Blondie xx-xx-xx (xxx) Raises Chickens While Blondie's Away

Summary

Podcast Summary: "Blondie xx-xx-xx (xxx) Raises Chickens While Blondie's Away"

Podcast Information:

• Title: Harold's Old Time Radio
• Host/Author: Harolds Old Time Radio
• Description: Showcasing radio programs from the Golden Age of Radio, featuring beloved classics like The Shadow, Abbott & Costello, Amos & Andy, Dragnet, and more.
• Episode: Blondie xx-xx-xx (xxx) Raises Chickens While Blondie's Away
• Release Date: June 25, 2025

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Introduction: A Morning Without Blondie

The episode opens on a quiet morning at the Bumstead household, 127 Chandelane Avenue, where Blondie is away. Dagwood Bumstead navigates the morning routine with his children, Alexander and Cookie.

• Dagwood: "Good morning, Daddy. Good morning." [00:28]

Despite the absence of Blondie, Dagwood attempts to maintain normalcy, reflecting on a snapshot Blondie sent home.

• Dagwood: "You both ought to thank me for picking such a smart woman to be your mother." [01:07]

Dagwood's Chicken Scheme: Budgeting Woes

With Blondie away, Dagwood faces the challenge of managing the household budget. To curb expenses, he decides to raise chickens, believing it will solve their food problems.

• Dagwood: "I'm going to grow my own food. I'm going to raise chickens." [06:18]

He procures a dozen chickens from Mr. Horton, enthusiastically anticipating fresh eggs to alleviate their grocery bills.

Neighborly Interference: Herbert's Role

Herbert, the Bumsteads' neighbor, arrives with hot muffins, sparking a discussion about Dagwood's new venture.

• Herbert: "Building a chicken coop is hard work, if anybody should ask." [07:20]

Herbert becomes involved in Dagwood's plan, offering assistance and sharing insights, though Dagwood remains optimistic despite initial setbacks.

The Diamond Debacle: A Twist in the Tale

The plot thickens when Herbert reveals that a diamond was accidentally dropped into the chicken feed by Mrs. Wellington Cholmondeley, a well-dressed middle-aged woman from a lineage of English peers.

• Herbert: "It was Mrs. Wellington Cholmondeley. She dripped a diamond right into a bed of chicken feet." [16:15]

Dagwood and Herbert embark on a humorous yet earnest quest to locate the diamond, believing it will solve their financial woes. They use the "Flora Scope," a device Herbert introduced, to scan the chickens for the hidden gem.

• Dagwood: "I'm going to find that diamond even if I have to eat this chicken feed myself." [17:23]

The Search and Its Challenges

Despite their efforts, Dagwood struggles with the absurdity of the situation, unable to bring himself to harm the chickens in hopes of finding the diamond.

• Dagwood: "I turned out to be a little too chicken-hearted to kill a chicken." [18:17]
• Herbert: "I see you haven't killed a single chicken yet." [18:43]

Their search proves futile as the diamond remains elusive, leading to a humorous acknowledgment of their failed attempt.

Family Dynamics and Resolution

As the day progresses, the family adjusts to Blondie's absence. Alexander expresses concern over missing their mother, prompting Dagwood to manage both household duties and emotional support.

• Alexander: "Mommy always sings to us." [12:33]

The episode culminates with a phone call from Blondie, who checks in on her family's well-being. The family shares their misadventures with raising chickens and the diamond hunt, bringing a sense of closure and relief.

• Dagwood: "We divided the reward in. And now the food budget is in wonderful shape again." [21:01]
• Alexander: "Can I talk to her?" [16:00]

Notable Quotes:

• Dagwood on Household Management:
  "You're always eating." [03:07]
  Reflecting Dagwood's humorous take on managing the household single-handedly.

• Herbert on Action vs. Thought:
  "I know, but you should be more like me, a creature of action." [08:02]
  Highlighting the contrasting personalities between Dagwood and Herbert.

• Dagwood on the Diamond Hunt:
  "I'm going to find that diamond even if I have to eat this chicken feed myself." [17:23]
  Showcasing Dagwood's determination and comedic desperation.

• Family Support:
  "Cookie and I are taking good care of dad for you, just like you said." [22:58]
  Demonstrating the family's unity and resilience in Blondie's absence.

