067 Presidential Trivia

Bob Smith 0:00
What President had never voted in an election until he ran for president.

Marcia Smith 0:05
That’s just sad. When is was or will be the longest day on Earth?

Bob Smith 0:14 i
And how do astronauts vote from space? Answers to those and other questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob and Marcia Smith?

Welcome to the off ramp a chance to slow down. Steer clear of crazy. Take a side road to sanity and have some fun with trivia. Well, we are in election season, presidential election season and I’ve got a number of questions about US presidents today.

Unknown Speaker 0:55
I got one or two. Yeah. Okay.

Bob Smith 0:57
Do you want to answerher my first one? What President had never voted in any election until he ran for president?

Marcia Smith 1:04
Yeah, well, that would be fodder for cable news today!

Bob Smith 1:08
They would say this guy hasn’t even voted.

Marcia Smith 1:12
Okay, I’ll just have to take a stab here. Can you give me any kind of clue maybe what century

Bob Smith 1:19
19th century? He was a war hero.

Marcia Smith 1:22
Okay, that might have been Grant.

Bob Smith 1:22
No, it wasn’t Grant. No. Grant had voted.

Marcia Smith 1:22
Okay. I don’t know.

Bob Smith 1:22
It was Zachary Taylor. Zachary Taylor was a Mexican War hero who served in the army for more than 40 years. And that’s before he went into politics. And he never voted in an election until he was nominated for president. But back in those days, his lack of political ties and his fame as a war hero made him an ideal candidate. So both political parties at the time courted him the Whigs and the Democrats and the Whigs. One they got him to work for them, even though they had voted against the Mexican War years earlier.

Marcia Smith 1:57
Yeah. Well, see, if only he knew he couldn’t vote while he was in the military today. He could vote from the moon. Look,

Bob Smith 2:03
there we go. Well, one of your questions that’s coming up. Anyway, Taylor won the election of 1848. Now, since that election, every President has either been a Democrat or a Republican

Marcia Smith 2:14
since 1840. We need more parties. Yeah.

Bob Smith 2:18
And the 1848 contest was also the first presidential election to take place on the same day in every state, and the first one on a Tuesday. Hmm, so that’s a lot very significant. And the guy who voted in it and one had never voted for anybody before. That’s

Marcia Smith 2:32
interesting. Bob, yeah. But so is this okay. When is was or will be the longest day on Earth? When

Bob Smith 2:42
is was or will be the longest to give

Marcia Smith 2:44
it away with my Yeah,

Bob Smith 2:45
so you’re not going to give me any clues? Apparently. Well, just pick a day. What? Okay, tomorrow. Is that

Marcia Smith 2:53
close? Really? Yes. Okay. The Longest Day on Earth is always today.

Bob Smith 3:00
Why? It does seem that way.

Marcia Smith 3:04
Only during COVID. Okay. Okay. And this is from the Guinness Book of World Records. The title bulges in Earth’s oceans caused by the gravitational effect of the moon are gradually transferring momentum from Earth’s rotation to the moon’s orbit. And as a result, Earth’s rotation is slowing by around 0.0018 Second, per century,

Bob Smith 3:29
or century, well then divide that up by 100 years. Oh my god. Yeah. So it’s just really getting slower.

Marcia Smith 3:36
And each day, it’s a tiny bit longer than the day before. Okay, therefore, the longest day on Earth is always today.

Bob Smith 3:47
Well, there’s that’s a great scientific explanation. And that’s from the most recent Guinness Book of World Records.

Marcia Smith 3:52
Correct. 2021. Hot off the press. Wait

Bob Smith 3:56
a minute. I think we just lost another moment of time. All right, I’ve got a question for you. And I had never thought about this, but I saw this on one of my favorite sites, Mental Floss had this item. How do astronauts vote from space?

