044 Stir Crazy Trivia

Bob Smith 0:00
There’s some controversy over whether the COVID 19 virus was the result of a lab accident. But sometimes great things result from lab accidents. What miracle drug of the 20th century was a lab accident?

Marcia Smith 0:14
And what famous Prime Minister tried out for a spot on an American baseball team answers

Bob Smith 0:20
to those and other questions coming up in this edition of the off ramp with Bob and

Marcia Smith 0:26
Marsha Smith?

Bob Smith 0:44
Welcome to the off ramp a chance to slow down steer clear of crazy take a side road to sanity and get some perspective on life. Well, speaking of perspective, Marsha, we’ve just finished our eighth week of being together every waking hour.

Unknown Speaker 0:59
Oh my God. Isn’t

Unknown Speaker 1:00
that just fabulous? Is

Bob Smith 1:02
it? Is it been fabulous for you get

Marcia Smith 1:05
my wine today. You need your wine.

Bob Smith 1:11
I know. I know. It’s medicinal. Oh, absolutely. Well, we’ll get some.

Unknown Speaker 1:15
Okay. All right, then.

Unknown Speaker 1:17
Let’s continue. All right. Well,

Bob Smith 1:18
now let’s talk about some topical things. My first question deals with a lab accident. Now we’ve heard the rumors that maybe this COVID 19 virus started in a lab in China and possibly was an accident in that Hunan market area. Yes. Well, sometimes great things result from laboratory accidents. Like

Unknown Speaker 1:40
your birth. What?

Bob Smith 1:41
Hey, come on. Sorry. No, really, of what miracle drug of the 20th century was the result of a lab accident? What miracle drug of the 20th century? I’ll

Marcia Smith 1:52
just say cuz penicillin. That’s

Bob Smith 1:55
exactly Oh, well, for God’s sakes. Penicillin. It changed the course of medicine. Oh, wait, was that? Who was that? That did that? That was Alexander Fleming. Oh, okay. So what happened was, you’ll never know what you find back at work after two weeks vacation. Okay. So he left on a two weeks vacation. He came back in 1928. And he was in his lab. He’d been researching the flu. And he just came back from that vacation and he noticed a mold of fungus was growing in one of his bacteria cultures. Apparently he hadn’t sealed it properly. In fact, some history is actually called him a sloppy lab

Marcia Smith 2:30
technician. So air was getting into it is that the Yeah, was

Bob Smith 2:33
open wrench and something came in. And so his experiment was contaminated. It was spoiled. But he didn’t throw it away. And I’ll tell you why in a second. Okay. He looked at that culture. And he noticed a clear ring around the fungus that indicated whatever the fungus was, it was toxic to that staphylococcus bacteria that was in the dish. So he isolated that mold. He found it was from the genus Penicillium, and he named his substance, penicillin. And that was that I say that was that because for a good 10 years, his discovery just laid there. It was in medical literature, but nobody was working on it. He even gave up on it in 1930. Wow. But let me tell you something else. I told you, he didn’t throw it away. And you know why? No. Because at one point, he had shed a tear. This is true. Six years before he discovered penicillin, he discovered the mild antibiotic properties of human tears, because one of his tears accidentally dripped into a bacterial sample he was working on. So why was he crying? I don’t know. That’s, that’s the mystery of this. Anyway, so he knew even mistakes had scientific value. So when he discovered his lab mistake in 1928, he didn’t throw it away. He looked at it. And penicillin was born. And he and three other people won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1945.

Marcia Smith 3:50
That’s crazy. That’s wonderful. Crazy. Yeah.

Bob Smith 3:52
Because that Did you know that changed the course of medicine? A lot of us a lot. Oh, yeah. Pneumonia, and meningitis and gonorrhea, syphilis, all kinds of things. Were basically cured because of penicillin. Yeah. So you never know a lab accident may not necessarily be a bad thing. Now, you have an interesting question there about

Marcia Smith 4:10
Oh, two. I didn’t know the answer. And I think I know the answer to that. What famous Prime Minister asked for and got a tryout as a pitcher for an American baseball team?

Bob Smith 4:24
Was it Fidel Castro?

Marcia Smith 4:25
Well, maybe yes.

Bob Smith 4:28
I did. You know, that’s a famous fact that I knew that Fidel Castro tried out and I thought God, why did we let him be on that baseball team? You know, history

Marcia Smith 4:37
could have changed a lot. Kennedy would have had a lot better record if that had happened.

