159 Fall Facts Trivia

Bob Smith 0:00
Why has one of the world’s largest lakes

Marcia Smith 0:03
never been seen? Who was the first actress to make over a million dollars

Bob Smith 0:08
in a movie? Huh? answers to those another questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith

Welcome to the off ramp a chance to slow down steer clear of crazy and take a side road to sanity. Okay, Marcia, the first actress to make a million dollars you want to guess? I say Mary Pickford? Ah, brunette silent era.

Marcia Smith 0:46
Yeah, nope.

Bob Smith 0:47
Is it from the sound era or the silent era sound sounder? Okay, then I would think of,

Marcia Smith 0:52
you know, the activists and you know, the movie. Oh, really? Yeah. It was a big to do at the time. It’s not

Bob Smith 0:58
Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story knew. It’s not Vivian Leigh. It’s before that right. It’s in the 30s. Nope. I need some clues. I need some clues. 60s Or really, it wasn’t until the 60s that a woman made a million dollars in a motion picture over okay. Then I had to be Cleopatra. And that’s it. Our friend Elizabeth Taylor,

Marcia Smith 1:18
our personal close friends. Yep. 1963 when the movie was first planned, her 1 million salary was half of the original budget for the whole movie is going to be $2 million. Remember a bit is saying How dare she demand 50% 50%

Bob Smith 1:33
of a $2 million movie. It’s exorbitant. But the film’s

Marcia Smith 1:37
budget boomed to 31 million. Wow. That was a lot back then. Oh, yeah. And her paycheck? Boom, two to 7 million. Wow, that’s worth around 54 million in 2022. We’re talking about Marvel hero salary.

Bob Smith 1:52
Well, that’s like for one movie. Yeah, she made the equivalent of $54 million in 1963. Right. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 1:59
From her youth. Taylor had been a bold negotiator and wasn’t afraid to ask for what she was worth or to end in negotiation that wasn’t going her way. Originally, she didn’t even care about starving and Cleopatra, which incited her to make that bold request.

Bob Smith 2:16
We want to do this thing. So I’ll ask for y’all do that?

Marcia Smith 2:18
Well, I’ll ask for the pie in the sky. So she asked for a million and then 10% of the box office gross Well, thinking there was no chance 20 A century would agree to her terms. To everyone’s surprise they did. And she would later say if someone is dumb enough to offer me a million dollars to make a picture. I’m certainly not dumb enough to turn it down.

Bob Smith 2:43
That’s good. All right. All right. All right. My question is about one of the world’s largest lakes. Why is it never been seen before?

Marcia Smith 2:50
Is it because it’s in Antarctica or something?

Bob Smith 2:54
That’s exactly right. Because it’s under a lot of ice. There’s a lake underneath all that ice in Antarctica, because Antarctica is a continent. It’s not just a big pile of ice. There’s land underneath there. There is it’s a continent below its glacial snows. Okay. beneath the ice and snow. There’s a huge lake down there. It’s called Lake Vostok. Fasttech. It’s 150 miles long, and up to 31 miles wide. It’s all session. It is under brushes Vostok Station, and they didn’t know it was there until about 1990. Okay, they had a drilling project to retrieve ice cores below that station. And then they realized there’s a lot of water down low, okay, they continue to drill and they had to go through almost two miles of ice. And when that drill hit the lake at 12,366 feet, that’s how far they had to drill. pressurized water from the lake rushed up the hole and then it froze, creating a 130 foot long ice plug.

Marcia Smith 3:51
Oh, Mike so wished back up and froze. Yeah, shot

Bob Smith 3:55
up out of the hole. Most scientists believe that lake is the product of volcanic activity that melted a portion of the ice overhead. And then the ice became a lake Lake Vostok. Bostock last stuck, or lake east, the largest lake in Antarctica. And I believe it’s the ninth largest lake in the world. Interesting.

I thought so too.

Marcia Smith 4:17
Now. All right, going back to Elizabeth Taylor. Blue eyes. Oh, wait, she had violet eyes and two sets of eyelashes. Did you know that

Bob Smith 4:25
I did. Two sets of what do you wear them at the same time? I

Marcia Smith 4:28
mean, she had two real sets of eyelashes. Yeah, it was kind of a freak thing. violet eyes and thick eyelashes to two pairs of them.

Bob Smith 4:36
Are you mean naturally meant something she had made for her?

