051 Mashup Trivia

Bob Smith 0:00
How did an ad in the Wall Street Journal lead to the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls?

Marcia Smith 0:06
And what does it fatal disease and a popular summer drink having common

Bob Smith 0:11
answers to those and other questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith?

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, this sounds like a summer drink that’s related to a deadly disease. It has some kind of overtones versus this time we’re living in but tell me about it Marsh.

Marcia Smith 0:52
This popular summer drink Winston Churchill once called the drink that has saved more Englishman’s lives and minds than all the doctors in Europe

Bob Smith 1:03
really? A summer drink is this like a gin and tonic or something? Like that’s exactly what you do. Really? Tell me about it. Tell me tell me tell me that it’s medicinal. Well, that’s nice to know.

Marcia Smith 1:14
The ultimate boozy refresher drink which we just had the other day a gin and tonic. It first became popular in 19th century India as a malaria cure. I had no idea quinine. A bitter herb that prevents the disease was part of the carbonated tonic water patented in 1858. and British colonists soon concocted the gin and tonic as a lovely way to take their daily medicine.

Bob Smith 1:45
Leave it to the British. Yeah, well,

Marcia Smith 1:47
we gotta take this quinine

Bob Smith 1:48
was a way to take the quinine and enjoy, you

Marcia Smith 1:51
know, malaria every

Bob Smith 1:54
time. That’s fascinating. I had never heard that, that the gin and tonic had to do with a malaria cure.

Marcia Smith 2:03
Let’s hope there’s something for COVID Half is fun.

Bob Smith 2:06
Oh my god. I’ve got an interesting question, too. How did an ad in the Wall Street Journal lead to the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls? I wonder if, if our friend Rob Frederickson knows the answer to this. He’s a pastor and the listener. Okay. Do you know?

Marcia Smith 2:22
I haven’t a clue. Oh, well, this is

Bob Smith 2:25
interesting. Now there were there were two sets of scrolls discovered in the caves in the Judean Desert and a member of the desert Bedouin tribe was chasing a goat when he stumbled into the cave and he found those scrolls hidden there in the in the pottery jars. I think we know about that. He sold two of them, and they finally fell into the hands of an archeological professor at Hebrew University in 1947. So he went back to the cave, and he found four more scrolls, he sold those to a different buyer, a man who worked at the monastery of St. Mark in Jerusalem, and in 1948. That man realize the scrolls he paid just 24 pounds for were priceless, authentic biblical manuscripts. So what did he do? In 1954, he placed a blind ad in the Wall Street Journal, and he sold the four scrolls back to the Israeli Government for $250,000.

Marcia Smith 3:18
Is that bad for the Dead Sea Scrolls? That’s a deal.

Bob Smith 3:22
So anyway, that’s how the Israeli government finally got the rest of the Dead Sea scrolls through an ad in the Wall Street Journal.

Marcia Smith 3:29
They got it wasn’t on eBay or something these days, it would have been Yeah.

Unknown Speaker 3:32
Scrolls, reuse scrolls. Would

Marcia Smith 3:34
you like some use? Sure, yeah.

Bob Smith 3:36
Hey, I got a question for you. Okay. You know, the normal human body temperature is 98.6 degrees Fahrenheit. Yeah. But your temperature has to rise to 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit to be considered a fever. Why the big difference? And why those precise numbers?

Marcia Smith 3:53
I was just gonna say, Why are those numbers so, so precise? I happen to know this answer, Bob. Oh, okay. Because in Celsius, they’re even number. That’s right.

Bob Smith 4:05
Their conversion numbers. You read the same thing I did ask Maryland magazine. That’s

Marcia Smith 4:11
right as Maryland I read it too.