Conclusion: A Return to Normalcy

The episode concludes with the family reconciling their attempts to manage without Blondie. Despite the humorous setbacks, Dagwood and the children maintain a positive outlook, waiting eagerly for Blondie's return.

• Dagwood: "Say, Herbie, will you. I think I'll go home now." [18:02]
  Indicating Dagwood's readiness to return to his usual routines post-adventures.

Overall, this episode of Blondie masterfully combines humor, family dynamics, and a touch of absurdity as Dagwood navigates life without Blondie. The attempt to raise chickens serves as a comedic backdrop for exploring themes of responsibility, community, and perseverance, all while maintaining the charm and wit characteristic of the beloved radio series.

Transcript

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Ah, don't touch that dial.

[Herbert]

Listen to this morning in the Bumpstead home at 127 Chandelane Avenue. And this morning, there's no tantalizing smell of coffee perking or bacon sizzling in the pan. This week. Blondie's away. Dagwood is wistfully looking at a snapshot of her that she's just received in the mail.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Good morning, Daddy. Good morning. Oh, is that a picture of Mother Cookie? It's a snapshot she sent us. You can look at it while you're having your breakfast. Huh?

[Alexander Bumstead]

Who's the man in the picture?

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Oh, his name is Henry Anderson, and he lives next door to Grandma.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Oh, he's the one mom said they call Handsome Hank.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Oh, yeah? Well, I don't think he's very handsome.

[Alexander Bumstead]

All boys, I.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Boy, you do, huh? Look at that head. Every time I see it, I want to stick my finger in his ear and go bowling. Look at it. You know what I'm going to do? I'm going to cut him right out of a snapshot right now.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Wait, Pop, there's something written on the back of it.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Oh, let's see. Oh, yeah. It says, dear Dagwood, the scissors are in the silverware drawer. Love, Blondie. Ah, children, you both ought to thank me for picking such a smart woman to be your mother. Ah, she. You're a mission a lot. Well, your pop's not doing too bad around the house. What did you think of the way I made the bed this morning?

[Alexander Bumstead]

Well, the beds were very. I'll say they were.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Yeah, I guess you're right. They had more lumps than my mashed potatoes. Did.

[Alexander Bumstead]

The toast just popped up.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Oh, yeah. Just a minute, Nicole. Dog throwing it. One slice is stuck down in this thing there. Get them in or I'll get it out.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Don't use your fingers, pot.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Use a fork. Now, you don't have to tell me how to. My favorite finger.

[Cookie Bumstead]

Put the butter on the burn.

[Alexander Bumstead]

My mother always does.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Well. Oh, no, no, no. Not with food costing the way it does right now. Fingers are cheaper than butter.

[Herbert]

Good morning, Everybody.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Good morning, Dr. Her.

[Herbert]

Did you rehearse, sir?

[Alexander Bumstead]

Ah, yes.

[Herbert]

Harry has sent me over with these hot muffins.

[Cookie Bumstead]

Hey.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Well, where's the marmot?

[Herbert]

Hey, when I get the napkin off.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

The basket, look out. Hey. Hey, it's Har.

[Herbert]

Wait a minute.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Who put the marmalade on my stomach? Oh, excuse me, Herbie.

[Alexander Bumstead]

These are smaller.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Yeah. Look, Woodley, now, now, please don't feel like that. You and Harriet have to bring food over to us. It's only a matter of life and death.

[Herbert]

You're getting tired of cooking, huh?

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Yeah, and I run up an awful grocery bill. Blondie was worried about her food budget when she left, but I've set her back three weeks in three days. Seems to me an intelligent man could figure a way out of this dam for sure.

[Herbert]

But what's that got to do with you.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Wardley? I dare you to say that when I'm not eating.

[Herbert]

How could I? You're always eating.

[Cookie Bumstead]

Is this not a fight or can.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Anybody get in on it?

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Oh, sure.

[Herbert]

Get right in.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Good morning, all you people. Dagwood, I brought you a nice devil fruit cake.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Yeah.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Oh, thanks. Now wait a minute. Don't worry, I didn't bake it myself. Oh, gee, thanks. Who asked it? Oh, boy. Yeah. Oh, my goodness, look at the clock. Isn't it time for Cookie? And now Alexander leaves for school.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Oh, gee. Wait, my clothes.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Now wait a minute, honey. Here it is. Here, let me fix your collar for you.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Oh, I can't find my keys.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Oh, here it is, Alexander. Here, now let me straighten out your propeller.