Marcia Smith 4:40
No. Oh, wow. Yeah, that’s why she had those great eyes. Yeah. And why she was married so many times guys liked batting her eyes at them. Okay, so how many times was she married? Well,

Bob Smith 4:53
I think she was married like five times. And twice to

Marcia Smith 4:56
Richard Burton. Yeah, but it wasn’t five it was eight oh my god.

Bob Smith 5:02
You know, I was gonna say seven and that would have been closer. So the eight

Marcia Smith 5:06
Yeah, just seven different men. Conrad Nicky Hilton. Remember that? Yes. Michael wilding, Michael Todd, he’s the one that died. Yeah.

Bob Smith 5:14
He was a producer of director. Do you think he died in a plane crash? Yeah.

Marcia Smith 5:17
Eddie Fisher, Richard Burton twice. John Warner. Wasn’t he a governor? Senator, Senator in Virginia, I believe. And then the last guy, Larry for 10. Ski remember that guy? Larry

Bob Smith 5:29
for 10? Yeah, he was. I will say no, he was like a truck driver or something. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 5:33
he was totally different than say, Nicky Hilton.

Bob Smith 5:36
She’s really she just wanted to regular main.

Marcia Smith 5:39
I know after that whole lineup, I don’t know. We were growing

Bob Smith 5:44
up when she was very popular. She used to say, Why did I marry eight times? Because my generation thinks it’s important to only have sex during marriage. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 5:53
Constantly. Yeah. And it’s also the reason eight husbands is why she had one of the most valuable jewelry collections in the world when she died had 79. From congestive heart failure. Her jewels were auctioned off by Christie’s for $115.9 million broke the record for the most valuable private collection of jewels. Wow.

Bob Smith 6:17
So she had the most valuable private collection of jewels in the world.

Marcia Smith 6:21
All the all those husbands popped up some pretty pricey things for

Bob Smith 6:26
Okay, Marsha, we all recently went through the process of changing our clocks because of daylight saving time. So I have some questions on time zones. Okay. Okay. What country has the most time zones in the world? Russia, Russia, Russia has 11 time zones?

Marcia Smith 6:45
Am I right? No, France. Now. That’s ridiculous. It’s like a 10th of the size of Russia. It’s

Bob Smith 6:52
a country the size of Texas. But it has 12 timezones counting its possessions around the world. And if you count the landed claims in Antarctica, it has 13 times. Okay, well,

Marcia Smith 7:04
that’s stretching it. Okay.

Bob Smith 7:06
So the US also has 11 time zones like Russia, I think most of us think of just the time zones across North America, right? You know, the Pacific mountain central, eastern and so forth. So why there is Hawaii and the all of the possessions of the United States. So they’re scattered across the world in multiple territories, and the county gets territories, the state of Hawaii and everything else, there are 11 us timezones okay, but

Marcia Smith 7:33
the most is in France, France and its possessions, possessions. Okay,

Bob Smith 7:38
I’ve got a couple more questions on timezones. I’ll ask you one more right now, how many US states observe daylight saving time?

Marcia Smith 7:45
Ah 48.

Bob Smith 7:47
And which ones don’t? Arizona?

Marcia Smith 7:49
Yes. I don’t know the other one. Is it out east?

Bob Smith 7:54
The one that probably doesn’t need to worry about daylight savings or daylight because it’s tropical by Hawaii. Yeah, Hawaii, all states but Hawaii and Arizona except the Navajo Nation, which cuts through Arizona, New Mexico. They observe daylight savings time, but those two states don’t. But the territories of American Samoa Guam, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and the US Virgin Islands. Also do not observe daylight savings time.

Marcia Smith 8:20
Okay. Okay. Bob, quickie. How old was Marco Polo. When he left Venice for his famous exploring adventure into Asia.

Bob Smith 8:29
I think he was pretty young because he was going over there at the age of 19 7017.

Marcia Smith 8:34
That just blew me away. 17 and he racked up in his life nearly 15,000 miles in travel points.

Bob Smith 8:42
But he was going there with his father and I think his uncle so there were three of them traveling. I believe they were traders, dangerous and all by himself, but still very young. You right? Yeah, he

Marcia Smith 8:52
spent 24 years of exploration and had lots of adventures and he managed to survive a meeting with the infamous Mongolian ruler. dingus Khan was quite an interesting person.

Bob Smith 9:06
Speaking of personalities, I’ve got famous celebrities and what their real names are again, okay, so Fred Astaire, his dancing partner, Julie Rogers. Yeah. What was her birth name any idea?

Marcia Smith 9:17
Ginger’s birth name was Gladys Pope, Virginia Katherine McMath. Okay.

