151 Rockytop Trivia

Bob Smith 0:00
What national memorial was named for the attorney of a tin mining company?

Marcia Smith 0:05
What funeral put what pops on on the top of the charts for 14 weeks straight answers

Bob Smith 0:11
to those and other questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob Mr. Shaw Smith

Welcome to the off ramp by chance to slow down steer clear of crazy take a side road to sanity and get some perspective on life course with some great trivia and fascinating facts. All right. All right, Marcia. What national memorial was named after the attorney for a tin mining company,

Marcia Smith 0:52
I when I think of mining and all that, I think of mountains. Is it Mount Rushmore? It is Rushmore.

Bob Smith 0:58
Isn’t that funny? Yeah, there are several stories as to how it happened. But his name was Charles Rushmore. He was an attorney for the Harney Peak tin mining company out of New York. Okay. And he came to South Dakota numerous times to check titles for properties for that mining company. Uh huh. You know what the original name of the mountain was you?

Marcia Smith 1:18
Because this is a thing I was researching for you. Oh, and it was the Lakota Indians had a name for it. Right? Yeah. And it was called Six grandfather’s mountain. Yes, that was my question for you. Oh,

Bob Smith 1:32
I actually have the way to pronounce that it was Doom cuz Shayla Yaga sharpei per ha. Thank you hill or mountain of the six grandfather’s Oh,

Marcia Smith 1:42
I was dreading having to say that. Thank you. Well, anyway,

Bob Smith 1:45
so two stories, one that a prospector was his guide. As they neared the mountain Rushmore tuned to William chalice and said, What’s its name and William chalice replying never had any, but it has now we’ll call the thing Rushmore. Another story was that brush mark was a big game hunter because he did come out there regularly to hunt and he joked that he’d been out there so many times that he had earned the right to have the mountain named after himself. So just for the hell of it. The local started calling the hill Mount Rushmore, who knows but anyway, one thing is certain, they know that he donated $5,000 to Gutzon Borglum’s sculpture in 1925. So maybe that influences the whole thing.

Marcia Smith 2:27
Isn’t it always, you know, money.

Bob Smith 2:30
Yeah, naming rights $5,000. That would be $77,000 today, but that’s still pretty cheap as naming rights go, should have been the Lakota mountain, right. And the Lakota Sioux sued the US government, they really because the government gave the Lakota Sioux of all of the Black Hills exclusively in the Treaty of Laramie in 1868. And then in 1877, what happened? gold was discovered, and the US government took possession of all the land. So they broke the treaty. In 1920, the Lakota sued, and that didn’t reach the Supreme Court until 1980, when the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Indians a little late but the Lakota wouldn’t accept the money. They only offered him a $17 million and then take it he said no. And they’re continued to this day to say, we want the Black Hills back. It’s our land. So that’s how the hill of the six grandfather’s became the mountain of the four presidents.

Marcia Smith 3:22
Good wrap up on that. Okay, Bob. What funeral put what pop song on the top of the charts for 14 weeks straight?

Bob Smith 3:31
This is where you and I’ve been reading the same materials again. It was canceled in the wind by Elton John for Princess Diana. Aha. He rewrote the lyrics

Marcia Smith 3:40
for her. He didn’t Bernie did. Bernie top in his that is That’s right. Bernie did Yeah. Yeah. And he misunderstood some kind of direction about the song that he was going to do for the funeral. And he rewrote the whole thing and out and said, Okay, what the heck. Oh, really? And what is interesting about that Elton has never performed that version in concert. He said he will only perform it at the bequest of her two sons, Harry and William. He sticks to the old version, which was a tribute to who? Marilyn Monroe. Oh, is

Bob Smith 4:11
that right? Yeah. And that’s the new Marilyn Monroe movie out of swans, isn’t it? That new one?

Marcia Smith 4:16
I think so. Well, that’s

Bob Smith 4:17
very interesting. I didn’t know that he never performed the same version afterwards. I have to watch a historical video or film to see that then. Yes. Well, Marcia before Columbus sailed to America, what did the Catholic church do with regard to the New World? Say it again? Before Columbus sailed to America? What did the Catholic church do with regard to the New World?

Marcia Smith 4:43
Condemned us?

Bob Smith 4:46
No, they named the bishop. The first bishop of America was chosen for 100 years before Columbus sailed to the new world.

