167 Winning Hand Trivia

Bob Smith 0:00
What is the only US state with an official drinking toast?

Marcia Smith 0:05
You said that with a lot of gusto. Yes. And what’s so special about the new concept BMW car? Hmm

Bob Smith 0:12
answers to those and other questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob Marcia Smith

Welcome to the off ramp a chance to slow down steer clear of crazy and take a side road to sanity. Well, always good to have a drink once in a while since Mr. Chenault Yes, it

Marcia Smith 0:47
is Bob. What

Bob Smith 0:48
is the only US state that has an official drinking toast? Connecticut, North Carolina, California or New York,

Marcia Smith 0:57
New York,

Bob Smith 0:57
New York. That makes sense New York is what would it be Marsh? Now you’re taking too long the answers. You’re wrong. You’re wrong. The answer is North Carolina. Okay. And that is where here here isn’t just words. They’re the words to the North Carolina official state toast, adopted in 1957. The toast is based on a poem by Mary Burke Kerr and Leonora Martin called a toast. Written in 1904. It’s first stanza reads, here’s to the land of the longleaf pine, the summer land where the sun does shine, where the weak grow strong and the strong go great. Here’s to downhome the Old North State. And then you have to wait 12 more lines before the toast is over. And then everyone can have a drink. So

Marcia Smith 1:42
here here is a nice contraction. I guess. It’s better than saying they’re there. I guess what? Yeah,

Bob Smith 1:48
so that’s the North Carolina State drinking toast the only state with an official drinking toast. Okay,

Marcia Smith 1:54
and here in Wisconsin, it’s Go Packers. That’s the official toast. Okay. Besides the fact we can’t afford it, Bob, what’s so special about the new concept BMW car?

Bob Smith 2:08
Is it a feature? Is that some kind of feature that is it like a self driving feature or something like that now is along those lines where artificial intelligence is involved?

Marcia Smith 2:17
I suppose this must be part of intelligence. Yes.

Bob Smith 2:21
Entertainment feature. Now driving self parking something like that thing

Marcia Smith 2:26
like that. Let me just give you a clue. It’s the way it looks. Right. It’s the way it looks.

Bob Smith 2:31
So you can change colors. That’s it. There’s that right 32 Different colors 32 different colors. How is that possible? It’s

Marcia Smith 2:39
called the new eye vision D D E, and that stands for Digital emotional experience. So if you’re in a bad mood, you can be black. If you’re in a good mood, it can be read so you can change your mood change the color of your car. It’s a mid size electric sports sedan covered in futuristic panels that can change color on demand. Not only that you can mix and match you can have a red roof and a yellow bar on three tone four tone Yeah, absolutely. It has 240 different panels segments you can mix and match it changes colors electronically. Yeah, the cars outer skin is made of electronic paper. Wow. Like Tronic paper Yeah, built by a startup company called E Ink and the coding segments contain millions of tiny micro capsules with different color pigments. And they change shades when electricity is applied. Well

Bob Smith 3:35
I wonder if they change that while you’re driving down the road the cops say okay or looking for a yellow car with a little brown? Looking like that I

Marcia Smith 3:42
would think and your intended consequence well that’s exactly what our son said this morning when I told him on the phone about this he said wow be a great getaway car.

Bob Smith 3:53
Yes because nobody would know what color it’s going to be That’s right. Changing before your very eyes. What could possibly go wrong? Wonder how many 1000s or hundreds of 1000s of dollars that car cost

Marcia Smith 4:06
put this in a Tesla then you have the perfect self driving color changing car oh my cars no distraction whatsoever.

Bob Smith 4:13
Oh my goodness. Well, that’s where the world is headed. I guess. Yeah, yes.

Marcia Smith 4:16
You just program it up front is if you don’t have enough to do oh my god, your panel just what we need. Yeah, but isn’t that wild? It’s it’s not quite ready for primetime yet, but it’s expected to be ready in a few years. Marsha,

Bob Smith 4:29
in this early season of the new year. We have the months January and February do have that Yes. What is the term February mean? Where did that month’s name come from?

