 From Roosevelt Base on Terminal Island, the Grape Nuts and Grape Nuts Flakes program starring Jack Benny, with Mary Livingston, Phil Harris, Dennis Day, Rochester, and yours truly, Don Wilson. I've just discovered Homer Blund as well he's a shirker. Now don't misunderstand me, Homer doesn't shirk his work, not that guy, but you know what that poor egg does? He shirks breakfast, takes it on the sip and run. Now listen Homer, it's mildly important for you to get a good breakfast every morning. Remember you haven't had anything to eat for the last 10 or 12 hours. Why nutrition experts say mornings the time we should get at least one quarter of our entire day's nourishment and they also tell us the adequate breakfast should include a cereal with whole grain food values. Well that's Grape Nuts and Grape Nuts Flakes for you. Two delicious cereals that are crammed full of whole grain nourishment. Iron, niacin, and vitamin B1. Yes and what downright good-eating Grape Nuts are. Crisp and crunchy and Grape Nuts Flakes, tempting toasty brown flakes, both with the same distinctive sweet as a nut flavor. Now don't be a Homer friends, eat a good breakfast, do a better job, and for a treat that can't be beat, feature Grape Nuts or Grape Nuts Flakes. Ladies and gentlemen, we're all gathered here at the Navy's Small Craft Training Center at Roosevelt Base, Terminal Island. That is all except Jack and Mary who are driving down. They should be here any minute as they left just a little while after we. Canada standard we should have been there an hour ago. Well at your own fault for not following instructions. Gee I hope we get there in time. Yeah you know Jack we played lots of army camps and marine camps but this is the first time we've been to a Navy base this year. That's right isn't it? Well I'm glad we're going to Terminal Island today because there's something I just love about a Navy base. Really? What is it? Sailors. Oh Mary when we're at an army camp you love soldiers. When we play for the Marines you love Marines. Now we're going to a Navy base and you say you love sailors. What's the matter with you? Look Jack, a uniform is a uniform as long as it isn't empty. Well I can understand that Mary. When I was in uniform in the last war the girls were nuts about me too. What babes? That was 25 years ago. It's about time you gave them up. Yeah Gee I hope we're on the right road. Now better take another look at the directions they wrote down for us. Here it is follow Highway 101 to San Pedro. Turn to the right and put on your brakes. Is that what they wrote down put on your brakes? Yeah they said if I didn't I'd hear an awful splash. I wonder what that could be. Probably us that's where we crossed the drawbridge. Oh for goodness sake isn't there some other way we can get over to the island? I hate going across those things. Jack it's a drawbridge not a toll bridge. Oh now let's see. I wonder where we are. Oh Rochester Rochester. Yes boss. Rochester do you have any idea where we are? Well let me see. An hour ago we were in Wilmington. Well where are we now? Three hours from Azusa. Oh for a minute I thought we were lost. Now Rochester while we're doing our show put some gas and oil in the car and fill the tires with air. Oh boss not air from Terminal Island the tides out. Why not? Well have you got a cold? Yes. Then I'll never be able to explain it to you. What does he mean Mary? Well Jack Terminal Island is where they have so many fish canneries. Oh why don't they do something about it? They do it's the proving grounds for gas masks. Well what do you know? Say you better step on to Rochester we'll be late. Okay. Say Jack we're almost there. That's right there's the sign. What does it say? Four hours from Azusa. It does not it says this way to Terminal Island. What's the matter? Say boss this is a steep hill we're on. Well you better put the car in second. See it is steep. We ain't gonna make it boss. Well give her a little more gas. Okay. Keep at it Rochester. Hey you stop climbing up the drawbridge. Drawbridge? What you have to open it for? Is there a boat passing under? No it's just a P-38 flying low. Oh a wise guy P-38. You expect me to believe that you're silly. Watch out here comes another one. Nothing. Look Mary the bridge is closing. Hey Rochester let's go. What is it? Would you like your windows washed? Of course not. Then you better wait for the other half of the bridge to come down. All the silly things having a drawbridge there. And Rochester. Drive straight along here till you reach the sentry gate with the big sign that says stop. Yes boss. I