May 4, 2024 • 37 mins
Leave it to Beaver Podcast (Season 2 Episode 18) The Garage Painters
When the television breaks down over a week-end, Ward encourages Wally and Beaver to read Mark Twain's classic book, "Tom Sawyer". But things don't turn out quite as they planned after the boys try to use fictional Tom's technique to paint the Cleaver garage doors.
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When the television breaks down over a week-end, Ward encourages Wally and Beaver to read Mark Twain's classic book, "Tom Sawyer". But things don't turn out quite as they planned after the boys try to use fictional Tom's technique to paint the Cleaver garage doors.
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Hmm alright, everybody, welcome toanother great episode of the Leave It to
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Beaver Podcast. I am John andjoining me as always is my partner,
mister Stan. Mister Ward. Howyou doing, buddy, And I'm doing
fantastic. I'm doing fantastic, greatday, great week. Lots of fun
things, pickleballing it, golfing it, uh, flying, It's just doing
a whole bit there, man,and having just a lot of nice,
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nice time, living a good life. Man. That stuff around the house,
taking cares of stuff, waiting forthe house, believe it or not,
to get repainted, which kind ofties into this thing. That's all
I've been doing for two days.Yeah, repainting, man, I've done
that repaint time, pat repainting andrepainting and rebuilding something. Hope everybody's doing
wonderful tonight. It's a nice Saturdaynight here in New York. Sorry,
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I'm just sharing the links out andI hear to all the different pages there
really quick. But uh yeah,man, we got a great episode planned.
So what else is new in yourworld? My friend? I don't
know, man. That's that's that'senough for one day. We're having.
Uh you know what Mother's Day is? Coming up this weekend, which will
be well, be doing the showon Saturday. I don't believe this.
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We'll be out for dinner. Yeahyeah, we'll probably have to do it
another day next week, Friday Fridayor Sunday, Sunday Friday or Suner reservations
for six o'clock and yeah done.We're going to Delicious Italians. Oh,
it's the best place in the area. I'd still never been to this,
Frank's Italian Grill. It's I'm tellingyou, man, Chef's Kiss Delicious.
I'm an expert. I'm Italian food, and man, this is almost as
good as New York City, maybesometimes better. Well, see, I'm
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looking for it. I've never beenthere, so it'll be a nice one.
We're going out for my sister's birthday, and then we got Mother's Day,
got Mother's Day, We got thewhole kitten gaboodle next week. And
your brother there and he and hispartner there there, they're on the final
countdown here, any frigging day,it's done. Any day. And if
that baby I believe does not getin position into the proper breach position,
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they may have to try and turnit around, or he may be born
Cesarean style, so you know what, never do, no, you can
never tell you never do. Lotsof folks, lots of good actions.
Great to see everybody out in thechat. Let me get to the comments
here and uh in just a moment, so I'm going to get to that.
Let's see, all right, whatwe got here already. We got
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V high V Hi Barbara and halloBrenda. Wonderful to see everybody. Wonderful
to see everybody else that is joiningus later on live. Drop in and
give us a give us a hello, and tell us how you're doing.
It'll be great to see everybody outas always, like we do every week
here. So I'm just popping upa couple of things and yeah, so
it's gonna be a great show tonightis the Garage Painters. Give us a
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little synopsis. This is kind oflike what happens since today where you're telling
your kids to, you know,go out and do something or whatever.
It's another episode where something is theboys are going to be bored during the
weekend because the television blows out,and you know, we have a lot
of people who can remember the televisionrepair man, you know before solid state
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TVs and all the other smart TVsand whatever. Remember the old tubes and
stuff like that guy would have tocome and if he didn't come, you
wouldn't have a TV until you got, you know, back from the shop.
Well this happens on a Friday,Uh barb, you know, June
can't get a repairman. Work comeshome and the boys are all board.
What does Ward say, Hey,I'm going to pick a book out for
you go read it. Yeah,he says, why don't you just chill
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out? You get off all thattechnology. You know, that's the technology
and TV every that was a bigdeal, like when people are on cell
phones now and it's like that smartphonesand the Internet and whatever. So he
gives he picks a book out thathe found was amazing when he was a
boy, and he tells the guysyou read this book and start reading this
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book together. Out of all books, it's you know, Tom Sawyer,
you know by Twain and and man, it's he's telling them all these things.
He's supposed to paint these garage doors, and Fred rutherbart old Man calls
him up and says, you gotto be here. I hestruck the voice
into doing this. And he's takingthese garage doors off to paint them,
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and then then the two boys saycan we paint them? And he says
yeah, and they wind up usingone of Tom Sawyer's tricks. They fall
in love with the book by MarkTwain, and the trick from Tom Sawyer
is to tell people that there's afamous thing in Tom Sawyer. He has
to paint the defenses. And they'stelling everybody it's fun. And the two
of these guys out and are tryingto con lumpyll O and Chester. I
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think is another guy into doing it? And it goes to have in a
handbasket with that one. All right, it's questionable, you know. Mark
Twain was had some questionable behaviors inthe day. Robert says, a book,
what's that? Yeah, nobody elsewhat that is anymore? Robert,
that's for sure. You've got it. Can may I call you Bob?
Robert? Yeah, that's for sure. Boy, oh boy, uh hey,
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Emin, how are you tonight?Wonderful to see you, Amon as
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Robert said, Bob is good.All right, Bob it is?
And yeah, so let's get rollingwhatever you guys want to watch on Before
we go, just a quick questionfor you. Did you like this episode?
I did not see it. Youdidn't see it. I don't know
how you guys feel about this.I love all of I'll leave it to
be. This is not one ofmy favorite episode, all right. I
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haven't seen this in ages, soI can't remember it very well. I
don't think that makes it down orit's funny because a lot of you guys
will love it. Yeah, anda lot of people say we'll see,
we'll see, which I'm just curiouswhat you guys think. All right,
So if you guys want to watchalong, please feel free. We'll keep
it light in the background and we'regoing to go in three, two,
A and one. Let's want toknow what she's gotten in the lunch box
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for him? And in this introall the time, Boss no, it
was too late to script the entrants. All right, it's all good.
I bet you. She makes delicit, delicious sandwiches. Yeah, well,
everything is cut very precise. Uhhuh. It's funny. I make these
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elaborate meals and they were thirty toforty minutes and these people are cooking all
day. Man. Yeah, no, I'm being serious. Yep, that's
usually how it goes. We gota quick commercial, folks, real fast.
Yes. Yeah see, she's painting. I'm so tired of painting after
the last two days it. Idon't want to see any more freaking painting
until I got to do the bathroomnext week. Man. Oh, we
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got Jake from State Farman. Nowgoing, Jake, can you these guys
make more money, by the way, here's just been a side, folks,
than all the money that leave itto be for ever made. No,
no, probably about it collectively.Once you get a gig like Jake
from the State farm or flows barbersays, I want one of her chopped
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egg sandwich. Is I mentioned they'regood? I am like a I am
like an egg salad or chopped eggfanatic. Here we go rain any day,
man. It's this is what peopledreaded no TV for them. Yes,
do you know I even remember thename of the repairman we had for
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for life. What was his name, Tony Sparanza. Tony Sparanza. Yes,
look at Ward, he's coming in. That outfit he's got, man,
he's got a big trench coat andthat hat. Man, he's got
his rain hat. He looks likehe's ready to go to go conquer the
Australian out back and that thing.Mm hm, Well you had to have
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a big a coat like that,so your pants. That hat is awful
though. Man, it's like ait's like a fisherman's cap. Yes,
it's a rain hat. Man.You wouldn't take a big draw out there.
