090 Free & Easy Trivia

Bob Smith 0:00
What do Irish whiskey and modern communications have in common?

Marcia Smith 0:05
How can an apple and onion and a potato all have the same taste?

Bob Smith 0:10
If you’re drunk? I’m sorry, I was thinking of whiskey. All right, answers to those and other questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob and

Marcia Smith 0:19
Marsha. Don’t call me Marcia Smith.

Bob Smith 0:22
Okay. All right. Play the music Lester.

Welcome to the off ramp a chance to slow down. Steer clear of crazy take a side road to sanity and have some perspective on life. Okay, Marsha. What do Irish whiskey and modern communications have in common?

Marcia Smith 0:58
You gotta give me a little more info. Okay,

Bob Smith 1:00
I’m talking about television, radio, and Microwave Communications. They all lead back to it.

Unknown Speaker 1:05
Whiskey. Irish Whiskey,

Marcia Smith 1:09
whiskey. All right. Enlighten me. Okay. They

Bob Smith 1:11
all lead back to radio, which leads back to Marconi, which leads back to Irish whiskey because we’ll Marconi. Most people recognize him as Italian. He descended from a powerful family of Italian nobleman, and he’s also descended from Irish royalty of sorts. The Jameson Whiskey fortune, Marconi, his mother was an Jameson. She was the granddaughter of John Jameson, the founder of the whiskey distillers, Jameson and sons, whose brand Jameson is still in the business today. She nurtured his interest in experiments and electromagnetism, which was the coming thing and science and he was self taught. He didn’t have any formal training. But his mother, she used her fortune to help educate Marconi with a parade of famous scientists. And through her business connections, she got the British Post Office to invest in his experiments. And in 1897, he set up the first wireless factory in Chelmsford, England, with a staff of 50 people. And then over the next two years, he began making wireless transmissions. All of that comes from a book called Marconi, the Irish connection by Michael Sexton. He says that people didn’t appreciate how important it was to get rid of the wires. Wired telegraphy was the latest communications technology with transmissions moving over wires in Morse code, and Marconi freed them from the wires. He also transmitted the first voices using wireless, which then became known as radio and a great reason for all of that was his mother. She funded all his research, she helped him set up his company paid for all the radio research he did, which led to television, radio, and Microwave Communications. She used her fortune. So the next time you take a drink of Irish whiskey, you can thank it for modern communications. Do you like that?

Marcia Smith 3:02
Well, it’s a bit esoteric.

Bob Smith 3:04
Oh, come on Marsh. That’s how Irish whiskey specifically, Jamison’s help make modern communications possible.

Marcia Smith 3:10
Alright, let’s get let’s get to something more fun. What

Bob Smith 3:14
then drinks and alcohol?

Marcia Smith 3:17
Nothing’s better than a good glass of Irish whiskey and an apple and onion and potato.

Bob Smith 3:22
Okay, how can and your question is how do apple onion and potato taste the same? Yeah. How can they taste this? Yeah. And I joked it is when you’re drunk

Unknown Speaker 3:30
or Yeah, out of your head was hilarious.

Bob Smith 3:33
But what’s the real answer? Well,

Marcia Smith 3:35
as you know, 80% of our tastes is made up

Bob Smith 3:39
of our brain smell. Oh, smell. Okay,

Marcia Smith 3:43
so the only difference in flavor of an apple and onion potato are caused by smell. So if you pinch your nose and just take a bite, you know, a little bite, so you can’t tell what the source is a bite from a piece of each of those foods. They will all taste sweet. And they will all taste the same. Oh, I’d never thought of an apple and onion and a potato.

Bob Smith 4:08
How can you make them taste the same? Hold your nose? Yeah, that’s the answer. Yeah. Well, isn’t that interesting? Okay, okay, I’ve got a better question. And Apple and onion and a potato walk into a bar. Which one is the most popular?

Marcia Smith 4:22
Well, I would say the apple.

