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<v Speaker 1>My goodness, coming in loud and clear on a Saturday

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<v Speaker 1>morning on the Saturday Morning edition. It's twelve minutes past

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<v Speaker 1>the hour on the radio. And Gary Jeff speaking of

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<v Speaker 1>on the radio. A guy who's enjoyed a lot of time.

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<v Speaker 1>I guess he's enjoyed sometime with us over the years.

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<v Speaker 1>We've enjoyed him for certain, is always on the radio

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<v Speaker 1>or on a radio, or doing something with a radio,

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<v Speaker 1>something that's radio related. And it's even in his name,

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<v Speaker 1>old radio. Rick Washburn's standing by or sitting by? Or

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<v Speaker 1>are you standing or sitting.

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<v Speaker 2>Sitting?

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<v Speaker 3>Are you walking or driving?

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<v Speaker 2>I am radioing. I'm actually I figured you were elbow

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<v Speaker 2>deep in another radio.

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<v Speaker 3>Elbow deep.

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<v Speaker 1>As long as you're not knee deep, then that could

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<v Speaker 1>cause problems, all right, So how how are you receiving

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<v Speaker 1>us and what are you working on this morning, mister Washburn?

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<v Speaker 2>Well, as you already teased, loud and clear, it's five

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<v Speaker 2>by five And this is only one that is near

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<v Speaker 2>and dear to the hearts of many. It's a Crosley

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<v Speaker 2>D twenty five. This one, in particularly is a D

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<v Speaker 2>twenty five MN, which stands for maroon. They use are

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<v Speaker 2>big light radios that came in about oh gosh, a

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<v Speaker 2>dozen different colors. They're gorgeous. Known as the dashboard. These

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<v Speaker 2>are alarm clock radios with the clock on the left

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<v Speaker 2>and the radio dial on the right, and it kind

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<v Speaker 2>of looks like a tachometer and a speedometer.

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<v Speaker 3>And what year is this again?

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<v Speaker 2>Nineteen fifty one, and it's a five tube known as

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<v Speaker 2>the All American five, which was a standard American design

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<v Speaker 2>where basically everybody had to pay the same fees for

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<v Speaker 2>the standard patents. But very very basic radio and yet

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<v Speaker 2>a very good radio. And Crasley was one of the few,

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<v Speaker 2>even though in nineteen forty five they'd already sold out

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<v Speaker 2>to Avco. Avco kept the tradition of high quality radios,

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<v Speaker 2>and these were not like a lot of nineteen fifty

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<v Speaker 2>and nineteen fifties radios where they were just cheap as

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<v Speaker 2>companies were trying to survive. They still has a metal

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<v Speaker 2>chassis and quality components, and even even the tubes were

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<v Speaker 2>sourced from some of the leading companies and so forth,

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<v Speaker 2>so you know, they even under Avco, Crosley still wasn't

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<v Speaker 2>missing around these great stuff. Even the knobs are like

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<v Speaker 2>they're large, and they're colored the same as the as

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<v Speaker 2>the radio cabinet, but with brass trim, just as the

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<v Speaker 2>clock and the radio atile have brass trim around them.

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<v Speaker 3>And that was beautiful. Can I can I get a

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<v Speaker 3>Can you send me a screenshot of that?

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<v Speaker 2>I would be glad to do it. They're just gorgeous

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<v Speaker 2>and loved and not surprisingly highly desired. Luckily they made

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<v Speaker 2>a lot of them. But on top of all that,

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<v Speaker 2>this one has been basically unmessed with, other than the

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<v Speaker 2>horrific amount of adhesive tape used to splice on a

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<v Speaker 2>new power cord. Kids don't do that. Yeah, Nonetheless otherwise unmolested,

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<v Speaker 2>so gooy digging into replacing out all the old wax

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<v Speaker 2>paper pastors in it, and a screw had fallen out

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<v Speaker 2>of one of the adjusters at one point, and so

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<v Speaker 2>the thing has not worked for many years as well

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<v Speaker 2>as it could have because it was missing a screw

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<v Speaker 2>and a little thin piece of silver mica.

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<v Speaker 3>So there you go, so unmolested in at least until

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<v Speaker 3>you got your hands on it.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh yes, I'm molesting the heck out of it. Wait

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<v Speaker 2>can you say that on the radio?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah? I can say it on the radio, but not

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<v Speaker 3>on the podcast. Yeah.

