You Bet Your Life #57-23 Pinky Tomlin & Tootsie Outz (Secret word 'Face', Feb 27, 1958)

George who's face a Gro Irene Scher is waiting to speak to you now and her partner is a special guest one whom I think you'll find quite surprising Mr Truman Tomlin so thought you in please and meet rcho marks well welcome welcome to you bet you life say the secret word and divide an extra $100 it's a commonwise something you always have with you now which one your name is scha no sir your name is Scher my name is Scher there isn't anybody named Scher and you know it me now where are you from M Luna Seymour Indiana would you mind revealing your age or is that sacred no I'm 50 well that's a nice round figure speaking of nice round figures and you're Truman scha HH you're Truman Talman Tomlin H yes sir Truman and SCH sounds like the Dum rtic ticket in 1948 what sort of work do you do Truman uh for the past 10 years Gro I've been in the oil business out here in Los Angeles I have an office in Bly Hills oh well there's a lot of oil in LA and most of it comes from the city council well who do you sell your oil to filling stations or sardines well well actually Gro I'm in the leasing end of the a business I try to acquire through good information uh lease blocks at prospective areas of interest and just go over it yes sir I used to know some fellas who were in the same business you were in yes sir only they didn't bother with oil leases and euphemisms like that they they just collected a crowd and hauled out three Walnut shells and a dried [Music] pea could develop the same way yes well the back of a wagon they did well have you made any money for your investors uh Truman well we've been pretty lucky Gro I would say that about 80% of the people that have invested along with me uh have either made money or have had a chance to sell for a profit well that's a very high percentage 80% think so may interest you to know that I've been part of the other [Music] 20% now Irene do you prefer being called Irene or because I have a daughter-in-law by that name or do you prefer being called scha Irene is probably easier not for me no I like scha yes yes it it sounds like something you drink around Christmas H come on kids let's have another schloer ziny pyat Conrad Scher now what was your maiden name spear you're certain he did all right and you let go of a name like that to trade it for Scher you're a brave woman Irene where did you meet this Gastly Mr schagger huh in Idaho oh you Spar him and and catch him Irene your name may be scha but you just made up catch him now now come clean there is no such place is Ketchum yes there really is there is yeah Ketchum is a small town on Highway 93 and it's about a mile from Sun Valley it's just a little place has 13 bars a little old place a little old place with 13 bars and one grocery [Music] store 18 bars and one grocery store what's the good percentage is it what is the grocery store for is that where you get the pretzels and potato chips for the for the 13 well trumman let's get back to you have you always been in this crooked business well no sir I was in show bu Gro for oh you were in another crooked business yes sir I was a singer and wrote several uh songs songer yes sir trumman Tomlin Tomlin oh just a are you pinky Tomlin yes sir oh [Applause] well snap my suspenders I thought you were common Lombardo K and I remember you very well you were the Georgia Gibbs of the 1930s possibly yes sir and the Rudy valleys too yes sir what was that why did you quit you were a big hit what was that song you were always singing who's your little whoes or something you write that well no I think the one you might be thinking about was the object to my affection yeah yeah [Applause] sure I uh Pro of my affections I remember do you remember that song I heav [Music] yes you couldn't turn on a radio in the 30s without hearing that it's his responsibility why don't you sing it Pinky I'd like [Applause] to do you have any particular key that you'd like to sing it in I prefer one yes sir I like the key of G please key of G would you like some oil on the key that help a little bit well just for Irene this is your life Irene scha oh the object of my affection and change my complexion from white to rosy red oh for anytime she holds my hand and tells me that she's mine baby all mine there are many girls who can throw me some who can fill me with dreams of Happiness oh I know I'll never rest until she says She's mine oh now I'm not afraid that she'll leave me cuz she's not the kind who be unfair but instead I trust her implicitly she can go where she wants to go do what she wants to do I sure don't care the object of My Affection can change my complexion from white to a rosy red oh anytime she holds my hand and tells me that she's [Applause] my thank you that song is as good today as it was 25 years ago and it's a vast improvement over the many of songs that you hear now bless you I [Applause] appreciate well you're both a couple of Charmers and I'm sure you'll get married later on this evening I've enjoyed talking to you pinky you wrote some real good songs and I think you should write more we need more of those thank you now let's play your bet you like you selected plants animals and birds if you miss to in a row you're out if you get four in a row