143 Brain Candy Trivia

Bob Smith 0:00
Where did the phrase Don’t Mess With Texas originate?

Marcia Smith 0:04
Okay, and what is the most filmed movie location in the world?

Bob Smith 0:10
answers to those and other questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob and

Marcia Smith 0:15
Marsha Smith

Bob Smith 0:32
Welcome to the off ramp a chance to slow down. Steer clear of crazy take a side road to sanity and learn a few things with some fun trivia. Okay, where did the phrase Don’t Mess With Texas originate? Marcia Mess With Texas? Is it from the fight for The Alamo professional wrestling in anti-litter campaign or a famous political fight will

Marcia Smith 0:55
be a fun litter campaign? Well, it was.

Bob Smith 1:00
Yeah, I thought it was an old slogan, but apparently it’s pretty recent. Don’t Mess With Texas. People take people seriously when they say that. But it was coined for a state anti litter campaign in the 1980s. Anti litter. Oh, that’s a good one. Back then the state was spending $20 million a year for trash pickup and the Texas Department of Transportation invested in a marketing campaign to try to reduce the costs make sense. So they hired an Austin advertising agency and copywriter Tim McLaury came up with the slogan Don’t Mess With Texas. So it’s a call to action for Texans to keep their state litter free. I like it aimed at young men 16 to 24 Who were the major contributors to litter

Marcia Smith 1:40
it has double meaning that appeals to their macho side. Right, right. Exactly.

Bob Smith 1:44
Sounds like you’re picking a fight. Yeah, don’t mess with Texas. Don’t litter in Texas. Don’t mess up Texas. That’s what it means. And it worked out that and it worked a year later, roadside litter had been reduced by nearly 30%. And four years later, the litter was down 72% That’s

Marcia Smith 1:59
pretty amazing. Right? Exactly. So

Bob Smith 2:01
don’t mess with Texas. Yeah. Was a good advertising slogan. Whatever. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 2:05
Okay. All right, Bob, what is the most filmed movie location in the world? So

Bob Smith 2:11
we’re talking about a location that’s off site? It’s not in the studio. Correct. Okay. So I would say it’s probably Monument Valley, Utah, because of those old western Yeah. John Ford

Marcia Smith 2:22
westerns. Yeah, that’s what I would guess to B’nai Is it a city? Is it like New York City? It’s, well, it’s an area in New York area in New York City. Okay, where would that be? Its central park. Oh, no

Bob Smith 2:35
kidding. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 2:36
That is the location of 532 movies. No

Bob Smith 2:40
kidding. You

Marcia Smith 2:41
believe that? Everything from Ghostbusters Barefoot in the Park, the Manchurian Candidate, Marathon Man, Wall Street. All have been filmed partially in the park, Central

Bob Smith 2:54
Park, New York. Wow. So that probably goes back to the silent days. I would assume some some films were shot at for a part of them in Central Park. Well, well, that makes sense. You know, that’s where a lot of the movie makers began and he had to find someplace that didn’t look like it was a city and Central Park definitely does that. So Central Park is the most filmed location in the world in the world. Okay,

Marcia Smith 3:18
okay. What do you got next?

Bob Smith 3:19
I’ve got a movie question. The man who wrote the famous James Bond theme died recently. So here’s what I learned. The James Bond theme originally had lyrics words. What was the song about hat? And Marcia, here are my clues for you? Oh, you’re like multiple clues.

Marcia Smith 3:37
I do multiple answers. Okay. Was the

Bob Smith 3:39
James Bond theme originally about a murder? A World War Two mission? A nuclear bomb or a sneeze?

Marcia Smith 3:49
Well, just to be contrary, I’ll say a sneeze

Bob Smith 3:53
if you’re right. Yes. The song was originally about a sneeze. The man who actually wrote this Monty Norman that was his name. I always thought John Barry wrote it. I’ve seen John Barry credited with this over the years and it was wrong. So Monty Norman was struggling to come up with a James Bond theme until as he put it, he went to his bottom drawer and found a song He always liked from an unproduced musical The title was bad sign, good sign, and it began with these words. I was born with this unlucky sneeze.

Marcia Smith 4:25
It sure did from that kind of theme, didn’t it?

Bob Smith 4:29
He stripped away the lyrics he made the note staccato and he said the moment I did Dum dee dum dum dum dum dum. I thought oh my god. That’s it. This is what it sounds like for people who might not know what we’re talking about.

