112 Wrack Your Brain Trivia

Marcia Smith 0:01
What is Bugs Bunny’s real name?

Bob Smith 0:03
Really? Yeah. And did you know there’s an African country where you can share a hotel with a giraffe? There is we’ll learn about it today.

Marcia Smith 0:12
I did not know that

Bob Smith 0:14
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 steer clear of crazy take a side road to sanity and get some perspective on life. Well, Marsha, I don’t know that either of her questions give you a perspective on life. It’s well I guess it is because I didn’t know that. That Bugs Bunny had a second name.

Marcia Smith 0:54
That’s right. It’s perspective. I guess it’s reality, Bob.

Bob Smith 0:57
Okay. It’s a reality. All right. All right.

Marcia Smith 1:01
It’s, yeah, it Bugs Bunny is actually his nickname. His real full name is George Washington bunny.

Unknown Speaker 1:10
That’s George Washington funny.

Marcia Smith 1:14
According to Warner Brothers animated universe, He is the most popular of all their cartoon characters and he made his first official appearance in 1940 in a production called a wild hair, be it forever known George Washington bunny.

Bob Smith 1:31
And no more information on that one.

Marcia Smith 1:33
That’s just silly. I know. Oh, my gosh,

Bob Smith 1:35
that must be a genealogy that leads back to George Washington’s

Marcia Smith 1:38
bunny and you’re on to something.

Bob Smith 1:41
Okay, now, this is not about bunnies. It’s about giraffes. Did you know that there’s an African country where you can share a hotel with giraffes.

Marcia Smith 1:48
Tell me about it’s got to have really tall

Bob Smith 1:51
ceilings. Yes, it’s in Kenya. It’s called giraffe Manor and it’s outside of Nairobi, Kenya. It doubles as a 140 acre sanctuary for endangered Rothschild giraffes. So the hotel features tall, wide windows welcoming giraffes to pique their long necks inside so hotel guests can feed them treats of dried grass pellets. Isn’t that interesting? It’s apparently this is a very species in great danger. There are fewer than 2500 Rothschild giraffes remaining in the world. Really? Never heard of rats. How are they different from other giraffes? Oh, no. They’re the Rothschilds. So it sounds like you use silver

Marcia Smith 2:33
spoons. Okay. All right. I didn’t know that. But yeah, see, it’s all part of the glam vacations.

Bob Smith 2:41
That’s right. It is it’s a glamorous vacation. Yes.

Marcia Smith 2:44
What else? Yes. Our hotel has giraffes in it. I mean, how bizarre.

Bob Smith 2:49
Well, you know, you’re at least on the second floor. Yeah. Hey, you had that thing on George Washington bunny. I have a similar entertainment question. What famous rock musician was born during an air raid and his mother named him after the country’s leader?

Marcia Smith 3:05
David Bowie, and said

Bob Smith 3:07
generation Yeah, but no, not David. Boy. This guy’s band is in the news again this year because they’re releasing yet another box set,

Marcia Smith 3:15
which you’ll buy? Yes, I

Bob Smith 3:17
will. Okay, it was John Lennon, John. John W. Lennon. Did you know his middle name was Winston. Really?

Marcia Smith 3:24
Yeah. No, I did not know that for the cigarette. No, no, no, no. Oh, Churchill.

Bob Smith 3:29
Yes. He was born in Liverpool on October 9 1940 during a Nazi air raid, and his patriotic mother decided to name her child John Winston Lennon after the British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill.