Bob Smith 4:24
No, no, they all have appeal. yet. Okay, I have a plant question. All right, for all plants. How many plants are known to have medicinal uses?

Marcia Smith 4:36
Wow, a lot of them. I bet to numbers Marshall forgot and 1000s and 1000s. How would it Okay, 6423 and a half?

Bob Smith 4:45
Well, you’re off by about 14,000. Because the World Health Organization lists at least 20,000 plants that are being used for therapeutic purposes.

Marcia Smith 4:55
Wow. See, I truly believe that all cures are in nature. And that if we only could figure it out, the answer is around us. I think you’re right. I think you’re right. I think those daffodils in the front yard here could probably save your life. That’s

Bob Smith 5:09
why I’ll be out there eating the tulips. Next time you look, you can call them take me to the funny farm, but I’m just trying to get healthy. That’s what I was

Marcia Smith 5:17
trying to do. Ya have? Okay. 20,000 Wow. Okay. As you know, Bob, the majority of the Earth is covered in water. How much? Three quarters, isn’t it? It’s 71%. Okay, very good. And if the earth was smooth, you know, no mountains or hills or anything. And all the land areas then would be covered with sea water to a depth of what?

Bob Smith 5:43
So is this like the height of a 17 storey building something like that?

Marcia Smith 5:46
I don’t know how tall 17. What is the answer? The answer is almost 9,000 feet, or one and two thirds miles deep.

Unknown Speaker 5:55
If the Earth were flat, round surface, but it was flat.

Marcia Smith 5:59
All smooth, right. All one level. It’d be almost two miles deep. That shows you the depth of the ocean. Yes, because it gets very deep. So

Bob Smith 6:06
it’d be two miles deep on top of the land as well. That’s interesting.

Marcia Smith 6:11
Yeah. 9000 feet 9001 and two thirds miles actually that’s about

Bob Smith 6:16
that’s if it’s a wet fact Marsh.

Marcia Smith 6:20
Thank you, Bob.

Bob Smith 6:21
All right. I got some questions that are movies movie oriented. Okay, good. What famous actor was the inspiration for Bugs Bunny’s carrot Munch.

Unknown Speaker 6:32
Carrot mind spirit mantra.

Bob Smith 6:33
You know his trademark carrot chomping Bugs Bunny eats carrots.

Marcia Smith 6:37
Yeah. What’s it back? All right. Yeah.

Bob Smith 6:40
What famous actor was the inspiration for that? There was an animator watching a film when he got the idea. Now this was back in the 30s. What famous actor inspired Bugs Bunny’s character?

Marcia Smith 6:51
Was it like mo from Harry, curly and Moe? No, it

Bob Smith 6:55
wasn’t slapstick. It was Clark Gable. Now, yeah, it was a scene from the classic. It Happened One Night with Claudette Colbert. And according to the book, who knew by David Hoffman, it was the site of Clark Gable peeling a raw carrot with a penknife and then munching on it, as he taught Claudette Colbert how to hitch hike. That inspired Bob Clampett, the animator to give Bugs Bunny, his trademark carrot chomping. He’d never did that in the movies before but he thought you know, he should probably be eating a carrot while you’re doing other things a little

Unknown Speaker 7:27
bit of business so to speak. It’s That’s right.

Marcia Smith 7:30
Oh, I love it. I love the inspiration for things there’s usually so off the wall. And

Bob Smith 7:35
I never thought of Clark Gable like no no no baby. Let’s go my tree let me have a little carrot Munch.

Marcia Smith 7:44
Okay, Bob, what fish actually freezes into suspended animation in winter and comes back to life in spring. Wow.

Bob Smith 7:54
Dormant goes dormant.

Marcia Smith 7:55
Well more than dormant it just completely freezes well, but doesn’t that so? It’s not like a bear that’s still breathing hibernating. And yeah, this one.

Bob Smith 8:04
Is this a famous fish? I don’t mean like, like a celebrity fish go like Nemo. Nemo, tell me.