Bob Smith 9:24
She changed it after winning a Charleston competition the dance in 1925 and went out on tour. Ginger comes from her first name and Rogers is her stepfather’s last name. So she toured as ginger and her redheads. She was as a group. Alright, who is Dana? Elaine Owens. She goes by a royal name. She’s an entertainer. Again, Dana.

Marcia Smith 9:48
I’m thinking is it Dane something No, Dean. I don’t know.

Bob Smith 9:52
She calls herself a queen. Latifah. Queen Latifah. Yeah. Yeah. Dana, Elaine Owens.

Marcia Smith 9:59
Okay, that’s A nice name. She

Bob Smith 10:00
was born in 1970. In 2004, she put out the Dana Owens album. So she used her real name. She changed her name when she was eight years old. She found let Tifa meaning delicate, sensitive or kind, in a book of Arabic names at the time. That was when others in her New Jersey neighborhood, we’re switching their names to other Arabic origins. So I’ll be darned. She decided to add queen to make it really strong Queen Latifah.

Marcia Smith 10:26
Boy. That’s pretty good at that age. Wow. That’s interesting. Okay, Bob, what group of people created the first oil paintings?

Bob Smith 10:35
The first oil paintings, as opposed to what were they doing before that time?

Marcia Smith 10:39
I don’t know.

Bob Smith 10:40
With a painting with blood.

Marcia Smith 10:44
I agree with blood. Sweat. Tempura? I don’t know. But oil paint. Okay. The

Bob Smith 10:49
first oil paintings were done by the sea. This must have gone back to would that go back to the Chinese or was it the Italians? You have to get? Oh, let’s say the Italian. Okay.

Marcia Smith 11:00
Okay. I’ll

Bob Smith 11:01
say the Chinese. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 11:03
you’re the Egyptians. I would have said artists from the Renaissance period. Oh, had to be before that. Yeah. The very first known oil paintings were created far from Europe. In the seventh century CE II Buddhist monks in Afghanistan used oil paints to create murals on cave walls. Wow.

Bob Smith 11:24
Seven. See, so that’s the Common Era. That’s like seven ad.

Marcia Smith 11:28
First oil paintings. Yeah. Hard to believe.

Bob Smith 11:31
Do you have any of those paintings that they created? Oh, cave walls. That’s where they are. Okay, gotcha. Okay, Marcia, geography again. Your favorite subject? What is the state that is the deepest in the country in terms of being the farthest away from any Bay golf or ocean? It’s triply landlocked

Marcia Smith 11:48
in America? Yeah. What state is landlocked? triply

Bob Smith 11:52
landlocked. To get to the state from the nearest white golf bay or ocean you have to travel through three other states.

Marcia Smith 12:00
What part of the US is it in?

Bob Smith 12:02
It’s in the Great Plains? Yeah,

Marcia Smith 12:04
okay. I’ll say Wyoming. No,

Bob Smith 12:06
that’s a good guess. But it’s a nearby neighbor, Nebraska. Okay, Nebraska. Yeah. All the other landlocked states in the country are either singly or doubly landlocked. This is Tripoli landlocked. Wow. It’s home to 2 million people known for its agriculture man,

Marcia Smith 12:22
people. Okay. All right. Bob, have the four main characters in Seinfeld who was missing from the first episode?

Bob Smith 12:31
Four main characters. So that would be Elaine. Jerry George and Kramer. I bet it was Kramer. Kramer was added later. No.

Marcia Smith 12:38
Okay. I

Bob Smith 12:39
bet it was George. George was. Wasn’t Jared had to be lame.

Marcia Smith 12:43
That’s right. Lane. Wasn’t there. Good deduction there. Oh, okay. It was. Yeah, there was another female character in that first episode. Her name was Claire. She worked at the diner. I think she was the waitress where Jerry and George hung out. But even with Claire and the pilot, it was just too male centric. So while people like Rosie O’Donnell were considered for the park, Larry David, the creator and writer and lease Dreyfus had met and worked together on Saturday Night Live. You mean Julia? Yes, Dreyfus. Yeah. Okay. So he pitched her because he liked her. And she was intrigued by the writing and she said it was unlike anything on television at the time, and she went for it now. She was perfect for the role. She was great for that role. Remember her funny dance? She said she practiced that for hours in front of the mirror.

