041 Encore Shelter-In-Place Trivia

Bob Smith 0:00
Bob. Hi. This is Bob Smith. Here’s another in our series of off ramp podcasts, looking back at the spring of 2020 when we started doing the off ramp as a trivia podcast, a creative project to do during the COVID 19 lockdown, we’re revisiting today’s episode because we think it’s great trivia and it’s good to remember the kinds of things we were all going through when the first pandemic in a century upset all our lives. Without further ado, here is off ramp episode number 41 from the spring of 2020 Shelter in Place trivia.

During World War Two. What did the United States Government remove from luxury department stores and place in defense plants.

Marcia Smith 0:45
More interesting yet, how many pickles does the average American consume every year?

Bob Smith 0:52
Answers to those and other interesting questions people want to know this coming up today, on the off ramp with Bob and

Marcia Smith 0:59
Marcia Smith,

Bob Smith 1:17
Welcome to the off ramp. A chance to slow down, steer clear of crazy and take a side road to Saturday. We are doing Shelter in Place trivia. This is the end of the fifth week of sheltering in place. We’ve gathered a lot of fun stuff to talk about. I got some more famous last words. I know you have some other fun stuff too, but let’s start with those first two questions we did. Yours first, the pickles. Okay?

Marcia Smith 1:42
I mean, people we’re getting, I bet we went up 2, 2 or 3, listeners with that. Okay, tell me. Tell me, the pickles. Okay, according to the Department of Agriculture, how much in pickles does the average American consume annually?

Bob Smith 1:56
Now are we talking number of pickles? Are we talking pounds of pickles? Let’s talk pounds. Wow, pounds of pickles. This is the question that’s burning in the minds of,

Marcia Smith 2:06
okay, we are all at home. We got a lot to think about, and that’s one of them, pickles.

Bob Smith 2:10
Okay, I will say five pounds of pickles.

Marcia Smith 2:14
That’s pretty good. It’s actually eight and a half pounds of pickles a year, and dill pickles are twice as popular as sweet pickles. So more of those pickles are dill

Bob Smith 2:26
Interesting, because dill pickles are not. They’re not sweet at all. I like dills better myself, but they’re, you know, really make your lips curl up, you know,

Marcia Smith 2:33
I think it’s directly proportionate to how many cheeseburgers we eat.

Bob Smith 2:37
I think you’re right. I think McDonald’s and Culvers and Burger King and all these places are driving the pickle the pickle consumption in this country. All right now, here is a very interesting question. President Trump has taken that Defense Procurement Act and used it to help to compel numbers of manufacturers to make ventilators and respirators and masks and so forth. And that has a antecedent back during World War Two, when the government did take over a lot of factories and a lot of manufacturing facilities and make them do things like you’re gonna build tanks now you’re not gonna build cars anymore, and you’re gonna build aircraft board. Okay, so during World War Two, what did the United States Government remove from luxury department stores and put in defense plants?Removed. They removed something from luxury department stores and put them in defense plants.

Marcia Smith 3:30
Well, it wasn’t hosiery, was it no stocking, but something

Bob Smith 3:34
Female mannequins or anything like that? No,

Marcia Smith 3:37
I have no idea.

Bob Smith 3:38
Think about a luxury department, yeah, pleasant place to shop. What would they remove from a luxury department store? Fireplaces, I remember that. And place in defense plants. I don’t know. Air conditioning. Air conditioning. The air conditioning was a luxury they had. I’ll bet it was. And they were removed from stores like Tiffany’s in New York, and were placed in war related industrial plants to help improve the production of workers. That’s kind of funny. I think interesting that they funny. Haha, no, but they went into Macy’s and Tiffany said, we’re gonna take these, you know, and

Marcia Smith 4:09
Take their air conditioners, air conditioners, see you later, as long as they don’t come to my house and take it. Okay.

Bob Smith 4:14
Now we know numerous people who’ve been involved in rotary clubs or rotary auxiliaries, you know, or female. Where does the Rotary Club get its name? And it goes back to Chicago, 1905 19 what? 1905 in Chicago, the Rotary Club, Rotary International. It’s called now, yeah, I’m trying to think the name. Think of the name, yeah, I am Rotary, yeah, rotation, rotation Rotary. That’s, that’s why they got the name. It’s members met in rotation at the offices or places of business of the various members the Rotary Club.

Marcia Smith 4:50
Whereas, here’s a question for you, Bob, what’s the longest amount of time a solar eclipse can take place?

