? Who? No, Yeah,
you know, I would guess itmight be a staff meeting at work
or something where you have to havea blue suit or something. Yeah,
(09:22):
he had it on backwards and hispants. Oh my god, can I
get tattooed? Oh my god,imagine Wally getting a tattooed with June Cleveland,
my brother who's eighty five. Iremember when he got tattooed my father.
Did your dad want to kill him? My father almost did kill him.
(09:43):
I remember when I got my firststickuffs. I remember when I got
my first tattoo, when I waslike twenty years old, and I came
home and I was afraid to showGrandpa, and I held I hid that
thing for a long time, wow, until he finally saw that I got
a tattoo. And then he toldme I looked like a horse's ass.
Yes, you know, I don'tthink they can say that here. No,
I don't think June's calling anybody ahorse's ass. On there, Beaver
(10:09):
looks younger today, and this hedoes actually now see. I can't believe
that at his age, though,that she's put your pants on backwards like
that and try to leave. That'sa little four fetched to me. But
it's very funny. Do any ofyou guys remember these kind of coats with
those knit collars that Larry Mondelo has. I have a Mets jacket that's very
(10:33):
similar to that. Yeah, Ihave a Mets jacket that I were in
the spring. You know, it'slike that Larry's got. Of course,
his big cuffs on his pants.Look at those white sneakers. Seriously,
Beaver looks like he has keds onor Converse or something. They've got the
blue label in the back that lookslike it's a pair of cats. Yeah.
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I always love the old coffee pot. Oh. Tom says, I
got my only tattoo at twenty.Most of us started at that point.
Tom, it's when we made themistakes to get them. You never got
one. Yeah, I wanted to. I wanted to one time get when
I was into martial arts, geta dragon yep on my upper arm.
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But your mother said absolutely not.Yes, Tom, I'm a die hard
and I'm proud to admit it,even though we never have anything to cheer
about. I'm a diehard New YorkMets fan, Tom, I love the
Mets. It's hard to be aMets fan some days. Look at these
guys. They're getting distracted on anykind of thing. This was always fascinating
(11:37):
when you see they're enamored with theconstruction machine machinery. Oh yeah, that
big uh, that big router bladethere, Boston fan. I just went
to a game a Fenway Park lastyear. The year before, excuse me,
(11:58):
went to Fenway went to a gamethere. Actually the Yankees in the
in the socks it was a lot. Who's a Boston fan? Thomas?
Oh, my god? And Thomassuch a nice guy. How could you
be a Red Sox fan? Iam over the Yankees. I'll say that
I'm always won over for over theYankees, although I did love Ted Williams
and my god, Tom, didyou ever see Ted Williams play? Are
you old enough? Know? Whatabout you? You ever? You know?
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You probably want a hooky player?From school? Yeah? Not until
high school. I did it acouple of times because my girlfriend and grandma
and grandpa would be, you know, going out of town or something.
You see my brother for the day. No, I got nailed first time.
Fifty nine, he says, he'sfifty nine. I don't. Well,
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you look at those old trucks.Yes, oh man, there ran
over their books and their lunchboxes.Uh oh is that a tomato and beaters?
That's a tomato and my god,if you had a lunchbox like that
now from the sixties, the moneythat would be worth yeah, they would
be worth money. Fortune. Itlooks like he has a space thing on
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the cover on Larry Mondelos a tomatoon its own to go to school.
That's interesting. Yeah, I'm nota tomato either or a tomato fan.
Did you ever play tether ball asa kid, Yeah, absolutely, yeah,
I never did. I don't evenknow how to play the game.
It's funny. He's whacking around andstuff and try to get out of a
wrapper on the pole and stuff likethat. But I don't remember the rules
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or anything. But yeah, weplayed it, you know, we remember
we had it on the playground inelementary school. I know they don't play
it anymore. Yeah, we haddodgeball, kickball. We would play.
