Bob and Marcia Smith discussed a range of topics, from Disney World trivia to the geographical wonders of the Great Lakes. Bob shared his knowledge of Disney history and candy, while Marcia provided insights into the origins of Disney World and the impact of the movie ‘The Graduate’ on Anne Bancroft’s career. They also exchanged trivia questions and answers on various subjects, including tropical rainforests and giant redwood trees. Marcia expressed fascination with the trees’ reliance on coastal fog for survival, and Bob agreed, noting that the trees only survive due to the saltwater fog.
Outline
US volcanoes, including Alaska’s 141.
- Alaska has the most volcanoes in the US, with 141, per the conversation.
Disney World, peanut butter, and Walt Disney’s legacy.
- Marcia and Bob discuss the upcoming Star Wars: Galactic Starcruiser attraction at Disney World, with options including a simulated spaceship experience or a live show recreating scenes from the films.
- Marcia Smith and Bob Smith discuss Walt Disney World, including its original description as the “vacation kingdom of the world” and its current moniker as the “most magical place on earth.”
- Bob Smith shares interesting facts about peanut butter, including the number of peanuts in a typical jar (2523) and the amount of peanuts sacrificed for each jar of peanut butter (1218).
Disney World and its history.
- Bob Smith and Marcia Smith discuss famous people with a common trait: they all worked at McDonald’s at some point in their lives.
- The candy M&M owes its success to its ability to withstand extreme temperatures and be eaten without getting fingers sticky, as revealed by Bob Smith.
- Bob and Marcia discuss Walt Disney World Resort, including its size and the origin of the phrase “with flying colors.”
Candy, lakes, and countries.
- Bob and Marcia Smith discuss the reason behind Van Halen’s demand for a bowl of M&Ms backstage with no brown ones, which was a quality control measure to ensure the venue was detail-oriented.
- A famous candy got its shape due to a defective machine, originally intended to be a tablet but malfunctioned and punched a hole in every piece that came off the machine.
- Bob and Marcia discuss lakes and countries, with Bob incorrectly identifying Saudi Arabia as having no lakes or rivers.
- Bob and Marcia discuss the Great Lakes’ mysterious shipwrecks and an ancient Stonehedge-like formation found in Lake Michigan.
World’s tallest apartment building and South Pole Station time zone.
- Bob Smith and Marcia Smith discuss the world’s tallest apartment building, Central Park Tower, in New York City, which has 179 apartments and starts at $6.5 million.
- Marcia Smith shares an interesting fact about the phrase “bagels and lox” being considered an insult in the 1950s among Jewish immigrants in the US.
- Marcia and Bob discuss the history of bagels and lox, with Marcia sharing interesting facts and Bob providing humorous commentary.
- Bob asks a question about the timezone used at the Amundsen Scott South Pole Station, and Marcia provides the answer.
Trivia, movies, and comedy.
- Marcia and Bob discuss movies, including “Bonnie and Clyde” and “The Graduate,” with Marcia mentioning Anne Bancroft’s role in the latter.
- Marcia and Bob discuss the importance of coastal fog for redwood trees, with Bob sharing a quote from Mark Twain.
Bob Smith 0:00
Which US state has the most volcanoes? And what is Star Wars
Marcia Smith 0:06
galactic starcruiser
Bob Smith 0:08
what is Star Wars Galactic Starcruiser? I don’t understand the question
Marcia Smith 0:13
Well that’s gonna wait till I give you some answers to those.
Bob Smith 0:17
Answers to those that 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 get some perspective on life. Well, Marsha, I was really astounded by how many volcanoes there are in the United States and I was astounded by which state has the most and how many. Do you have any idea?
Marcia Smith 0:57
How many active volcanoes there are in the night?
Bob Smith 1:00
What state has the most volcanos.
Marcia Smith 1:04
Well, is it near an ocean? The state?
Bob Smith 1:06
Yeah, it’s near an ocean. Okay. Oh,
Marcia Smith 1:08
is it Hawaii?
Bob Smith 1:09
That’s a great answer. Great answer, but it’s not the one. Okay then tell me. Hawaii. Only has five five volcanoes. Oregon doesn’t have them all. Oregon only has 17.
Marcia Smith 1:20
Really? Three times on it. Three more than three.
