In this, their 100th podcast episode, Bob and Marcia discussed various topics, including centenarians, watermelons, and cultural significance. Bob shared interesting facts related to the number 100, such as the origins of Google and the number of sweat glands in the human body. Marcia asked questions that tested their knowledge of different subjects, including computer-based dating. They also talked about the history of computer-based dating, starting from the first project conducted by Stanford University students in 1959. Bob highlighted the significance of the word ‘100’ in Anglo-Saxon, while Marcia noted how computer-based dating has become common among younger couples.
Outline
Countries with the most centenarians, with the US topping the list.
- Marcia asks Bob which country has more centenarians than any other.
- Marcia and Bob discuss the number of centenarians in different countries, with the USA having the highest absolute number at 97,000.
Various topics, including history, science, and culture.
- Bob and Marcia discuss ancient Egyptians’ use of watermelons for hydration.
- Bob Smith and Marcia Smith discuss the significance of the number 100 in various contexts, including Google, sweat glands, basketball, and the Legend of Zelda.
- The Legend of Zelda was named after F Scott Fitzgerald’s wife Zelda, who was a writer and artist in the Jazz Age, and the game’s princess was inspired by her timeless beauty and classic appeal.
- Marcia and Bob discuss the history of bike paths in the US, with the first dedicated path opening in Brooklyn in 1894.
Computer dating history, light from center of Milky Way, and time travel in science fiction.
- Marcia and Bob discuss computer-based dating, starting with Stanford students’ 1959 project and continuing to modern services like Match.com.
- Marcia and Bob discuss the origin of the word “100” and its history.
- Bob and Marcia Smith discuss the size and scope of the Milky Way galaxy, including the time it takes for light to reach Earth from its center.
Recovery from COVID-19, songwriting awards, and trivia questions.
- Bob Smith: 8% of Manhattan office workers back 5 days/week, 28% fully remote, 64% would consider a new job if required to work full-time.
- Marcia Smith: Songwriters Hall of Fame’s Starlight Award honors gifted songwriters at peak careers, recent winners include Halsey, John Legend, Taylor Swift, and Ed Sheeran.
- Bob Smith and Marcia Smith discuss various trivia questions, including the origin of the Rolling Stones’ name and how American Airlines president in the 1930s addressed customer luggage mix-ups.
- Marcia Smith asks Bob Smith questions about zinc and copper in hair, hot water vs. cold water density, and the answer to a presidential trivia question.
US presidents’ birth orders, panhandles, and travels.
- Bob and Marcia discuss US presidents’ birth orders and the state of Michigan’s panhandle.
- Bob and Marcia reminisce about their childhood experiences with Weekly Reader and maps.
- First US president to receive a Secret Service code name was Harry Truman in 1945.
Marcia Smith 0:00
What country has more centenarians than any other people living to be 100? Or more correct and to exhaust $100
Bob Smith 0:09
billion? How much would you have to spend every day for 100 years? Notice a theme here. 100. This is our 100th podcast. Hiccup
Marcia Smith 0:19
warns Bob. Yes, it’s Party Central. Central
Bob Smith 0:26
here at the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith. Wait a minute. All right. All right. All right. Hit the Music
Welcome to the off ramp a chance to slow down steer clear of crazy take a side road to sanity. And toot your horn. Yes, yeah. Sorry. Nothing. That’s fun. No, isn’t it?
Marcia Smith 1:06
It is. Yeah.
Bob Smith 1:06
So it was two years ago, this month that we started our podcast during COVID. During the lockdown during the lockdown. It’d be fun to do something, you know, that’s creative and positive for the Cedarburg Public Library. Correct.
Marcia Smith 1:19
It’s grown a lot.
Bob Smith 1:21
So to the horn again. Okay, all right. So on that theme of 100 We have a number of questions today,
Marcia Smith 1:30
I just have one. What country has more centenarians than any other and centenarians are people who live to be 100 and over, okay? Seems to
Bob Smith 1:41
me that the centenarians were either in countries like China, or they were in a lot of the Nordic countries, people like Scandinavian countries, for some reason, that’s, I’m gonna say Denmark, or Norway or something like that.