Uh, I don't know what youguys would play for recess. Tell us
what you would play, you knowfor recess. You know, as a
kid in school, we would playfour square all the time. You remember
four square. They had four squaresyou line up and each person being a
square and you'd be passing a ballaround and they'd have the person. You'd
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want to get to the king.You want to be the king. No,
we played slap ball. Slapball,you'd play box ball. You played
box baseball. We would do handballall against the against the walls and stuff
like that too, and then we'dalways play man hunt ups there you know,
like you know, like tag butmanhunt. Well, these guys in
the show tonight, they're sitting andtalking about all kinds of crazy things and
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uh, kickball for dev yep,she said kickball. Tom said love teatherball
and elementary yep. So he gotsick. That's why. That's what she
said. Mune is gonna get himright up to bed. Brenda said,
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dodgeball. Dodgeball is fun. Iwish I could still play dodgeball. We
played dodgeball very hard. Now you'dhave you'd be triggering everybody, but somebody
could. If you could, you'dyou'd whack somebody right in the dam and
you'd use those heavy rubber balls,not like they use now. We would
use almost like a soccer ball.No, it was a white ball.
It was like a soccer ball,and it would bang against the wall up
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there. Man, it's like crazy. There's a few other games I could
say we played, but I can'tsay the names of them now because you'd
be uh canceled for it. Butwe would always have Dodgeball was a great
one though. Yes, so they'rehiding behind the sign now, man,
look at that. I can't remembersigns like the solo I thought Larry Mandelo.
By the way, I'm sorry guys. When I when I look at
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things like clothing or whatever, hehas a pair of white bucks on.
Those are buck shoes. They'd havelike a pink sole that looks like buck
shoes. They're called bucks b UC S Bucks. Tom's not a fan
of dodgeball. Well, Dodgeball terrorizeda lot of kids, did It's funny
to see them hiding behind this woodensign, you know, and for to
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play hooky. Larry thinks he's goingto starve to death because he doesn't have
his lunch. That's right. Howmany of you played hooky when you were
Beaver and Larry's age are a littlebit older at some point. I never
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played hooky from school, you know, I never. I mean we would
leave sometimes and go out to lunchwhen we weren't allowed to when we could
drive, and I would do thatin high school. Yeah, we'd go
to the pizza store and everything elselike that. You weren't supposed to leave
the school grounds. We did thatall the time, did you Guys?
Like with these guys, they arealways very wistful, They're always they really
don't They don't seem to be afraidof any kind of consequences. I always
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find that I would have been scaredsenseless as a kid. Yes, wouldn't
they have called home if you wereabsent though, Yeah, they would call
it. You'd have to come inthe next day with a note. Yeah,
that was the same for us,like they do it still now to
this day. If your kid's absent, you know, they call you on
the phone and let you know they'reabsent, and then you got to send
it a note and all that stuff. People would fake the notes. Oh,
get an older brother or sister whowrite the note. But at this
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time, you know, it wassuch a different world. I would imagine
that, you know, they wouldthe nurse would have called the school or
attendance to check to see where theywere. I don't this year. I
don't know what year this was.What nineteen fifty, nineteen sixty, This
is nineteen fifty eight right here,I believe eight fifty. I was in
school, of course, in schoolin the lower grades at this time.
But this would have been pretty daring. Yes, it would have been nineteen
(17:21):
fifty nine. Actually, as I'mthinking about this, is this the fourth
grade? Yeah, this would bepretty daring to do this. But we
had kids in the seventh and eighthgrade who would cut school and things like
that. Tom said, never playedhooky. My parents would have murdered me.
