053 Just The Facts Trivia

Bob Smith 0:00
If you want to commit the perfect murder, why is Yellowstone National Park the place to do it? Oh,

Marcia Smith 0:08
okay, what are the seven natural wonders of the world answers

Bob Smith 0:13
to those and other questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith? Where do you want to go for vacation?

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.

Marcia Smith 0:48
Why do you always look at me when you say steer clear of crazy? No, no, no. Just an expression? Yeah, okay. All right, who’s gonna begin?

Bob Smith 0:58
Okay, I’ll do it. Okay. Well, Marcia, one of the places people like to go to get perspective is the national parks. But why is Yellowstone National Park the place to go to commit the perfect murder? Well,

Marcia Smith 1:13
you’re giving our listeners ideas they shouldn’t have? Well, because it’s so isolating. There’s so many pie places to nudge somebody off know, or just push them into that boiling pot of stuff that we know you’re

Bob Smith 1:27
giving people ideas? No, no, no, because there’s a 50 mile stretch of Yellowstone that’s illegal, no man’s land. And there’s a campground within that you might want to avoid. You know, we all know that Yellowstone National Park is in Wyoming. Right? Yeah, well, guess what? There’s a 50 mile stretch that spills over into Idaho. And as you know, it’s a very rough territory out there. Very rough country. This place is isolated. It has no roads and no human inhabitants. And it also has no legislation that can be used to charge people with serious crimes, including murder,

Marcia Smith 2:01
because it’s considered into state so no one put laws there. Here’s the problem. It

Bob Smith 2:05
deals with the sixth amendment because that dictates that a jury must be comprised of people from the state and federal district where a crime is committed. But since no one lives there, no jury is possible. Oh, and since Yellowstone is federal land, the two states Idaho and Wyoming they have no legal right to change the law. This loophole was not discovered until 2005. It was by a Michigan State law professor. He published information on it. But before he did, he wrote to government agencies let them know the problem. Nobody said nothing. What a surprise nothing happened. So there is a legal loophole that makes it possible to Get Away with Murder within a 50 mile stretch of Yellowstone National

Marcia Smith 2:44
Park is a screenplay waiting to happen. Yeah, well, they

Bob Smith 2:47
actually did it inspired a horror film population zero in 2016, and a novel 2008 Free fire. So Marsha, if a friend spouse or significant other says, hey, my GPS can take us to Buffalo Lake Campground. Okay, twice. Yes.

Marcia Smith 3:04
Okay. So Bob, can you name all of the natural wonders of the world? natural

Bob Smith 3:10
wonders of the world. I always think of Crater Lake. That’s a place we like it is beautiful.

Marcia Smith 3:15
But no. Okay. This list is from National Geographic. Can you give me one? Sure. The Great Barrier Reef and Oceania. It’s the largest coral reef system. Well, that’s right. Over 2900 separate

Bob Smith 3:29
reefs is Mount Everest considered? Yes.

Marcia Smith 3:31
Okay.

Bob Smith 3:32
So I’ll do Mount Everest. I’ll do Death Valley, because it’s the lowest point on Earth.

Marcia Smith 3:37
It’s not the Sahara Desert is a huge. Oh,

Bob Smith 3:41
okay. What’s on the list?

Marcia Smith 3:43
I use a place that you’ve been. You’ve been there twice. Not

Bob Smith 3:47
that prison. No. I was just visiting. You went

Marcia Smith 3:51
there as a little boy. Grand Canyon. Oh, the Grand Canyon. Victoria Falls in Africa. Oh,

Bob Smith 3:58
yes. That’s gorgeous. I’ve seen pictures of it and

Marcia Smith 4:00
para Kooten in North America. That’s a volcano. It’s almost six miles high. Where is it? In mici Oh, Khan, Mexico, the youngest volcano in the Western Hemisphere and was born in 1943. It’s on the list because people witnessed the birth of this volcano.