Marcia Smith 4:11
Well, that just happened. Lady what’s her name? Up there? Rubin’s Kate Rubin’s Kate, my close personal friends. So how did she officially cast her vote pay attention to what they said she, gosh, how

Bob Smith 4:24
did they do it? And it’s only happened a couple of times where there have been astronauts submitted

Marcia Smith 4:28
her result and she was able to do it privately. I don’t know how they did that. Okay, tell me this

Bob Smith 4:34
is from an article by Ellen Gutowski. She says that astronaut Kate Rubins officially cast her vote from a makeshift voting booth aboard the International Space Station. And as much as we’d like to believe her ballot came back to Earth in a tiny rocket. The actual transmission was basically it got sent to her county clerk as a PDF.

Marcia Smith 4:56
Oh, I love it. Isn’t that great? Yes. So apparently can’t they do this? in Poughkeepsie, and get it right, I

Bob Smith 5:01
don’t know. And she isn’t the first one to vote from space. This actually is a result of some legislation from the state of Texas now, why the state of Texas where Mission Control? That’s where more astronauts live, oh, than anywhere else in the country. Is that

Marcia Smith 5:15
right? Yeah, it makes sense. There’s a lot of tests places down there.

Bob Smith 5:19
So what happened is 24 years ago in 1996, John Blaha, who was an astronaut, he missed out on voting in the general election because his spaceflight to Russia’s space station Mir began in September, before the absentee voters received their ballot. So NASA worked with the Texas government officials to pass a law allowing the astronauts to cast their ballots from space. And David Wolf was the first astronaut to do that. That was in 1997. Speaking

Marcia Smith 5:46
of space, yeah, as you know, Mars rovers have always fascinated me

Bob Smith 5:50
those crawling devices, crawling vehicles, right, with a life expectancy

Marcia Smith 5:54
of 90 days. The rover Opportunity lasted on power for how long?

Bob Smith 6:01
Okay, I remember this because this went on for like two or three

Marcia Smith 6:03
years went it was launched in 2004.

Bob Smith 6:07
It went on for three years. 14 years.

Marcia Smith 6:10
Oh my God, dude. 36 days. Doesn’t

Bob Smith 6:12
that show you how fast time flies? Yeah, I

Marcia Smith 6:15
thought it was a few years to from 2004 to 2018. In 2018, a planet wide dust storm sent it into an irrecoverable sleep state. It was just too much dust to blow off. Its solar powered instruments. Yeah, but they did had no idea it would go on for so long.

Bob Smith 6:34
It’s wonderful. Yeah, it is. Okay. I’ve got a couple of questions on presidency. I want to ask you to quick one here who is the only US president to have run a marathon?

Marcia Smith 6:44
Wasn’t Taft?

Bob Smith 6:46
We talked about him before Roly Poly Roly pool here.

Marcia Smith 6:49
All right. run a marathon. Well, marathons are relatively modern. Yeah. So I’ll say George Bush, the younger.

Bob Smith 6:59
Yes, George W. Bush, really in 1993. Now he actually ran it two years before he became the governor of Texas. That’s what he did. He ran the Houston Marathon. He finished with the time of three hours, 44 minutes, 52 seconds. He’s the only president to ever run a marathon.

Marcia Smith 7:14
Good for me. I did remember I recalled from my deep recesses of my brain that he was always ran every morning when he always president. That’s right,

Bob Smith 7:22
because he ran with the Secret Service. And he ran with members of the military. And then after he became ex President ran with disabled members of the military who had painted them. That’s right. And then he painted them. Okay. What US president became a congressman after serving as president. Now that seems like a bring down, doesn’t it? You ran the country. Now you’re going to be a congress? Well, I think

Marcia Smith 7:42
that’s why especially if you’re young, not too old. So what century again,

Bob Smith 7:48
are we this is the 19th century. A famous name, although this president himself was not necessarily considered a great president, but a famous name.

Marcia Smith 7:57
Father had been president his father, well, then we’re talking.

