115 Brainstorm Trivia

Bob Smith 0:00
An asteroid is headed towards Earth. How bad could it be? What’s the world’s largest asteroid crater? And how big is it?

Marcia Smith 0:09
What is dead wax?

Bob Smith 0:12
Okay, answers to those and other questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob and Marcia Smith

Welcome to the off ramp a chance to slow down steer clear of crazy take a side road to sanity and get some perspective on life. Well, Marsha at one Rochester New York newspaper said an asteroid is headed towards Earth. Don’t cancel your dinner plan. Good. Because they thought it’s not too bad. It’s probably going to miss us. But how bad could this be? What is the world’s largest asteroid crater? And where is it? I’ll give you four choices. Thank you. It’s in South Africa, Russia, Canada or the US.

Marcia Smith 1:05
I would say the crater that already hit Oh, yes. This is from

Bob Smith 1:09
a long, long time ago.

Unknown Speaker 1:10
I wasn’t long time who I’ll say Russia. Okay.

Bob Smith 1:14
And we all know that one hit there around 1917. That was a big we all know that big asteroid or Meteor? Yes, we do. Okay, but this one is in South Africa. And this shows you how bad it can be okay. It’s called the fear to Fort crater. It’s the world’s largest and oldest. It is 185 miles wide. That’s how big that crater is the size of 32,000 football fields.

Marcia Smith 1:40
32,000 32,000. That’s it. I wonder how big it well, I guess

Bob Smith 1:45
it was created 2 billion years ago by a meteor or asteroid that was between six and nine miles wide. But that’s how bad it could be 185 miles wide. That’s how big a crater could be from an asteroid. That’s

Marcia Smith 1:57
bad. That’d be that’d be from here to Chicago to Indianapolis. And that

Bob Smith 2:04
let’s get to dead wax.

Marcia Smith 2:07
Yo, like the answer to this dead wax can be found on a vinyl record. Listen up kids. It’s the space between the last groove of the song and the record label. All they call that dead wax. Yeah, because there’s no groove. There is no label apparently been a phrase been around a long time and there’s a new restaurant in Milwaukee called Dead wax. It’s over at Radio City. And it’s going to be opening soon and so it gave the definition I found that fascinating

Bob Smith 2:37
Dead Wax I’d never heard of them either. So that goes back to the very first records which were not wax but made out of something different than the vinyl we have today. Yeah. Okay. All right, Marcia. I have a word and I want to know what it is ailurophile. What is ailurophile you and our two children are both ailurophiles. It’s fabulous. AILUROPHILE. Two clues. The word is a noun and it’s a Greek word for something. Okay.

Marcia Smith 3:06
Tree lover?

Bob Smith 3:08
No. cat lover.

Unknown Speaker 3:09
A cat lover lover? Oh,

Bob Smith 3:11
it’s actually a early 20th century word. Ailurophile.

Marcia Smith 3:15
Very interesting.

Bob Smith 3:16
Isn’t Marcia.

Marcia Smith 3:19
Okay, moving on. You and I What’s one of our favorite Christmas movies?

Bob Smith 3:24
It’s a Wonderful Life. That’s correct.

Marcia Smith 3:25
And it turns out that good old Mr. Potter I was just reading an article today it saidMr. Potter is considered number six on the American Film Institute list of movie villains top movie villain. Oh really? Which of course meant I had to go and see who the top five were the top five movie villains.

Bob Smith 3:42
Mr. Potte,

Marcia Smith 3:44
Right. So number six is Mr. Potter.

Bob Smith 3:51
I have to ask if the Wicked Witch of the West is one of the is number four. Okay, because the Wizard of Oz one of my favorite films. So were the others more action films and things like that?

Marcia Smith 4:01
No, no. I felt you’ve seen all these movies

Bob Smith 4:04
And where are they? From? What years

Marcia Smith 4:06
in your lifetime here, whereas Wonderful Life is an old film. Okay. Don’t know. Okay, I’ll go backwards after number five is Nurse Ratchet. Oh, okay. From what One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

Bob Smith 4:19
Yes, that was the bane of Jack Nicholson’s existence in the mental institution.

Marcia Smith 4:25
He was a charmer. Four was wicked witch like we said number three, Darth Vader Oh, of course. Star Wars Empire Strikes Back so he was number two. His goes back to childhood. Norman

Bob Smith 4:40
Bates. Oh, from the Alfred Hitchcock film psycho.