Marcia Smith 8:10
It’s the Alaskan black fish, which hangs out in the Arctic region. And when when it comes the waters all turned to ice and so does he. And when spring comes, he comes back to life and swims away.

Bob Smith 8:24
Okay, so that’s the male black fish of this species. What about the females?

Marcia Smith 8:28
Geez I didn’t know there was gender?

Bob Smith 8:32
So it’s very, very important. You have to be sensitive to the you called the fish. Shahe What about the shade? Yeah, that

Unknown Speaker 8:39
fish? Think about it.

Marcia Smith 8:40
I ain’t apparent. Okay. All right. Here’s one. Why is an informer called a stool pigeon.

Bob Smith 8:46
Oh, that’s a good question. Why is an informer called a stool pigeon. So it has something to do with somebody sitting down. I don’t know what is why is it

Marcia Smith 8:58
in their efforts to attract passenger pigeons hunters would tie or nail a single pigeon to a stool. Oh, and wait for a flock to be drawn to the cries of the desperate bird. Oh, then as they approached the birds would be slaughtered by the 1000s. This practice continued until the species became totally extinct. The poor bird that unwillingly played the trader was called a stool pigeon, and it was the last to die. Yeah, how sad.

Bob Smith 9:32
It was on a stool calling for help. Man. Is that ever cruelty to animals?

Marcia Smith 9:35
Yeah, I am to tie him to a stool. And yeah, that’s okay. And people at the time they killed them by the 1000s one they’d like to eat them. Yeah. And two, they were a perceived threat to agriculture.

Bob Smith 9:49
Well, they were considered a pest. Yeah. And they came in swarms. I mean, they blackened the sky passenger pigeons.

Marcia Smith 9:54
Yeah, there’s not any left. That’s hard to believe that’s a lot of

Bob Smith 9:57
killing. Well, they were there was a whole you know, concern Started effort to slaughter them. Yeah, we considered such pests. It’s like, you know, grasshoppers were during the times in the Great Depression when they had the big dust bowls and stuff. Animals came in and just took away all the crops. That’s the way they felt about passenger pigeons. Okay. All right. Here’s a question. Another film question. All right, what famous work of literature inspired Disney’s Frozen films? of famous work of literature inspired Disney’s famous literature?

Marcia Smith 10:30
I know. Yeah, it’d be an author you’ve heard of heard it, but do I know the book? Probably not. Oh, then what is it? It’s

Bob Smith 10:38
Hans Christian Anderson’s The Snow Queen. I suppose the story published in 1844. I find this interesting the book was new fairy tales, Volume One second collection even even in 1844. They were there was a lot of work being published so wow. Yeah, new fairy tales first volume second collection by Hans Christian Andersen the story was the Snow Queen and get this. The names of four of the Disney films main characters were intended as a tribute to him they are Hans Christoph, Ana and Sven. Now say those fast yeah together Hans Christoph on a spin sounds like Hans Christian Andersen

Marcia Smith 11:16
well that’s that’s an interesting factoid. I love it. That’s very nice. Okay, two part question.

Unknown Speaker 11:22
Okay. Part one what are the fastest growing

Marcia Smith 11:25
hairs on the human body? Where are they?

Bob Smith 11:28
Oh I a bit there and Buddy orifice where you have to have like nasal hairs and things like that hairs in your ears. You know the hairs. Oh, okay. You know the hairs they have to be there to catch dust. I would think it’d be replaced quick more quickly than in the vicinity. I’m in the vicinity. Okay, it would be the hairs on men’s faces the shaving hair, the beard – thebeard?

Marcia Smith 11:49
The fastest growing hairs on the human body anybody’s body and you’re gonna give me a gender problem with that.