Bob Smith 1:24
California only has 18. Okay, but Alaska has 141. 141 volcanoes in Alaska. Can you believe that? I believe it now pop? Wow. It’s the most volcanoes by a longshot 80% of the volcanoes in the United States, of which there are a total of 161 are in Alaska. So many that it’s rare for a year to go by without an eruption, and about 10% of all eruptions historically occur in Alaska. And fortunately, most of those volcanoes are far away from major population centers.
Marcia Smith 2:01
All right. All right. From that to Star Wars. Yay. Okay. Star Wars galactic starcruiser is set to open next year. What will it be?
Bob Smith 2:12
It will be a Disney attraction. Okay. And probably a Disney World.
Marcia Smith 2:19
Uh huh.
Bob Smith 2:20
But I don’t know.
Marcia Smith 2:22
I’ll give you multiple choices. Okay. It’s the world’s largest indoor roller coaster. Be an experience in which guests stay play and eat in a simulated spaceship. Okay, see a high speed Star Wars themed train? or D. A live show recreating scenes from the Star Wars films.
Bob Smith 2:44
I think it’s probably like Space Mountain. It’ll be like the biggest indoor roller coaster in the world. No,
Marcia Smith 2:49
this is where you’re going to go. Stay play in eat in a simulated spaceship. No kidding. It’s a two day epic event. Two days.
Bob Smith 2:59
You actually stay overnight.
Marcia Smith 3:01
Yeah, no kidding. Isn’t that something? Wow. It’s a luxury hotel where guests go for a two night adventure. Isn’t that cool?
Bob Smith 3:10
That is wonderful. That’ll be a Disney World in Florida.
Marcia Smith 3:14
Yes, it turns 50 this year. So I have several Disney questions here with multiple choice answers and you get to guess,
Bob Smith 3:22
Okay, okay, speaking of food eating. I have some food questions. All right. Okay, what food is so high in protein that it actually draws moisture from your mouth?
Marcia Smith 3:34
Really? Yes.
Bob Smith 3:35
Well, this food is so high in protein. It actually takes moisture out of your mouth.
Marcia Smith 3:38
Alright. Is it a vegetable?
Bob Smith 3:41
No.
Marcia Smith 3:43
Is it a meat? No. Is it a fruit? No. What the hell? It’s a nut. It’s a nut.
Bob Smith 3:48
Yeah, it’s peanut butter. Oh, it’s very high protein. And that’s the reason that it sticks to your the roof of your mouth. Here’s another question. Okay, if you’re an average kid, by the time you graduate from high school, how many peanut butter sandwiches will you have eaten? I’ll say 3000.
Marcia Smith 4:04
Half of that actually. 1500. 1500 Depends who your mother is.
Bob Smith 4:13
If your mother is Marcia Smith 3000 Okay, all right. Good.
Marcia Smith 4:20
All right. How did the Disney company describe Walt Disney World? In the early years? Was it a the vacation kingdom of the world? Be the happiest land in the universe? See the most wondrous world on the planet? or D? A world of magic?
Bob Smith 4:40
I bet it was the last one a world of magic.
Marcia Smith 4:43
Yeah, that would make sense no wrong again, Bob. The vacation kingdom of the world you know, but all those things are true, right?
Bob Smith 4:50
Yeah. Disney. Yeah, Disney World.
Marcia Smith 4:55
They’re all that and now it doesn’t call itself that anymore. Now it calls itself the most magical place on earth.
Bob Smith 5:01
I went there. I think the first I think it was 50 years ago, my my parents I was too old. I mean, I was like, first year of college, but the family said, Hey, let’s go to Disney World. And we did and it was great.
Marcia Smith 5:14
Well, how will there are kids bobbing and they want to go there in their mid 30? Yeah. Okay, so, obviously,
Bob Smith 5:21
Okay, got a couple more questions food oriented. One more about peanut butter. Okay, okay. How many peanuts does it take to make a typical jar of peanut butter in each jar of peanut butter? 565.
Marcia Smith 5:34
It’s much more than that. 2523
Bob Smith 5:38
It’s not that much. Okay, you’re in the middle here. The bulk who knew reports there are 1218 peanuts in a single 28 ounce jar of Jeff. Peanut butter. That’s still a lot.
