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The Johnson Wax Program with Fiber McGhee and Molly.
The makers of Johnson's Wax, Johnson's carnew and Johnson's Self Polishing Glow Code present Fiber McKee and Molly, written by Don Quinn with music by the Kingsman named Billy Neils Orchestra.
In this week before Christmas, there's probably more friendliness in the air than at any other time of the year.
As we grow older, it's not the gifts of Christmas that we feel, but the friendly spirit back of them, the good smile, the warm hand clasp of neighbors and friends.
When these friends and relatives gather with your own family and your own home, you realize what it means to have a home in a free country.
In anticipation of these friendly gatherings, many of you will be adding the finishing touches of house cleaning this week, among other things, going over waxed floors, furniture and woodwork to make them gleam with beauty.
The makers of Johnson's Wax are proud that their humble products find a useful place in your preparations for our warm.
Speaker 2Heart at Christmas.
Speaker 1Evil have you ever waited till the last minute to buy your Christmas tree, only to find that the dealers were all sold out.
You have, well, then maybe you can whip up a little throb of sympathy for favor McGhee and Molly.
Speaker 2Well, I'm afraid it's no use McGhie.
We've been to seven different blocks and we haven't seen a loose spruce.
Speaker 3Worry.
Speaker 4I'll get us a Christmas train.
Speaker 3If I have to chop on off the courthouse long, well, then.
Speaker 2I'll have to change my Christmas present for you.
Huh that war bomb, I'll make it a bail bomb.
Yeah, say wynersh didn't you go buy a tree last week as I suggested?
Speaker 4Because they were asking ridiculous prices.
Speaker 3That's why most of them, slum raised lumber jerks were asking seven fifty for a bow legged a little balsam no bigger than a whist room.
Speaker 2Do you need to get cheaper to get scarcer?
Speaker 3That ain't the point.
The point is to find the guy that's sober stocks see fraid he isn't going to get rid of him by Christmas.
Speaker 4Get one per song.
Speaker 2That way, we should have brought Nelson Eddie with us.
Speaker 3Dams.
Speaker 2I've heard you sing in the shower, and that Sophie opera of yours wouldn't get us anything but a raspberry bush.
Speaker 5Ah, Mary, Christmas, missus nasmyth, who's that?
Speaker 2Missus Nasmus?
Speaker 3Say there's a lot right along and here someplace where the guy had a million trees last week, and.
Speaker 4He can't pass with Oh here it is.
Speaker 2Come on, Oh that must be the salesman.
I beg you pardon, sir, but is that Christmas trees for sale?
Speaker 4It so?
Speaker 2How much well heaven these days?
Uncle Dennis.
Speaker 6Hello, Molly Darling, and.
Speaker 3Hi, uh, where's the sap in charge of the saplings?
We want to negotiate for a live log?
Speaker 1Well, now I'm sorry, lad, I am indeed the gentleman in charge of this Christmas tree lot, A fine lad by the name of a hen made his pretzels never grow soggy as here plum of the grandest guys that ever tripped a fruit peddler to take his hungry mother big juicy apple has closed up and gone home.
Speaker 2Yeah, but we want to buy this Christmas tree, Uncle Dennis.
Speaker 3Yeah, it's not that as much of a tree.
I've seen better fur on a mouse.
Speaker 1Well, now, isn't it a shameful thing that you should be too late now like that twas only ten minutes ago, lad by your very own wristwatch, which I happened to be wearing as it was lying about loosening your top dress with drawer, and I don't happen to have one myself.
Speaker 2It was sold, oh dear, but there's no sales tag on the tree, Uncle Dennis.
Speaker 3And who may I ask, was stupid enough to dish out good bill for that beetle bit.
Speaker 4And honk as humble weed?
Speaker 1Twas myself you and you you bought the last Christmas tree in this lot, knowing that we didn't have one.
Speaker 6Why now now?
Speaker 4Now?
Speaker 1And how was I to know that the smart car soon like yourself, would be getting caught without a tree?
Itwas a bargain given to me by my good friend Manahanad, who is quite a man at seeing the kamalies, which in a regular feature of Grogan's Beefsteak Dinners.
May they soon be resumed.
When Hitler, the dirty little huspainter gets his come up and say Hirohito finds out heroes turning on the Heato.