Bob Smith 4:13
I went a little deeper than that. Okay, I found a little more interesting stuff beyond that. But you’re exactly right. The number of suggested precision that doesn’t exist because the Fahrenheit numbers are conversion numbers from the Celsius scale, that was invented in the 18th century by Anders Celsius, a centigrade temperature scale based on the number 100 which is very simple. I wish we had adopted this but we didn’t on the Celsius scale, zero is the freezing point of water 100 Is the boiling point of what simple simple some everything else is in between. So on the Celsius scale, a human beings normal body temperature is 37 degrees of fever starts at 38. But when you convert those numbers to Fahrenheit 37 becomes 98.6 38 becomes 100.4. So the gap between These these degrees is less than it seems. It’s

Marcia Smith 5:02
an interesting, common sense answer to why it’s so odd.

Bob Smith 5:06
And just so we can credit who came up with the Fahrenheit system that was physicist Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit. He did his before the Celsius scale. So his came out first. But Celsius superseded it and every country in the world except the US, the Bahamas, Belize, the Cayman Islands and Liberia. Use Fahrenheit to Celsius

Marcia Smith 5:29
if they had done it, like they talked about when we were kids, we would have no problem with it today. The metric says Yeah, exactly. By now I you know, no, we’re doomed. Okay, here’s something fun. Okay, who is the only person to appear on every version of The Tonight Show from Steve Allen, to Jimmy Fallon, really, as a guest,

Bob Smith 5:53
and Steve Allen that started in 1950 or something. So I’m pretty sure we’re talking about 70 years.

Marcia Smith 5:59
So who’s been on every single Tonight Show?

Bob Smith 6:03
Can you give me any hint? Yes, I

Marcia Smith 6:06
can. Okay. He’s in the news this week. Unfortunately. Carl

Bob Smith 6:10
Reiner. Carl Reiner, really? He was on every version of The Tonight Show. On the beginning of television. Yeah, until the 21st century. 98

Marcia Smith 6:19
years old. He died this week. God bless him. Well, I

Bob Smith 6:22
have an interesting question about a comedian. What famous comedian got his start acting with the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression? What comedian repeated what famous American comedian got his start acting with the Works Progress Administration during the Great Depression during FDR time. So

Marcia Smith 6:43
God this would have to go back to somebody.

Bob Smith 6:46
I’ll just cut to the chase. It’s Carl Carl Reiner. Oh, no. Yes, actually, it’s interesting, because after graduating from high school, he was making $8 a week as a machinist. His older brother Charlie told him about a free dramatic workshop in Manhattan, sponsored by the Works Progress Administration. So he went and took the course I’ll be darned. He did plays in Central Park for $1 A week he did Shakespeare he was in a summer Theatre in Rochester. And during World War Two, this is another interesting thing. We know that Carl Reiner wrote The Dick Van Dyke Show, he directed it, he wrote it. He wrote it like himself. I was a comedy writer. I worked in New York City. I lived in New Rochelle, New York, just like Dick Van Dyke had two kids had a wife. But another thing about Dick Van Dyke is just like Carl Reiner Carl Reiner, during World War Two, he was in the Air Force. But he also was in a comedy troupe and acting troupe performed before soldiers and he said that’s where he became a comedian was in World War Two. I thought that was fascinating. It is that came from the Hollywood Reporter. Another thing in there was he said, What was different about Dick Van Dyke was he and his wife were pretty much equals. It wasn’t like I Love Lucy, or a lot of the other shows where the, the marriage was based on deception, somebody who’s always trying to pull the wool over the eyes of the other person. Oh, yeah,

Marcia Smith 8:02
there was a little more, more quality there in that relationship. For sure.

Bob Smith 8:07
I heard Mary Tyler Moore recently talking. She goes, I was watching all these TV shows. And the wives were vacuuming the floor, and they were in these little frilly dresses and everything. And she goes, I was wearing Capri pants and jeans. And I asked, Can I do that? That seems more real to me. And they said, Sure. And that was a very different look. And you look at those shows today. They still look modern. They look like they’re dressed today. Not Yeah, can 19 Six. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 8:28
But you didn’t see him vacuuming? And that’s the key bar.

