040 Encore Lockdown Trivia

Bob Smith 0:00
This is Bob Smith, and once again, this week, we bring you a podcast episode from the spring of 2020 that’s the spring when Marcia and I began doing off ramp trivia as a way to have a fun project together during the COVID 19 lockdown. We thought it might last five or six weeks and we could do five or six episodes, a nice audio memory to leave our grandchildren. Of course, the lockdown lasted far longer than that, nearly a year and a half. But fortunately, we enjoyed doing the show so much, we’ve now recorded nearly 300 episodes. We hope you enjoy our lockdown trivia and the observations we made about the times we were all living in here’s an encore performance of off ramp episode number 40, lockdown trivia from the spring of 2020 what famous writer fought on both sides of the US Civil War, and

Marcia Smith 0:54
how much perspiration does the average human being generate every day? Answers

Bob Smith 0:59
to those and other questions coming up today On the off ramp with Bob and

Unknown Speaker 1:04
Marcia Smith.

Bob Smith 1:22
Well, welcome to the off ramp, a chance to slow down, steer clear of crazy and take a side road to sanity. Well, we’ve now wrapped up four full weeks of sheltering in place during this Coronavirus emergency, and Marcia and I have gathered some more fun facts and fascinating trivia to share with you yours first

Marcia Smith 1:42
Well, thank you. I find it fascinating to know how much sweat the average person generates. You want to take a guess in a 24 hour period, don’t forget, you sleep a lot of that time. Is it

Bob Smith 1:53
in measured in terms of ounces or gallons or what? I hope it’s not gallons of sweat.

Marcia Smith 1:59
Well, no, not gallons, ounces, no,

Bob Smith 2:04
what’s the what’s the measurement? Pints, pints, wow, that still seems like a lot. It does, doesn’t it? Just for an average person, not an athlete, or

Marcia Smith 2:12
how many ounces in a pint? Bob, oh, I don’t know, 16 ounces in a pint.

Bob Smith 2:17
Okay, so I’ll say less than a pint, I’ll say a half a pint. Okay,

Marcia Smith 2:21
well, wrong. The average person produces three pints of perspiration a day. That’s an average person, yeah, just average walk around the house that normally active human being. It’s three pints. Yeah, let’s see that’s

Bob Smith 2:38
you lose three pints of liquid from your body. That’s another reason you need to hydrate. No matter what you do, absolutely everybody should drink water. Good, okay, I’ve got a famous writer. He fought on both sides of the US Civil War. You know his name, but you probably don’t know he was a famous writer.

Marcia Smith 2:55
I know his name, both sides of the war, both sides

Bob Smith 2:59
of the US Civil War. All right, who Henry Morton Stanley, who later became famous saying Dr Livingston, I presume, in 1865 he moved from Great Britain to New Orleans, the home of his adoptive father, and he was enlisted in the Confederate army at the age of 21 so he fought for the Confederates. Then he was captured after a year’s service and imprisoned. In exchange for his release, he was to serve in the Union artillery. So he served there, and then, after his discharge, he served as a ship’s writer in the Navy, and later he became a newspaper reporter, and he went on that famous assignment to find,

Marcia Smith 3:37
oh, Dr Livingstone. I presume Dr Livingstone, yeah, I would have never guessed him in a million years. I

Bob Smith 3:43
know. And I never thought of him as a famous American writer, but he was a famous journalist, is what he was.

Marcia Smith 3:48
Okay, let’s go back to the Greeks and phobias. The word itself is derived from Phobos, meaning fear, fright. So, okay, yeah, you got all sorts of and

Bob Smith 3:58
that’s a Greek word, yes,

Marcia Smith 4:00
Bob us. So there’s a whole big list of all these different phobias, and some are, you know, things you could probably figure out, like, what do you pyrophobia, fear of fire, right? Or

Bob Smith 4:13
homophobia, fear of homosexuality, yeah. Autophobia, fears of automobiles. Is it autophobia? Is that you do? But it’s not fear of yourself? Yes. Oh, my God, there’s such a thing. Well, fear

Marcia Smith 4:27
of being alone. Oh,

Bob Smith 4:32
I fear being alone with my too dangerous to myself, you

Marcia Smith 4:34
know? And this one is kind of self explanatory, hemophobia blood, yeah, fear of blood. So those are some obvious ones. So here’s one that we all have developed right now. It’s called occlopia ochlo. How do you spell that? O, C H L O, phobia? O, C H, L O, it’s a it’s phobia for the time. A

Bob Smith 5:00
phobia of the time of this time, fear of disease. Nope, I don’t know. What is it? Fear of crowds. No kidding.

