Bob and Marcia discussed various fascinating topics, including the unique reproductive habits of male seahorses, the origins of pickles, and human anatomy. Marcia revealed that male seahorses are the only mammals that undergo pregnancy and give birth, while Bob shared that pickles were once exotic in the Roman Empire. Marcia then asked Bob how much saliva he produces in a lifetime, and Bob estimated 100 gallons. Finally, Marcia inquired about the average human body’s blood content, and Bob revealed that men typically have 10-11 pints of blood, while women have closer to 10 pints. Bob and Marcia also delved into cultural and historical topics, analyzing the meanings and origins of various state mottos and discussing the significance of understanding these contexts in shaping our perspectives and everyday lives.
Outline
Unusual animal facts and human body statistics.
- Male seahorses and related species are the only males in the animal kingdom to undergo pregnancy and give birth.
- Bob and Marcia discuss interesting facts, including the origin of pickles and the amount of saliva produced in a lifetime.
History, trivia, and technology.
- Etsy sold 12 million masks in April, more than any other retailer.
- Ringo Starr received death threats in Montreal due to mistaken belief he was Jewish.
- Bob and Marcia discuss the origins of the term “firewall” in computing, tracing it back to a 16th-century religious treatise and a 17th-century proposal to protect warehouses in London.
Odds of royal flush, COVID-19 impact, and Fathom measurement.
- Marcia and Bob discuss odds of getting a royal flush in poker, with Marcia providing statistics and Bob making jokes.
- Bob and Marcia discuss the financial struggles of a famous clothing brand, Brooks Brothers, which has been in operation since 1818.
Trivia, music, and social security.
- Bob and Marcia Smith discuss the origins of the term “macaroni” and how it became a slang term for stylish young men in 18th century England.
- Yankee Doodle’s reference to “macaroni” in the song is a reference to the dandy subculture of the time, with the feather symbolizing the wearer’s fashionable status.
- Bob Smith discusses the age of rock stars, mentioning Ringo Starr’s 80th birthday and Dion DiMucci’s new album.
- Marcia Smith asks Bob about Dion’s social security number after death, and Bob explains that retired numbers remain unique.
- Bob Smith asks Marcia Smith about the relationship between thunderstorms and sour milk, and Marcia explains that bacteria in the humid air accompanying thunderstorms can turn milk sour.
- Bob and Marcia discuss why macadamia nuts cannot be sold in their shells, with Marcia explaining that it takes 300 pounds per square inch of pressure to break the shell without damaging the nut meat.
State mottos and their meanings.
- Bob and Marcia discuss the Beatles’ final US tour, including their last concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco, where they played “She Loves You.”
- Bob Smith and Marcia Smith discuss state mottos, with Bob providing examples and Marcia guessing the states they belong to.
- Bob and Marcia discuss state mottos, revealing unexpected locations and interesting facts.
Bob Smith 0:01
What food items were once so exotic that during the days of the Roman Empire, only the very rich could afford to import them.
Marcia Smith 0:08
And Name the only males in the animal kingdom who undergo pregnancy and give birth really?
Bob Smith 0:16
Who are those poor souls? I mean, how wonderful to be given the gift of life. answers to those and other questions coming up today on this episode of the off ramp with Bob
Marcia Smith 0:32
and Marsha Smith.
Bob Smith 0:50
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, Marcia, that question of yours already gave me a new perspective on life, that there are some males of species that give birth.
Marcia Smith 1:07
Yes, there are and obviously you can’t name it. Is that what you’re telling? Here?
Bob Smith 1:11
Is that are they mammals? No. Are they some kind of fish?
Marcia Smith 1:15
Yes, they’re from the sea. Okay, what are they? Out of the entire animal kingdom male seahorses and their close relatives pipe fish and sea dragons are the only males in the world that undergo pregnancy and give birth to their offspring. Wow. Yep, unlike most fish, they’re monogamous and mate for life. I didn’t know that other fish fooling around on there. I
Bob Smith 1:40
have no idea. But that tells you what goes on and dark place it does.