And of course, a portion of that theme has been used in almost every James Bond movie ever since? Oh, absolutely. It has. So just what inspired him to take on this job take on the job of white Friday. The theme for James Bond.

Marcia Smith 4:59
Why didn’t spent money

Bob Smith 5:00
or a love of bond or, or a family vacation? What do you think?

Marcia Smith 5:05
Sounds like a family vacation. To me.

Bob Smith 5:07
It’s funny how people are motivated to do things. Basically, he had written some musical theater and a producer said, Hey, we got rights to do these James Bond films. We’re doing a show called Doctor No. Would you like to write the theme? And he said, he wasn’t really interested in it. And so the guy said, well, we’ll throw in a vacation to Jamaica with you and your family. That’s where we’re shooting it. So and he said, that did it for me, this is the clincher.

Marcia Smith 5:32
You and I have done things to pay for our vacation.

Bob Smith 5:35
Actually, you had a job writing videos for General Electric, and I believe they called you one Thursday or Friday and said, We need you to write a script and you said I can’t we’re going on vacation and said, I’ll double your hourly salary.

Marcia Smith 5:45
And I said, Okay, you’re on and I turned it around in a day and it paid for most of our vacation. Did. It was great. We call you didn’t you get a trip out to Disney Land? Oh, yeah. With  your voice work, and you took that?

Bob Smith 5:59
Yeah, it was an MC job at the Disneyland Hotel there. That was great. Okay, so this is kind of what this guy did. So he said, okay, yeah, I’ll take a vacation. So he did it.

Marcia Smith 6:08
So why was John Berry credited with writing the theme? Well, John

Bob Smith 6:12
Barry, he went on to score 10 More James Bond case.

Marcia Smith 6:15
Oh, you mean like gold gold finger. Yeah, he

Bob Smith 6:18
did all those. So everybody assumed Oh, he must have done the original theme. But he didn’t he never corrected reporters. And finally this man, Monty Norman got really ticked off. I would say sound he sued. When the Times of London published an article and they credited John Barry with it. He sued them. Oh, gosh, and he told the jury, this rubbished my whole career. They agreed and they awarded him 30,000 pounds, which is about $93,000 today. So Monty Norman he just died. Mr. Norman died recently in slew England at the age of 94. John Barry died in 2011. Okay, so the James Bond theme the song about a sneeze. Okay.

Marcia Smith 6:59
All right, Bob. It’s called the unicorn of the sea.

Bob Smith 7:03
What is it the unicorn of the sea?

Marcia Smith 7:07
It is the narwhal? The narwhal? Yep. This Arctic marvel of the sea. It’s a sea creature. It has one tooth, not a tusk that shoots out of its mouth. Really? One tooth? Yeah. This is on display and a traveling Smithsonian exhibit. Oh, no kidding. Yeah. And it’s got this huge tooth that comes out. It’s only got one tooth. It’s a left canine and it comes out through its gums and straight out of its snout. It sounds painful to me. And it is very weird, but it can bend check this 12 inches in either direction. That can bend Yeah. 12 inches in any direction.

Bob Smith 7:47
This is called a narwhal. Yeah. So is this a fish or a whale or what?

Marcia Smith 7:51
It’s a mammal. It’s a whale. It’s a kind of whale and it’s got this one tooth.

Bob Smith 7:55
And is that why they call it the unicorn?

Marcia Smith 7:59
Yeah, the unicorn of the sea. Okay.

Bob Smith 8:03
Okay, so the question is, how long does the tooth get long in the tooth is? Yeah, I was gonna say, well, feet.

Marcia Smith 8:05
Well, not too far off. 10 feet.

Bob Smith
Wow, you can get up to 10 feet. And that’s pretty long sticking out of your nose. And

Marcia Smith
it can move back and forth. If you bend it. That’s the thing we saw in that show. Elf in L fish this up. Goodbye buddy. out of the water. It’s got a big long thing that sticks. That’s it. Yeah, it is. That’s the thing they pictured by Buddy. narwhal. Yeah. Okay, that was an interesting dive into the ocean. Yes, it was good. All right. All right, Marsha. What language does the international distress call Mayday come from?

Bob Smith
Well that’s very interesting.

Marcia Smith 8:45
Is it and I don’t know the answer.