And those are the ones that worein the Middle East all when I
was out in the military. Thoseare the ones we wore, the boony
hats. We called him Beaver's board, senseless and laying on his bed shooting
up at the sky. Right now, What did you guys do on a
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rainy day when when you were kidsin Man? I had place soldiers,
bars, uh, comic books.No, we never had a problem.
Aiman. All you gotta do isjust like the page on Facebook you're watching
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bellon notification. That's it, simpleand easy, my friend. It's also
available on audio for anybody likes iton audio to all major podcasts. Well,
here's Ward setting up the thing herewith the two guys. They're doing
it. Why is he doing hishomework on Friday? Uh huh, I
wouldn't do that. Well, they'regetting it out of the way. At
least they never give that away.Visa we played with Barbies. Yes,
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sure, the boys are giving himthe look like he's crazy. Hope.
We just had to actually Peacock's channelhad a little mess up there. Drop
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it down to it. Yeah,yeah, reading the book together though you
don't see that that too much,right, I don't read, you know
with Beaver. I was telling thatto Mom and everything else like that.
He gets a little bit to me. He gets a little bit aggravating.
At this point in the second season. He's pretty old to be having all
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this stuff read to him and havingthe missteps and everything was speaking and a
lot of the things that he doeswords, finding a good book right now
though, Yeah, paper dolls,Brenda said, yeah, cutting paper dolls.
Yeah. I can remember drawing airplaneson pages in school with soldiers,
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and he draw like an army andthen you'd start killing him off one by
one, shooting this guy to theother guy. Yeah, you could all
week and long. He's always havesomething to play with in the house,
and the toys or whatever, Lincolnlogs or you know, all kinds of
things that you know, g I. Joe's. You know, we had
everything good. Yeah, Bob said. We used to use blow up g
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I Joe dolls with firecrackers. Boyswere more destructive than girls. Yes,
I can remember. I can't rememberpeople doing things like that. That sounds
about up your alley. You're you'rea you're a fireworks guy. I was
gonna say. I always had achemistry set as a kid and was always
burning a candle making something. Lookat Beaver, It's like while he's trying
to do like some type of workoutwith him on his what you would see
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on variety shows where guys would tosspeople around on their legs like that,
Ward's giving him a little, uh, little they brought up on it.
Ward always likes to go back tothe good old dame. Uh huh h,
you got it, aiming my pleasure. My friend Ward always just looks
so meticulous, like his hair nevermoves. He's got the nice that shiny
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shirt. Your dad ever a dressedlike that? Really not Ward was,
you know, he was very snappyand stylish. I thought it was an
okay dresser, but he was,you know, not like Ward. Nobody
that wouldn't be anybody's casual stuff weused to use. Uh excuse me.
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I never really have seen them watchTV on this show yet that they never
pulled the television out. But thelast episode was the first one I remember
where the beaver was on the youknow the show with the cowboy guy.
Yes, you really don't see themever bring the TV out much here.
You see it in the later episodeswhen they moved to the next house because
they have the TV. I thinkin Ward's dead, if I recall correctly,
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stood on his head. You didn'thave to do it anymore. You
know. Those are the funny jokes, and you know that they have here
too. She's all nervous because shedoesn't want to have to entertain them all
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weekend, and she doesn't want themto be disturbed all weekend. And do
you talk about helicopter parents. Thisis in the fifties, you know,
just heading towards the sixties. Thisis just when the psychology was really taken
over on today. She really isnervous about all. You can see that.
Yes, oh boy, they're intothe book now. It's late at
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night. They got the flash lightout. Yep. I used to love
doing this, the under the coversflashlight. And when my brother was home
before you know I was, hewas only home with me. We had
bump beds in there and you turna little light on and tell stories.
Uh huh, you do all thiskind of stuff. I love that.
It's like camping. Oh boy,she's ticked. Look at her. They're
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just raining June. Leave them alone. Come on, any of you ever
do that where he stayed up latereading and stuff like that at night with
the flashlight. I remember when youtell scary stories. As a kid,
you bring us outside and we'd havethe touch outside. You scared the ship
out of us before intentionally, Iwas no Ward Cleveland. When you weren't
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man, you were with that packof butts. Though. Oh, I'm
sorry, guys, we're having wehave fun. I'm thinking about when we
found the neighbor's beer in your canoe. You said, take the ax up.
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This is very funny war on theOh my god, look at this
outfit on it. He looks likesuch a dope with that outfit. Horrible.
I know it was probably in styleat the time, but that's no,
no, no, that's that's whathe's gonna he's gonna be. He's
gonna be all working outside. He'spainting. He's got khaki pants on his
work pants and a gray sweatshirt.That's what you're well. My work clothes
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was a crappy pair of shorts todayand a white T shirt and it might
get you dirty. There you go. He still looks meticulous though. Yes,
now, everybody during this show,and I bet some of you,
guys, there's not all of you, maybe remember reading Tom Sawyer. So
this obviously the audience was well familiarwith Tom Sawyer. Tom Sawyer was a
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big movie. Sure, uh youknow, so many Tom Sawyer movies have
been made. The big one thatwould apply to this one was with a
famous actor call Wallace Spirit were someof your favorite books. That's kids out
there. I love to hear it. What you guys like to used to
like to read his kids, Yeah, the people out there? Yeah yeah,
sure you probably read all the TomSawyer and everything, like we had
to read that for school. Yeah. I used to when I was a
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young kid like Bee Rice to likethese books. They were called Freddie the
Big Books. Rob or Bob said, I would bring my transis to radio
under the blankets of me and useearphones. Are yes. I don't know
how old you are, Bob,but the little transistor radios first came out
in the sixties. It was likelike a riot with those things. What
would you what would you talk toother people on them or something? Or
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listen to listen to the radio?Okay, gotcha, lay radio. People
could hear the baseball games, you'dhear all the music and stuff like that.
You know, she's sending them out. Oh now she's actually getting a
little bit concerned about the book herebecause you and I are going back through
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memory lane. Bob seventy Oh well, Bob, I'm seventy going on seventy
four, so we're pretty close.Why would he take the doors off though,
to paint them or to do anything. That's actually the smart way to
do it because you can, youknow, handle everything in the rain anything
else. Just taking them off theHanes. I'll tell you though, they
do not look yeah, I cansee that with the as Like I said,
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it does not look like they needto be painted. They look still
meticulous. Yes, And if you'llnotice that isn't the kind of paint we
used today. That's oil based paintand it's all cleaned up with turpentine.
Yeah, and it takes a longtime to draw. Oh yeah, I'm
glad to know with paint now howfast it dries. Oh god, when
my father would paint our apartment andeverything else. I remember when I was
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a kid and you would do thehouse with with the it was l yeah,
yeah, it would still smell.Yeah. Painte's going up in price.