Marcia Smith 4:41
Well, it’s to Feb but to to to cheat

Bob Smith 4:45
on a test. No, that’s not it. Okay. All right. Go not going back to your school days ever.

Marcia Smith 4:50
It’s not a Roman god.

Bob Smith 4:52
I don’t say Roman. It’s a Latin word. Okay, what is it February or February Alia which means to clear And so it’s a new month it’s a new time. Just like January is named after Janus, the Roman God whose domain was gates and doors opening opening the new year

Marcia Smith 5:09
February is cleanse house cleaning. Are you telling yourself something? Are you telling me something but that would be sexist and we don’t know that here.

Bob Smith 5:20
No, we don’t. That’s not allowed here. No. Okay. All right. All

Marcia Smith 5:25
right, Bob. What happens to dolphins if they provoke a puffer fish?

Bob Smith 5:31
A puffer fish. You know what those are? Those are things they grew up get real

Marcia Smith 5:35
big, scary looking. One hanging at the local Mexican bar.

Bob Smith 5:39
What happens to dolphins if they provoke a pup or fish for fish? I know they’re embarrassed. They blush. The dolphins blush

Marcia Smith 5:48
Oh, honey better what’s the answer? They get stoned? Why? As a matter of self defense puffer fish release a toxin when irritated. That’s their defense. Besides hideously ugly they release a toxin. It’s a hallucinogenic toxin. And the adorable dolphins get so stone that they begin to pass the puffer fish back and forth like a hacky sack.

Bob Smith 6:15
That’s good. Be something to see.

Marcia Smith 6:16
I would love to see that. Yes. National

Bob Smith 6:18
Geographic. Do a special on that. Yeah. Okay, that’s. Oh, that’s funny. Well, I’ve got an animal story too. All right. Did you know that shrimp once went into space?

Marcia Smith 6:28
Really on a sandwich or No, no, not

Bob Smith 6:31
in a sandwich? wasn’t to be meals for astronauts? No. Oh, no. This goes back to 1972 Apollo 16. Right

Marcia Smith 6:40
where they tested different animals in space. Yeah. And so their fish and shrimp and dogs and things like this right.

Bob Smith 6:46
This was the brine shrimp. They traveled with the astronauts John Young and Charlie Duke on Apollo 16. They were part of the bio stack experiments to test the effects of cosmic rays on bacteria spores, seeds and brine shrimp eggs, and the experiments were designed to provide insight into possible effects of those rays on humans too. So more than 100 brine shrimp eggs were struck by cosmic rays. They returned to Earth many still hatched unharmed, so and then they went in space again in 1991 44 shrimp eggs were hatched aboard. They were hatched on the space shuttle Atlantis so shrimp came to life in outer space. First animals born in space five shrimp. They survived and landed safely back on Earth. These are like footnotes to space missions you never heard about before thin

Marcia Smith 7:35
space. Tiny and who ate them? Did anybody know they weren’t up there for being eaten? No. I mean, when they brought him down. Let’s get that cocktail sauce. Didn’t give me that information. Okay, okay. All right. Bob was the first toy to use artificial intelligence. Oh

Bob Smith 7:51
my goodness. Now I’m thinking back to my Robert the robot days in the 50s.

Marcia Smith 7:54
Yeah. And there was what is Chelsea loved it the Teddy Ruxpin. But this is 1998 and this was more AI then more intelligence

Bob Smith 8:03
and I could learn from things. Yeah. Okay, so Gee, I don’t know what this would

Speaker 1 8:07
be. It’s called the Furby Furby.