Bob Smith 4:41
Maybe a famous baseball team he would have liked you know, as

Marcia Smith 4:45
well, that should have been pitcher. It wasn’t the Yankees. It was the Washington Senators. Oh, God,

Bob Smith 4:50
he would have been in Washington DC with Kennedy at the same time.

Marcia Smith 4:56
Think about that. He was a college student in Havana and he wrote to the Washington Senators baseball club asking permission to have a tryout as a left handed pitcher. The senators sent a scout to Cuba to observe him in action. Joe Gam Bria, the scout returned to report that Castro was hopeless as a major league prospect.

Bob Smith 5:19
But he made a great dictator.

Unknown Speaker 5:24
Yeah. All right. All right. What

Marcia Smith 5:26
else you got Bobby?

Bob Smith 5:27
Okay. All right. Here we are. Now here we are. Marcia. We’re in a state of national emergency as we have this Coronavirus that’s ravaging the country. Back in 1933, Franklin Roosevelt proclaimed a state of National Emergency to help the nation out of the depression. When did that state of emergency end? I think you’ll be surprised, but tell me.

Marcia Smith 5:52
You just love me to get this wrong.

Bob Smith 5:54
This is one of those if you’re gonna do something, make sure you end it.

Marcia Smith 5:57
Yes. Well,

Unknown Speaker 5:58
I’ll forget about it.

Marcia Smith 5:59
I’ll say it ended with World War Two.

Bob Smith 6:01
That would be the right answer for most people. But

Speaker 1 6:04
no. Why are you smiling? Because it’s, it’s amazing

Bob Smith 6:08
how long this thing last went beyond World War Two. Officially, we were under that state of emergency for 45 years. Because not until September 14 1978. Did Congress finally get around to ending that legislation? But not only FDR state of National Emergency but the states of emergency declared by Harry Truman in 1950. And Richard Nixon in 1970 and 71. So those things were you don’t put a sunset on this. It’ll just keep going.

Marcia Smith 6:41
It’s a charming oversight. Just ridiculous. Okay.

Bob Smith 6:45
All right. Geography, Marcia. How many places are there in the United States where four states meet in one point? How many places

Marcia Smith 6:55
one where is it? Southwest.

Bob Smith 7:00
And what are the states?

Marcia Smith 7:04
I got to man. Well,

Bob Smith 7:06
you got one you Texas to it to indicate where they are. Texas. No. Okay. Scratch that. Okay. The for Colorado. The four corners yet Colorado.

Marcia Smith 7:16
Arizona. Yeah.

Bob Smith 7:19
Two more states. Colorado and Arizona. What are the other two states that meet together in that four corners? Point? Hello,

Marcia Smith 7:30
I’m Hello, Oklahoma. No, no. No. New Mexico? Yes. And and what is that other one?

Bob Smith 7:39
I’m asking you. You’re trying to get me tricked me into telling you. All right. It’s called four corners in the southwest. You’re right about that. It’s where Utah Colorado New Mexico and Arizona met. Yeah. Okay, good. Okay. Now, just so you know, unfortunately, the Salt Lake City’s Deseret News newspaper says information compiled from several federal agencies indicates residents in that area may have been exposed to more long term radiation than any other group in the nation. Why? Well, because of atomic testing, uranium ore deposits and residue leftover from where you got Nevada nearby. Yeah, that’s so congratulations for being in four corners. Oh, you’re glowing?

Unknown Speaker 8:21
Okay, here we go.

Marcia Smith 8:22
Ready? How did the donkey and elephant become symbols for the Democrats and Republicans?

Bob Smith 8:27
I believe that was done through editorial cartoons. I think there was there was at Thomas Nast. Is that who did it? Well, for God’s sakes, how do you know that? Well, Thomas Nast did Uncle Sam, and a number of other things. He was a famous cartoonist in the 19th century in New York City and Tammany Hall. So he came up with these symbols. Yep.

Marcia Smith 8:46
In Harper’s Weekly. Thomas Nast, political cartoonist. What do you what do you get this stuff, Bob?

Bob Smith 8:54
I just have kept this in my business the useless information that’s been in my brain.

Marcia Smith 8:58
Bob’s Well, congratulations. Okay, you’re done. Good.

