124 Blank Slate Trivia

Marcia Smith 0:00
What is the Wicked Bible?

Bob Smith 0:02
Ooh, that’s interesting. What is the most populous timezone in the United States? And what famous soft drink began with the Super name? Brad’s drink? answers to those and other questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob

Marcia Smith 0:21
and Marsha Smith

Bob Smith 0:38
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. Today, Marsha, when people invent all kinds of products, they have all kinds of alpha names and so forth. But this one, which is a superpower in the soft drink world began as Brad’s drink at a soda fountain in North Carolina. Okay,

Marcia Smith 1:02
was it a guy named Brad Pepsi or something? Brad coke.

Bob Smith 1:07
His name was Caleb Bradham.

Marcia Smith 1:09
Bradham ah, tell me, it’s Pepsi. I was right. Yeah.

Bob Smith 1:13
But he was named Brad Pepsi. I know. He was a New Bern pharmacist, a pharmacist in New Bern, North Carolina, he began serving a carbonated beverage called Brad’s drink in 1893, at the soda fountain in his pharmacy, and that was at the corner of Pollack and middle streets for those who are familiar with Newbern. He believed in the health and energy and digestive benefits of the drink and he called it Brad’s drink, but then he went to work finding other names for it. So like Brad’s Pepsi light and well, he purchased the trade name Pepsi Cola from a New Jersey company in 1902. And then he incorporated the Pepsi Cola Company and got his formula patented to and it was a cola nut and enzyme pepsin. That’s what his formula included. And then in 1910, by 1910, Pepsi Cola was being bottled by 300 companies in 24 states. Is that amazing?

Marcia Smith 2:05
Yeah, Brad. Brad did okay for him. Yeah. Caleb Bradham, Brad’s

Bob Smith 2:09
drink. Okay. You can actually find random pharmacy bottles online at, you know, in antique sites. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 2:18
but very cool. Okay, Bob, okay. In the 1600s. Isn’t that when you graduate? That’s when I graduated. Yes. Ah, 1632, to be exact. Our version of the King James Bible was published and became known as the Wicked Bible. Why?

Bob Smith 2:36
I think because it had errors didn’t have typographical errors in it. Well, one in particular, was one of the 10 commandments, wasn’t it?

Marcia Smith 2:44
You are good. allistic All right, because the word not was left out of the Seventh Commandment, which made it thou shalt commit adultery. Oh, I

Bob Smith 2:56
can see why that would have been very popular. This is a good thing to do. Oh, yeah,

Marcia Smith 3:01
I’m sure it was very popular. And they sold all the copies just like that newspaper I worked at for the potluck dinner, which kind of had one letter misprint

Bob Smith 3:09
of luck. It had the letter F Yeah. The pot blank dinner. Yeah, we

Marcia Smith 3:15
sold out at lightning speed.

Bob Smith 3:18
Okay, another question from the beginning here. What’s the most populous timezone in the United States?

Marcia Smith 3:24
Well, I would have to be out West. The West Coast. Yeah. Which is what is that? timezone,

Bob Smith 3:31
right. The Pacific Time Zone wrong? No.

Marcia Smith 3:35
You are. Okay. Then it is the Eastern.

Bob Smith 3:39
That’s right. You know, people who live in the Midwest always say all the coast, everything’s about the coast. Well, that’s where most of the people live on the east coast. Not the west coast. The United States Eastern timezone. Almost half of all Americans live there. More than 47% of the country’s people live in the Eastern Time Zone, which covers major cities like New York and Miami and Boston and Philadelphia. Yeah, I

Marcia Smith 4:02
guess. Yeah, with all those states. What’s the second one?

Bob Smith 4:05
The second most populous timezone where more people live?

Marcia Smith 4:09
Well, now you got me it’s probably mountain, eastern central

Bob Smith 4:13
mountain and Pacific. Yeah, no mountain is where the fewest people live. But

Marcia Smith 4:17
I said we gotta wake up here. No way. You didn’t hear me distinctly. I said Pacific. No, no.