Marcia Smith 8:11
Yeah. Sounds familiar for covered robot and it stores just in time for Chris is creating a frenzy among parents which we’ve been through. Manufactured Tiger Electronics released the first real life robotic pet for B it partially resembled a hamster or a our depending on which one you wanted to get. Okay, gotcha. It was the first toy of its kind. Most people didn’t understand how it worked, or how it learned and the initial fervor about how it worked was so intense that it

Bob Smith 8:44
fervor is it if you are okay, okay. It

Marcia Smith 8:48
was so intense that it led to the NSA that what is that National Security Agency to ban the toys from a premises? Really? Yeah, it was also banned from the Norfolk Naval Shipyard and the Pentagon no kidding and sa agents believed the robots were embedded with recording devices that could allow them to listen in on sensitive topics and later replayed, classified conversation was that

Bob Smith 9:12
because this was manufactured in a foreign country, I don’t know where it was

Marcia Smith 9:16
manufactured. Okay, Furby was not a spy going so far as to reveal that the toys were pre programmed they toy company had to say now this isn’t what you think it’s only pre programmed with about 200 words, meaning they don’t actually learn anything. Okay? It’s just that over time, they slowly unveiled their vocabulary. So it

Bob Smith 9:37
really wasn’t artificial intelligence, which is machine learning. That’s what that is. Well,

Marcia Smith 9:41
it was believed they would react to what you said okay. But it actually only had 200 words it could react to and slowly unveiled more of their vocabulary, the longer the child played with it, so it looked like it was learning from you. I see. I don’t I never saw one or two Just

Bob Smith 10:00
think so that was the Furby and that was when 1998 Yeah, and it was even

Marcia Smith 10:03
believed Bob that it could launch a space shuttle.

Bob Smith 10:07
That’s what the government was worried about.

Marcia Smith 10:08
That’s right. It did.

Bob Smith 10:09
Oh my goodness flow,

Marcia Smith 10:11
its popularity these myths and beliefs. But more than 40 million of these revolutionary robots were sold in the first three years. Wow.

Bob Smith 10:19
40 million Furbies. Yeah. Wait, if they could take those now and reprogram to do something else, like maybe drive a Tesla safely? Okay, hey, I’ve got some things that you probably didn’t know were named by famous people. This is an article I found and it’s pretty interesting. Okay. Okay. What doctor’s name became synonymous with hypnotism. A doctor’s name became synonymous with hypnotism. It started with Freud.

Marcia Smith 10:46
Oh, M No, it wasn’t for it. It was Dr. M. with an M. Yeah.

Bob Smith 10:53
An 18th century German physician named named Franz Mesmer. Oh, mesmerizing.

Marcia Smith 11:00
I did read that in years past Yeah,

Bob Smith 11:03
he coined the term animal magnetism, suggesting invisible fluids in the body react to the laws of magnetism so mesmerizing, basically that became synonymous with hypnosis. He put his patients in a trance, but most of the people at the time labeled him a fraud but from his name came the word mesmerized meaning to captivate or hypnotize okay, what famous inventor gave his name to a word that means sound. Now I’ve been in the sound business myself for years and I never made this connection. So here’s the term decibel you’ve heard of that? Yeah, it’s a measurement of sound Jim decibel came up with after Jim decibels. No. Do you know what’s named after No. last word? Bell.

Marcia Smith 11:41
Alexander Graham Bell Yeah, so the bell Bell is

Bob Smith 11:45
named after Alexander Graham Bell. So the higher a decibel rating the louder something is we call it decibel these things, but it was named after him and when you know that I didn’t either. Okay. And I got one more name here. What cattle ranchers name became synonymous with independence. There was a cattle rancher a 19th century Texas lawyer. What I know this, you know the name. He acquired a ranch with several 100 head of cattle and he was uninterested in being a rancher, Austin. No, so he left his cattle unbranded and let them roam free. Oh, really? And these were all cattle belonging to Samuel Maverick. Oh, that’s where the term Gus never heard of. Maverick became a word for unbranded cattle. But today it means a person who acts individually. Yeah, independently. Okay, he’s a maverick. He’s an unbranded person, Marcia.