Marcia Smith 1:44
That’s it guys carry the baby for 45 days. They get off real easy. Okay, five days they
Bob Smith 1:51
have. But do they have Lamaze classes? That’s my quit. No, they
Marcia Smith 1:54
have something. Breeze. Please, okay. They have something better. It’s called a
Bob Smith 2:04
brood pouch. Sounds like marsupial’s. Yeah, the female
Marcia Smith 2:07
puts her unfertilized egg into his little pouch. And then now he
Bob Smith 2:12
fertilizes it.
Marcia Smith 2:13
He carries it
Bob Smith 2:14
around 45 days later. 45 easy days later, is what you were gonna say? Yes, no, push
Marcia Smith 2:21
it out or whatever. It’s just there. You know? Males always find a way to make it easy on them. Oh,
Bob Smith 2:29
come on. Be nice. All right. Well, we are finding many many interesting facts here. So I’m learning like crazy. And I learned that there was one food item that was once so exotic, that during the days of the Roman Empire, only the very rich could afford them. And this is one of your favorite
Marcia Smith 2:47
foods. me really? Yeah. Lobster. They carried lobster with them everywhere. No.
Bob Smith 2:53
Pickles. Romans imported pickles from Spain, but originally they were from Northern India as cucumbers. Of course. The name pickle appears to be a combination of the Dutch word pickle and the German pockle. Meaning brined pickle. So anyway,
Marcia Smith 3:11
that’s very interesting. All right, my turn. How much saliva does the average human produce in a lifetime? Bob again,
Bob Smith 3:19
where do you get these things? In a lifetime? How much saliva Am I produced? Is it in terms of gallons? Yes. Or hundreds of gallons gallons? Really?
Marcia Smith 3:29
Okay. Your lifetime? I know. I know about it. I have to
Bob Smith 3:33
go back to my very early days to do a lot of saliva that pays I don’t remember. I don’t know. 100 gallons.
Marcia Smith 3:40
That’s a fair guess. 10,000 gallon, good and more in the average? Lifetime? 10,000 gallons. Yes. And speaking of gallons, the average human body contains how many pints of blood?
Bob Smith 3:55
Oh, how many pints of blood in the average human body fights? It’s not gallons then right?
Marcia Smith 4:00
10 pints, which is one gallon in one quart. That’s all the blood we have in it. And men usually have 10 to 11 and women are closer to 10 pints of blood. Yeah. And there’s eight pints in a gallon. So you’re talking about a gallon and a quart. Fascinating. It is fascinating. It’s a lot less than saliva. We
Bob Smith 4:23
okay, I’ve got a little interesting statistic here and I’m going to ask you the question, you know as the Coronavirus, hit in the spring of 2020. What did the website Etsy sell more of than anyone else? Etsy sold more of something than anyone else? Masks? That’s exactly right. How many do you think they sold 12 million really? So masks you remember back in April, The Wall Street Journal had a headline richest country in the world can’t get you a mask? Yeah, well, Etsy stepped in and fill the void doing what conventional supply chains could and they were founded 15 years ago for homemade crafts. And in early April, they rallied their troops mobilizing 20,000 sellers within days who could sell and then 60,000 sellers total by the end of the month. So in all they sold 12 million masks in April alone.
Marcia Smith 5:17
That’s how we got our first match. Yeah, Chelsea’s friend Willa moon of Willa Moon Studios. She sold it and she sells them on Etsy.
Bob Smith 5:27
Yeah, so do lots of other people. In fact, there were more than 1 million masks selections to choose from on their site. Walmart only had several 100. Wow. And the reason they could sell it is because they didn’t have a problem with the supply chain. They didn’t have worry about factories and shipping and everything because its supply chain is people working in their home. Yeah. Or workshops or studios have some fabric and shipped them out amazing. 12 million masks Etsy sold in April.
Marcia Smith 5:54
That’s very funny thing about 20. Okay, Bob, if there’s two things I know you love trivia and the Beatles. So which Beatle received extra protection in Montreal during the group’s first North American tour because of death threats,
Bob Smith 6:11
Really death threats to would that have been John Lennon? No. Not Ringo? Yes. Really? Why was Why did Ringo get death threats?