wonder what happens if you don't stop. There ain't no one alive that can tell you. Well you better start slowing down there's the sentry. Who goes there? I'm Jack Benny. Don't antagonize him. I hate to trouble you Mr. Benny but I'll have to see your pass before I can let you into the naval base. Oh yes yes sure. See Mary no matter how important you are you've got to have a pass. Now let's see where did I put it? Maybe it's in your wallet. No. In your change purse? No I didn't put it there. In your money belt? No I didn't put it there either. Under your toupee? No. Oh stop. Say I think I left my pass in my other suit. Your other suit boss? Yes in the inside coat pocket. Well sure enough here it is. Rochester I thought that suit looked familiar. I told you not to wear any of my suits until they get a little shiny. A little shiny? Boss you wear them till there's a search light in the stairs. Never mind. Here you are sailor. Thank you. Do I need a pass too? No miss as long as your father has one it's all right. Not her father. Drive on Rochester there's the auditorium where we're doing the broadcast. Geez a shame we're so late. Mary turn on the radio and let's hear what the gang's doing. Okay. And here's another one for you fellas this is a Lulu. Don ask me why a sailor sleeps in a hammock. Okay Phil why does the sailor sleep in a hammock? Because he'd look silly laying there without anything holding them up. Kind of stuff. Drive faster Rochester before it's too late. Okay don I'll take over. You know fellas as I was coming down here today. That's enough Phil. That's enough you can sack up your corn now. I'm here. What are you talking about Jackson? I got the audience warmed up for you. I told some gags and Adam rolling in the aisles. Phil while I was driving down here I tuned in the program and heard one of your gags. You did Jackson? Yes and it's the first time a radio ever changed stations by itself. You ought to cut that stuff out. Oh what's the matter with you anyway? I pulled a gag and it got a big laugh didn't it? Well pull up your pants the laugh is over. You know Phil I don't mind a guy getting laughed by dropping his pants. But when you've got Abbott and Costello tattooed on your knees that's going too far. Not even Abbott and Costello do that. They don't? No. Now let's get on with the- Say Mr. Benny if you don't like Mr. Harris's joke I've got a good riddle. Never mind. What is it that barks and has feathers? Barks and has feathers? All right what is it? A dog. Where do the feathers come in? It's a bird dog. Oh Dennis you Hassanpfeffer you. Look kid will you stop with that Hassanpfeffer I had enough of it last week. What's got into you? Well I'm gonna change my name from Dennis Day to Dennis Hassanpfeffer. Legally? Gee that sounds nice. What? Dennis Legally Hassanpfeffer. Well that's the silliest thing I've ever heard. Dennis why do you want to change your name to Hassanpfeffer? Day is such a simple name and so easy to remember like Benny. Yeah but that's going too far. What do you mean? Benny Dennis Legally Hassanpfeffer. Look kid. Junior. Now look Dennis I just got here and I want to talk to the sailors so go over in the corner and sit down. Okay come on pal. Dennis who are you talking to? Legally. Well anyway fellas I don't know how many of you know this but I was a sailor in the last war and I was at Great Lakes. That's about six miles from my hometown Waukegan and I'll never forget. Jack do you mind if I interrupt you for just a moment? No Don what is it? Well there's a friend of mine stationed here and he'd like to say a few words. Oh well let him talk. Any friend of yours is a friend of our sponsors. Let's hear from them. All right. Oh sailor would you mind telling us what your favorite breakfast food is? I know all that but why do you like grape nuts and grape nuts flakes? Don did he say grape nuts and grape nuts flakes? Yes Jack. I could have sworn he only said grape nuts. Oh well. No no he said them both. Really? Now tell me sailor why do you like grape nuts and grape nuts flakes? Well you're right they are crunchy and have that Molly rich flavor and they're delicious with sugar and cream and tell me sailor what else do you like about them? Oh you're right everybody knows they're toasty brown. If that sounded like toasty brown I'll eat my hat. Don what kind of a yeah yeah with sugar and cream. Don what kind of a... Thanks a lot sailor goodbye. Don how come your friend talks so fast? Well Jack he's only got a three hour pass and he doesn't want to waste it around here. Oh I see. He appeared to be an awfully nice fellow