096 Amazing Facts Trivia

Bob Smith 0:00
What famous toy company did novelist James Patterson once write for? How can

Marcia Smith 0:05
you tell the age of a fish?

Bob Smith 0:10
Really? answers to those and other questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith

Welcome to the off ramp a chance to slow down steered clear of crazy take a side road to sanity and learn how to tell the age of a fish. When

Marcia Smith 0:44
do you get Goldie his birthday cake? How to Know

Bob Smith 0:47
You can’t cut them open and look at the rings. Well,

Marcia Smith 0:51
how do you think you can tell the age of fish? I don’t think he’s alive or when

Bob Smith 0:55
they’re alive. Yeah. Is it the something about the size of the gills? The number of things? Well,

Marcia Smith 1:00
oddly enough, Bob, it’s similar to the how you find out the age of a tree. You count the number of natural growth rings on each of its scales.

Bob Smith 1:11
Really, there are natural growth rings on the scales of a pitch and each

Marcia Smith 1:15
each scale has the same number of rings natural brings, apparently and if you count them they can find out how old he is. Wow, who knew?

Bob Smith 1:24
I didn’t know.

Marcia Smith 1:25
I didn’t know anything. He

Bob Smith 1:26
never knew that. Okay, well, we

Marcia Smith 1:29
know I found that interesting. Well, this is interesting.

Bob Smith 1:32
What famous toy company did novelist James Patterson once write for?

Marcia Smith 1:39
I’ll just say Mattel. No. Toys R Us. Uh huh. Oh, did he do their commercials?

Bob Smith 1:45
He did the jingle. The famous jingle I’m a Toys R Us kid.

Marcia Smith 1:49
Oh, how wonderful.

Speaker 1 1:52
Find the guy that I can play with. The best for so much that you really flipped by? game to go up because baby. Boy Oh.

Marcia Smith 2:20
Wow. Who knew? Well, so turns out he and Barry Manilow wrote famous jingles?

Bob Smith 2:26
Well, He only wrote one jingle that I know of. Okay, but it’s because James Patterson before he became a famous novelist, and he just recently wrote to thrillers with former President Bill Clinton. Yeah. James Patterson had a very successful career in advertising. He became the CEO of J. Walter Thompson of North America. You’re kidding. No, that’s no that he was in advertising for probably a good 20 years now. He

Marcia Smith 2:51
has an assembly line of writers to pop off a book every few weeks.

Bob Smith 2:55
Oh, it’s amazing. It’s amazing. He’s got this. Yeah, he does have an assembly line. But

Marcia Smith 3:00
kind of interesting. I read one of them that he wrote with Bill Clinton. It was pretty good. We

Bob Smith 3:03
had the President is missing the president’s daughter. Yeah. And then of course, he wrote the Alex Cross series. Yeah. And he wrote the women’s murder club. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 3:13
I read some of all those but in 1982

Bob Smith 3:15
as a 34 year old creative director, he and junior copywriter Linda Kaplan Fowler came up with a famous Toys R Us kid jingle she actually composed it on a toy piano because she wanted to think like a kid when she and they wrote it. And you remember I want to grow up. I’m a Toys R Us kid. I love the way it ends, though. I don’t want to grow up because baby if I did, I couldn’t be a Toys ‘R’ Us Kid. That is the work of James Patterson who went on to write 150 novels and Linda Kaplan Fowler has her own ad agency, the Kaplan Fowler group.

Marcia Smith 3:48
Okay, Bob, I have a question. All right. From a listener. Where is the world’s largest underground storage facility?

Bob Smith 3:56
The world’s largest underground storage facility. Now, I thought that the world’s largest underground storage facility was a cave where they put up cubic feet miles of of natural gas. I thought that’s what it was. Am I wrong? Yes. Okay. Okay. This

Marcia Smith 4:15
is an actual storage facility underground. Fort Knox. No, no. Okay. It is Kansas City. Mo really? That’s right. That’s where our listener is from. His name is Jeff Burrell. Okay, it’s a City Mall. You sent this in? It’s called sub tropicalis. Wow. And it’s in Kansas City, Missouri.

Unknown Speaker 4:36
Holy cow. How

Marcia Smith 4:37
big is it? That’s

Bob Smith 4:38
a question I have next.

Marcia Smith 4:40
Tell me Bob. What do you think in acres or feet or whatever you think, okay.