Bob Smith 4:58
Oh, that’s a good one. So. Only takes place over a certain amount of time, and I think it’s only like maybe two and a half minutes, or something like that where it appears at any one place.

Marcia Smith 5:06
Due to the rate of the speed at which the sun moves, it’s impossible for a solar eclipse to last more than seven minutes and 58 seconds.

Bob Smith 5:16
Wow, at any given location on Earth, it’s gonna last no more than that. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 5:20
seven minutes and 58 seconds. But it’s impossible to be longer than that. You

Bob Smith 5:27
know, we all know that the potato originated. Where Ireland? South America? Oh, that could have been my question for you. Where did the potato originate? Answer,

Marcia Smith 5:38
Ireland?

No, I’ve told you the answer is South America.

South America.

Bob Smith 5:43
They were imported to Europe by the 1500s when Spanish ships returned from Peru with their silver and all that. Yeah, but they were slow to catch on. Why were they banned in Burgundy at one point?

Marcia Smith 5:56
Potatoes? Yeah, tell me.

Bob Smith 5:58
Well, people thought they caused leprosy.

Marcia Smith 6:02
You know, there’s all kinds of things that can happen. Yeah, I still do. So I don’t eat them.

Bob Smith 6:09
Okay, where is the longest canal in the world?

Marcia Smith 6:13
Oh, I would say, wrong, Panama, but no, huh

Bob Smith 6:17
You’d think it was Panama, but there’s another famous canal in in the Middle East. It’s called Suez. Suez Canal, yeah, and that’s not it. And then there’s the Erie too. the Erie Canal, but that’s not it either. I know that. Okay, the longest canal in the world is in China. It’s the Grand Canal in China, which connects the yellow and the Yangtze rivers. And when was that built? Give me a clue. Well, you think about the Suez and the Panama Canal were built with modern equipment, you know, huge cranes. And the Suez was 150, 160 years ago. The Grand Canal was built 1,400 years ago, and it’s 20 times as long as the Panama Canal, 20 times.

Marcia Smith 7:00
That’s hard to believe. Well look at what the Romans did so long ago. Okay, Okay, interesting. Okay, Bob, I think you know one of these two. But can you name name the two oldest cities in the United States? I

Bob Smith 7:16
think they’re St Augustine and New Mexico. What is it?

Marcia Smith 7:21
The answer is, Santa Fe.

Bob Smith 7:26
Santa Fe, yes. And they’re both about the same year, aren’t they? Well,

Marcia Smith 7:29
1565, for Augustine, and 1609, for Santa Fe. So the oldest is still St Augustine, which we went to a few years ago. What a beautiful place that is.

Bob Smith 7:40
That’s right, and it’s the Spanish fort, the fort that the Spanish built there too, and is still there. And that was to monitor the traffic on the ocean to make sure that the treasure ships didn’t get taken over by pirates. All right, here’s one that’s topical. Okay, why did plague doctors look like walking birds?

Marcia Smith 8:02
Well, walking birds, that means they must have had something over their nose. Yes, plague doctors like a cone of silence, a cone to protect them breathing. That’s

Bob Smith 8:12
right. That’s exactly right. So we know what the hazmat suits look like that people are having to use these days with the Coronavirus and stuff. Well, plague doctors were basically wearing the hazmat suits of their time. It’s head to toe protection, and today, the hazmat suit has like a headgear looks like a snorkel. Well, doctors in the 1600s wore the original hazmat suits, which originated in France, and a guy named Charles Delorme in 1630 who was the chief physician to French kings proposed doctors wear a thick black overcoat, gloves, circular glass and a mask plus a wand to inspect patients from a distance or keep them at a distance. Oh, really, but the bird look came from the masks. They were leather masks which ended in a beak like point, because there was belief that the plague could be spread through its terrible smell. Oh, really, yeah. So the beak would prevent doctors from breathing that air, and then doctors also stuffed the inside point of that beak with mint or lavender spices to keep the stench out of their noses. But if you see any of these pictures from that time, they looked like bird like costumes and paintings from the Middle Ages, and those bird like masks were still used into the 19th century in some third

Marcia Smith 9:23
world country. I think I’ve seen pictures of them. Yeah, they’re bizarre. You thought it was like some kind of a ritual or so? Yeah? Well, look at the hazmat suits. That’s pretty bizarre. That is very bizarre. Scare the disease out of it. God, again. Let’s stick with health for a moment. Okay, and I got this from our local AARP bulletin here, okay, but this is, I’ve always been interested in this substance. They say now that two tablespoons of this daily, every day, will fight not only heart disease, but cognitive decline in a big sign. Can’t wait, two tablespoons of this. What is it? Bob,

Bob Smith 10:02
it’s not honey. My favorite topic from one of the other shows, okay, it’s

Marcia Smith 10:09
two tablespoons, tablespoons.