Marcia Smith 5:07
So we’re all kind of suffering a little bit. That’s true. Aqua phobia right now.

Bob Smith 5:12
You know, we were talking, I was talking to Ben, our son the other day, and he said, you know, used to be you take a walk. It was pleasant, but now it’s like, oh, you see somebody coming. And you go, okay, am I gonna have to get off the sidewalk? Are they gonna get off the sidewalk? And you and I were at a park the other day, and there was nobody else there, but that lady with the dog, and I remember thinking, Okay, now the dog doesn’t know it’s not supposed to come close to people. Is she gonna hold the dog away, or is that dog she gonna pull her towards us? All these little decisions you never thought of before, because you like being around people. Well,

Marcia Smith 5:44
that’s part of your zoo phobia, which is fear of animals. Zoo phobia, I thought it was a fear of zoos. Yeah, you’d think, but no, I guess zoo must mean animals in Roman. But here’s, here’s one just, I just throw this in before you go. What is trick o phobia? Trick

Bob Smith 6:00
o, t, r, I, C, H, O, correct. Trick O, Trico trick phobia, fear of magicians. I don’t know what this is, so stupid.

Marcia Smith 6:13
And I have this first thing in the morning, fear of hair, fear of hair. Fear of hair. You know when you know, when you look at your hair in the morning, and I want to see what I look like with a first thing in the morning. But yeah, there’s a million of them here, Bob, but that’s funny. We’ll stop with those.

Bob Smith 6:33
You know, I found an interesting fact about some things that how some of these great epidemics changed history. And this is one that happened in when Napoleon the Third, not the Napoleon we’re talking about, when he rebuilt Paris in the mid 19th century, one of his objects was to protect against cholera, because that was a big problem. So that is why Paris has broad boulevards where the sun and light can disperse the miasma, meaning bad air. Interesting. So, and then the construction of houses that led to all kinds of different types of regulations on how that major city came about. So these big, beautiful, broad streets that Paris has related to the cholera epidemic. Oh, that’s interesting the 19th century. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 7:22
What about sitop phobia?

Bob Smith 7:24
Oh, there must be a is it a fear of cities?

Marcia Smith 7:28
No, it’s spelled s, i, t o, sitophobia,

Bob Smith 7:32
not a fear of sitting? No, is this English or some other language? I

Marcia Smith 7:35
think this is probably all Greek stuff. It’s all Greek to me. I’m not sure, but it’s a fear of food,

Bob Smith 7:42
a fear of food is sinophobia

Marcia Smith 7:45
or cytophobia. All right, that’s it for my phobias.

Bob Smith 7:49
Well, a lot of phobias, lots of fear going around right now, that’s for sure. All right, I got a, just an interesting thing about, you know, we’re all reading more, I would imagine, one way or another, because lots of books. People have books and magazines and they’re reading the web and everything else. Okay? So we all know Gutenberg was the person who kind of invented Movable Type, or at least popularized it. They say the Chinese may have invented that earlier, but between 1452 and 1454 that’s when he published the Gutenberg Bible. So now that’s 40 years before Columbus, okay, it was the first major mass produced book in the world. But how big of an industry was printing in its early years? Just give me some

Marcia Smith 8:31
thoughts on that. Oh, how can I how do you quantify

Bob Smith 8:34
it big? It was like the internet of this time. Yeah, printing books was they went nuts

Marcia Smith 8:39
printing the Bible because no one had ever read it,

Bob Smith 8:42
yeah? Because the only the priests could learn the Bible back in those days, yeah? So it was something I have no idea. Bob, well, there’s this new group that’s been out from Oxford University. They’ve, they’ve been launching a digital treasure hunt to find all the books that were published in the early years of publishing. So they made the assumption, based on what they found out, that in the first 50 years following the invention of movable type, millions of books were circulating throughout Europe by 15 107 100 years later, now, more than half a million of those books still survive. Isn’t that incredible? People are building a huge electronic map to track down each book and its journey over time, including when possible, who owned it, you know, based on notations. So there are 500,000 surviving books from the first 50 years of printing, and they’re scattered over 4000 libraries. That’s wouldn’t that be something to have? And one more question, what were the earliest best sellers? Well, the Bible. You think the Bible? No, the first best sellers were not Bibles. They were grammar manuals to teach people to read and write. Oh, excellent. After that came medical and legal texts, and then there were single sheets on current affairs. And there were almanacs, books on astrology, poetry and songs in. Of the languages around Europe and and while we think of Germany as the birthplace of publishing, Italy was the early main publishing center Venice. Venice became Europe’s most important publishing center because of its banks, insurers and transportation, because the economy, printers had the technology, content managers with the authors and then the bankers, all three of those had to come together to bring books. How exciting