Marcia Smith 3:44
I’ll be darned. Okay, that’s an interesting little fact. Toy down John Lennon, isn’t it? Yes, it is. Many people know that. Okay, Bob, I bet that not many people know the answer to this. There are 12 branches of the US military 12 Yeah, you got to count the reserves. Oh, okay. But see how many you can name

Bob Smith 4:05
is the National Guard in there? Yes. Okay. National Guard. Yeah. Which,

Marcia Smith 4:09
which National Guard? They are. Every

Bob Smith 4:12
state has a National Guard. No, but there’s the army. Okay. Army National Guard. Correct. The Army, the Navy, the Marines. The Coast Guard. Let’s see that seven. So there’s four more or no, there’s more than that five more. Okay. Know what, I’ll just

Marcia Smith 4:29
name them all in order here. Okay. Yeah. Army Army Reserve Army National Guard. Marine Corps, Marine Corps Reserve. Navy, Navy Reserve, Air Force, Air Force, reserve Air National Guard. Space Force. Forgot that one didn’t Oh, yeah, that’s the new one. And the Coast Guard and the Coast Guard Reserve adds up to 12. That sounds like

Bob Smith 4:52
a family with a lot of names and a lot of juniors after them. You know? Yeah, yeah, it

Marcia Smith 4:56
does Kenya Name the two Elite Four. versus in the US military.

Bob Smith 5:02
The two elite forces Yeah, there

Marcia Smith 5:03
are two ultra

Bob Smith 5:05
elite. Oh, geez. I was thinking of Green Berets and Green Berets.

Marcia Smith 5:09
There’s there’s several I’ll name them. First tell me who were the most elite considered that most highly trained SEAL teams? One in particular?

Bob Smith 5:18
Oh, SEAL team. Is it six?

Marcia Smith 5:22
Yeah. Okay. Where did you hear that? That

Bob Smith 5:24
was in the news.

Marcia Smith 5:25
Was it okay? Yeah. Seal Team Six. Yes. And the other one is no, no Delta Force. Oh, okay. Okay. No, they’re highly trained. In fact, those Navy SEALs, SEAL Team Six. Before deployment, Bob, they have to take an extra training of 30 months. Two and a half years. That’s substantial. Yes. And the other special forces your right army Greenbrae army Night Stalkers and marine recon and special operations. Who

Bob Smith 5:52
wouldn’t want the army Nightstalker is after me. Sounds scary. It does. Okay, learner and low. They were two of the greatest songwriting teams in music and Broadway. At one point they did My Fair Lady Camelot, these light, fun songs and so forth. What did these two guys have in common in their past?

Marcia Smith 6:13
I don’t know. They were both. One was they were both marching band directors. No,

Bob Smith 6:18
no, they were both boxers. Really. In fact, Alan learner box did Harvard and he lost the sight of one eye so these guys were not not genteel musicians. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 6:27
I wonder if they boxed each other

Bob Smith 6:28
in a way they probably did over the years? Yeah. Okay,

Marcia Smith 6:31
let’s get serious. Oh, sorry. Named the Seven Dwarfs.

Bob Smith 6:35
What this is a serious show. It is. Okay. Let me try. All right. Let’s see. There’s a sneezy grumpy. Sleepy.

Unknown Speaker 6:45
Yeah, Doc. Yeah.

Bob Smith 6:49
Stinky. I don’t know. What were the other ones. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 6:52
let me okay. You’re missing three. Okay, okay. There’s bashful, okay. And one who’s not too smart. That’s dopey Dobby. And then who’s really laughing a lot.

Speaker 1 7:06
laughy happy, happy. Okay. Nashville,

Marcia Smith 7:10
Doc, dopey, grumpy, happy, sleepy and sneezy. All right. Thank you. You fail, but move on. Continuing

Bob Smith 7:16
in the serious vein of entertainment questions. What great rock and roller did Liberace inspire

Marcia Smith 7:26
Elton John.

Bob Smith 7:27
That’s a perfect guest and it’s wrong. But I have to give you a wrong perfectly wrong. It was Elvis.