Bob Smith 8:02
Let’s see, that was about the Addams Family.

Marcia Smith 8:06
He was early. Well, no, I guess the early 1900s. Of course,

Bob Smith 8:09
John Adams was the president in the early 19 hundred’s Yeah. Right. Yeah. The answer is John Quincy Adams, who was the son of John Adams. Now he had served as a diplomat in Europe and then as a senator, before he was elected in 1824. He served one term as president. So he went away for four years. Then in 1831, he returned to Washington to serve 17 years in the House of Representatives, and he actually was in public service to the very end of his life. And for him, it is 73 year in Congress, he suffered a stroke collapsed on the floor of the House and died two days later. So he was really devoted to public service. Yeah, you know, yeah,

Marcia Smith 8:46
well, you know, I knew that answer. It just couldn’t jump.

Unknown Speaker 8:49
Too bad.

Bob Smith 8:52
Okay, you got a presidential question. How

Marcia Smith 8:53
many presidents have died in office?

Bob Smith 8:57
Oh, how many presidents have died in office and I’m thinking of assassinations, but there may have been all right. I’d say 1235 presidents died in office. Abraham Lincoln, Garfield McKinley. Roosevelt, who was not assassinated. And JFK. That’s it. I got it, right.

Marcia Smith 9:17
No. Oh, you’re short three. Oh, really? Yeah. In order they were William Henry Harrison. Oh, that’s right. Pneumonia.

Bob Smith 9:25
He died after about a month in office. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 9:26
pneumonia. He gave his speech outside and got a head cold. Down. He went Zachary Taylor heatstroke. Abraham Lincoln assassinated James Garfield assassinated William McKinley assassinated bad bad streak there for presidents Warren G. Harding. Suspected heart attack, but there’s a fair amount of talk about his wife probably poison him.

Bob Smith 9:47
You know, I didn’t know Harding died in office. That’s interesting.

Marcia Smith 9:50
Yeah, I did. And she had him denied any autopsy and had him buried immediately. Really? Yeah. And there was some I’d very big suspicion he killed him. But FDR cerebral hemorrhage and JFK assassinated. So there were eight that died in office while serving. Okay, there

Bob Smith 10:11
were some surprises there. That was a good question.

Unknown Speaker 10:13
Well, thanks, Bob. Okay. Well, I

Bob Smith 10:14
have a good question for you. You know, as the election nears, everybody talks about the popular vote and then the Electoral College have to win the electoral college. It’s kind of an arcane thing. But it was put in there for various purposes, one of which is make sure the smaller states get the president to visit. Yes, yes. What US president won the popular vote three times but only served two terms. I didn’t know this until I went down a Wikipedia rathole last night. Oh, really? Yeah. Well, one US president won the popular vote three times, but only served two terms.

Marcia Smith 10:51
Well, it was it somebody that took over for somebody who died in office now don’t tell me Grover

Bob Smith 10:57
Cleveland Grover. Yeah, he won the popular vote and the electoral college in 1884. Four years later, when he ran for reelection, he won the popular vote, but he lost the electoral college. So he went back to private life. He came back again in 1892. And again, won both the popular and electoral college. So that’s how Grover Cleveland became the US president who won the popular vote three times but only serve two terms. And he’s also the only US president with what two numbers he was president number 22 and 24. That’s right. That’s right. He

Marcia Smith 11:29
had there was somebody in there between him Yeah. All right. I got one more presidential question.

Bob Smith 11:35
Then I have a first lady question. Yay.

Marcia Smith 11:39
This is cringe worthy. Okay. What precedent while in office, married his adopted daughter.

Bob Smith 11:49
I think if we’re talking about the same person, really Grover Cleveland, yeah,

well, I didn’t know she was his adopted daughter. It’s a technicality. There

Marcia Smith 11:55
wasn’t a technicality. He adopted her at 11. I’ll tell you what I have first and then you Okay, pontificate? All right. All right. She was 27 years his junior. Grover married Francis, that was her name, whom he had adopted at age 11. She was his law partners daughter. She still had her mother. So he took over helping the mother raised her when he announced his wedding that he was going to be married. Everyone thought he was marrying the girl’s mother.