Marcia Smith 4:43
Yes, Mom, mommy. And number one this guy you don’t like at all? You didn’t even make it through the movie?

Bob Smith 4:52
Oh, it’s got to be the Anthony Hopkins character of what was that guy? The the flesh eating that’s

Marcia Smith 4:58
him. What is it that they’re here? Hannibal Lecter, Silence of the Lambs. We got we lost you in the early going on that film.

Bob Smith 5:06
I got so creeped out in that film before anything happened. Yeah, I left.

Marcia Smith 5:11
Yeah. Which was wise. Cause I couldn’t have bared sitting next to you.

Bob Smith 5:15
Yeah, when I when I go to a film that’s a thriller like that I just crawl up in this seat like a little kid. It’s very embarrassing.

Marcia smith 5:23
It is embarrassing. Yes. I was glad you left.

Bob Smith 5:25
Yes. I remember Dave Kamp, one of my friends, go into a theater and we went to see I think it was Alien, the first Alien, where the, you know, that big thing with his teeth and the waters falling over the front of his teeth. And he says Bobby, Bobby, it’s okay. My best friend. My little best friend. We were like it probably like 27 or 28 years old. God.

Marcia Smith 5:44
Oh, Lord. That’s yeah. Don’t even go to a scary movie with you. You’re just too embarrassing. That’s right our kids, they go to them, but they won’t go with dad.

Bob Smith 5:51
Yeah, they won’t. Dad doesn’t like to go to those. Okay. Here’s a very interesting question. Mark. How did playing cards become the first Canadian currency?

Marcia Smith 6:03
Really playing? Well, I had to be Indian times. No, not necessarily. No. No. Early Canadian No. Playing cards. Were the gambling period.

Bob Smith 6:16
It has to do with the fact that the first playing cards were handmade. They weren’t. Oh, okay. They were kind of works of art. Okay, explain Lucy. Well, playing cards were much more valuable than the factory slick cards produced by the millions. Today they were works of art were considered rare and precious. They became the first paper currency of Canada, when the French Governor used them to pay off some war debts in 1685. Believe it or not, in 1765, when every pack of playing cards was taxed one shilling by the British. They were used for class admission to the University of Pennsylvania. So think of that as tuition. Oh, wow. How many sets of playing cards you got? Wow. And Napoleon even use playing cards as ration certificates during the French Revolution. Okay, yeah. Wow, that’s those all from Isaac Asimov’s book of facts. But interesting that playing cards with the first Canadian currency, I have to share that with some of my Canadian friends and see if they knew that.

Marcia Smith 7:12
Okay, Bob, if you were planning dinner for the knights around King Arthur’s round table, how many dinner plates do you have to put out?

Bob Smith 7:21
Oh, how many knights did he have? That’s the question where they’re like, 20 or something like that.

Marcia Smith 7:25
He had he was always at the head of the table. Yeah, there were How many nights around him?

Bob Smith 7:30
I said 20. That was my first game. That is so wrong. Okay, so he had a like, 100 or something like 150

Marcia Smith 7:37
Whoa, yes.

Bob Smith 7:39
That’s a big table.

Marcia Smith 7:40
That’s a very big table. They could 100 knights and you know, they had all that stuff on to so dad, a lot of room. They’re quite the boys club.

Bob Smith 7:48
Oh, my God. Yes. Yes. Speaking of boys, club baseball has was a boys club for years and years before it ever became, you know, integrated. Let me ask you this. Back in 1959, Ted Williams, famous baseball player did something that I would say no player ever before, and certainly ever since did what did he do? What did Ted Williams do? Didn’t he do something with that African American has to do with his salary Marsh?

Marcia Smith 8:12
Oh, he gave half of it to

Bob Smith 8:18
Here’s what happened in 1959. For the first time in his career, Ted Williams, batting average dropped to below 300 below the 300 mark. And he was the highest paid player in sports that year, he had a salary of $125,000. Still a good amount of money these days. He was offered the same contract by the Red Sox the next year, but he signed only after the team agreed to reduce his salary by 28%. So he said just cut $35,000 off there. The reason? He said the Red Sox had always treated unfairly, he didn’t deserve as much as the team was offering that year. And he had a lifetime batting average of 344. In one year in 1941. His batting average was 406. Is that possible? Yeah. Wow, nobody’s hit 400 cents. And the guy who slipped from that Mark decided I should give some of my money back. Wow. Can you imagine any sports players to do today? So out there that isn’t that interests us like a boy scout Ted Williams. Oh, Ted.