Marcia Smith 7:34
No kidding. Yeah. I should have known that

Bob Smith 7:37
Elvis is music comes directly from Liberace. He’s no no, no. He didn’t inspire Elvis musically, but he did give the king of rock and roll the idea for his fashion wardrobe after Elvis saw Liberace in a gold LeMay costume in his Las Vegas act. Elvis adopted the idea and an in his next movie. Elvis had a similar outro

Marcia Smith 7:59
I do remember him have Yeah, that golden may thing I had a album of his where he tried his gold to me. I never thought a Liberace wasn’t that the parents were watching in the other room while I played the gold LeMay Elvis interesting the golden

Bob Smith 8:14
ale. This album it said 100 million fans can’t be wrong. Remember that? Night? That’s what it said on the cover something like that? Yeah. Okay, what’s the oldest event in recorded history that can be dated to the exact day now this comes from Isaac Asimov’s book of facts. And Isaac Asimov was great science fiction writer. And he did all kinds of research and his book has all kinds of interesting facts. Yeah. So what is the oldest event in recorded history that can be dated to the exact day and year?

Marcia Smith 8:46
Should I know this? No. Okay, then.

Bob Smith 8:51
It was the day that a war was ended by a solar eclipse. A long time ago, the armies of Lydia and Medea were readying for battle in Asia Minor when the Eclipse occurred. That solar event apparently convinced the two nations to sign a peace treaty, you know, they see the sun go away. It’s all they

Marcia Smith 9:09
think. And it’s the end of the world. It’s just God

Bob Smith 9:12
doesn’t want us to do this. So and modern astronomers helped historians to fix that exact date of that solar eclipse and that historical event as May 28 585 BC. Wow. That is the oldest event in recorded history that can be dated to an exact date.

Marcia Smith 9:32
Okay, I’m just going to do three quickies. Its Did you know, did you know there have been no new animals domesticated in over 4000 years?

Bob Smith 9:41
Really? Yeah.

Marcia Smith 9:42
Did you know The NFL use the skin of roughly 3000 head of cattle to supply enough leather for a one year supply of footballs? And lastly, a quickie Did you know, dogs communicate with roughly 10 different vocal sounds Really? Yeah, well cats use over 100 Oh.

Bob Smith 10:06
Talk to our kids about them

Marcia Smith 10:08
and hear their cat screaming every

Bob Smith 10:09
little nuance of a cat. Yeah. From arrogant to arrogant

Marcia Smith 10:14
to really do very. Oh God. Okay, go ahead. Those are my little quickies.

Bob Smith 10:19
Those are quick. Well, and then this is a very in depth question again, another serious question of national and international importance. What famous sandwich was invented to support striking streetcar workers?

Marcia Smith 10:33
The the poor boy,

Unknown Speaker 10:34
that’s right that How did you know that? I

Marcia Smith 10:37
didn’t, I was just trying to put two and two together. I was thinking of a hoagie or something but another name for some of those things. It’s actually the whole boy po boy, I’m sorry,

Bob Smith 10:46
oh apostrophe. But yes, the poor boy. Kind of interesting. It’s from New Orleans. It basically is French bread that’s typically filled with either roast beef or fried seafood, but there are a lot of variations. There are competing stories on how it happened. But the most widely accepted version credits Clovis and Benny Martin for inventing the sandwich at their restaurant on St. Claude Avenue in 1929. And at the time, streetcar drivers were on strike. So the brothers supported their cause by making a cheap sandwich of gravy and spare bits of roast beef on French bread. And as the story goes, the sandwich quickly became popular and work when workers came by the restaurant to order one the cooks would yell out, here comes another power boy,

Marcia Smith 11:28
I’ll be done. That

Bob Smith 11:29
inspired the sandwiches.

Marcia Smith 11:30
Nice to see him on menus. Yeah, called the poor poor boys. I

Bob Smith 11:34
want to credit travel trivia.com With that, because that was the wording that whole thing I’ve read there was from the travel trivia website before

Marcia Smith 11:41
we go to break. Can I ask you this? No. Why do we? Yes, of course. That’s the point of the show. Bob

Bob Smith 11:48
was going to break know. That’s like recess is the importance of school.