Tookidding man spent one hundred ninety buckson three gallons of paint and a
couple of things for it. That'snot even that uh huh. I got
a good deal on it. Thatwas with my military discount. Oh boy,
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he's he's got to go into theoffice. Now she's into the book
now, Yes, there, it'sa meeting at the club. Now,
listen to this, the course onTuesdays or what are women? Yeah?
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Oh yeah, women couldn't go tothe golf course except on certain days in
certain times. Okay. Do youknow how many all men's clubs? There
were, all men's bars and nowomen allowed except accompany by a mail on
certain times. Wow? Interesting?Oh even into the sixties and seventies.
Man, wo do any of youout there remember that? Remember those times?
Are sure too? Yeah? Yeah. A lot of the local bars
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that we had in the area thatI grew up in Brooklyn, women were
discourged from going about like the legionsand stuff like Grandpa would hang out at.
No women went to the women's auxiliary. Okay, where they went,
they were in there. They hada section for them, gotcha, or
the events they could go to withtheir husbands or a date or something like
that. I do a lot ofwork with the legions and stuff for work,
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you know, all the time,and I noticed that all the time
that still there's a lot of thewomen's auxiliaries for the oh yeah, places
that are still going now. Thelegions are all dying now. Oh actually
it's not there. They're they're dead. In the one I was a teenager.
What it is. I was inthe original the legion, made the
sons of the legion. I neverhad the doors. I was the original
sons of the market Legion. Sothey would live on be said. Mcsorley's
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was an only man bar in theEast village until the seventies. You got
it, all right, you're doinghe's so happy, she's she's not in.
She's reading this book, but she'snot. She's not liking what she's
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seeing. Well, To'm sorry.You remember it was into all kinds of
Hey, I did ohle Ward,You're wrong on that one. I think
this is a quick number. It'sa great show, guys. You know,
for a lot of the stuff,it's not a political thing that I'm
saying. It's just an observation.You know how people will make judgments of
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people in the past, like yousee in our country. They'll say every
time Christopher Columbus, Well, ifyou're an academic person, if you're a
historian, you study things, younever judge periods of time, let's say,
from the thirteen hundred and fourteen kidsby today's standard. Because culture's change
and evolved, they're different people wereacting under different standards, you know,
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with things like this. This wasone of the dangers of Tom Sawyer because
like Grandpa was so proud. Myfather was a very bright guy. He
was so proud of how many dayshe played hooky from school. Yeah,
it was like eighty days or somethinglike that. Now, you'd have somebody
in a psychiatrist's office and they wouldbe on some kind of psychiatric medicine for
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that. You know, if theywere doing stuff like that, be chronic
truancy, you know, you'd besome kind of sociopath or whatever. But
a lot of those behaviors are verycommon. You can't you can't go back
and judge them off. Yeah,no, and well that's the time,
you know the point here, youknow, and she's concerned about that.
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This is the part of the thingwhere it shows them kind of doing their
they got what they wish for,and it's really not fun. Look at
him, he's like all covered andyeah, this is where I get.
This is where it gets silly tome with Beaver. Uh yeah, I
was around all kinds of kids like, yeah, you're you're this age and
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you're doing this dopey stuff. Youknow, kids build dopey things. They
mess up with tools. They haveto be a stupid judgment and things like
that or silly judgment. Yeah,Bob says Tom Sawyer is politically incorrect these
days. Most things are yeah,oh wait wait, which is ridiculous,
you know, but whatever, Yeah, we'll get the old PayPal. Yeah.
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Now, think of this today hetook about you know, he has
to tell her he's going to makea judgment and if women can be there
on Tuesdays or what you know,and she's saying, well, I hope
you do the right thing. Whatyou know, women couldn't have credit cards
really or own a home for along time. I mean, I think
credit cards on their own account wasinto the late sixties or seventies. That's
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wild. Yeah, how much wasa payphone back then? You think,
oh it was nickel or a dime? Gotcha. I still see him around
sometimes we don't work, but weused to make a fortune by by uh,
I hate to say it, robbingthe pay phones. You just take
h take up paper and you stickit up in the change thing that with
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them out where nobody would know.You know, when people used the phone
and they've give them their change back, it wouldn't drop out. Love Bee's
here. Look at how bad Lookat how bad beavers. This bike is
worth a fortune. Role. Ibet you that thing is where that already
been. I had one just likethat. Oh, Lumpy, Yes,
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he's using the Tom Sawyer trick.Now. Yeah, he's gonna coax them
into it. No, he's gonnasell him. This is fun. Yeah,
why that's fun? Yeah it didn'twork on Lumpy. Lumpy is so
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concrete and it's thinking. Man,he just sees everything in black and white.
I love Lumpy. Oh, Ilike Lumpy too. I like later
on when he gets that galoppy ofa guard that he has, and the
then lady Daddy worst bread. Wehaven't got a fred came. Yeah,
this is this is the part heputs a paint brush in and nobody,
would you come on, I can'tbelieve she's not having a hissy fit right
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now. I had the same reaction. What do you guys think? I
can't believe that she's let What wouldyour mom do if he came in looking
like that? Yeah? Well,number one, we didn't have more than
three pairs of I'm not kidding.I know. I believe you, Yeah,
I believe you. Yeah, kids, kids had a pair of play
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You know, most of the kidsin my neighborhood they had a pair of
play shoes, yep. And theyhad a pair of school shoes. And
if they were really wealthy, there'sLarry. There's Larry with those big giant
cuffs. Now, now see thatwould have been a good jacket with that
Larry head on. That would havebeen really expensive. Jack man, if
you got paint on that, thenforget it. He's got that apple.
As always, Larry's gonna be aneasy one to coach. He's very he's
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very kind, he's very concrete too. He's hard to fool. I love
Larry. I think he's V's favorite, isn't he be. He's definitely one
of my favorite characters in the show. Larry has On. I'm sorry I
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was get into clothing Larry has Onwhen I was a kid, the typical
nineteen fifties kind of thing. Yeah, except I don't RecA well, no,
I recall some guys having those bigcuffs on their blue jeans. We
didn't call them blue jeans, bythe way, we called them dungarees.
Yes, Grandma, I always remembersaying that. He said, love Larry.
Barbara says, I bet Lumpy wouldhave made a great, devoted boyfriend.
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In the later episodes, he cravedacceptance. Yeah, he probably is
one of those types of guys.Let's get this thing finished. I can't
believe they're taking this long on agarage door. Yeah. Do see look
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at Waally. He's all covered allover himself too. Yeah, well,
it's very funny. She doesn't.I see. My mother would have gone
in and looked at what was goingon there. But she's just not going
out there and see what's going on. She does not sit down all day
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like. I can't imagine it takesthat long to cook dinner and clean that
house. Oh, who's that?Who's this kid again? Benji? Yeah,
this kid's so cute though, yep, Benji, jeez, you know
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who he looks like? Who's ata little version of Jerry Jerry with the
dog? Maybe maybe Jerry played Benjiback in the day. He looks like
Jerry, he does, You're right, just random neighborhood kids coming in.