Bob Smith 4:25
Here’s the No, no, you’re all wrong on this one. So let me just set the

Marcia Smith 4:31
record straight me out of my Miss eastern time

Bob Smith 4:33
zone has 47% of the population. The Central Time Zone is the next largest covering nearly 30% of the population that includes Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Alabama, Louisiana, and Texas, the second most populous, the Pacific Time Zone is home to the third most populous timezone. Even though it’s got the most populous state California has more people than any other state. It only accounts for for 16% of the total population of the country, well, I’ll be triggered and mountain time the last of the four continental time zones. 7% of Americans. Okay, that’s it. So again, it’s eastern central Pacific and mountain. That’s the order of the most populous time zones and the large.

Marcia Smith 5:20
Okay, Bob, what is a telephone booth?

Bob Smith 5:23
A telephone booth poem, pen. I don’t know a tele poem booth. Uh huh. Oh, so this is some people reading poems over the phone. And then there was a booth where you could go and

Marcia Smith 5:34
something like that, but it’s not. In the past. It’s now and you’ll you’ll, you’ll like the answer to this. Okay. Okay. A telephone booth is today, located in a few random places like Dubuque, Iowa and Brisby. Arizona. Really? Yeah, instead of it’s a telephone booth. And instead of phoning home, you go in, and there’s a directory in there. And you can pick up a poem and author of the poem, a poet, out of hundreds of listings, and plug in their number and that poet will read you their poem. Wait a minute, plug in whose number out of the directory, you put in the number after the poem you want to hear?

Bob Smith 6:18
Oh, you hear a poem? Yeah. Like you’re calling anyone. You get a recording. Also, you’re there to listen to a poem.

Marcia Smith 6:24
Yeah. by the author. That’s strange. It’s, it’s a free service.

Unknown Speaker 6:29
It should be.

Marcia Smith 6:32
That’s very fun. It’s the free. It’s a free service. And the brainchild of artists Elizabeth Hellstorm, who has erected so far about a half a dozen booths, and says the surface helps bring poetry to life. Okay, well, yeah, it’s cool. You don’t see phone booths anymore, but they do have these.

Bob Smith 6:54
You want to bring poetry to life. You don’t want to bring it to death. So that’s good. All right, go. Okay. Okay. Some word origin questions here? I got I was like, Yeah, this is kind of funny. What did these words originally mean? The word glorious. Any idea what that used to mean? In the mid 1400s? That’s when you were born was you’re a little older than me. Okay. 1400 was Laurie implement wasn’t a compliment and glorious, glorious. Yeah. What does that mean? Just think about it. I’m

Marcia Smith 7:23
trying to you’re so glorious. You’re not as good as you think you

Bob Smith 7:27
are. You’re boastful. You’re ostentatious, fond of splendor. Proud, haughty, vain, glorious. I was right. That’s what glorious used to mean. Instead, you say, Now you say that’s glorious. That’s wonderful. And here’s another one night This dates back to 950 spell night

Marcia Smith 7:42
que ni ght Okay. What was another name for

Bob Smith 7:46
what was the definition of night back then? What did the word mean? Today we think of it as being a warrior in armor right? A knight in shining armor and it was a little back at 950 Think back to that time when you were living 950 ad when

Marcia Smith 8:01
my mom and dad would come into the room and say there’s a night outside and it’s

Bob Smith 8:06
That’s exactly right. Remember that old song The man in my little girl’s life – so if there’s well that’s what it meant a boy or a lead employed as an attendant or servant. So by extension a male servant or an attendant of any age so that’s what night originally meant. It didn’t mean you know a warrior it meant a boy or somebody you hired for yourself because at night there’s a night outside it’s full of stars. Okay, how

Marcia Smith 8:32
did Bob yes James Bond get his name?