Do you know we really had athing in New York City where they
would give you a juvenile delinquency cardif you played hooky. Did they have
(17:45):
like truancy officers and stuff like youhad a truant officer? Yes, there
was a officer. I love lookingat this, like with the old signs
champagne flights, get away from itall. Look at the stewards as you
know for him now I can rememberbeing a young guy flying and flying with
studesses, where the whole, thewhole meals and all that kind of stuff,
(18:07):
hot coffee. And look at Wally. This is how he's spending his
afternoon off from school. I can'tremember this. He's got the encyclopedia in
front of their school books with comicsstuck in the middle of it. I
love that. Bring the television setupstairs. You know what a treat it
(18:30):
would have been to get the televisionor you had to be my parents.
And my parents were really sweet andthey bought me a TV set because they
thought I was a good kid.They never said. Only on senior skip
day and Tom said, one ofmy friends got busted by a truant officer.
Yeah. Look at the old marketthere too. God, I love
this, Yes, I love lookingat the nostalgia. Let's see how much
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six pounds for cents while for potatoes. That's a that's a heck of a
deal. TV star Marshall Marie isthere, presented by the chocolate rockets,
your favorite candy. So he's goingto go into the thing to get candy
bars here to eat, looks like, so he's going to be on TV.
(19:15):
Yeah's your thing. Larry's stomach isleading them into trouble right now.
Hey, another thing on TV.Another story of work related story. We
are not allowed in New York State. I work for New York State.
You cannot campaign. Years ago wehad somebody taking time off supposedly sick,
(19:36):
and they were on TV campaign fora political candidate. Beef Boo yon and
crackers all the time. That's aremedy. The doctor wild prescribed that,
and she puts it in a teacuptoo. That's exactly what the doctor would
tell you to do. Look atthat television too, one just like that
(20:03):
those are the rabbit ears. Yep, it's got the rabbit ears. I
saw Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated on atelevision set like that. It's in a
tent to this television set. It'sin one of those big clown tents.
I mean the television show. Yeah, the television shon excuse me, look
at the Look at the old uhlook at the old cameras that they're using.
(20:26):
Now that's why they're in the tent, because they have to have the
tent for light. Yeah, forthe lighting purposes. Oh my god,
look at this goofball. No,this was Do you have people Western people?
And guy's dressed up in his fullWestern get up with the chaps,
(20:47):
and he's got a gun on theside too. Absolutely, such shooters.
We had guns like that, Deversaid. I work for the State of
Tennessee for the Bureau of Ethics andcampaign Finance. That is so such.
And no, no, Tom says, I remember rabbit ears while I'm getting
old. Yep, do you rememberputting tinfoil on the rabbit ears? Yeah,
(21:07):
because you get an extra signal outof it or something like that.
Yes, and you would. Wehad a big antenta on the roof,
and that was a big deal tohave that. Do you guys remember for
Jesus forgive me for going down member, we got a quick commercial anyways,
Yeah, it's a commercial here whenyour TV would go on the blanket,
the TV repair him would come toyour house, yes, and he would
take a he would take a mirrorand put it in front of the TV
(21:30):
set while he was working in theback of the set. We were talking
about this actually earlier this week onmy other show, that my wrestling show
that I do, uh, andwe were talking about the old days when
you get a pay per view andyou'd have to go to the cable company.
You or mom will go to thecable company. You get a special
cable box that you absolutely yes,you plug the cable box in if you
wanted the pay per view on aSunday or Saturday or whenever it was.
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And people, people like our youngeraudience on the show, like they don't
remember that. I can remember.It was a big deal. I particularly
with I remember face with Roberto durandLarry Holmes. They were on the radio.
Look at the screen right there andjust that's a fourteen inch I don't
even think it's that big. Ohno, that's yeah, that might be
(22:15):
a seventeen. Yeah, you mightbe right. I could see that.
I remember when you got us ourfirst TV as kids, a thirteen inch,
and we thought it was the coolestthing in the world. Having had
thirteen inch TV in our room,I can't imagine there was too many stations.
