 Your coca-cola bottler presents Claudia based on the famous play and novels by Rose Franken Brought to you transcribed Monday through Friday by your friendly neighbor who bottles coca-cola Relax and while you're listening refresh yourself. Have a coke and now Claudia have you noticed that majesty's move has a completely different ring to it since she's become a mother Now I'll say goodbye to her and come along now. Why what's the big hurry? I want to shower and shave before dinner Oh, why bother? You look stunning just the way you are. You are easier to please than I am Majesty, I'm sorry, but the boss says I must leave so leave I must say goodbye to your calf for me No, hey, hey, don't wake her. Just tell her later to thank the company of a mere cow can make my wife so whimsical It's very hard for me to believe that majesty can't understand what I say Just look at those soulful eyes Yep, it's not until a woman becomes a mother that she fulfills her real personality Oh, just because you're a mother too. Do you think you have fulfilled your real personality? Seriously, though Yeah, I don't think I completely realize about being a mother until majesty had her calf You don't you know David an instinct is more important than anything all the doctors and all the psychiatrists and teachers and all the world Instincts are more important. Well, you're not wrong No, long majesty. See you tomorrow They're button up your coat Amazing how animals keep themselves warm. You seem to be amazed about everything about animals. I am amazed There are revelations David if more people would be more like more animals the world would be a better place to live in now That my dear wife is one of your more profound Observation, you know it is Something about being in the barn with majesty and watching her feed her calf makes me feel very philosophical I don't even mind about majesty not giving us any more milk. No, no, that's very fair and square No, no, I mean it. No joke. Come on. I watch you're giving milk to a calf that makes up for everything. Oh David it's so wonderful to be alive and well see everything around you going on just the way it's planned to You approve of things prove of them. Oh, I'm delirious of them I wouldn't give up living with you on the farm Or just plain living for a million dollars. You put a high price on things And I don't see how anybody ever wants to die Well, maybe when a person grows very old and very tired, maybe I wonder Hey, look who's walking up the road to our house. Where? Oh? It looks like Jared Tucker to me. Oh, no, can't be why not From here it looks like a very old man. Well, don't you call 86 very old? Yes, ancient David Jared Tucker is an ancient He doesn't usually walk around looking like an old crutch. I've forgotten how old 86 really is Why David it is Jared Tucker. I told you it was. Oh darling look at him and just the other night I knew you as Eve. He was gay and lively. Oh Dear, I wonder what's happened to him probably nothing But at 86 the turn of a weekend can be a very long time. Don't don't talk like that David. Hey there, Mr. Tucker Yep, just so we're coming down from the barn wait up for us Don't remember when a felter wins you cold. He's usually so snooty about the cold and the wind You know, it's funny how we're so attached to that funny old man. He's a pretty wonderful old man Hi there, Mr. Tucker. Nice cow. She's looking your calf. All right. Well, the calf is a very contented calf Mr. Tucker just fits in her stall and smile Smiling calves grow up to be smiling cows and smiling cows are the only kind of give barn space to come on in the house with us What are you doing out on a night like this? Oh, I'm not a man for setting around in the kitchen watching my sister Nitin knocks down a man's spirit to set around his kitchen watching the woman knit Reasing cold. It feels good to get inside. Hey, hurry up. David close the door before the cold air freezes the hot air Here give me a coat, Mr. Tucker I'll keep it on while if it's the same to you son give my bones a chance to thaw out Oh, that's a good idea. Just don't get overheated one your father get overheated again Come on in. There's a fire in the living room. So you'll feel good. Yes, ma'am When he can coax me to sit around the fire and not wish it was elsewhere doing something else. Yeah When that day comes Jared Tucker, he says a day erecting ain't far off. Oh, no such talk I'm telling you lad. I never felt my bone so cold probably never was so cold Yeah, come on sit down by the fire. Come on. It's as if the wind was whispering my ear that my harvest season is long since gone By soon I'll be a yellow husk laying on the cold earth You turn a pretty phrase cold bones and no that's man my age shouldn't complain, but I I Ain't feeling right. Oh, I tried to tell me it wasn't nothing but a twins aromatism But I ain't one to suffer from aromatism. No, I ain't always the first time not with Jared Tucker There ain't I live to be 86 years old without suffering at twins aromatism And I ain't aiming to start suffering at twins aromatism now Tucker still if it is rheumatism, it's rheumatism. That's not serious, you know, and maybe it's it's more than rheumatism Maybe it is Well, I didn't come over here to discuss me aches and pains with my neighbors Well, that's what neighbors are for Mr. Tucker. Not Jared Tucker's neighbors. No, I don't complain to nobody still I I Do feel kind of green to the lips I Couldn't practically eat no lunch. Oh, maybe Maybe we just overdid a little too much near you to see Saturday morning. I was no great shakes myself I've been a decline ever since for lunch all I could get my teeth to dig into was Was a couple of mutton chops some cream corn some stewed tomatoes and The baked potato had no appetite for the rhubarb till I cooked up. No Not that I can understand but I was always very fond of rhubarb. Yep, very fond of rhubarb I says to myself once That's the day when I ain't no longer fond of rhubarb Yeah, yes, we all got to grow old and grow lonesome grow cold Oh, Mr. Tucker, I wish you'd stop talking like that No, I feel kind of war out parcel bones parcel of skin and full of false teeth and talk Don't get me mad because my sister Delilah. She's walking around today. Just without one twinge Well, she's as good as the day she turned 70. No, your sister Delilah is a good deal younger than you are