Speaker 2Say why do you want a Christmas tree?
Uncle Denn?
If you live with us.
Speaker 3Come on, I'm what do you say?
Whatever you paid for and I'll toss some extra two bits.
Speaker 1On the drum, two bits that I could not do.
Land twas buying this tree for a dear friend I was.
And there ain't enough money in the world to make Dennis brisco be to your trust, and the very ideas enough to make my old father made the little people keep his pipe lit for him?
Look down and say, would you think of making it two dollars extra?
Speaker 6Now?
Speaker 4No, I wouldn't.
Speaker 2That's ridiculous.
Speaker 1Very well, you can't blame a man for trying to pick up a couple of bucks a very merry Christmas tree yourn on the turf stroll.
Speaker 3And that's my own uncle of ball, a dirty, low down tree, so fine Christmas spirit, chipping his own family out of the last Christmas tree in town.
Speaker 2You think it really is jerie?
Speaker 3Oh it might be.
Come on, let's look some more good will toward men.
That was a fine sample of it.
Here we are, with the whole world full of misery, needing friendship and sacrifice more than any time in history.
And what happens we get bopped with a balsam If that ain't the.
Speaker 2True, o me gee.
Look, huh, there's a Christmas tree place right there, and there's.
Speaker 7All us darling coming out of it, you all, mister McGhee.
Speaker 3Ah, let's don't tell us you're shopping for a Christmas tree too.
Speaker 6Oh jeepres No, mister McGhee.
One of count of anybody who was silly enough to wait till now to buy their Christmas tree is simply just too too stupid for anything.
What are you doing down here?
Speaker 2We're buying the Christmas tree?
Speaker 5Oh tlus, that's what I say.
Speaker 6It's much better to wait till the last minute, when it isn't so crowded and the trees are much fresher for something.
Speaker 2And I bought my tree two weeks ago.
Two weeks ago.
Speaker 3If you bought a tree, what'd you do with it?
Speaker 2Alice?
Speaker 3We didn't see it around the house any place.
And a fine tree ain't exactly what you might call unobtrusive.
Speaker 6Oh well, I didn't buy it from Ninas McGee on account of jeepers.
I've only got one room, and a girl which she lives in just one room, only needs a little piece of missiletoe.
Speaker 2You know what that is?
Speaker 6That's the ivy that if you don't meet the right people under it, it's poison.
Speaker 2Ah dear, and if you do, it's the berries.
Speaker 6Why Molly, Oh, I just love Christmas time because that's when you can dash up to people and kiss them like it was a sudden impulse.
And I've already made out a list of the sweetest men to have sudden impulses about.
Speaker 2That's one nice thing about him.
Speaker 6Being a girl, you can be girlish and people don't think anything about it.
Speaker 2Now I know what I forgot to get Alice for Christmas theory lipstick.
Speaker 3That brotherly love stuff is great, ain't it, Alice, particularly when you run out of brothers.
Speaker 6Well, I don't want that.
You should get the idea that I simply rush around kissing simply everybody, mister McGee, because really I'm a very reserved character.
You know.
Once I was in love with a fellow for three years and he never even held my hands, And then he married another girl who was that hava carry grant.
Speaker 8Creepers.
Speaker 5I'd like to have met that man.
Speaker 6Well, I hope you find a Christmas tree, mister McGee came, I know, why else?
Speaker 2Shall we give it out?
McGee?
Speaker 3Oh, sir, I started out to get a Christmas tree and buy the curly cotton cover crop of a corner.
Chris kring Li, I'm going to get a Christmas tree.
Speaker 2Whyny might fly up to Canada and get one, but it would be a lonesome trip.
Speaker 3What do you mean the other geese won't be flying.
Speaker 2Back for a couple of months yet.
Speaker 3Okay, okay, scoff, if you want to be right, But I'm telling you.
Speaker 5About marry Christmasmas carry.
Speaker 3Who's that I'm telling you, Molly?
When I set out to get a Christmas tree by George, I'm hey, here's a place on the corner.
Speaker 2Here, Come on, say Alice Darling might have told her she was getting one, she could have got us one at the same time.
Speaker 3Well, what do you expect the people consideration?