Marcia Smith 10:22
it must have been to see first books come into existence. And just it was a game changer for everybody. And it

Bob Smith 10:29
was a wild west. There were people, you know, books were published that were burned, and people were put thrown in prison for publishing because, you know, you’re spreading ideas that were dangerous. Yeah, it’s like the internet the you know, and you remember you mentioned the Bible, that when the Bible was first published in the other languages, like English and German, lot of those publishers were thrown in prison or burned at the stake, because that was not supposed to be done. Yep. So anyway, I thought that was kind of interesting. And of the Bible, 180 copies were published by Gutenberg. How many remain? 50 known copies survived, but only 21 are complete copies. Oh, just parts, yeah. 21 Yeah. So there’s a, you know, communication museums. I’ve got them all. Marsha thinks I’m a hoarder. Yeah, they’re in the library right over there. See the bookshelves? Those old, dusty things you want me to throw away? I

Marcia Smith 11:16
believe those are Gutenberg Bibles, honey. All right, here’s get rid of those. They’re worth a lot. Moving on, Bob, can you tell me what animal a tie gun is? T I, G, O, N,

Bob Smith 11:27
oh, is this a hybrid animal? Is this like a tiger and a tiger and something else? Uh huh, you’re on the right foot. I don’t know what the gun is.

Marcia Smith 11:37
It’s a lion. Oh, really a tiger? Well, yeah, there’s very specific. A tigon is a animal that has a lion for a mother and a tiger for a dad. And the reverse, if you got a tiger mom and a lion, a lion cheating dad. That’s called a liger. A Liger, okay, so there’s a tie gun and a liger, depending on who be your mama. All right,

Bob Smith 12:05
we were talking about this being a time of invention, with people trying to come up with cures for diseases or ways of treatment. And, you know, there’s all kinds of things with respirators, people are trying. Here is a question, What was the inspiration for this invention that you’ve used all of your life, and you take for granted the safety pin. What was the inspiration for that invention? Diapers,

Marcia Smith 12:27
no, okay, hold on. There were no buttons. Well,

Bob Smith 12:33
it’s a fastener. Yeah, true. But now what? What inspired? What inspired? How long ago was Walter hunt. This was back. Oh, gee. It was the turn of the 19th century. I think, okay, hold on. Let me okay. He was a New Yorker,

Marcia Smith 12:45
a Quaker. The Quakers, I don’t know, carry his oatmeal around.

Bob Smith 12:52
Okay, here it is. He was in debt for $5 he needed $5 so he thought of all the products that were sorely needed, he came up with an idea for a pin that held different pieces of clothing together, but it would not injure the wearer. So he created that loopy little thing called the safety pin. He worked it out on a sketch. He produced a tiny model, and he sold the invention for just $400 that could have made him wealthy beyond his dreams, but he needed $5 I understand. And he also had many other inventions, including a sewing machine, which he suggested his daughter could manufacture. But he dropped his idea. He never patented it. She told him it would put too many seamstresses out of work, so they didn’t invent that as a result.

Marcia Smith 13:36
Oh, wow, see. Oh, hindsight, huh? Oh geez. So now,

Bob Smith 13:40
since we’re talking about disease, what is the healthiest period of a human being’s life, say again, what is the healthiest what are the healthiest years of a human being’s life?

Marcia Smith 13:52
Well, that’s interesting. I’m going to take a guess here and say and 28 years old. No,

Bob Smith 14:00
no. You think that would be good? Because that’s when you’re kind of maturing. Everything’s coming together, right? Yeah? And after that, it’s just downhill. I remember 28 is it? Yeah? What is no, that’s not the ages of five and 15. Between the ages of five and 15. So when you’re below five, you’re more vulnerable. And between five and 15, that’s when resistance to disease is at its strongest despite the childhood diseases we see really, yeah, and resistance to infections decreases, starts decreasing in the 20s and goes down from the 30s onward. The body’s efficiency decreases, so please stay in your house, which we’re doing, right? Wow, yeah, I thought that was kind of interesting. Okay,

Marcia Smith 14:42
Mr. MCs smarty pants. Mr. MCs smarty pants.