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I love it. This was thisepisode. Oh boy, Benji's parting the
paint all over himself. Yeah,whoa Oh boy, Benji's mom ain't going
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to be happy when he goes Ohyou've got this one right boy. Here's
Benji's mom. Oh, she's gonnahave a You know what if we were
we sometimes something would happen with alittle kid when when we were you know,
like this, man, you getinto uh uh that's right me.
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Yeah, not too bright, Benji. Not a good move. Oh boy,
you got righted out too. Thiswould have been a serious thing man
when I was a kid. Couldyour dad whooped your butt for that or
something? Uh? They'd want tofind out what was going on with you
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man in your head there if youwere doing something like that. Oh boy,
now June's out. Oh yeah,I like this episode. There you
go some people. I love allthe mishaps that happened for this. To
me, they're true contrived, theyare, but they're fun. No,
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no, it's just it's just isone. I just did you know this
is not one of my favorites.Yes, that rag is gonna work to
clean them up with all that PintonJune. To me, the only star
of this one is Ward because onceagain, the way the hell his paid
was good intention. It is Bobsaying I think they still put lead into
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paintback that, which would not havebeen good for the kids. So you're
boy, You're right on that onethere, Bob. The turpentine alone would
kill you. Is Ward going tobe mad at this? Or is he
going to be He's gonna kind oflaugh at it? I think No,
I don't think he laughs at it. But as I recall, but you
know, it was a little bitsobering to him. Didn't really do anything
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wrong though, Are you kidding?Amen? It wasn't that bad. He
didn't force Benji to go dump painton himself like a dope. No,
I Jesus, Even in the fiftieswhen I was a kid, if that,
if all that would have happened,somebody would have said to you man,
your old man would have come outand said he take into the They
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say, take this guy to Bellevue. No, I'm serious. People would
be looking at you like you wereenough case. It's too nutty for me,
Negro. But then we did otherkinds of crazy stuff which will be
worse than this. Ward's trying toget that stern face on now a little
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bit with him. He doesn't wantto admit that the book might have not
have been a good idea. Well, you would think, you know,
you would think that the that thekids of this age, that particularly Wally's
age. But yeah, it's justthe book. It's a story. Well
still, they're teenagers. They wantto find a way to you know,
to work a master plan, especiallywhen something is not as entertaining. Oh
(31:45):
boy, yeah, I love thelook they give him a Hi Dad,
it's over for us. This isa hard one to sell it. This
shows you the time period because inthat book, uh, it's it's the
gym is a slave and they usethe N word all throughout the book with
(32:08):
that, and then then the theother the bad guys engine Joe. You
can't even say that the Cleveland Indians. Yeah, no, I mean in
our society, I don't even knowwhat happens with Tom Sorr at school now.
I don't think that. I don'tthink they put they put it out
anymore. I can't imagine that theydo, at least to your dad.
(32:36):
We always had disclaimers by the teachers. Yeah, things like that. Actually,
those things were just growing up inI mean, because Tom took place
in the early nineteen hundreds, right, No, because I was sorry,
it was there was around the aroundthe time of right after the Civil War.
So after the war Okay, it'sbeen ages since I've read it.
(32:59):
Oh, yes, we were morepartial. I think I think we read
and said of Tom Sawyer. Imean I read Tom Sawyer as a kid.
But Huckleberry Finn, yeah, thecharacter, and yeah, his books.
Yeah. I wonder what prop theyuse for Peyton when Benji dumped it
on colored pancake batter. Yeah maybe, Yeah, least they got their bats
(33:28):
over with for the night. Well, he was pretty nice, he was
pretty understanding. He was this islike, this would be like speaking to
kids today about things, and kidsare getting triggered or kids are copying certain
things. Qu Pomon is just sucha fantastic actor, you know, and
I'm not just saying that because wedo the show. He's just such a
fantastic actor. And just the waythat he carries himself. Oh here,
(33:54):
this is male Ward's gonna kind oftry to defend it. Oh, he
isn't imagination ideas and people, it'sjust something you started to take a chance
it. Hey, you know,not to always have something with psychology.
(34:20):
But that what Ward is really tellingpeople is a thing called the dignity of
risk. And that means like whenyou worry about a kid like using a
sharp knife for painting or anything elselike that. And that's what he's doing.
That's a principle in psychology and justin good common sense parenting. You're
going to cut a finger, thepaint isn't going to come out all right.
And when you read books that havemaybe bad words in them or things,
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uh you know that are old time, you don't take them out.
You sit and explain to them andwhy he's wrong. Well, it's not
why it's wrong today. And youknow what the things were. I mean,
you could never read history about Germanyand World War two, sure,
or something about some other kind ofthing, because people would be using derogatory
terms, sure, you know,or things like that. It's you simply
(35:05):
explain that to people. And that'swhat he's saying, yeah, saying it
tells you about human beings where they'recome from. It's a really good lesson
there at the end. Well,next week's episode is called Wally's pug Nos.
That was a big I remember thatepisode because he used to be on
all the teen magazine and one ofthe things that they loved about him,
uh was his nose. His nose, Well, he was such a good
(35:28):
looking kid. Have you ever seenin a baby very athletic looking, sure,
Pug knows and everything else like that. Well, I liked this episode
a lot of this and I thoughtit was a lot of fun. What
did you guys think? If anybodythere has a second before they go,
is this like a favorite episode ofyours? Or when that you consider a
really good one. I wouldn't sayit was a favor, but it was
a good one. Oh yeah,I'm just saying I like to be honest
with everybody. Barbara said, agreat episode. See you loved it,
(35:51):
Yeah, you thought it was great. Yeah, like like like you had
mentioned, you know, some ofthe things were maybe a little unbelievable,
but that's the point of it,and I love that. See everybody sees
things different. Yep, that's thefun of it. That's the fun of
it. My friend. Well,he closed the thoughts before we head off
for the night. I just it'sa great show. And I know a
lot of you out there are mothers, and some of you sitting here are
big mothers too, you know,but all that side, Happy Mother's Day
(36:15):
to the mother's out there, themothers to be, you know, I
know there's there's people that are goingto be having you know, out there
with our fans or people who watchthe show or having a baby or have
a grandchild or something like that.You know, have a wonderful day.
How important you are. This showreally is one of those shows that stresses
Mother's Day and Father's Day and thefamily. You know, it's great stuff.
(36:38):
No, absolutely, absolutely everybody seemedto like it very much. It's
ready to see it. Everybody.Well, we hope you had a great
time with us, and we'll seeeither next Friday or Sunday. You know,
we'll do next Friday or Sunday.So yeah, so until then,
I wish everybody a great week.We hope you had fun joining us.