Bob Smith 8:52
You come from this place. Part of you comes from this country. Ah, Germany or France, France, Marcia, France. Matey is used three times in a row to call for distress, Mayday, mayday, mayday. And originally came from the French phrase major M apostrophe ad er, which means helped me. So how did it turn into a international distress symbol? Oh,

Marcia Smith 9:14
Golly. I don’t know. It came from England. Believe it or not.

Bob Smith 9:19
The SR. Radio operator at Croydon airport in London in 1923, was asked to think of a word to signify distress that could be easily understood on the radio, which was primitive at the time. Yeah. And because most of the air travel between Croydon in London and Laborde, a field in Paris was from France. He proposed using Mayday from the French phrase Mater. And it’s been that way for 100 years. I’ll be darned. And it was chosen because it was easy to understand that scratchy radio Yes,

Marcia Smith 9:49
yeah. Mayday. Mayday. Yeah, that makes perfect sense, actually. Okay, Bob, but

Bob Smith 9:54
you can thank this gentleman, Frederick Stanley Mugford.

Marcia Smith 9:57
Python is much for coming up with Okay, all right. You know, Star Wars did a lot for a lot of people’s careers. I bet you know, who is the composer of the Star Wars? John Williams. That’s right. Everybody knows that for some reason. Well, he’s 90 years old now. And he’s about to retire from movie music. Want to guess what the last movie he’s working on?

Bob Smith 10:22
Is it a James Bond film? Or is it a Star Wars film? Or is no, none of those? Yeah, he said he’s not retiring from music. I saw that. But he’s going to retire from film music. Yes. I don’t know which one is

Marcia Smith 10:35
it is Indiana Jones, five. He and He and Spielberger have had a long association. And Harrison Ford is in this and Harrison is retiring too after this one. So he’s been composing John Williams since 1958. His first film was called Daddy. Oh, Daddy.

Bob Smith 10:57
Sounds like a hip teenage movie or so.

Marcia Smith 11:00
Yeah, he’s responsible for so many great moments in cinema. Everything from jazz to Star Wars. He’s scored over 100 films and all. You

Bob Smith 11:12
know, I think I’ve read I believe it was the director of the new movie. This is the first non Spielberg directed movie of Indiana Joe, he’s not directing and the new directors said he grew up with Indiana Jones and he said it was such a thrill to turn around on set the first day and see Harrison Ford, they’re dressed head to toe Indiana Jones bet.

Marcia Smith 11:33
And you know, I just thinking of the jobs music was so identifiable. And remember that skit that was on Saturday Night Live? Yes. With with the candy gram cow. And it’s it’s the big shark outside their door knocking on their door in

Bob Smith 11:50
a shark costume. And then the door opens and then the shark swallows Yeah. But

Marcia Smith 11:54
you hear the music. And it’s very funny.

Bob Smith 11:58
So that’s a recent thing in the news. Here’s another recent thing in the news. Did you know Jim Thorpe has been restored as the sole winner of the two Olympic gold medals that were taken away from him in 1912 110 years later. And what happened was kind of a trumped up thing. He had played semi pro baseball for a few years. And I remember he made $25 a week. That was the big fortune he made playing baseball. And they found out about them after the awards and the American Olympic Committee stripped him of the awards. The two people who got the medals that he lost. Those two athletes, they expressed great distress accepting his medals, but they took them. So when the Olympic Committee decided to restore them, they actually went back to those families and those families say the credit should be where it was doing good for them. So they gave it back to Jim Thorpe now, and they asked the Swedish Olympic Committee, which was the head of the games, if they had any comment, and they said, We want to quote the Swedish king Gustaf the fifth, who said to Jim Thorpe at the medal ceremony, sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world.

Marcia Smith 13:03
Lovely, excellent.

Bob Smith 13:05
We always grew up with this name. Did you know that he went on to play professional sports in the United States, but

Marcia Smith 13:10
I saw the movie that’s out and it was an old movie then on TV and I went, Oh, they that’s how I knew about him. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have known about him.

Bob Smith 13:18
While he went into major league baseball. He played outfield for the New York Giants, the Cincinnati Reds in the Boston Braves from 1912 to 1919. And then he switched to pro football in 1920. He played until he was 41 years old and pro football, Lord and what was his he played with? He was a tailback and an end and a fullback. I’ll be darned. But he was with six teams in professional football, including the New York Giants. I am just amazed at that. But he has been restored a soul winner to the two Olympic gold medals that were taken away from him from 1912.

