Speaker 1: Red and tell me.
Speaker 2: Thank you very much, and Merry Christmas, ladies, And definitely
Speaker 2: they're all over the cast is applauding. Wait till they
Speaker 2: open up their presence, they won't be.
Speaker 3: Now, you know, three rd nine o three and Merry Christmas.
Speaker 3: You right, well here it is Christmas.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know I don't And you know what
Speaker 2: I'm gonna.
Speaker 4: Give you, no, Redd, I haven't the slightest idea.
Speaker 2: And then we're even neither of.
Speaker 4: I won't say. I heard johny Eddie Canner program last night.
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Hey, you know who's a great guy to
Speaker 2: is this Harry von Zel? He laughs at everything that
Speaker 2: Canner says.
Speaker 4: You know, well, I can laugh as hard as Harry
Speaker 4: von Zel.
Speaker 3: See you go ahead, I'll say something funny like cannor
Speaker 3: I'm dead.
Speaker 4: Now I'm getting read. It was really some show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a real comedian, Eddie Canner me me, but
Speaker 2: he's been on the air a long time. Yew. When
Speaker 2: Eddie first went on the radio, Mark Cooney was just
Speaker 2: thinking of the idea when.
Speaker 3: You first went on the radio, you sorry you ever
Speaker 3: thought of it? You know, it must have been exciting
Speaker 3: being on the air with Eddie Canner. He discovered a
Speaker 3: lot of talent Manna Durban Dinah show.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Sophie Tucker, John.
Speaker 4: John Wilkes Booth, Wait a second, how long has he
Speaker 4: been in Chown.
Speaker 2: Eddie Cannon. Let's see, well, let's see. Lincoln was shot
Speaker 2: in sixty. I took a bath from twenty two. I
Speaker 2: don't know. It's been a long.
Speaker 1: Time, you know.
Speaker 3: I thought it was cute the way you played Junior
Speaker 3: and Eddie played your father. Yeah. Here I got a
Speaker 3: nice card, Eddie Canner.
Speaker 1: I read it for you, says dear Rid.
Speaker 2: Thanks for being Junior on our show. We really love
Speaker 2: Junior and we all want him to return the microphone.
Speaker 2: I had to turn the face. We're all joking aside,
Speaker 2: ladies and Jeff when everyone kids Eddie Canner about his
Speaker 2: big eyes, but very seldom anything is said about the
Speaker 2: big hand that he has. It's always ready to reach
Speaker 2: out and give help to some unfortunate person. Anita Ellis
Speaker 2: Singh's toy Land by Victor Herbert.
Speaker 5: Ball joy.
Speaker 6: Step never to pass its birth, and then you drew within.
Speaker 1: The shop.
Speaker 5: John Sigmato line, It's for.
Speaker 3: To night, the stories and the scoffing scrap book of
Speaker 3: fat tire are about Christmas. If you'd rather have the
Speaker 3: deeper type of Christmas stories, you can go to.
Speaker 1: The Dickens.
Speaker 7: Chap your wine the black Market Christmas.
Speaker 3: Good evening there, friend, Merry Christmas and welcome to the
Speaker 3: Sweet Tooth Candy Kitchen.
Speaker 4: Are you a battle.
Speaker 1: For shack Nasty?
Speaker 2: Well, if I ain't some guy sure running around with
Speaker 2: a horrible name.
Speaker 8: I know, well Ben Ruben the newsboys at me. Oh yes,
Speaker 8: he told me you might have some bubble gumers.
Speaker 1: Run so low note so loud.
Speaker 3: Stepping to the back of the store. We the boys
Speaker 3: just smuggling in this morning. The boys, Yeah, you know.
Speaker 1: The gum runners. Is this safe at black market?
Speaker 9: No?
Speaker 2: This is more of a tannetale gray, But I can't
Speaker 2: take any chances just talking out in the open. I
Speaker 2: was run in last week for cutting up extinction cords
Speaker 2: and selling them to near sighted kids for liquorage. Now, well,
Speaker 2: what's on your mind?
Speaker 1: Huh?
Speaker 8: Well, I'd like to get a box of bubble gums
Speaker 8: my grandsons for chrystal.
Speaker 2: Yes, what gold mine do you own? Well? How much
Speaker 2: does it run? Two dollars a bull.
Speaker 1: Two dollars A yeah.
Speaker 2: That's providing you take a few sticks of the other
Speaker 2: brands of gums.