(22:47):
We had three and I lived inNew York City. Actually, you
know, hey, Barbara, howare you? My dad worked for Sears
and repaired TVs. He worked asa counselor after Navy retirement, work at
Sears when he needed a break.Oh, very nice. Yeah, it
was an art form. I'm sureto put those old TVs together and stuff.
Yeah. Oh boy, Larry andBeaver all right on TV now now
(23:11):
June sees it. Oh boy,oh man, June is sitting down now.
Bought him again? Oh man,June looks mortified right now. Oh
(23:33):
yes, the upstairs TV Tom saidwas always black and white. While they're
laughing at this, Oh boy,now they're lying on TV embarrassinger. H
(24:00):
h oh. The TV guys gonnacall him out now, hm h.
This is more entertaining than the televisionprogram for them. What dope? Yeah,
(24:34):
true, officer he's talking about Uhoh yeah to the front of the
joke on the TV show now,oh yeah yeah, and the in the
(24:55):
day there you guys caught playing hockey, there's a there's a good chances you're
going to get a good thanking fromyour father or your mother. Oh,
she's going down there. I don'tknow who. I'd rather have come down
and grab me her or him.Wow, she's pissed. There you go
(25:18):
now, she said to him.I don't know, she's pretty mad right
now. I might rather. Ithink I might have Ward pick me up
here and take my lumps immediately.I can't remember my mother coming to school
for something once you got in trouble. I know. I think I was
sick and she had to come andpick me up. What is he doing?
(25:44):
He's dictating and it's a dictation machine. Okay, I just have to
use that all the time. It'slike, what would be the point I
have, like your secretary type somethingup for you. Transcriptions? Yeah,
okay, you have like a rubbertape or rubber belts on it, or
a tape, and then you'd addit to his secretary. Dad she would
transcribe whatever that's you still have mestill a transcriptions, Yes, he was
(26:18):
a supermarket. To have your dadhave to come out when he's in the
middle of work, it's not onethat would I would want to be doing.
My mom did the disabling, andmy dad would say, listen to
your mother. Right. This wasone of the big skills you used to
(26:41):
have if you wanted to be likea mid level manager, supervisor professional.
The ability to dictate, to thinkclearly and concisely, and write good reports.
Uh huh. Yes, you wouldn'tbe writing them out by hand.
You can dictate them here. Andif the media department, I've got to
(27:11):
do some research. I'm trying togather what Ward does. Yeah, it
looks like he's in advertising. Yeah, because he's talking about the entertainment company.
They got a whole box of chocolate. Even Larry doesn't want it.
He knows he's in trouble. WhenLarry Mondelo is not shoving his face with
(27:34):
more food, you know that heknows he's in trouble. Mistake. Everybody
saw your kid, and you know, being in a small town like that,
everybody and their brother, somebody's gonnawould have notified everybody and their brother
knows somebody there. It was anice thing about this show though, even
(27:56):
though some of the ideas are implausible. Something times, maybe there are things
that kids do and kids are soconcrete and they're thinking they really don't think
about the consequences to anything else likethat. I don't know if it's if
it's an implausible you know, tothink with some of the things that they
did here, these are very believable, That's what I mean. You though,
you might think some of the things, yeah, plausible, like I
(28:18):
do. Sure, the kids willdo stuff. Sure, and they're still
doing it to day. Sure.Yeah, it's like it's like the age
old thing. There's still doing sothat actually in the times that true,
and kids are on their lives likecrazy. I thank god, I've never
had that problem with the kids.You know, I'm knocking on wood,
you know, next week my kidwill skip school or something one day and
(28:40):
I'll find out. But I've neverhad that problem. Cool. Oh boy,
doctor's making the house call again.Yeah, guilt has set in for
them both, that's for sure.Uh devera they know they're in trouble too,
(29:00):
Tom says, remembering as a kid, neighbors would discipline you. Oh,
absolutely, Tom, Now if youtalk to the kid the wrong way
in the neighborhood. Oh. Absolutely. You know, everybody in the you
know, and their family be overat your house telling you what the hell
are you doing? That's a goodlesson. Yeah, well he wants them
(29:27):
to own up to his own behavior. Yeah, she Look at the world
we live in today with people.Do you think this might be a good
lesson for people. You got tofollow the rules, follow the law,
and when you mess up, yougot to go face the consequences. You
got to go out. You gotto go out and tell the school yourself.