Marcia Smith 4:54
They got in on the ground floor.

Bob Smith 4:56
He was Eric Knutson, appointed by Pope Pascal the second to preside over Greenland and Vinland.

Marcia Smith 5:05
Was America just hoping that there’d be Catholics everywhere? interested in trying to ensure that anyway, Bob, you know, the 1930 painting classic American Gothic. It’s Grant Wood at hangs in Chicago, which we’ve seen it many times.

Bob Smith 5:18
That’s the one our son Ben ran up to and slapped his hand. Yes, he did. And we were guards converged from all

Marcia Smith 5:25
guards. Yes. But my question for you is who posed for that portrait of American Gothic?

Bob Smith 5:32
Those were his neighbors, I believe. What was his daughter, wasn’t it? And one was a banker nearby. No. Okay, next question. Okay, I struck I don’t like

Marcia Smith 5:45
saying no to you. Three times. I struck out like a baseball cathartic for the woman was woods, sister, Nan, and the guy was there. Mutual dentists, Dr. Byron Makini.

Bob Smith 5:58
He had the pitchforks. Oh, I

Marcia Smith 6:00
hope you did use that in his dental practice.

Bob Smith 6:02
More sophisticated technology. I would hope that’s funny. Grant Wood out of Iowa. All right, which of these landmarks is as wide as it is tall? I’ll give you four choices. Okay, Asha, wide as it is tall. Okay. Keep that in mind. All right. The Golden Gate Bridge. Uh huh. The Gateway Arch of St. Louis, the Statue of Liberty, or the Pyramid of Giza? Which of those landmarks set of keys is as wide as it is tall. Which of those Pyramid

Marcia Smith 6:32
of Giza wrong again?

Bob Smith 6:36
Interestingly, it’s it’s an

Marcia Smith 6:38
optical illusion, self esteem.

Bob Smith 6:40
I apologize. It’s the Gateway Arch and St. Louis. 630 feet tall and 630 feet wide. So it’s a real life optical illusion. It looks taller than it is. It’s as wide as it is tall.

Marcia Smith 6:54
That makes sense to me. Yeah. I wish that were when I looked in the mirror that way. as

Bob Smith 6:59
wide as you are tall. You don’t want that? No, no, no. Completed in 1965. It’s the tallest man made monument in the Western Hemisphere in the world’s tallest

Marcia Smith 7:08
arch. Wow. Okay. All right, Bob, according tough fossil findings. We Homo sapiens have been around 300,000 years. But how about us, Bob? You and I are spanking brand new grandparents since the last show, aren’t we? Yes. Okay. So the question is for you, how long have grandparents been around?

Bob Smith 7:29
What do you mean? How long have grandparents been around the question? homosapiens

Marcia Smith 7:32
300,000 years, but grandparents not so much.

Bob Smith 7:35
Wait a minute. grandparents have been around since time began? I mean, just the very nature of genealogy. Are you saying they weren’t called grandparents that I’m

Marcia Smith 7:43
saying they they didn’t get old enough to be grandparents? Oh, really? No, you didn’t explain that? No, that’s the question answer. Well,

Bob Smith 7:52
I was I supposed to know. All right, go go with it. Marsha.

Marcia Smith 7:56
May, Bob, Scientific American dates grandparents to about 30,000 years. So that’s a big difference. 300,000 years and 30,000 years. Wow. That’s when for exact reasons not known but included such things as the development of tools. Human beings began to live long enough to become grandparents. And that’s evidenced by human remains of early modern Europeans. skeletons have been found from that time that showed humans living up to 30 plus years. 30,000 years ago. Now the longer there. Yeah, well, that Dawn of the grandparents is considered the first big milestone in human longevity. And it was the first time on a consistent basis to allow for three generations to live concurrently.

Bob Smith 8:41
Maybe it just wasn’t intended to be earlier. Yeah. Not too many more than four generations are allowed to be around at the same time.

Marcia Smith 8:50
There’s a lot of those now, not us, but that ain’t gonna happen. Grandparents

Bob Smith 8:55
at an older age, okay. All right, Marcia, what Art Museum has more visitors than any other in the world? Do you want some choices? Your the National Museum of China in Beijing, Tate Modern London, the Vatican Museum, the Louvre in Paris? Which one? I’ll

Marcia Smith 9:12
say because that’s the only one I’ve been to have. Those is the loop then how many people go there a year? For God’s sakes? I would I know that to give me the number Bob? No.