Speaker 3: See, we're operating the way the liquor stores. Do you
Speaker 3: buy one bottle of good stuff, you gotta get some
Speaker 3: of that butt cut.
Speaker 2: Wood it, you know. You know, at that price I
Speaker 2: can buy.
Speaker 1: A new car.
Speaker 2: You'd be surprised how many people are buying gum this
Speaker 2: year instead of car.
Speaker 1: That seems ridiculous to.
Speaker 4: Pay that much.
Speaker 5: Put Well, I'll tell you what I do have.
Speaker 2: You might be interested in some use.
Speaker 9: Bubble gum.
Speaker 3: Might be able to scrape you up a bunks of
Speaker 3: that sporty.
Speaker 1: Well, where do you get it?
Speaker 2: From the seats after it kid his met in egg?
Speaker 3: Yeah, but from the Beverly Hills hitching post to eat it.
Speaker 3: This ain't that rip rap stuff, you know, you.
Speaker 2: Know the movie carts, the movie star kids is then
Speaker 2: they're difference. You know, as soon as the sugar's out
Speaker 2: of the gum, they're ready for a new chew. They
Speaker 2: don't go in for the sport of blowing it and
Speaker 2: popping it.
Speaker 8: Well, I guess i'd better get some of the fresh
Speaker 8: bubble gum. Good for you, Good for you Christmas on
Speaker 8: cons that's right here we are. Well, now tell me,
Speaker 8: Are there any instructions for the gum? My grandson's only
Speaker 8: four years old and he's never seen anything.
Speaker 3: Well, all he has to do the boar bubble is
Speaker 3: to breathe through the nose and out through the mouth.
Speaker 3: I'll be showing you get that straight, because if he
Speaker 3: does it the other way around, he's gonna be in trouble.
Speaker 2: Here, I'll give you. I'll give you a demonstration. One
Speaker 2: size head does your grandson's hat?
Speaker 1: Why?
Speaker 3: Well, I want to give you an idea of how
Speaker 3: the bubble gum is going to look hanging out of
Speaker 3: his kisses. You see, if it's not just right, the
Speaker 3: size is not right, the loss is too great. When
Speaker 3: it popped, it gets in their hair, all over their faces,
Speaker 3: shuts off their breathing. Well, he wears a size three hat.
Speaker 1: What they kid got for a head?
Speaker 2: Grape fruit? I'll have to chew this stuff up around
Speaker 2: and get some of the kinks out of it. Oh there,
Speaker 2: what my fun?
Speaker 1: Now?
Speaker 9: Watch this button?
Speaker 1: Hey?
Speaker 4: It has nice texture, doesn't it?
Speaker 10: Fifty one gate.
Speaker 2: Makes a nice your bubble? Don't you think.
Speaker 4: You better step back?
Speaker 2: This may be a little moist orized. Well, would you
Speaker 2: mind if I a step into the throom. It's it's
Speaker 2: getting on my coat, the twentiest singing. Poppa's out of
Speaker 2: my head, getting fight of here. And I knew if
Speaker 2: I stayed in this business long enough, I've blow.
Speaker 1: Him a top.
Speaker 3: Chapter two.
Speaker 7: Christmas is even the stage brush country.
Speaker 2: Whoo whoo.
Speaker 1: Why don't you just say stop? That's why?
Speaker 2: Hey, don't the town look pretty? I like the way
Speaker 2: they got them trees decorated hanging from him here it
Speaker 2: is Christmas evening. I'm penels. Ain't you going to spend
Speaker 2: Christmas with you?
Speaker 4: That?
Speaker 2: No, they won't let me.
Speaker 1: And alcatrac No, is he still on the rock? He's
Speaker 1: been there ever since? It was a bebbel.
Speaker 4: Well, I remembered you this time, dead eye.
Speaker 11: Oh, here's a little present for you, but don't open
Speaker 11: until tomorrow because they set to go up until then.
Speaker 1: That's mighty sweet of you, Brian.
Speaker 2: I feel pretty bad though I didn't get you nothing.
Speaker 2: How would you like a new car?
Speaker 1: Why show? Here's some viable bill's gonna keep you alive
Speaker 1: that long? Hey, look over there is a bank.
Speaker 2: I'll go in and get some money.
Speaker 3: And give it to you.
Speaker 1: Oh the bank is closed.
Speaker 2: Well, I wasn't going to make out a withdrawal clip.
Speaker 1: No, I forget it because dead I it's Christmas.