from what I saw of him. Now what was I talking about? Oh yes you know fellows when I was in the Navy in the last war I was stationed at Great Lakes and I'll never forget when I enlisted. What a day. Oh I changed that to Hassan pepper. Listen kid I'm trying to tell the boys about the last war when I was a sailor. Say Jack. What? I bet you were a jolly tar. Well. You a sailor. What are you laughing at? Remember last night when you put sugar in your coffee? So what? It made a wave and you got seasick. Mary did you make up that little joke all by yourself? No one of your writers gave it to me. Well if you just tell me which one you'll save me a lot of money. Now fellas as I was saying when I enlisted in the Navy. Say Jackson nobody's interested in what happened to you in the last war. They want to be entertained. Let Mary and me do a song. A song? Sure you don't think the sailors just want to look at me. Well did you unfil rehearse a song? No we're gonna do it incognito. Oh brother well go ahead let me hear it. Come on hit it boy. You got to talk me into it. Talk me into it baby. A little conversation might change my note to a maybe. Well I'll spread it on thick like butter on bread and I'll get results if I use my head. Well I'm a baby land. I love to be led by you. You got a baby talk me talk me into it baby. Well if it's Mendelssohn you hear would you land a near. Well I don't know maybe but I'm a cinch for a clinch. A place for a phrase of love words. Now that I've told you how. Well I will I will spread out I got some jive of more quid here. Listen I'm gonna talk you into it baby. Well if it's Mendelssohn I hear I might land a near maybe. Yes you're a cinch for a clinch. A blaze for a phrase of love words. Now that I've told you how. Won't you marry me now. That was you got to talk me into it baby sung by Dinah Livingston and Phil Sinatra. Now let's see. What was I what was I talking about before your song. What you're always talking about Jack Benny. Oh yes yes when I was in the Navy well it's a long story I'm not going to bother about it now. No no go ahead Jackson tell them these sailors can take anything. No no no no they don't want to hear about it. Okay let's forget the whole thing. Mary that isn't patriotic. It was 1917. Our country was at war and something something kept pulling me to join the Navy. It was two o'clock in the afternoon when I entered the recruiting office I was eager and enthusiastic about my new adventure. Here he is chief. Okay you can untie him now. Now wait a minute I was coming here to join the Navy anyway. We'll stick to the business at hand young fellow first of all your name Jackie Benny. Your age 16 16. Yeah how come you need a shave. If you didn't shave for 16 years you'd need one too. Wouldn't you never mind take this application and go into the next room for your physical examination. Thank you sir. Just imagine the little Jackie Benny about to join the Navy. Hello doctor. Hello. A doctor the recruiting officer told me to come in here for my physical. Okay stick out your tongue and say ah. My my what a place for an airfield. An airfield. Why that's the silliest thing. What were you going to say buddy. Nothing. Now I'll take this blood test. A blood test. Roll up your sleeve. Like this. That's right. Now hold still. Steady. Will it. Doctor. Of course not. Good. Did you get any blood out of me. Yes congratulations. Thank you. And now I think I'll listen to your. Dr. Ferguson Dr. Ferguson call your wife immediately. Okay now young man but Dr. Ferguson they wanted you to call your wife immediately. I always do. That's her name immediately Ferguson. What a name immediately Ferguson. My name is Hassenpfeffer. Dennis get out of here. This is 25 years ago. I'm playing the part of my father. Oh boy am I going to have a son that's a Lulu. Now doctor Lulu Hassenpfeffer. Now doctor. Just a moment. Now lie down this rug and face the floor. Like this. That's right. Now inhale. There. Now inhale again. Once more. Thank you. Hey doc what was the idea. I haven't had this place vacuumed all week. Look doc do I get in the Navy or don't I. Well son I'm sorry but I'll have to report some bad news. For me. No for the Navy you're it. What are the new recruits line up for your uniforms. I take a size thirty four please. Well thirty four ways. Twenty nine pants leg. Yes and thirty two sleeve length on the coat. Well I'm glad you told me. Yes any particular color. Well would you happen to have something in blue. Well buddy you certainly are in luck I am yeah it just happens that I've got three million left. Gee I am lucky