Bob Smith 4:19
Wow. Okay, that’s fascinating. What are the other things on the list? Are aurora borealis? That’s not on Earth though. It’s around the world. Okay. That’s the Northern

Marcia Smith 4:28
Light. Yes. Right. Yeah. And then the harbor of Rio de Janeiro the largest bay in the world based on the volume of water it’s beautiful. That’s where that beautiful Christ in the Redeemer statue. Yes. Above the harbour. Yeah, quite stunning. So it’s the largest harbour in the world. Yeah.

Bob Smith 4:45
Yep. interesting perspective on what are the natural Enders and this was National Geographic. Yep. So again, the list is

Marcia Smith 4:53
Great Barrier Reef, the Grand Canyon Victoria Falls Mount Everest para Kooten Aurora Borealis and In the harbor of Rio de Janeiro.

Bob Smith 5:02
All right. I got a funny one here. Okay, good. I like all right, what popular recreational product was introduced at a British masquerade party, and almost resulted in tragedy. Now, this is something people use to get around for fun. Chelsea just bought a pair of them roller skate roller skates. They were introduced in London by Belgium musical instrument maker Joseph Merlin, who rolled into a masquerade party at Carlisle house in Soho square playing a violin in 1760. Now he was unable to stop and turn. So unfortunately, he crashed into a large mirror, valued at more than 500 pounds, broke his fiddle and severely injured himself. That was the introduction of roller skates. That’s fine. He didn’t have that little rubber thing in the front to stop himself.

Marcia Smith 5:51
Well, you know, nobody had luck with the first of anything. Yeah, that’s good, Bob. All right. Name this person. Okay. It’s a prime minister in 1984, who was assassinated by their own bodyguards?

Bob Smith 6:04
Well, that was Anwar Sadat, wasn’t it? No. Oh,

Marcia Smith 6:08
it was Indira Gandhi. Oh, gosh, I forgot about that. She was walking out of her house and her two bodyguards shattered down with a submachine gun and a shotgun. Oh my gosh, they were Sikh bodyguards. And they were captured and hung five years later. Wow. Prime Minister from 1966 to 1977. And again in January 1980, until her death in 1984. So she was around. When we were younger. You heard her name a lot. Was she related to Gandhi? No, she was not. I looked it up. Oh, okay. That’s

Bob Smith 6:42
what I wanted. I thought maybe Gandhi was her father. Yeah. So did I call or something like that? Yeah. All right. Now, here’s one. One question I think might be fun. For years. The most complex machine ever built was the clock. What was the most complex machine ever built? Prior to the first mechanical clock in the 14th century? We hear these machines, but we’ve never seen one this big in our lifetime. I guarantee you. It was a pipe organ. Oh, a massive pipe organ installed by Bishop L. Fg in Winchester cathedral. 950 ad. How big was it? You asked? How big this pipe organ had 400 pipes and 70 men were needed to operate the 26 bellows that’s considered the most complex machine ever built prior to the first clock. You

Marcia Smith 7:35
need a pretty big congregation to support that thing.

Bob Smith 7:38
At least you got music out of it. Right. Good, Lord. Well,

Marcia Smith 7:42
thanks for that Bob. Okay. Captain James Cook was the first European Explorer to find what country in 1769 and claim it for Great Britain. What

Bob Smith 7:55
country? Because he was the first European to make it to Hawaii and he’s an amazing guy. Gosh, what country? I don’t know.

Marcia Smith 8:05
It was New Zealand. New Zealand. Yeah. Originally though, New Zealand was discovered by the minority culture. And that’s where the Pacific culture started in New Zealand. Yeah,

Bob Smith 8:18
that’s where a lot of the Polynesian settled there. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 8:22
I didn’t know that. Apparently,

Bob Smith 8:25
the Polynesians traced their DNA back to Taiwan. So it’s Chinese. Then I went down to New Zealand, and then they spread throughout the entire ocean, the Mid Pacific Ocean, including Hawaii. And it’s just an amazing story unwritten in a way because there’s not a whole lot of documentation. It’s being discovered more and more by genealogists. I’ll have a story on that upcoming. Well,

Marcia Smith 8:45
what’s interesting is what the year that cook discovered that it was 1769 think they had enough on their hands trying to deal with the United States. Oh, here’s another country. Let’s claim this fun.