Bob Smith 11:57
What about the bearded lady Marcia was in the circus there

Marcia Smith 12:00
minimal. Okay, but if the average man never trimmed his beard, how long would it grow in his lifetime? That’s Part Two. Oh, part two. Take a guess. And your lifetime

Unknown Speaker 12:13
How long would it grow? Yeah.

Unknown Speaker 12:14
In feet up at

Unknown Speaker 12:16
three feet?

Unknown Speaker 12:17
No 3030 feet Yeah, can

Marcia Smith 12:19
you imagine drag? Oh man would that be gross? Just think

Bob Smith 12:23
of cleaning that up after a meal. Oh when there’s so your

Unknown Speaker 12:26
crackers piece of hamburger over here to

Marcia Smith 12:29
saltines All right, I

Bob Smith 12:31
think I think we have time for a break. Kind of get into some better topics here. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith we’ll be back with more right after this. Okay, we’re back. No more talk about beards.

Marcia Smith 12:45
How can we talk about water? Oh sure. Sure. Yeah, average body

Unknown Speaker 12:49
the average body yes you

Marcia Smith 12:51
can I went down a human body thing. So how much water Bob is in the average human body? That’s

Bob Smith 12:59
a good question. I list wonder I recent shows about how many pints of blood were in the bar. Yeah. Is this in pints or gallons? gallons? Yes. So I’d say two gallons of water in your body

Marcia Smith 13:12
it’s a lot of I ever see two gallons of milk that’s I know that’s but think of it. It’s an all of your tissue and everything. It’s 14 gallon holy cow. Yeah.

Bob Smith 13:21
So if you could take a body squeezing dish rag, you get 14 gallons out of

Marcia Smith 13:27
us. That’s hard to believe. Wow. And you also have in your body traces of gold 0.2 milligrams, which is important to have in your body because it actually helps maintain your joints and helps facilitate transmittal of your electrical signals. Oh, no kidding. Yeah. So I’m wondering if my gold wedding ring

Bob Smith 13:47
this is probably why you want more jewelry now.

Marcia Smith 13:51
I wasn’t gonna go there till we got off the air of keep me out away from arthritis and cover me in gold.

Bob Smith 13:57
Okay. Okay, another science question, Marcia. True or False? A falling object travels slower at the equator than at the north or south poles. A falling object travels slower at the equator than at the north or south poles.

Marcia Smith 14:15
I’m think it’d be the opposite. Oh, you

Bob Smith 14:16
think that the it would fall faster at the equator? The north or south poles? Well, you’re wrong. I love this. No. What’s the difference? Hardly any difference? Okay. But most people assume gravity is the same everywhere on Earth. But it actually varies. Gravity is weaker at the equator due to the centrifugal forces produced by the Earth’s rotation. And gravity is also weaker at higher altitudes. Yeah, well, we know that well like Mount Everest friends. Yeah. So the lesson is if you want to lose weight, move too much on average. The good news is you’ll weigh 1% less. The bad news is your body mass won’t change.

Speaker 1 14:57
I’ll take what I can get into Ask will be just

Bob Smith 15:02
pardon me your body mass I said. Let’s get to another topic. Let’s move out to some geography questions some of your favorites. You love geography questions. I love the animal quiz. geographically speaking, there are three unique things about Juneau Alaska, the capital city of Alaska. Yes, the clues are land, sea and air and International Relations. land sea. Let me give you those clues. pregnant

Marcia Smith 15:33
pause is land sea air. I don’t know international

Bob Smith 15:38
relations. Okay, land in terms of area square miles. Juneau is the largest state capitol in America. In fact, it’s 3255 square miles. It’s almost as large as the states of Rhode Island and Delaware put together wow, that’s curious, the second largest city in America in terms of landmass? Okay,

Unknown Speaker 16:00
what’s the first Jacksonville Florida? Really? Yeah.

Bob Smith 16:03
In terms of the land, okay. sea and air. What about those two clues?