Marcia Smith 9:20
Well, that’s just amazing

Bob Smith 9:21
Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox. I had never heard that story before.

Marcia Smith 9:25
As you know, when I’m in a time crunch for questions for our show. I resort to the Beatles trivia box.

Bob Smith 9:31
Oh, yes. very appropriate as we had a number of different Beatle products on the market. That’s

Marcia Smith 9:36
right. Okay. Just a couple of quickies. How good you do. Okay. All right. What famous rock and roll singer did the Beatles visit at home during their second US tour?

Bob Smith 9:45
That was Elvis? I think Correct. What

Marcia Smith 9:47
was the title for Ringo was first solo LP.

Bob Smith 9:52
The solo LP. Oh man I don’t know I never tracked Ringo that much.

Marcia Smith 9:55
No, I didn’t either. It was sentimental journey. Oh, that’s right. Then they were all standards old standard big band. It was originally named Ringo Starr test but they changed to sentimental journey.

Bob Smith 10:09
I know one thing I noticed watching that new documentary, get back is amazing. How underestimated Ringo Starr is in many people’s minds because no matter what type of song they start playing in that new show, let’s try this. Let’s try that he will play whatever style of drumming they ask. He can just adapt. He just adapts like magic. It’s amazing. This effortless had no idea huh? Okay, Marsh. I have a question for you here. This is art in art. Okay. For 40 years, the art purchases of this American tycoon accounted for 1/4 of all the art purchases in the world. Who was he?

Marcia Smith 10:49
Was it the guy in California with the big house we went to? Yeah, it was helped me here. He

Bob Smith 10:55
was a newspaper published. Yeah. Oh, Citizen Kane. Yeah. He was was William William Randolph Hearst.

Marcia Smith 11:05
Yes, that’s right. Had it had it right there. Yeah. I was collecting.

Bob Smith 11:11
He was a sensationalist newspaper publisher. And he built this huge castle, San Simeon which you can visit. It’s a beautiful museum. That was a 200,000 acre estate. Now here’s something about the museum, okay. He filled these homes he had all over he had that house. He had the warehouses. He had a fantasy Bavarian village that could house 60 guests. And then that little little Santa Monica beach house that Marion Davies had which had 110 rooms, and then just a little tiny places a little aside honey, but the art collection he filled these homes and a Bronx warehouse with Charles the First bed, deer antler chandeliers, German armor, mummy cases, painting, silver and other art items even bought a monastery and other buildings, had them dismantled, created and shipped to his warehouses. He purchased over 20,000 items at more than $50 million in a 40 year time period. And during that period, he collected a fourth of all the art purchases in the world. It’s amazing.

Marcia Smith 12:11
Yeah, he couldn’t get enough of anything. Yeah, he had some real psychological slippage,

Bob Smith 12:17
in addition to his homes and his warehouses being filled with him at one time below the main building of the San Simeon estate. There were two acres of cellars filled with artworks. Warehouses everywhere cellars full and he still couldn’t get enough.

Marcia Smith 12:27
Yeah, just had a big void. Who who would put it? Do you have issues with mommy or daddy? It

Bob Smith 12:36
was dead. Yeah, supposedly, yeah. Never saw his dad enough. Never got enough of his dad. At the guests. He collected things to make himself feel better.

Marcia Smith 12:43
That’s not uncommon. I know people like that and they had daddy issues too. Okay, Bob. Here’s a question about a neutron star. You know what a neutron star. I don’t know what a neutron star. It’s very dense. It’s a collapse core of a massive star, okay, and is composed primarily of neutrons. Black holes are considerably more massive than neutron stars. So

Bob Smith 13:05
they’re just very colored wax to collapse stars. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 13:09
it’s it’s a theme. It’s a Christmas thing. So anyway, here’s the question. Okay. What’s your best guess? For how much a teaspoon of neutron star would weigh? Oh,

Bob Smith 13:22
that’s one of those things like it would weigh 7 million metric tons or something like that?

Marcia Smith 13:28
Is that what you’re saying? Yes. Ah, close. 4 billion tonnes, holy cow. teaspoon of neutron star, 4 billion tons. I don’t know how you can possibly measure that. But someone did. And there you are.