Bob Smith 9:23
Okay, 9.6 million visitors. It’s also the largest art museum in the world. Yeah. The Louvre was the king’s palace until the French Revolution in 1789. In the middle of the revolution, it opened as a museum and it’s been that way ever since. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 9:40
it’s a fabulous place. Yes. We went there every day for six days. It’s a great place

Bob Smith 9:45
to make your central focus in Paris and you get a ticket. You can go there every day and

Marcia Smith 9:50
go to other places to do other things like eat and drink. Where’s

Bob Smith 9:53
the only Louvre Museum outside of Paris? There is another one Did you know that many Louvre it’s a brand new one? Oh,

Marcia Smith 9:59
I don’t know anything. It’s in your favorite

Bob Smith 10:01
place. Abu Dhabi. Yeah, the Louvre Abu Dhabi. Yeah, the Emirate of Abu Dhabi developed a partnership with the Louvre. So they opened the Louvre Abu Dhabi in 2017. It has 86,000 square feet of galleries. So it’s the largest museum on the Arabian Peninsula. How

Marcia Smith 10:23
did I not know that? Not that I know everything, but I would have kept up on that. Okay, you’ll like this. There are some strange celebrations, contests and festivals when you look around globally, Bob, I’m going to give you a short list. And you tell me of this list, which is a legitimate celebration. Okay. Okay. Is it frozen dead guy days? Biggest feat in the county festival? Celebrity look alike cooked shrimp contest. Or worst teeth competition. I bet it’s the worst teeth competition. Yeah, that sounds right. But no, Bob. It’s the frozen dead guy, Dave, is that it’s in America. It takes place 70 miles west of Boulder, Colorado. And when you go there, you’ll come across a plastic utility shed with the body of a Norwegian man kept packed in dry ice. Oh, dear. It turns out the dead guy and his offspring were big believers in cryonics. You know what that is? You know, that’s the freezing of bodies

Bob Smith 11:24
right? With the hopes of resuscitating them years later waiting future

Marcia Smith 11:27
medical advances that would allow them to thaw back to life to

Bob Smith 11:32
wake up at another time. What could possibly go wrong with that?

Marcia Smith 11:35
There was a particular problem with this dead body though that daughter and grandson who had been the caretakers of the frozen dead guy came up on hard times. They went back to Norway in 1993. And so the town of Nederland seeing it as an opportunity to have some offbeat fame took up the cause of keeping the late Mr. Moore stoke from flying and so they began to celebrate their local stiff with frozen dead guy days. And annual March event. Where’s this again? In Colorado near Boulder,

Bob Smith 12:07
it’s hard to believe that’s legal. Well, that sounds pretty strange. But there is something maybe almost stranger it’s called extreme sitting. And it is a surfboard. I’m going to give you choices. Where is extreme sitting a sport, okay. Venice Beach, California. You could imagine it there. Las Vegas, Beijing, Berlin, Germany or Coney Island, New York.

Marcia Smith 12:32
Okay, I’ll say Berlin. You’re right. It says wacky

Bob Smith 12:35
Germans. Yes, using colorful and pricey plastic stools extreme sitting cold spot Hockey. Hockey in Germany originated in Berlin around 2008. It was invented by brothers Michael and Steven lunch shoots. The purpose of the sport is to perform tricks the amount and difficulty of which are scored. So sport hockey participants maneuver themselves while sitting on a special stool, spinning juggling, kicking, sliding or doing any number of impressive feats before banging their bums onto the stools as the finale. This

Marcia Smith 13:07
is something we could participants sitting Yeah, I

Bob Smith 13:11
think I do that every day. Absolutely. Oh, my goodness. Okay,

Marcia Smith 13:14
Bob, you know, Victoria waterfalls in Africa. It’s one of the most spectaculars. Yes. Well, yes. So here’s a quick question. How far away Can you hear the roar of Victoria waterfalls?

Bob Smith 13:27
I think you can hear that about five miles. Yeah, actually.