Bob Smith 4:44
Is it square feet or acres? What’s

Marcia Smith 4:45
the acres? square feet is another question. How many square feet

Bob Smith 4:51
okay. 150,000 square feet. That’s

Marcia Smith 4:55
good, but a little off. It’s 55 million square feet. Oh, Oh,

Unknown Speaker 5:00
oh, yeah, that’s all fine a little bit and

Marcia Smith 5:02
it’s 1200 acres. Wow. It’s an artificial caves built into the bluffs above the Missouri River. And it contains seven miles of illuminated paved roads and several miles of railroad tracks seven

Bob Smith 5:15
miles of roads.

Marcia Smith 5:17
So who do you think leases space down there? It’s always 65 to 70 degrees. It’s a former mine. It was built in 1964, the late owner of the Kansas City Chiefs, his name was Lamar Hunt. Anyway, he started this whole thing. So who do you think leases space down there?

Bob Smith 5:35
Oh, I would think it’s usually you want it dry. So a lot of times people store art or they store you know, anything that really needs to have moisture controls. Yeah. And humidity. Yeah, but I can’t tell you.

Marcia Smith 5:49
Well, the archives National Archives stores stuff down there. The knighted States Postal Service, they use it for their collectible stamp collections operation like that.

Bob Smith 5:59
Maybe that’s where they kept some of the mail. I’ve haven’t gotten really collectible stamps they put down

Marcia Smith 6:04
there. Among other things. It’s used for E commerce, pharmaceutical businesses, animal health, record storage, food distribution and automotive businesses. Wow. Yeah. I had no idea. Oh, my God is amazing. It’s really big. And it’s a great place to go. I guess if for the zombie apocalypse. That’s where you want to go. And that question came in from Jeff Burrell of Kansas City, Missouri.

Bob Smith 6:29
One of our listeners. That’s right. Wonderful. Thanks, Jeff. That’s a great question.

Marcia Smith 6:33
Never heard of it before I should have seven miles that’s just I can’t

Bob Smith 6:38
and railroad lines too. Yeah. So there’s different ways to get down there. Yeah. Wow. That’s fascinating. Okay, couple more toys r us questions. Little fun questions here. All right. Remember that logo? The R in Toys R Us was flipped around it was looking the wrong way. Did you notice that? The RS flipped it was backwards right? Why was the R backwards? Have no idea because the founder Charles Lazarus wanted the sign to look like a kid had written and later the company established other brands including Babies R Us and kids are us. They also had the backwards are okay. When Charles Lazarus founded Toys R Us he didn’t sell toys. What did he sell? The first store? He opened up? Groceries? No. Think of the time now. This was in the late 40s. Early 50s.

Marcia Smith 7:28
What’s really the chair? Yeah,

Bob Smith 7:30
what kind of furniture?

Marcia Smith 7:32
Living Room for baby furniture baby furniture. Of course the baby boom had boomed. Okay, yeah, so exactly once he

Bob Smith 7:38
went in business to sell baby furniture like cribs and high chairs and strollers but he didn’t get enough repeat customers. And then one day after a woman asked if she could buy some toys, in addition to the light bulb, he began adding those and he noticed people who bought toys returned frequently because the kids broke the toys. And they got older wanted better toy. Yeah. So he shifted his business from baby furniture to toys. And now that’s how that famous chain began. They’ve reopened recently. You know, they went into bankruptcy. Yeah, a couple of doors open. Were in the East Coast. I believe. I’ll be darned. And they have an online presence now so who knows? Maybe they’ll come back. You

Marcia Smith 8:15
know, I should have thought of that are backwards because back when they were around here Toys R Us I always thought that’s why they did it. So it looked like a kid but for some reason. It didn’t occur to me when you asked me apparently

Bob Smith 8:26
apparently that caused problems for English teachers. Yeah, that’s the signs that way. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 8:34
And that’s another case against clever spelling’s that companies do I have

Bob Smith 8:40
other questions on clever toys coming up? According to

Marcia Smith 8:43
the American veterinarian Association, Medical Association. What’s the oldest recorded age of a cat and a dog? Hmm. Okay,

Bob Smith 8:54
now we had a cat lasted 20 years that was considered next 21 Okay, let’s say 25 years for a cat. I’ll say 18 years for a dog.