Bob Smith 10:10
Those are big. That is big. Well, I’m sure it’s not sugar. I’m sure it’s not jelly. So it must be. Is it something that’s medicinal, like castor oil or something like,

Marcia Smith 10:21
no, no, it’s much better than that. It’s extra virgin olive oil. Oh, No, kidding, there’s a lot of research on, you know, I always try to cook with olive oil because I’ve always believed it was good, but now more and more data is coming in about how really good it is for you and and, oddly enough, some of the best extra virgin olive oil comes from California, because they’re highly regulated, and so only the best goes out of there. So keep that. I’m always looking for Italy, but they’ve got good stuff in Italy, but I don’t know if they ship it over here. Which brings me to in normal times, Italians outlive Americans by an average of four years. But in this one little mountain region of Sicily, the people, the locals, regularly live past 100 at a rate of more than four times greater than Italy as a whole. Wow. And this is because it’s olive tree country, and they’re always snacking on olives and using the fruits to prepare dinner. They’re just sucking down olives all the time and living to 100 there is no big thing. It literally unclogs your arteries, and sometimes dementia that’s already started, Alzheimer’s, even it can reverse really, because it breaks up that coagulation of brain cells. So

Bob Smith 11:40
it is a medicinal topic. I mean, treatment then, yeah.

Marcia Smith 11:45
So I tried to figure out a way we’d hanker down two tablespoons of that a day, pour it on some bread, or just got

Bob Smith 11:52
to go over the olive oil store. But it’s closed right now. It is, hey, you know you and I always like these interesting facts, juxtaposition of things happening together, and they’re very odd that they happen together. This is from 1958 June 10, 1958 a tornado crashed through El Dorado, or El Dorado, Kansas. It pulled a woman out of her house, carried her 60 feet away, and landed her relatively unharmed, next to a copy of the record, stormy weather.

Marcia Smith 12:26
Isn’t that just amazing? Well, how did I not know that I used to love that song. It was, it was old when I was young, since my man and I together. Wow, very good. Well, that’s serendipity, I would guess. Huh? You

Bob Smith 12:41
like words. I got one that’s kind of fun. I use them regularly. Okay, well, yes, you do use them regularly. Okay, where does the name of the European country, Spain come from? What does that name mean?

Marcia Smith 12:55
Master Charlie? No,

Bob Smith 12:57
that’s Italian. That is. So, what Spain? What? Where does the name Spain come from? I don’t know. Well, apparently it was once known more for its animals than its dancers. We know Spanish dancers. Oh, okay. The Carthaginians of the sixth century gave the land the romantic name of Spania, which means Land of the rabbits. Originally, apparently was a place where there were a lot of rabbits. Is that right? Okay? What prompted the forming of the first US Automobile Association? What specifically prompted the forming of the first US Automobile Association? I have no idea. It was formed specifically for the purpose of providing scouts or lookouts who would warn motorists about police traps? Oh,

Marcia Smith 13:43
really, that’s curious. That’s an interesting factoid,

Bob Smith 13:47
and we’ll be back with more factoids coming up in just a moment. You’re listening to shelter in place trivia on the off ramp with Bob and Marcia Smith. 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. We’re back again. This is Bob and Marcia Smith, and we are doing Shelter in Place trivia. This is the end of the fifth week of sheltering in place, and Marcia has an interesting question. Okay,

Marcia Smith 14:32
going back to words, the 10 most commonly used words, I’d like you to name five of the 10 most commonly used words in the English language. Now,

Bob Smith 14:44
are you using articles too, like the can that be one of them? Okay? The ran, no, C, no, a,

Marcia Smith 14:52
yes, love, no,

Bob Smith 14:55
go, no. Oh, well, I doing too well there. I think I. Did 10 something like it?

Marcia Smith 15:01
No, it’s the of and a to in is you that it,

Bob Smith 15:07
but you can’t even make a sentence out of all that. No, you cannot.

Marcia Smith 15:11
You can’t. But those are, those are the 10 most commonly used words.