Bob Smith 9:03
Okay, you know where you talk about? We obviously are in a time of emergency when the Coronavirus the COVID-19 is the plague of our time. What were the 10 plagues of Egypt according to the Bible,

Marcia Smith 9:16
how you’re not going to ask me to name 10 Give me 10 No, I’m not gonna give you 10 I’ll give you a few give me Okay, give me a couple give us two or three. Yeah, okay,

Bob Smith 9:26
go ahead. We’re waiting.

Unknown Speaker 9:28
The plague No, what

Bob Smith 9:30
are the plagues? Oh 10 plagues of Egypt

Marcia Smith 9:33
they had have to name the plagues was it I said several I’ll give you one give me one water becomes blood.

Bob Smith 9:39
The heck is that? That’s one of the plagues supposedly that happened. Water becomes blood frogs is another plague. God sakes locust fire Yeah, locusts in fire. halen fire. Okay, I

Marcia Smith 9:54
got to look this fire and people have

Bob Smith 9:57
their hair lice lice. Ah, And swarms of bees flies, cattle disease, sores or boil.

Marcia Smith 10:06
It’s like you last weekend.

Bob Smith 10:08
Here they are. They are. These are the 10 plagues of Egypt. Water becomes blood frogs, lice swarms or flies, cattle disease sores or boils, hail and fire, locusts, darkness and the slaying of the Egyptian first born.

Marcia Smith 10:26
Give me the corona. Yeah.

Bob Smith 10:29
This is all from from the book of Exodus. A

Marcia Smith 10:33
lot of dark stuff in that one. Thank you, Bob for cheering me up. Okay. Well, here’s one you’re like, okay, all right. When the Gemini nine spacecraft Karen, Eugene Cernan and Thomas Stafford splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean in 1966. The recovery ship USS Wasp was only how far away

Bob Smith 10:56
one of those it was like 100 or 200 miles away. I think it was a long way away with this time. It was like four miles away.

Marcia Smith 11:02
No. Are you ready for this? Yeah. When they splashed down it was 669 yards away.

Bob Smith 11:10
Holy cow. That’s

Marcia Smith 11:11
incredible. Right in a mile. There’s over 1700 yards. So this is less than a half a mile. It’s it’s just like,

Bob Smith 11:19
sits within eyesight. Yeah, that must have been amazing to see that with that precision to splashdown?

Marcia Smith 11:26
What if it is landed on top?

Bob Smith 11:28
Well, I was gonna say could have crashed into it. That would have been bad. would

Marcia Smith 11:31
have been a bad thing. Very bad. Very bad. Okay. Very interesting. Now,

Bob Smith 11:36
do you remember Perry Mason novels when you were growing up? My mom used to read the Erle Stanley Gardner nah,

Marcia Smith 11:41
I never read those. I watched Perry Mason. But I never read Perry Mason.

Bob Smith 11:46
What’s the unusual thing about a lot of those titles? What was in those titles? Certain thing was in every one of those times in case of case of what there was something it was common to 30 or 40 of these

Unknown Speaker 11:58
books. A common what?

Bob Smith 12:00
Let me just tell you Okay, yeah, from 1933 to 1965. A significant number of the original Perry Mason novels used animals in their titles. So there was the case of the Howling Dog the case of the caretakers cat case of the lame

Marcia Smith 12:14
we’ll see basically I got the answer right i like

Bob Smith 12:18
i like how you Oh yeah, it’s the case of the careless kitten the case of the drowning got hairless kid case of the fan dancers horse. There’s one. The grinning gorilla, the mythological monkeys the waylaid Wolf. I don’t know. I’m not done. Yeah, the drowsy mosquito. That’s my favorite. The case of the drowsy mosquito. Here’s a funny one the case of the perjured parents. There are nearly 80 Perry Mason novels written by Erle Stanley Gardner and those were a few of them that they all had animals in there.

Marcia Smith 12:52
Myself. 90% on that answer, of course, you’re doing

Unknown Speaker 12:58
well, but still, that is the drowsy

Marcia Smith 13:00
mosquito. I’ll have a it’s hard to tap that. Okay, all right. Hey, Bob. I know how you love bees.

Bob Smith 13:06
Bees love me. That’s

Unknown Speaker 13:08
the problem. They’re a little too much. And yeah, I

Bob Smith 13:10
almost died from bee stings once that’s what Marsha is joking about how nice of you.