Bob Smith 13:45
It’s a huge scale. on a huge scale. Okay, I’ve got another bit of trivia here on another famous wealthy person. Okay. She wasn’t wealthy when she was married to the President of the United States. But when Jackie Onassis who was married to Aristotle Onassis, why didn’t she wear the jewelry her husband gave her when she came back to this country to visit that

Marcia Smith 14:08
oh Nasus gave her Yeah, why didn’t she wear it because it was too gaudy and full of diamonds and made her look cheesy. Know

Bob Smith 14:15
what it would cost a fortune for her to even bring it into this country? Really? Yeah, Aristotle Onassis known also as airy gave Jackie $5 million worth of jewelry the first year they were married. Wow.

Marcia Smith 14:27
And second year, not so much. Well, listen to this. This is interesting.

Bob Smith 14:31
So she would have had to pay $1.2 million in duty to bring those items into the United States trying to think of Yeah, and now listen to some of the gifts she received was just obscene. Okay. Among her gifts that first year were diamond necklaces, earrings and gold bracelets. She received a Ruby the size of an Easter egg with matching earrings made of heart shaped rubies surrounded by diamonds. The cost for those were over a million dollars. That’s 5060 years ago. But it said to Aristotle Onassis always had a surprise on Jackie’s breakfast tray every morning have even when she was halfway around the world. Usually it was a gold or diamond bracelet. And once she found a string of Japanese pearls wrapped around a breakfast roll,

Marcia Smith 15:16
oh my God, that’s

Bob Smith 15:17
the kind of guy for a girl to get married to think of

Marcia Smith 15:20
all the food and shelter you could give the world with that kind of expenditure. Isn’t it? Amazing? Yeah, it’s excessively sad. Bet. Okay,

Bob Smith 15:28
not unless you get it.

Marcia Smith 15:29
No one should be embarrassed to get all that. No, not at all. Time for a break. Bob.

Bob Smith 15:37
We’ll be back in just a moment. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith. Okay, Marcia, these days, when you think of big gleaming cities with a lot of skyscrapers. What country do you think of? Wow, not just one city but multiple cities with big skyscrapers. China, China, of course. Right. What is China’s tallest city by tallest? I mean, the tallest buildings? What is China’s most populous and tallest city?

Marcia Smith 16:05
Well, I’d have to be at Beijing. It’s it’s the city’s

Bob Smith 16:09
name used to mean you had been kidnapped.

Marcia Smith 16:14
I have no idea. Shanghai. Oh, really?

Bob Smith 16:16
I wish Shanghai. Yeah. Okay. Well, Shanghai is the tallest and most populous city in China. Any idea how many people it has?

Marcia Smith 16:26
Shanghai has I’ll say 15 million people. 27

Bob Smith 16:29
point 7 million and it grew. Last year during COVID 2.3%.

Marcia Smith 16:35
It grew, you think it would be the opposite?

Bob Smith 16:38
You would think so. It’s also the tallest Chinese city. It has 175 skyscrapers. Now that’s defined as buildings over 492 feet tall in his top by the world’s second tallest skyscraper. It’s a 2073 foot Shanghai Tower. All right now, what city has more skyscrapers than any other city?

Marcia Smith 16:59
It’s not Shanghai. No. Oh,

Bob Smith 17:02
again. What city has more buildings over 492 feet.

Unknown Speaker 17:06
Okay, Abu Dhabi.

Bob Smith 17:07
I know you wanted to say that. Congratulations, Marcia. You’re wrong. No cow. Okay. It’s Hong Kong. Oh, it’s such the Chinese are this beautiful bastion of freedom and democracy. And they’re shutting it down is sad, sad, sad. It has more skyscrapers in the world than any other city 510 skyscrapers. In fact, six of the top 10 cities in terms of skyscrapers are in China, six of the top 10 These days, the only two American cities among the top 10 was skyscrapers these days. What do you think they are?

Marcia Smith 17:37
Oh, I would think it’s New York and Dallas, New York and Chicago,

Bob Smith 17:41
New York is number three with 296 skyscrapers and Chicago is ninth with 130 skyscrapers.

Marcia Smith 17:48
Just kind of interesting if Dallas had more than Chicago. No, it

Bob Smith 17:52
might have more population these days, but doesn’t have more skyscrapers. Now you were talking about losing population. Guess which city has lost more population than almost any skyscraper

Marcia Smith 18:03
city? Hong Kong?