yeah next but officer keep moving keep moving where do I put on my uniform right here you're walking along. As I'm walking along but my old clothes all just drop them we have chambermaids who come along and pick them up. Come on come on change your clothes all of you. Officer I've almost got my uniform on good would you mind butting me up that goes in front. Either take them off and change them or turn around and keep moving. Yes and go over to that desk where it says assignment officer yes sir. Yeah I'm a regular sailor now okay buddy stop mumbling to yourself and step up to the desk me yes you know my job to find out what you're best suited for now tell me what just did you do in civilian life. I was a violinist. Well I don't want to hurt your feelings but I don't think they'll be able to hear you during the heat of battle. Oh I think they will I play without a mute. Now tell me young man what part of the service would you like. Well I'd kind of like to be a submarine. I mean I'd like to be in a submarine. That's fine but of course you know that being in a submarine sometimes gives you the bends. Bends and these pants I wouldn't dare. Anything else sir. Nothing except to give you my congratulations. You're now a member of the United States Navy one of the greatest fighting forces in the world and now that you're a part of it it's your duty to uphold its traditions and its honor. Yes sir. Now starting your naval career you will be stationed at Great Lakes Illinois. Great Lakes. Gee. Now let me give you a tip. If while you're there you work hard and do a good job. Who knows but that someday you'll be sent to Terminal Island. Gee I wonder where that is. Four hours from Azusa. What makes anybody enjoy a meal? Why flavor of course. And what makes Great Nuts Flakes America's fastest growing breakfast cereal? Flavor. Maldi Ritz. Sweet as a nut flavor that's outstanding. Say Mr. Wilson could I ask you something. OK Dennis I guess so. Well I tried some Great Nuts Flakes this morning and I had a little trouble. Oh now Dennis that couldn't be. Why those delicious toasty brown flakes are the most tempting breakfast treat you could ask for. Because Great Nuts Flakes are a rich two grain blend and they have a flavor that stops. That's what I thought I heard you say and that's why I tried them but I had a little trouble. Nonsense Great Nuts Flakes have a luscious flavor and a crispy texture. Yes the texture I had a little trouble with. Now Dennis that's absurd. So friends ask your grocer for that big economy size package of Great Nuts Flakes. Take it home. Open it up. Open it. Did you say you open it. Why certainly Dennis open the package pour out a helping and go to it. Well I guess that's where I had my trouble. I didn't open the package. You didn't open it. So long Dennis. Friends ask your grocer for Great Nuts Flakes tomorrow. I want to thank all the men here at the Small Craft Training Center Roosevelt Base for a grand reception today. There's a lot of fun being back in the Navy again. Next Sunday we'll be coming to you at the same time from the Army Air Base at Marchfield California. Hey Jack I want to ask you something. What is it Mary? Were you only 16 when you joined the Navy. Yes Mary that was about 25 years ago. But that would make you 41 now. Yeah how'd I get that extra year added on. That must have been 15 when I joined I think. Well anyway folks ladies and gentlemen I'd like to be serious for just a moment. It's the it's the boy up the block who's fighting this war for us. It's the freckle faced kid who used to deliver the groceries. It's the youngster fresh out of the local high school. It's your neighbor's son perhaps it's your own. Yes the kids who used to play cops and robbers are playing for higher stakes now. They're fighting a war for freedom and they're fighting it for us. So if you've been thinking that you can't afford an extra one hundred dollar bond during this fourth war loan drive stop and think again. As you sit quietly at home listening to the radio think of the boys who will never come back home. Then make up your mind to buy that extra war bond. Too many people it will mean a sacrifice every one of us has asked to buy at least one extra one hundred dollar bond. Now how can anybody say no it's our war. It's our boys fighting it. So buy that extra bond and don't wait because war doesn't. For a value that's super a treat that is real get the giant new package of great nut sweet meal. Yes lady that's 30 full ounces you bet of the rich hot brown cereal the best eating yet. 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