Marcia Smith 11:53
Why do we say someone has been fired when he or she is forced out of a job? We know what that’s like, don’t wait.

Bob Smith 12:02
Because you feel like you’ve been set on fire and disposed of but that’s a good question. Why is it fired? Fired? I don’t know. What is it?

Marcia Smith 12:11
It has mid evil Celtic origins, the term you’ve been fired. In those days in the good old days if a clan leader wanted to get rid of a petty criminal without killing him, or if someone was found guilty of stealing from his employer, especially from the mines, he was taken to his home, along with all his tools and placed inside after which the house was set on fire. Dear

Bob Smith 12:35
God. You said they did. They wanted to get rid of them without killing him. Well, they just

Marcia Smith 12:41
burned it but he could escape. But if he did escape, and they really did, he was banished from the clan. They just set him in the house on fire. They didn’t put him on fire is really cruel. Yes, it is so mighty. wanna mess with those guys. Jeez, you watched Happy Days, didn’t you? Bob? Yes. What was the name of the garage? Where the Fonz worked?

Bob Smith 13:04
The garage guy? No, Arnold’s was the name of the net the

Marcia Smith 13:08
soda. Yeah, I

Bob Smith 13:10
don’t know what else it

Marcia Smith 13:11
it was Broncos auto repair. Originally known as autos auto orphanage. You remember those are you gotta be a real law. Happy Days kind of person to know that I think okay,

Bob Smith 13:29
why will eating ice cream make you hotter than not eating ice cream really?

Marcia Smith 13:34
Hot? hotter? hotter? Well,

Bob Smith 13:38
it’s a technicality. Okay. All right. Do you want to know what the answer is? Well,

Marcia Smith 13:42
you assume I don’t know it. Oh, okay.

Bob Smith 13:44
Tell me the answer. I don’t know. Okay, in the long run, you’ll be hotter if you eat ice cream than you will if you refrain from eating it because the ice cream has a psychological cooling effect the moment you eat it, but it’s loaded with calories, your body will have to take care of all those calories has to burn off those calories. And that will give you that much more heat than if you hadn’t eaten the ice cream.

Marcia Smith 14:11
Well that sounds pretty dubious to me but yeah, let’s have some

Bob Smith 14:16
have some writing doesn’t discourage me take a break. Okay, coming up. Why to state nicknames are no longer appropriate. Oh, absolutely. Okay. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith. We’re back Marcia. Every state has a nickname. But two states nicknames don’t apply anymore. Alabama’s and Florida’s Can you tell me why they had nicknames? Yeah, they had nicknames every state has an wasn’t Florida. The I’ll tell you the nicknames. Yeah, Alabama is the cotton state. Okay, Florida is the Sunshine State. Right. Why are those not appropriate now or not appropriate?

Marcia Smith 14:59
offending somebody is there a micro aggression in those mob

Bob Smith 15:03
against cotton? No. And the sunshine the boll weevil is upset. No, no, that’s not it. No. Okay. Tell me. One of the main crops of course in Alabama was cotton and it was in the Cotton Belt. So they called him a cotton state, but it wasn’t the top producer of cotton at the time. And it’s still not the top producer of cotton today. Oh, in 2016, Alabama rank behind Texas, Georgia, Mississippi and Arkansas, in cotton production, upland cotton, which accounts for 97% of all US cotton, so they’re like their fifth, but they call themselves the cuttin. State. Likewise, the Sunshine State. Florida is not the sunniest state in the United States, California

Speaker 1 15:45
is well our Hawaii Well, well,

Bob Smith 15:48
I’ll tell you the states Okay, nine other states outrank it. Really nine other states are sunnier than Florida, Arizona, New Mexico, Nevada, Texas, California, Colorado, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Utah. All have more average annual sunshine,

Unknown Speaker 16:06
how many states was nine, nine.