Bob Smith 18:04
That’s right. It’s Hong Kong, which used to be a free Western city, it’s gone from a record 7.4 million in 2020 to 7.3 9 million in 2021. So in just one year, it lost 87,000 People 1.3% of the population if

Marcia Smith 18:21
you’ve grown up with freedom, all your life and then suddenly you’re you’re having a child having been

Bob Smith 18:26
there I just can’t imagine what it must be like for those people who have been born and raised there and were able to vote and the representatives and everything else. Must be terrible. Yep.

Marcia Smith 18:34
Okay, what is needed Bob for we humans to taste food. Taste

Bob Smith 18:41
buds.

Unknown Speaker 18:42
Well, that’s the answer.

Bob Smith 18:43
Ding ding ding ding ding I won before the taste buds tongue, you have to have a tongue meaning you have to have an appetite. I don’t know what am I doing wrong here?

Marcia Smith 18:54
It’s not tastebuds it is saliva. It’s true for all foods. chemicals from food must first dissolve in saliva to render a taste on the receptors of your tastebuds. To test the theory Bob later on, just dry your tongue with a paper towel and try to eat

Bob Smith 19:12
I am not going to do that. I don’t see why I should try to do that

Marcia Smith 19:16
your taste buds will not pick up the taste and single your brain what this food is. So saliva is the prerequisite for tasting Oh, you have to have it. It chemically dissolves the food and gives you the taste. I did not want your taste buds. That’s why I’m sharing this with spit spit. You need spit, spit. And as long as I’m on food Bob, what are the five basic tastes sweetness?

Bob Smith 19:39
sour, bitter. Three, what would be the others salty? Okay, yes.

Marcia Smith 19:48
And the last one I would never gotten on how long this has been around but you mammy, you mammy, you say uma Am I the fifth taste is more abstract. act on the flavor wheel. It’s basically a Japanese word that means delicious. It’s savory and wonderful and magically makes our other four taste tastes stronger or better. It’s umami, that little extra something that makes something delicious. Okay,

Bob Smith 20:18
well, where’s this flavor wheel? i This flavor wheel. There’s a food pyramid. But the flavor wheel. Where’s that? I know. It sounds like a merry go round that never stops. It’s the flavor wheel. Okay, I have a food question too. How big is the world’s largest food court? How many people can be served there at a time? The

Marcia Smith 20:37
world’s largest food court? Yeah, it’s not. It’s not. Is it in the United States? No, but

Bob Smith 20:42
it’s not in Abu Dhabi. I’ll tell you that. So you have to come up with a different city.

Marcia Smith 20:49
The largest food court? Oh,

Bob Smith 20:53
well, I’ll just tell you. It’s in Cairo, Egypt. It’s at the Oasis restaurants and entertainment in Cairo, Egypt. And it was built in 2011. It has seating for 4223 people with 25 restaurants to choose from. Wow. That’s how big the food court is crazy. 4223 people the food court covers more than 400,000 square feet of floor space. Even has a designated Kids Zone. Even its parking lot is huge. There’s space for 1000 vehicles. All that comes from the Guinness Book of World Records.

Marcia Smith 21:27
You don’t want to buy around and drinks when you’re sitting in that food cart.

Bob Smith 21:30
Everything’s on me. That would be bad. Okay,

Marcia Smith 21:34
Bob, do you know who was the first president to have a presidential aircraft?

Bob Smith 21:39
I think it was Roosevelt. Yes, it was Franklin Roosevelt. Correct. And I think it’s in the Air Force Museum. I think I’ve seen that. In Ohio. Yeah, he did. Yeah, my uncle took Ben and I there and we actually went up into it. It was a tight aircraft. It wasn’t a big aircraft like Air Force One was

Marcia Smith 21:55
this the one called the sacred cow. Might be I don’t know, he flew on this specially equipped Douglas DC 4 nicknamed the sacred cow. And he used it to fly to Yalta for the conference, you know, with Stalin and Churchill. And the plane the first presidential plane was fitted with a lift so He could board in his wheelchair.

Bob Smith 22:16
Okay, I got another money question for you here. What famous American industrialist finally became allergic to money after years of being physically allergic physically allergic to paper money.

Speaker 1 22:28
Was it Ford or Rockefeller? It was that era. Rockefeller or

Bob Smith 22:35
this man was known for libraries libraries.