Bob Smith 8:35
How did James Bond bond James Bond get his name?

Marcia Smith 8:41
I don’t know. Well, author Ian Fleming named him after the author of a bird book called West Indian birds

Bob Smith 8:49
that’s right I remember this Yeah, it was Yeah, yeah. There was an author by the name of James Bond and he wrote a bird book Yeah. So

Marcia Smith 8:55
that’s that’s where I got it from. Yeah, he was reading it apparently. He liked it had a nice ring to I don’t know where double oh seven came from but that’s another that’s another question for next week. Okay,

Bob Smith 9:07
weather question, Marcia. The

Marcia Smith 9:09
rain in Spain stays mainly on the plane and in other parts

Bob Smith 9:13
of Europe is sometimes red. Why is the rain in Spain sometimes red are ed

Marcia Smith 9:18
or Ed because it goes through the atmosphere with red dust particles from the dry mountains

Bob Smith 9:30
while you’re pretty close? Yeah, the rains come from the storms which lift reddish desert dust from the Sahara desert and blow that dust across the Mediterranean into Cloud banks above Europe. And then the dust particles are washed down as red rain so the red or blood rains are rare, but they still occur at odd intervals over Italy, Southern France. in southeastern Europe. The blood rains used to plunge the people of Europe into a frenzy. They were thought to be diluted blood Oh geez. Nobody knew where the color came from. Oh dear. The Ram would

Marcia Smith 10:02
be disconcerting when it Oh, that would give me the creeps.

Bob Smith 10:05
The rain in Spain sometimes is red. Okay.

Marcia Smith 10:08
All right. You recall the bloody Horseheads scene in the bed from the first Godfather, don’t you

Unknown Speaker 10:13
biking of blood and red? Yeah, yes, I

Marcia Smith 10:15
do. Okay. What did the producers use for the horse head?

Bob Smith 10:19
That was like the mob put this horse head in this. He woke up with a horse head and bed in his bed to scare the hell out of him if he had to. He was supposed to use somebody in his movie. I

Marcia Smith 10:30
think the singer Yeah. What did they actually use? Yeah.

Bob Smith 10:33
What was it a hobby horse’s head.

Marcia Smith 10:35
Now, what was it? It wasn’t a prop. It was a real horse’s head. Oh, from a dog food plant in New Jersey. Oh my god.

Bob Smith 10:47
So they actually do use

Marcia Smith 10:48
horses. It looks so

Unknown Speaker 10:51
real. So they had a shift over to Hollywood.

Unknown Speaker 10:55
Oh dear lord at times. Oh, god.

Bob Smith 10:58
Okay. Well, here’s the science question. How are electrodes helping the Paralyzed today?

Marcia Smith 11:04
Oh, I think they’re helping like, what did they call them? Erectile skeletons. exoskeleton exoskeletons. Okay.

Bob Smith 11:13
Okay, now they’re Yeah, let’s go somewhere

Marcia Smith 11:15
else. Okay. They put them on your body and the signals help move your legs or what? That’s kind

Bob Smith 11:21
of what it is. Yeah. For years, Swiss researchers have been working on a groundbreaking treatment to reverse paralysis and people with spinal cord injuries. And now an electrode device implanted on the spinal cord has given three paralyzed men the ability to walk, swim and move within hours. Wow. I am free. Michael Riccati from Italy told CNN I can walk whenever I want to. He lost the ability to walk after a motorcycle accident in 2017. But today equipped with this electrode device implanted on his spinal cord. He can now stand at the bar drinking with friends or showering without a chair, strolling through town with a walker.

Marcia Smith 12:00
What a thrill that must be that Greg, do you ever see those videos of babies who hear for the first time? Yeah, I love them. Yeah. What a thrill. Okay, Bob, who has the warmest pelt in the Arctic? And who can survive the coldest temperatures? I would say grizzly bears. Yeah, you think but no, it’s the arctic fox the arctic fox it can survive minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit. The Fox has fluffy tails which they can cover their heads with like a built in blanket for added insulation. Oh, no kidding. Yeah. How did the bears survive? They go in caves or they’re gonna go in hibernation or to the snow.