Bob Smith 12:24
The widow marrying the widow Young Blood young blood. That’s where I’m going. Okay, what

Marcia Smith 12:29
was it you wanted to add to my fascinating? Okay, it’s

Bob Smith 12:32
number one. He was a bachelor at the time. He did a bachelor all this time. Number two, she was only 21 When he married her. She was the youngest First Lady ever. 21 years old. And they 21 Yeah, they were wet in the White House. So she’s the only first lady who was married in the Executive Mansion. And even though there was almost 30 years difference, there was really no controversy there. The public thought she was great. Oh, he’s our Bachelor president is getting married to this young woman. Now, you mentioned the thing that could have been very controversial, but it wasn’t for some reason. The fact that she was the daughter of his best friend, Oscar Folsom. Folsom died when his daughter was a young woman and Cleveland became the executor of his estate. So that’s how he kind of became her legal guardian. So technically, he legally supervised her education. But they didn’t meet until she was a college student. She came to the White House, and she met him there when she was a college student. So it’s only about a year or two before she married him. They fell in love. And because Grover Cleveland served two non consecutive terms as president Francis is also the only first lady who has what? Two numbers. She was first lady number 22 and 24. Hmm. So she has several big distinctions. Youngest First Lady, only First Lady married in the White House, only woman to be first lady twice as the wife of presidents 22 and 24. Her name was Francis fulsome. That was her name. We

Marcia Smith 13:53
both had that question about Grover Cleveland and his wife at the same time, what are the chances of that? Oops,

Bob Smith 14:00
I think that’s, that’s time for a break now. Okay. All right. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marcia Smith. We’ll be back in just a moment. We’re back and you’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marcia Smith.

Marcia Smith 14:15
Okay, Bob, what planet you can see I was very caught up in the solar system. This this week

Bob Smith 14:20
you were I’m anchored to the ground and you’re looking at the solar system. You’re trying to escape gravity. This is

Marcia Smith 14:25
the last question on that. What planet has the shortest day

Bob Smith 14:29
what planet has the shortest day? I would say? Mercury because it’s the closest to the sun so it rotates around it faster? Yeah,

Marcia Smith 14:39
that makes sense. But no Jupiter really spins on its axis every nine hours and 55 minutes making a day on Jupiter less than half of the day on Earth. Well

Bob Smith 14:49
think how many days you could require people to work if they’re on Jupiter. You know, it’s a little different than Earth. Every month you’ll be working 90 days. Another couple of presidents who is the first US president to write a biography of another US President? Hmm.

Marcia Smith 15:08
I’ll say, well, it was it. Was it after he was out of office? Yes.

Bob Smith 15:13
And here’s another clue. He was an author before he was President. He wrote a number of

Marcia Smith 15:17
house wasn’t FDR because he didn’t make it out of office. Right? He was it

Bob Smith 15:20
was before FDR. Okay. It was immediately before FDR, who was immediately before FDR. No, no, no, no, not at me. Tell me a name. I

Marcia Smith 15:30
know who you You tell him you you speak Herb, Herb, Herb Kohl, Herbert Hoover, Herbert.

Bob Smith 15:39
Herbert Hoover was an engineer, a mining engineer. But he also had written a number of books that I forgot all about him. And after leaving the presidency, he continued writing and one of his books was the ordeal of Woodrow Wilson. And that’s the first biography of a president written by another president.

Marcia Smith 15:55
Well, let’s get out of the presidential cabinet and into the kitchen cabinet. Okay.

Unknown Speaker 16:00
What’s the kitchen? For transit? It’s good.