Bob Smith 15:16
Okay, I have a remember. We were talking the other week about the borders and how hard it would be to cross to close the border between the United States and Canada? Uh huh. Okay, yes, I want you to tell me, what are the four things that are unusual about the town of Hyder, Alaska? You can guess what one of them is. I can well, based on the context of my question, h, y, D, E, R, it’s a little place. Only

Marcia Smith 15:40
87 people, really, No, you tell me, Bob, okay, first,

Bob Smith 15:44
it’s as far east as you can go in Alaska. Uh huh, it’s the town furthest south in Alaska. So you can get there by car. But that brings us to the third unusual thing about Hyder. Hyder, Alaska, you can only drive there from a foreign country, Canada. Oh, and it uses a Canadian area code because it’s, it’s right next door to Stuart, British Columbia. There are no border controls. You can drive back and forth between those two towns. Okay. Now, every business in Hyder, Alaska accepts US and Canadian currency, except one. What business does not accept Canadian currency, the post office.

Marcia Smith 16:19
Oh, that was my first guess. And I thought, no, okay, okay.

Bob Smith 16:23
Now the biggest difference between that town and Stuart Canada, which is right next to it, yeah, everybody in Hyder is well armed because the US gun laws are less restrictive.

Marcia Smith 16:36
Well, isn’t that swell? So there’s

Bob Smith 16:38
just a little fact there about Hyder, Alaska, Well, speaking

Marcia Smith 16:42
of the postal system, Bob in the late 1800s What did the postmasters of Afghanistan make their postmasters do to cancel stamps?

Bob Smith 16:55
What did they require them to do? Did they have to open up an artery and put blood on the stamp or something like that. No, what?

Marcia Smith 17:02
What was it? They had to cancel postage by actually biting off a piece of the stamp.

Bob Smith 17:08
So if it would teeth marks there. You knew, you know, if you

Marcia Smith 17:12
ripped it off with your teeth, don’t ask me why, Bob, it’s, I don’t make this up. Jeez.

Bob Smith 17:21
Okay, all right, all right. I’ve got a question for you. This country is also in that part of the world. Okay, this country is in the Middle East. 99% of its population lives on 4% of the land. Now we’re talking probably well over 50 million people, maybe more, jeez, live on 4% of the land. 99% of the population live there. What nation is it? Wow. Lebanon, think of geography. Lebanon, think of water.

Marcia Smith 17:50
Water. Oh, you mean this has a lot of water? No people

Bob Smith 17:53
need water. They do so they’d have to live near water. So where is there a Big Sandy

Marcia Smith 18:01
water mountain. No DESERT.

Bob Smith 18:04
Desert. Oh, god, okay. The answer is Egypt. Oh, that was yeah, we know for pyramids and sand, but yeah, most of the people live in the flat roofed, Sun baked homes in the Nile River Delta. 90% of Egypt’s people there live in that just little area, okay, all right, this is

Marcia Smith 18:25
a quote for our times, okay, but it’s not, it’s from 1936 who said it, the test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function

Bob Smith 18:42
what

Marcia Smith 18:45
I love that. Think about it. How many people can’t think of two sides of an argument without their head exploding? So this

Bob Smith 18:52
was a maybe an attorney. Possibly I’m asking for clues.

Marcia Smith 18:56
No clue. No, no. He was a writer,

Bob Smith 18:59
a writer, and I’m thinking of 36 the guy who wrote the books about the Middle East, te Lawrence.

Marcia Smith 19:06
Ah, good. No, it was F Scott Fitzgerald, really. Could you write the Last Tycoon?

Bob Smith 19:13
The Last Tycoon? Yeah, he did. It was unfinished. Unfinished.

Marcia Smith 19:16
That’s when he passed. Could you? Could you

Bob Smith 19:19
read that quote again, because that’s fascinating.

Marcia Smith 19:21
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. Very good words, they are, aren’t they? Speaking of

Bob Smith 19:34
words? I have some famous last words, some more famous last words from Oh, do share from that book by Ray Robinson. So what famous man’s last words were, leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub? Wow,

Marcia Smith 19:48
that’s got to be a guy with issues

Bob Smith 19:54
or not. I don’t think this guy had, based on his profession, he didn’t have any issues. Yeah, he was very successful at what field I’m asking you,

Marcia Smith 20:05
I’m asking you, okay, hotels, hotels. Oh, well, he was concerned about shower curtains. Okay, I’ll say Hilton. Conrad,

Bob Smith 20:13
Hilton, I was right. Yeah. He, he began his career actually renting out rooms in his home in New Mexico.