Marcia Smith 13:31
25. Wow. Yeah. Sandwiched between the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe in Africa. It’s one of the great natural wonders of the world literally, and it’s nearly twice as tall as Niagara Falls, it plunges 300 feet down into the basin. It’s so powerful, it created its own microclimate. Although the world largely knows this wonder as Victoria Falls after Queen Victoria. Locals have traditionally called it the smoke that thunders the smoke

Bob Smith 14:00
of course being the steam or the the mist that rises through the water plume. I like the smoke that thunders that’s a better name. It is. Okay. All right. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith. We’ll be back in just a moment. We’re back. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith. We do this every week for our local Cedarburg Public Library. It goes out on their internet radio station around the world and we’re on about 20 different podcast platforms and have friends who listen to us all over the place. We’re very fortunate to have them. Marcia, what silverware brand was originally the product of an American experimental religious community. What famous silverware brand once was the product of an American experimental religious community.

Marcia Smith 14:48
I can Okay tell me, Oneida.

Bob Smith 14:50
Really Yeah, the community of Oneida in New York State. They followed Humphrey noise utopian philosophy they were founded in 18. 48 And they prospered economically by making silverware and steel traps. And they did that as a religious group until 1881. When they dropped their religious experiments and reorganized as a joint stock company. That’s how Oneida got started as a religious communities product who knew no, I did.

Marcia Smith 15:23
Sam Clemens Bob, where did he get his most famous nom de plume?

Bob Smith 15:27
Mark Twain that came from his riverboat days right when they would drop the chains, I think into the river to see how deep it was. Mark Twain Mark Twain was How was it 20 feet as Mark Twain it’s

Marcia Smith 15:40
actually two fathoms. 12 feet 12 feet okay, that depth he was safe for a steamboat to navigate and he of course was rode the steamboats when he was young but here’s my bet you didn’t know he had other non diplomas ever hear of any of them? W EP eponymous

Bob Smith 15:56
W E eponymous audacious blab okay blab yeah be la be Yeah, like like a talker. Okay,

Marcia Smith 16:04
Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass.

Bob Smith 16:06
Oh, that was a good one,

Marcia Smith 16:07
Sergeant. fathom. And Josh

Bob Smith 16:11
okay, you know, you sometimes scrunch up your nose when we have to say C- E instead of A-D that’s because

Marcia Smith 16:18
it’s we’re so used to it.

Bob Smith 16:20
When does that new term come into being it’s what I wondered somebody II the common era 2010. Okay, that’s 2010 is when you think it was it goes back to 1708. It was first used in English then. This track to 1615 and a book by German astronomer Johann Kepler. He came up with it CEE and it was first used in English and 1708 became more widely used in the mid 1800s by Jewish religious scholars. So it’s common era CE II, it’s not a wholly new term after all, it’s well over 400 years old. Yeah, I’ll be doing well. Now it shows you how far behind you are.

Marcia Smith 16:55
You ever think about oh, I do about I wake up thinking that how far am I behind today? Okay, who is believed to have taken the only known movie footage of Mark Twain? Oh,

Bob Smith 17:08
Thomas Edison.

Marcia Smith 17:09
Why did you say that? That’s correct.

Bob Smith 17:11
It was back in that time. I’ve seen that footage.

Marcia Smith 17:15
White suit and everything on this porch. Right. 1909 Bob Edison visited Twain at storm Field House, his home in Redding, Connecticut. Edison took his camera and shot what is believed to be the only known footage in existence. The short film shows the writer walking outside his home dressed in his characteristic what? white suit that’s right. And then seated with his two daughters. Twin died at storm field the following year at the age of 74.

Bob Smith 17:44
I don’t think they ever recorded his voice either. That would have been interesting to see. What did he did he was he early up here. Where was that?

Marcia Smith 17:50
Who? Who did that? So Hal Holbrook. I think that’s his voice how it works. What he did. Yeah, we

Bob Smith 17:56
were very fortunate to see Hal Holbrook do one of those evenings of Mark Twain. Yeah, that

Marcia Smith 18:00
was awesome. He did that right here in Cedarburg.

Bob Smith 18:03
They came to the Performing Arts Center. That’s great. Yeah. All right, Marcia, back to museums. Many museums have beautiful landscaped gardens and lawns. So tell me what famous museum to this day uses goats to maintain its landscape?

Marcia Smith 18:18
I know a restaurant that does their roof with goats on it, but

Bob Smith 18:23
you’re in Wisconsin. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 18:24
Okay.