Marcia Smith 5:52
That’s a lot. How many get …
Bob Smith 5:54
1,218 peanuts were sacrificed for you to have that beautiful flavor of peanut butter.
Marcia Smith 6:02
Okay, multiple choice again. Okay. How old was Walt Disney in 1971? When the resort Disney World made its debut?
Bob Smith 6:11
Well, I think Walt was dead. That’s it.
Marcia Smith 6:13
That was the answer. I was gonna give you three different things. But he died in 1966 at the age of 6565. Okay. 65 and Ser so that was you know, his dream. Yeah. And he died right before it. It’s kind of sad isn’t it.
Bob Smith 6:26
It’s very sad. And you know, the reason he built that down there he he was so upset by something that happened in California. He you know, he bought the property and built the property. And basically, it was a walled city, but outside that wall where all of the hotels and everything came up, and he just thought it was awful. He didn’t like how things – he got to have more control.
Marcia Smith 6:48
So it could be more magic.
Bob Smith 6:52
So he bought thousands and thousands of acres and plopped Disney World in the middle of it. So you have to drive. You know you’re driving a couple miles to get to it. Yeah. Within their property. Very cool place. It really is. Okay, what do these famous people have in common? Let me give you some names. Then I’ll give you a clue. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, comedian, Jay Leno, actresses Rachel McAdams, and Sharon Stone. Also the musician pink. Okay. Very odd group of people.
Marcia Smith 7:21
Okay, is it you have to be give me a bone here.
Bob Smith 7:24
I said, I’m going to give you a clue. Okay. So you have to be patient. Here comes the clue. Yeah, it’s a food related distinction.
Marcia Smith 7:32
Okay. They all allergic to the same food. No, they all hate broccoli. No, they all love broccoli.
Bob Smith 7:38
No, no, no, they all worked at McDonald’s. Yeah, they every one of them said do you want fries with that at one time or another? Okay, another food question for you. Food question bonus since you did so well on that one. What candy owes a substantial portion of its success to the US military?
Marcia Smith 7:58
Snickers No, no, no.
Bob Smith 8:03
This is a candy that has a preservation aspect of Twinkies.
Marcia Smith 8:06
No, that’s not a candy. No. What? Preservation what candy lasts forever bubble gum?
Bob Smith 8:13
No, no, I don’t know. They wanted a candy that would hold up in G ice pockets and backpacks and could be eaten without getting their trigger fingers sticky. Oh, M&Ms. Oh, really?
Marcia Smith 8:23
They get chocolaty? Well, no, I guess they don’t come with a candy coating.
Bob Smith 8:28
Remember the candy coating that was the big advertising aspect they always talked about?
Marcia Smith 8:33
Is that one of the Ms in M&M stands for Military military
Bob Smith 8:37
might? No, it doesn’t know it’s neither one of those.
Marcia Smith 8:41
Without me giving you multiple answers. Can you tell me what Epcot stands for?
Bob Smith 8:49
Was the city of tomorrow but what did Epcot mean? I think city if tomorrow is the C. E is experimental Prototype tomorrow?
Marcia Smith 9:01
Oh very good. I give it to you .it’s close. Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow.
Bob Smith 9:07
Of tomorrow. Yes. Wow.
Marcia Smith 9:08
Very good Bob.
Bob Smith 9:10
Well, because it kind of balanced the ecological nature of the land with a city and a had the monorail had. Okay. So really, it was in many ways THE experimental community for tomorrow. Good.
Marcia Smith 9:25
Quick question. Can you name all four kingdoms in Walt Disney World Resort?
Bob Smith 9:29
Oh, dear. Let’s see the Magic Kingdom. Epcot. There’s the Disney Studios. I forget the Hollywood and then there’s the animal kingdom.
Marcia Smith 9:41
You did it again. darlin. You are aficionado? Well, you know well, is that for say magic Epcot, Hollywood and animal we’ve never seen the animal kingdom I hear it’s quite glorious. Yeah,
Bob Smith 9:55
yeah. Okay, Marcia a color full question. Okay. Flying Colors. So, where does that expression come from?
Marcia Smith 10:02
Like he passed with flying colors?
Bob Smith 10:04
Yeah, there’s all kinds of things like that.