Marcia Smith 1:55
Yes. Well, absolutely not. I would have said Japan myself. But that’s number two. The number one is the USA. Oh, really? Yeah. 97,000 of them are 100 and older. It’s the highest absolute number in the world. Japan has 79,000. And the United Nations reports that life expectancies in developed and developing countries is increasing and will rise this year to 573,000 people. Wow. So over a half a million people this year are going to be 100 and over
Bob Smith 2:33
but in the United States 97,000. So there are almost 100,100 year old people. Oh, really? 100 the perfect number. Yes, there are 100 years in a century. On the Celsius scale. 100 degrees is the boiling temperature of water. Uh huh. How many people are in the US Senate 100 100 senators, there are 100 yards in an American football field. Correct. 100 is the perfect square number and its square root is 10. And 100 is the basic of percentages. So 100 is a very big number in our culture. So to exhaust $100 billion 100 billion just turn your Mr. Buffett or Mr. Bezos or Mr. Musk? Let’s say you have $100 billion. Marcia show off. Okay. How much would you have to spend every day for 100 years to get rid of it? A million a day? No. Three times that amount? 3 million a day. You’d have to spend $3 million dollars every day for 100 years to exhaust 100 billion bad
Marcia Smith 3:40
ideas. Isn’t
Bob Smith 3:41
that amazing? I
Marcia Smith 3:42
once I get the shoes I wanted I don’t know.
Bob Smith 3:48
Okay, I have a couple of other 100 notes. We’ll get to those in a moment. Okay.
Marcia Smith 3:51
Speaking of Old King Tut died around 3300 years ago, and when his tomb was uncovered, they found 25 plant food species including sesame seeds, millet, barley, black cumin seeds, coriander, and watermelon seeds. And therein lies my question. Okay. The wild watermelon seeds when planted, tasted awful. So what do scientists and researchers think was the main purpose for Ancient Egyptians for watermelons? It
Bob Smith 4:23
wasn’t to eat them. They tasted terrible. He tasted terrible. So medicinal use. I guess you
Marcia Smith 4:29
could say that it wasn’t a medicine. Okay. I don’t think we’re on the right track
Bob Smith 4:32
to where you’re going with this. Yeah,
Marcia Smith 4:34
that was the idea. to trick you. Okay. They used it. They theorize for hydration. Each bite of watermelon contains 92% water and 6% sugar. So the ancients who didn’t carry convenient recyclable water bottles, probably carried watermelon slices with them to rehydrate.
Bob Smith 4:56
Oh, I don’t think of watermelons coming from that area of The World No,
Marcia Smith 5:00
no, you don’t. And that’s why it was so weird that they found that in Tut’s tomb King
Bob Smith 5:04
tucked down. Okay, I’ve got a couple of the 100 questions. We know the term Google because we use the Google search engine, but Google is actually named after a numerical factor, the Google G o gol, what does that represent?
Marcia Smith 5:20
Oh, is it? It’s
Bob Smith 5:23
the number one followed by
Marcia Smith 5:25
how many zeros? What do you think? Is a lot? Think
Bob Smith 5:29
of today’s theme? Yeah,
Marcia Smith 5:30
it’s 100. It’s
Bob Smith 5:31
100. Marcia, yes. Thank you. A Google is the number one followed by 100. zeros. All right. What significance does 100 have to sweat glands? Sweaty lady have
Marcia Smith 5:46
100 of them were in our armpits?
Bob Smith 5:51
Well, maybe there are 100 sweat glands in one square inch of skin. Really? 100. All over your body. Yeah, right in each square inch of skin. Okay, and what significance does 100 have to scramble?
Marcia Smith 6:07
Ah, geez, Louise. I don’t know you had need 10 Z’s to get 100. There
Bob Smith 6:13
are 100 letter title. Oh, okay. Game of scramble. Yeah. And one last question about 100. Yeah, what significance does 100 have in basketball? No idea. 100 points. That’s the most ever scored by a National Basketball Association player in a single game. One player, one player who was that? I’ll say well, chamber Wilt Chamberlain. You’re right at the Philadelphia Warriors. He did it the night of March 2 1962. And that record has never been surpassed So 60 years? Yeah, Wilt Chamberlain set that record 100 points in a single game by a single player. Those are just some things about the number 100 I thought was interesting. One more question. But we’ll get to that in a minute.