Marcia Smith 16:07
Doesn’t have any air

Bob Smith 16:10
to Juneau has no air. Okay, am

Speaker 1 16:12
I wrong? Yes, you are. Okay, then tell me Juno

Bob Smith 16:15
can only be reached by boat or plane that I actually knew. And it’s unique among the 49 US capitals on the mainland of North America. There are no roads connecting the city to the rest of the United States or to the rest of the state. What’s the only other state capitol not connected by road to the rest of North America?

Marcia Smith 16:34
Say again,

Bob Smith 16:35
what’s the only what’s the only other state capitol not connected by roads to the rest of North America?

Unknown Speaker 16:41
You’ve been there? State kept very remote,

Speaker 1 16:45
very remote state kept out in the middle of the ocean. Oh, Honolulu, Honolulu,

Bob Smith 16:52
Hawaii. Right. Yeah, that’s the only other state capitol not connected by roads to the rest of North America. But if you’ve been to Honolulu, you know, there are interstate highways around the island. Yeah. Okay. Who is Juneau named after? This is kind of funny. I just, wasn’t

Marcia Smith 17:05
he an explorer? It was

Bob Smith 17:06
Joe Juneau.

Speaker 2 17:08
Really, that was his name. He was chosen a gold prospector from Quebec, Joe judo,

Bob Smith 17:14
although for a time the town was named Harrisburg after his partner Richard Harris. Okay. And here’s my last fact about Juno. There are only 32,000 people bear. Really? Yeah, but it’s estimated there are 15,000 to 30,000 Bald Eagles there.

Marcia Smith 17:30
Wow. More bald eagles and almost as

Bob Smith 17:33
many and it’s considered one of the best places in the world to see a bald eagle.

Marcia Smith 17:38
I bet you that’s fantastic. So

Bob Smith 17:40
some facts there about Juneau Alaska. Thank you. Don’t say you never learn anything by listening to this.

Unknown Speaker 17:47
We try to cover all the bases. You are just a wealth of

Bob Smith 17:50
including the longest hairs on your body. Okay, what else you got over there in that strange mix of topics. You have

Marcia Smith 17:57
Claude Monet? Bob? Claude Monet, one of the great French impressionists? Yes. Yeah. He was born in 1840. And his paintings today sell for an average 7 million bucks. Wow. But he lived in poverty, like many of the great artists of his time, and then something happened to change his luck.

Bob Smith 18:18
I know what that was what he won the state lottery. How did you know that? I think we covered that once earlier. Yeah, he won the French lottery. Yeah. And that, that gave him all the money he needed for the rest of his life.

Marcia Smith 18:32
He did. It was 100,000 francs about $13,000. And he was able to spend the rest of his life painting happily 36 more years he in relative comfort he lived and he died in 1926 at the age of 86.

Bob Smith 18:47
Now there there’s a good ending to his story of a man in poverty. Who likes art. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 18:52
And made art and made art. Yeah. And you’re looking at people like a Picasso. He was so poor that he burned his own paintings to stay warm.

Unknown Speaker 19:00
Oh, my goodness. Yeah. Yeah.

Bob Smith 19:02
He left so much work, though. There’s still the family is still releasing artwork every year. That’s being sold for hundreds of 1000s if not millions of dollars. Yeah, it’s amazing. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 19:11
Here’s another weird factoid. Did you know In her entire lifetime, Spain’s Queen Isabella only took two baths.

Unknown Speaker 19:22
Really? Yeah, she

Marcia Smith 19:23
lived 1451 to 50. No, four. I went a little bit stinky. I

Bob Smith 19:27
think wow. The two baths What is it considered unhealthy?

Marcia Smith 19:31
I don’t know. But she would didn’t like them. That’s the only fact you have a button. That is I have to look more. I’m sure there’s more to be said about Isabella.

Bob Smith 19:39
Well, I think she convinced Ferdinand the king to give money to Christopher Columbus. Probably to go find a new bath place.