It's no wonder they always picture Santa Claus as a pat mug standing there holding the bag.
Speaker 2Displace seems to have plenty of trees.
Speaker 3They had plenty last week too, And the guy that runs Pistos cock Kicken concession thinks no more of the quarter than I rove my left.
Speaker 4Leg hacket picking concession.
Hacket picking Papa.
Speaker 3Guy wouldn't lend you a match without a four co signers.
Speaker 4By Bud.
Speaker 3Remember me, Yes, you were a guy last week that wave to tell a prill at me, And for that I was supposed to tell you a twelve foot tree.
Speaker 9Deliver it, trim it, seen three Christmas childs and cow get turkey.
Speaker 2Listen, we couldn't get a turkey.
Speaker 6We're having cheese.
Speaker 3Yeah, we're having turkey.
Don't take it for letter m Look but if you have a nice, reasonable price tree, we might say we've got only one left.
Speaker 2Better take it quick.
Speaker 3There not so fast.
Speaker 4They like to haggle a little bit.
Now which tree is it?
But if it's the right size.
Speaker 2You're in it.
On it heavenly days.
Speaker 3That one you call this broken down bird sanctuary and Christmas tree?
Well I've seen better trees than that, and than old para tennis shoes.
Speaker 2That moth eat and.
Speaker 3Bramble looks like it was raised in a cold hothouse.
Speaker 2How much is this there?
Speaker 1Much too much?
Speaker 2Lady?
Speaker 3The price is way out of line.
Speaker 1If body was you at skip it.
Speaker 3Don't tell me how much I can pay for a tree, Bud.
I'm not as poor as I may look.
Speaker 1I hope not, friend, you you look like a whole lot from.
Speaker 6The handoug.
Speaker 4I am how much?
Speaker 2How much weld fuck well bucks?
Speaker 3Twelve dollars for that sad looking cedar.
Why that cone carrier's got more broken branches than the Berlin Public Library.
Speaker 2And look at those bare limbs.
Speaker 3You could sure find a haystack in those needles.
Speaker 4And besides, last week you.
Speaker 3Only wanted nine dollars for the same tree.
Speaker 9Last week the town was full of Christmas tree and for themore.
Speaker 1Oh hi, mister Wilcox.
Heh there, Louis, how are you molly hire you.
Speaker 4Fel Wilcox, Hi Junior?
What you look so happy about?
Speaker 6For me?
Speaker 1No, I don't know, just the old Christmas feeling.
I guess I love this time of year, don't you?
Speaker 2No, I guess everybody does.
Mister Wilcox, got you Christmas window shopping all then?
Speaker 1I'm just about and I suppose the presents are all piled up at your house.
Speaker 4Lease stack them on the piano, Junior.
Speaker 2And from the looks of the Christmas tree situation, that's where they're going to stay.
Speaker 1To So what it won't hurt anything, not when anyone keeps the piano and woodwork and lampshades and windowsills and everything protected from scratching and the holiday wear and tear like you do with Johnson's wax.
Speaker 3Do you think it's nice, Junior?
Do you think it's nice to be so commercial about Johnson's wax on a holiday like Christmas?
Speaker 4Do you think that's very cool?
Speaker 1This pal is Tuesday, Christmas is Saturday, and on Saturday, I say nothing about Johnson's wax.
I merely say things like thank you, and uh, geez, that's wonderful, but you shouldn't have done it, and uh, very little ice in mind and stuff like that.
Speaker 2Well, personally, we've been so upset trying to get a Christmas tream, mister Wilcox.
Speaker 1If we have, Oh excuse me, Molly, hey Louis.
How much is this tree here throughout Dallas?
Speaker 9Mister Wilcox, It ain't worked as frankly, but it's the last one in cott.
Speaker 1I'll take it.
Here's fifteen and wish yourself a merry Christmas.
Speaker 9Move the rest of it for three buck second, wish myself six merry Christmas, says thanks.
Speaker 1And will Cox.
Speaker 3Hey, wait a minute, I was different for that tree myself.
Will Cox now looking here Louis.
Speaker 2For your friend.
Speaker 9The name is missus Zamboski, and we can't do no business to kill you, so you were me.
Speaker 2I wouldn't have had.