[Herbert]

Yeah, I got the door open.

[Cookie Bumstead]

Got me. Cool out, Pop.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Here goes the bike, Cookie. Goodbye, Alexander.

[Cookie Bumstead]

Bye. Bye.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Will. Like. Like father, like son.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Yeah.

[Herbert]

Yeah, it's a shame, isn't it?

[Cookie Bumstead]

Yes.

[Herbert]

What time do you have to be at the office?

[Dagwood Bumstead]

What office is that?

[Cookie Bumstead]

Oh, yeah, I gotta get some.

[Alexander Bumstead]

I come off the light.

[Cookie Bumstead]

Get the door.

[Herbert]

Okay, I'll get the door open. But when you go shooting out, don't you dare kiss me.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Now wait a minute, Diavn.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Wait a minute.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Ronnie wanted me to make sure you were getting plenty of vitamin D. You.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Know, the sunshine vitamins?

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Yeah. Oh, well, don't worry. I've been taking thousands of the sunshine vitamins. In fact, I've had so many my stomach has started rising in the east and setting in the west.

[Cookie Bumstead]

Well.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Good morning, J.C. what are you papping? Yeah. You just passed Dr. Smith's red headed nurse.

[Alexander Bumstead]

What?

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Sorry. Sorry I'm a little late.

[Herbert]

That's perfectly all right, Edward.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Oh, thank you. I'll take it out of your page. Did you get it? Do I look like the kind of a man who can be treated this way? Yes, you look awful. Did you sleep in that suit? No, said we not. Well, I think Daisy and the pups did, though. Oh, look, look. I found this new phone in my pocket. Isn't that cute? Look at that. Mom said you're disgusting.

[Herbert]

Now look at me. You don't see me with a wrinkled suit or buttons up my shirt I.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Look smart, handsome, well groomed. Beside, I can't see the mirror. Yeah.

[Herbert]

Gadgets.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

You're a temptation to any woman. You know, Casey, you know, when grande isn't around, I don't seem to care how I look. Oh, gosh. Have you ever been in love, Mr. Dennis?

[Herbert]

Continually.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Why, of course I've been in love. Yeah, I mean with somebody besides yourself. Oh, no, not that taco.

[Herbert]

It sounds just like the making call.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Of a Plymouth Rock. What are you doing, Ray, you cornerstone? I would like to lay a few eggs, Mr. Dennis. Eggs are the only thing I can cook very well. And I think chickens are pretty lucky to be able to your own chicken. We only had about a dozen chickens. That could solve the food problem. Oh, my. Why couldn't I raise chickens? Because the chickens are smarter than you. Now, don't try to discourage me, J.C. i'm going to grow my own food. I'm going to raise chickens. If I have to sit on the eggs, my. Here Harry is.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Oh, hello, Harrison.

[Herbert]

Hello, fuzzhead.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Look, I've just finished cleaning up the kitchen for Dangwood and I'm one of the nicest persons you know. How are you boys doing out there?

[Herbert]

Okay, but building a chicken coop is hard work, if anybody should ask.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Well, I doubt if anybody will, but if anybody does, I'll tell them.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

This is detail.

[Herbert]

Yeah.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Listen, stupid, maybe however nice.

[Herbert]

Jagwood wants to know how Alexander and Cookie are making out with the housewife.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Oh, Herbert, those poor kids work so hard. And when they're finished, the house was worse than it did before they start. Sometimes I think.

[Herbert]

Now, Harriet, I want you to stop trying to think.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Oh, well, thank you, dear. But it's so hard not to think at all. A hardy day goes by that I don't think of something.

[Herbert]

I know, but you should be more like me, a creature of action. I don't think I do what you say, Henry. I said I don't think I do.

[Alexander Bumstead]

I don't think you do either.

[Herbert]

There, there. Well, Bumpstead, you've got yourself a chicken coop. Although I saved the last ale for you to drop.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Oh, thanks, Herb.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Chicken house looks frozen. Oh, it's King Pop.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Are we going to drive over and.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Buy the chickens now, Pop?

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Oh, that's right, Jim.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Oh, gee, this will be neat.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

It won't take very long and there's not much to see, but, hey, that looks like Mrs. Bub War brings his big, long limousine coming this way. Hey, now, stay in the car, children. I'll be right back.