Marcia Smith 6:19
Because this group, this hate group incorrectly thought Ringo was Jewish. And so he had death threats and they had to put extra protection on him and you imagine cheese? Okay, okay.
Bob Smith 6:31
Here’s a little bit of a long winded question. Okay. Mexico’s royal Aztec leader, Montezuma consumed great quantities of it. Napoleon carried it with him on his campaigns. It’s been taken along on US and Soviet spaceflight. And Sir Edmund Hillary took some with him when he climbed Mount Everest. What food item are we talking about?
Marcia Smith 6:51
Well, we’ve already used the Pickles. Pickles March.
Bob Smith 6:56
I know you want it to be pickles. You want everything to be pickles? Of course, they would take pickles with no,
Marcia Smith 7:02
that’s not the Oh, would it be something that keep them from getting scurvy or No, it’s not like that. Okay, ah, spam. Oh, no.
Bob Smith 7:13
Okay, again Montezuma consumed great quantities and took it on his campaigns. It went on spaceflights and up on Mount Everest, chocolate. Really? Yeah, I’ll chocolate. In 1519 the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortes introduced chocolate to the old world. He took it from the New World, right? Mexico’s royal Aztec court Montezuma toasted Cortez with chocolate and permitted him to watch it being made. And Montezuma drank 50 Golden goblets a day and always drank a big beaker before entering his harem because he believed that gave him strength. He thought it was an aphrodisiac. Napoleon thought he needed quick energy for his soldiers and he carried it with him on his campaign.
Marcia Smith 7:56
That’s something to do. So when did how old wonder Montezuma when he when he died? How with all that chocolate?
Bob Smith 8:03
Well, that’s not the reason he died. He died because they killed him. But 5019 was the date but yeah, so even Edmund Hillary took chocolate with him when he went to Mount Everest and chocolates been in outer space with Russians and Americans.
Marcia Smith 8:16
Okay, Bob, named the smallest country in the world.
Bob Smith 8:20
The smallest country in the world. Isn’t the Vatican considered a country? In Italy? Yeah, that’s it. All right. I got it. Vatican City.
Marcia Smith 8:28
Yeah, it’s a country in Europe. And it’s 121 acres, and its population 21 acre and its population is 825. And it’s designated as a country. So amazing onto itself.
Bob Smith 8:46
Here’s an interesting question. How did the Bible, a 1666 London disaster, and modern building codes lead to a computer term we use today? Make sure ash, make sure this is turned on.
Marcia Smith 9:04
Virus Protection.
Bob Smith 9:05
Yeah, another word for it. The term is firewall,
Marcia Smith 9:10
oh firewall.
Bob Smith 9:11
Now that originally meant something very different. It meant a wall made of fire, not a wall to keep out fire. And it goes all the way back to the book of Zechariah. God promised to protect the holy city of Jerusalem by forming a wall of fire around it. But several 1000 years later, a German Protestant reformer in 1578 he was writing a religious treatise. He translated it as a fire wall and that’s what it’s been called ever since. And in 1666, after the Great Fire of London, the Flemish merchant proposed constructing fire walls to protect warehouses, firewall walls made of non combustible materials would prevent a fire spread and that idea caught on in a modern building codes even. So, when did it come into the computers? 1970s Yeah, I don’t know. I just thought that was interesting.
Marcia Smith 10:04
It is interesting. It’s
Bob Smith 10:05
used everywhere. It’s used in politics to we have to build a firewall. And it all came about originally from the Bible. Let’s go to some
Marcia Smith 10:12
more fun than firewalls. Okay, in poker. Bob, what are your odds of getting a royal flush?
Bob Smith 10:18
And that’s something that Kohler does not make. For bathrooms. All
Marcia Smith 10:25
right, your mind would go there. Yeah. What the heck are royal flush is just the top five cards of the same suit. 10 through ace, ace, king, queen, jack 10. all have the same suit, hearts clubs, whatever.
Bob Smith 10:39
Since there’s a 52 cards in a deck. I’ll just say one in 52.