Bob Smith 16:08
So there are 10 states that kind of are the sunniest course, the Sunshine State was adopted as a tourism slogan for state

Marcia Smith 16:17
they don’t have to get rid of it’s still sunny doesn’t have to mean the sunshine. But

Bob Smith 16:21
as anybody who’s traveled there during the summer can point out it rains just about every day, but only for a brief period. It’s like this tropical climates, you know? Yeah. Hmm. Interesting, though. Okay,

Marcia Smith 16:30
Bob. Here’s one more word origin. I like those. Okay. When someone is humiliated, we say they were forced to eat Chrome. What does that expression come from?

Bob Smith 16:41
Was there a time when Crow was considered like, and maybe it still is? distasteful plate or something? Maybe only very poor people ate or maybe something people ate in prisons? Well,

Marcia Smith 16:55
you’re not too far away. Oh, thank you. Thank you. You’re welcome. The expression to eat crow came from an incident during the War of 1812 when the Americans invaded Canada, a hungry New England soldier who straight across enemy lines had shot a crow for food when he was discovered by an unarmed British officer who managed to get hold of the Americans rifle by pretending to admire it. How stupid is that?

Bob Smith 17:22
Let me look at your rifle.

Marcia Smith 17:24
Enemy the soldier then turned the weapon on the young man and forced him to eat part of the crow bra. Oh, letting him go. He was at he lied to him. And then he forced him to eat a little bit of that crow brah

Bob Smith 17:41
Okay, Marcia, two more state names. Okay. Why is North Carolina called the Tar Heel State? Yeah, I don’t get it. You’re not gonna even give me any? No, it makes

Marcia Smith 17:52
no sense to me.

Bob Smith 17:53
Okay, well, sometime between 1720 and 1870. Thanks to the abundance of pine forests around the state of North Carolina was one of the largest producers of ship building materials like pitch resin, turpentine, and tar. All that stuff came from the pine trees. And why it’s called the Tar Heel State. They don’t know for sure. But it supposedly was an exchange between Civil War soldiers during a fierce battle. When when a mock them saying they should stick tar on their heels for the next battle because they who knows? Okay, but it all relates to the tar fascinating.

Marcia Smith 18:29
Oh, come on. Oh, who introduced Bob who first introduced the idea of daylight savings time and

Bob Smith 18:37
why? That wasn’t Smithson. Was it of this Smithsonian? Ah, no. Okay. Who is it?

Marcia Smith 18:43
Good old Ben Frank. Oh,

Bob Smith 18:45
no kidding.

Marcia Smith 18:46
In addition to bifocals, Franklin stoves and expanding the understanding of electricity. In 1784, Franklin sent a letter to a Paris newspaper saying that if we made people rise and go to bed earlier, that we would save money on candles and lamps. That’s the first time that notion was put out there to change the time based on the season. Yeah, he just said if we made people go to bed earlier, then he was worried about way too many things. He had a lot going on. And it wasn’t until World War Two, that FDR imposed daylight saving time to just that conserve fuel for the war effort. Oh, he

Bob Smith 19:24
always done it was about farming.

Marcia Smith 19:26
I did too. I’m always Oh, it’s for the farmers to get up earlier, but it’s not. And as you know, the history of standard time in the US began because of what? You know this because we talked about it. Oh,

Bob Smith 19:40
the railroads. That’s right. Yeah. Because they were shipping things and sending things across country and you can’t have a different time in each town. That’s

Marcia Smith 19:46
right. In 1883. US and Canadian railroads instituted standard time in time zones for the sake of running the railroad.

Bob Smith 19:54
That conference was actually held in Chicago. I don’t know if you remember this, but we were walking down near the Financial District what’s in there’s a plaque down there that states on this date this conference was held to establish timezones you know, the first in the world kind of interesting, I think. Yeah. Okay, I’ve got more states names. Okay. For instance, the Beehive State what state is the Beehive State? Oh, golly.