Bob Smith 8:33
I don’t think that’s important at all. Yeah. All right. Well, let’s Yes, you’re right. There was no equality there.

Marcia Smith 8:40
Okay. Let’s go to why do dogs yawn so much. Here

Bob Smith 8:45
we go. Marcia’s animal stories. Why do dogs yawn so much? No, that is a good question.

Marcia Smith 8:52
I remember I was always so no.

Bob Smith 8:55
Is it a reaction to something? It’s not a it’s not a sample boredom reaction or anything? Is it? Some of

Marcia Smith 9:01
it, it’s it. They’re just like us they yawn because they’re tired. And that can be one of the things but they also yawn during times of anxiety, insecurity, excitement, indifference, and they use it as a calming signal to other dogs. Really? Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. Dr. Katie Nelson senior veterinarian at chewy

Bob Smith 9:21
I think that’s a company that does a dog food. She said, of

Marcia Smith 9:25
all the reasons that dogs young and the calming signal could possibly be the most significant of these as a way to peacefully greet another dog. It’s almost like a handshake. Oh, so that’s, whereas

Bob Smith 9:39
if, if you met somebody and they said, Hi, I’m so and so and you yawn and be like, yeah, that’s an insult. They’re

Marcia Smith 9:45
yawning, avoiding eye contact, licking their lips, sniffing something in the environment and exaggerated slow walking are all signs that dogs communicate that they are not a threat.

Bob Smith 9:59
Interesting. I remember people like that in business dealing with me. That was a

Marcia Smith 10:03
real slap down. I gotta approach you. I was down on

Bob Smith 10:07
the accounting department. He didn’t like me. Okay, go ahead. Okay. We’ve recently heard that Aunt Jemima pancake, Brandon, Uncle Ben’s rice are going away as outdated advertising personas. And they do depict African Americans in an old fashioned light. And you and I worked in advertising and in advertising, we’re always creating characters to sell products. But here’s some things I didn’t know about Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben.

Marcia Smith 10:30
Well, weren’t they depicted as plantation people? Well, not

Bob Smith 10:34
exactly. It was post slavery. So as a white person, I grew up thinking Aunt Jemima. She looks like a friendly Happy Black woman. What’s racist about that? Well, according to the Wall Street Journal, the Aunt Jemima character, which dates back to 1889, was inspired by the song old Aunt Jemima, which was performed in minstrel shows. And what were minstrel shows song and dance shows with white actors in blackface. Yeah. And African Americans were not performers. Yeah, they couldn’t even attend the shows. So that makes sense. That’s where Aunt Jemima came from from minstrel shows. How about Ben? Oh, cool, Ben. Now he looks like a kind older white haired black man. Well, Uncle Ben’s rice brand was originally called Uncle Ben’s plantation rice. Yeah, they showed me you know, the white haired man with black bowtie serving rice and the Mars company revamped that brand in 2007. They elevated Uncle Ben to Chairman of an imaginary rice company. An online ad campaign had him in an opulent office. But critics still noted he still has that black bow tie. That’s part of a servant’s dress. Yeah. Now here’s the problem for both of these advertising characters, the honorific titles Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben now being white, I never realized this. Those titles reflect a period when white southerners used aunt and uncle because they didn’t want to address black adults as Mr. And Mrs. So it was a way to dismiss their identity. Who knew I didn’t It’s sad. Those facts paint Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben in a different light. So a fellow who is an expert on this said the fact that a company is willing at this time to not just revisit but remove those characters means they’ve had some really intense conversations, they’ve come to a conclusion that these are vestiges of the Jim Crow era, and you’re using vestiges to sell your product. I had no idea. It’s background stuff that you didn’t grow up understanding if you grew up white. If you were African American, you would you would know that. Okay,

Marcia Smith 12:31
Bob, here’s one not up your alley. Okay, but you may know the answer. All right. Who is the only pro athlete to have been named an all star in both football and basketball?