We always have a blast with you. Absolutely, have a big honky cake,
(36:59):
have a big hunky cake, andplay a hunk of pickleball. There
we go. Good night, Bob, goodnight, Deva, good night everybody
out there, and Brenda V everybody, and we'll see you all again next
week right here, and they leaveit to Beaver Podcast. God bless
Hmm alright, everybody, welcome toanother great episode of the Leave It to
(01:33):
Beaver Podcast. I am John andjoining me as always is my partner,
mister Stan. Mister Ward. Howyou doing, buddy, And I'm doing
fantastic. I'm doing fantastic, greatday, great week. Lots of fun
things, pickleballing it, golfing it, uh, flying, It's just doing
a whole bit there, man,and having just a lot of nice,
(01:56):
nice time, living a good life. Man. That stuff around the house,
taking cares of stuff, waiting forthe house, believe it or not,
to get repainted, which kind ofties into this thing. That's all
I've been doing for two days.Yeah, repainting, man, I've done
that repaint time, pat repainting andrepainting and rebuilding something. Hope everybody's doing
wonderful tonight. It's a nice Saturdaynight here in New York. Sorry,
(02:16):
I'm just sharing the links out andI hear to all the different pages there
really quick. But uh yeah,man, we got a great episode planned.
So what else is new in yourworld? My friend? I don't
know, man. That's that's that'senough for one day. We're having.
Uh you know what Mother's Day is? Coming up this weekend, which will
be well, be doing the showon Saturday. I don't believe this.
(02:37):
We'll be out for dinner. Yeahyeah, we'll probably have to do it
another day next week, Friday Fridayor Sunday, Sunday Friday or Suner reservations
for six o'clock and yeah done.We're going to Delicious Italians. Oh,
it's the best place in the area. I'd still never been to this,
Frank's Italian Grill. It's I'm tellingyou, man, Chef's Kiss Delicious.
I'm an expert. I'm Italian food, and man, this is almost as
good as New York City, maybesometimes better. Well, see, I'm
(02:59):
looking for it. I've never beenthere, so it'll be a nice one.
We're going out for my sister's birthday, and then we got Mother's Day,
got Mother's Day, We got thewhole kitten gaboodle next week. And
your brother there and he and hispartner there there, they're on the final
countdown here, any frigging day,it's done. Any day. And if
that baby I believe does not getin position into the proper breach position,
(03:23):
they may have to try and turnit around, or he may be born
Cesarean style, so you know what, never do, no, you can
never tell you never do. Lotsof folks, lots of good actions.
Great to see everybody out in thechat. Let me get to the comments
here and uh in just a moment, so I'm going to get to that.
Let's see, all right, whatwe got here already. We got
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V high V Hi Barbara and halloBrenda. Wonderful to see everybody. Wonderful
to see everybody else that is joiningus later on live. Drop in and
give us a give us a hello, and tell us how you're doing.
It'll be great to see everybody outas always, like we do every week
here. So I'm just popping upa couple of things and yeah, so
it's gonna be a great show tonightis the Garage Painters. Give us a
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little synopsis. This is kind oflike what happens since today where you're telling
your kids to, you know,go out and do something or whatever.
It's another episode where something is theboys are going to be bored during the
weekend because the television blows out,and you know, we have a lot
of people who can remember the televisionrepair man, you know before solid state
(04:31):
TVs and all the other smart TVsand whatever. Remember the old tubes and
stuff like that guy would have tocome and if he didn't come, you
wouldn't have a TV until you got, you know, back from the shop.
Well this happens on a Friday,Uh barb, you know, June
can't get a repairman. Work comeshome and the boys are all board.
What does Ward say, Hey,I'm going to pick a book out for
you go read it. Yeah,he says, why don't you just chill
(04:54):
out? You get off all thattechnology. You know, that's the technology
and TV every that was a bigdeal, like when people are on cell
phones now and it's like that smartphonesand the Internet and whatever. So he
gives he picks a book out thathe found was amazing when he was a
boy, and he tells the guysyou read this book and start reading this
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book together. Out of all books, it's you know, Tom Sawyer,
you know by Twain and and man, it's he's telling them all these things.
He's supposed to paint these garage doors, and Fred rutherbart old Man calls
him up and says, you gotto be here. I hestruck the voice
into doing this. And he's takingthese garage doors off to paint them,
(05:38):
and then then the two boys saycan we paint them? And he says
yeah, and they wind up usingone of Tom Sawyer's tricks. They fall
in love with the book by MarkTwain, and the trick from Tom Sawyer
is to tell people that there's afamous thing in Tom Sawyer. He has
to paint the defenses. And they'stelling everybody it's fun. And the two
of these guys out and are tryingto con lumpyll O and Chester. I
(06:04):
think is another guy into doing it? And it goes to have in a
handbasket with that one. All right, it's questionable, you know. Mark
Twain was had some questionable behaviors inthe day. Robert says, a book,
what's that? Yeah, nobody elsewhat that is anymore? Robert,
that's for sure. You've got it. Can may I call you Bob?
Robert? Yeah, that's for sure. Boy, oh boy, uh hey,
(06:28):
Emin, how are you tonight?Wonderful to see you, Amon as
always, wonderful to see everybody.Well, quick housekeeping, get it out
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(06:50):
Robert said, Bob is good.All right, Bob it is?
And yeah, so let's get rollingwhatever you guys want to watch on Before
we go, just a quick questionfor you. Did you like this episode?
I did not see it. Youdidn't see it. I don't know
how you guys feel about this.I love all of I'll leave it to
be. This is not one ofmy favorite episode, all right. I
(07:11):
haven't seen this in ages, soI can't remember it very well. I
don't think that makes it down orit's funny because a lot of you guys
will love it. Yeah, anda lot of people say we'll see,
we'll see, which I'm just curiouswhat you guys think. All right,
So if you guys want to watchalong, please feel free. We'll keep
it light in the background and we'regoing to go in three, two,
A and one. Let's want toknow what she's gotten in the lunch box
(07:35):
for him? And in this introall the time, Boss no, it
was too late to script the entrants. All right, it's all good.
I bet you. She makes delicit, delicious sandwiches. Yeah, well,
everything is cut very precise. Uhhuh. It's funny. I make these
(07:58):
elaborate meals and they were thirty toforty minutes and these people are cooking all
day. Man. Yeah, no, I'm being serious. Yep, that's
usually how it goes. We gota quick commercial, folks, real fast.
Yes. Yeah see, she's painting. I'm so tired of painting after
the last two days it. Idon't want to see any more freaking painting
until I got to do the bathroomnext week. Man. Oh, we
(08:20):
got Jake from State Farman. Nowgoing, Jake, can you these guys
make more money, by the way, here's just been a side, folks,
than all the money that leave itto be for ever made. No,
no, probably about it collectively.Once you get a gig like Jake
from the State farm or flows barbersays, I want one of her chopped
(08:41):
egg sandwich. Is I mentioned they'regood? I am like a I am
like an egg salad or chopped eggfanatic. Here we go rain any day,
man. It's this is what peopledreaded no TV for them. Yes,
do you know I even remember thename of the repairman we had for
(09:03):
for life. What was his name, Tony Sparanza. Tony Sparanza. Yes,
look at Ward, he's coming in. That outfit he's got, man,
he's got a big trench coat andthat hat. Man, he's got
his rain hat. He looks likehe's ready to go to go conquer the
Australian out back and that thing.Mm hm, Well you had to have
(09:31):
a big a coat like that,so your pants. That hat is awful
though. Man, it's like ait's like a fisherman's cap. Yes,
it's a rain hat. Man.You wouldn't take a big draw out there.