Bob Smith 13:32
Stupid looking funny. Remember, that was one of the shows you and I just didn’t get it. At first. We watched an episode or two unwed. I don’t know how that was you. Okay, that was me. And all of a sudden it clicked in. And from that point on, I liked it. I know. I joined the rest of the world did and let’s join the rest of the world after a break. Okay, listening to the off ramp with Bob Smith. Okay, we’re back again, the off ramp for the Cedarburg Public Library in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. We do this every week because we love facts and figures and and the library and we love the library too. Yeah. Okay, more questions on the timezones, Marcia. Yay, coming up later. All right. First question is, where was the first ferris wheel and how big was it?

Marcia Smith 14:16
Where was the first was it in Venice?

Bob Smith 14:18
No. Here’s another question. What inspired the first Ferris Wheel?

Marcia Smith 14:23
Oh, wow, Ferris. So what’s his name? His name was Ferris wasn’t it?

Bob Smith 14:28
He was a Pittsburgh engineer at George Washington. Gale Ferris. Yeah. But what was he trying to do? He was trying he was inspired because he was told the World’s Fair the World’s Fair in Chicago wanted something to to compete with.

Marcia Smith 14:42
With the Eiffel Tower. That’s

Bob Smith 14:44
exactly right. Okay, so he suggested a giant revolving metal wheel, which must have seemed like crazy. He was 33 years old at Pittsburgh engineer. How big was it?

Marcia Smith 14:56
How big was it?

Bob Smith 14:57
How many cars were there? See

Marcia Smith 14:59
320

Bob Smith 15:01
No, there’s only 36. That’s all. But each one held 60 p

Marcia Smith 15:05
o 60. Well,

Bob Smith 15:07
so that means that we’re 2160 passengers at a time. Oh my god, that could be in the first Ferris Wheel. That is a world fair sized carnival ride. And where was it located in Chicago for the World’s Fair the Columbian Exposition in 1893. But

Marcia Smith 15:22
like the white thing with a book, I read the

Bob Smith 15:25
White City, they wanted a showpiece to rival the Eiffel Tower. And they got it with a Ferris Wheel. Okay, and after that it was sold to St. Louis for the 1904. Yeah, okay. But all of the wheels that we see now those ones at the county fairs, those are called Ferris wheels because of this guy, but they’re tiny compared to the original.

Marcia Smith 15:44
Can you imagine sitting in a seat with 60 other people and going around? No, I can especially we’re also fat today compared to back then when I’m sure didn’t add up to that much. Okay. Can you tickle yourself successfully?

Bob Smith 16:00
Well, no, I don’t think you can. Why not? Because you know what’s going to happen? And tickles are surprises. That’s my thought.

Marcia Smith 16:08
That’s your thought.

Bob Smith 16:09
Okay, next question. Tell me about it, Marsha. No, you’re

Marcia Smith 16:11
right. You can’t tickle yourself successfully because your brain knows that you’re using your own fingers to do it.

Bob Smith 16:20
This is a fraud. I’m gonna laugh. It’s impossible

Marcia Smith 16:22
to be surprised by yourself tickle.

Bob Smith 16:25
Unfortunately,

Marcia Smith 16:26
the mind dials down the sensory response in such situations and much of the joy or displeasure of being tickled apparently comes from the lack of control.

Bob Smith 16:37
We had to do a study to understand what makes it tickle. Interesting.

Marcia Smith 16:42
I’ve tried Have you tried to take everybody

Bob Smith 16:44
does? Yeah, you know it? How can you just run your finger across the bottom of your feet? Does that make you laugh? You know, that type of thing. Marcia, why should time be known as Fleming time?

Marcia Smith 16:56
Fleming? Well, he was a scientist.

Bob Smith 16:59
He was actually a Canadian railroad engineer.

Marcia Smith 17:02
When I said Canadian railroad engineer. He

Bob Smith 17:05
came up with the original idea of dividing the world into 24 longitude elite based timezones he did become sir Sanford Fleming because of his his idea. adopted worldwide, you know, all over the place. Okay. England, Scotland and Wales adopted the year after the United States and then it spread throughout the world. But this is typical of anything human beings do. Let’s make a rule. There’s always somebody who has an exception, right? Yeah, you make a law, there’s going to be a waiver, there’s going to be a amendment, there’s going to be some way to circumvent that and go around it. So speaking of that, were in North America, will you find a timezone at a half hour increment

Marcia Smith 17:46
in America? Half hour increment is in I’ll give you choices.