Bob Smith 8:56
1769 Yes, I got a funny one. You know, we know the emcee for the Academy Awards. That’s always a big job. I always try to find a comedian. Somebody can hold the show make it interesting.

Marcia Smith 9:08
I think the last one, they didn’t even have one. That’s right. One would say yeah, rotating

Bob Smith 9:11
hosts. It’s become very political. Yes. Okay, who was the emcee for the first telecast of the Academy Awards in 1955.

Marcia Smith 9:20
Was it wasn’t Bob Hope? No. He

Bob Smith 9:22
was. Les was later the host for many years.

Marcia Smith 9:25
Was it some radio star like George Burns? It wasn’t radio.

Bob Smith 9:28
He was also on television. But he wasn’t a comedian. You’d be amazed at

Marcia Smith 9:32
this. Okay. Ed Sullivan. No,

Bob Smith 9:34
it was just the facts, ma’am. Jack Webb, star of Dragnet. Why would you make him the first host of the Academy Awards? The first TV is

Marcia Smith 9:43
not a lot of personality there. Yeah.

Bob Smith 9:46
Like all right next category.

Marcia Smith 9:50
Here’s a question. Okay, related to a book. You just recently bought me at the Cedarburg Public Library and there used book room. All bucks $2 But the name of the book is Do Penguins Have Knees? By David Feldman.

Bob Smith 10:05
That’s right. I remember getting that saying, Hey, this looks like it has some good trivia in it. So you’re

Marcia Smith 10:08
probably wondering, what’s the answer to that question Bob do

Bob Smith 10:12
penguins I would say, of course they know they don’t have knees.

Marcia Smith 10:16
They sure do. But they’re discreetly hidden under their feathers, penguins, flamingos and other birds do have knees with patellas kneecaps that bend and function much like their human counterparts. You just don’t see him because there’s all those feathers.

Bob Smith 10:33
I never see penguins at prayer. That’s probably why. Okay, now, Thomas Edison, tell me what did he require of all his potential employees before he considered them for employment?

Marcia Smith 10:44
Oh, god.

Bob Smith 10:45
What did Thomas Edison require of all of his potential employees? Before he considered them for employment?

Marcia Smith 10:52
Take an oath of silence? No,

Bob Smith 10:54
they had to answer a trivia quiz. It was a questionnaire with 150 questions. They included who assassinated President Lincoln, who invented logarithms. And what is the weight of the air in a room 20 feet by 30 feet by 10 feet.

Marcia Smith 11:09
So not everybody could do that. Yeah, it’s his little IQ tests is what it is. So it’s

Bob Smith 11:14
estimated that in order to pass one of Edison’s quizzes, a person would have needed an IQ of at least 150. So all the people that work for him were very, very brilliant people and we know the names of only a few of them because of the writings but yeah, he surrounded himself with basically what today would be considered brilliant engineers. And that’s why he had this idea factory. Hmm. But yeah, kind of a hobby arcane interesting. trivia quiz.

Marcia Smith 11:39
Did he devise that test by himself?

Bob Smith 11:41
Apparently, the third one would get me that was like, okay, wait up the air in a room 20 feet by 30 feet by 10 feet. I one workout? Well,

Marcia Smith 11:50
let’s go from Edison to MTV. Okay. Okay. Name the first music video Bob that aired on MTV in 1981.

Bob Smith 12:02
I know the answer is it was music killed. Music Killed the Radio Star something like that. What was

Marcia Smith 12:07
this Video Killed the Radio studio killed the revive

Bob Smith 12:11
the Buggles they thought it was such an interesting way to start MTV to say Video Killed the Radio Star.