Marcia Smith 6:59
Okay. What do you think was the inspiration for the ever so popular video game? The Legend of Zelda?
Bob Smith 7:06
Oh, you know, I have always wondered about the Legend of Zelda. Zelda his little face and Zelda. Zelda is kind of like a warrior, right? Like a Viking warrior or something like that. Yeah. Okay. Tell me. What’s the inspiration?
Marcia Smith 7:22
Well, you didn’t see this comment. It was named after F Scott Fitzgerald’s wife. Oh, no kidding. Yes. Zelda Fitzgerald was a writer artists and Jazz Age icon whose marriage to The Great Gatsby author F. Scott Fitzgerald generated a fair amount of headlines all by itself. Yeah, yeah, we’re always in the news. Zelda who’s been described as the first flapper of the roaring 20s was chosen because a Nintendo rep suggested the princess should be a timeless beauty with classic appeal.
Bob Smith 7:53
I never would have thought of that. Now. Me there. That’s why from 100 years ago, the roaring 20s Yeah. led to the Zelda that we know today in the video game.
Marcia Smith 8:01
Yeah. Yeah. She was pretty famous in her own right.
Bob Smith 8:05
Marcia, today we have bike paths all over the world where they didn’t used to be a lot of times they’re on railroad tracks, the old railroad, so forth. But where was the first bike path in the United States? What city had the first bike paths New York City, Boston, Seattle or Denver?
Marcia Smith 8:22
Ah, New York City.
Bob Smith 8:24
That’s right. It was the Brooklyn Borough of New York City. Brooklyn’s Ocean Parkway, became home to the country’s first dedicated bike path when it opened June 15 1894. And that was during the bicycle craze in the late 19th century. And on opening day, 10,000. Cyclists swarmed the path with the speed limit set to 12 miles per hour and the architects of Central Park Calvert VO and Frederick Law Olmstead. were the masterminds behind the five mile bike path. Okay,
Marcia Smith 8:55
is that when they had the big wheel in the front and the little wheel on the back?
Bob Smith 8:59
I think by that time, they were pretty much the same, but maybe not. I don’t know. Okay. Oh, wait, the bikeway in the past now extend to Coney Island beach.
Marcia Smith 9:07
So here’s a question I like Has anybody ever beaten a computer in the game of chess? Yes, I
Bob Smith 9:14
think so. Who and when? I don’t know who it was, I think it was in the 60s, wasn’t it? That’s my chess match.
Marcia Smith 9:21
It was 26 years ago in 1996. Oh, actually not the 60s. Okay, but it was you’ll remember this name Garry. Kasparov. Oh, Garry
Bob Smith 9:30
Kasparov, the famous Russian Yes. And
Marcia Smith 9:32
he defeated IBM’s Deep Blue computer in a game match and he won it for to two in 1996. But one year later, Big Blue kind of upped its game. And no one’s ever beat that computer since the IBM computer they came up with was upgraded and could examine 200 million different chess positions per second. Oh
Bob Smith 9:56
dear lord,
Marcia Smith 9:57
and this amazes me big blue one, four to two, which means Gary’s still won two out of the six. Yeah, that’s good. And that’s the reverse of before it was four to two. He won. So still very
Bob Smith 10:09
impressive.