Marcia Smith 13:53
All right, under kangaroos,

Bob Smith 13:54
of course, kangaroos.

Marcia Smith 13:57
How fast? Can they jump?

Bob Smith 13:59
How fast can a kangaroo jump? Yeah. You mean? How?

Marcia Smith 14:02
How high or how fast? miles per hour?

Bob Smith 14:05
Oh, really? Yes. So we know how many miles per hour?

Marcia Smith 14:08
Yes, we do. Mm hmm. and 30 miles

Bob Smith 14:10
per hour.

Marcia Smith 14:11
That’s crazy. Bob, it’s 40 miles. Oh,

Bob Smith 14:14
my God. That’s fast. It is very fast from a sitting position to a leap and 40 miles per hour. That’s

Marcia Smith 14:20
why I’m here to enlighten you. Okay, where is the largest library in the world?

Bob Smith 14:27
The largest library in the world? Yeah. I think it’s the I think it’s in Washington, DC and it’s the what is it called? The Congressional library or library of con Library of Congress? Yeah. Am I right? Yes.

Marcia Smith 14:40
Oh, good. Yes. 40 million books on the shelves. 40 million. Wow. It burned down during the War of 1812. As you know, and who sold his collection to

Bob Smith 14:51
them? Thomas Jefferson’s Correct. was in great need of money at the time.

Marcia Smith 14:55
Yeah, he sold it for $24,000 He had 6000 for him. 187 books to call his own library to start over again.

Bob Smith 15:06
Well, okay, I think it’s time to take a break it is you’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith. And we’ll be back in just a moment. Okay, we’re back with the off ramp today and Marsha, that leads us to this question. What civilization is credited with spreading beer around the world? Chairman’s No, no. Oh, the Romans Oh, okay. They picked up knowledge of brewing from the Greeks and the Roman legions like beer so much that became their main drink. And the beer spreads throughout all the regions they conquered beer in one form or another from grains and plants goes back. As far as all historical records as we know that

Marcia Smith 15:48
interesting See, I keep forgetting that it went way back way back as

Bob Smith 15:53
early as 3400 BCE, there was a tax on barley wine, one of the most popular beers in ancient Egypt in the city of Memphis

Marcia Smith 16:01
for Christ’s BC 3000 3400.

Bob Smith 16:05
Cheese. Yeah. Hard to believe beer a good thing. Good thing that wouldn’t be back.

Marcia Smith 16:12
All right, Bob, you’ve probably heard of this. The International Dark Sky Association? Yes. Yes. I heard about this. You did? Yes. It has certified 20. Dark Sky reserves in the world. For the best viewing of stars. Yeah, yeah. In the environment. But there’s only one in the United States. Where is it is

Bob Smith 16:33
now? This is the organization that says these are the areas with the least light pollution? Yeah. Okay. We know it’s not in or near Las Vegas, because that’s supposed to be one of the heaviest light pollution places on earth. So I’m gonna say, somewhere in maybe Northern California or Oregon, possibly while

Marcia Smith 16:54
you’re in the general right area. It’s where our daughter lives where you tell, is that where she lives? No. I said.

Bob Smith 17:05
That’s why I said is that where she lives? Yes, that

Marcia Smith 17:07
Sawtooth Mountains. There’s 1416 square miles that they have certified as a great place to look at starry nights. That

Bob Smith 17:17
means there’s nothing around there that produces an electric level. Nothing. It’s dark at night. They’re

Marcia Smith 17:23
no hot tubs. Nothing. Lit up hot tubs. Pretty interesting, though. That’s the only one in the whole country. Yeah.

Bob Smith 17:32
Okay, Marcia, we spoke of France earlier. I’m going to ask you a question about France. Okay. All right. The country that french fries were named for once outlawed potatoes. Why?

Marcia Smith 17:43
Well, for God’s sakes, that’s That’s unheard of country with french

Bob Smith 17:47
fries once outlawed potatoes. Why?

Marcia Smith 17:51
Because they were fried and they didn’t believe in fried foods.