[Cookie Bumstead]

Hey, baby. Buffoo.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Hi, Ruby.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Buffy.

[Cookie Bumstead]

Hello. Hello there.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

I know, but this morning I was out on a bat. I'm still not sure my headphones straight.

[Cookie Bumstead]

Ladies.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Buff Orpington. You out on a bat? Yes, I took some of my nephew's before bed and was off cold for 10 minutes. But enough of that. How are you, dear boy? Oh, I'm pretty good. Oh, you look very good to me.

[Cookie Bumstead]

So Storm.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

So handsome. So Gary Coopery.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Yes, yeah, I do.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

At the moment I feel more chicken Coopery.

[Cookie Bumstead]

Oh, there you sound funny.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

You did, didn't you? Yeah, yeah, I did. Are you through now? I understand Mrs. Baldfette has left you a temporary. Yeah, yeah, she did wait for a couple of weeks. Oh, you know the old thing. All the cats believe a mice was made. Tell me, dear boy, are you a man or a moth? Well, right now I'm sort of a housewife. Incidentally, Lizzie, before picking, there's a question about chickens that maybe you can answer.

[Alexander Bumstead]

My friends.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

My friends consider me very clever. Well, here goes. Now, which came first, the chicken or the egg? Well, my late husband, Mr. Bob Orpington, the man who invented the chicken. You know, he always used to say, obviously the egg came first. The chicken is just an egg's way of making more eggs.

[Cookie Bumstead]

My own art.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

And, oh, the baby bear, the big bear. I mean the middle sized bear. The middle sized big bear. The little size little bear. Little pap put himself to sleep again.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Cookie. I know he's never finished that story yet. Oxford's knocked himself out today.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

I wonder if we could carry him in and put him to bed without waking him up.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Sure, you carry him and I'll turn down the cupboard. No, he's too heavy.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Well, I won't be able to carry him for another year. Where am I? Oh, oh, yes, yes. Who's been sleeping in my bed? And then the little bear said, why.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Somebody must be sleeping in my bed.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Oh. Oh, aren't you kidding me, dad?

[Alexander Bumstead]

No, but don't mind us, Pop.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

You go right back to school. Yeah, I wasn't sleeping. I was just resting my eyes a little bit.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Daddy, do you always snarl when you rest your eyes?

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Well, no. You know, something kind of lonesome around here at night without Mom.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Also, when we can't go to sleep, Mommy always sings to us.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Yeah, I know she does. But don't forget what happened the last time I sang for your cooking. Mr. Gibson thought Daisy's tail was caught in the screen door again. Well, I'll have to go downstairs and answer the back door, kid. That's probably Mr. Horton the chicken man. But I'll come back and tuck in later. Good night.

[Cookie Bumstead]

Good night, dad. Good night, Pop.

[Alexander Bumstead]

I'm Dom and Jesse's bacon. And stop that ringing.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

That's better. Oh, hello, Mr. Wharton. Come in. Howdy, Mr. Bumpstead. I filled your order just as the clerk gave it to me. But you ought to know why. Boy, is Blondie going to be surprised when she's first looking at him now. Oh, yep, I'd be surprised to tell you see, this time tomorrow night, I will have a dozen egg laid by my very own chicken. Her. Mr. Bumstead, you ain't expecting every one of them crob hens to lay you a naked piece every day. Well, that's what I bought them for. Oh, well then I think you better take this little package. Oh, what is it? Little rooster booster? You know, I call it Horton Extra Exhilarating Egg Egg youg Honor, for exhausted hairs.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Oh, well, I need them.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

No, you won't need him. But one of them hens is going to have to put her shoulder to the wheel.

[Cookie Bumstead]

Oh, stick. Get up you knucklehead. What's going on in that hedgehog.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Huh?

[Cookie Bumstead]

And what's the matter, Herb?

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Oh, that's on you.

[Cookie Bumstead]

You keep your night shirt on, you idiot. It's not sick to fuck in. Get out of bed and stop that battalion up with an alarm clock from towel.

[Alexander Bumstead]

He popped into the roosters. They woke everybody up. Not so Mr. Gibson. Coming across the streetless bathroom.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Back him now.