Marcia Smith 12:17
Yeah, yeah. And it’s lyrics refer to the technical changes in the 1960s and the desire to remember the past. So that was the Buggles. And who could forget that?

Bob Smith 12:30
The Buggles not like the Beatles in their

Marcia Smith 12:33
crazy hairstyles, the Buggles okay,

Bob Smith 12:36
what happens in the animal kingdom every spring near Narcisse, Manitoba in Canada? What happens in the animal kingdom? Every spring? Every spring in where Nursey? Certain are keys, Manitoba. What happens there to

Marcia Smith 12:51
some birds come back.

Bob Smith 12:52
No take off every spring lay eggs every spring 70,000 garter snakes gathered to meet in a series of sinkholes.

Marcia Smith 13:03
Oh my god.

Bob Smith 13:04
So it’s an interesting thing.

Marcia Smith 13:05
How did they celebrate?

Bob Smith 13:07
They mate?

Marcia Smith 13:08
I know. I mean, the people that live Oh, no, I don’t

Bob Smith 13:11
think anybody’s really happy with I thought there was a festival or the snakes have the festival.

Marcia Smith 13:17
Bob, you remember seeing all those chickens all over the Hawaiian Islands? Oh, yes. Yes. Yes. Do you remember how they told us they got there? Yes. If

Bob Smith 13:27
you’ve never been to Hawaii, that’s one of the interesting things all these little chickens everywhere. Apparently Wasn’t it a disaster? It was like a it was a hurricane or something and there was a cargo of these chickens and somehow it got dispersed. Is that what it was?

Marcia Smith 13:44
Not according to my sources, okay. Impeccable. They were brought by the Polynesians in their mini canoe voyages to to hither and yon really had chickens were brought to the Polynesian islands from South East Asia. Pacific Ocean sailors during the love PETA expansion about 3300 years ago. So they got to Polynesia via the Chinese and then the Polynesians canoed them over to Hawaii

Bob Smith 14:12
in these little well, they’re not little boats from what we understand the big book. Yeah, so they’ve been there a long, long time. Yeah, far longer than I thought. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 14:19
And they’re everywhere. Yes. It’s like Tyson chicken factory everywhere you go.

Bob Smith 14:25
They’re kind of cute actually, though. I mean, I didn’t find them bad and it’s interesting to be there and hear of rooster crows. What is

Marcia Smith 14:31
this in your course just like living anywhere you get used to a man. It’s not odd people I imagined that never have seen a squirrel. Come here and go what are all those weird things running around your

Bob Smith 14:41
yard? All right, 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. Okay, we’re back. You’re listening to trivia on the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith. Okay, Marsha, what old school indoor hobby has roughly doubled in popularity since the Coronavirus. Now here’s a hint. It’s collecting something inexpensive and non digital. What old school? That’s it stamp collecting. Now the way they judge this is if web searches are any indication the interest has doubled since the pandemic According to Scott English. He is the executive director of the nonprofit American Philatelic Society. And apparently the online searches have doubled to 1.2 million since March for his

Marcia Smith 15:31
I bet you coins are another coin collecting is another new thing. Actually. No,

Bob Smith 15:36
no coin collecting is the hobby that’s been hurt by the Coronavirus. That was my other question. There

Marcia Smith 15:42
aren’t any coins. That’s

Bob Smith 15:42
exactly right. The pandemic caused a coin shortage. So it basically halted the flow of physical money and the Federal Reserve is even shipping fewer coins to banks these days because it can’t find them. You know, find the banks well, they can’t find the coins that tied up in circulation. Yeah, if you’re a collector of copper coins, that’s good, because copper kills the virus.

Marcia Smith 16:05
Yeah, just have them all over your face. It’s crazy glue pennies to your face.

Bob Smith 16:10
One study of copper coin showed that the bacteria staphylococcus was reduced by up to 99.5% after 24 hours depending on the type of coin.

