. June 20, 2026. Have you ever listened to old time radio?

[00:00:02]Well, here it is Saturday.

[00:00:05]Right pretty day. Sun trying to come out.

[00:00:09]Yes, I love it when it when we get a lot of sunshine. I know it doesn't work too well for people who have to do outdoor work and the sun coming down on them so hot, but for me it's a delight to just be able to see a bright shiny day.

[00:00:31]I uh sat here this morning.

[00:00:37]Had my breakfast. Always had my breakfast in front of my iPad so I can read the responses to my story last night.

[00:00:46]You people are so special.

[00:00:52]I don't think there's a channel on YouTube as good as mine.

[00:00:57]I say that because I have the good viewers.

[00:01:02]It doesn't really necessarily mean my stories are that great, but I sure do have a good audience.

[00:01:12]Nothing like a good audience.

[00:01:16]It encourages you. It says, "Hmm, I'm doing okay.

[00:01:21]I got to come up with something good. I want to please my viewers."

[00:01:28]And I sat here about an hour.

[00:01:32]One message after another.

[00:01:36]I don't know if you people are trying to uh What is this they say? Rub up against someone and to get what you want.

[00:01:50]Or if you actually enjoy me telling these stories to you.

[00:02:00]My stories go back a little farther than most of yours.

[00:02:05]Well, not all of my stories. Some of them are things that happened yesterday or this morning.

[00:02:12]And I'm on here right now because of what happened this morning.

[00:02:20]First, I want you to notice I've got already celebrating 4th of July.

[00:02:27]Might as well wear the red glasses, too.

[00:02:30]And my red earring. Take a close look.

[00:02:34]I want you to see these earrings.

[00:02:38]Used to have a neighbor, elderly little man. He He was very kind to me. He liked me. And I think I think he liked me because we both liked antiques. And he had an antique shop about three blocks down the street on Clay Avenue in one of those pretty little colleges.

[00:03:01]>> [clears throat] >> And on occasion, I would go down and I would um um I browsed through his shop.

[00:03:18]And I never really found anything that appealed that much enough to want to buy it until I saw these earrings.

[00:03:28]Now, these are very old earrings.

[00:03:32]And I just love them.

[00:03:36]Well, I don't really wear red too much.

[00:03:38]I have more lately, but I didn't used to wear too much in red.

[00:03:44]And every time I would wear these earrings, Mr. Betterman would possibly be in the lobby, walking around, or sitting, talking with one of her neighbors.

[00:03:58]And he would always say, "Very pretty earrings."

[00:04:04]Yes, he was sweet man. He's long gone.

[00:04:09]He had a lot of antiques.

[00:04:12]So, these are the only ones I got. But, I wanted to show them to you because they're nice ones.

[00:04:20]And I don't get too many chances to wear these earrings. So, today is my day.

[00:04:28]Now, let's get on with why I'm doing a video today.

[00:04:34]Did one last night, and another one this morning. What's got into me?

[00:04:40]I'll tell you.

[00:04:43]Was talking about the primitive homes in the Northeast, New England states. Oh my gosh.

[00:04:52]That's a dream world to me. Oh, I just can't imagine what it would be like to live in one of those beautiful old houses, two and three hundred years old.

[00:05:04]Well, I know one thing, you got to have a lot of money to keep those things up.

[00:05:10]That's something I don't have, but I can certainly appreciate other people's fortune.

[00:05:19]So, there I was on YouTube.

[00:05:23]I'm looking at all of the YouTube channels. You know what I'm talking about, going from one to another. Let's see what's interesting today.

[00:05:32]There's got to be something. I I'm tired of reading um my own stories, and I want to I want to find something that really appeals to me.

[00:05:46]And I'm going along, checking out one YouTube after another. No, not that. Not that. Not today.

[00:05:54]And I came across one that said Bob and Ray.

[00:06:03]Oh my goodness gracious.

[00:06:07]I want to thank the person who posted this series of Bob and Ray comedy from radio and early TV.

[00:06:25]I'll tell you the story goes like this.

[00:06:29]I was a young teenager.

[00:06:33]Late '40s.

[00:06:36]We had this big floor model Magnavox radio. Oh, it was a beauty. It had buttons and knobs and you punched the button to get the station wanted.

[00:06:50]We always got the Knoxville station cuz we lived closer to Knoxville than we did Lexington or Louisville.

[00:06:58]And we always checked in on those stations.

[00:07:03]But once a week the Bob and Ray show was on.

[00:07:08]Just like Fibber McGee and Molly.

[00:07:11]Um The Great Gildersleeve and Amos and Andy.

[00:07:18]Beulah. Oh, there's nothing like Beulah.

[00:07:22]There There was a long list of comedy shows that came on every one night a week every week.