Marcia Smith 10:09
You bet it is. Okay. Speaking
Bob Smith 10:11
of computers, how far back does computer based dating go? When was the first online dating app? Not online, but computer dating, when people would put information into a computer and find matches? So this is before the internet? Oh,
Marcia Smith 10:27
okay. All right. Well, then I’ll say
Bob Smith 10:32
this is a project called Happy Families planning services. It sounds
Marcia Smith 10:35
Japanese. It does. Okay, that’s not a Chinese dinner or anything. Okay. I’ll say 1987
Bob Smith 10:44
actually goes back about 30 years before that night 1959, the first computer based dating, that’s when Stanford University students, Jim Harvey and Phil Feiler conducted a class project for Happy Families planning services. And they had a 30 question punch card questionnaire and an IBM 650 determined similarities between 98 subjects 56 or 59. 59. There was little romance in the punch card for participants, but the students received an A if they participated. Really, yeah, anybody who participates in this computer based project gets an A very interesting Okay, Bob. All right. When was the first commercial computer based matchmaking service? Okay, again before the internet, but they had a commercial serve. Really?
Marcia Smith 11:29
Yeah. Oh, all right. When was that last 156 5950 outcasts say? 6465. Yeah, Harvard
Bob Smith 11:39
students, Jeff Tarr and Vaughn Morell used a questionnaire and an IBM 1401 to match students based on similarities. It was called Operation match. Now the co founder, Jeff tar said, we’re not trying to take the love out of love. We’re just trying to make it more efficient.
Marcia Smith 11:56
And it continues to this day,
Bob Smith 11:58
yeah, there was a singles, mailed in a 75 question survey. And by 1966, they claimed to have 90,000 people using their services, and it was only $3. That was the fee back then. And
Marcia Smith 12:11
that’s pretty cool. And out of all the couples I know, I bet 90% of them have met online. Really? Yeah. Younger couples. Yeah. It’s amazing. how common it is one
Bob Smith 12:21
more question on 100. All right. All right. Because again, this is our 100th Let’s hit the horn. There we go. We got our 100th show today. We’re just so happy. We’ve made it this far. You know, it is interesting, because remember, when we were in marketing, communications, all clients wanted to start a newsletter and you’d go Oh, my God, you know that they never persevered and made it to like newsletter 100. Oh, they were lucky if you made it past two. Same with podcasts. Here we’ve done 100 half hour shows. So congratulations to you, Marcia, for sticking with Robert.
Marcia Smith 12:55
Thank you for sticking with me.
Bob Smith 12:57
Oh, what’s the origin of the word 100?
Marcia Smith 13:00
There’s an origin of 100. Not 100. Just 100, 100. It’s
Bob Smith 13:05
a very, very old word. Is
Marcia Smith 13:07
it a Greek word? No,
Bob Smith 13:09
it’s Anglo Saxon. Okay, so this. The interesting thing about the word 100 is it’s two words together. Hunde Hu, N D red, r e d Hunde means the numerals 100 that they expect to 893 Okay, so if 100 means the numbers 100. What does the second half of the word red mean? I don’t know. Red comes from an old Germanic root meaning reckoning accounting or number. So the two words together Hund-red literally means a count of 100 or a count of 100. Well 100 and read as a compound word came in the 10th century. So that’s how far it goes. And that spelling Hu n d r Ed has remained unchanged for over 1000 years. Okay, hit the horns. All right. That’s the story of 100. And now you’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith. We’ll be back in just a moment. Okay, we’re back. Okay,
Marcia Smith 14:12
Bob, how many years does it take for the light from the center of the Milky Way to reach Earth?
Bob Smith 14:19
Alright, so we are in the Milky Way. We’re in the Milky Way Galaxy, or solar system. It’s huge. Apparently, it is.
Marcia Smith 14:27
Very huge. So
Bob Smith 14:29
does it take more than one light year to reach our
Marcia Smith 14:33
100 light? Oh,
Bob Smith 14:36
no, no, it’s not okay.
Marcia Smith 14:37
It takes nearly 25,000 years to reach our planet. Wow. Can you believe that? That means the light we see from the center of the Milky Way dates back to when we humans were still in the stone age.
Bob Smith 14:51
That’s just fascinating. Almost as fascinating as my 100 year questions.
Marcia Smith 14:58
Oh, now you’re just being mean.
Bob Smith 15:01
It is amazing the size and the scope of this. And then you realize all the science fantasy films where we’re going to another galaxy. Well, that would take 22,000 years.