Marcia Smith 16:21
That’s very interesting. And I have a copper bracelet. I should bring that out. Just

Bob Smith 16:25
yeah, more. It that’s just the nature of copper. It’s

Marcia Smith 16:29
just one of those natural natural substances that protects you.

Bob Smith 16:34
Okay, now, again, stamp collecting how far back does stamp collecting go any idea?

Marcia Smith 16:38
When was the first stamp? Uh huh. Uh huh. Okay, Rhonda,

Bob Smith 16:42
something.

Marcia Smith 16:43
Britain 1789

Bob Smith 16:46
Britain, May 1 1840. And it didn’t take long for the hobby of stamp collecting to arise apparently within a year. A young London lady was letting it be known in a newspaper ad that she was desirous of covering her dressing room with canceled postage stamp. Isn’t it funny?

Marcia Smith 17:04
Yeah. Not like today’s ads anyway. Yeah. So

Bob Smith 17:06
that’s how far back stamp collecting goes.

Marcia Smith 17:08
Not that far. Ah, yeah. Oh, here’s one Bob. Okay. What a patchy chief Road in Teddy Roosevelt’s inaugural parade. That was Geronimo. Oh, you know that? Yeah. You got two good ones today. Yeah. He was

Bob Smith 17:22
like a celebrity. He was a celebrity because of the Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show made it? Well, he

Marcia Smith 17:27
was still a prisoner of war, and had been for 20 years when he was in that perennially. Yeah, he was one of the greatest and most feared Apache warriors and medicine man of his time. And then he made his famous appearance in the parade riding in that. What year was 1905 1905? Yeah. Okay, I got a different Gandhi question. Okay. Who knew that once you get on these Wikipedia, rathole Gandhi, okay. But here’s that He’s the great peace activists, Mahatma Gandhi. What was his profession? Bob? He was a lawyer. Oh, you could you just asin it today us

Bob Smith 18:09
from India. But he was educated, I believe in England or in South Africa. Both places, I think. Yeah. So he was a very well educated attorney. Yeah. So went and just went the whole opposite direction, this very simplistic life and

Marcia Smith 18:23
championed a peaceful nonviolent political action. He was born in 1869. And like, Indira, he was assassinated in 1948. Okay, got more questions. Marsh? I do in baseball. Why is the pitcher’s mound 60 feet and six inches from home plate?

Bob Smith 18:41
Oh, that’s why is it that far? Does it go back? There’s a Knickerbocker club rules. That’s I think a New York club that started baseball one of the first I have

Marcia Smith 18:51
no idea. Oh, all right. Originally, it was 45 feet from home plate, but that’s when they were still doing underhand pitching. And then it was moved back to 50 feet in 1881. But when overhand pitching was legalized, it was moved back to 60 and a half inches in 1893. And why did they keep moving it out? Why? Because of the same reason that fences are moved in. teams weren’t generating enough interest because batters were having a hard time making contact with the ball. Oh, with the pitchers being so close. Yeah, they just weren’t there was no action on the field. It was just boring. You know, they were struck out all the time. Hmm. But and the reason for that extra half 60 and a half inches they believe that was an architectural drawing misread that they somebody saw 60.0 and thought it was 60.60. Really,

Bob Smith 19:43
the landscape architect’s drawing. Oh, that’s funny. Yeah. And you said earlier in one of your comments about the fences, they had to move the fences in

Marcia Smith 19:52
so that a homerun wasn’t so far away so hard to do. I’ll be darned. Pitchers went farther out so that the bat actors had a better chance of hitting that ball. Okay.

Bob Smith 20:02
And I didn’t realize there was that much of a change. I knew in basketball, they went from peach baskets, but I don’t know how many how many rules James Naismith made for the first basketball game in the YMCA. But something like nine of his rules still apply today, even in modern times in basketball, so, yeah, those are that’s interesting how things change as a result of activity. Yeah, in sports. Yeah. All right. As recently as the 1950s. Doctors considered this activity dangerous for people over the age of 40. What activity did doctors consider considered dangerous for people over the age of 40, as recently as the 1950s.