right you win $1,000 to what plant family does the American Beauty belong Rose well you've got one right and the answer was Rose is that right yes sir now what do you call the silk and case woven by Silk wors cocoon cocoon cocoon cocoon you have two right two more right you'll have $1,000 now what do you call a male duck Drake Drake Drake is right that's three right one more and you'll have $11,000 all spiders have the same number of legs how many do they have six you close it's eight I mean the three you now have one wrong now what kind of fruit is a Rome Beauty an apple I was going to say Lola laal LA [Music] bridg but it is an an apple is right well you're on the right track again you one right what is the proper word for a group of fish school school school is right yeah you now have two right what is the largest bird in the world the Condor the Condor no it's the ostrich oh the ostrich oh I forgot him yeah we did we uh we now have one wrong what color is the lily of the valley all I've ever seen is white white white is right you don't have one right what do you call a baby baby frog Tad FR T Tad pole is right that's too right okay now what are Rens thrashes and finches they're Birds I thought that was a law fir that's right you now have three right get the next one right and $1,000 is yours what do you call a flower that blooms and dies in one season in other words it requires replanting each year an annual annual is right you got four in a row you win $1,000 [Music] [Applause] Now you won a $1,000 you can keep it and quit or else you can come back at the end of the show and try to double your money you may even get a chance at 10,000 so go up and sit down think about it no matter what you decide to do thanks for being on the show thank you thank you uh gro we have dcy OTS and Frank Samson on Deck so F come in please and meet Gro marks welcome to you bet your life save the secret word and divide an extra $100 it's a common word something you'll always have with you Nancy OTS this is ridiculous where did you get a name like OOTS well we traced it back and it's a German name we traced it back 6 seven generation was your father a Quaker perhaps it was Quaker Roots well I certainly can't continue to call you miss Hoots shall I just call you Nancy no why don't you call me by my nickname Tootsie oh how would it be if I'd call you in the morning Tootsie uty is that it then yeah Tootsie UTS yeah oh well that's a most unusual name even for this show no it's really um real ordinary name in South Carolina Tootsie what part of South Carolina were you born in I was born in North Carolina now you are uh let's see you're Jame Frank Frank OOTS is that your name no I'm Frank Samson Frank Samson yes that name fits you you look strong and and hail and Hardy are you an ex football player no I'm a tree surgeon Gro oh the Samson Tree Service Beverly Hill what kind of service do you give the trees do you check the tires on the rubber tree for instance well no ours is a a kind of a shady business and I'm trying to turn over New Leaf and we do everything from trimming trunks to pruning limbs on nice saplings [Music] oh now how did I get into [Music] this I suppose you live out of a trunk and you have little branches all over Southern California well no we have a sprouting business but my bill collectors seem to have me out on the limb and there there's a lot of Fallout in this organization you know you keep this up and somebody's going to hang you from one of your patients [Music] do you have a job uh gitsy yeah I'm a stest for United Airlines you're St with United Airlines I thought they only allowed two drinks to a passenger that's right I'm a steward is oh you're a oh St I don't hear very well you see my collar is too tight you know if you were actually uh a stewardess in an airline as soon as you walk walked out of here out here You' have put a pillow under my head shoved a plate of baked Chi Chicken on my lap and said said sorry we'd be 3 hours late getting into Salt Lake City no I wouldn't have done that you wouldn't uhuh cuz I don't fly to Salt Lake City why not why don't you fly why don't you go to Salt Lake City because I have the run up and down the coast you have to run up and down the coast who's after you well what is your flight like uh Tosi do you get a lot of interesting people flying up and down the coast oh yeah especially on the executive flight you know that's the all men uh-huh for successful young businessmen these are the successful young businessmen that have uh recently been fired by big corporations tosy are you forat sir well let me rephrase that yeah you do that how you no sir you're not married you ought to be ashamed yourself of an attractive guy like you are you engaged no sir well how is it you haven't snagged one of your handsome wealthy passengers well you see um these schleppers who have been wiped out in Wall Street well United doesn't employ married girls they don't employ married girls well how come well a lot of most why do they call it United that's not the American way why don't they employ married girls well most most of the aines have this rule oh well that's ridiculous do you realize that they're standing in the way of the oldest institution in the world if all employees adopted that attitude the human race would