Bob Smith 12:40
You have to have a you know, heavy pelt or something? Yes. Well, apparently it’s so it’s the arctic fox. Yeah. Okay, that says a smaller animal that’s fast

Marcia Smith 12:49
our life

Bob Smith 12:50
and yeah, more live life. Well, more life live. Or live li th e that is a hard thing to hear. Even here. We’re just few feet from each other. And I couldn’t understand you said a lie, though. Yeah. Okay. All right. All right. Meticulous what was the original meaning of that word? This is goes back to 1540. Again, back in your great school days.

Marcia Smith 13:11
I think you’re really coming at me now. I’m sorry. If I launched over and

Bob Smith 13:15
unleash unleash, let me help you with your words today. Unleashed. It’s too early and not enough with those words. And being unleashed. The word is meticulous what did it originally mean?

Marcia Smith 13:27
Does it have anything to do with metal? No, then I don’t know.

Bob Smith 13:32
It has to do with details of course. But originally it meant fearful or timid. And then the 1820s it came to mean being too careful regarding detail. So meticulous as though it was a bad way. You know, eventually however being meticulous became a positive thing. But originally it meant fearful, timid, refrained from doing things, you know.

Marcia Smith 13:52
Okay, how long Bob does it take a sloth to digest a meal?

Bob Smith 13:58
Judging from those TV commercials, yeah, a long lost

Marcia Smith 14:00
so funny. Yeah. Okay. Just give me a ballpark.

Bob Smith 14:04
How long does it take to digest a meal? Yeah. So instead of hours, maybe three days,

Marcia Smith 14:09
maybe how long? up to one month? Oh,

Bob Smith 14:12
my goodness, they are

Marcia Smith 14:13
slow. And that’s why they’re so slow. They digest very slow. They

Bob Smith 14:18
have a very slow metabolism. They do.

Marcia Smith 14:21
Wow. That’s just the way they roll. They survive on leaves, twigs and flowers when they’re just hanging around. You know, upset. Okay. And they’re interesting in that, you know, modern humans have been around for 200,000 years, where sloths have hung around for over 64 million years. Geez.

Unknown Speaker 14:44
Yeah, but what have they done? What have they got to show?

Marcia Smith 14:49
Can I give you a did you know? Did you know that pandas eat a fourth of their weight every day?

Bob Smith 14:56
Wow.

Marcia Smith 14:58
Yeah. Fourth of their weight every day. Geez. Just thought that’s that’s that’s more than me.

Speaker 1 15:03
Yes it is these this weekend or me? Oh you don’t put yourself down

Marcia Smith 15:08
like cheeseburgers and pizza to not die at night.

Bob Smith 15:11
You look wonderful. I think it’s time to take a break. Yeah, you’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marsha. We’ll be back in just a moment. We’re back here on the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith. Some questions on world capitals. Marcia gonna give you three world capitals. Tell me which is the farthest north. Okay, okay. Athens, Greece. Uh huh. Washington, DC, Seoul, South Korea, or Rabat? Morocco?

Marcia Smith 15:41
I’d say DC. Why? Because it’s if when I’m looking at a world map in my head, we check to every day. Okay, it looks like DC is above those.

Bob Smith 15:53
Well, you’re right it is. Now it’s funny because we consider Washington DC. It’s a southern city right on the edge of the South, right. But it’s actually farther north than all the cities. And although we often think of Europe as being much farther north than the United States, you may be surprised to learn that America’s capital is actually located at a more northerly latitude than all of those including the capital of Greece. Not much though. Well, Washington DC sits at a latitude of 38.9 degrees north Athens is at 37.8 degrees north so they’re almost the same, but it’s also north of capital of Morocco and South Korea. That’s I thought that was fascinating.