Marcia Smith 20:44
For dangerous for what your health or well for your health? What activity running, believe

Bob Smith 20:50
it or not exercise. As recently as the 50s Doctors considered exercise dangerous for people over the age of 40 will No wonder our parents generation didn’t go out and exercise didn’t go to workout clubs or anything like that. That was the attitude. So for heart disease, which was then killing a record number of Americans, they prescribed bedrest nothing about exercising nothing about moderate walking cheese. No.

Marcia Smith 21:15
That’ll kill

Bob Smith 21:16
you to bed rest will kill you.

Marcia Smith 21:20
Yeah, well, that’s that’s interesting. I remember when JFK started pushing. Yes. People getting more athletic. When

Bob Smith 21:27
it changed. You know, it was a younger President did this thing and that basically, they gave awards Do you remember at school he gave awards? President awards for physical fitness.

Marcia Smith 21:36
When you actually had to do stuff in gym class? That’s right went from nothing to you know,

Bob Smith 21:41
oh my god or push ups shopping

Marcia Smith 21:44
jacks, what the hell?

Bob Smith 21:46
So that’s where on the human body? Well, since I am, let’s start at the very beginning a baby. How long does it take for a baby’s vision to equal or exceed? And adults? How

Marcia Smith 21:58
long in their development steps?

Bob Smith 22:01
How long does it Wow,

Marcia Smith 22:02
I’ll bet it’s only six months.

Bob Smith 22:04
Wow, that’s perfect. It’s actually six months. Yeah. Oh, really? Yeah, apparently. Right?

Marcia Smith 22:09
I didn’t for the Mario newborn babies

Bob Smith 22:11
have pretty terrible vision not just focusing but colors to newborns have only about 5% of the visual acuity that adults do. But it improves quickly takes about six months before they can see as well as a grown up. But this is interesting. There are some things babies can see better than adults. Up until that six months a baby can tell monkeys apart

Marcia Smith 22:33
now. They see a different color. They see an additional color. Well, I

Bob Smith 22:38
don’t know what it is. Yeah, that’s it. But they see difference where these are things older babies and most adults can’t do monkeys all look alike to them, but not little babies. Okay,

Marcia Smith 22:46
here’s a couple of Beatle questions on no more Beatle questions. Just make fast ones here. Okay. Okay. What demand did the Beatles make about seeding fans in their Jacksonville Florida concert on their first tour in America?

Bob Smith 23:01
That’s when they insisted that it be black and white. Audience members

Marcia Smith 23:06
you are baton good today, because it

Bob Smith 23:09
was going to be a segregated audience and they will not go on stage if you do that.

Marcia Smith 23:13
And that was what the 60s Right. Yeah. And they were still segregated in the south and they couldn’t sit together and the Beatles said not in our concert and our concert good for them. Wow. And this one, I think you know, this one, what Hollywood actor invited the Beatles to his Bel Air mansion for dinner and a movie. Well, I

Bob Smith 23:32
know Elvis invited them to.

Marcia Smith 23:34
This is a Hollywood actor. Oh, wait

Bob Smith 23:37
a minute. It was Peter Fonda.

Marcia Smith 23:39
No. Oh, you would think someone like that. Right? But Burt Lancaster Oh, really?

Bob Smith 23:44
Burt Lancaster movie.

Marcia Smith 23:46
He From Here to Eternity, you know,

Bob Smith 23:48
the Beatles to his home for dinner.

Marcia Smith 23:51
There’s you know, I

Bob Smith 23:52
never heard that story that they went there. They met him. I never heard anything if

Marcia Smith 23:56
I never did either. That’s just like cosmic disruption from my head. I was

Bob Smith 24:00
very reticent kind of guide like, yeah, come to my house dinner. Tell me a bunch of music.

Marcia Smith 24:09
Okay, those are my two Beatle questions.