disappear in 50 years which at present it's going to do in [Music] 25 what's the reason for this oldfashioned and selfish attitude well they figured that if you're married and um you have to stay over in Denver somewhere that you'll be concerned about your husband see why should an airline steward worry more than any other wife well other wives are home you see when the husbands come in mhm that's what you think good many of them are still at the boo [Music] table playing for frozen [Music] dinners Samson does your wife worry when you're up there in a plane with a pretty Stewart us like Tootsie well I'm not married you're not married well hot diggity dog here we go you say you're not married what kind of a girl are are you after well a nice feminine type feminine well they have the best guy in the [Music] feminine would you mind being specific what do you mean by a feminine type girl well an affectionate lovable one how she's looking at you well a nice affectionate lovable one that doesn't get up at 12:00 in the afternoon with a lot of mud all over her face a that wonderful you said you said mud all over your face and so that's the secret word so the duck is handing you $50 and miss o isn't he polite is he wonderful I may give you the other bit yeah give me thank you graa JY would you say that you're the feminine type for example do you like to cook yeah I don't cook too well though I cook grits real well [Music] grits yeah grits are real good grits are good yeah especially in the morning with ham gravy on them you know for [Music] breakfast I know you Weston has never have heard of that listen anything is good with ham gravy on it even an old shoe now how do you feel about Tootsie now Frank would you like to take her out on a date well I'd uh like to but the these Airline stewardes usually like to eat at the most expensive places and go to the finest night spots and everything else and I'm out on the limb now well how do you find out these things if you're up in a tree all day have you been talking to the [Music] squirrels well if you object to an expensive restaurant uh what do you like when you take a girl well I'd like her to make a nice picnic lunch and I'd Supply the gas and the car in the time how do you think of Frank honestly I think he's real nice but I don't care too much about going on a picnic bringing my own lunch I kind of like rest well anyhow let's see how you work together as a team now you have chosen locations of famous landmarks you ought to be good at this because you're always traveling around he you know Mr fenman yeah I'm M him you like him yeah yeah would you like to slip him some grits you think you'd like them I've never had them I don't think oh you haven't no oh well you she said if you supply the ham and you got plenty of that she'll Supply the Grits all right I'm going to ask you some questions you be Miss T A all you're kaput you know what that means yeah I know we're out uhhuh yeah if you get four a r right you win $1,000 now remember your partner so don't answer before Oh I'm I'm going to talk to him first yeah he's going to talk to you last too now what city do you find Trafalga Square talk it over how about Denmark gr oh I think Denmark is very nice but obviously that not the right answer though it's it's London England trala Square you know you should have known I hadn't been to England I don't know we have one wrong now if you get the next one wrong you're out of the game in what city do you find the Ark of Triumph or Arch of Triumph in the Paris that's right yeah all right now in what country would you find Monte Carlo the Monte Carlo Resort [Music] France no I'm sorry it's Monaco get the next one wrong and you're out of the game the San hento Monument is the tallest in the United States in what state is it located Ariz here goes the Grits the tree business and what what state in what state well I'd say what i' say New Mexico well that's a very good answer but it's the wrong one now yeah yeah it happens to be Texas oh oh well you missed two in a row and I don't think there was much chance of you getting four in a row right so I think it's just as well that you leave now we now we don't want you to go away broke because we like you personally but you're real cute and I hope you two do get married you can be up in the tree together then I'm going to ask you one question for $100 is that fair that's fair now this is something different than what we normally do now listen very carefully I'm going to read your mind not only that I'm going to also read the mind of everyone that's listening now take a number don't tell me what it is take a number from you could do it any number but take a number from one to 10 just for convenience I want everybody in the audience to think of a number and don't say it aloud okay you all got a number okay all right now double it okay add eight I thought that was [Music] thr now divide it by two the total that you have all right now subtract the original number that you started with don't tell me okay your answer is four is that right how did you know isn't that right you all [Music] four that's what that's right that was very good we started off with 10 well the answer is four is four well all right now

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Published: Fri Jan 17 2014