Marcia Smith 10:06
Well, does it have something to do with flying?
Bob Smith 10:09
No, it doesn’t.
Marcia Smith 10:11
Okay. Does it have something to do with color?
Bob Smith 10:14
It has something to do with colors Marsh. Okay. That’s why we say flying colors. Yes. All right. You tell me Bob, it actually goes back to the age of exploration when the European explorers first set off on the seas. If a captain had been successful in his ventures, he would order the crew to fly their country’s flag, or colors that makes sense to announce their victory before arriving back home. And originally, the phrase with flying colors simply meant that a mission had been completed without disaster. But over the centuries, the idiom came to signify great success. So they did this with flying colors. Basically having your flag up.
Marcia Smith 10:50
Yeah. I should have figured that out. But I did not. Okay, last Disney World question. Okay, celebration of their 50th anniversary. How many acres is Walt Disney World compared with California’s Disney Land? Oh, I’ll give you a multiple choice. Okay. 9000 versus 6000. Be 15,000 versus 3000. C 25,000 versus 500. or D 12,000. versus 9000.
Bob Smith 11:25
I believe it’s a 25,000 acres versus the whatever the other 500.
Marcia Smith 11:29
Yeah. Wow. You think it’s that? Yeah, it is. Okay. How did you do that?
Bob Smith 11:36
Somehow the number 24 or 25,000? stuck in my mind.
Marcia Smith 11:39
Disneyland is only 2% of the size of its sibling in Florida.
Bob Smith 11:44
Disneyland is 2% the size of Disney World. Yeah. Wow. That’s an
amazing thing.
Marcia Smith 11:49
Walt wanted more room and he got it.
Bob Smith 11:53
Okay, I have an interesting question for you. Yes, sir. Another question about M&Ms Here. Oh, all right. It seemed the height of arrogance to demand a bowl of M&Ms backstage with absolutely no brown ones. More blue ones that red ones. But what’s the real reason the band Van Halen did that back in 1982? S
Marcia Smith 12:13
Said they, they didn’t allow Brown won the M&M?
Bob Smith 12:17
Yeah, they said a bowl of M&Ms backstage and no brown wins. Now why did they do that? I knew it has nothing to do with the M&Ms. I don’t know. Okay. Well, that was something they put in their 1982 World contract, the concert contract. Because they were worried that older venues would not be able to accommodate all these massive amounts of state of the art staging and sound equipment and lighting. So they put this tiny little detail in there to see if people were actually reading the contract. And so then once they got on scene, if they found the bowl there and it just had M&Ms they knew they didn’t read it. Now we better check all the electricity and everything before we do the show.
Marcia Smith 13:00
It was a quality control thing Yes.
Bob Smith 13:02
Wow. A way of confirming that the venue was detail oriented. Wow. I thought that was pretty cool. Because fair. You always heard about these things. And you thought well, how arrogant these people?
Marcia Smith 13:13
Yes, yes, yes.
Bob Smith 13:14
But that was the reason apparently. Okay. Well, all right. I think it’s time to take a break. I think so. All right. We’ll be back in just a moment. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marcia Smith. Welcome back. You’re listening to the Off Ramp with Bob and Marcia Smith. We have a lot of fun questions today. We’ve done quite a few food questions and Disney questions and I have one more food question for you here. What candy Marcia? Well, I guess it’s not food. It’s candy.
Marcia Smith 13:42
It’s a food to me.
Bob Smith 13:43
Okay. What candy got its shape due to a defective machine?
Marcia Smith 13:48
Really?
Bob Smith 13:50
Yes. A famous candy been around for 100 years anyway, really got its shape because of a defective machine.
Marcia Smith 13:58
And it’s not like corn candy. No. I’m trying to think of an old timey food but is it Lifesavers? Really? Yeah. Oh, it had a hole in it by accident.
Bob Smith 14:10
Yeah, the candy was originally supposed to be a tablet. But the original machine employed to press out the standard circular malfunctioned and inadvertently punched a hole in every piece that came off of that machine and they didn’t discover it until thousands of these things. So they decided to rename the candy because the O shaped pieces resembled little life preservers, they did.
Marcia Smith 14:33
Okay, but what country? Yes, in the world has more lakes than all the other countries combined.