Bob Smith 17:56
Well, first, they were considered hog feed unfit for human consumption. But the government banned them in 1748. Believing they caused leprosy

Marcia Smith 18:07
What’s that lesion on your face, but it’s from a potato? Okay, we’ve talked before about Methuselah. Did we? Yes, it’s the oldest living thing in the world. And it’s a 4500 year old pine growing in eastern California at a undisclosed location. That’s right. Yeah. Right. So people don’t go there and hurt it. Anyway. Did you know that it grows five to six inches every 40? What? Weeks, months? Years? millenniums four to six inches every 40 What? Well, can’t

Bob Smith 18:43
be weeks Kennett, that’d be pressed like bamboo. So every 40 years? That

Marcia Smith 18:50
is correct. Really? Okay. Yeah. And every 40 years it grows only five to six inches, I would have said months but the balls you would have been right would have been very wrong. And you know the answer. I don’t understand why you would have said and it was a seedling Bob when Stonehedge was finished. So

Bob Smith 19:09
that’s when you think of it in those terms. It’s amazing. It’s just crazy. Okay, Marcia, where was the very first school in the United States and it still a school? Can you believe that?

Marcia Smith 19:19
I cannot believe that. It’s not a college. We’re talking about a school. Give me a location United States Northwest. Okay. Is

Bob Smith 19:26
it Santa Fe, New Mexico. St. Augustine, Florida. Jamestown, Virginia or Boston? Massachusetts.

Marcia Smith 19:33
Okay. Well, St. Augustine is the oldest city. So party says that’s where the school should be. St. Augustine for 10. Nope,

Bob Smith 19:43
you’re wrong. The last 10 points are good. So your next choice is oh would be Santa Fe Boston. Jamestown.

Marcia Smith 19:52
I’ll say Jamestown you lost another 10 points.

Bob Smith 19:56
Okay, say Santa Fe your third amount of points your last I think I have one left. Okay. And where would that be? Mr.

Marcia Smith 20:02
I forgot already. Boston Boston? Yes.

Bob Smith 20:05
Yes. Yeah, not many institutions have been functioning in the US for 400 years. But the very first public school is it’s the Boston Latin School. And it was founded April 23 1635. It’s the first school in Boston and still in business. It was originally a public school, a secondary school for boys only. It taught Greek, Latin and the humanities and was considered college prep and John Hancock and Samuel Adams. Were two of its most famous real graduates. Who was its most famous dropout. Okay.

Marcia Smith 20:38
Steve Jobs. No.

Bob Smith 20:43
Ben Franklin.

Marcia Smith 20:44
Oh, really? Ah,

Bob Smith 20:45
and it wasn’t co Ed until 1972. Can you believe? No, I

Marcia Smith 20:49
cannot. That is so long. 72. I still teach

Bob Smith 20:53
his boys and girls in grade seven through 12 in the Fenway neighborhood of Beantown and admission is determined by an entrance exam. And given its impressive graduates, it’s probably pretty competitive interest in Latin School,

Marcia Smith 21:06
okay, in the mid 1800s, what famous writer was known not only for going around the world in 72 days, but went undercover in an insane asylum.

Bob Smith 21:20
So that was 80 days. Jules Verne. I

Marcia Smith 21:22
don’t know if he did that. Did he? I know he wrote a book but no, that’s not correct. Nellie

Bob Smith 21:27
Bly, that’s it. She was a famous female correspondent and Daredevil. Yes,

Marcia Smith 21:33
yes. Her real name was Elizabeth Cochran, AKA AKA Nellie Bly. She was born in 1864. And she was born in kind of an upper class life, but she was a huge advocate and a voice for the poor and downtrodden. Her initial investigation into the insane asylum involved a 10 day stay at the infamous Blackwell’s insane asylum in New York City. Ooh, geez. And she went there and saw women experiencing mental health crises and a lot of them were there just because they couldn’t speak English

Bob Smith 22:12
well, and they were there for a lot of reasons husbands could get their wives combined. After

Marcia Smith 22:15
her release, she penned a story that expose the institution’s horror, and it led to public calls for improved condition, including a grand jury investigation, but she wrote a book called 10 days and a madhouse and exposed all the cruelty and awfulness that went on there.

Bob Smith 22:35
You don’t I don’t remember her being referenced when we were in journalism school. Do you? Oh, that was did you learn about it in journalism school? Okay, because I remember some of the other people like John Peters anger and you know, some of the other famous journalists, but I didn’t remember Nellie Bly. I always thought she should have been a great example.