Bob Smith 12:44
Somebody from the 50s? No. 60s now? 80s? No. Oh, way before that. No.

Marcia Smith 12:50
90s Oh, he retired in 90s. I don’t know who okay, it was Bo Jackson. Oh, no kidding. He was a star running back who retired in 1991. From the LA Raiders with a severe hip injury. And then he went on after that in the 90s to be a star performer with the Kansas City Royals. So he was twice super

Bob Smith 13:13
athlete and you know, most athletes when they come out of high school and they’ve played all this Yes. You know, they have to specialize in one or two. Yeah, for their career. It

Marcia Smith 13:22
blew my mind that he was all star for both those things. I think

Bob Smith 13:25
it’s time for us to take a break. All right. We’ll be back in just a moment. You’re listening to trivial matter on the off ramp with Bob and

Marcia Smith 13:32
Marsha Smith.

Bob Smith 13:35
We’re back again with more trivial matters here on the off ramp. Okay, what explore planted among other flags the banner of his college fraternity on the land he discovered. Can you believe that? No, it was Robert Peary, who he planted the flag of Delta Kappa Epsilon when he arrived at the North Pole. Oh, yes, he also planted the American flag

Marcia Smith 14:00
with a cap on must have been thrilled. He planted the

Bob Smith 14:04
Red Cross flag the flag of the Daughters of the American Revolution. He also planted or buried a bottle containing a message claiming the North Pole for the United States. Now, that bottle has never been found. So we don’t own the North Pole. Okay. Oh, wow. And of course some people say Fredrik cook beats Perry to the pole, but who knows? Yes.

Marcia Smith 14:22
Let’s not debate that right now. Okay, not today. Okay. This is fun. What is the shortest sentence in the English language? What can be possibly the shortest sentence? Well, I always thought least amount of characters and words I always think

Bob Smith 14:39
of run. Because that is both a verb and a sentence. Run. Run period. Run.

Marcia Smith 14:46
No shorter, shorter, shorter than

Bob Smith 14:50
run. It’s only three letters. This is to to what is it? Go? Of course and there it’s got an implied subject as you You run or it’s like a command, right? Yeah,

Marcia Smith 15:02
it’s the understood subject. Yeah. And it’s a command. So if used as a command go is the shortest

Bob Smith 15:08
sentence in the English language. Okay.

Marcia Smith 15:12
All right now you can die happy. All right. Speaking of you can go

Bob Smith 15:15
speak of the opposite of short and small. When was the first computer hard drive invented? And how big was it? The first computer hard drive.

Marcia Smith 15:26
When was that? I’ll say it was.

Bob Smith 15:28
We were very little at the time. 60s. No. 50

Marcia Smith 15:32
Yeah. 50s I remember what a computer looked like in the 60s took up

Bob Smith 15:39
a whole room. Yeah. Was spinning, spinning. Okay, so the

Marcia Smith 15:43
hard drive in the 50s must have been humongous. It

Bob Smith 15:47
was the first hard drive was introduced by IBM in 1956. Okay, it was called the IBM four 350 storage drive. And it worked with their 305 Random Access Memory accounting system, which was a vacuum tube computer system. Now, how big was this hard drive? Let’s talk about physical size, not just how much you could store

Marcia Smith 16:10
it. I’ve got it stored by 10 megabytes. Not even

Bob Smith 16:14
that it’s 3.5 megabytes. That’s the size of a photo these days. Can mp3 have a small song? Yeah. Oh my god. That’s all the more now How big was it? I was six feet long. Six feet eight inches tall and two feet five inches deep. And it could store a JPEG. Oh my god. But that’s all you needed back.

Marcia Smith 16:35
Wow. Can’t carry that in my purse. Oh, no. That’s not like

Bob Smith 16:38
a portable hard drive or flash memory? No, no, no. mazing isn’t it? Yes. Something that big six feet tall and it could only store 3.5 megabyte file.