Bob Smith 17:50
Saskatchewan, Indiana, Newfoundland, or Arizona, Arizona. It’s Newfoundland. Thank you. Congratulations. Yeah, they’re 1.5 hours east of Eastern Standard Time. Okay. So it’s an unusual time zone. 30 minutes ahead of Atlantic Standard Time. Okay, Bob,

Marcia Smith 18:07
you like this? What is the longest running primetime drama in the history of American television? The

Bob Smith 18:15
longest running primetime drama? Well, now, guns smoke was very long that lasted 20 or 25 years. Is that the one? No. So this has been on longer than that. And it’s a drama.

Marcia Smith 18:28
Time. It’s still on. And we watch it. Not NCIS Nope.

Bob Smith 18:34
What is it?

Marcia Smith 18:35
It is mind boggle. It’s not even American. It’s British Masterpiece Theater. Oh, really. It premiered its first episode in January 1971. Following the success of 1967 adaptation of the foresight saga, the Boston affiliate for PBS ran the foresight saga and the guy. His name was John Galsworthy, and he saw that success and wondered whether there might be a growing American appetite for British drama. while on vacation in London. He convinced the execs at BBC that a partnership could prove fruitful

Bob Smith 19:11
from both of them really saw as one TV station

Marcia Smith 19:15
network he was PBS was the guy in Boston said hey, this is something WGBH open. Yeah, that’s exactly what it is good for you. Now 50 years later, American viewers continue to clamor for classic British stories told with beautiful scents and elaborate costumes. Do you remember who was the first host of masterpiece

Bob Smith 19:35
Aleister Aleister cook wasn’t Yanni two

Marcia Smith 19:38
years? Yeah, he turned down the gig because he said this will never last in America. They weren’t like this. So he only signed a one year contract and he kept signing one year contracts for 22. Lo kid, his daughter wanted him to do it. She said this will be cool. You’ll be in America and you’ll be the host.

Bob Smith 19:59
Well he had Been in America. He was like Murrow of the British Broadcasting. He came to America I think during World War Two. I believe he was here and then he would report on what’s going on. What are the Yanks doing? Yeah,

Marcia Smith 20:12
radio. And so this is interesting, too. In 2008 they dropped the word theater to make it sound simpler and sleeker. And they split the series into three parts, Masterpiece Masterpiece mystery and masterpiece contemporary masterpieces hosted by Laura Linney. Yes. And that guy be like Alan Cummings, he hosts masterpiece mystery. And David Tennant host masterpiece contemporary. So they split it up into three but it’s still masterpiece and it runs for all these years. 50 years.

Bob Smith 20:47
That’s very successful. Yeah, it’s amazing. Yeah. And it is. It’s wonderful.

Marcia Smith 20:51
It’s that show that brought famous people into the light, Helen Mirren. Benedict Cumberbatch, they weren’t known at all by British actors on the show, and they became big stars because of Massey and I

Bob Smith 21:03
didn’t know that. That’s very interesting. So that’s how they came to the fore. Okay, how did Eric Marlon Bishop come to the fore of comedy? What’s his name? Eric Marlon Bishop. That’s not his name. Now. No, I

Marcia Smith 21:16
take it to some other gives a clue. Thank you.

Bob Smith 21:19
He felt female comics were put on the stage first, since there were fewer of them. So he changed his name to be androgynous. To Jamie, Jamie Foxx.

Marcia Smith 21:31
Oh, Jamie.

Bob Smith 21:32
That’s how he did it. The MCS were picking which standups would hit the stage next and they would pick women they’d always find who’s the woman’s name here. Okay, we’ll put her out there. So we chose Jamie and then he landed on Fox as an homage to red fox, one of his comic heroes. But Eric Marlon Bishop is Jamie Foxx his real name. And of course, he’s in films now too. He’s an actor. Hmm.

Marcia Smith 21:52
Just going back a moment. What was the most successful Masterpiece Series of all time? Upstairs,

Bob Smith 21:59
downstairs? Yep. Okay. Well, then it must have been Downton Abbey. That’s

Marcia Smith 22:04
it. It’s the most nominated non US Series in me history. It had a total of 59 nominations and 12 wins had ran from 2010 to 2016. And they’re still making movies from it. We went to see why not that is amazing. Yeah. So it was hugely successful.