Bob Smith 14:42
My first question is What country is not in the world? It seemed like a redundant phrase. I did Bob. I’m sorry, Mark.
Marcia Smith 14:50
No, I’m sorry for being not up to your standard.
Bob Smith 14:55
Okay, I imagine that you’re gonna hear about that later on.
Marcia Smith 14:59
Okay. Okay. What country has more lakes than all the other countries combined or lakes lakes than all the other countries.
Bob Smith 15:03
That’s a lot of lakes. I would say the United States would have a good chance of having that many lakes there. Number three number three. Yeah. Okay, so I’ll go with the biggest country in the world land wise Russia.
Marcia Smith 15:16
That’s number two.
Bob Smith 15:20
Again, getting closer, let’s go down to the next level. I think China would be next or India one of those two, but okay, well, South America, let’s say Brazil. No. Okay, then let’s go north. Let’s just look up. Okay, Canada. Oh, good. Good. I knew I had the answer. Somewhere in there.
Marcia Smith 15:38
They’ve got 2 million lakes? Oh my goodness. They have 20% of the world’s freshwater in lakes and rivers up there.
Bob Smith 15:46
20% of the world’s freshwater in their lakes and
Marcia Smith 15:50
You know, who has the fewest lakes? No. 19 countries have no lakes at all. But Saudi Arabia wins because it doesn’t even have River. No kidding. No lakes? No permanent lakes or rivers?
Bob Smith 16:08
Oh my goodness.
Marcia Smith 16:09
Yeah. So there is no water there at all.
Bob Smith 16:12
I’ve always lived near a lake or water or something.
Marcia Smith 16:14
Kind of water creek or something?
Bob Smith 16:17
Yeah. Holy cow. Okay, that’s good. All right. One last candy question. Am I just can’t get off with the candy. I love candy. That’s why my teeth had so many problems growing up. How did the Hershey’s Kiss get its name? Oh, I never thought about this before. To me. It looks like a kiss.
Marcia Smith 16:37
Does that Bob? Yeah. What kind of kisses are you getting from me?
Bob Smith 16:42
Nice kisses.
Marcia Smith 16:42
But well, because because because it’s shaped like out when you pick her up. It looks like a pucker.
Bob Smith 16:53
Well, you got pucker, right? Okay. Interestingly, it’s not because it looks like a kiss. But because the puckering sound made by the original manufacturing equipment as the chocolate dropped onto the conveyor belt during production. So apparently, it had a puckering sound and people said that sounds like it’s kissing over there. Oh, really? Yeah. Oh, that’s cute. I always thought it was because the shape and you know his cute little shape to it.
Marcia Smith 17:17
I’d give me 50% I said pucker. Right?
Bob Smith 17:20
Okay. All right. It’s too bad. You didn’t get that question. All right. I’ll give you that one.
Marcia Smith 17:24
Is there Bob? Is there a great lake equivalent of the Bermuda Triangle?
Bob Smith 17:30
Yes, there is. Yes, there is. And it’s in Lake Michigan, our lake because of there’s so many shipwrecks in a certain area.
Marcia Smith 17:39
What area?
Bob Smith 17:39
Where is that?
Marcia Smith 17:42
Actually, it’s near Travis city. Okay, so it is Northern Michigan up in? Yeah, many unexplained ship disappearances and missing planes north of the triangle near Traverse City where a strange Stonehenge like rock formation rests below the lakes surface. Really? Yeah. And some believe that the two phenomena are related to each other. What two phenomena, the disappearances and the Stonehenge rock formation below the lake. They think there’s some kind of happening there something and recently appeared.
Bob Smith 18:15
They found I believe recently in the middle of Lake Michigan or Lake Erie. They found obsidian tools or stones that obviously came from somewhere else because there’s no volcanoes. So it shows ancient trade routes. Actually. Maybe a ship or maybe a boat or a canoe tipped over or something but yeah, to find that in the middle of like Lake Okay, so she came from the nearest nearest volcano like 1000 miles away. So that’s where obsidian comes from. So yeah, very interesting place, the Great Lakes. All right. Where is the world’s tallest apartment building? Where is the world’s greatest view? How many floors high?
Marcia Smith 18:59
Oh gosh. 150. Abu Dhabi.