Marcia Smith 9:05
Okay, not too bad. Cats can go 34 years. Well this one did and the dog 29 Wow, that is pretty old cats and small dogs are generally considered geriatric at the age of seven. Oh, that’s so sad. Yes, I know. Larger dogs are considered geriatric at the age of six because they age faster. Our first year of a cat and dog is equal to 15 human years so first year yeah, the first year after it goes down to the second year is like nine years and then four years

Bob Smith 9:38
So our dog was a teenager the first year at the end of the first year

Marcia Smith 9:41
that’s why he was explained to you, he didn’t do anything we said he didn’t do anything. stay out late. What the heck was wrong?

Bob Smith 9:49
Okay, but wanted to drive the car. I don’t know that went too far.

Marcia Smith 9:53
That was okay. So 34 year old cat and a 29 year old

Bob Smith 9:56
dog. All right. All right. You remember the game Twister, Marcia, I

Marcia Smith 10:01
do I liked it.

Bob Smith 10:02
Can you describe Twister?

Marcia Smith 10:03
Well, yeah, you put your hands and feet on these designated spots and you people don’t do the roll a dice to blue

Bob Smith 10:12
so people had to get underneath you. So you tried to stay as good like a pretzel. Basically, it

Marcia Smith 10:18
was kind of fun. Okay, well see if you’re dating or something. It’s a fun way to touch people.

Bob Smith 10:22
Well, speaking of that, speaking of that, when Milton Bradley introduced Twister in 1966 this twist like a pretzel game. How is it described by some critics? What was the worst thing someone said about it? Twister?

Marcia Smith 10:36
The worst thing someone said about it, it was oh, don’t tell me it was considered sexually suggestive. It

Bob Smith 10:43
was considered sex in a box.

Unknown Speaker 10:47
Isn’t that funny?

Marcia Smith 10:48
I was right then. Okay, I

Bob Smith 10:49
have another one your sex in a box x.

Marcia Smith 10:51
So like hotcakes with that? They should have

Bob Smith 10:54
put that as the byline. Okay, here’s something else kids like crayons. We’ve talked about those in the past? How many krans does a average kid go through in the first 10 years of their life? 10

Marcia Smith 11:06
years? How many crafts Oh, for God’s sakes, I’ll say 640. Boy your

Bob Smith 11:11
clothes. According to Crayola. And this is even today, kids play with grants. Right? The average kid wears out about 730 Crayons by his or her 10th birthday. And you said 640. So yeah, very close.

Marcia Smith 11:24
I just multiplied you know, 10 times 64 crayons in a box. Big Box. The big box.

Bob Smith 11:32
So this is from personal experience. You went through 10 boxes of crayons. I was 30 years old. You were still playing with those when I met you? Yeah. Okay, indeed.

Marcia Smith 11:41
I was. Okay. Bob, can you name the six official languages of the United Nations?

Bob Smith 11:48
Okay, I think they would be English. French, German, Italian, Spanish. Portuguese. That six. Chinese is one of those Japanese is another so I’ve got eight there that I get the six in my eight. Nope. Oh, dear RUSSIAN. Yes, of course. Alright, let’s try it again.

Marcia Smith 12:05
English. Russian. German.

Bob Smith 12:07
No. French? Yes. Spanish? Yes. Japanese? Nope. Okay. How many do I get so far for for?

Marcia Smith 12:19
I don’t know. I give up. Chinese and Arabic. Oh,

Bob Smith 12:22
isn’t that interesting? I find it fascinating. They didn’t do German. Yeah. Well, it was after World War Two. And there were so many German speaking people and they had beaten Germany in the war.

Marcia Smith 12:32
Yeah, but Arabic and Chinese just for sheer volume. That’s true Arabic and Chinese is a huge population. That’s true. Okay, so that’s it the six languages of the United Nations. Alright Marcia, more toy questions. All right. And I got a bladder question to follow what has nothing to do with it? Dear god,

Bob Smith 12:53
okay. I just want

Marcia Smith 12:54
to keep them on their toes.

Bob Smith 12:57
These are actually movie questions. Okay. These were the working titles of what famous movie I’m gonna give you a two out of three first and then see what you could do. All right. made in Taiwan, and moving buddies. These are working titles of a famous movie made in Taiwan and moving buddies for the same movie. Yes. Okay. Okay, here’s the third guest this will give it away toys in the hood. Oh,

Marcia Smith 13:20
was it? Was it Toy Story Toy Story.