Marcia Smith 16:49
Okay, tell me what the definition of this word is. Okay. Okay. What is a Puggle? pug g l e, a Puggle?

Bob Smith 16:58
It’s a combination of a puddle, and a giggle or it’s a dog. That’s a pug that’s in a puddle.

Marcia Smith 17:09
No, you’re half right right there. Think it through? It’s

Bob Smith 17:12
a poodle and a pug dog.

Marcia Smith 17:15
It’s a beagle and a pug. Oh, no

Bob Smith 17:17
kidding. Yeah, they’ve huggle that cute. Yeah, we had it sounds like we had a wonderful Beagle, Beagle.

Marcia Smith 17:24
And if he had made it with the two doors away dog the pugs then they would have had a puddle.

Bob Smith 17:30
Oh, okay. I see what you’re saying. Made it I’m thinking if he would have lived but no. Yeah. Our little buster. What a cute doggy. He was. Okay, go ahead. Okay. Every state in the United States has state mottos. Yes. Okay. Some are simple. One word mottos. Some come from famous quotes. Most relate to American history, but which state motto goes all the way back to ancient Greece and Archimedes? And here’s a hint. The phrase relates to this state’s most famous mineral.

Marcia Smith 18:04
Our cheese hematite something? Is it coal? No, this is a mineral. Hmm,

Bob Smith 18:09
yeah. Well cause a mineral. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 18:11
I’m just thinking now this goes all the way back to alright. Yes. Tell me

Bob Smith 18:15
okay, it’s California. Oh, what’s their

Marcia Smith 18:18
motto? in gold? We trust No. Their

Bob Smith 18:20
motto is you Rica. That’s Greek for I found it our fan for the gold rush. And yeah, but And that’s the story of Archimedes. He realized he could determine the purity of gold. So we ran through the streets naked, shouting Eureka. And that phrase was later used in the original design of the state ceiling.

Marcia Smith 18:37
How many nine Californians know that what your why it’s

Bob Smith 18:41
your week? Well, yeah, who knew Eureka specifically related to gold?

Marcia Smith 18:45
Why was he naked? Well,

Bob Smith 18:46
that’s that’s an ancient story, honey, I see. I have to go back and find out all right. Okay. Got a couple more here. What states motto is equal rights. Which US states motto is equal rights.

Marcia Smith 18:59
All say equal rights is all right. Tell me

Bob Smith 19:05
it’s a it’s a well you’re close. It’s Wyoming. Okay. And it embraced Wyoming embraced equal rights as part of its pioneering spirit the it reflects the fact that way back in 1869 Wyoming guaranteed women the right to vote, the right to serve on juries and hold public office Wow. So for 150

Marcia Smith 19:23
years I should have lived on my own well yeah the day so

Bob Smith 19:28
women were much more equal in Wyoming probably because on the frontier things work best with all hands on deck

Marcia Smith 19:34
a bad cheese. Good to know. Yeah. All right. Okay. This is I found fascinating, which is good. How long terms of measurement is a jiffy? At your genius,

Bob Smith 19:51
Jiffy is actually a measurement is a real legal measurement. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 19:54
a chippy Yeah,

Bob Smith 19:56
really? Is it is it related to a New York minute is it as asked is a New York minute I want to know faster. Oh really? I don’t know Jiffy

Marcia Smith 20:03
is actually a scientific term. A Jiffy is the time it takes light to travel a centimeter in a vacuum, or around 33.4 pico seconds. What is a pico second year?

Bob Smith 20:17
Wait a minute, I didn’t ask what is the pico second?

Marcia Smith 20:21
pico second is a trillionth of a second.

Bob Smith 20:24
I thought it was like a burrito flavor or something. Do you like a pico second?

Marcia Smith 20:28
Read that 1,000,000th of a second,

Bob Smith 20:32
a trillionth of a second? Yeah. So is a jiffy. Alright, so

Marcia Smith 20:35
that’s very jiffy. Boy.