Bob Smith 14:45
I like that. That’s okay.

Marcia Smith 14:47
We can call you that, yeah, all right, what person designed the Statue of Liberty for the United States? It’s

Bob Smith 14:55
I fell, right? Mr. I fell

Marcia Smith 14:57
very good. Yeah, I knew you’d know that.

Bob Smith 14:59
God, Bartholdi, I think invented, designed the statue, but it was the super structure inside, is what Eiffel designed as I believe, isn’t it? My,

Marcia Smith 15:09
my, your sources. What are your sources? My sources didn’t say exactly what he did, but that was in 1876 and he didn’t do the Eiffel Tower. Which little, arrogance going on there the till 1887 so it was almost, you know, 20 years later, that he did one for Paris. But yes, we got the Statue of Liberty, God bless him, from France. And Eiffel designed it. You and

Bob Smith 15:36
I saw a picture of the Eiffel Tower the other day on the on the web and and it was just the perspective of it showed how huge that is. And, you know, we were there. We were in Paris once years ago, and it was so amazingly big. I thought, Oh, my God. It looks like a battleship upended. You know, I could see how the initial reaction to that, yeah, this is horrible. They got to tear this down after the World’s Fair, but they didn’t that was built for a World’s

Marcia Smith 16:03
Fair. I love what they do now. They lit it up, which is beautiful. Yeah,

Bob Smith 16:08
absolutely looks great. All right, we’ll take a break here, and we’ll be back with more in just a moment. This is Bob Smith, and once again, this week, we’re revisiting some of our original episodes of the off ramp trivia podcast that Marcia and I began doing during the COVID 19 lockdown in the spring of 2020 We hope you enjoy both the fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia and also the comments and observations on the things we were all experiencing at that time.

Marcia Smith 16:38
I’m Bob Smith, Marcia Smith,

Bob Smith 16:40
and you’re listening to the off ramp podcast Coronavirus emergency, we’ve heard that one of the things people first had a run on was toilet paper when this whole thing began, right? Another thing I read that people were had a run on for product was alcohol initially. Yeah, yeah. So here’s a question, Where does the term teetotaler come from? That means abstaining from drinking, right, right. Okay, and how old is that word? How old is that word? Marcia has

Marcia Smith 17:07
nothing to do with golf, fighting.

Bob Smith 17:08
It’s older than me, okay,

Marcia Smith 17:11
well, I don’t know Bob, and I don’t know where it came

Bob Smith 17:16
from. It came from 1833 when an English prohibitionist R Turner spoke at Preston, England on abstinence from alcoholic beverages. He stammered throughout the speech, and he was trying to talk about total abstinence, uh huh, but he said he told Tito. Oh, Tito’s kidding. So a teetotaler, kind of a derogatory term. So stuttered, yeah, because he’s stuttered, I’ll be darned, but it became a new term and a new word in the language.

Marcia Smith 17:46
The origin of some things is amazing, preposterous. It is, it is that they just keep carrying on one

Bob Smith 17:54
more origin, sure. Where did the silver come from to make the first US coins? Well,

Marcia Smith 18:00
I would assume they mined it, but that would be too easy.

Bob Smith 18:03
Well, it was mined, but where did they get it? You mean, what country? No, no, no, where did the silver come from? It had to become from a source. There was a supplier of silver,

Marcia Smith 18:13
Long John.

Bob Smith 18:17
No, that’s pretty good. I’m sorry. Excuse me. Let’s take a pause here. Okay, no, it was, it was Martha Washington’s silver service. Martha, oh my gosh, they melted it, melted it down to use some of the first to do with that stuff. But, I mean, it makes you wonder how much silver did Martha have? Yeah, I don’t know, first coins,

Marcia Smith 18:39
and they had financial problems because they put all their money into the tea service.

Bob Smith 18:46
Well, I don’t know, all right, wow. I thought that was quite

Marcia Smith 18:50
interesting. Yeah. So yeah, but how many could her tea service

Bob Smith 18:53
make? That’s what I mean. Is that you think it’d be like, four or five coins, right? That’s it. No, no. Martha must have had a bunch of these things, a blank load of silver. Oh, god, oh, oh, I found a statistic that it goes along with your Lake Superior statistic. Okay, okay, okay. So the oceans of the world, they are so vast and deep. If the Earth had a level crust, how high would the oceans be over them? How deep would the oceans be if they were laid on a flat surface that was the Earth’s crust. Five feet is what Lake Superior would be if it was the oceans, yeah. How much water would that be? How

Marcia Smith 19:30
for the whole earth? Yeah. How much underwater would it? How tall

Bob Smith 19:33
would the oceans be? More than five feet?