Marcia Smith 16:04
This famous kitchen product had sales in the dumpster for the last five or six years, Bob. That company has literally been on life support until now. Because of the COVID pandemic. It’s last third quarter profits more than quadrupled. Wow. What is this product?

Bob Smith 16:23
Is it a food product?

Marcia Smith 16:24
No.

Bob Smith 16:25
Is it a utensil? Some kind of device you use?

Marcia Smith 16:29
It’s not a it’s not a utensil appliance?

Bob Smith 16:32
No. Okay. Is it a is done an ingredient and ordered out of food now? So like their plates in the in the cabinets?

Marcia Smith 16:39
I can give you a hint. Okay, this is a famous product. Okay. Yeah. Probably in every kitchen and it’s not sold in stores. Okay.

Bob Smith 16:48
It’s not sold in stores. But it’s in every

Marcia Smith 16:51
kitchen. It might be now but it didn’t used to be anyway.

Bob Smith 16:54
Okay. There’s no way I know it. This is how you give up. It was

Marcia Smith 16:57
sold at home parties. Oh,

Bob Smith 17:00
Tupperware I see because they I think that brand is gone now, isn’t it?

Marcia Smith 17:04
They were almost gone. But now their sales have quadrupled. Wow. People are cooking again. And they’re saving the leftovers. And it’s a whole new world for Tupperware I’ll

Bob Smith 17:14
be darned. Because Tupperware was a big success in the 50s and 60s with a Tupperware party. Yeah. Okay, ready? Yeah. Okay, I’ve got a musical question now.

Unknown Speaker 17:23
Oh, okay.

Bob Smith 17:24
You know, forget about the presidential questions. A musical question. Okay. Ready for that? Yeah. Okay. What President played five different instruments.

Marcia Smith 17:31
I saw that. I’m trying to think. And this

Bob Smith 17:36
was a president in your lifetime lifetime. So the last Jedi mind. Oh, no. Both of our lifetimes. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 17:42
Okay. Well, you won’t believe it. Now. Who was the Nixon?

Bob Smith 17:47
Richard Nixon. That’s right. Yeah. His mother encouraged him to play piano at an early age. And he did and he went on to learn violin, clarinet, saxophone and accordion. He even wrote music. And in 1961, he performed a song he wrote on the Jack Paar program. I’ll be darned. Yeah. So that’s that’s kind of a potential question or what US president played one of his own songs and on TV show and all that’s even more obscure. Interesting,

Marcia Smith 18:13
huh? No, I had no idea. Okay, Bob, how deep is the deepest hole man has ever bought into the earth deepest is 10 feet or miles? Okay. I

Bob Smith 18:24
think I read about this. The Russians did it. Am I right about that? Yes. And it seems to me it was like two miles D two and a half miles deep, which is amazing to drill that deep into the earth. It

Marcia Smith 18:34
is amazing, but not as amazing as seven and a half miles seven and a half miles. And it took Guess how long to do it? I don’t know. 19 years. Holy cow. But the Russians stopped boring. This whole because, frankly, they got tired. I think they got bored while it was 350 degrees down there and higher in different places. Yeah. Wow. And then they somebody put a microphone down there. They heard deep rumbling sounds got pretty scary. You know, I

Bob Smith 19:06
think that’s where I saw this. It was one of those amazing stories, you know, TV thing so. So there’s this rumors that they heard something that they needed to just see

Marcia Smith 19:16
1965 to 1995, seven and a half miles 40,230 feet deep. And I don’t know what the point was. But you know, the there’s no plans, anyone has to make it to the journey to the center of the earth. That would be 1802 miles below the surface, which is solid iron down there and has zero gravity. So that means when you get down there, you start coming back up. Wow. Yes. So nobody can go to the even the center. Interesting.

Bob Smith 19:47
Okay, you ready for another presidential?

Unknown Speaker 19:51
I’m delirious, okay.

Bob Smith 19:53
This is you’re a football fan. So listen to this. Listen up here. What US president was a star college football player. Who turned down offers from the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers?