Bob Smith 20:39
Hold on.

Marcia Smith 20:40
So the next time you say to me, I’ll be there in a jiffy.

Bob Smith 20:44
You better be here. You better already be here, buddy. What else you got? Here’s

Marcia Smith 20:50
one after your heart. And you probably know the answer to what do a beer salesman and world records have in common?

Bob Smith 20:58
Oh, I know the answer to this. And this is the Guinness Book of World Records. Correct?

Marcia Smith 21:03
Sir Hugh beaver?

Bob Smith 21:05
Sir Hugh beaver is his last name. Really? Yeah,

Marcia Smith 21:09
it was in the early 50s. What happened? Well,

Bob Smith 21:12
I believe the story is he was in a bar. He was having an argument over something with someone and him with the idea. Wouldn’t it be great if there was a book that could solve a lot of these arguments in bars over arcane questions people came up with

Marcia Smith 21:27
Yes, he was in a lot of bars because he was selling Guinness. And he’d noticed that nobody could ever settle a bar disagreement. So he didn’t come up with the book idea right away. But he thought, what if we did a little newsletter as a promotional advertisement, and just call it Guinness World Records? And then it finally occurred to them, Hey, we got enough here. Let’s put it together for a book then they just started doing books every year. Yeah. And it was all because this beer salesman wanted to tap away in bars to settle arguments. And that

Bob Smith 21:57
was an advertising vehicle. Yeah. And then it became the Guinness Book of World Records. I think it eventually became its own company. Now I believe they and they still, yeah, they still do that.

Marcia Smith 22:06
Well. And just a little aside, speaking of the Top Weirdest Guinness World Records, there’s a guy named Nick the lick Strobel. from Monterey, California, do you get these things the proud owner of the world’s longest tongue? Oh, cheese. How long has it been?

Bob Smith 22:26
I don’t know if I even want to think about that. Okay,

Marcia Smith 22:29
it’s almost four inch. Oh dear. The average time you asked.

Bob Smith 22:33
You didn’t ask. Well, it’s

Marcia Smith 22:34
3.3 inches. I will measure yours a little later. But here’s this four and Nick the Laker holds that Guinness Book of World Record Oh dear lord just thought you’d find that intriguing.

Bob Smith 22:45
Okay, so let me go back to one of my favorite topics history. Okay. How did English explorer Captain Cook trick his men into eating sauerkraut to prevent scurvy on their ocean voyage Wow. How did Captain

Marcia Smith 23:04
What if it was his creative as the quinine it is

Bob Smith 23:07
actually as crazy as this is back in 1770. What

Marcia Smith 23:10
do you do put it on a good corned beef sandwich. Remember

Bob Smith 23:13
Captain Cook went all over the world even to the North Pole almost to the North Pole and Hawaii and everywhere. He was an amazing guy.

Marcia Smith 23:20
Did he put it on a food I got pork or good corned beef sandwich. Oh,

Bob Smith 23:25
he deceived his sailors. He puts sauerkraut in containers saying for officers only.

Marcia Smith 23:33
That’s hilarious. Oh my God. He

Bob Smith 23:36
was preparing his ship the resolution for a voyage to the South Pacific in 1772. And he wanted to feed his men sauerkraut to prevent them from coming up with scurvy. He knew the Germans seldom had that disease because they always carried barrels of sauerkraut on their long voyages. So cook knew the English sailors would never eat foreign food no matter how good it was for them. So he put barrels of sauerkraut out on deck labeled for officers only. And little by little brilliant. The contents of the barrels grew less and less. And during that voyage in 1772, not one sailor on the resolution came down with the disease. They

Marcia Smith 24:13
probably enjoyed every minute of eating it because they thought it was a delicate yeah. Oh

Bob Smith 24:16
yeah. It’s like,

Marcia Smith 24:17
this must be Yeah. Special. Oh, caviar caviar.