Marcia Smith 19:46
I don’t know just to hear and he laughs I could get away from the smell. I don’t Oh, Marsha, Marsha. Okay, go ahead, Bob. You’re

Bob Smith 19:54
okay. What is the only state whose name is one syllable

Marcia Smith 20:00
Oh Maine.

Bob Smith 20:02
Yes, yes. I thought of jeopardy. I thought you hit the button me. Yes, that’s right Maine. And I Thank you. Okay, if you are an American and you live in Podunk. Yeah. What state do you live in?

Marcia Smith 20:12
Podunk is an actual place. I know Podunk

Bob Smith 20:18
Indiana is not where any of my relatives live Indiana, New Jersey or yours for that matter. Oh

Marcia Smith 20:23
Danka I’ve heard New York know what, Massachusetts okay. No, I thought it was Audi. Yeah,

Bob Smith 20:29
Podunk is in Massachusetts. It’s actually part of East Brookline Massachusetts. I thought that was just uh, oh, no, you’re strange derogatory term I it may be it is in Massachusetts here from Modak.

Marcia Smith 20:40
It’s one of the names I think that George Burns said are funny. Intrinsically funny. They’re like Poughkeepsie. Yes. Oh, dang. Those are funny. That’s right, just by saying them out loud. Okay, so next question. Why did Winston Churchill, Prime Minister of England have for most of his life, a fear of the date? January 24.

Bob Smith 21:03
Hmm. No fear of the date January 24. That wasn’t when he had his heart attack, was it? No, I don’t know. What was it? He

Marcia Smith 21:12
was certain that would be the day he would die because his dad died on that date. And he lived until he was 90 years old and he died in 1965. And guess which day he died that day? Yeah. Wow. January 24. You know, it probably

Bob Smith 21:29
is just a fear of it. He had such a phobia, but then it

Unknown Speaker 21:33
happened. I think you can manifest. Well, speaking of dying.

Bob Smith 21:36
How did Europeans once use Egyptian mummies to cure disease?

Marcia Smith 21:41
Was there something in the mummified? Yes, well, they thought there was. And they took it out and aidid Believe

Bob Smith 21:50
it or not, they used mummy powder. The actual remains of Egyptian royalty here. Yes, and they thought it cure disease. The Mummy powder was considered a standard drug in the European medicine chest until the 18th century. Now there was some criticism of the practice but that didn’t stop doctors from prescribing mummy powder. Oh, mommy powder is a cure for internal ailments. No kidding. powder from the bodies of the Egyptian mummies was swallowed as part of the tree until science and common sense prevailed and stopped the practice. What year was that? Oh, this is in the 18th century. Huh?

Marcia Smith 22:24
Wow, that’s a that’s one for you, huh? Yeah. Okay,

Bob Smith 22:29
another question. What do chess hot air balloons and fishing poles have in common? chests, hot air balloons, and fishing poles? Three very different things. Yeah. Okay, tell me. They were all invented by the Chinese.

Marcia Smith 22:45
Oh, wow. See, that’s pretty random. No, no, it’s not random. In fact, the

Bob Smith 22:49
Chinese are credited with many recreational innovations, I think of them as being more with the practical things. But in addition to chess, hot air balloons and fishing poles, they’re also credited with inventing the fishing hook kites, parachutes, and of course, fire works.

Marcia Smith 23:06
Well. Yeah. And a ton of other stuff. Yeah, a lot

Bob Smith 23:09
of other things too. But I just thought those were three random things to pull together and say, Who invented these things? And you thought they were random. So I guess I succeeded. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 23:17
Actually did lead. Okay. Okay, it’s baseball season, Bob.

Unknown Speaker 23:25
Okay.

Marcia Smith 23:29
In baseball, there are seven different ways to reach first base. How many can you name?

Bob Smith 23:36
Well, okay, reaching first base. Obviously, you can have a hit. You can be walked there.

Marcia Smith 23:42
Yeah. If the batter is struck by the pitch, okay, of course you get to walk there. If the catcher interferes with the at bat, okay, if the catcher drops the ball on strike three.