[Cookie Bumstead]

Turn those roosters off. They waking up the whole neighborhood. Now I have to hug food before I call the police.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Yeah, okay.

[Cookie Bumstead]

Hey, next one. How many roosters have you got out.

[Herbert]

There in that hen house?

[Dagwood Bumstead]

12.

[Cookie Bumstead]

12 roosters? Certainly a husband for each one of the hen.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Oh, well, go on my little fine feathered friend. Farewell. Parting is such a sweet sorrow.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Don't feel bad, darling.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

See, the neighbors say their roosters must go. And Mr. Horton won't take the roosters back without the hands and the feed and the rest of the stuff I bought from him yesterday. So that's the end of our chicken raising chapter.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Hey, mom will never get a seal.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Well, maybe it's just as well. Anyway, we can tell her about it when she phones us long distance tonight.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Can I talk to her? Can I talk to her?

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Kim, you're a bug. If you can, might as well load the pork into these crates here. What happened? Did the neighbors change their mind?

[Herbert]

Exactly. Did you notice a very well dressed woman about middle age when you were at Horton's Chicken Store yesterday.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Oh, yeah, she walked in with the cape on. Yeah, I was standing right next to her at the feed bin.

[Herbert]

Deadwood. That was Mrs. Wellington Cholmondeley. Her father sprang from a long line of English peers.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Yes, well, one of my uncles jumped from a long line of Brooklyn docks. What's all the excitement about, Uncle Herb?

[Herbert]

Oh, well, it's about this book.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Yes, you were practically dripping with diamonds.

[Herbert]

Yeah, and apparently she dripped one of them right into a bed of chicken feet.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Hey, imagine that. It's worth a fortune.

[Alexander Bumstead]

And that's not Jigga Bee.

[Cookie Bumstead]

Hey, that's good. Ah, ah, ah.

[Herbert]

I see. It runs in the family.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Now wait a minute, Woodland. Now wait just a minute. Do you mean that he dropped a diamond into the feed and I bought the feet?

[Herbert]

It took you a long time, but that's the idea.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Oh, boy. Ha ha. So that's why Mr. Horton insisted on getting back everything I bought from him.

[Alexander Bumstead]

A diamond chicken.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Yeah. Yeah, but what does it look like? Lucky?

[Herbert]

It's a star shaped diamond earring. And there's a reward for it.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Well, come on, woman, let's get busy. I'm going to find that diamond even if I have to eat this chicken feed myself.

[Herbert]

Come on.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

No use, Herb. I've had my nose and chicken feet. I'm ready to cackle. The earring just isn't there.

[Herbert]

Well, if it ever was here, it's inside a chicken by now. Yeah, I guess there's nothing to do but kill the chickens.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

I guess. Yeah, there's nothing to do but kill the. Yeah, well, it's all else to do, I guess. Say, Herbie, will you. I think I'll go home now.

[Herbert]

I just remember Harriet wanted me to fluff up our pillows.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

I'll think of her hair. Look, Alexandria, would you mind helping you? I'll be back in a little while, Pop.

[Alexander Bumstead]

I just remember Sylvia gets away wanted to see me while selling important. Me too, daddy. Bye.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Yeah. Hey, hey. Don't everybody go. Hey, come back here, you coward. A fine two fisted he man. I turned out to be a little too chicken hearted to kill a chicken eagle. Ain't no cracks out of you either. Ah, you fish tail feathers. That's right.

[Herbert]

I see you haven't killed a single chicken yet.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Yeah, well, I just can't kill a chicken, Herbie.

[Herbert]

Oh, me too. I wish my brother lived in this neighborhood. He's a doctor, you know. He might be willing to do a little foul surgery.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Yeah. Oh, her. You know, he doesn't live too far. Hey, hey, let's take the Chickens over there and visit. No, no.

[Herbert]

Dave in charge.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Yeah, well, there's another dud. I've been pulling ideas out of the air for hours and I keep growing perfect blank.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Oh, Herbert.

[Herbert]

Here's the one I drew.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Say, Herbert, I've been thinking. Your brother Dave has a sewing machine called a Floristo. And one day the nurse was standing.

[Herbert]

Yeah, I remember.

[Cookie Bumstead]

Hey, that's it.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

And a florist.

[Herbert]

Harriet, I love you. Lean over here, honey.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Oh, my. Herbert, you kissed me right on the forehead.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Oh, my.