Bob Smith 18:27
I’ll give you a choice here. Thank you, Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles or the de Young Museum in San Francisco.

Marcia Smith 18:37
That sounds like a San Francisco thing. And you’re wrong.

Bob Smith 18:42
It was such a pleasure, but it is on a hilltop. Okay, and it’s the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. That’s where you have to take a railway to get to the top. It brings in goats. The kills are too steep for humans and machinery. But the goats managed to work easily and they get a nice snack. So they nibbled down the vegetation to the point where it doesn’t catch on fire. So I had no idea that they use goats. Goats.

Marcia Smith 19:06
Thank you for sharing vocal expertise. Okay. What’s the only state that calls jousting? Their sport? Well, there’s

Bob Smith 19:16
a state that has jousting as a sport as its state sport. And this is Georgia for some reason. Yeah, no,

Marcia Smith 19:22
totally wrong. Maryland.

Bob Smith 19:23
No kidding.

Marcia Smith 19:24
The military origins of Charleston go back to the 11th century, but Charleston came to Maryland in colonial times, but it really gained steam in the farming communities after the Civil War. Okay. And it was used to kind of get people to come in and watch this crazy stuff and raise money for different fundraiser and that’s what it’s still used for today. No

Bob Smith 19:46
kid. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 19:47
Well, you

Bob Smith 19:48
know, they had dueling on the east coast there with Alexander Hamilton is a great example of that. So jousting makes sense. That would be something you’d import from Europe to

Marcia Smith 19:56
Yeah, it was amusing to watch like the renaissance fair. I imagined they have it down. Rodier

Bob Smith 20:00
jousting may be amusing but dueling is an amusing to watch that just kills you right away. All right, another museum question. Okay. What legendary Art Museum has 70 Cats officially living in it? Oh my God really officially living in it and why? I’ll give you choices. Thank you the Musee d’Orsay in Paris Vatican Museum, Prado Museum in Madrid, or the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Marcia Smith 20:26
I’ll say Madrid. And

Bob Smith 20:29
you’re wrong. I’m sorry. I should take pleasure.

Marcia Smith 20:33
Try again. How do I always give you Oh, good for you and you give me good for you, man.

Bob Smith 20:39
You’re wrong again. You’re doing so well as being wrong. Okay. I’ll give you the names again. Me You say d’Orsay in Paris, the Vatican museum Prado Museum, Madrid and Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, Russia. Wrong. But just give me the answer. Here’s the answer. It’s the Hermitage Museum in Russia. It’s been the home of a special group of cats since at least the 1740s. Special

Marcia Smith 21:04
cats special cat how special? Well, in

Bob Smith 21:07
1745, the Russian Empire’s Empress Elizabeth issued an official decree allowing a group of cats to live there to control the building’s pests. That makes sense. And today 70 Cats are official residence of the museum and the museum grounds

Marcia Smith 21:23
just like what is that the Tower of London? The the old? Birds are still there old breeds? Yes. No, not the monarchy, the Raven.

Bob Smith 21:33
And those are actually all descended from the original original Ravens. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 21:36
that’s right. Okay, Bob, in 1752. England, there were only 19 days in the month of September. Why? In

Bob Smith 21:46
1752? Yeah, that month had only 19 days. Correct.

Marcia Smith 21:51
You don’t remember? I was asleep at the time. I guess I was just a baby. So it must have been a royal decree 90 days, right? If you really thought about it, but no, they were changing the calendar. That’s right. They were trying to catch up in that 11 days, they took out referred to hear as the last 11 days of September, that was skipped when Britain changed over from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar, bring it into line with most of Europe, Europe had already all switched, it was decided that Wednesday, the second would be followed by Thursday, the 14th of September. And there were like all sorts of riots and misconceptions at the time, as with anything, and many people mistakenly believe that their lives would be shortened by 11 days. Oh,

Bob Smith 22:37
that’s funny. Well, you know, you can imagine how that would throw things off. Oh, yeah. people owe debts and payments for things, do uncertain dates, and like, oh, well skip your payment this month. That would have been difficult to to manage that. Yep. I suppose it’s my turn now. Right. Okay. All right. All right. All right. All right. We know that there are world heritage sites that the United Nations has basically said, this is a place that should be preserved, you know, a lot of ancient civilizations and so forth. But what entire country is a UNESCO World Heritage Site? I should know this whole country is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Gosh,