Marcia Smith 16:30
I got it right. Oh, yes, you did one of many today.

Bob Smith 16:35
So you can get this right. Okay, so what is the world’s northern most capital the world’s the country with the capital that is well, is it north in any other is it I’ll give you a heckuva Reykjavik. Right? That’s exactly right. I was gonna give you hit. I was gonna say it’s an island. You did? Yes. It’s at a latitude of 64.1 degrees north. Okay, one more question on countries.

Marcia Smith 16:59
Okay. I kind of get three in a row. We’re gonna try.

Bob Smith 17:01
How many land locked countries are there in Europe, in Europe? They don’t have a coast anywhere.

Marcia Smith 17:07
How many are there total?

Bob Smith 17:08
Doyou now there are about more than 40 countries in Europe. Okay, how many say I’ll give you numbers? Okay. 12, 23,15 or 17?

Marcia Smith 17:18
I’ll say 23.

Bob Smith 17:22
It’s 17. Okay, so it’s close. So you did a good job there. Hey, do you have 17 of Europe’s more than 40 countries do not feature a coast or a sea or an ocean so these countries include Andorra, Armenia, Austria, Bella Bruce Kosovo, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Kazakhstan, leeks, and Stein, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Moldova, San Marino, Serbia, Slovakia, Switzerland, and Vatican City. They still flourish though due to beneficial trade agreements and abundant agriculture.

Marcia Smith 17:52
How many of the 10 most common surgeries in the US can you name

Bob Smith 17:57
are we talking like arms and legs being broken as surgeries that says surgery? Okay, so I would say limbs lamb, so that’s number three. Okay, I was gonna say one. tonsillectomies.

Marcia Smith 18:08
No, not on here.

Speaker 1 18:10
Oh, really? I think that would be what you want. But no oral surgery. Do we have that? Like for teeth? Yeah.

Marcia Smith 18:15
No, not as the top 10.

Bob Smith
Okay, tell me the top 10

Marcia Smith
Okay, the most common joint replacement. Oh, and now those shoulders and knees.

Bob Smith 18:23
Wow. Listen to that joint replacements of these are basically embedding some kind of device within your body. That’s the number one surgery No, yeah. Holy cow.

Marcia Smith 18:32
I’ll do the 10 in in order. Thank you. Joint Replacement circumcision. Ooh, broken bones angioplasty and a Rideau ectomy. Okay, stent procedure, hysterectomy, gallbladder removal. And heart bypass surgery is number 10. I would have put heart bypass up much higher

Bob Smith 18:52
I would think so two plus gallbladder. That’s a pretty common surgery. I thought that’s nine. But I mean, I thought it would be higher. Yeah. Very interesting. I thought so I still again back that the number one surgery is where you’re implanting something you’re replacing?

Marcia Smith 19:05
I think it’s become a little too common.

Bob Smith 19:07
Yeah, that’s what I hear. Yeah, people criticizing it. Yeah. Okay, the Eiffel Tower. What was the original color of the Eiffel Tower? Painted? Want me to give you some choices? This is an 1889. So keep that in mind. Okay. purple, yellow, gray, turquoise, red. Really? What were they?

Marcia Smith 19:26
I’ll say red.

Bob Smith 19:27
It was reddish brown. Yeah. Oh, Ding ding ding on a rock. Anyway, so reddish brown pink color used to protect the structure against rust but decades later, they tried yellow. Can’t imagine the Eiffel Tower painted yellow,

Unknown Speaker 19:45
And you disappear against the sky. Well, also, it’s kind of discussed lots of different colors in the past 130 years.

Bob Smith 19:49
Okay, Marcia, here’s something I hadn’t even thought of the Eiffel Tower originally wasn’t going to be in Paris. Where was it going to be? Yeah, how would I’ll give you choices here be Paris with this comes from travel quiz.com Kind of an interesting one. They did a whole thing on the Eiffel Tower. So I pulled a couple of questions from it. So Quebec City, Barcelona, nice France or London, which one of those cities was originally going to get the Eiffel Tower?