Bob Smith 23:53
Oh, no kidding. Yeah, that’s an arcane rule. Know that over if the

Marcia Smith 23:58
pitcher throws the ball out of the playing area, you know, throws a wild pitch, you can just trot off to first base. And finally, here’s one I didn’t know. The seventh way a batter can get on base is if the baseball become stuck in the umpires mask or equipment.

Bob Smith 24:16
There’s I think there’s more of a problem there for the young player. The rest of the game. I wonder why they made that one of

Marcia Smith 24:21
the rules. Obviously. It’s happened. Yeah, they got those face masks. I

Bob Smith 24:25
know. But the game keeps going on even though the Empire is near death because of something that’s happened. I guess they didn’t care about umpires. That’s what that shows. But it’s funny that you brought that up because I have a Milwaukee Brewer baseball schedule. We’re carry that in your wallet. And on the back. They have little known rules of baseball here, which is kind of neat. Yeah. Okay. And it’s got that rule that you just spoke of. That’s called rule 5.09 G I thought so. Oh, you did you okay. Did you know that players of opposing teams are not supposed to fraternize at any time while in uniform?

Marcia Smith 24:57
Wow. Yeah. Wow. Then they Do I think they fraternize? pretty severely when they are at bases together? I think there’s some nasty exchanges there.

Bob Smith 25:09
What about a designated hitter? What would happen if a designated hitter just decided to go sit in the bullpen?

Marcia Smith 25:17
Instead of going up to bat instead

Bob Smith 25:19
of being anywhere else, Well, where

Marcia Smith 25:21
else would he be? Well,

Bob Smith 25:22
you know, waiting in the dugout, so,

Marcia Smith 25:24
oh, the bullpen. Yeah. designated hitter isn’t well, that’s where the pitchers I know.

Bob Smith 25:29
But they but they for some reason. It’s like you said for some reason they had to make this rule. This is rule 6.10 B 15. A designated hitter is prohibited from sitting in the bullpen unless serving as a bullpen catcher.

Marcia Smith 25:45
Oh, you could catch the ball. Yeah, those are just

Bob Smith 25:47
like three or four really arcane rules of baseball. I don’t know how you would being an umpire and know all this stuff. You know, but and there are more we’ll come back to more of those in another episode. Oh,

Marcia Smith 25:57
exciting. Well, let me finish with baseball question. Okay. As of today, what’s considered the most valuable baseball card?

Bob Smith 26:07
Well, I know that there was an old Honus Wagner that was considered very, very valuable. Yeah. Honus Wagner, famous player back in the early early parts of baseball of the 20th century. I thought that was it.

Marcia Smith 26:18
But yeah, I think at one time it was but it’s a 1952 Mickey Mantle baseball card. From tops. You remember tap? Oh, yeah. So for $5.2 million. Oh, my goodness, and is the most expensive card of all time, according to the PwC marketplace, you know.

Bob Smith 26:37
And I had as a kid, I had all those guys. I had them and they’re worth a lot of money. I wish I still had those Mickey Mantle Whitey for that whole Yankees team, especially their rookie cards, they’re worth a fortune.

Marcia Smith 26:46
. We could be living pretty high off the hog Bob. Well,

Bob Smith 26:54
so it goes.

Marcia Smith 26:57
And I’ll end with a quote from Edith Wharton. Okay. There are two ways of spreading light to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Bob Smith 27:06
That’s why you’re so successful. And I sit there and bask in the glow.

Unknown Speaker 27:10
Did I say the right thing that works for me. Okay.

Bob Smith 27:13
All right. That’s

Unknown Speaker 27:15
it for the day.

Bob Smith 27:16
We hope you’ve enjoyed our show and we hope you’ll join us again next time. I’m Bob Smith.

Marcia Smith 27:21
I’m Marcia Smith,

Bob Smith 27:22
and you’ve been listening to the offering.

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