Marcia Smith 22:53
She was. Okay. That

Bob Smith 22:54
leads us to this question. Where is the only floating post office in the United States? Is it I’ve got some choices here for you. Okay. Washington State, Michigan, Florida or Delaware? T’s

Marcia Smith 23:08
Florida? No. Delaware? No. Michigan? Yes.

Bob Smith 23:14
Yes, as travel trivia.com states, if you’re going to pick one state in the union to have a floating post office, it’s a good bet it would be a Great Lakes State. It’s on the Detroit River separating the US and Canada. It’s a 45 foot tugboat named the J W. West got the second. It’s the nation’s only floating post office delivers mail to other vessels in the river. It’s the only boat in the country that have its own zip code. It’s 48222 really, officially established in 1949. But the Wescott company has been delivering mail and supplies on the Detroit River since 1874. And apparently the government still wants to keep it a post office because the JW Wescott suffered damage in 2001. But it was salvaged and rebuilt and it still serves the state of Michigan today. I’ll be darned. So that’s where the only floating post office in the United States is. It’s on the Detroit River in Michigan.

Marcia Smith 24:07
Okay. Well, here’s a bygone sport Bob. Lava sledding.

Bob Smith 24:13
Ever heard of this one? We

Marcia Smith 24:14
didn’t Well get with it. That was going on in the 1700s. Were

Bob Smith 24:19
lava sledding. Yeah. Was it here in the United States? Was it in Hawaii? Yeah. Oh, no kidding. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 24:26
In the 1700s. And yeah, the upper class the ruling class in Hawaii did lava sledding it involved competitors launching themselves down groomed slides along the side of a volcano.

Bob Smith 24:41
Wow. That no that doesn’t sound like that’s for the faint of heart. I think

Marcia Smith 24:45
their their boards were 12 feet long and just six inches wide. Fat Parker on that one you

Bob Smith 24:52
know in lava is so sharp and harsh on the feeder or the hands that you if you don’t want to fall off that six foot What do you say six inch why?

Marcia Smith 24:59
He thinks inch by inch. Why

Bob Smith 25:01
have ordered oh my god razors

Marcia Smith 25:03
would either stand atop the board Lie face first, or kneel down and they reach speeds up to 50 miles per hour.

Bob Smith 25:12
You could rip yourself open. Holy cow.

Marcia Smith 25:15
The last documented version of this event was in 1825. Gs historians believed that the sport was an honor to Pele the Hawaiian Goddess of fire and volcanoes, Lord and Payne I would think I

Unknown Speaker 25:30
would think so. Hey, I’ve

Bob Smith 25:32
got an interesting food question. Okay. Name this product. Its inventor developed it removing a key ingredient found in this foods natural state. He felt that had been what killed his father and he wanted to remove the danger for others what product is it? And I’ll give you a clue it’s a drink again, its inventor developed this product removing a key ingredient found in its natural state. He felt that’s what killed his father, and he wanted to remove the danger for others. What product are we talking about? Is

Marcia Smith 26:05
it a drink? It’s a drink.

Unknown Speaker 26:08
I don’t know. Coffee. decaffeinated coffee. It’s

Bob Smith 26:11
sanka. Oh, that’s how that product was first developed in the early 1900s by German doctor Ludvig Rosie alias, he was the son of a coffee merchant. And he was convinced caffeine was the cause of his father’s early death. So he developed a method that used steam and a chemical solvent benzene to remove caffeine from green coffee beans prior to roasting and the term second means without caffeine, it’s French.

Speaker 1 26:36
He that his dad died from from the caffeine I’ll be doing so he wanted to create a drink that,

Bob Smith 26:41
you know people would still use but wouldn’t have that danger. All right. I think that’s it. We want to remind you we do take questions. If you’d like to give us a question and answer we would love to use it on the show. Go to our website, the off ramp dot show and go down to contact us and leave your information.

Marcia Smith 27:00
Here’s my quote of the day okay, and it’s on summer by Sam Kean. It says deep summer is when laziness finds respectability. I think that’s where you and I are these days. I

Bob Smith 27:13
feel very respectable today. These days. Yes, laziness meets respectability. That’s deep summer. That’s it. I’m Bob Smith.

Marcia Smith 27:23
I’m Marcia Smith. Join us again next

Bob Smith 27:25
time when we return with more tantalizing trivia and fascinating facts

Marcia Smith 27:29
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Bob Smith 27:31
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