Marcia Smith 20:17
I’ll say Quebec. Good answer, but

Bob Smith 20:20
no, it wasn’t not not in the Americas. So connect nice. No.

Marcia Smith 20:23
Okay tell me Barcelona.

Bob Smith 20:26
Really it was originally pitched the Eiffel Tower, but the Spanish city rejected Gustavo. I felt plans because they thought it would be an eyesore, which was the complaint by a lot of Parisians. When it first went up in Paris didn’t

Marcia Smith 20:39
have one I saw a bunch of metal up to the sky,

Bob Smith 20:42
but it finally found a home in Paris serving as a symbol of the 1889 World’s Fair. Basically, the International Exposition

Marcia Smith 20:50
I love that they lit it up. So cool. All right. How

Bob Smith 20:52
many steps are there to the top of the Eiffel Tower?

Marcia Smith 20:55
I’ll give you Okay, go ahead.

Bob Smith 20:57
349 steps 1665 10,342 or 2900?

Marcia Smith 21:05
I’ll say 1665. Bingo.

Bob Smith 21:07
You are right on target today. Wow. Yeah. From the Esplanade to the top of the tower 1665. However, only the 674 steps leading to the second floor are open to the public now and now you have to take the elevator. Yeah. But it has enter multiple elevators to support visitors to the top but only a select number of people athletes get the chance to climb. Oh, really? Oh, absolutely. It’s 1600 65 steps. There’s an annual Eiffel Tower vertical race.

Marcia Smith 21:39
Can you imagine that? Goodness, that would be a member How?

Bob Smith 21:43
How huge that is? I can’t imagine racing to the top of the Eiffel Tower

Marcia Smith 21:48
to put that in a scene from Rocky and that okay, what substance melts pearls? A substance

Bob Smith 21:56
melts pearls. So it’s not just regular. It’s a heat. But what makes the heat it’s

Marcia Smith 22:02
a substance? No, it’s something actually we recently purchased. Oh,

Bob Smith 22:07
I bet I know what it is. You wash things with it. And you can cook with

Marcia Smith 22:11
it and get gasoline on your coat at the gas station. And this took out the smell. Vinegar.

Bob Smith 22:18
That’s right. Vinegar. I couldn’t think of it. It

Marcia Smith 22:21
melts pearls removes gasoline. I mean, it’s amazing. Somebody

Bob Smith 22:26
should make a business out of that.

Marcia Smith 22:28
And just rename it right and jack up the price. Well, that’s true. And that’s that’s what happens all the time. Vinegar. Wow. Okay, I’ll give you just a couple of Did you knows Okay, and that’s. Did you know peanuts are one of the ingredients in dynamite? No. Peanuts. Yeah. Really? And that the skin that peels off your body when you have sunburn, you know, your arms and back and so forth. It’s called blight. BL ype.

Bob Smith 22:57
Never heard of that.

Marcia Smith 22:58
You got blight. Let me help you. There.

Bob Smith 23:00
You blind. Okay, I’ve got three more. What’s the original meaning of these words? Okay, okay. mischievous what did it used to mean? What do you think of it now?

Marcia Smith 23:13
Someone who’s adorably kind of

Bob Smith 23:17
a clown? Kind of a joker? Yes. mischievous? Yes. No, it originally meant of an event or occurrence. Unfortunate, calamitous, disastrous. That meaning goes back to eight, the 1390s a person miserable, needy and poverty stricken. All right, nice in the 1390s. Again, going back to your youth in the 1390s calling somebody nice met you were saying they were foolish or simple. Oh, okay. And one more. All right. pragmatic. What did that mean in the 1600s? Idea? Busy, active, interfering, meddling, intrusive. If you were pragmatic, you were anything but pragmatic. I think that is being proud to how that reversed over the years, I don’t know, pragmatic, busy, active interfering.