Marcia Smith 22:36
Yeah, I was gonna say is it. Cash I know is there’s a big hole in

Bob Smith 22:41
New York, named after him for Carnegie Hall gets it. Andrew Carnegie or Carnegie as he’s also known, who is one of the richest Americans ever he practically became allergic to money as he got older and richer. He said he was offended by the sight and touch of it, and he never carried any with him. In fact, he was once thrown off a London tram because he didn’t have money to pay his fare. That’s fine. I’m allergic to money. I can’t give you any Wow, I’ll buy your oboe your railroad but I can’t afford to pay for

Marcia Smith 23:13
my fairy minions will write to it. Oh, dear lord. Okay, Bobby, as you know, Steven Spielberg’s version of West Side Story is hitting the silver screen. It’s a remake of the 61 film where Maria was a Puerto Rican girl, and Tony was a white boy. But did you know it was originally about a Catholic boy and a Jewish girl? And it was called East Side Story. Oh, no.

Bob Smith 23:38
Yeah, I didn’t know that. And of course, basically, it’s Romeo and Juliet story.

Marcia Smith 23:42
Yeah, modern York City.

Bob Smith 23:44
So it was Jewish and Catholic. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 23:46
I did. That was the big mashup, that film soundtrack and I had this to spent 54 weeks as number one on Billboard Album Charts

Bob Smith 23:57
Really 54 weeks unheard of that’s like Carole King’s tapestry. On for that long too. And

Marcia Smith 24:03
they had movie product placement back then. Bromo Seltzer, Coca Cola and tootsie roll all made it into that movie.

Bob Smith 24:11
Speaking of Broadway shows, I’ve got one here. Okay, what Broadway show turned a handsome profit for an investment by the Columbia Broadcasting System. CBS invested in a Broadway show. Oh, to show on television. It No. They just invested in the show in the 1970s.

Marcia Smith 24:28
Is it a musical?

Bob Smith 24:29
It’s a musical. It was a very big musical. Was it my fair labor lady? Yes, CBS invested $400,000 into this and the network made a handsome profit 100 times over investment. So my fair lady returned $40 million dollars to CBS for a $400,000 investment but back then CBS was owned by a family you know, it wasn’t a public company. So this explains that there

Marcia Smith 24:55
was such a to do back then. Julie Andrews was the star The Broadway show, My Fair Lady, and then when they made the movie they wanted Audrey Hepburn. Oh, that’s right. And the big

Bob Smith 25:07
controversy. Oh, it’s wild. And then of course, Julie Andrews proved herself in, in, in the sound of music that she could be every bit as big a star as anyone else do her own thing. Exactly. Yeah. All right, Marsha. I have another geography question. We’ve got counties all over the United States. That’s one of the smallest bodies of government. After you hit go from towns and cities, you go to counties and you go to state, what state has the fewest counties? I’ll give you some clues. Rhode Island, Hawaii, West Virginia, or Delaware?

Unknown Speaker 25:41
I’ll say Hawaii.

Bob Smith 25:42
I would have thought that could be true. But then you think of all the islands, they have a lot of islands. And some of them are big. So they could be more than one count. So it’s

Marcia Smith 25:49
fine. Is it? Yeah, okay. That’s true. All right. I’ll think again. All right.

Bob Smith 25:53
Rhode Island, Hawaii, West Virginia or Delaware? Delaware, Delaware. You’re right. That’s it. Delaware has just three counties, really? So it’s the state with the fewest now. Rhode Island and Hawaii have five each so that’s all the bigger they are. Now California how many? Oh Lila Fornia is the largest by population are one of the largest populations of any state. How many counties does it have?

Unknown Speaker 26:15
I’ll say 5358. Pretty good.

Bob Smith 26:19
Texas has the most counties of any state. Okay, how many counties? 75 200. Oh, really? 254 counties? Yeah. And then there of course, are several states that don’t even appear on the list because they’re not divided into counties at all Alaska and Louisiana have boroughs and parishes, respectively. That’s where parish comes from all their parishes are what we would call count. Oh, okay. Yeah, there was probably based on a religious nature at the time like archdiocese.

Marcia Smith 26:48
Oh, yeah. I’m going to finish up with a quote from Mae West. my namesake. She is not your name. Okay. It’s my middle name, though. But it is yeah. But isn’t that after me. West may or may not. It may or may not be after me. You don’t know. Okay. She said. I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.

Bob Smith 27:13
And she had a fun time doing it. You bet she did. Okay, that’s it for today. We hope you join us next time. I’m Bob Smith.

Marcia Smith 27:20
I’m Marcia Smith,

Bob Smith 27:21
and you’ve been listening to the offering. The off ramp is produced in association with CPL radio online and the Cedarbrook Public Library Cedarburg, Wisconsin.

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