Speaker 1This happen for anything in the world.
Folks, if I'd only known you wanted it.
I thought you were merely friends of Louis here.
Speaker 2He should live so long.
Speaker 3They say a man can't have too many friends, but in your case, but it would be too many now, looks will Cox.
We haven't got a Christmas tree, and we were merely trying to decide about it.
Speaker 6Believe me, pal, Believe me.
Speaker 1I'm terribly sorry you think that I should walk in and grab it right out from under your nose.
I ought to be ashamed of myself.
Speaker 2I'll take it with me, Louise.
Speaker 1Well, I'll see you later.
Speaker 3Kids.
Speaker 1To think that I should pull a shabby trick like out of my best.
Speaker 5Friend, well home, I'm afraid of what's your own fall therey?
Speaker 2You have the first chance at its?
Where am Mary Christmas?
Mister Zambowski?
Speaker 3Let me come to you, l standing there like a friend, chatting away as gabby as you please, and all the time.
Oh this hurts, ah, have any days we don't have to have a tree.
Speaker 2You know, lots of people don't.
Speaker 3The ain't not having a tree that bothers me.
It's the way my friends in Ronaldy's under cutting chisel on me, Uncle Dennis, Alice Darling, Harlew Wilcox, Christmas Spirit, Where is it here?
When I had a chance to get a beautiful, big tree?
Speaker 2That is what you told the man.
Speaker 3It was, Oh my gosh.
You can't have any fun dickering with guys if you tell him how beautiful the merchandise is.
First, make a man a shamed, ask the price he's asked, and see then when you know, yeah, I think.
Speaker 5Ah, Merry Christmas, mister Kramer.
Speaker 4Who's that?
Speaker 3What were you saying?
Speaker 2I was about to say that.
I think the grocery store is about our last chance to get a tree.
Might well look just a few doors down you.
Speaker 3Oh my gosh, I never thought of that.
Come on, I'm not so sure about buying a tree at the grocery either.
Let me say, oh will probably ask us eight green points for it.
Speaker 1I don't think you.
Speaker 2Look at the wa to McGee, they still got a couple of.
Speaker 3Hurry up, these are both sold and Lady Luck could know what I think of her.
Speaker 4She forgets she was a lady.
Speaker 2Well, one of sold McGee, but the other still has a price tag on us.
Speaker 9How much?
Speaker 2Let me see six dollars?
Speaker 3Oh boy, that's the deal.
I'm gonna grab on to this till the clerk gets here too.
Anybody that gets history away from me, I'll have to start trimming it with my two arms.
Speaker 4Well.
Speaker 2As the taxi driver says when I'm signed to get out of the crowded cab, this is certainly a mind off of my load.
Speaker 3Yeah, sir, next time, maybe you believe me when I tell you that I know what I'm thinking.
Speaker 4Hello, Momy, Hello.
Speaker 3Doctor gamble, All right, doc, old man half Euel Tide and all stuff like that.
Speaker 10There, Why are you hugging the tree, McGhee.
Speaker 3That's a nature lover a.
You're gonna climb it and hunt for birds nest.
Speaker 2Oh, he's just making sure nobody beats him out of it till the clerk gets around to him.
Doctor.
Speaker 3Yeah, till this deal is signed, sealed and delivered.
I stick to this trunk like a baggage label.
Pretty nice little pruce, Hey, doc scruce.
Speaker 4It's not a pruce.
Speaker 3Douglas Fir Douglas.
Speaker 2I thought it was a boil.
Speaker 3Some might be some kind of a seener.
It might be some kind of a cypress, too, But it.
Speaker 6Isn't you know?
Speaker 2My cousin had one of those on his farm near Peori.
We squeezed apples in at every fall.
Speaker 7And what press?
Speaker 10Oh, I didn't say cider press, I said cypress.
The cypress is a symmetrical evergreen common to the western United States.
Very interesting study that of our nondciduous trees.
The pine tree, like most coniferous trees, is an evergreen, the larch being a conspicuous exception.
Speaker 2Oh are you an expert on plants and trees?
Doctor?
Speaker 3There used to be a hobby of mine, Molly.
Speaker 4Botany is a very interesting subject.
Speaker 3Of the two, Which do you like best, Doc, of which two plants and trees or botany?