(29:47):
I'm not going in and doing thatfor you, and I'm sure they'll
get detention for it too. Yep. Uh oh hi, Miss Landers,
dom dumb du dum. Can youimagine how lucky kids would be if they
could go back in time in atime machine for this kind of stuff?
(30:14):
Wow? I know it's idealized,but it's really nice. You didn't make
it at all. Miss Landers.Looks beautiful at this point in time too.
She didn't live very long, right, No, she was a heavy
smoker. Oh my gosh, hmm, what's the matter with the there it
(30:40):
is? Oh, she's aggravated.Yeah, you could see she's aggravated.
If you guys are watching this show, if I'm interrupting, No, what
a beautiful scene. I wish wehad a still of this. There's the
American flag, there's the handwriting.Look at look at the curs of writing
(31:03):
is neatly on the board and itsbeautifully done. Yes, a reasonable assignment.
The teacher is dressed appropriately, he'sacting appropriately. I really like how
word made him go and explain wherehe was and what he did and be
honest and face the consequences for hisfor his behavior on stuff. And then
(31:30):
she's given him a good lesson.Yes, yeah, Yeah, you're not
cheating anybody else by making yourself inright. Yeah, there for illness,
deliberately miss a day of school thatyou don't respect your school or an education,
good lesson. Yes, the schoolis supposed to be work for them.
(31:52):
And what's one of the biggest problemstoday now people particularly after the COVID,
that they don't want to they're puttingin like false days of work.
Yeah, you're gold bricking. Yeah, it's the inevitable nature with remote work
a lot of times that some peoplearen't always as accountable or even back in
the day, there if you werein the military or certain jobs, or
(32:15):
you worked on whatever it is,you were a gold bricker. Brenda,
You're right, it is a goodpunishment. It's it's it's worse than you
could get hollered at by you know, by your by your mom or dad
to me when you got to gosit over there and face the consequences and
listen to your teacher tell you theseimportant lessons that you know what you did
has consequences, and you're cheating yourselfand you're not being a good person.
(32:36):
It's correct a discipline. Yeah.Yeah, she's not yelling at him,
she's not she's not brading him inany way. Here. She's telling him
very firmly, very very she's reallygiven him reality therapy with with behavior comes
consequences. She even ended it witha little smile there for him too,
right. And she's letting them copythe assignment down to the work. The
(33:02):
spelling assignment on the board says copypages eighty seven and eighty eight, each
word four times neatly. Yeah,because repetition you know helps ye know,
quick commercial before the end here thiswas you know, I like doing this
tonight. I hope it didn't botheryou guys, you know, with me
talking over the show now, withthings like that, it was really nice
(33:25):
watching it with you or you know, or just watching the show, you
know, cold, I've seen allthe episodes, but I like to go
in. So, yeah, youknow, I've seen this before now,
but you can't remember every intricate detailof it unless you've watched it a million
times. I mean, there's there'sa ton of experts that probably could remember
every part of every episode. Imean, Brian Hummick knows it like the
(33:45):
back of his hand. He wrotethe bea Repedia and stuff. But you
know, for a lot of us, we've seen it many times or the
episodes, but you forget little intricatedetails. I like to just go in,
even if it's been a year sincei've seen it a couple of years.
I like to go and blind alittle bit. These shows like this
are very whimsical. Yeah, they'revery beautiful. That's why sometimes we pause
for a little bit because we're justkind of soaking it in with you and
(34:07):
just listening to what's going on totry to under you know, trying to
see the lesson or the moral ofthe story, whatever it might be.