Marcia Smith 13:16
You know ants can live 50 times their body weight, right? No, I

Bob Smith 13:20
didn’t know that. That’s significant. That’s amazing. It is so so ever

Marcia Smith 13:22
watch him anthill and watch them scurry about with stuff. Well, how much can bees lift their have their own body weight? How many times their own bodyweight does just

Bob Smith 13:32
like lifting by with their by flight? Is that what you’re talking about? Doesn’t say Oh, okay. All right. So I’d say twice their body weight. Well,

Marcia Smith 13:42
if ants can do 50 You think that B’s just two ounces? Yeah. Okay, well, that’s wrong. They can lift almost 300 times their own body. That is amazing. That’s that’s a lot more than us, Bob. Oh

Bob Smith 13:57
my goodness. Too many people I know can lift their buddy. Yeah, literally

Marcia Smith 14:02
300 times. Holy cow. That’s amazing. That could fly off with you sometimes.

Bob Smith 14:09
Time to take a break. We’ll be back in just a moment with more on the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith. Okay, we’re back on the off ramp. Now. Everybody gets into their hobbies during times like this. What about coin collectors? Did you ever collect coins?

Marcia Smith 14:24
I did. Yes. For a young boy Paul de Nicola in my grade school. That’s

Bob Smith 14:29
right. You gave him your mom’s Indian Head. More than that.

Marcia Smith 14:33
What did you give him all the best coins my mother collect?

Bob Smith 14:36
Oh my god.

Marcia Smith 14:37
I wanted him to come over. Oh

Bob Smith 14:39
my goodness. Oh, well, that’s there’s a story. That sad. Gave away your mom’s rare coins to a boy that you wanted to come over? Yeah. Did he come over?

Speaker 2 14:52
He did. Did he stay over just till he got what he wanted. Of course, his coins right gave me the crappy Indian heads and I gave him am their liberty hat. Dear?

Bob Smith 15:01
Well speaking of that, why is the first Indian Head Penny misnamed? Because it’s not an Indian? That’s right. It wasn’t the first one. It was an 1859 and the mince engraver James Longacre modeled a bust of liberty wearing a feather bonnet for the one set piece. And from the beginning, people took the liberty head for an Indian Head. And they called it the Indian Head Penny. That’s how that whole term really worn. Yeah. Then later, of course, they did have actual Indian Head pennies, but

Marcia Smith 15:30
I wear that for Easter, a little feather, feather head, the feather.

Bob Smith 15:35
Okay, all right. Why would you say that the Brothers Grimm were unfair to women and their fantasies?

Marcia Smith 15:43
Well, most of the old books were unfair to women. So it’s hard to nail it down. Why would you say trying to think of one grim book give me example.

Bob Smith 15:54
I can I you know, you want me to give you answers that doesn’t work this way Marsh. What are the answers? Okay. The sheer number of bad female characters in their stories, then examining 200 fairy tales. They’re all evil. They’re women. The stories contain 16 Wicked mothers or stepmothers, compared to only three wicked fathers are stepfather 16 versus three. And there are 13 young women who kill or endanger the man who love them, but only one man who harms his bride, though that you could say they’re pretty misogynistic is grim. These brothers Grimm, hence the name grim. They didn’t like women that much, apparently.

Marcia Smith 16:34
Let me give you a factoid. Okay. All right. It’s just so stupid. I had to refer to it in 1969. And Italian cheese manufacturer was convicted in court of having increased the production of his grated parmesan cheese, which we buy a lot of by adding to it. The ground up handles of

Unknown Speaker 16:56
old umbrellas.

Unknown Speaker 16:57
Oh.

Bob Smith 17:00
Oh my goodness. Where was that? And

Speaker 2 17:03
when was the 69 in Italy? Oh, my goodness. You ever said what’s that

Marcia Smith 17:09
in my farmers? I

Bob Smith 17:10
think that’s an umbrella handle. No, I don’t think so. I’m gonna have chicken umbrella tonight. Oh, my goodness. Oh, you know, a lot of people are moving to podcasts, streaming radio, streaming music, and so forth. We all know radio was one of the major mediums of the 20th century. And it was the first medium to bring the world into people’s homes for free. But with all the other listening alternatives today that I mentioned, the internet, the podcast, satellite streaming, competing for your ears attentions. How many Americans does radio reach today? percentage wise?

Marcia Smith 17:51
I’d say 99%. Really? Yeah. Why? Because radio today I can reach you know, where can it go? Except in some little mountain village I imagine. It’s interesting.