Speaker 11: You don't have to prove to me that under that
Speaker 11: dirty shirt beats a good heart.
Speaker 2: But that's why I want to get you something, Bob,
Speaker 2: and I.
Speaker 1: Don't want it. You don't know what it is. Twenty
Speaker 1: years in this state in.
Speaker 2: No, I won't be no trouble at all.
Speaker 3: Look, there's only one cash in there, in there with
Speaker 3: all that lettuce.
Speaker 11: Yeah, but that's old Tim Hotnett, one of the best
Speaker 11: shots in these parts.
Speaker 3: Here for their partner. I'm the best shot in these parts.
Speaker 3: Watch me like my cigarette shooting it.
Speaker 2: Holy it is.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's kind of shot, though. You better watch you know.
Speaker 1: I prefer the difficult shot. Shit.
Speaker 3: Oh well, things didn't smell too good around here anyway.
Speaker 1: You come on now, just go over there that bank
Speaker 1: clerk oh by himself.
Speaker 11: Now, yeah, well, I'll tell you what. You take your
Speaker 11: deck of CODs and deal a poker hand. Now, if
Speaker 11: I get the best hand, we'll forget about robbing this bank.
Speaker 1: Okay, that's funny. Neighbor.
Speaker 2: Oh there you are five for me and five for you.
Speaker 1: What you got three ages?
Speaker 2: The two came well, santy Claud came early. I got
Speaker 2: a pair of sixes.
Speaker 11: Man, a past six is gonna beat two kings and
Speaker 11: three ones?
Speaker 2: These do they got pearl handled?
Speaker 3: Man?
Speaker 1: You show his lover. Now, climb up there and keep
Speaker 1: them covered.
Speaker 2: Why is he cold?
Speaker 1: Get climbing?
Speaker 2: Willis merry Christmas?
Speaker 1: Merry Christmas? Drink a tree. Don't say that on Halloween.
Speaker 11: Oh gee, I plumb forgot to tell you.
Speaker 2: But this is a stick up.
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we'll take that.
Speaker 11: Oh, get out the cutting me.
Speaker 2: Well, don't lay there, get on your horse like me,
Speaker 2: and let's get out of here.
Speaker 4: Now for the final act of The Red Skeleton Show
Speaker 4: from December twenty fourth, nineteen forty six, Chapter.
Speaker 7: Four, Christmas Eve in a child's herd, a home with
Speaker 7: a tree, the warm spirit of love and a child
Speaker 7: is truly the meaning of peace, honor, goodwill toward men.
Speaker 1: I wonder where Julire is.
Speaker 9: He never stays away this long a pat What did
Speaker 9: you get Junior for Christmas?
Speaker 8: I got him what every boy like him should have,
Speaker 8: my dear, a muzzle with straight jacket to make.
Speaker 3: Path.
Speaker 1: You didn't, so what's wrong with it?
Speaker 6: I got him the same.
Speaker 2: Thing, by the way, is the boy hung up his
Speaker 2: talking heavy.
Speaker 9: Every pair he has doing quite hops to the windtop
Speaker 9: from the airport.
Speaker 5: And your safety belt there he is now over there?
Speaker 2: Well where the bins?
Speaker 9: Where did you get all those passes?
Speaker 1: Not showed out?
Speaker 10: Not show it out?
Speaker 2: I think I'm being followed, Judy, there's a man out there.
Speaker 1: Go to heavens.
Speaker 2: Maybe he wants to kidnaps you know? Jup happy?
Speaker 1: Where have you been now?
Speaker 2: Need the corner drug store? Yeah? Have you been worried
Speaker 2: about me?
Speaker 7: Have you?
Speaker 2: Yeah? I went down there and I thought I never
Speaker 2: get waited. Gun. Hey, you don't have a charge of
Speaker 2: count at your drug store?
Speaker 4: Doesn't you know?
Speaker 7: You? Just now?
Speaker 9: I hope you didn't give him a lot of trouble at.
Speaker 2: The drug store. They kept me waiting, show you on that.
Speaker 2: When I finally did get waited and I fixed him, boy,
Speaker 2: I bought a box of Bobby Paint and made him
Speaker 2: gift wrapped ever you want to. That was very nice
Speaker 2: of you.
Speaker 9: But do you think Santa Claus would do if he
Speaker 9: heard about this?
Speaker 2: I don't care. I didn't get to see him this
Speaker 2: year to tell him what I want, and I don't care.