Marcia Smith 10:47
Well, no. Oh, it’s one out of 649,740 deals. Holy cow. Yeah. Now your chances of getting a pair, you know, to anything two fives to 10s or whatever, or 42%. So every two or three hands, you get
Bob Smith 11:02
a pair, but not a royal flush? Apparently not.
Marcia Smith 11:06
Because there’s only four ways to get it Bob, because there’s only one of each suit. Right? And at a casino they have to deal 40,000 times before they deal a royal flush. Wow. It’s called the unbeatable hand.
Bob Smith 11:18
It sounds like the ungettable hand
Marcia Smith 11:20
Yeah, does doesn’t it but I had to Google to see what happens if two people at the same table get it? And if two people at the table have one you have to split the pot.
Bob Smith 11:30
No, no. Oh, what a disappointment that would be to have something this is only done once every 42,000 hands and you’ve got it too. Okay. All right. Now we know that the COVID 19 virus is affected adversely affected a lot of people around the world but the King and Queen of England. Do you think they’ve been affected?
Marcia Smith 11:51
No. Does the queen have a little drop down mask on her crown? It just falls over.
Bob Smith 11:59
It’s not about masks. It’s not about that. Okay.
Marcia Smith 12:01
I don’t know. How has it they have
Bob Smith 12:04
to lay off employees. Oh, now why would they have to lay off employees in the palaces and stuff? Well, that’s because Queen Elizabeth’s Castles and Palaces the money to run all those comes from tourists. Oh, they don’t have any yeah, there’s hardly any tourists the Royal Collection trust that’s the charity that runs the palaces and castles. It’s losing 10s of millions of dollars and its income is exclusively from ticket sales. Gift Shop sales and other visitor fun know that really? You know what they usually bring in every year? What? $97 million. But this year, they’re thinking they’re only going to make 16 and a half million. This This year they Buckingham Palace is tours were closed. They had to cancel 400 temporary staffers. That was just for the opening. Now talks are underway that would affect 200 full time employees.
Marcia Smith 12:54
Wow. I think you and I discussed this once, but I don’t know if you know the answer yet. How deep is a Fathom of water?
Bob Smith 13:02
I think it’s 50 feet, isn’t it? Now? 10 feet? No.
Marcia Smith 13:05
Okay, how far is it? Six feet?
Bob Smith 13:07
Fathom is six feet. Yeah. Oh, you know what I’m thinking up. It was the beast of 2000 fathoms. That was a movie, a horror movie with a dinosaur underwater. Some kind of creature underwater that he watched
Marcia Smith 13:21
as a kid by the Fathom is actually just six feet. And the father Miss bass, this you’ll find interesting is based on the length of our large man from hand to hand with his arms spread apart, it’s six feet, generally speaking, tip to tip. And when so when you want to measure the depth of water from a boat, without modern means, you drop a weight to the bottom and measure the line as you pull it in as you pull it in. Yeah. And
Bob Smith 13:48
that’s how the guy working Wayne. Yes, that’s right. Yeah, Fathom sounds like it’s so much longer does Yeah, It’s unfathomable. Yeah. So that shows you where that comes. Yeah, it’s so deep. You can’t even quantify it. Okay, I have got a question about a company that just announced they’re going into bankruptcy. This started in 1818, the famous Brooks Brothers clothing brand. Now for more than 200 years, they dress presidents and business tycoons. What was the most famous fashion item they pioneered?
Marcia Smith 14:19
I’ll say it the button down shirt.
Bob Smith 14:23
They did that was one of their inventions.
Marcia Smith 14:25
That’s it really?