Speaker 2Why they're the same thing?
Dearie I had in high school.
In fact, I was the pistol fact and mama of the lily collectors.
Speaker 3I thought maybe Doc knew so much about him because he was a tree surgeon a part No.
Speaker 2But if I ever hear of a saff needing a transfusion, I'll.
Speaker 3Know where to come.
Oh yeah, i'd show you who was a sacified Darren.
Let loose to this tree from boy.
One excuse is as good as any McGee.
Speaker 2I am embracing that tree.
Speaker 10You're probably saving yourself a few very spectacular contusions.
Speaker 3Is that why you?
One reasonable fact?
Simile of a male brother for two afferents.
Speaker 2Arona McGhee.
Is that anybody to talk while hugging at Christmas tree?
Speaker 5No?
Speaker 3No, it isn't Molly, and it was my fault.
I'm sorry, McGee.
Speaker 2No time for quarles.
Speaker 3Okay, cool, I'm a little hasty myself.
Speaker 2It's not about buying Christmas tree.
Speaker 10Well, real friends are doo scarce.
Speaker 4To fight with them.
Speaker 10Fact McGhee, I retract all the unpleasant things I ever said about you in the past.
Speaker 3Oh I do too, doc I even take back the stuff I thought about you.
Speaker 4That's even dirtier than what I said.
Speaker 2Now this is better.
You know, Christmas is a time when we should all be friends.
Speaker 3I think so too gone to be bye gones McGhee.
Pal Oh that goes for me too, doc Here.
I like to shake your hand good, so would I and I.
Speaker 4Get untangled from this weeping willow here, Ah.
Speaker 11What are there?
Speaker 2I think this is one of the sweetest things.
Speaker 3I have kid.
Oh, my doc, let go my hand.
Speaker 1Wait a minute, hey Joe, put that Christmas tree in my car?
Speaker 4Hey wait?
Speaker 2What callory dog right faithful?
The next time you're coming, don't go to doctor goll my hand.
When you you double.
Speaker 8Crosses, double god camels, come back trough with that Christmas tree.
Speaker 2Cheer up, Maggie.
How many days it is the Christmas tree that makes Christmas?
Speaker 12You know?
Speaker 4Yeah, I know.
Speaker 3It's the Christmas spirit, Christmas spirit blah.
All I've seen of it today is.
Speaker 5Merry Christmas, mister Crockett?
Speaker 2Who is that John Crocketts from Washington?
Speaker 3What was I saying?
Speaker 8Oh?
Speaker 3Yeah here.
It is the season where everybody is supposed to love everybody.
Speaker 4So what do they do?
Speaker 3They go around grabbing Christmas trees out of people's hands, the timber thieves.
The first guy that says Merry Christmas to me, I'm gonna hang up my sock right on his chin.
Merry Christmas, bud, Who was that?
Urge me?
I got as much right to hollered people on the street as you have.
I've gone at the post so called throat cut and sheep stealing.
Friends of mine knew how bad I wanted that tree.
I hey, what what if we string the colored lights on that rubber plant of yours and all gone over?
That's no good, dog gun at.
Speaker 4I trust people too much, but not now.
Speaker 3Take a good look at your husband, missus McGhee.
You recognize him.
Speaker 2Why shouldn't I?
Speaker 4Because he just had his facelifted.
That's why.
Speaker 3Now on little pipper's gonna go along after.
He's gonna go along looking after a little Pipper period.
Speaker 4As long as.
Speaker 3Everybody is throwing the love your fellow man stuff overboard, I might.
Speaker 7Just go hi mis to McGee, Hi, miss mcgeech, Merry Christmas, oh my little girl.
Speaker 3And if you must yammer out those yule tide wall motto, sist, just say a good December twenty fifth to you her season's greeting, sir, or something like that.
Speaker 4Skip the merry Christmases as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 2Yeah, he's a little disappointed.
Do you get over soon.
Speaker 3I'll get over this like Dan McGrew got over his lead poison.
Speaker 8Same.
Speaker 3I'm glad I saw you while they were still young.
If you still believe in it he put.
Speaker 5Up on your friend's pouch.
Speaker 3What do you mean looks up on our front?