Unknown Speaker 20:05
Oh my god, your favorite team?

Marcia Smith 20:06
Yeah. Oh, cheese head. Well, it was either Ronald Reagan or Gerald Ford.

Bob Smith 20:13
It was Gerald Ford. Okay. Yeah, he was a star football player at the University of Michigan. They won national titles in 1932 and 33, which were his sophomore and his junior years. And after graduation, he turned down offers to play for both the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers. Oh, gosh, you know what he did? Was he accepted a job as a coach at Yale University. Why? Because he wanted to go to law school. Pretty smart. You know that.

Marcia Smith 20:43
He you know, they always made fun of him for being clumsy. Especially on Saturday Night Live. It was funny, but it wasn’t anywhere near true.

Bob Smith 20:51
He was an amazing, amazing athlete, a very coordinated person. He was also a model as a young man he and Ronald Reagan were both models are

Marcia Smith 20:58
all right. Okay, now this fascinated me. But is

Bob Smith 21:02
it political? Marcia, is it? Are we have I done too many presidential questions today. Oh,

Marcia Smith 21:06
but can you die by sinking or drowning in quicksand? Well, that

Bob Smith 21:11
was always the that was always the story in those movies. We watched his kids was

Marcia Smith 21:15
my biggest fear. But I had to eyeball I had dreams about dying.

Bob Smith 21:19
It was those Tarzan movies that somebody always died in the question.

Speaker 1 21:23
You see their little face going. There’s a hand their hand and then a hat. And their

Marcia Smith 21:29
fingers are up. I

Bob Smith 21:30
had dreams about that,

Marcia Smith 21:31
too. Every time I went into the woods for a hike or something I was afraid to quicksand. So what’s the answer?

Unknown Speaker 21:37
I don’t know.

Bob Smith 21:40
Yes, I’d say the answer is yes. You can drown. No, you’ll actually suffocate. Well, that’s a form of drowning. Well, what’s the answer? Marsh?

Marcia Smith 21:47
The truth is Bob, it’s impossible to die in quicksand. Really? Uh huh. Because quicksand is more dense than the human body. So you won’t sink in past your waist. No matter how big or light you are. Unless you just stick your face and breathe into it or something, you know, but just accidental drowning or sinking you want human density is half the density of quicksand. Oh, who knew? I didn’t know. And how do you get out is slowly spread your legs so you’re suspended down there. You know, even if it’s 20 feet of quicksand, you won’t go past your ways. So you spread your legs out and then tried to bring them towards the surface and then carefully make your way back to firmer ground

Bob Smith 22:32
I’ll be doing who knew? Well, apparently the script writers of those movies were so no, I mean it although I thought that was certain death. Oh, you’re gone? Yeah. Yeah. No, can’t pull you out because they Oh, they always let go the person Oh, no. Sand over their face. And then they’re, and then they’re done. Kind of like Alien question,

Speaker 1 22:50
Bob. Oh, question? Yes. Okay,

Bob Smith 22:54
one more. Two more questions. three presidents have died on July 4. Can you name them, too?

Marcia Smith 23:00
I know. And tour. Adams and his Thomas Jefferson frenemy his frenemy Thomas Jefferson died within hours of each other on the Fourth of July. Yeah. And they were each trying to outlive each other. I always found that fascinating on the 50th anniversary of 1776. Another amazing thing. Yes. And there was another one. I read that some time in my life and I can’t

Bob Smith 23:27
remember James Monroe, who was also an early president. Yeah. But

Marcia Smith 23:30
he was he was he wasn’t one of the founding fathers. No,

Bob Smith 23:34
but he was involved in some very early things. For instance, he was a diplomat, and helped to negotiate the Louisiana Purchase for Thomas Jefferson. So you know, the three presidents have died on July 4, only one president was born on the fourth of July. Who is that? This is I’ll give you a hint. Ronald Reagan’s favorite president, everybody else had favorite presidents like Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson or George Washington and he liked somebody who didn’t talk very much. Silent. Silent, silent cow cow, Calvin Coolidge. Calvin Coolidge. That

Marcia Smith 24:10
was Ronald Reagan’s favorite. What? That’s

Bob Smith 24:12
right. Bow. Cal says he didn’t talk much, I guess. Anyway, Calvin Coolidge is the only US president who was born on the fourth of July.