Speaker 2: Let it get back to him. I don't care. No,
Speaker 2: let him know I is bad. Let him know I
Speaker 2: was bad and he had any idea you're bringing me anything?
Speaker 1: Just tell him to forgig about it.
Speaker 3: I'm gonna wait up for him when you're not looking.
Speaker 3: I gonna grab him and push him in the closet
Speaker 3: and knock.
Speaker 2: Him in there. And they're not going to beat a
Speaker 2: noos handy. I'm not going to have big looking win dudes.
Speaker 3: But he with fans on him, great big spike boy,
Speaker 3: and they will sneak up and I'm not looking.
Speaker 1: They will.
Speaker 11: Kill me.
Speaker 9: Do No, it's all right, No.
Speaker 7: It's not.
Speaker 1: I said bad thing about ny J.
Speaker 9: Don't worry about did he will forget you say lights
Speaker 9: good little boy, That's.
Speaker 1: What I mean.
Speaker 2: I'm a good You can serve me for dinner tomorrow.
Speaker 2: Now that's enough. Now, what did you buy for Christmas?
Speaker 1: What did you buy me? Jun?
Speaker 2: Well it's you never guess here.
Speaker 1: It looks like a tie box.
Speaker 2: Well that's what I thought you think it was.
Speaker 3: And you're going to be surpied when you open your
Speaker 3: uptional little grandson.
Speaker 9: I'm doing his own shopping, you know, Pat. It's things
Speaker 9: like this that makes me sorry.
Speaker 3: I ever grew up.
Speaker 2: Oh you didn't grow up, Grandma, You just grew out.
Speaker 8: Well Burner, my dear, we've taken our age gracefully, still
Speaker 8: young and hard. One nice thing about our age. People
Speaker 8: no longer tell us we're getting old.
Speaker 7: Yes, very sweet of your pat.
Speaker 2: Boy he's bucking for something. Christmas spirits got him last me, Grandma,
Speaker 2: He said, you help poor Revere sadly horse.
Speaker 1: I was only telling the boy a bedtime story.
Speaker 2: J Have you know I'm not that old?
Speaker 9: No, Hey, your braces come on, polls off conting.
Speaker 2: I think it's time for you to go to nine three.
Speaker 2: But this is the knife when.
Speaker 11: Said it lost?
Speaker 2: And I don't care. Who are hot people?
Speaker 9: I take this popcorn ball.
Speaker 2: You might want to know on something? Did you make them?
Speaker 2: Y Well, it's all assumed you. I just knowing the
Speaker 2: bed poles. It's easier on the chine. Oh no, I
Speaker 2: start chewing them and I wind up gumming them. Hey,
Speaker 2: good night, Grandpa. I hope Stanny Clok bring you what
Speaker 2: you wanted.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 4: I asked him to bring me a new Buick Roadmaster.
Speaker 2: Critic a maroon with white wheels. Yep, the cockbo shupping
Speaker 2: down when.
Speaker 1: Shy, Oh you dreamer.
Speaker 2: You you know I was going to get a new
Speaker 2: bell and howl camera, you know, but every to replace
Speaker 2: you Brownie. Yeah, but every time bell put my name down?
Speaker 2: Howel rub it up? You're stalled long enough?
Speaker 1: Hurry off to bed.
Speaker 2: Here, Brownie is due here now. Well, I don't think
Speaker 2: you'll be coming here. I've been pretty unbearable. Lad, he's
Speaker 2: pretty fair. I think he'll overlook a few things. Confusion. Yeah,
Speaker 2: but when I close my eyes and see always things.
Speaker 2: Guy who wrecked this year? I sort of put that
Speaker 2: atomic bomb in the firecracker class.
Speaker 7: You know?
Speaker 2: Well, Mary question, Mary.
Speaker 10: Christmas, here's somebody up on the world.
Speaker 2: Now he's downstairs. You're downstairs. I better go down and
Speaker 2: see who it is. I wonder what time it is?
Speaker 2: Maybe to stick up the car? Got both hands straight up?
Speaker 2: Where's me? Popka? And I'll sneak down and sell them away?
Speaker 2: I will I fly down the banister and then.
Speaker 1: You won't hear me.
Speaker 2: I forgot coming more comfortable with Pagama.
Speaker 3: John, Oh, look who you sleeping? You carried the Danny
Speaker 3: knows I'm going.
Speaker 1: To pull his beard. And he was really here.
Speaker 2: The build really connected door. Why I pull it these
Speaker 2: ears too straight out?