Bob Smith 24:11
All right, another American history question. All right. And this is a religious group we’re dealing with here. What American religious group gave us some of our basic household innovations, including the common clothes pin and the needle with an eye in the middle. A American religious Amish. Amish Close but no,

Marcia Smith 24:32
the cigar. They don’t smoke. Okay. The Mennonites know the Chinese sick. All right, who

Bob Smith 24:41
these are people who people accused them of moving fast when they saying

Marcia Smith 24:46
say why? Well,

Bob Smith 24:49
they were accused of jitter bugging almost when they had their services. shakers. The shakers Schaffer. Yeah, the shakers they were they were pretty self sufficient. They made all of their own shoe goos and silken clothes. They were a utopian religious group that lived in rural communities mostly in the Northeastern US. And they invented a listen to this. They invented the circular saw, which I think is one of the greatest inventions. You can use it for so many things. The circular saw the common clothes pen and Apple parer. The first one horse buggy in the United States, a four wheeled dump cart, a rotary Harrow, the automatic spring, a washing machine that was later used by hotels and the needle with an eye in the middle, which was later adapted for sewing machines.

Marcia Smith 25:37
Well, aren’t they

Bob Smith 25:38
the necessity was the mother of the shaker and then I guess so they

Marcia Smith 25:41
were very clever, obviously. Wow.

Bob Smith 25:44
Another fact from Isaac Asimov. So

Marcia Smith 25:45
how about seven up Bob? How did it get its name seven up? I can’t remember. Well, despite its identification as a lemon lime drink it’s actually made up a blend of seven natural flavors. Oh, which they don’t tell you what they are. That’s where the seven came from. And the up they described themselves as a product that’s uplifting

Bob Smith 26:07
okay, it’s because of the sugar Bravo probably.

Marcia Smith 26:11
Can I just read you a seven up promoted as a tonic for our physical and emotional ill Okay, let’s hear it. Yeah, seven EP energizes, sets you up. dispels brain, cobwebs and muscular fatigue,

Bob Smith 26:24
brain cobwebs and muscular fatigue. Here’s

Marcia Smith 26:27
another ad fills the mouth. Thrills the tastebuds cools the blood, energizes the muscle, soothes the nerves and makes your body alive. glad and happy. Here’s

Bob Smith 26:40
a copywriter went way beyond the assignment. Don’t you think it’s a healer

Marcia Smith 26:43
COVID cure some of

Bob Smith 26:46
the original copy for promoting seven up I’ll be done that

Marcia Smith 26:49
funny. That’s in the 1920s. It came up in 1929. They introduced seven out

Bob Smith 26:55
a lot of the advertising from that time talked about Zippy pet. Yeah, yeah.

Marcia Smith 26:59
Yeah. Apparently they were very lethargic and the 20

Bob Smith 27:01
No, they were dancing in the 20s everybody was so why did they need all these pics? I think it was a perfect drink for them. Finally,

Marcia Smith 27:08
Bob what marine animal is the only known natural predator of the great white shark?

Bob Smith 27:15
What marine animal is a predator of the great white shark? the only the only predator

Marcia Smith 27:22
besides humans.

Bob Smith 27:24
Is it a whale?

Marcia Smith 27:24
It is the Orca whale the

Bob Smith 27:26
Orca whale. That’s the kind they used to have at SeaWorld and stuff. So

Marcia Smith 27:31
and the Orca is considered top of the food chain. Why? Because they kill sharks, I guess because nobody kills them except mankind. Oh, no kidding. So they are at the top of the food chain. Wow. Yeah.

Bob Smith 27:45
Interesting. So there’s our Shark Tank answer today as we close this episode of the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith. Join us again next time if we don’t go to Yellowstone for that vacation. Okay, we’ve been there once. I think that’s enough. That’s enough. I just didn’t know about the No ma’am. So I didn’t know about the five let it go the dead zone.

Marcia Smith 28:06
Bring up the music.

Unknown Speaker 28:07
All right, all right.

Bob Smith 28:14
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