Speaker 2Why McGee looked the porches full of Christmas tree?
Speaker 1Why?
Speaker 3What wasn't it?
Speaker 7Why I just been needing a tags on a mystic.
Here's one some doctor Gamble, and once I mister Willcock, and now's Darling, and and one from Billy Mills, I bet you, and one a mouncled Dinners and oh.
Speaker 3My gosh, you mean they were all buying the trees for us?
Well fine, I never thought, well, well gee w was Come on.
Speaker 7Here's the King's man and everybody.
Speaker 5McGee get out the root beer.
Speaker 2I'll get some cookies.
Speaker 10Just a small root beer for me, McGee.
Speaker 3I got operating in the morning.
Speaker 2McGee, can you close your mouth and pulling your eyeballs blow enough to thank these people for the Christmas tree?
Speaker 1Well?
Speaker 3Look everybody, well she was well all I can say, well, well, Merry Christmas, mcge.
What do you want this?
Speaker 5What I got?
Speaker 7My whole gang here again, Kenny and Budd and Chunny and Reddy.
Speaker 5And Billy Mills and all fellas, and weeke out.
Speaker 7Maybe be nice to sing that same song we saying last Christmas.
Speaker 3Well says, that's a wonderful idea.
People been writing in all year asking us to do that again.
So here's the ninth before christ as originally set the music by Ken Garby of the Jane.
Speaker 11Man meting all chill the house, madly Chillie ye.
Speaker 7Thanky, play the Jamie with.
Speaker 11Cass meeting.
Speaker 13Show and learn that all in their wee little wild visions of sugar blots stands in there, we little my mind, her.
Speaker 3Her chills, and like.
Speaker 6Has just settled down for when.
Speaker 12I'm along rode in the clutter, I say for my bad to see what was the matter?
Speaker 8To the window, I feel like a.
Speaker 2Black throw up in the shutters.
Speaker 8Threw open the des.
Speaker 1What of my wandering nu up here?
Speaker 2But the man just say had a tiny right here?
Speaker 5Then old driver.
Speaker 12So lightly and quick time I knew him away, and it's not me saying wal bundle and heard from his head to his foot old handle was covered.
Speaker 3With hatches, And sudden I drew in my head and was turning around.
Speaker 1With down your naby came with a bar.
Speaker 7His eyes holly triple, his simple, how married.
His cheeks were like gloses, his.
Speaker 11Mouse like a cherry.
Speaker 5He's so little mouse kind up like a boat.
Speaker 7In the in the bed on his chin, like a fight as the.
Speaker 2Snow the stumble little time.
Speaker 11He held hide and.
Speaker 12Spoke around around his.
Speaker 11Head like a reason.
Speaker 12He was chumming and fuming all right, jolly old Johnny old album sad laugh Tada laughed, had laugh at a time in fide.
He had a broad face and wading round belly.
That should filly lad won michaebold for jelly, hope, hope.
Speaker 1He gave me a week of his life and the fleas on his men.
Speaker 12But Chuckland smiled.
Speaker 11I knew all the while I had nothing to drink.
Speaker 6He spoke not a word, but went straight to his word.
Speaker 12And fill all the stocking an.
Speaker 6Then turned with a jerk, then laying.
Speaker 12A fa on the side of his nose and giving a nod of the chimney, he sprank his lavezzy a ptall hand away the old blood.
Speaker 11I'm a bissole, but I will give it slame and.
Speaker 1A Christmas door.
Speaker 2And go.
Speaker 5Ev game.
Speaker 12Night after Christmas.
Speaker 4And all.
Speaker 2The creature is story body.
Speaker 11Even the present us gathered and walking I see.
Speaker 12And Saint Nicholas.
Speaker 11Will come again for.
Speaker 12Chill my nest one, every little man, mothers of sugar plum, that's in there, we.
Speaker 6Little, oh my curte.
Speaker 1And my.
Speaker 4My sad.
Speaker 8Alight, did you have me?
Speaker 3Most of you have brothers and fathers and sons, yes, and maybe daughters in the service here and overseas.
Speaker 1Yes.
Speaker 2Can you write to the next Please tell 'em they have the sincere and heartfelt wishes for a speedy and safe return and a merry Christmas.
From and Molly, good night, good night all