Marcia Smith 19:36
I think so. Okay, I’ll say I have no idea. This is

Bob Smith 19:41
astounding. If the Earth had an absolutely level crust, the sea would form an envelope over it of 8000 feet, 8000 feet deep. So that’s, that’s over a mile high of water over the crust of the earth. That’s how big? So that’s like a mile deep. That’s pretty more than a mile deep.

Marcia Smith 19:59
Yeah. Okay, Bob, okay, the inventor of the toilet. We’re talking. We’re talking 1870 so many things I could have said there, yes, okay, but a functional, wonderful thing that we all have, if we’re lucky, 1878 Queen Victoria was so impressed that she knighted the inventor for his service to the public. I thought it was in Kohler they did it. But in the century that has followed, the flush toilet has undergone very little change. Oh, amazing, isn’t it? Yeah. Okay, so here’s the question, okay, who was this inventor that became a knight? I’ll give you three choices. Okay, Thomas butts. Thomas Crapper, or emo toilet.

Bob Smith 20:52
Now, I’ve always heard the crapper was the name of the guy, but I don’t know if it’s true or not. It’s I’ll go with toilet.

Marcia Smith 20:59
The French make everything sound good, but no Sir Thomas Crapper. He was knighted, so you get the title, and that’s where

Bob Smith 21:12
the expression comes from. Gonna take a okay? Oh my goodness. Well, that’s hilarious. That is absolutely hilarious, sir, Thomas Crapper, not just Tom

Marcia Smith 21:24
crapper. Hey, Tommy. No, no, he was Tom crapper.

Bob Smith 21:29
Oh my goodness, crapper. All right, so you’re talking about the origin of something there we all use, right? So I’ve got an origin question for you about a great world leader. All right, so you tell me the answer to this question. Listen up here. All right. Please put your pencils down in your paper town. What great world leader was born in a ladies cloak room at a party?

Marcia Smith 21:51
Oh, I like that. Do we have any year or anything? Best

Bob Smith 21:55
be the 1800s is a world leader. He was a world leader. Became a world

Marcia Smith 21:59
leader. I’ll say, I’ll say Winston Churchill. That’s

Bob Smith 22:02
exactly who it was, really. And his mother was an American Of course. She married, like the Downton Abbey, she married a British nobleman, you know, and she was at a party with her husband. They were attending a dance in the British ancestral castle of Blenheim, when she prematurely delivered in the ladies cloak

Marcia Smith 22:21
room. He’s one of my all time favorite people. Interesting beginnings, that’s fascinating, and I got it right, which is, you did get it right? Even more fascinating. And

Bob Smith 22:30
also, I’ll ask you one more question. Of course, you are okay? And this is a name, okay? What popular plant is named after an American government official who introduced it into the United States. It wasn’t the bush.

Okay, okay, wasn’t one of the bushes. So what popular plant was named after an American government official who introduced it to the United States,

Marcia Smith 22:59
Vera cunningworth, the aloe vera plant. No, that

Bob Smith 23:03
would be good, yeah. Oh, the poinsettia, oh. It was named after a 40 year old Joel Roberts Poinsett. Uh huh. He was the ambassador to Mexico, and he had returned to his native South Carolina in 1829, he’d been there for four years in Mexico City, and brought with him this winter blooming subtropical plant, which he discovered. So that’s how it became a popular flowering winter plant, the poinsettia. Named it after government bureaucrat. Okay, I know you got some more fun stuff there. I can see you sorting through it. So give me another one. According

Marcia Smith 23:35
to old law, each fire company that responds to a fire alarm in Marblehead, Massachusetts, is entitled to a three gallon jug of rum.

Bob Smith 23:44
Oh, that’s good. That’s how they that’s how they help the fire people.

Marcia Smith 23:47
Everybody shows up that way.