Marcia Smith 15:09
And when the speed of light Yeah, when you’re looking at celestial bodies, we’re actually looking back in time. The sun we see is about 8.3 minutes old when the light hits us. Yeah, yeah. And the North Star, when we see the light from the North Star, Polaris, it’s 320 years old.
Bob Smith 15:29
That’s why they always say that these big telescopes that they put up in the sky, yeah, like the Hubble and the new one is the web. Basically, they are looking back in time, everything you see …
Marcia Smith 15:42
I can’t believe when you look up at the North Star, Polaris that it’s 320 years old light we’re saying?
Bob Smith 15:49
Yeah. So is it still there is the question 320? Yeah, what you’re seeing is 320 years old. That’s right. All right. Marcia. About two years ago, as we said, we started this podcast. That was time when everything was shutting down. How far have we come in terms of recovery? What’s the percentage of office workers in Manhattan that are back in the office five days a week?
Marcia Smith 16:10
Wow, what percentage? I’ll say 57 57%.
Bob Smith 16:15
Yeah, 57% of the office workers in New York City. are back to work. No, believe it or not. It’s only 8%. Oh, my God. Yeah, this is just in. This is a recent survey, the long awaited return to the office is not going quite as planned for many companies. 8% in Manhattan, just 8% of office workers are back five days a week. 28% are still fully remote, and then the rest are partially remote. Now, the real estate industry has the highest daily attendance at 2%. They’re getting those people in you gotta sell these properties, right? Yeah. Well, financial services firms, they have the lowest 40% of the major industry, financial services. Okay. One more part of this survey. The last part is 64% of workers surveyed just now by payroll provider, ADP would consider looking for a new job if they were required to work in the office full time. 52% would rather accept a pay cut if it meant more flexibility or a hybrid approach. So the recovery back to the office still hasn’t come about. Okay,
Marcia Smith 17:22
Bob. What is the how David Starlight award?
Bob Smith 17:26
How David Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Yeah. So Burt Bacharach, I think, wrote the music and how must have been the lyricist? Correct? Okay, so then it must be an award for songwriting good
Marcia Smith 17:37
detection, right the Songwriters Hall of Fame. This prestigious award, the starlight Award was established to honor gifted songwriters who are at an apex in their careers and are making a significant impact in the music industry via their original songs. Recent winners have been Halsey John Legend Taylor Swift, Sarah Barelas. Ed Sheeran, that’s the highest award you can get from the Songwriters Hall of Fame.
Bob Smith 18:04
Speaking of names Marcia Yes, the City of Corpus Christi, Texas. What is it named for a the body of Christ be an Explorer’s ship? See a saint or d a Catholic feast day? Or one or more of those are
Marcia Smith 18:22
a hot dog festival? Yeah.
Bob Smith 18:23
Corpus Christi hot dogs. I’ll say the first one. The body of Christ. Yeah, it’s actually the body of Christ and a Catholic feast day, okay. In the early 16th century, there was a Spanish explorer Alonso of a res De Pere NEDA who is responsible for naming it and the reasoning is simple. He arrived there on the Catholic feast today of the same name. Okay, so that’s where it comes from. All
Marcia Smith 18:49
right, Bob. Here’s one for a little bob. Little Bobby what famous TV cowboy had a horse name? Razor?
Bob Smith 18:58
Razor? Yeah. Well, that wasn’t Roy Rogers because his was a trigger trigger.
Marcia Smith 19:03
And it wasn’t razor so somebody who had a knife if you watch this cowboy. I did. Yes, you did. Not
Bob Smith 19:11
Gene Autry. Nope, not Hopalong Cassidy now, I’ve watched this cow. What is it? John Wayne? Nope. TV cowboy. Yeah. I’m thinking of poncho and Sisco. Yeah,
Marcia Smith 19:23
no. Okay. Who is it? This guy carried a rifle, not a gun. Okay, who was it? Lucas? McCain, the riflemen? I didn’t know that his horse was
Bob Smith 19:31
named Razor and
Marcia Smith 19:32
that’s why I asked him.