Marcia Smith 20:20
Is it in the in the West? Oh, it is. I was gonna say,

Bob Smith 20:23
I thought it was a beehive state. Okay, out in the desert in

Marcia Smith 20:28
the sun kind of, say a desert state either. Okay. Okay. Nevada,

Bob Smith 20:32
nearby. Utah. Ah, you think the Beehive State would be the leader in honey production, but Utah actually ranks 24th in the nation. So where did the name come from where it came from? 1847 when the Mormons arrived, they adopted the beehive as an emblem of their new community because it represented hard work and industry. The state motto is industry, but their state symbol is the beehive. They’re just passed away. Yeah. Hey,

Marcia Smith 21:00
who holds in the United States? The longest running record for Game Show? Host.

Bob Smith 21:08
Well, that was Alex Trebek, wasn’t it? No. Okay, now who?

Marcia Smith 21:11
Pat sageuk Oh, no kid at home of 39 years right now. As host of wheel of fortune. He and Vanna White. The lovely lovely van arrived. Our lovely both began their career together in 1982. I didn’t know that. Yeah, so it’s been almost 40 years. They but they actually took over that show from I forgot this name completely. Chuck Woolery. Oh, yeah. Chuck Woolery and Susan Stafford so that’s how long ago Oh checklist yelling that show

Bob Smith 21:44
you know it’s funny that show and Jeopardy and there’s a price is right they’ve just been with American

Unknown Speaker 21:49
culture forever

Bob Smith 21:50
I remember not being but I don’t think of them as being older anything’s the questions they asked and everything it’s all interesting stuff.

Marcia Smith 21:57
See Jack said something like he didn’t want to be on so long that people would tune in and say what happened to him right now he and vana have enough injections that it’s not too noticeable. Oh

Unknown Speaker 22:11
dear, that’s a terrible thing to say.

Marcia Smith 22:13
It’s showbiz.

Bob Smith 22:14
Okay, Marcia, and here’s something I never would have thought of, but I kind of found it interesting. Okay. What remote island produces the curling stones used in the Olympic Games? I’ll give you four choices here. Niihau in Hawaii, Crete, in Greece. Elza Craig in Scotland and Baffin Island in Canada.

Marcia Smith 22:34
Hmm.

Bob Smith 22:36
The curling stones?

Marcia Smith 22:38
Yes, I’ll say Crete.

Bob Smith 22:39
I would have thought that too. Because of the Olympics no actually gets. Its Elsa Cray get in Scotland. It’s a tiny uninhabited island off of Scotland’s west coast, whose name means fairy rockin Gaelic, fairy rock. Why? Well, because the whole island is made up of the remains of an extinct volcano. And the micro granite stone there is notable for its very tight molecular structure. It’s durable and waterproof. And for more than a century, Elsa Craig granite has been used to make most of the world’s curling stones, including those used in the Olympics. Now I said it’s an uninhabited island. Yeah, there’s no good soil, no freshwater. But over the centuries, that little island has been useful to mankind, it served as a base for Roman camps. Really? Yeah, that’s about the farthest reaches of the Roman Empire is just on the edge of the Atlantic ocean there. And it was a safe haven from pirates and smugglers. And was a stopover for travelers sailing from Glasgow to Belfast.

Marcia Smith 23:41
Okay, I’m gonna wrap it up with to two little fun thing okay. I know you like the Everly Brothers God rest their souls. Am I right about that Donatella

Unknown Speaker 23:49
both gone? Okay, yes, I

Marcia Smith 23:51
remember their song Wake Up Little Susie. Wake up. Well, what time was it? Oh.

Unknown Speaker 24:00
Wasn’t it like four in the morning? Very good. You

Marcia Smith 24:02
got it. 4am good. They

Bob Smith 24:04
woke up and there’s nobody at the drive and Oh, my God

Marcia Smith 24:07
really happened to me. Oh, did it? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, it was not you were on

Bob Smith 24:11
a date and that happen? Yeah, we

Marcia Smith 24:12
fall asleep. That’s the old story. But it really has.