And those are the ones that worein the Middle East all when I
was out in the military. Thoseare the ones we wore, the boony
hats. We called him Beaver's board, senseless and laying on his bed shooting
up at the sky. Right now, What did you guys do on a
(09:52):
rainy day when when you were kidsin Man? I had place soldiers,
bars, uh, comic books.No, we never had a problem.
Aiman. All you gotta do isjust like the page on Facebook you're watching
on Facebook. Just like and followit on Facebook. That's all you have
to do. Or if you're onYouTube, just look up to leave it
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(10:13):
bellon notification. That's it, simpleand easy, my friend. It's also
available on audio for anybody likes iton audio to all major podcasts. Well,
here's Ward setting up the thing herewith the two guys. They're doing
it. Why is he doing hishomework on Friday? Uh huh, I
wouldn't do that. Well, they'regetting it out of the way. At
least they never give that away.Visa we played with Barbies. Yes,
(10:37):
sure, the boys are giving himthe look like he's crazy. Hope.
We just had to actually Peacock's channelhad a little mess up there. Drop
(10:58):
it down to it. Yeah,yeah, reading the book together though you
don't see that that too much,right, I don't read, you know
with Beaver. I was telling thatto Mom and everything else like that.
He gets a little bit to me. He gets a little bit aggravating.
At this point in the second season. He's pretty old to be having all
(11:18):
this stuff read to him and havingthe missteps and everything was speaking and a
lot of the things that he doeswords, finding a good book right now
though, Yeah, paper dolls,Brenda said, yeah, cutting paper dolls.
Yeah. I can remember drawing airplaneson pages in school with soldiers,
(11:39):
and he draw like an army andthen you'd start killing him off one by
one, shooting this guy to theother guy. Yeah, you could all
week and long. He's always havesomething to play with in the house,
and the toys or whatever, Lincolnlogs or you know, all kinds of
things that you know, g I. Joe's. You know, we had
everything good. Yeah, Bob said. We used to use blow up g
(12:03):
I Joe dolls with firecrackers. Boyswere more destructive than girls. Yes,
I can remember. I can't rememberpeople doing things like that. That sounds
about up your alley. You're you'rea you're a fireworks guy. I was
gonna say. I always had achemistry set as a kid and was always
burning a candle making something. Lookat Beaver, It's like while he's trying
to do like some type of workoutwith him on his what you would see
(12:26):
on variety shows where guys would tosspeople around on their legs like that,
Ward's giving him a little, uh, little they brought up on it.
Ward always likes to go back tothe good old dame. Uh huh h,
you got it, aiming my pleasure. My friend Ward always just looks
so meticulous, like his hair nevermoves. He's got the nice that shiny
(12:52):
shirt. Your dad ever a dressedlike that? Really not Ward was,
you know, he was very snappyand stylish. I thought it was an
okay dresser, but he was,you know, not like Ward. Nobody
that wouldn't be anybody's casual stuff weused to use. Uh excuse me.
(13:18):
I never really have seen them watchTV on this show yet that they never
pulled the television out. But thelast episode was the first one I remember
where the beaver was on the youknow the show with the cowboy guy.
Yes, you really don't see themever bring the TV out much here.
You see it in the later episodeswhen they moved to the next house because
they have the TV. I thinkin Ward's dead, if I recall correctly,
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stood on his head. You didn'thave to do it anymore. You
know. Those are the funny jokes, and you know that they have here
too. She's all nervous because shedoesn't want to have to entertain them all
(14:11):
weekend, and she doesn't want themto be disturbed all weekend. And do
you talk about helicopter parents. Thisis in the fifties, you know,
just heading towards the sixties. Thisis just when the psychology was really taken
over on today. She really isnervous about all. You can see that.
Yes, oh boy, they're intothe book now. It's late at
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night. They got the flash lightout. Yep. I used to love
doing this, the under the coversflashlight. And when my brother was home
before you know I was, hewas only home with me. We had
bump beds in there and you turna little light on and tell stories.
Uh huh, you do all thiskind of stuff. I love that.
It's like camping. Oh boy,she's ticked. Look at her. They're
(15:01):
just raining June. Leave them alone. Come on, any of you ever
do that where he stayed up latereading and stuff like that at night with
the flashlight. I remember when youtell scary stories. As a kid,
you bring us outside and we'd havethe touch outside. You scared the ship
out of us before intentionally, Iwas no Ward Cleveland. When you weren't
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man, you were with that packof butts. Though. Oh, I'm
sorry, guys, we're having wehave fun. I'm thinking about when we
found the neighbor's beer in your canoe. You said, take the ax up.
(15:50):
This is very funny war on theOh my god, look at this
outfit on it. He looks likesuch a dope with that outfit. Horrible.
I know it was probably in styleat the time, but that's no,
no, no, that's that's whathe's gonna he's gonna be. He's
gonna be all working outside. He'spainting. He's got khaki pants on his
work pants and a gray sweatshirt.That's what you're well. My work clothes
(16:11):
was a crappy pair of shorts todayand a white T shirt and it might
get you dirty. There you go. He still looks meticulous though. Yes,
now, everybody during this show,and I bet some of you,
guys, there's not all of you, maybe remember reading Tom Sawyer. So
this obviously the audience was well familiarwith Tom Sawyer. Tom Sawyer was a
(16:33):
big movie. Sure, uh youknow, so many Tom Sawyer movies have
been made. The big one thatwould apply to this one was with a
famous actor call Wallace Spirit were someof your favorite books. That's kids out
there. I love to hear it. What you guys like to used to
like to read his kids, Yeah, the people out there? Yeah yeah,
sure you probably read all the TomSawyer and everything, like we had
to read that for school. Yeah. I used to when I was a
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young kid like Bee Rice to likethese books. They were called Freddie the
Big Books. Rob or Bob said, I would bring my transis to radio
under the blankets of me and useearphones. Are yes. I don't know
how old you are, Bob,but the little transistor radios first came out
in the sixties. It was likelike a riot with those things. What
would you what would you talk toother people on them or something? Or
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listen to listen to the radio?Okay, gotcha, lay radio. People
could hear the baseball games, you'dhear all the music and stuff like that.
You know, she's sending them out. Oh now she's actually getting a
little bit concerned about the book herebecause you and I are going back through
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memory lane. Bob seventy Oh well, Bob, I'm seventy going on seventy
four, so we're pretty close.Why would he take the doors off though,
to paint them or to do anything. That's actually the smart way to
do it because you can, youknow, handle everything in the rain anything
else. Just taking them off theHanes. I'll tell you though, they
do not look yeah, I cansee that with the as Like I said,
(18:00):
it does not look like they needto be painted. They look still
meticulous. Yes, And if you'llnotice that isn't the kind of paint we
used today. That's oil based paintand it's all cleaned up with turpentine.
Yeah, and it takes a longtime to draw. Oh yeah, I'm
glad to know with paint now howfast it dries. Oh god, when
my father would paint our apartment andeverything else. I remember when I was
(18:22):
a kid and you would do thehouse with with the it was l yeah,
yeah, it would still smell.Yeah. Painte's going up in price.