Bob Smith 19:36
Of course, that’s what you had. Here’s
Marcia Smith 19:37
one that I’ll be curious. I bet you know this one. Okay. Mick Jagger, Keith Richard, William Wyman, Charlie Watts. And who else comprised the original Rolling Stones?
Bob Smith 19:51
Brian something very good. He died in a swimming pool. What was his name?
Marcia Smith 19:55
You got the first part Jones? Brian Jones. Yes. Brian Jones, the original rolling Install. Yes, yes, yes. Okay. All right. I
Bob Smith 20:02
have a question for you. This goes back to the 1930s. Okay. And this is something somebody should try again, because I’m sure there’s a need for it. How did American Airlines a president for American Airlines in the 1930s encourages companies managers to take customer luggage mix ups more seriously?
Marcia Smith 20:21
How? I don’t know. It’s
Bob Smith 20:25
a novel trick I love when people do things like this Lamotte ko who, who was the president of American Airlines, he’d been plagued with complaints of lost luggage. So he summoned his station managers from throughout the country to a meeting, he arranged to have their baggage lost in transit.
Marcia Smith 20:42
Yeah, that’s great. And it worked. Oh, that’s lovely. years later, he
Bob Smith 20:45
told the New York Times we had a lot more efficiency after that. Yeah,
Marcia Smith 20:49
that’s brilliant. You need to make problems relatable. If it happens to you. It’s personal. Yes. Okay, Bob, what kind of people have more zinc and copper in their hair?
Bob Smith 21:01
People who live in coal mines? who live in mind? Well, what is intelligence?
Marcia Smith 21:07
Oh, people with more zinc and copper in their hair? Have you smelled my hairline?
Bob Smith 21:15
Dear, all right,
Marcia Smith 21:16
I’m gonna ask you I have a question, which is heavier, hot water or cold water?
Bob Smith 21:23
Hot water or cold? For some reason? I would think cold water would be heavier than hot water.
Marcia Smith 21:27
It’s because you can turn it into ice and all that. I don’t know. Is that true? No. Well, what’s what’s the answer? Hot water is heavier. That’s because there’s more space between molecules in hot water. So it’s less dense than an equal amount of cold water.
Bob Smith 21:43
Wow. Okay. So it’s the concentration of the molecules? That’s correct. Okay. All right. We did a couple President questions a week or so ago and I got a couple more here for you. Okay. Okay. What birth distinction do 15 US presidents have in common, including Joe Biden.
Marcia Smith 22:00
That their birth order? Yes. Okay. Then they were first
Bob Smith 22:03
They were first born. Okay. Yeah. 15 US presidents were first born seven Presidents were the youngest in their families, and 23. Were in the middle of their families. I thought that was interesting. What President fathered the most children? I’ll say one of his grandsons just died.
Marcia Smith 22:21
Oh, yeah. That was amazing. It was Roosevelt. No, Teddy. No,
Bob Smith 22:25
no. John Taylor. He’s the 10th president. He fathered the most children 15 And they were spaced so far apart that grandchildren were still living in the 2000 10s and 20s. It’s amazing, isn’t it? Yeah. Okay.
Marcia Smith 22:38
Okay. All right, Bob mix smarty pants. Here’s a little geography question. In addition to Florida, Bob named five states, with panhandles double dash
Bob Smith 22:51
states with Panhandle that’s a good one. All right. So you got the Florida Panhandle. You got the Oklahoma Panhandle. Then Then I believe the word the other panhandle. Wait a minute. It’s is is does Idaho have a panhandle? It’s kind of a long. Okay, then. All right. I let me see. Let me think. No, that’s not working today. Tell me the parts of the country where they are. That makes interesting.
Marcia Smith 23:18
One is in the Midwest. One is in the Midwest.
Bob Smith 23:21
That would be Wow. In the Midwest has a panhandle. I can’t think of one.
Marcia Smith 23:27
Wow. Okay. Maybe I live there. Michigan. Yes. Michigan is a panhandle. Yes. Upper Peninsula. I never called it a Panhandle either. So
Bob Smith 23:37
the Upper Peninsula is considered a Panhandle of Michigan and did it if it doesn’t connect to the lower part. How can it be a pan handle? I mean, they’re separated by five miles of water there. This is wrong. All right. What are the others? Alaska?