Marcia Smith 24:01
According to the Ultimate Book of useless information, my personal go to a cubic mile of seawater contains an average of more than $117 million worth of gold and $11 million worth of silver. That’s hard to believe really? Yeah. This and that seawater. Yeah, and this book is several years old, so it’s probably worth more now. Wow, that’s a cubic mile. Okay. Yeah. Who invented the straw?

Bob Smith 24:31
Wow, hadn’t thought of that. Think about it, that that person made a lot of money. Inventing the straw. Yes. There’s this recent I mean, is it go back to like 200 years ago or something?

Marcia Smith 24:41
It’s not that recent. No. Oh, it

Unknown Speaker 24:43
goes way, way back, Egypt or something like that. Exactly.

Marcia Smith 24:46
It was developed by Egyptian brewers to taste beer without removing the fermenting ingredients that floated on top of the container so they wanted to taste test the beer as they were fermenting it over We

Bob Smith 25:00
always told don’t drink beer with a straw. It’ll make you drunker when we were kids.

Marcia Smith 25:04
That was Egyptians were pretty great.

Bob Smith 25:08
That’s pretty impressive. That’s amazing. Okay.

Marcia Smith 25:11
You want to guess some of the fastest sports in the Winter Olympics? Actually the top two or three

Bob Smith 25:16
downhill skiing. They were going like 70 miles an hour or more. So I’d say that was one of them. bobsledding? That’s probably one of them.

Marcia Smith 25:24
The top three are the luge skeleton, and bobsleds. What were the speeds of those three, the luge and the bobsleds are over 90, 93, 95. And then the skeleton which scared us to death, remember that?

Bob Smith 25:41
Yes, that was over 80. That’s the one where you’re laying down on a sled headfirst with nothing. Yeah, no protection at all. That’s just crazy. Going 80 miles an hour. How easily kill yourself with a head injury.

Marcia Smith 25:50
Absolute Jason. Let’s not do it.

Bob Smith 25:53
This. Alright, we’ll just wait till next year to try that one.

Marcia Smith 25:56
Little more training, maybe. And I’m wearing a helmet dammit. Okay, how much water Bob Do you think it takes to make a pair of blue jeans?

Bob Smith 26:04
Oh, I never thought of that. So how much water has to go through in the process for a pair of blue jeans?

Marcia Smith 26:10
It takes more water than to make beer. Oh,

Unknown Speaker 26:12
really? A much? That’s our

Marcia Smith 26:15
comparison to everything? Yes. Okay. It takes around 1800 gallons of water to grow enough cotton to produce just one pair of regular blue jeans, more water than it takes to make a ton of cement or a barrel of beer. And and that’s just in terms of growing cotton. When you take into account the dye process. That’s what I was saying. As well as the machine wash. Almost 10,000 gallons of water are used or a pair of blue jeans. Yeah. So Wow. From cotton to the wash before they send it out for you to buy. It’s almost 10,000 gallons of water. That’s a lot per pair of jeans.

Bob Smith 26:52
That’s just amazing. Yeah. All right. You got a quote there. Right.

Marcia Smith 26:57
This is a quote from sports analyst Joe Theismann. He said the word genius isn’t applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein.

Bob Smith 27:12
Norman Einstein.

Marcia Smith 27:14
Yeah, he doesn’t like that. Everybody says, Oh, he’s a genius. You know, quarterback or this or that. He said, That’s not That’s not a word applicable and normal. But

Bob Smith 27:23
Norman Einstein. That’s a genius. A genius. Oh my god. All right. Well, that’s the that’s all we have time for today. We hope you’ve enjoyed our trivia. We hope you’ll join us next time when we return. I’m Bob Smith.

Unknown Speaker 27:37
I’m Marcia Smith, and this has been the off ramp.

Bob Smith 27:43
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