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<v Speaker 2>Trademark well, just remember, based on the catalog from eighteen

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<v Speaker 2>fifty one, you're really there with the crosley. Okay, still

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<v Speaker 2>not one hundred percent sure what that.

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<v Speaker 3>Means, but or or where they're there, where there is.

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<v Speaker 2>The definition of is is yet to back up to that.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh, thank you, thank you President Clinton.

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<v Speaker 2>Exactly. Well, just remember shelbador refrigerators, frost masters, kitchen sinks

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<v Speaker 2>and cabinets, ranges, radios, radio phonographs, FM, television towards shortwaves

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<v Speaker 2>and home of WLW.

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<v Speaker 3>Excellent.

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<v Speaker 1>He he had quite an empire going at that time.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh indeed, not to mention the cars, well, listen as

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<v Speaker 1>always a treat, my friend.

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<v Speaker 3>How are you doing in general? You okay?

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<v Speaker 2>Hell yeah, yeah, yeah, we're hanging in there, re recovering.

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<v Speaker 2>But the note to self when you go to a funeral,

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<v Speaker 2>don't drive a windowless white van like I do, because

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<v Speaker 2>everyone's gonna think you're the floorest.

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<v Speaker 1>To find out more good old radio Rick at gmail

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<v Speaker 1>dot com.

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<v Speaker 3>Mam, try.

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<v Speaker 4>What is funny?

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<v Speaker 5>Papal you sermish?

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<v Speaker 4>Well, they gone holidays a Sunday.

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<v Speaker 5>I can't wait to look at his face and Harry

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<v Speaker 5>f well done, my faith of servant, Rah, How that

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<v Speaker 5>a faithful way. Christ one of his morning got a

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<v Speaker 5>walk cords child, walk around head, walk around head to

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<v Speaker 5>walk around head.

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<v Speaker 1>Hart ay, man, Wow, you got that voice going. You

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<v Speaker 1>got that high notes this week. You're not too froggy.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, but it could have been better waiting on the phone.

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<v Speaker 4>My mouth got dried right before she brought the phone.

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<v Speaker 4>I just put the water in my mouth like wine

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<v Speaker 4>tasted to do it and spit it out to wet

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<v Speaker 4>my mouth.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, yeah, I think you're absolutely adorable, and thank you

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<v Speaker 1>so much for gracing us with your presence and your

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<v Speaker 1>beautiful voice.

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<v Speaker 3>Mommentry, how's the week been?

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<v Speaker 4>Okay, it's been great. I wish I could be at

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<v Speaker 4>huddles this week for a certain day. That's my son's

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<v Speaker 4>birthday too.

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<v Speaker 3>What April fourt me and you together April fourteenth? Yes,

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<v Speaker 3>oh the captain.

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<v Speaker 4>Forty years ago. I'm old, but I'm thirty seven.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I've never quite understood how you're thirty seven. But

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<v Speaker 1>you're obviously, I mean, admittedly older than that.

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<v Speaker 4>Well I was when I was nineteen. He was thirty.

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<v Speaker 4>I said I got to do betterly he got sixty.

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<v Speaker 4>I said, I'm thirty seven.

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<v Speaker 3>When he was nineteen, you were thirty.

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<v Speaker 4>Oh I was nineteen. Okay, it was thirty. So he

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<v Speaker 4>started getting older and him when he turned sixty, I said,

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<v Speaker 4>I got to be thirty seven.

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<v Speaker 3>Again, you're talking about your son.

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<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I said, was sixty four.

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<v Speaker 1>But no, I mean I'm going back. You were nineteen

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<v Speaker 1>and he was thirty. How does that workmometry? The math

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<v Speaker 1>isn't driving up there.

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<v Speaker 4>We traveled in different circles. They didn't know you most son.

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<v Speaker 4>They got it with my brother, so we looked like twins.

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<v Speaker 3>So how old were you when you had your son?

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<v Speaker 4>Eighteen?

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<v Speaker 3>And by the time you were nineteen he was thirty.

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<v Speaker 4>No, the time he was thirty, I was nineteen.

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<v Speaker 3>Do you understand how crazy this sounds, don't you?

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<v Speaker 4>My math is different, darling.

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<v Speaker 3>Apparently all right, I have a fantastic day. Dear, thank you,

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<v Speaker 3>bye bye. I love her to death.