Bob Smith 13:23
Yeah, before Pixar settled on Toy Story The other names suggested include made in Taiwan moving buddies and toys in the hood. Toys spelled T O Y Z toys. That would if toys in the hood nuts. Okay. And what was Buzz Lightyear is original name. This reminded me of some of those names you had that Charles Dickens came up with? Yeah. What was that Tiny Tim? It

Marcia Smith 13:45
was Looney, Pete. Pete

Bob Smith 13:47
Okay, so before deciding a Buzz Lightyear what was one name? They considered calling their Spaceman? Captain

Marcia Smith 13:53
Callahan? No. I didn’t know John. Lunar Larry. Oh, that’s good.

Bob Smith 14:01
Lunar Larry. I thought that was funny. I don’t think it’s I think Buzz Lightyear is much better than than a lunar Larry myself perfect

Marcia Smith 14:08
and they got the name buzz from Buzz Aldrin.

Bob Smith 14:11
Speaking of buzz, I have something about the health benefits of coffee in a minute. Okay, well

Marcia Smith 14:15
then let me move on to bladder bladder

Bob Smith 14:17
after we talk about coffee. Oh no. Why don’t we take a break? Okay. We’ll do that break you need. We’ll be back with more in just a moment. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith. This is the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith and we return with the question on the bladder. She’s what a build up this is a very short question. Somebody’s got to promote it. You know

Marcia Smith 14:42
how much liquid Bob can the average human bladder hold? Give it to me in ounces if you will. Okay, aren’t cups.

Bob Smith 14:51
No, I don’t gotta give it to you and cups. Yeah, say six ounces. No 12 ounces. Okay, the

Marcia Smith 14:57
average healthy bladder 16. announces Wow, and what’s really interesting, it’s almost double that at night when you’re in bed. Well, it

Bob Smith 15:05
feels like it. Yeah. You have to get up. Yeah, really, it’s almost double that yeah at night. So your body really does a good job of regulating and saying we’re going to hold

Marcia Smith 15:15
until you get older and then it says, We’re not going to hold on to

Bob Smith 15:18
let you go up every five minutes, go to the bathroom. Okay? Drinking coffee has always been linked to all kinds of potential problems, heart disease, and everything else. But lately, it’s been linked to reduce risk in all kinds of ailments including Parkinson’s disease, heart disease, type two diabetes, gallstones, depression, suicide, cirrhosis, live cancer, melanoma and prostate cancer. This is all good news. This comes from the New England Journal of Medicine. And in a study of more than 200,000 participants followed up 30 years later, those who drank three to five cups of coffee a day with or without caffeine, were 15% less likely to die from all those causes. Oh, then people who shun to coffee. So when you say no coffee, you’re not being healthy shiners are dying. That’s right. And there was a 50% reduction in the risk of suicide compared to people who don’t drink coffee. All right. Well, that’s

Marcia Smith 16:15
interesting. It’s

Bob Smith 16:16
funny because as recently as 1991, the World Health Organization listed coffee as a possible carcinogen. Yeah, there’s so things have changed.

Marcia Smith 16:24
It depends what week you’re looking at everything. I’m sticking to the red wine. Good for you theory. Again,

Bob Smith 16:29
this comes from the New England Journal of Medicine.

Marcia Smith 16:32
Okay, Bob, Niagara Falls.

Bob Smith 16:34
Right after we talk about coffee and bladder. Okay. All right. Okay,

Marcia Smith 16:38
get my transition there. I guess so clever. Okay. It was formed 10,000 years ago. And it’s eroded away a fair amount of miles upstream. You know, just how many miles you think.

Bob Smith 16:54
I would imagine that’s two miles three miles upstream

Marcia Smith 16:56
in 10,000 years. Okay. 15 or 20 miles. Yeah, I kind of led you that way. But you were closer in the beginning seven miles. Wow. At the continued rate of erosion, the Falls will disappear into Lake Erie in 22,000 years. Oh, can we be there to see you remember your first trip there? Don’t you bought Yes,

Bob Smith 17:18
I do. That was a family trip. And it’s no accident

Marcia Smith 17:22
there since I was two years old had your own Niagara Falls but we’ll move on. I hope so. Cuz family thing never

Bob Smith 17:30
wanted to talk about. Even my dad when he would tell crying he would tell that story when I was a grown man. No, I know that it was so funny. anymore. Okay, I’ve got a question. Okay. Oh, I

Marcia Smith 17:43
just went back to Niagara Falls. Can I add a little factoid? Has the Falls ever not flowed? Yes.

Bob Smith 17:51
They closed off the falls. They shut it off, diverted the water around and that was to clear up a lot of the rubble. That was a number of years ago. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 18:00
No, not that. I mean, naturally. Has it never not float when there was an earthquake? I think it stopped. No, it was in March 2918 48 for 30 hours because of an ice jam blocking the Niagara River. Holy cow. So it just stopped for for 30 hours. It didn’t flow.