Bob Smith 24:20
Yeah, they probably thought it was something. Yeah. I don’t know what it says. But he likes it. So.

Marcia Smith 24:26
Well, here’s a question. How heavy is a blue whale heart?

Bob Smith 24:30
How heavy is the heart of a blue whale? Yeah, the blue whales weigh tons and tons and tons. So how heavy is a heart? It’s as heavy as the first IBM hard drive. It’s six feet tall. 6.8 feet deep. I don’t I don’t know how much

Marcia Smith 24:48
well, it’s actually the size of a small piano. Really? 400 pounds. Oh my god. You can hear his heartbeat from more than two miles away. Oh,

Bob Smith 24:58
Blue Whales heart It is the size of a small piano 400 pounds and you can hear it two miles away.

Marcia Smith 25:05
Put that in your factoid loose. That’s amazing. It is.

Bob Smith 25:09
Okay. A show or two ago we were talking about the first moto in the US coins and it was mind your business. Remember that? Yeah. Then you asked me so when did In God We Trust go on the coin? Uh huh. Well, I have the answer. Oh, well, because Rob Fredrickson, one of our listeners came back to me with an email and told me about this. So can you give me a guess when you think In God We Trust was adopted by Congress? Thanks

Marcia Smith 25:33
for this. Rob. I will say CAD, we try 1892.

Bob Smith 25:39
Now you would think it was something like that they

Marcia Smith 25:42
would go way back probably 1953. It was

Bob Smith 25:45
1956. Really? Yeah. So that’s when they adopted in God we trust the Congress did as the official model of the United States. All right now, Rob’s question. What earlier national motto did it replace? Whole raw?

Marcia Smith 26:04
Little Dick Van Dyke humor there. God saved the president.

Bob Smith 26:09
I know. No. It replaced E Pluribus Unum. Oh, sure. I

Marcia Smith 26:13
remember seeing that. You can still see it on the old coins. Yeah, from which which

Bob Smith 26:17
means from many one from many. We are one that goes all the way back to 1776. So we had mind your own business. Then we had E Pluribus Unum. And then we have in God we trust. I liked the last one best.

Marcia Smith 26:33
Yeah, me too. That second one is a little Star Trek Ian, isn’t it? Yeah. So

Bob Smith 26:37
our thanks to rob Fredrickson, one of our listeners. Thanks, Rob.

Marcia Smith 26:40
Send me some. Okay, okay. According to Costco, Costco survey on their Facebook page, Bob, can you name the top four favorite ice cream flavors that their customers voted?

Bob Smith 26:58
I think it’s the old standbys. I think it’s chocolate number one, nella and strawberry?

Marcia Smith 27:02
Well, you’re right with the first two. Okay. 22% said chocolate 14% said vanilla. But you’ll be surprised at the third which is one of our favorites. What did we have in the old

Bob Smith 27:15
Jamocha coffee coffee flavor?

Marcia Smith 27:17
Oh 6%. And then the next one 5% Rocky Road. So the top four chocolate vanilla coffee and rocky road looks pretty good. At least among Costco customers.

Bob Smith 27:29
So that means all those are bought in huge quantities.

Marcia Smith 27:35
Take this survey then we’ll know what to stock.

Bob Smith 27:37
Oh, god. Okay, let’s end up with famous last words. Okay, this is Buffalo Bill Cody. Oh, he asked his doctor how much time he had left. The doctor gave him a sober estimate. This is a 1870 and he said Your life is like an hourglass. The sand is slipping away gradually. Slowly but surely the sand will be gone. He died during that speech. The end is not far away. And Buffalo Bill said Okay, then let’s forget about it and play high five. He didn’t like all the poetry look, I’m dying. Let’s do something fun for five. Well, we hope you enjoyed playing high five with us with this trivia episode. I’m Bob Smith.

Marcia Smith 28:18
I’m Marcia Smith. Join us again next

Bob Smith 28:20
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