Marcia Smith 20:21
He was the first. Yes, it

Bob Smith 20:23
was like an Airbnb. Eventually got into the hotel business, and of course, he built an international empire of hotels. And he died in 1979 but he lived a life where he thought of nothing, but what hotels, right? Yeah. And on his deathbed in 1979 he was asked if he had any last words of wisdom, and that’s what he said, leave the shower curtain on the inside of the tub.

Marcia Smith 20:43
Well, that makes sense at first. I thought he was some kind of nutcase, but that actually makes sense for that guy. Okay,

Bob Smith 20:49
I have another funny, interesting last words. And you won’t know this person, but it’s an interesting story. Okay, this person’s Famous last words were, wait a second, it was a woman, and guess why? She wanted people to wait a second she had more to say, or she wanted God to wait a second. Madam de Pompadour, she was a mistress to Frances Louis the 15th. She was a patron of the arts and theater, and as Ray Robinson, author of famous last words, describes, she was never went to appear looking anything but her best, so she put God on hold on her death bed, saying, wait a second, applied a final touch of Rouge to her cheeks and died. Well, that’s classy.

Marcia Smith 21:32
I like that. I like that. I believe vain people probably live a little longer because they care.

Bob Smith 21:39
What about mean people?

Marcia Smith 21:44
One hopes not. But who knows? Who said, I

Bob Smith 21:46
don’t have to forgive my enemies. I’ve had them all shot again, somebody you never heard of, but it’s it’s a funny story a dying Spanish general Ramon Maria navarres. He had used violence and suppression to consolidate power for Queen Isabel the second, and he’d been given big positions, one of which was the prime minister, and that’s who he was. As he was dying, and a priest asked him if he wanted to forgive anyone, and he said, I don’t have to forgive my enemies. I had them all shot. That

Marcia Smith 22:16
is very funny, and then he died, yeah? Well, rightly so. That’s a little karma. Yeah, okay, Bob, you may recall Tiny Tim got married on the Late Show one night, right? Oh, the

Bob Smith 22:28
Johnny Carson Show, that’s correct, years years ago, the Tonight Show, that’s

Marcia Smith 22:31
right. What was his bride’s name, Miss Vicky. Oh, see, you do know,

Bob Smith 22:36
I don’t know what her last name was. No, nobody

Marcia Smith 22:38
does. Oh, I don’t think she had one, and now it’s tiny. And then they got divorced. Yes, they did. I don’t know.

Bob Smith 22:47
I got another question on a country. We always compare notes with other countries. How are they doing with the Coronavirus? How is this country doing? How are we doing? And I haven’t heard much about this country with regard to that, but this is a country now, this is in Europe. Listen carefully, it’s in Europe. No one lives more than 33 miles from the sea. It’s not Italy, okay, okay, Scott, it’s a peninsula nation. Say it again, in this country, no one lives more than 33 miles from the sea. It’s in Europe. Which country is it? And, okay, the country is Denmark. Oh, it’s in the northern part of Europe. It consists of a peninsula and two groups of island. In fact, the capital city of Copenhagen is it’s on an island. And in Denmark proper, no one lives more than 33 miles from the sea.

Marcia Smith 23:39
That’s a good thing, yeah, yeah. Quick Bob, who established the Purple Heart, which President?

Bob Smith 23:46
Oh, that’s a good one. Was that? Abraham Lincoln? Abraham Lincoln, I’ll say no. Oh, so it was before him, though it was okay, I would say. I’d go back to Andrew Jackson or Tyler, some of the people who were, who were in military, yeah, you’d

Marcia Smith 24:02
still be wrong, because it goes all the way back. It still goes,

Bob Smith 24:06
Oh, it goes back to Washington,

Marcia Smith 24:07
doesn’t it does is George in 1782 and it was an award for bravery. Then it went away, but revived in 1932 as an award to those who had been killed or wounded in military action, but George started it all, okay,

Bob Smith 24:22
speaking of presidents, what President said? This was his last words, okay, of course, I always talk better lying down. Oh,

Marcia Smith 24:32
that’s sad. Yeah, I don’t know who

Bob Smith 24:36
James Madison was, probably pretty good, because he never stood tall. He was only five feet four. Oh, but of course, he was a giant. In other ways. He was responsible for the Bill of Rights and much of the Constitution. But James Madison’s last words were, I always talk better lying down. Okay? And who said, In the name of God, please, let me die in peace.