Marcia Smith 12:37
Who has the most Oscar nominations for Best Original songs received by one person. Wow,

Bob Smith 12:43
the best original songs received by one person was a Henry man Seanie possibly Nope. Okay, it was it. Somebody from that era

Marcia Smith 12:50
1943 Dad 1976 Oh, my

Bob Smith 12:54
somebody who had been doing it that was it. Rodgers and Hammerstein? No. Okay, who

Marcia Smith 12:58
was it? Okay, it was Sammy Kahn. Oh, no kidding. 26 nomination Wow. He wrote under you know, any of his songs. You do time after time all the way Come fly with me only the lonely. Wow, he did write a lot of good wins though. There’s a ton of them. But yeah, he had the most nominations for Best Original Song is that

Bob Smith 13:19
that’s like one of those Oscars that are from a technical aspect or from something other than acting most people don’t even know about like he just had had more. Oh, yeah. You know, most any other person. There’s a costume design every

Marcia Smith 13:29
year me and my family would yell out best design. Okay. It is had because it was always. Alright, I

Bob Smith 13:36
think it’s time for a break. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith. We’ll be back in just a moment. Okay, we’re back. You’re listening to the off ramp for the Cedarburg Public Library in Cedarburg, Wisconsin. We do this every week and then put it out on the World Wide Web

Marcia Smith 13:51
Motown Bob, we’ve been to Motown stands for what?

Bob Smith 13:54
A music town now Motor City, Motor City town.

Marcia Smith 13:59
Yeah, Motown what was their biggest hit ever?

Bob Smith 14:02
I think it was a supreme hit. No. Was it Stevie Wonder?

Marcia Smith 14:06
No. Who was it? It was my girl sung by the temptations. Oh, no kidding. I had it. Did

Bob Smith 14:12
you have it? No. My Girl No, but I was a very big hit. I love this. Yeah, it was

Marcia Smith 14:16
it was sung by the temptations and written by Smokey Robinson. Although as we know, we saw smokey in concert and he says everybody thinks I sang this but it was the temptation. Just concerts. I thought that was funny. Okay, Bob, what is the most played song in music history? Now we’re not talking Happy birthday because that’s people sing it and they don’t play it okay. In their houses and you can’t quantify who’s going to be white Christmas doesn’t No, no, that’s maybe one of the top best selling songs. But this is the most played that we have heard.

Bob Smith 14:53
Okay, this is the Microsoft theme when your computer comes on? No. Okay, well, something like that though. Something gets played aid on a machine or something? It’s

Marcia Smith 15:01
played in something. Okay, what is it? It’s a small, small, small hole. Not that

Unknown Speaker 15:07
as it’s

Marcia Smith 15:08
estimated to have been played around 60 million times.

Bob Smith 15:13
Oh my god in and I was on every one of those rides. Yes.

Marcia Smith 15:15
On the Small World ride in the Magic Kingdom at the five Disney parks around the world.

Bob Smith 15:22
And that was originally that ride was originally at the World’s Fair in 1964.

Marcia Smith 15:27
Okay, what do you got? Okay, Marcia,

Bob Smith 15:28
how old is the phrase hot mess? How far back does that date? It sounds like a brand new expression. If he was a hot mess, or if he was a hot

Marcia Smith 15:41
smile when I hear that because you really have gives you a visual?

Bob Smith 15:45
Sounds like a very modern thing to say. But

Marcia Smith 15:48
obviously it’s not. So are we talking in our lifetime? No. It’s

Bob Smith 15:52
before our lifetime candidates before probably our grandparents lifetime, sir. Right about the same time. Okay.

Marcia Smith 15:58
1900 1899. Well, can you believe this? Yeah, close to you get the prize.

Bob Smith 16:05
Okay. Yeah. The first citation for hot mess is from an 1899 issue of the monthly journal of the International Association of machinists. And it’s a beautiful specimen. Verily, I say unto you, the public is a hot mess. Isn’t that funny? Yeah.