Marcia Smith 23:21
is it in Africa? No, it is not. Okay. Tell me. Is it a Scandinavian

Bob Smith 23:27
sense of competition here? This is like, Oh, give me the answer. Just give me the I’m

Marcia Smith 23:31
so sick of you going. You’re wrong. But

Bob Smith 23:34
it’s so nice to do that when I heard she said in Scandinavian country. You’re

Marcia Smith 23:42
farther south. Farther south. Is it a European kind? Yes, it is. All right. Well,

Bob Smith 23:47
it’s the Vatican. Oh, of course, Vatican is considered a country it’s the world’s smallest sovereign country. It’s only 1700s of square miles and sighs at its center is St. Peter’s Basilica, which is the largest Catholic church in the world. The reason it is a UNESCO World Heritage Site is because it supposedly contains the tomb of St. Peter and and the impressive collection of Renaissance and Baroque art and architecture, including Michelangelo’s Sistine

Marcia Smith 24:12
Chapel there’s a lot of stuff in that little tiny works by

Bob Smith 24:15
Raphael Leonardo DaVinci yester Okay, you’ll

Marcia Smith 24:18
like this and I bet you guessed this, okay, because I give you questions that you have a fighting chance.

Bob Smith 24:23
I just give you questions we can fight over Yeah, okay.

Marcia Smith 24:26
Name the illegitimate English gentleman scientist that never stepped foot in America, but left a lasting legacy here in his name.

Bob Smith 24:36
This James Smithson, good for you at the Smithsonian Institute was why was it named after him

Marcia Smith 24:42
if you’ve never set foot here was the original founding donor of the Smithsonian Institute in 1829. He left 500,000 to the US to build what has become the largest museum education and research complex in the world.

Bob Smith 24:57
500,000 What dollar Wow, that’s a lot of money back then. 29

Marcia Smith 25:02
A piece of change. He never lived here, but he’s buried in a crypt in the Smithsonian. Did you know that? No, I didn’t. Okay. And some historians have speculated that this gesture was a metaphor, comparing his life to America, the successful bastard child of Mother England.

Bob Smith 25:23
That’s pretty cool. Yeah, I like that. That’s a great one. All right, I got one more question for you. What did the French contribute to the Bible? The French to Moses, the French did something with the Bible that no one else had ever done. Read it. That’s part of it. They called it the Bible. Oh, it was never called that before. The word Bible derives from the Greek word Biblio. Sir be blows BYOB LRS that was the Greek name for a Phoenician city that exported papyrus paper. Uh huh. So it’s actually named after paper, the word Biblia. b i b L. i A was used by the Greeks and the Romans for little books. And since the Bible is a collection of little books, the French felt it was appropriate to call it that. So they called it the Bible. Books.

Marcia Smith 26:17
I never really thought about that bibliography bib Bible

Bob Smith 26:20
Dibley a little books and paper. I mean, it all relates to paper. Isn’t that fascinating? Yeah, yeah. So the Bible originally meant little books, and the French called it the Bible before anyone else basing it on Greek cards before. Don’t know Marsha.

Marcia Smith 26:34
Well, you’re wrong.

Bob Smith 26:37
I am. I’m shameful. I am wrong. I’m flogging myself with whips right now. I am so wrong. You’re

Marcia Smith 26:46
Yvonne Maher painting in the works. This is Isaac Asimov. Okay. He said life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.

Bob Smith 26:58
One of my favorites Isaac Asimov. What a guy that guy was. I mean, he wrote all of the science fiction novels. And I’ve got two Bible commentaries by him and in the Isaac Asimov book of facts. I mean, this guy was he was a renaissance man. Yeah, he really wrote like 300 books or something like that. All right, well, it looks like that’s it for today. We want to remind you if you’d like to contribute any of your questions that I can ridicule Marcia with you can do that by sending them to me via our website. Don’t mock me. So the off ramp dot show, just go down to contact us and leave your information. Okay, I’m Bob Smith. Marcia Smith. Join us again next time when we return with more fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia here on the off ramp. Tapi off ramp day grandma,

Marcia Smith 27:45
same tube baby.

Bob Smith 27:48
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