[00:07:31]And one of the family favorites was the Bob and Ray show.

[00:07:36]Two men.

[00:07:39]They did routines of interviews.

[00:07:44]One would interview the other as someone important, uh someone notable, or just the little man next door. You never knew what kind of story they were going to create in their interview.

[00:08:03]One would ask the question, the other would give the answers.

[00:08:11]There was one show, and I'll tell you about it.

[00:08:20]We just loved one show that they did.

[00:08:25]This is in the late '40s now.

[00:08:29]I never forgot that comedy show.

[00:08:33]To this day, I'm talking 75 years ago.

[00:08:40]The Bob and Ray Show. [snorts] And every once in a while on radio or on TV, you'll see a a little clip of Bob and Ray. Bob and Ray always watched.

[00:08:52]Always watched.

[00:08:56]I wanted to see the one they did about a Christmas tree.

[00:09:06]It was so funny.

[00:09:10]I never got over that show.

[00:09:14]I wanted to see it again and again and again through the years. Could never forget that one episode of Bob and Ray.

[00:09:28]What it would be like just to get to watch them perform on stage one more time.

[00:09:39]Well, here I am this morning.

[00:09:42]A series of Bob and Ray.

[00:09:46]Now, this series came from the Johnny Carson show.

[00:09:52]He had them on several times, and I'm sure some of these episodes came from other shows.

[00:10:00]I couldn't wait to watch them on the early early Johnny Carson show.

[00:10:12]I watched one after another, and then suddenly [snorts] there it was.

[00:10:19]The one about the Christmas tree.

[00:10:24]I couldn't believe my eyes.

[00:10:28]Now, first you have to understand with radio you had to use your imagination.

[00:10:38]I don't have to explain that to you, do I?

[00:10:44]It takes a good imagination when you're listening to comedy.

[00:10:50]It's hard to repeat what you saw and or what you heard.

[00:10:59]And have your listener appreciate the story you're trying to tell them.

[00:11:06]But the story about the Christmas tree I'm just going to tell you a little bit about it.

[00:11:13]I never forgot that one show from the 1940s.

[00:11:21]Bob is the interviewee.

[00:11:26]Ray is Oh, they're very firm, very dry, so dry in their interviews.

[00:11:36]Bob walks out on the stage carrying a 4-ft tall straggly leftover Christmas tree.

[00:11:50]You can imagine.

[00:11:52]I don't know where he carried that tree from.

[00:11:59]But, right asked him if he was planning to take it to New York where they had the big Christmas tree. Oh, no.

[00:12:10]No, he wasn't taking the tree to New York. No, I mean, that's a 60-ft tall tree. His was only 4-ft tall.

[00:12:20]And it just had enough pine needles on it to tell you it was once a Christmas tree.

[00:12:28]Pitiful, pitiful.

[00:12:31]He's taking his Christmas tree to California.

[00:12:36]He said when he got on the train with his tree, the conductor made him sit with that tree across his lap.

[00:12:46]He would He couldn't sit it anywhere else.

[00:12:50]He had to go all the way to California with that.

[00:12:55]It looked like the skeleton of a tree across his lap. He was so proud of that tree.

[00:13:05]This interview goes on and on, back and forth, back and forth.

[00:13:10]Now, I'm sitting here today watching it.

[00:13:17]It dates back to the 1940s.

[00:13:20]I couldn't believe how many times I have thought about that little old straggly Christmas tree and Bob carrying it on stage and carrying it off stage.

[00:13:39]And you know, think about it.

[00:13:47]How much funnier is something when it's played from your imagination than seeing the real thing?

[00:13:59]Someone trying to portray the same scene on television, they can't do it.

[00:14:08]You've got to hear it.

[00:14:10]You've got to hear the actors telling the story.

[00:14:16]And that's when you reach for the tissues to wipe the tears.

[00:14:24]Because you have such a good imagination, you can visualize every move that's made in this routine.

[00:14:37]There's another comedian.

[00:14:42]Of course, everybody knows who she was, Jeannie Robertson.

[00:14:48]She was 6 ft 2 in tall.

[00:14:53]Very nice figure. She had had a nice figure because she was in the Miss America contest years ago.

[00:15:03]Jean told the same stories I would tell if I were capable of passing on humor the way she did.

[00:15:18]I had dreams of being able to do comedy like Jeanne Robertson.

[00:15:26]She's gone.

[00:15:28]I miss her, but every now and then I catch her on uh a TV show or on YouTube.

[00:15:38]I look for her on YouTube because she tells my kind of humor.

[00:15:44]>> [snorts] >> In fact, I done a short video once.

[00:15:49]One of my first ones.

[00:15:52]I did it on stage.

[00:15:56]Last minute thing. I wasn't prepared for it, so we had to make do with what we had on hand.