Bob Smith 18:18
That’s amazing. Yeah, I didn’t know that. 30 It was an ice flow. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 18:22
and ice jam.

Bob Smith 18:23
Wow. Wow.

Marcia Smith 18:25
That’s interesting. The river. Okay.

Bob Smith 18:26
Okay. What was the best selling car of the mid 2000s? Was it the jeep? Nope.

Marcia Smith 18:34
Was it the Outback?

Bob Smith 18:37
I’m smiling because you won’t get it? Oh.

Unknown Speaker 18:41
It’s a toy question. Oh,

Marcia Smith 18:43
it’s a toy quite. Oh, boy. You are scandal. Hey, now

Bob Smith 18:46
back in 2008 Little Tykes sold 457,000 Cozy coupes making it the best selling car in America tricking me

Marcia Smith 18:56
that’s the ideal. You’re just sad. Okay, Bob. Moving on, historically, what is the difference between an American billion and a British billion?

Bob Smith 19:09
Hmm. So there’s an American billion

Marcia Smith 19:12
and a British. There wasn’t until 1974. Oh, I didn’t know that. Yeah. Okay. What was the difference? An American billion is 1000 million. Yes. In Britain until 74. A billion was 1 million million. Big a million million. Yeah, yeah. And the British changed it to our version because it was easier to calculate light years. The Americans apparently got them to change so everybody could calculate light years easier. Which is interesting, because we can even do metrics but

Bob Smith 19:46
we gave them can tell them they’re wrong. Yeah. We want that one. Okay. Okay. I have a question for you. In 1953. A food company had a lot of leftover food after Thanksgiving. What did they decide? had to do with it

Marcia Smith 20:00
with a lot of Turkey. You’re saying it was turkey. Okay. And what did they decide to do with it? Yes. Who is the people and American food company? American food company with all those big frozen Tom turkeys? What did they do with them? They gave them to farmers?

Bob Smith 20:15
No, no, this is 1953 This was the beginning of the convenient food era. They

Marcia Smith 20:21
made the atom bomb with no GS. Think put

Bob Smith 20:25
your thinking cap on.

Marcia Smith 20:27
I don’t know. Your appetite. They they did frozen food.

Bob Smith 20:31
Yeah, it was Swanson. Yeah, they had 260 tons of frozen turkey leftover after Thanksgiving, God 260 tons of frozen turkey. We got a little leftover here. So yeah, so they said I’m dressing Jim I got an idea. Let’s package these things into trays with peas and potatoes and the TV dinner was born. All right. That’s where it came from. Okay, we’re in another toy question. You’d like my toy question there. We’re down the rabbit hole in 1970, an artist with a single name had the number 16 hit on the Billboard charts. His name began with an E but it wasn’t Elvis. Who was it? 1970. An artist with a single name. Elton. No. Aveda. No. Ernie of Sesame Street. Just kind of a toy question. Oh,

Marcia Smith 21:20
yeah, I forgot that part.

Bob Smith 21:22
Do you remember the song?

Speaker 1 21:23
Rubber Ducky. Yes, right. Rubber ducky, you’re the one you make bathtime lots of fun. Oh,

Bob Smith 21:31
that rose to 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts and 19 Seven Oh kid shows us how desperate we were for good.

Marcia Smith 21:39
I think of all the kids that love that and didn’t that kids have rubber duckies who

Bob Smith 21:43
didn’t have a rubber duck? You had a rubber ducky when you were a kid, didn’t you? No, I did not. Oh, dear. Lucky I had a tub. What? Fail? Yes. You were impoverished? What famous children’s game was invented as a diversion for kids recovering from polio. This is one of your favorite games. What famous children’s game was invented as a diversion. That’s it. Yeah. Eleanor Abbott was the inventor. She invented it as a diversion for kids who are recovering from polio. You love Candyland. You played her kids with Candyland.

Marcia Smith 22:12
It doesn’t mean I loved it. Bob. I loved our children. Yeah, but

Bob Smith 22:15
you are really ruthless with the kids. You never let them win any Candyland game. There’s

Marcia Smith 22:19
they shouldn’t be brought up as wimps.

Bob Smith 22:24
So you can’t lose. You taught them competitiveness. I Candyland. Yes, that seems like a hard ass lesson.