Bob Smith 18:02
Your banner right? It’s not 99. But believe it or not terrestrial radio has done better than terrestrial television in maintaining its penetration. According to Nielsen radio still reaches and this is a figure from March 2020 still reaches 92% of Americans over the age of 18 every day. I thought that was fascinating. Yeah, Americans listen to an average of one hour and 40 minutes of radio every day. And another surprising statistic the total number of people reached monthly by radio is still more than Internet search engines, social media sites, e commerce Sites, Video sites, news sites and sports sites. 244 point 5 million people every month are reached by radio it’s like they sometimes you say don’t believe the publicity. The publicity you think will radios dead that’s gone. You know it’s still the most popular medium.

Marcia Smith 18:56
Yeah, as old radio guy you must really appreciate that. I

Bob Smith 19:00
was surprised by that. Yeah, you know, cuz I kind of gone to that thinking. It’s like, well, it’s on its way. Apparently now,

Marcia Smith 19:08
I still turn on the radio all the time. That’s what you do every morning and it’s just you know, company entertainment, listening in the background, weather sports, whatever. I want to hear what’s going on.

Bob Smith 19:19
I got an interesting thing about you know, the in the news right now companies doing all kinds of things that they didn’t used to do making ventilators and personal protection equipment. Never yeah, there’s an interesting story that actually just came out and Fast Company Magazine about Nike that they actually have turned shoe parts into face shields and they did it in just two weeks time good for them. Yeah, Nike agreed to provide personal protective equipment to the local Oregon Health and Science University, but they never built it before. And now to date, in that short amount of time. They have provided 290,000 pieces of medical protection No more than 20 hospitals across the United States, the Vice President of innovation Michael Donahue, it was almost like Apollo 13. In the movie. He brought a team together and he dumped dozens of components onto work tables and they started building facemask seals out of the foams, the plastics, the fibers, by lunch, they’d created two dozen working prototypes. I

Marcia Smith 20:20
love it. See, that’s That’s American ingenuity is around for a while I’m hoping out of this whole rotten mess comes a lot of global improvement in you know, and innovation. You know, that story reminds me of a skunkworks. They were given a job to do in a short amount of time and they exceeded expectations. I

Bob Smith 20:43
was lucky developing the I think it was the Black Hawk, wasn’t it or one of those early planes? Oh, that’s when they developed the first jet plane at the end of the war. World War Two, I

Marcia Smith 20:54
believe Lockheed Martin. Yeah. Yeah, it

Bob Smith 20:55
was lucky at the time.

Marcia Smith 20:57
They were just given a little weird place to develop it off campus sell it

Bob Smith 21:01
skunkworks because there was a terrible smell came.

Marcia Smith 21:05
And they came up with this incredible plane that never existed before. Okay, I have one more factoid Bob. In 1972, Florida’s capitol building was blacked out for 35 minutes by an electrical power failure. This happened while the State Attorney General was holding a press conference detailing plans to reinstate capital punishment in the electric chair.

Unknown Speaker 21:31
Lights Go. Oh,

Bob Smith 21:35
it’s like all those movies. They had the lights dim? Yeah.

Speaker 2 21:40
During the press conference that said it I love it. That’s

Bob Smith 21:44
funny. I’m going to tell you an interesting story. Marcia, so sit

Marcia Smith 21:48
back relax. Find by who Bob

Bob Smith 21:50
by me. Okay. Okay, here’s the question. Remember, we did that thing a week or so ago about all the different things that sound like nuts have a name nut but they aren’t really nuts. Okay. What do these foods have in common? Avocados, kale, mangoes, zucchinis, dates, nectarines, seedless grapes, cashews, pistachios and lemons. They all have something in common actually someone in common

Marcia Smith 22:16
who? Someone Someone name a person? Yes. Well, that’s absurd.

Bob Smith 22:21
No, it’s not absurd. The question is, who do they have in common?

Marcia Smith 22:24
Marcia? Julia Child? No. Was it a scientist? It was a botanist, botanist by the name of Yes, starts with starts with

Bob Smith 22:36
D. The thing is, you’ve never heard of him and nor has anybody else. Oh, then why as well, because it’s fascinating. I’m going to tell you the story. Sit back, relax. And listen. His name was David Fairchild. And he’s the man who introduced all those foods to the United States. So in the late 19th century, David Fairchild was a roving botanist for the Department of Agriculture.

Speaker 2 23:02
Boy, now there’s a title for it. Well, here’s what they were doing like to hire you to be our roving button.