[00:16:04]And I told the story about my pantyhose.

[00:16:12]It wasn't long after that I was watching TV.

[00:16:16]And I was watching Jeanne Robertson, and what was she telling?

[00:16:20]She was telling her story about her pantyhose, and I thought, "Oh my goodness gracious.

[00:16:33]That woman is telling my story." Not really.

[00:16:38]Stories weren't the same at all.

[00:16:41]But we both had a pantyhose story.

[00:16:45]Hilarious.

[00:16:46]Even I think it was hilarious.

[00:16:50]Telling my own story.

[00:16:54]And you can get it on my YouTube channel if you want it. It's called Granny Pat Performs Live.

[00:17:02]5-minute video.

[00:17:07]The only video out of nearly 700 videos, the only one that's 5 minutes long, and it's my favorite.

[00:17:20]It might be yours, too, if you haven't seen it yet.

[00:17:24]So, I don't have anything planned today.

[00:17:31]I got my dishes done in the sink late last night. See, I've got a little old dishwasher in there, but I don't know what possessed me to buy the one I bought. I didn't know enough about dishwashers.

[00:17:46]But, you know how you have to scrub your dishes first, then you put them in the dishwasher.

[00:17:52]And then, when they're finished, you take them out and you get to looking and you say, "They're not even clean."

[00:18:01]Got to wash them again by hand.

[00:18:05]I don't put them in the dishwasher anymore. My dishwasher is the best pots and pans storage you ever saw.

[00:18:17]It gives me space in my cabinets for my everyday pots and pans. You know how you have You got a big one, a middle-sized one, and a little one.

[00:18:29]You use those and one skillet.

[00:18:32]Of course, one of them should be an iron skillet if you have got one.

[00:18:37]I've got three.

[00:18:39]The big one, the middle-sized one, and the little one.

[00:18:45]I use the little one most of the time.

[00:18:47]You don't need great big skillet for one person.

[00:18:52]The little one works.

[00:18:54]So, I started out talking about Bob and Ray, and here I am talking about washing dirty dishes.

[00:19:05]Well, we all have to do that, too, anyway.

[00:19:09]And I I out of the kitchen as much as I can.

[00:19:13]It is so packed with antique dishes.

[00:19:20]I've got my uh Jadeite.

[00:19:24]Nobody touches my Jadeite. Jessica's already said, "Granny Pat, I want the Jadeite someday."

[00:19:36]Well, let's see how nice she is to me so she can get the Jadeite.

[00:19:43]I like it, too.

[00:19:46]Then I've got my Jewel Tea dishes.

[00:19:49]That collection If you you ask yourself, "Why did you start a collection with this, that, or something else?"

[00:19:59]Why did I start a collection of tabletop cigarette lighters?

[00:20:07]What possesses me to do that?

[00:20:09]I did.

[00:20:12]I have a cigarette table lighter that's in the Independence Ironstone pattern that I've got a lot of dishes of.

[00:20:27]One little cigarette lighter.

[00:20:29]That started my collection.

[00:20:32]That only started a few months ago.

[00:20:36]The reason I'm collecting them is because they're little.

[00:20:40]I can find a place to put them.

[00:20:43]If it's big, I've got to quit picking out things that are big cuz I've run out of space.

[00:20:51]I look for little things now.

[00:20:55]And I'm hoping I'm can quit looking because I've got more than I have room to put these things. You know, look, there's my lamp.

[00:21:09]That's just one of them.

[00:21:11]Let's see, there's three of them sitting on the credenza by the windows. Up on top of the cabinet is 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 more oil lamps.

[00:21:27]Oh, and there're two over there on that cabinet.

[00:21:31]And there are a few little ones stuck inside of cabinets.

[00:21:37]What possesses us to do these things?

[00:21:41]The other thing is I love paintings, photographs.

[00:21:52]I'm not much for a lot of family pictures. Most people don't want to look at your family pictures anyway.

[00:22:01]You know where people some people will have three dozen photographs of the babies.

[00:22:10]And you're the guest and you've got to admire every one of those pictures.

[00:22:16]You've been through it. We've all been through it.

[00:22:19]Got to look at all the babies' pictures.

[00:22:22]I don't use those anymore except for my baby picture. You've seen it, too. But after all, that baby picture was taken 90 years ago. No, 89 89 years ago. It's kind of special. It has a story that goes with it. If it's got a story, I'll show it to you.

[00:22:52]If it's just another photograph, we're not going to look at that one.

[00:22:57]It's got to have a story.

[00:23:00]And you can see this one right here. You saw that in my last video.

[00:23:07]I think it was the last one.

[00:23:10]That's my grandfather's barn.