Bob Smith 19:03
Abu Dhabi, you love that.
Marcia Smith 19:05
I just like to know
Bob Smith 19:07
It’s not there. Okay. It’s in a conventional place where you would associate with skyscrapers,New York City.
Marcia Smith 19:15
Oh, okay.
Bob Smith 19:16
How does an apartment on the 131st floor sound?
Marcia Smith 19:20
Sounds pretty damn scary.
Bob Smith 19:22
Pretty damn expensive too. This is opened in July 2021. Central Park tower, it’s now the world’s tallest residential building daily. it soars 1500 feet above the Manhattan skyline.
Marcia Smith 19:36
And it’s the tallest in the world.
Bob Smith 19:40
But not for an office building for foran apartment building and it’s part of what they call billionaires row on West 57th street features 179 apartments, but as their nickname suggests, they don’t come cheap. The starting price for an apartment in the tower $6.5 million but they come with unbeatable views of Central Park, indoor and outdoor pools, a gem of rooftop terrace and the city’s highest private residential club.
Marcia Smith 20:08
But they don’t have Cardinals on their patio like we do. Now let’s drill.
Bob Smith 20:14
Okay, this building is the tallest residential building in the world. And it’s the second tallest skyscraper in New York after the new One World Trade Center. And it’s the 14th tallest building in the world. So, but that’s what you have to pay if you want to have that kind of a view. When 100/31 floor the top of the world is good to know six and a half million so start saving your shackles.
Marcia Smith 20:37
Yeah, well, we’re looking for a little second getaway. Okay, petty tear. Okay, I bet you didn’t know this Bob. Okay. In the 1950s. The phrase bagels and lox, one of my personal favorite things to digest, was considered an insult.
Bob Smith 20:55
Why? Really?
Marcia Smith 20:59
Yeah, it was considered in in the phrase bagels and lox. It was an insult.
Bob Smith 21:02
I just associate that with food. I have no idea.
Marcia Smith 21:05
Yes, me either. According to Smithsonian Magazine, Jewish immigrants criticize friends who became too Americanized by referring to them as bagels and lox. It’s a combination that was first put together in New York City. I thought it you know, it came out it was everywhere. Yeah. Now it mirrors Yeah. But no, it’s it’s an American thing. And the immigrants if you were just too Americanized, they didn’t like it. They’d say, oh, bagels and lox.
Bob Smith 21:35
Oh, they’re just Yeah, God snooty Americans.
Marcia Smith 21:39
Yeah. It became even more popular in the 60s when the Lender brothers of Lenders Bagels, figured out a way to keep a bagel fresher longer. And so then bagels and lox were far more widespread because there was fresh bagels to be had. Okay. And that it was an insult blew me away.
Bob Smith 21:58
I had no idea. All bagels and lox. Yeah, sounds like almost like oh, the Miami people. Okay. Hey, I got a question for you. This is kind of an interesting one. Okay. All right, what timezone is used at the Amundson Scott South Pole Station. So Central European Time, New Zealand Standard Time, Greenwich Mean Time, or Australian Eastern Standard Time. What was the question? This is what timezone is used at the Emerson Scott, South Pole Station. We were talking about an article.
Marcia Smith 22:31
Okay. Ah, well, I’ll say the first one.
Bob Smith 22:38
The Central European Time. No, because it could be any of those when you think yeah, dig Antarctica.
Marcia Smith 22:44
Yeah, yeah. Okay, what’s the answer?
Bob Smith 22:47
They decided to standardize on New Zealand Standard Time because the South Pole is technically at the intersection of all of those times. Oh, yeah. But the one used by the South Pole Station was only chosen for practicality researchers there to get most of their supplies from Christchurch, New Zealand. Sure. So they decided, well, we’ll follow the New Zealand Standard Time, then they can coordinate deliveries better.
Marcia Smith 23:10
Yeah, right. Okay. Well, that’s makes sense.
Bob Smith 23:14
And yet one more question about the South Pole Marsh. What’s the largest land based animal on antarctica. I’m gonna give you a clue. What kind of a creature is that? A mammal, a bug, a bird or a reptile? Walrus?
Marcia Smith 23:28
No, they’re not there.