Bob Smith 23:08
This started when he was in his 20s, he took a series of expeditions three times around the world to 50 countries. And on those trips at the direction of his bosses. He shipped home 4000 plant varieties that were either new to the United States or improvements to native crops, the government enterprise was plant introduction and the purpose was to introduce and establishes many of the valuable crops in the world that could be grown here in the United States. And the fruits of his work. Pardon the pun was shared by the Agriculture Department with farmers with orchardists. It’s why we have so many of these things I mentioned we never had them in this country before seedless grapes, for instance. Now he called himself a food spy is what he called himself and in many ways he was he risked his life for this. He dodged cannibals when he was in Fiji. Lord in Corsica, he was mistaken for a political spy and he was thrown in jail, but after talking himself out of jail, he hopped on a donkey and he was heading to a waiting ship, but on the way there he stopped and snipped for buds from a Citroen tree. Now SITRANS were their progenitors to today’s modern oranges, lemons and grapefruit, and those boosted California citrus production from 1894 on for 20 years in the Middle East, he survived an outbreak of the plague aboard his ship. In Chile, he acquired the seedstock for America’s first avocados, but it wasn’t easy. While he was crossing the Andes, his mule slipped on a patch of ice on the almost fell over a 1000 foot cliff. Nope,

Marcia Smith 24:36
this guy got a good performance review.

Bob Smith 24:39
And two more items. He even improved American beer while he was buying rounds of beer for bohemian farmers, he procured some of the finest German hops which he smuggled out of the country, and that helped with the inferior taste of American beer at the turn of the century time. And then in 1908, he convinced the mayor of Tokyo to give him the Japanese cherry trees which became the rootstock of all was cherry trees in Washington, DC.

Marcia Smith 25:01
Remember it was in our backyard at our last house. So

Bob Smith 25:05
he gave you many of the great tastes you have in American cuisine. But what was the bad thing that came out of all of this?

Unknown Speaker 25:12
Sauerkraut? Well, that sauerkraut?

Bob Smith 25:16
Unfortunately, by introducing foreign plants to America, he also introduced foreign pests who hitchhike sure on the shipments, and by 1912, half the insect pests in the country were foreign pests including coddling mods, asparagus beetles, gypsy moths, and boll weevils. So when that happened to Congress passed the plant quarantine act and that was the end of David Fairchilds food adventures. But look what he what he got for us. Avocados, kale, mangoes, zucchinis, dates, nectarines, seedless grapes, cashews, pistachios, and lemons. Thank you, David Fairchild for putting those in our supermarket.

Marcia Smith 25:53
Yeah, that was well it’s very foresight to send him out doing that. But then that where they fell short was thinking what it could bring back with them. Why they could have been all purified the

Bob Smith 26:03
unintended consequences of her act. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 26:05
that’s fascinating. what a what a job. What a great job.

Bob Smith 26:08
That was a great story. Apparently, there’s a new book The Food explorer by Daniel drone, published by Dutton that’s brand new book sounds very interesting. Okay, what what world’s record did Alexander Graham Bell break in 1919? Okay,

Marcia Smith 26:23
we ate more pies than anybody else know.

Bob Smith 26:27
Had nothing to do with communication, okay, or diet for that matter? In 1919, when he was 72, his hydrofoil boats at a world’s water speed record 70 miles per hour. Water? Yeah,

Marcia Smith 26:40
interesting. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker 26:42
And hydrofoil.

Bob Smith 26:44
He also formed the National Geographic Society and founded National Geographic.

Marcia Smith 26:49
He was like Ben Franklin, a renaissance guy.

Bob Smith 26:51
He was a renaissance guy. All right, I got one more airplane question. Who was the first person ever interviewed on an airplane?

Marcia Smith 26:59
Well, I bet it was a precedent. No. Hollywood star, it was a movie director. Okay. movie director, Otto Prem injure. Know

Bob Smith 27:13
who Cecil B. DeMille. Ah, he was interviewed on an airplane in 1917. After his first spectacular job, the woman was released. So on the woman, just think about that. That’s only 15 years, 14 years after the Wright brothers and somebody’s already up in the airplane with a reporter being interviewed. Interesting. Well, that’s it for our eighth week of, let’s call it stir crazy trivia. Okay. Okay. I’m Bob Smith.

Marcia Smith 27:41
I’m Marcia Smith.

Bob Smith 27:42
I hope you’ll join us again next time we come back here on the off ramp. The off ramp is produced in association with CPL radio and the Cedarbrook Public Library Cedarburg, Wisconsin.

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