Bob Smith 14:30
Yeah, that that interestingly comes from 1896. One of the grandsons of the founders was at a polo match, and he noticed the polo players collars were buttoned down to prevent them from flapping in the wind. So we brought that back and they introduced the button down. Polo shirt, they call it but it was basically like an oxford shirt. I’ll be darned. But this is not the first thing they did. The first thing they did was they invented readymade suits. Before then you had to go in and be measured for everything. Yeah, it was an 1849 and they introduced it for the California gold rush. All these people are racing to go to California to make a fortune. They started advertising suits ready made for the California trade. They wanted to make it easy for those heading west to outfit themselves in full suits of clothing without needing to endure the time consuming process of being fitted multiple times by a tailor. Who would have thought I thought, hey, you’re going to California you got to put the grumpiest clothes you got on and you’re heading out west in Oh covered wagon. I didn’t think of these people taking suits, but that’s where the suits off the rack concept came from it was inspired by the gold rush. Wow,
Marcia Smith 15:33
who would have guessed? Yeah, who knew? Okay, here’s one. Why did Yankee Doodle call a feather? Macaroni?
Bob Smith 15:42
Okay, guys, I just read about this the other day. Did you really? Yeah. Back
Marcia Smith 15:47
in the 1760s Macaroni was slang for the stylish young men who frequented a fashionable new English hangout. The macaroni club. Oh, really? Yeah. It was named after a popular food that had just made its way from Italy over there. Everybody. It was all the rage. Macaroni. So
Bob Smith 16:06
the macaroni Club was in England. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
Marcia Smith 16:09
So when Yankee Doodle Stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni, he was identifying himself as a dandy. The hipster of his tie. Isn’t that interesting? Yeah, I think
Bob Smith 16:21
there’s a macaroni club. All right, we’re we’ll take a break and be back in just a moment. You’re listening to trivia on the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith. All right, we’re back. Marcia, you know you’re getting old when one of your rock’n’roll favorites has turned 80 Oh god. Ringo Starr just turned 80 This July 2020. But another 80 year old rock and roll star is releasing his latest album. Now here are some hits. Okay. Is it Mick Jagger? No. Okay. This fellow was 18 years old and on the bill with Buddy Holly the night Holly died, but he couldn’t afford the $36 plane ticket. I used to know this. He also had a period in his career when he wrote what was considered a major folk ballad. He’s at he’s got a brand new album. Who is it?
Marcia Smith 17:09
It wasn’t Bob Dylan.
Bob Smith 17:12
No, it wasn’t. But Bob Dylan actually wrote the liner notes.
Marcia Smith 17:23
Then you got me.
Bob Smith 17:30
Dion DiMucci – Dion.
Marcia Smith 17:35
I had his record.
Bob Smith 17:40
Yeah, he burst on the scene with Runaround Sue and teenager and love. He just turned 80 And he put out a new album called blues with friends. Now who are the friends on his album? Listen to this. Bruce Springsteen, Jeff Beck, Van Morrison, Paul Simon and Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top. And as I said, Guess who wrote the liner notes Bob Dylan.
Marcia Smith 17:37
Well, Dion can pull on the big names.
Bob Smith 17:41
He can pull out the big names. Bruce Springsteen, incidentally, said Dion was pivotal in his development as a musician. In fact, songs like run around Sue and the wonder are why Springsteen added a saxophone to his own.
Marcia Smith 17:52
Yeah, so cool. Yeah, I love that saxophone and why must I be
Bob Smith 17:58
and I knew that. So Waylon Jennings was on the bill with Buddy Holly that night and didn’t take the plane. But I didn’t know that Dion was on the bill too – he was on that winter dance party. They had all these acts and he was 18. He was supposed to get on the plane at Clear Lake late that night, but he couldn’t afford a $36 ticket, which was a lot of money back then. He said, That’s what his parents were paying in rent back in New York at the time. So he didn’t get on the plane. The folk song he wrote was after Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated. Something. Abraham Martin and John Yeah, 1968. Yeah.
Marcia Smith 18:31
Okay. What happens, Bob, to your social security number when you die? It’s
Bob Smith 18:36
retired. That’s correct.
Marcia Smith 18:38
You’re exactly right,
Bob Smith 18:39
you finally retired from life, your number gets retired. But
Marcia Smith 18:42
number each number remains as unique as the individual. And the first number was issued in 1936. And the nine digit system has a capacity of creating nearly 1 billion possible combinations. So at least for now, they can still give you a brand new number when you’re born.
Bob Smith 19:02
We just had a big thunderstorm last night. Yeah. And I have a question here about thunderstorms. How can summer thunderstorms turn milk sour?