Marcia Smith 22:29
Lessons Learned Bob. They’re good. How good they are today. Well,

Bob Smith 22:33
they do really. Candyland. Pretty good. They’re ruthless ruthless at Candyland.

Marcia Smith 22:39
Remember the phrase? It’s another red letter day. One I often say it’s Jimmy

Bob Smith 22:44
Stewart said about the Red Letter de la Pele. Very good. Very upset.

Marcia Smith 22:50
Yes. And we often say that here is a joke. But where did that phrase come from red letter

Bob Smith 22:55
day. All these things usually have some kind of origin in business or government or something like that. So I’ll say red letter. A red letter was something that you got in the mail or that was in a document that really indicated something very important. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 23:08
that’s a good guess. But no significant. No. Happy No. Lost. It goes back to the church in the medieval days. And the counters then had important seats and feast days on the counter in red ink feast days. Yeah. Okay. These days, and these memorable days became known as the red letter day. Oh, no

Bob Smith 23:31
kidding. Wow. So it’s centuries and centuries old medieval days. So they’re important days to remember. Yes. Okay. Marcia, who popularized the expression Polly want a cracker? You ever think about that?

Marcia Smith 23:44
Well, I want to crack her. Is it a biscuit of some kind? Yes,

Bob Smith 23:49
it was the American Biscuit Company was back in the 1890s and their premium saltines product. Okay. Had a parent trademark with the slogan poly one a cracker. They created that in 1890. So it’s been around a long time. Sure. Has. I have one last little item here I think you might find interesting. Okay, now we’re in a new streaming area when many movies are being released by studios via the web online right versus traditional theaters. So guess who’s released the most movies in the last five years? Netflix Netflix. Netflix has released 133 films and guess what? They have the lowest scores among critics and the public. This comes from the Wall Street Journal an article called is streaming making movies worse by RT Watson. They hired a company called ampere analysis. And they found Netflix films have the lowest ratings and Disney has outscored everyone else they make fewer films than anyone else. All of them have a higher rating an average of 70.3% approval by audiences and 66% approval by critics that comes from his streaming making movies worse from the Wall Street Journal June. 1720 21

Marcia Smith 25:01
Interesting. Okay, speaking of Disney, have a way to wrap it up here, okay with a quote from Walt Disney quote, actually, I have to hear, okay. And here’s so much for the wife, quote, I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

Bob Smith 25:17
Walt Disney said that. Oh, my goodness. And his wife gave Minnie her name, Mickey. And Minnie

Marcia Smith 25:23
said, I mean, I would have been crushed if you said that anyway. Well,

Bob Smith 25:27
well, I do like Mickey Mouse. Mickey Mouse phone when he met me

Marcia Smith 25:33
me into the marriage. And how long was that around? That

Bob Smith 25:35
didn’t last very long.

Marcia Smith 25:38
I’ll bet. So our days were set by

Bob Smith 25:40
Mrs. Disney named Mickey, you know, like, he named it more drummer. And she said, that doesn’t sound good. And she said, Why would you call it Mickey? Really? So she gives him that gift? And he says, I’ve loved this mouse more than anyone. It’s just wrong. It’s very.

Marcia Smith 25:56
And who said this? He’s passe. Nobody cares about Mickey anymore. There are whole batches of Mickey’s we just can’t give away. I think we should phase him out. Well, I can’t imagine Walt Disney saying that he did not. Yeah, I think we should phase him out. No,

Bob Smith 26:13
no, it was it was Mrs. Disney.

Unknown Speaker 26:18
You liked this better than

Marcia Smith 26:21
good. Good call Bob. No, it was the brother Roy Disney. Walt’s brother. He said that in 1937. Oh, my God, wasn’t he the business man. Here’s the business. So much for sound business. We got

Bob Smith 26:33
a whole room of these things. That’s why you don’t let a bean counter make creative decisions.

Marcia Smith 26:37
I agree. He’s all right. Okay, times

Bob Smith 26:41
up. We want to thank Jeff Burrell again for sending in his question about sub Tropos. That was a great one knew nothing about that before Jeff is in Kansas City, right? Correct. Okay, so we want to thank Jeff and if you have a question you’d like one of us to answer you can give us to us by going to our website, the off ramp dot show and go to contact us. Yes. And leave your question your answer your name, your location, whatever your social security number. No, we don’t need by Bob Smith,

Marcia Smith 27:10
I’m Marcia Smith. Join

Bob Smith 27:12
us next time when we return with the off ramp.

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