Bob Smith 23:49
That’s good. That was interesting. The English

Marcia Smith 23:53
language has approximately 500,000 words, but almost everybody just uses this many English words in their entire lifetime. How many words would that be? Remember, there’s about a half a million, not counting technical and scientific 15,000 No, I would have guessed that too, something in that. But it’s 60,000

Bob Smith 24:13
really, 60,000 words. That’s a lot of words. One more,

Marcia Smith 24:18
one of the oldest and most reliable calendars is the Gregorian stone hedge. Oh yeah, I guess it is the prehistoric stone structure on Salisbury Plain in England, constructed with huge blocks of stone which were hauled over a great distance. The monolith required an estimated 1.5 million man hours of labor. Just amazing to be properly placed. Now, who figured that

Bob Smith 24:45
out? The people who did it?

Marcia Smith 24:49
Hey, Ralph, I think we got 1.5 million put in on our salary stub. One more in 1733 an outbreak of influenza was so widespread in the. United States that nearly three fourths of the entire population was affected.

Bob Smith 25:05
That’s amazing. I saw that statistic. Isn’t that fascinating? 1733,

Marcia Smith 25:10
not the good old days, three fourths.

Bob Smith 25:12
That’s really that’s a fascinating thing. Here’s a quick

Marcia Smith 25:15
one, okay, the US government forbids what to appear on any American postage stamp,

Bob Smith 25:23
a living person. Yes, how did you know that? I always heard that that was true, but it seems to me, recently, there was a living person that appeared on a postage stamp. But maybe, well,

Marcia Smith 25:33
maybe, since this trivia bit came out, maybe, maybe

Bob Smith 25:37
they made some changes. I don’t know. I’m yeah, that was kind of a, I think, a way to make sure this was, you know, reflective, yeah, reflective of something serious,

Marcia Smith 25:45
you know, yeah. But Mickey Mouse made it into your mic. Mickey Mouse, he lives forever,

Bob Smith 25:49
and then Mickey Mouse never lived. So what? He only

Marcia Smith 25:53
lived in the heart. What, Bob, you’re crushing my soul. I

Bob Smith 25:57
am so sorry. I didn’t know that was hurt your feelings. Move on, okay, all right, what model us automobile was manufactured clandestinely for 10 years after it was officially discontinued. The car was manufactured for 10 years clandestinely after it was officially discontinued.

Marcia Smith 26:19
Well, odd, very odd. I have no idea. I’ll say the Nash. No,

Bob Smith 26:25
this is a car you liked, actually, the Edsel. No, this is no. It’s such a shame that was such a wonderful modern No. The Edsel was named, you

Marcia Smith 26:36
know, for the Ford son,

Bob Smith 26:38
yeah, guy who died later. But, yeah, everyone does, and the car did too, but it was a modern car. Had all kinds of fancy things. My uncle had one. Oh, yeah, it was really cool. But this car was manufactured clandestinely for 10 years after it was officially discontinued. It’s one of your favorites. It’s a

Marcia Smith 26:58
Chevy Impala, 57 Chevy, really 57 Chevy went on for 10 years. I learned to drive on that. Well, what happened was, long after 57

Bob Smith 27:07
a general motorist, stylist, engineer, Ardell Malawi, he quit GM in mid 1957 when he found out that Chevy was going to drop its 1957 styling and go on to the Longer, lower, wider, 1958 model. So he and other 57 Chevy enthusiasts produced over 200,000 You’re kidding, model 57 Chevys from 1957 to 67 in a small auto assembly plant outside of Jacksonville, Illinois. Well,

Marcia Smith 27:38
that’s amazing. So there. I know there was a market. It’s the 1960s and I’m bombing downtown Bob in the Ave, we used to call it, taking my dad’s car. And it was, you know, middle, late 60s, and a kid pulled up next to me and asked me if I’d sell the car, my dad’s car. Oh, really. Oh, that’s funny. And I that I realized then that it was a coveted car. And you thought, maybe I can, maybe I could, but I was in enough trouble as it was. Well, he

Bob Smith 28:08
stopped production because he was, he heard GM was getting wise to him, and he didn’t really, didn’t notice the only time, well, apparently these cars kept coming out, and everyone’s, oh, here’s a nice mint condition. It’s amazing. Yeah, it was produced by this guy all these years. That’s amazing. It is, huh? And this was an amazing show. Marcia, thanks for all your great trivia. You’re

Marcia Smith 28:28
welcome, Bob, nice to be here with you. You are

Bob Smith 28:32
nowhere else to go, so everybody treat each other nice, please. And if you’re living alone, we’ll come into your house and entertain you, but only only through the internet. That’s it for today, for trivia, for the off ramp. I’m Bob Smith. I’m Marcia Smith. Join us again next time when we come back with more fun and interesting information here on the off ramp.

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