Marcia Smith 19:14
While besides turning off the power in your in your refrigerator has
Bob Smith 19:18
nothing to do with electricity? I don’t know. It’s the conditions that the thunderstorm creates the formation of bacteria in the humid air that accompanies a thunderstorm. So bacteria converts the sugar of the milk to lactic acid. And that’s a summer phenomenon. For the most part, milk is far less likely to turn sour during winter thunderstorms. But during summer thunderstorms, if it’s out, it can turn sour as a result of that. Wow, who knew again? Well,
Marcia Smith 19:44
that’s a good segue from milk to nuts. Why can’t you buy macadamia nuts in their shells?
Bob Smith 19:51
Well, aren’t they poisonous in their shells?
Marcia Smith 19:55
No. Oh, it’s crazy. It’s because you couldn’t possibly Get it out of the shell. It takes 300 pounds per square inch of pressure to break the shell. Good lord. After they’re harvested the Husker remove and the nuts are dried and cured to reduce their moisture and they go through this incredible pressure they have to put on it to get the shell off of it and the cracking
Bob Smith 20:18
process. Yeah, it’s like fracking yet the frack these nuts to get them open.
Marcia Smith 20:23
That’s probably why they’re expensive counter rotating steel rollers space to break the shell without shattering the nut meat. It’s very involved in
Bob Smith 20:32
industrial process to get those nuts freed.
Marcia Smith 20:35
That’s right.
Bob Smith 20:37
Okay, here is a transportation question. All right, when you’re driving down the highway, what part of your car is louder than any other? What part of your car makes the most noise when you’re driving down the highway? You hear a noise? Oh, here comes a car. What is the noise that you hear?
Marcia Smith 20:54
Is it the the roadway under the tires? It’s the
Bob Smith 20:58
tires. If the car is going faster than 25 miles per hour, the sound of your tires is louder than the sound of your engine, especially today. Hmm, wow. And if you get up to 75 miles per hour, your tires can be as loud as 80 decibels. Now, that’s as loud as a freight train heard from 50 feet away. Hmm, that comes from Helen scissor ski, who writes on everyday physics for The Wall Street Journal, the front of the tire slams, the road, air is rapidly forced out of the gaps in the tread, they act like miniature trumpet tubes at the rear of the tire air sucked back into the gaps. And then there’s a pop on the tarmac. So it’s like a percussion. And when you turn the wheel, the rubber grip slips grips again. And it vibrates like a violin string while the sidewalls vibrate like the body of a double bass. So that’s how she describes it. It’s like an instrument itself. And overall, your four tires are louder than your engine. I thought your engine would be the loudest noise even though engines are a lot softer today than they were when we
Marcia Smith 21:54
did very much in fact, how often do we gather cared forget the engine is still running. Don’t
Bob Smith 21:59
say that. Nobody else does that but us. Well, I’m
Marcia Smith 22:01
going to finish up with just two quick questions about the Beatles final US tour after their last concert on their final US tour. Which Beatles said that’s it. I’m not a Beatle anymore. John
Bob Smith 22:14
Lennon? No. Oh, George Harrison. That’s right. Yes, George Harrison.
Marcia Smith 22:18
What extra item did John bring onstage for The Beatles final us? Concert?
Bob Smith 22:25
A camera? That’s right. Yeah, I
Marcia Smith 22:28
wanted to take pictures. It’s like,
Bob Smith 22:30
can’t you guys hire a photographer? I
Marcia Smith 22:32
mean, no kidding. That’s what I thought. Okay. Ah, what venue? In what city? Did the Beatles play their last scheduled concert?
Bob Smith 22:43
Last city in what venue? Not in the not the United States? Yeah. Oh, so it was in San Francisco as Candlestick Park.
Marcia Smith 22:49
Well, Bravo Bob. See you are a Beatle person. Okay, the final song played by the Beatles at this concert in America.
Bob Smith 22:59
Was it a new song at the time? Now? No, it wasn’t. No, no, no, it was an oldie. It was a she loves you. Lesson there on.