[Alexander Bumstead]

I feel just like we've been on a second honeymoon.

[Cookie Bumstead]

Oh, there. You cast the dinners.

[Herbert]

Well, how's a little bumlet?

[Alexander Bumstead]

We're fine at the very. Yes. Yeah. Even if we are kind of lonesome.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Hey, Harriet. What?

[Alexander Bumstead]

Thought you were telling me over the.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Phone about Dagwood and Herb going over to Dr. Dave to hold the chickens.

[Herbert]

Up to the forest.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Oh, yeah, that's right. They're trying to search the chickens for the diamond unit. It was my idea they got after they talked to me. Why, Lloyd, you mean you.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Oh, my goodness, no.

[Alexander Bumstead]

I'm not smart enough.

[Herbert]

You're the only woman I ever knew.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Who'S smart enough to admit she isn't smart. Oh, well, it was for Herbert.

[Alexander Bumstead]

You see, he's very cynical and he needs something solid and dependable to believe in. Like my stupidity. And Cora. Mommy turned the telephone with long distance. Yes, I know.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

That's why we talked to him. Yeah, we wanted to say hello to her, too. Hello, family and friends.

[Herbert]

Yeah. Hi, everybody.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Well, you two sound cheerful enough. Yeah. Hey, we found a diamond.

[Herbert]

Hey, Harriet, that was a brilliant idea I had about the Flora Scope. Well, Dagworth and I have.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Well, that's better.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Yeah. Well, we divided the reward in. And now the food budget is in wonderful shape again. And Mr. Horton took the chickens back and. Never mind all that Dagworth.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Did you really see the diamonds in sports, though?

[Herbert]

Oh, we sure did. Stagwood held the first chicken up.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Yeah. And there was a diamond heron.

[Cookie Bumstead]

Marvelous.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Daddy did a boy chicken or a.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Girl chicken in here? Oh, well, a boy chicken, I guess, honey. Yeah.

[Alexander Bumstead]

See which one?

[Herbert]

The silly looking one with the bow tie.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Yeah, that's me cock. A doodle doo bum said you swallowed that diamond. You must have been awful hungry. Yeah, A diamond is such rich food. Well, I didn't eat it. You see, Herb saw the diamond the minute I held a chicken up to the floridoscope. It was in the cuff of my shirt sleeve all the time. Now, look, everybody, when your phone rings, I want you all to be very quiet. After all, I haven't spoken to Bonnie the whole time she's been a. Hello? Yes, this is Mr. Bumstead. What are you changing the paper? Hello, Blondie, dear.

[Alexander Bumstead]

I want to talk to Mommy.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Yeah. Oh, just a second, Blondie. Here's Cookie.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Hello, Mommy. I miss you very much. And Aunt Cora bought me a beautiful new doll.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Let me talk to her. Yeah, Blondie, I bought Cookie the doll because it looked just like you. Yes.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Oh, wait a minute, Blondie.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Alexander's going crazy.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Hi, Tankor.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Hello, Mom. Wait a minute. When do I get to talk to you? I'm being a good boy, Mom.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Cookie and I are taking good care of dad for you, just like you said.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Yeah, I'm.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Hello, Londyn.

[Herbert]

And this is her.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Wait a minute.

[Herbert]

She called me up, Son. Yeah, we're all just. Well, honey.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Give me that telephone, Woodley.

[Herbert]

Oh, no, you don't.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Selfish. Mr. Dilly. Hi, Max. Blondie. It's Dilly speaking. Ye here. Old Dagworth wasting away to a shadow. He's lost nearly an ounce.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Well, at the rest, if you can, I can. Gronda is very dear. Ronda's fine, and Herbie's fine. I'll take it. Wait a second, honey. Here's the one who misses you most of all.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Yeah. Well, it's about time.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Not you, Dagmar. Daisy.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Davey. Daisy.

[Alexander Bumstead]

Get Daisy away from the phone.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Get out of here, Daisy. That's my present.

[Cookie Bumstead]

Hello? Hello, Doug?

[Dagwood Bumstead]

Hello? Hello? Who is this? Yo, Chris.

[Cookie Bumstead]

What do you mean, in three minutes you are flying?

[Herbert]

This is the United States Armed Forces Radio Service, the voice of information and Education.

[Dagwood Bumstead]

SA.