Mr. Tucker eight years eight years son and a woman eight years younger than a man is a good 15 years older in your bones Dang it. I always made up my mind. I would bury Delilah I lived with her these past 80 years So it would sure be my right to bury it wouldn't it? Yeah, and I don't aim to be jipped neither I'm very fond of Delilah, but well a man's a man and it's it's his honor to bury his own sister Oh, you're just feeling badly today. You'll feel better tomorrow here. I won't have a pipe. No No, thanks Melongs couldn't take the smoke Every day you feel bad son is a day you're feeling bad and you never feel better from feeling bad I'd miss Delilah, but I sure would rather miss Delilah than have Delilah miss me Sad for a woman to miss man even if it even if he's only your brother I I don't know why you're having such morbid ideas tonight, Mr. Because Mrs. Norton may as well face it like an old horse faces a glue pot I'm going to die. Oh, yep. Jared Tucker's gonna die. I know it today. There ain't no denying Of course, you're going to die. What's that? I say, of course, you're going to die. I've known that for a long time What are you talking about son? We're we're all going to die and you're going to die right along with the rest and the best of us now That's fine talk from a young spout like you ain't you got no ambition. You may as well face it, mr. Tucker You're going to die and so am I nobody lives fair. Oh, I don't like this You may as well face it too darling. I'm just as mortal as anybody else. No, I ain't aiming to die Never planned to never really figured I wouldn't I don't intend to start counting on it now ivory towers Well, we've each got one son. I'll let you in on a secret. I'm the man that won't still live forever Funny I was just wondering about that today But I mean it there ain't many folks who live to see 86 But I ain't got no intention of laying down in a satin coffee. Well, you got any intention of it or not It's an inevitable fact. We're all born to die speak for yourself son speak for yourself Maybe you'd feel better mr. Tucker if you went home and went to bed and Advising me what to do young woman. Well, I'm I'm only trying to make you feel better So you won't be talking such talk who says anything about feeling bad. Oh just a minute ago You said you wouldn't bother that I ain't had a sick day in my life And I'm beginning now 86 is a bad age to begin anything. Well now you're starting to talk sense still I think you ought to add some hot broth and we can have Fritz drive you home in the pickup What do you take me for a corpse now you listen to me young woman There's blood running in these veins and plenty of live muscle growing on my bones if I want to get someplace I'll get there by myself. I'll walk by God. Mr. Tucker is such a cold night. It's no trouble to drive you I don't like Molly Kotlin I'm feeling strong as a young buck. I am now and don't let me tell you otherwise now. Goodbye. Claudia's right I think we ought to drive you home. Oh, yeah singing the same song trying to bury me before I'm dead No my way I'm heading home for that roof bar by let pass by. Well, you're your own boss, Mr. Tucker I'll say I am if I hung around you young man's very long and sure would get depressed trying to tell me I ain't gonna live to bury my sister God rest the soul, but we weren't don't see me to the door I can get there by myself all this pampering Molly Kotlin talking about death Jarrod Tucker will show you a thing or two just because cold wind blows don't mean there's gonna be a frost Well, you're right David, he is a pretty wonderful old man But I still think we ought to drive him home David Let him go darling Let him live with his own dignity. He's got it back now Yeah, I think in a way even without meaning it. We did a pretty good trick What do you mean darling our pampering him reminded him to stop pampering and worrying himself Physically not feeling any better, but here look at him through the window Mentally, he's pushing himself along so he thinks he feels better And he's proud of being able to do it. I can't help feeling sorry for you. You mustn't Look at him go. Look at him Look at his head held straight and his jaws clenched and he's bucking the wind as if he didn't even feel it now I Wonder what kind of guts I'll have when I come to that time of life whenever minutes an hour Every day is a year the same kind of guts is Jared Tucker and don't fool yourself Instinct doesn't reside only in animals not by a long shot. Oh, David kiss me and Just what have you done to Deserve a kiss nothing, but in case someday I do Someday when we're old and gray Together It's not too late for one more New Year's resolution. So here's a suggestion Resolve to take things easier when you entertain Just remember to buy coke by the case and keep plenty in the refrigerator With Coca-Cola ready to serve cold as ice sparkling and delicious There's nothing for you to do but open the bottles offer them round and share the pause that refreshes Oh, they're mr. King the mr. Tucker not home yet What's everybody rushing me for about the cold night out? I don't feel it you youngins at all sissies next to you mr. Tucker. We are but you better get on home anyway I guess might as well ain't no one around to chin with guess I'll go home and sit down with my world Almanac now you need a good strong like to read that book by oh, I got it. I got it I got it right in back of my chair. Well, you have one in back of your chair Well, that's more than David has tomorrow night when he reads a book. What there's no light Here again gone again the same as Tucker ever hear of a bulb snatching I can't say that a half and then be around tomorrow. You'll hear a lot about it. So long mr. Tucker Every day Monday through Friday Claudia comes to you transcribed with the best wishes of your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola So listen again tomorrow at the same time And now this is Joe King saying or of war and remember Whoever you are whatever you do wherever you may be When you think of refreshment think of Coca-Cola or Coca-Cola makes any pause the pause that refreshes and Ice-cold Coca-Cola is everywhere These broadcasts are adapted for radio by mania star and the entire production is supervised and directed by William Brown Maloney And now here's a word from your friendly neighbor who bottles Coca-Cola