Marcia Smith 24:20
I’ll be down shiver me timbers.

Bob Smith 24:22
And one final question of presidents. I did all this research. I need to use what President loved golf so much. He actually had black golf balls made so we could play in the winter. That

Speaker 1 24:34
was Eisenhower. No, no, JFK, no.

Bob Smith 24:39
Play in the wind. 20th century but early 20th century. You never think about him golfing. Okay, who? Woodrow Wilson Woody. Yeah. He enjoyed daily rounds to stay in shape and relax, especially during World War One and he even used black golf balls so he could play through the winter.

Marcia Smith 24:55
I’ll be darned. That’s very resourceful. Yes. Should I have Alaska? Question here?

Bob Smith 25:00
Absolutely. Marsh absolute I

Marcia Smith 25:02
actually have to when given a new pen Bob, to test, what do 97% of the people write?

Bob Smith 25:11
They write their own name.

Marcia Smith 25:12
That’s correct. I thought I’d give you one look. I was thinking of the Constitution.

Bob Smith 25:17
I always remember girls in school grade school they always find a boy they like, write

Marcia Smith 25:21
his name and then their names combined. Yeah, this is Mrs. Jerry Bernheimer or something.

Bob Smith 25:27
That was your boyfriend. What was his name? I

Marcia Smith 25:29
changed the name. This goes out to millions of people. Okay, I don’t want to

Bob Smith 25:34
we don’t want to embarrass Gary bornite Oh, I’m so sorry. Did I did I do that? Okay, it was

Marcia Smith 25:39
so brief. He dumped me really fast. What grade was this? Ah, freshman in high school. Okay, okay. Do we dream in real time, Bob? No,

Bob Smith 25:50
no, we don’t. We dream in dream time. I had what is kind of an answer is that I would imagine it’s a condensed period of time, because so many different things happen your dreams and you go in different. Yes. Yeah. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 26:03
you would think so. But no, we do dream in real time real despite the myths of split second dreams because sometimes you think oh, that was you know, half of a second or whatever. But they can easily dreams can easily go 2030 or even 60 minutes. Especially as the night progresses. They may be only a couple of minutes long at the beginning of the night by it at the end, you know, you can have you know, full Technicolor movies going there. Well,

Bob Smith 26:30
I’ve had Technicolor dreams. And I’ve had dreams with credits at the end and theme music. Honest to God. The theme music goes up and there are the credits by friends names up on the

Marcia Smith 26:41
screen. And I have dreams that I’m directing all the time. Oh, you’re directing my dream.

Unknown Speaker 26:45
That’s why Well, there

Marcia Smith 26:47
you go. We’re on the same page. Okay, I can end with a couple of quick good quotes. Okay.

Unknown Speaker 26:53
All right.

Marcia Smith 26:54
This is Evan Sr. A red nose is usually caused by too much sunshine, or too much moonshine. That’s

Bob Smith 27:03
true. That’s true. That’s what I was thinking.

Marcia Smith 27:06
Oh, that’s funny. Finally, Hyman satchel, who we were just talking about this morning. We were no happiness is not having what you want. But wanting what you have.

Bob Smith 27:16
That is a truism in life and if you can be satisfied with what you’ve got, even if you would like something else. You’re a happy person. That’s correct. We hope you’ve been happy and we’re happy you joined us today. I’m Bob Smith.

Marcia Smith 27:28
I’m Marcia Smith. Join us again

Bob Smith 27:29
next time 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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