Marcia Smith 23:08
What was it? Long tall. Sally. Oh, darn. That’s how they finished up their whole tour.
Bob Smith 23:14
They loved old rock and roll. They grew up on La that’s yeah, it is. Okay. A show it to back. We did some state models. I think Eureka was one we did. That was a one word one that was California. Remember? Several other state models have one word mottos. Okay. I’m gonna give you some mottos. Tell me the states you think they belong? Okay. Okay. That’s Forward. Forward. That should be an easy one for you. Yes. Your home state was cats. That’s correct. Friendly. Pennsylvania. No, only a very confident state would just have a thing like friendly Indiana. No, very confident. Very confident. Very. I don’t know. Are very cocky. New York. No, Texas. Uh huh. Do you think Texas would have a big bragging state? Yes. Like friendly. Yeah. We’re Texas. Hope.
Marcia Smith 24:00
Hope Vermont. No. Hope? I don’t know. Very
Bob Smith 24:05
small state. Very little. Tiny,
Marcia Smith 24:07
tiny, teeny tiny.
Bob Smith 24:08
Rhode Island. Yeah. I don’t know if they’re hoping to get bigger. Okay, okay. Now, two of the bigger states have ones that talk about going forward in a different way ever upward. What state would that be? New York, New York. That’s right. And north to the future. North to the future. Northern State. It’s a northern state. It’s a very northern state. Okay. So
Marcia Smith 24:34
is there like a very last Alaska? to Bob? I got there. You
Bob Smith 24:39
got um, that’s pretty good. Okay. And there’s one state that has the model say motto is the United States In God we trust. What state is that?
Marcia Smith 24:47
Oh, is that that’s one of the eastern states. That’s correct. Is it?
Bob Smith 24:51
One of the very hot eastern states he states? Very, very southern eastern states. Southeastern southern and eastern states, Florida Mark Okay, how many different types of dance do I have to give? It was that far
Marcia Smith 25:07
down? I thought it was one of the early
Bob Smith 25:09
and God We Trust is Florida’s motto. You know what, I’m gonna start
Marcia Smith 25:12
asking you state birds next time. That’s okay. You
Bob Smith 25:16
could just go to fun. No, you know the find out about these things. I’ve got another state motto that is weird. This is very odd. I’ll read it and then you have to decide what state is from the life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness.
Marcia Smith 25:31
That’s not gonna fit on a license plate.
Bob Smith 25:35
It’s not Utah is no it’s not. It’s nowhere you would expect. It’s not like where the Mormons are. It’s not where Christians necessarily came. It is Hawaii. Really. I don’t know where that came from. But it is a long, long slogan and it doesn’t quite roll off the tongue. The life of the land is perpetuated in righteousness. That’s the official state motto of Hawaii. I’ve got a couple other kind of funny Okay, sure. It grows as it goes
Marcia Smith 26:02
down. That’s pretty weird.
Bob Smith 26:05
What state has it goes as it can
Marcia Smith 26:06
you tell me what they’re talking about. But don’t growing. I don’t even know what they’re growing. Oh, okay.
Bob Smith 26:12
I’d have to look it up. Southwest. It grows as it goes. Okay. Mexico, New Mexico. She flies with her own wings. That’s the state model of Oregon.
Marcia Smith 26:27
Really? Yeah. Well, they’re still they fly a lot over there literally and figuratively.
Bob Smith 26:30
Okay. If you see a pleasant Peninsula Look around you. Is this this is where you used to live. Well, we both lived there in our younger years. If you see a pleasant Peninsula look around you because we have to we
Marcia Smith 26:46
it’s Michigan. Yes, Michigan.
Bob Smith 26:47
I added the we have to that makes it make sense. And just so you know, while we are officially in English speaking nation, state models are in multiple languages, English, Latin, Spanish and more. So there. Thank you, Bob. Well, that’s all the time we have for today. That is trivia and this is Bob Smith
Marcia Smith 27:08
and the significant other Marsha Smith. more significant
Bob Smith 27:12
than me, perhaps I guess so. You’re right. And this has been the off ramp. We got music on my musics playing. We don’t need to sing. Okay.
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