Marcia Smith 24:59
I. Like it. I don’t know who Voltaire? Oh, I thought I’m looking for a president again. No, I would have gotten Voltaire. Voltaire was

Bob Smith 25:07
kind of because, you know, he didn’t. He fought ignorance all his life, and he thought religion was kind of ignorance. He did. He rejected Christianity. Believed in deism, but he didn’t believe in any one person being Savior of the world or anything. And so on his deathbed, he was asking if he would finally recognize the divinity of Jesus Christ. He was having none of it. He said, In the name of God, please, let me die in peace. You want to talk God? In the Name of God, let me alone. Leave me alone. All

Marcia Smith 25:36
right, let me see if I have any left from which Broadway musical is Irving Berlin’s composition. There’s No Business Like Show Business. You’re singing

Bob Smith 25:46
it like Ethel Merman, who, I think didn’t she debut it? I think she did. She did in what it was, one of those rousers. Everything

Marcia Smith 25:54
about it is appeal. Okay, what’s the

Bob Smith 25:57
name of the show? I’d rather hear the name of the show than to hear more lyrics from the side. Fine.

Marcia Smith 26:02
Annie, get your gun.

Bob Smith 26:03
No kidding, Annie, get your gun. Was about who? Annie Oakley, that’s exactly right. Okay. You know, we are focused on online communication to talk to people these days, either through zoom or through email, which is carried over the internet or through websites and so forth. So let’s go back another question. On YouTube, one of the favorite viewing habits of people these days as they’re couped up in their homes or their apartments, how much content, video content is published every day on the internet by regular people, how much video content?

Marcia Smith 26:42
Video content? Well, in terms of what’s the method you

Bob Smith 26:46
could do, hours you could do you decide what metric you want could be, days could be, weeks could be years.

Marcia Smith 26:52
I was gonna say hours, but obviously, that’s too little.

Bob Smith 26:55
How much content do everyday people publish every day on

Marcia Smith 26:59
the internet, I’ll say 10 days worth. Well, that’s a good one. That take a long time to watch, right? It’s much more, isn’t it? Yeah, you’re setting me up. I am setting you

Bob Smith 27:09
up. This comes from a an article, which I’ll tell you about in a second, called the worst job in tech. This was published by The Wall Street Journal back in 2017 YouTube reports that the equivalent of 65 years of video. 65 years of video are uploaded to YouTube every day. And think

Marcia Smith 27:29
you know what I think of when I hear that. I mean, think of all the all the it machines that are holding all this information, all the servers and everything the servers, all in these storage farms, storage farms, can we say, Can I say that all the storage farms used at 65 years, a day, a day, where, you know, it’s not going to be garbage that overtakes the US. It’s going to be YouTube videos of cats, dogs and your baby well, and

Bob Smith 27:57
unfortunately, this article, as I said, was called the worst job in tech. The worst job in the tech industry is watching all of that to remove the bad stuff. Oh God. So the former Sarah Katz, who is a former Facebook content moderator, said she reviewed as many as 8000 posts a day and was only paid $24 an hour to do this work, and she watched and read some of the most vile content produced by man. So burnout is very common for people who have that but fortunately, we have the cat videos that you like and the dog videos and and a lot of fun stuff. We heard today that some of our friends actually did a Gilligan’s Island parody, and they pushed it, pushed it on the on the web their family did, so we’re looking forward to seeing that.

Marcia Smith 28:42
So that’s it for me today, Bob, do you have any last words for me? What would be your last words? Bob,

Bob Smith 28:51
that’s it. No, I don’t know what my famous last words? It wouldn’t be famous. I know that probably, probably just, I love you. Thank you so much. Yeah, I can hear you saying that, thanks for being with us, and we hope you’ve enjoyed listening to us as we prattle on with some interesting facts and trivia, I guess because we’re going stir crazy like most people are too getting out. Get some exercise, get some of the energy out of your body. Enjoy your life. All right, that’s it. Thanks for the preaching, Bob. I’m Bob Smith. I’m Marcia and welcome. Thank you for you know if you’re coming or going. Thanks for listening. I’m Bob and I’m Marsha. No, wait a minute, that’s not.

Marcia Smith 29:28
Wait a minute. Oh, I get we’ve been alone too much, I think so we’ve become one. I’m Bob Smith. I’m Marcia Smith, thanks for listening. Yes, the

Bob Smith 29:36
off ramp. I’m gonna get off the off ramp right now. Join us again next time. Thanks. Bye, I’m getting off. I’m gonna get off now

Marcia Smith 29:47
I still can.

Bob Smith 29:51
The off ramp is produced in association with CPL radio and the Cedarburg Public Library. Cedarburg, Wisconsin, you.

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