[00:23:13]And my friend Shirley painted that, sent it to me. I went to uh HomeGoods looking for picture frames. I came home with four picture frames. And guess what?

[00:23:26]I put the picture in an old frame I already had.

[00:23:31]That's the way life is.

[00:23:33]You just don't know from one minute to the next if you're going to be doing what you plan to do or what comes along and takes its place.

[00:23:42]I'm looking at my Better Homes and Gardens cookbook right now that a lady sent me for my birthday.

[00:23:51]It's upside down, but I can still read it.

[00:23:54]It says new cookbook.

[00:23:58]It's sitting in the floor.

[00:24:00]But it's right by my couch. So, if I'm looking for a recipe, I just reach down on the floor, pick up my cookbook, and I've got it.

[00:24:10]Now, aren't you enjoying this story?

[00:24:15]All I came on to tell you was you've got to go on YouTube.

[00:24:22]Look for the one that says Bob and Ray an award-winning film.

[00:24:35]Now, you may not appreciate it as much as I do, but keep in mind it's part of my history.

[00:24:44]I'm going back 75 years when I tell you the radio shows and the Bob and Ray show.

[00:24:56]Let's see if there's any other little note. Oh, I was going to say if I had to compare these two men with any other celebrity celebrity or comedian that we've seen for years on television, I would pick Bob Newhart.

[00:25:18]They had the same mannerisms, the same style, the same kind of stories, and we all loved Bob Newhart.

[00:25:30]So, that ought to tempt you to go on YouTube.

[00:25:35]Bob and Ray, an award-winning film, and these were taken from the Johnny Carson show.

[00:25:45]I hope you can appreciate the humor, very dry humor.

[00:25:54]But, for some reason, a story that stood out in my mind for 75 years was the one about the Christmas tree.

[00:26:09]It's near the beginning of the the video.

[00:26:15]He They tell one or two other little short stories, and then you get to the one about the Christmas tree.

[00:26:23]Please tell me if you like their humor, that means you like my humor, too, because I appreciate the dry sense of humor.

[00:26:43]I like something that just makes you sit back, relax, and get a good laugh out of it.

[00:26:52]These two men did that for years to a radio audience.

[00:27:00]And then finally someone invented the television.

[00:27:06]And they spread their talents to everyone.

[00:27:12]Let me know what you think.

[00:27:15]Got my red on early.

[00:27:17]My red glasses.

[00:27:20]I've got quite a few pairs of glasses, but folks, these glasses didn't cost much.

[00:27:27]And ever so often I have to increase the view that come through these lenses.

[00:27:37]And depending on what color clothes I'm wearing, I can always pull out a matching pair of glasses. It's just like your earring. You always match your earrings.

[00:27:53]You match your lipstick.

[00:27:56]And you match your clothes.

[00:28:00]I don't have any Oh, yes, I do.

[00:28:03]I have a missing.

[00:28:05]But I put a couple little dots of red nail polish right there.

[00:28:12]And if you don't look too close, you won't even know the rhinestones are missing.

[00:28:20]My hair's the same as every other day. I kind of wish I could wear bonnets.

[00:28:29]But it's my story telling that you're interested in, not how my hair looks.

[00:28:38]Keep that in mind.

[00:28:40]Because some days it's pretty bad. And this is one of those days.

[00:28:46]And why did I to call attention to it?

[00:28:50]That's the way I am.

[00:28:54]If I'm trying to hide it, I show it to you.

[00:28:58]Yeah.

[00:29:01]I'm going to Oh, I've got my got Dr. Pepper right here. You know, what would I do?

[00:29:06]I have about six more canisters.

[00:29:11]But the lids are different, the size is different, but the way you drink out of it. See, this is actually opens up and they had the cap. It has a cap that came off. I don't ever use the cap, but the cap was so you could pour the Dr. Pepper into the little cup. I don't do that. I drink straight from the canister.

[00:29:35]And it keeps my Dr. Pepper very cold.

[00:29:40]I am enjoying the many, many, many cans of Dr. Pepper I received for my birthday. Jan got a bunch of them at her house holding them in reserve when I can make space to bring them home.

[00:29:59]If you don't drink Dr. Pepper, give it a try.

[00:30:03]When they say it's not good for you, I'm going to throw back my last word.

[00:30:11]My mother lived to be 101 and 6 months and she drank Dr. Pepper every day.

[00:30:20]Take it for what it's worth.

[00:30:22]I'm drinking it every day, too. I've reached 90.

[00:30:27]I'm marching along and you're staying with me and listening to me gab.

[00:30:39]I got nobody else to talk to.

[00:30:41]When you live alone, you find yourself talking to yourself.

[00:30:47]And then you forget what you were talking about.

[00:30:53]Okay, that's it for today. Thank you for watching, and you can turn me off anytime you want to.