Marcia Smith 23:51
Texas, Texas, Texas Panhandle. Texas, West Virginia.
Bob Smith 23:56
That’s right. West Virginia. That little Panhandle
Marcia Smith 23:59
right.
Bob Smith 24:00
Well, those are good that’s six panhandles in the United States and the way the geography lays out. Well, that’s good. I didn’t I never thought of that. Now it’s time to go to the maps. Let’s go to the map. Oh, we can’t show those on the podcast. I’m sorry.
Marcia Smith 24:12
Let’s bring down the big bro. Okay. Let’s see. Bring down the wall map. Bob.
Bob Smith 24:17
Yeah, have those that sound effect coming down
Marcia Smith 24:20
those big wall maps?
Bob Smith 24:21
They have nice little they were hanging over the Yes. Right. They were
Marcia Smith 24:24
bringing them over the blackboard. I love those. They were like on oil cloth. That’s right. I just loved it
Bob Smith 24:30
that the graphics on those were very rich as I recall.
Marcia Smith 24:33
And they were very old. I think. Like from the 1920s or something. Isn’t
Bob Smith 24:38
that weird? I remember the books and everything seemed like they were very old. And they Yeah, we weren’t in high school and don’t know what we were in grade school. And that’s what I remember all the yellow looking stuff that went down. Yeah, and those little love the books they gave us had these old weird little illustrations with hardly
Marcia Smith 24:53
any color in them. Yeah, it was like an ancient time it was then they updated everything.
Bob Smith 24:59
Yeah. And my Weekly Reader and all that stuff came out. I love the Weekly Reader. I love the Weekly Reader too. But you know, my big memory of my Weekly Reader was the Sputnik issue issue about the Russians launching this thing in space called Sputnik, which of course scared the bejesus out of everybody. Yeah, we all thought we’re gonna die. There was no way you could avoid it. It was brought right to your mind Weekly Reader. Here it is. It’s beeping up there. Beep beep beep what’s it doing and
Marcia Smith 25:26
who was the first cosmonaut in the air Yuri guard guarantee we never forget. Yeah. And that amazing. Yes. We were so young. When that happened. And we remember his name. It was a big deal. Yeah. Moving on to
Bob Smith 25:38
Okay, name the first US president to receive a Secret Service code name. He was called the general. But he wasn’t
Marcia Smith 25:46
it wasn’t Eisenhower. Oh, was it before him? Just before him test before that be Truman, Harry
Bob Smith 25:53
Truman. 1945. Yeah, his code name was the general and that was the first president to get one. They all have code names by this service. And then finally, this what US presidents have visited the most nations. They were recent presidents in the recent past in the last 30 years.
Marcia Smith 26:10
Okay. I’ll say bush.
Bob Smith 26:12
What are the bushes? The senior? Yeah, the senior Bush. He traveled a lot. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush were the most traveled presidents they visited 74 countries each while present. Wow, that’s a lot of
Marcia Smith 26:24
travel 74 countries. 74.
Bob Smith 26:26
Didn’t know that. Not 100 though, that I mentioned. This is our Hi,
Marcia Smith 26:32
thank you. Did you want to give a little toot here?
Bob Smith 26:35
It’s our 100th podcast. People were so fortunate. We really do feel proud of that. We persevered. That’s, you know, that’s a lot.
Marcia Smith 26:43
Okay. Here’s a quote from Shirley Chisholm. She was the first African American woman in the Congress in 1968. And she was also the first black woman to seek the nomination of president. She said, quote, if they don’t give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair.
Bob Smith 27:02
That’s a good way I love that I prepared. Yeah, you just find yourself at the table. Get to the corner. I kind of think I like that. That’s a great quote. All right. Well, we hope you’ve enjoyed our half hour here and we want you to come back next time when we bring you more fun trivia. I’m Bob Smith.
Marcia Smith 27:20
I’m Marcia Smith. Thank
Bob Smith 27:21
you for listening to us today on our 100th episode. The off ramp
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