Tookidding man spent one hundred ninety buckson three gallons of paint and a
couple of things for it. That'snot even that uh huh. I got
a good deal on it. Thatwas with my military discount. Oh boy,
(18:45):
he's he's got to go into theoffice. Now she's into the book
now, Yes, there, it'sa meeting at the club. Now,
listen to this, the course onTuesdays or what are women? Yeah?
(19:14):
Oh yeah, women couldn't go tothe golf course except on certain days in
certain times. Okay. Do youknow how many all men's clubs? There
were, all men's bars and nowomen allowed except accompany by a mail on
certain times. Wow? Interesting?Oh even into the sixties and seventies.
Man, wo do any of youout there remember that? Remember those times?
Are sure too? Yeah? Yeah. A lot of the local bars
(19:40):
that we had in the area thatI grew up in Brooklyn, women were
discourged from going about like the legionsand stuff like Grandpa would hang out at.
No women went to the women's auxiliary. Okay, where they went,
they were in there. They hada section for them, gotcha, or
the events they could go to withtheir husbands or a date or something like
that. I do a lot ofwork with the legions and stuff for work,
(20:03):
you know, all the time,and I noticed that all the time
that still there's a lot of thewomen's auxiliaries for the oh yeah, places
that are still going now. Thelegions are all dying now. Oh actually
it's not there. They're they're dead. In the one I was a teenager.
What it is. I was inthe original the legion, made the
sons of the legion. I neverhad the doors. I was the original
sons of the market Legion. Sothey would live on be said. Mcsorley's
(20:25):
was an only man bar in theEast village until the seventies. You got
it, all right, you're doinghe's so happy, she's she's not in.
She's reading this book, but she'snot. She's not liking what she's
(20:45):
seeing. Well, To'm sorry.You remember it was into all kinds of
Hey, I did ohle Ward,You're wrong on that one. I think
this is a quick number. It'sa great show, guys. You know,
for a lot of the stuff,it's not a political thing that I'm
saying. It's just an observation.You know how people will make judgments of
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people in the past, like yousee in our country. They'll say every
time Christopher Columbus, Well, ifyou're an academic person, if you're a
historian, you study things, younever judge periods of time, let's say,
from the thirteen hundred and fourteen kidsby today's standard. Because culture's change
and evolved, they're different people wereacting under different standards, you know,
(21:29):
with things like this. This wasone of the dangers of Tom Sawyer because
like Grandpa was so proud. Myfather was a very bright guy. He
was so proud of how many dayshe played hooky from school. Yeah,
it was like eighty days or somethinglike that. Now, you'd have somebody
in a psychiatrist's office and they wouldbe on some kind of psychiatric medicine for
(21:51):
that. You know, if theywere doing stuff like that, be chronic
truancy, you know, you'd besome kind of sociopath or whatever. But
a lot of those behaviors are verycommon. You can't you can't go back
and judge them off. Yeah,no, and well that's the time,
you know the point here, youknow, and she's concerned about that.
(22:11):
This is the part of the thingwhere it shows them kind of doing their
they got what they wish for,and it's really not fun. Look at
him, he's like all covered andyeah, this is where I get.
This is where it gets silly tome with Beaver. Uh yeah, I
was around all kinds of kids like, yeah, you're you're this age and
(22:33):
you're doing this dopey stuff. Youknow, kids build dopey things. They
mess up with tools. They haveto be a stupid judgment and things like
that or silly judgment. Yeah,Bob says Tom Sawyer is politically incorrect these
days. Most things are yeah,oh wait wait, which is ridiculous,
you know, but whatever, Yeah, we'll get the old PayPal. Yeah.
(23:00):
Now, think of this today hetook about you know, he has
to tell her he's going to makea judgment and if women can be there
on Tuesdays or what you know,and she's saying, well, I hope
you do the right thing. Whatyou know, women couldn't have credit cards
really or own a home for along time. I mean, I think
credit cards on their own account wasinto the late sixties or seventies. That's
(23:21):
wild. Yeah, how much wasa payphone back then? You think,
oh it was nickel or a dime? Gotcha. I still see him around
sometimes we don't work, but weused to make a fortune by by uh,
I hate to say it, robbingthe pay phones. You just take
h take up paper and you stickit up in the change thing that with
(23:45):
them out where nobody would know.You know, when people used the phone
and they've give them their change back, it wouldn't drop out. Love Bee's
here. Look at how bad Lookat how bad beavers. This bike is
worth a fortune. Role. Ibet you that thing is where that already
been. I had one just likethat. Oh, Lumpy, Yes,
(24:11):
he's using the Tom Sawyer trick.Now. Yeah, he's gonna coax them
into it. No, he's gonnasell him. This is fun. Yeah,
why that's fun? Yeah it didn'twork on Lumpy. Lumpy is so
(24:41):
concrete and it's thinking. Man,he just sees everything in black and white.
I love Lumpy. Oh, Ilike Lumpy too. I like later
on when he gets that galoppy ofa guard that he has, and the
then lady Daddy worst bread. Wehaven't got a fred came. Yeah,
this is this is the part heputs a paint brush in and nobody,
would you come on, I can'tbelieve she's not having a hissy fit right
(25:08):
now. I had the same reaction. What do you guys think? I
can't believe that she's let What wouldyour mom do if he came in looking
like that? Yeah? Well,number one, we didn't have more than
three pairs of I'm not kidding.I know. I believe you, Yeah,
I believe you. Yeah, kids, kids had a pair of play
(25:33):
You know, most of the kidsin my neighborhood they had a pair of
play shoes, yep. And theyhad a pair of school shoes. And
if they were really wealthy, there'sLarry. There's Larry with those big giant
cuffs. Now, now see thatwould have been a good jacket with that
Larry head on. That would havebeen really expensive. Jack man, if
you got paint on that, thenforget it. He's got that apple.
As always, Larry's gonna be aneasy one to coach. He's very he's
(25:59):
very kind, he's very concrete too. He's hard to fool. I love
Larry. I think he's V's favorite, isn't he be. He's definitely one
of my favorite characters in the show. Larry has On. I'm sorry I
(26:22):
was get into clothing Larry has Onwhen I was a kid, the typical
nineteen fifties kind of thing. Yeah, except I don't RecA well, no,
I recall some guys having those bigcuffs on their blue jeans. We
didn't call them blue jeans, bythe way, we called them dungarees.
Yes, Grandma, I always remembersaying that. He said, love Larry.
Barbara says, I bet Lumpy wouldhave made a great, devoted boyfriend.
(26:45):
In the later episodes, he cravedacceptance. Yeah, he probably is
one of those types of guys.Let's get this thing finished. I can't
believe they're taking this long on agarage door. Yeah. Do see look
(27:06):
at Waally. He's all covered allover himself too. Yeah, well,
it's very funny. She doesn't.I see. My mother would have gone
in and looked at what was goingon there. But she's just not going
out there and see what's going on. She does not sit down all day
(27:27):
like. I can't imagine it takesthat long to cook dinner and clean that
house. Oh, who's that?Who's this kid again? Benji? Yeah,
this kid's so cute though, yep, Benji, jeez, you know
(27:49):
who he looks like? Who's ata little version of Jerry Jerry with the
dog? Maybe maybe Jerry played Benjiback in the day. He looks like
Jerry, he does, You're right, just random neighborhood kids coming in.