Yeah, they just had a commercialfor Andy Griffith. I find that show
whimsical. I haven't seen Andy Griffithin twenty years. We should we should
do one. Yeah, we goadWally pulling that little glass milk out.
I bet you that tasted good.There's yeah, I don't think there's.
(34:37):
I don't think there's gonna be nonsenseagain, after what he had to do,
no cell phones out, no newspapersout by the grown ups. You
know, they actually talked to oneanother and needed civilized breakfast with one another,
and they had things to distract themtoo. Back then, that was
those were four manners. Yeah,you had parents whould sit and read the
papers. And you don't never seehim really doing that though. I think
(34:59):
I never see him at the breakfasttable doing that. They always said those
were those were very inappropriate behaviors toa guy like him. Yeah. Great
episode. Yeah, great episode.Man. We're almost done with season two,
unbelievably. Yeah, you know,we're almost done with season two,
and then we'll be on to seasonthree and just a couple of probably about
a couple of months. The nextepisode is the Garage, The Garage Painters.
(35:22):
I don't I don't remember this eitherI'm going to take a guess on
the garage painters that the kids dowith the kids mess up the garage,
or they're making a couple of bucksor something like that, maybe and they're
doing it that way. I that'sthat, that's my theory. I don't
I don't remember that one though.I don't remember that at all. That
was a great episode. Yes,well, we hope you guys enjoyed it
too. Any closing thoughts, myfriend, Uh, I guess the closing
(35:45):
thought is that some of these episodesis they come along. Man, they
were appropriate to the world back then, and then for one period of time
everybody thought these were all idealized.Are they appropriate now? Yep. I
don't need to sound like an oldman. I'm going to go back to
the wayback machine. But they've gotsome wonderful values in here, just some
(36:05):
great all around stuff. Yeah.It's really nice to have a shared reality
with things, and I shared thething that kids in the culture and your
family community aspire to. Yeah.Absolutely, you know where everybody doesn't feel
like they're a victim and they're youknow, all these problems out are nothing.
Yeah, not that they didn't haveproblems back then kids didn't misbehave or
do different things, but it wasthis isn't too far from the too far
(36:30):
from reality. Tom said, thankyou for every No, thank you,
Tom, and thank you for everybodyfor listening. Very relevant today. Deffor
said, yeah, absolutely, Imean, we really appreciate ebody coming out
on a Friday night. We knowwe normally do it on Saturdays, but
like we said, we gotta tocelebrate Mom's birthday tomorrow, so we will
be back next week. I don'tthink Saturday is going to be a problem.
But if we had a problem onSaturday, we would schedule another night,
(36:51):
another night next week. But Idon't think it's going to be a
problem to do it next Saturday.I don't think I have anything going on
next Saturday. I don't think youdo either. It nobody there was something
going on from just one second year. Thank you so much, folks,
for we were gone for quite awhile there and we had a huge number
of views for the show. Yeah. Absolutely, thank you for your support
(37:12):
and always being so kind and lovelyand putting up with us rambling on about
the show and everything else like that. It's a wonderful privilege. Oh,
thanks with you Thank you, Brian, thank you Brenda, and Dever said
birthday wishes to your mom, Johnabsolutely Happy birthday to my wonderful mother Ramona,
she turned ninety three. I mean, sorry one, we all have
(37:36):
to mess with her a little bit. Well, everybody, we'll see you
all again next week. Have agreat weekend, have a great rest of
the week. Whenever you're checking thisout, we hope you're doing well,
and we'll see you right again,right at the same time, same place
as our normal time, hopefully nextSaturday, seven thirty right here on Facebook
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(37:59):
you share it out on social mediawhatever you like, or your friends,
or tell somebody and have them comeout and join us too the next time.
Take a from us. There wego, all right, everybody,
so we'll see you really again,real soon right here, and then leave
it to Beaver Podcast.
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