Speaker 1: Well, junior, why aren't you in bed?
Speaker 10: It's late?
Speaker 2: Well, you reindeers broke me up. I didn't think i'd get.
Speaker 1: To see who this year? Right? I missed you down
Speaker 1: the department store. Here sit on his lap.
Speaker 2: Boy, you you're is door?
Speaker 1: Thank you? Who built you?
Speaker 2: Shimming boy? You look like a family skee bottle of catch?
Speaker 2: If you guys go blood shot blimpy? Oh boy, how
Speaker 2: come you went to sleep in the big chair.
Speaker 3: Well, this is the last house on my root. I
Speaker 3: wasn't sleeping, just resting my eyes.
Speaker 2: Thinking is you tired, Kenny, clud.
Speaker 1: No, not tired, disillusioned.
Speaker 3: For years I believed that everyone lived with the spirit
Speaker 3: of giving in their hearts for three hundred and sixty
Speaker 3: five days a year, not just at Christmas time.
Speaker 2: Oh, you don't know the half of a candy clod.
Speaker 2: You already sneak up on around summertime. Boy, it's getting show.
Speaker 2: People don't even shake hands anymore. You know they can't
Speaker 2: get a good enough grip because of the grease palms.
Speaker 2: You know you don't know the hack of it. Kenny,
Speaker 2: you had tears in your eyes you smoke burning them.
Speaker 3: No, I've been thinking, maybe it'd be better if I
Speaker 3: stopped coming back. Oh, stop trying to bring the spirit
Speaker 3: of giving into the hearts.
Speaker 1: Of the world.
Speaker 2: Oh shany clok, you can't do. Yeah, you gotta come back.
Speaker 3: So many people you argue, not for what you bring them,
Speaker 3: but because you your humber of goodness. But only for
Speaker 3: a short time. Tonight I passed the grave of a
Speaker 3: boy who fought and gave his life. Tonight, I passed
Speaker 3: the park bench where his brother sleeps. Tonight I passed
Speaker 3: the house of the man who made both possible. Like
Speaker 3: a miser, he's trying to hold the precious destiny of
Speaker 3: his fellow men, worshiping not the spirit of Christmas, but
Speaker 3: kneeling to the power of greed, haunting the wheels of progress,
Speaker 3: betraying all the right to a free government, belittling those
Speaker 3: who gave their lifeblood for peace on earth, goodwill toward men,
Speaker 3: wishing a merry Christmas to no one.
Speaker 1: Ah, I think it'd be better if I never came
Speaker 1: back again.
Speaker 3: Oh, pe cany clues he'd be better, Nick, here, it
Speaker 3: will well, I'll think it over.
Speaker 1: Just remember, Junior, greed is the greatest weapon of war.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, Ramo cons Chin Snake.
Speaker 1: Well I was getting along. Oh say, I almost forgot
Speaker 1: to ask you what do you want for Chris?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 3: Well, now you are going to playing the main goodness
Speaker 3: for who. I ain't been very good this year, and
Speaker 3: I won't ask for anything. That'll probably be the best
Speaker 3: thing I've done this year.
Speaker 1: I don't think you've been that bad.
Speaker 2: You is tired, didn't you?
Speaker 4: Now?
Speaker 1: Just reach in the back and get whatever you want.
Speaker 2: Okay, anything will beat that piece junk you.
Speaker 1: Brought me that year by that was a joke, it
Speaker 1: is now.
Speaker 2: Hey, what kind of book is this?
Speaker 3: What kind of books you like to have? It seems
Speaker 3: like a lot of folks are asking for comics books
Speaker 3: this year.
Speaker 2: Yeah, they've been so hard to get during the war.
Speaker 1: They all went there.
Speaker 2: Oh yes, you know.
Speaker 3: Well, Mary Cobley, I gotta be going, and my wife
Speaker 3: will be wondering what's becoming?
Speaker 9: You have that trouble too.
Speaker 2: I'll run upstairs and.
Speaker 11: What you take of this?
Speaker 2: Boy? Oh boy boy?
Speaker 1: Oh?
Speaker 2: Look at them reindeers. They look like pony with hall
Speaker 2: trees in their heads.
Speaker 1: I feel much better.
Speaker 2: I'll be watching my day were report for more brotherly love? Sure?
Speaker 5: Half along?
Speaker 2: I give me back. Then Gordy very quick, m Mary
Speaker 2: quick quick,