Bob Smith 24:16
Oh, come on, Marsha. I expect everybody listening to believe that at least

Marcia Smith 24:20
woke us up. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. But it was all well and good. It wasn’t David go home. Yeah, my parents didn’t buy that at all, but it was true. Okay. And lastly, Bob, what is the difference between a nook and cranny?

Bob Smith 24:41
That’s right, because everybody talks about nooks and crannies.

Marcia Smith 24:44
Yeah, I’m going to clean every nook and cranny of this house. I have no idea. Well, it’s not that surprising. Okay. knuck is a corner and cranny is that crack?

Bob Smith 24:55
A knock is a corner. cranny is a crack. I feel like there’s something out Just coming to this

Speaker 1 25:00
now I have to know these things. Why would you clean cracks because things can get in cracks. Okay? Yeah.

Marcia Smith 25:05
Well, that’s true, Bob. Thank you for that.

Bob Smith 25:07
I have two more questions. Okay. What do newborn elephants do for comfort babies suck their thumbs. What do newborn elephants do?

Marcia Smith 25:16
Well, do they do what most baby animal babies do to they get milk from their moms? No, no, that’s a comfort. I’m talking. Put the trunks in their mouth. They

Bob Smith 25:27
suck their trunks. Yeah. Newborn newborn elephants suck their trunk. So I

Unknown Speaker 25:31
got it. Well, yeah, well, yeah,

Marcia Smith 25:33
they put their trunk in their mouth. Yeah. Okay.

Bob Smith 25:35
Now the FBI called Ted Kaczynski the Unabomber. Yes. Why did they call him the Unabomber? Where did that name come from? You has a poor bomber as opposed

Marcia Smith 25:46
to the dual bomber dot

Bob Smith 25:47
u ne. Oh, they you know, I never knew this and it makes sense of his early mail bombs were sent to universities. Oh, really? Un and airlines A. So they coined the name the Unabomber. We’re dealing with the Unabomber here. They didn’t know his name at the time. Yeah. u n a bomber, u n being universities a being airlines bomber. Oh, and we are in November. The Thanksgiving is coming up. The pilgrims will come to mind. And that’s all remember the reason they landed at Plymouth Rock. Because this is a quote from one of the journals. We could not now take time for further search or consideration. Our visuals being much spent especially our beer No dear.

Marcia Smith 26:33
Yeah, I was gonna say that they went for you know, McDonald’s takeout but it was beer. I needed

Bob Smith 26:38
beer because that was the only safe water they had to drink and drink from the ocean and they pay it find something because their beer was running out. And just a factoid. marshy always like to throw out factoids. Jim Henson made his first Kermit puppet using his mother’s old coat and two halves of a ping pong ball. Correct. That shows you that if you’ve got creativity, there’s always a way to make something that I mean, who knew that was going to turn it into what it

Marcia Smith 27:07
did now is puppetry and one of our favorite characters. Yeah, the two

Bob Smith 27:11
halves of a ping pong ball and his mom’s old coat. That was the original Kermit Kermit the Frog. Hey, yeah, and right here.

Marcia Smith 27:21
I can’t do this pig you could do Miss Piggy could curl me up. Okay, Kermit. Okay, Kermit, wrap it up. Okay,

Speaker 1 27:30
it’s time to go everyone. We’ll see you next week here on the off ramp

Marcia Smith 27:35
with Kermit and Marcia Smith. No.

Unknown Speaker 27:38
This is Bob Smith.

Marcia Smith 27:39
I’m Marcia smoke. Join

Bob Smith 27:41
us next time when we return on the off ramp. The off ramp is produced in association with CPL radio online and the Cedarbrook Public Library Cedarburg, Wisconsin.

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