Bob Smith 22:23
Well, going back in time, Marsha, we’re now looking at supersonic planes. They’re talking about starting those up again and flying between the continents. You might remember the Concorde. And that that was very controversial when we were growing up in the 70s. Why? Because of the ozone layer. So there were only two airlines that ever flew the Concorde because it just didn’t get the popularity among the, you know, aeronautical people

Marcia Smith 22:50
wasn’t it very expensive to stream that’s why it

Bob Smith 22:53
was extremely expensive. There’s only a few planes, you know. So what are the only two airlines to ever fly? The Concorde is the question I’ll give you choices here. Okay, Pan Am and Twa. That’s one Air France and British Airways, Lufthansa and Qantas, or British Airways. And TWA.

Marcia Smith 23:10
I think the first one, I think it was that one and I think it was the and the second one was Muthana.

Bob Smith 23:17
Actually, it was probably one of the few things that British and the French ever agreed on Air France and British Airways. Those are the only two airlines that did it, really. And it was a big deal, because we didn’t do it America. No, no, in fact, they wouldn’t even let it land in the United States for a long time. But a flight from New York City to London today still take seven hours. But for nearly three decades, there was a supersonic option that would run three, three and a half hours between New York and London. Amazing. But only two airlines ever ordered the aircraft and they were Air France who flew it from Paris to New York, and British Airways who flew it from London to New York. And then that was retired in 2003. Speaking of

Marcia Smith 23:59
the Brits, which we’re doing a lot today, who’s the first British monarch to hold a university degree?

Bob Smith 24:05
Oh, that’s interesting. Wasn’t that Prince? Charles? Yeah, the new King? Yeah, I’ll be darned Yeah.

Marcia Smith 24:12
Then he decided to forego that traditional at home

Bob Smith 24:16
the homeschooling that the British were tutoring for Royals. I think homeschooling if you’re a king is a little different than in Minnesota or summer home

Marcia Smith 24:24
tutoring for Royals, and he sought out a higher education in 1970. Charles received a bachelor’s degree from Trinity College at Cambridge becoming the first heir to the British crown to earn a degree of higher education. Isn’t that

Bob Smith 24:39
amazing? So you had royalty ruling England for centuries that weren’t educated except by Taylor. Sure. They had the best tutors, but still, they didn’t have degrees from Oxford and places like that holy cow.

Marcia Smith 24:50
And he studied anthropology and archaeology and history and he’s very passionate about that environment and all that and so he seems to be very well rounded. Yeah, he has an impressive range of topics to balance alongside his royal duties as king.

Bob Smith 25:05
Well, one more question on time zones Marcia to round out the timezone question. Hey, now we know there are some states that have multiple time zones. Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky and Nebraska have multiple time zones. Okay, but they’re vertical that estates chopped in half for instance. That’s interesting. Okay, so what state has the north and the south with different time zones? There is a state and we visited that has Northern and Southern time zones that are different. What state? Ah,

it’s in the West,

Marcia Smith 25:38
it’s in the West.

Bob Smith 25:39
It’s in the Northern Desert. Northern Desert very familiar with it because your daughter lives there. Hi.

Marcia Smith 25:45
Would it be Boise, the state Marsh Oh, Idaho, Idaho?

Bob Smith 25:48
Yes. The State of Idaho with a little help. We have Idaho. Yes, the northern tip uses Pacific Time. The southern majority of the state follows mountain time now why? Because the closest major economic areas to those two regions are in different time zones. For instance, Boise biggest city in the state that’s down in the south shares Mountain Time with neighboring cities like Salt Lake City, and upper Idaho shares timezone with Spokane in Washington, which is in Pacific time. Okay, so that’s the only state where the time zones are different in the north in the south part of the state now. All right. All right. So now we know the answer to that. Fascinating. Do we have any words of wisdom to wrap up the show

Marcia Smith 26:28
but I’m ready to finish up with a couple quotes Doris Day. Gratitude is Rich’s complaint, his poverty and an Irving Berlin but

Bob Smith 26:38
what if you’re complaining about your poverty? I don’t know. Okay, I’m sorry. Irving

Marcia Smith 26:43
Berlin got no checkbooks got no banks. Still, I’d like to express my thanks. I got the sun in the morning and the moon at night all that

Bob Smith 26:53
but that was a depression sock. That’s a great song. Yeah. You know, when you said that I had the rhythm that I was thinking about sign in the morning in the mood, good song lyrics. It is. Oh, that was great. Well, what a great way to wrap things up and get out of the timezone question. Your geography and time zones are not your favorite subject to know. Hello, okay. All right. We’ll be back in another week with another episode of our little wonderful excursion into one frolic backs in tantalizing trivia. It’s called the off ramp. The off ramp is produced in association with CPL Radio Online, and the Cedarbrook Public Library Cedarburg, Wisconsin.

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