Bob Smith 23:30
That would be a mammal. Yeah, yeah. That’d be a good guess.
Marcia Smith 23:32
But did they live there? No.
Bob Smith 23:36
As we said, There’s hardly anything down there and the only people down there are doing research. Isn’t that interesting? All right. Okay. So again, the largest land based animal on Antarctica is what type of creature a mammal, a bug, a bird or a reptile?
Marcia Smith 23:49
I’ll say a mammal.
Bob Smith 23:51
Nope. It’s a bug. Oh, really? And you believe that? Oh, yeah. The Belgica or I hope I’m saying this right. Belgica Antarctica. The largest land animal on Antarctica is a small flightless Midge, an insect. About half an inch long. It survives on the frozen continent year round, feeding on moss algae and micro organisms.
Marcia Smith 24:13
I’d like to see a picture of that later on to Google it.
Bob Smith 24:16
Okay. Yeah. I don’t know if it’s an attractive animal.
Marcia Smith 24:18
Well, not many of us are.
Bob Smith 24:22
Okay, I guess I’ll go for that.
Marcia Smith 24:24
Okay, Bob, what famous movie roll in 1967. Did Doris Day turned down because she felt it didn’t fit her image?
Bob Smith 24:32
Well, 1967 was Bonnie and Clyde. Could it have been that movie?
Marcia Smith 24:35
Oh,no. But good guess. Okay.
Bob Smith 24:37
Could it have been Alfie now could get could it have been big movie? Big thing?
Marcia Smith 24:42
Being outside, Mrs. Robinson, the graduate. They offered her the part. And she’s, no, I can’t see myself having sex on the screen. Yeah, but they didn’t have to showy. I don’t remember what’s Her name to having sex, she just kind of laid around seductively. But she saw it as – I think that would have been great for her career.
Bob Smith 25:09
It did good for Anne Bancroft. Didn’t hurt her and the funny thing was I think she and Dustin Hoffman were only off by a couple years so.
Marcia Smith 25:14
Yeah, they just put didn’t they put a gray streak in her hair and they made her look older.
Bob Smith 25:19
But she wasn’t made her dress a little older. Yeah, she was so good at that. That temptress, you know, yeah.
Marcia Smith 25:25
You know about tropical rain forests. Is there such a thing as a temperate rainforest?
Bob Smith 25:31
I would imagine. So, I would imagine probably parts of the United States there are rain forests, and it would be considered temperate.
Marcia Smith 25:39
There are only seven in the whole world and there is one in North America. Only one in all of North America.
Bob Smith 25:47
Okay, can you name what it is one in North America, one in North America? Where would it be?
Marcia Smith 25:53
No, I would have you been here.
Bob Smith 25:54
I have been there. Yes.
Marcia Smith 25:55
It’s Northern California to Canada. The giant redwood tree oh, they rely on the coastal fog for survival.
Bob Smith 26:04
That’s true. Those trees only survive because of the coastal fog from the saltwater. Yeah, that’s how they that’s how they get water moisture
Marcia Smith 26:14
That fascinated me. It was just off so Misty, good for your complexion. I thought the redwoods.
Bob Smith 26:21
Oh, that was great. And you usually end things with a quote on I’ll save you that effort. Thank you darlin, because I’ve got one I feel like Mark Twain. He was born in 1835 a year in which Halley’s comet was visible on Earth. In 1909. He said, I came in with Halley’s comet, and I expect to go out with it. And when he died on April 21 1910, the comet was again visible in the night sky. Oh, isn’t that something? Yeah, no, it was just he knows what’s coming. And he thought I’m on my way. How old was he when he died? He was 74 years old. So he’d lived a decent life, you know? And was probably the first stand up comedian. A lot of people give him credit for that. Because the way he did his lectures and everything. He was quite a guy he was. And this has been quite a show, Marcia, great questions today. We hope you’ve enjoyed us and we want to invite anyone who’s listening, you can send us questions to try to stump the other person, just go to our website, the off ramp dot show and scroll down to contact us and then you can leave your question your answer. Where are you got it and where are you from? That’s right. All right. That’s it for now. We’ll return later and join us when we do for more trivia here on the off ramp. The off ramp is produced in association with CPL radio online and the Cedarburg Public Library Cedarburg, Wisconsin.
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