(28:15):
I love it. This was thisepisode. Oh boy, Benji's parting the
paint all over himself. Yeah,whoa Oh boy, Benji's mom ain't going
(28:37):
to be happy when he goes Ohyou've got this one right boy. Here's
Benji's mom. Oh, she's gonnahave a You know what if we were
we sometimes something would happen with alittle kid when when we were you know,
like this, man, you getinto uh uh that's right me.
(29:03):
Yeah, not too bright, Benji. Not a good move. Oh boy,
you got righted out too. Thiswould have been a serious thing man
when I was a kid. Couldyour dad whooped your butt for that or
something? Uh? They'd want tofind out what was going on with you
(29:26):
man in your head there if youwere doing something like that. Oh boy,
now June's out. Oh yeah,I like this episode. There you
go some people. I love allthe mishaps that happened for this. To
me, they're true contrived, theyare, but they're fun. No,
(29:48):
no, it's just it's just isone. I just did you know this
is not one of my favorites.Yes, that rag is gonna work to
clean them up with all that PintonJune. To me, the only star
of this one is Ward because onceagain, the way the hell his paid
was good intention. It is Bobsaying I think they still put lead into
(30:08):
paintback that, which would not havebeen good for the kids. So you're
boy, You're right on that onethere, Bob. The turpentine alone would
kill you. Is Ward going tobe mad at this? Or is he
going to be He's gonna kind oflaugh at it? I think No,
I don't think he laughs at it. But as I recall, but you
know, it was a little bitsobering to him. Didn't really do anything
(30:30):
wrong though, Are you kidding?Amen? It wasn't that bad. He
didn't force Benji to go dump painton himself like a dope. No,
I Jesus, Even in the fiftieswhen I was a kid, if that,
if all that would have happened,somebody would have said to you man,
your old man would have come outand said he take into the They
(30:57):
say, take this guy to Bellevue. No, I'm serious. People would
be looking at you like you wereenough case. It's too nutty for me,
Negro. But then we did otherkinds of crazy stuff which will be
worse than this. Ward's trying toget that stern face on now a little
(31:21):
bit with him. He doesn't wantto admit that the book might have not
have been a good idea. Well, you would think, you know,
you would think that the that thekids of this age, that particularly Wally's
age. But yeah, it's justthe book. It's a story. Well
still, they're teenagers. They wantto find a way to you know,
to work a master plan, especiallywhen something is not as entertaining. Oh
(31:45):
boy, yeah, I love thelook they give him a Hi Dad,
it's over for us. This isa hard one to sell it. This
shows you the time period because inthat book, uh, it's it's the
gym is a slave and they usethe N word all throughout the book with
(32:08):
that, and then then the theother the bad guys engine Joe. You
can't even say that the Cleveland Indians. Yeah, no, I mean in
our society, I don't even knowwhat happens with Tom Sorr at school now.
I don't think that. I don'tthink they put they put it out
anymore. I can't imagine that theydo, at least to your dad.
(32:36):
We always had disclaimers by the teachers. Yeah, things like that. Actually,
those things were just growing up inI mean, because Tom took place
in the early nineteen hundreds, right, No, because I was sorry,
it was there was around the aroundthe time of right after the Civil War.
So after the war Okay, it'sbeen ages since I've read it.
(32:59):
Oh, yes, we were morepartial. I think I think we read
and said of Tom Sawyer. Imean I read Tom Sawyer as a kid.
But Huckleberry Finn, yeah, thecharacter, and yeah, his books.
Yeah. I wonder what prop theyuse for Peyton when Benji dumped it
on colored pancake batter. Yeah maybe, Yeah, least they got their bats
(33:28):
over with for the night. Well, he was pretty nice, he was
pretty understanding. He was this islike, this would be like speaking to
kids today about things, and kidsare getting triggered or kids are copying certain
things. Qu Pomon is just sucha fantastic actor, you know, and
I'm not just saying that because wedo the show. He's just such a
fantastic actor. And just the waythat he carries himself. Oh here,
(33:54):
this is male Ward's gonna kind oftry to defend it. Oh, he
isn't imagination ideas and people, it'sjust something you started to take a chance
it. Hey, you know,not to always have something with psychology.
(34:20):
But that what Ward is really tellingpeople is a thing called the dignity of
risk. And that means like whenyou worry about a kid like using a
sharp knife for painting or anything elselike that. And that's what he's doing.
That's a principle in psychology and justin good common sense parenting. You're
going to cut a finger, thepaint isn't going to come out all right.
And when you read books that havemaybe bad words in them or things,
(34:42):
uh you know that are old time, you don't take them out.
You sit and explain to them andwhy he's wrong. Well, it's not
why it's wrong today. And youknow what the things were. I mean,
you could never read history about Germanyand World War two, sure,
or something about some other kind ofthing, because people would be using derogatory
terms, sure, you know,or things like that. It's you simply
(35:05):
explain that to people. And that'swhat he's saying, yeah, saying it
tells you about human beings where they'recome from. It's a really good lesson
there at the end. Well,next week's episode is called Wally's pug Nos.
That was a big I remember thatepisode because he used to be on
all the teen magazine and one ofthe things that they loved about him,
uh was his nose. His nose, Well, he was such a good
(35:28):
looking kid. Have you ever seenin a baby very athletic looking, sure,
Pug knows and everything else like that. Well, I liked this episode
a lot of this and I thoughtit was a lot of fun. What
did you guys think? If anybodythere has a second before they go,
is this like a favorite episode ofyours? Or when that you consider a
really good one. I wouldn't sayit was a favor, but it was
a good one. Oh yeah,I'm just saying I like to be honest
with everybody. Barbara said, agreat episode. See you loved it,
(35:51):
Yeah, you thought it was great. Yeah, like like like you had
mentioned, you know, some ofthe things were maybe a little unbelievable,
but that's the point of it,and I love that. See everybody sees
things different. Yep, that's thefun of it. That's the fun of
it. My friend. Well,he closed the thoughts before we head off
for the night. I just it'sa great show. And I know a
lot of you out there are mothers, and some of you sitting here are
big mothers too, you know,but all that side, Happy Mother's Day
(36:15):
to the mother's out there, themothers to be, you know, I
know there's there's people that are goingto be having you know, out there
with our fans or people who watchthe show or having a baby or have
a grandchild or something like that.You know, have a wonderful day.
How important you are. This showreally is one of those shows that stresses
Mother's Day and Father's Day and thefamily. You know, it's great stuff.
(36:38):
No, absolutely, absolutely everybody seemedto like it very much. It's
ready to see it. Everybody.Well, we hope you had a great
time with us, and we'll seeeither next Friday or Sunday. You know,
we'll do next Friday or Sunday.So yeah, so until then,
I wish everybody a great week.We hope you had fun joining us.
We always have a blast with you. Absolutely, have a big honky cake,
(36:59):
have a big hunky cake, andplay a hunk of pickleball. There
we go. Good night, Bob, goodnight, Deva, good night everybody
out there, and Brenda V everybody, and we'll see you all again next
week right here, and they leaveit to Beaver Podcast. God bless
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