Marcia Smith 16:21
Say that again. Verily, I

Bob Smith 16:23
say unto the public is a hot mess. At 99. And the public is a hot mess. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 16:31
And it finally was picked up I think, you know, in the 2000s, don’t you that it became more of a in the vernacular. I

Bob Smith 16:37
think the 1990s is when it first came to be it’s a good term. I like it. Okay, now we know twerk we think of that as a certain kind of Miley Cyrus Miley Cyrus right to kind of a dance. How far back does that term go? Oh, God,

Marcia Smith 16:50
really? I thought torque was sort of made up suddenly, during Twitter time

Bob Smith 16:54
when it felt made up about 160 years ago. 70 No, I don’t know the answer. Then. Now the dance sense of torque began in the 1990s. But as far back as 1848 It was a verb meaning to move something with a twitching, twisting or jerking motion sense

Marcia Smith 17:10
now. torquing it’s got

Bob Smith 17:12
the same meaning. Is

Marcia Smith 17:13
it head then? Yeah. Okay. Well, that’s fascinating.

Bob Smith 17:16
Thank you, Marcia.

Marcia Smith 17:17
According to the newest standards, what is today considered the rarest eye color? The rarest eye color? The rarest eye color in the world? 1% of the world population yellow has that?

Bob Smith 17:32
Oh, no. Okay, maybe not. Okay. Let’s see less than 1%. That’s dontist. That’s true. I don’t know the answer. It’s gray.

Marcia Smith 17:40
Really? Yeah. less than 1% of the world population has gray. Wow. And because it used to be categorized with blue so it never was pulled out. Oh, they realized, hey, there are people with just gray eyes. So don’t make them blue. Okay. 2% of the world has green, Hazel. Amber is 10%. Blue is eight to 10% and Brown is 45%. Wow, I

Bob Smith 18:05
didn’t know there were that many people with brown. Yeah. Well, that makes sense. A

Marcia Smith 18:09
lot of nationalities have brown eyes. Yes.

Bob Smith 18:13
And I had a girlfriend who was like, had Indian blood in her and she had these beautiful brown. She had ugly brown eyes. All right, let’s move on. Get about it. All right. Let’s talk about something else. Okay, Marcia walking. Nice, buddy. Here’s one. Where have people fished for shrimp? on horseback? What is it with you and shrimp today? Oh, 700 years. People have fished for shrimp on horseback in this place. Is it? Japan? Peru, Belgium or Alabama? Wow.

Marcia Smith 18:44
Why would you fish for shrimp on horseback that isn’t just like a natural combination. It’s like playing a game or something. That’s go I guess they went out there and scooped it up a net? That’s bizarre. Okay. I’ll say China. No.

Bob Smith 18:57
If that was only one of your answers, Marsha. Okay, give me that Japan, Peru, Belgium or Alabama?

Marcia Smith 19:05
Japan. Let’s go with one that you actually put up. I’m sorry, but

Bob Smith 19:09
you’re wrong. It’s Belgium. It’s been kick in southwest Belgium Bing Bing Yun, Corinne. Fishermen from about a dozen households take huge draught horses chest deep into the surf wow and pull nets as well as chains that create vibrations on the sand and According to UNESCO, the vibrations cause the shrimp to jump right into the nets. No kidding. And then the seafood is stored in baskets on the horses side. This sounds like almost a new thing. Yeah, but it’s not the horses don’t naturally enjoy the water. They have to be trained for a year to work with the fisherman. But that unique method of fishing has been practiced in that area for about 700 years. And it’s an important part of the local culture. So important that in 2013 UNESCO inscribed it on their representative list of the intangible cultural Heritage’s of humanity of humanity you have something strange enough you could get on that list. Well, I

Marcia Smith 20:07
kept thinking well how can you tripped on Hangout and shallow? On a cell range? Things are huge horses traveled

Bob Smith 20:15
trivia.com Horse He did what originally came from UNESCO. And who figured

Marcia Smith 20:19
out that hanging out in the water that oh, here’s the weird looking thing. How do How can we eat this?

Bob Smith 20:24
And they did. It’s like a lot of things. Who comes up with this stuff? I’d

Marcia Smith 20:28
love to see the first person that tried something, don’t you? Oh, god. Okay, Bob. What is the hardest substance in the human body?

Bob Smith 20:37
That is your teeth? Enamel is good for that for sure. You’d

Marcia Smith 20:41
say bone? No, I always heard it was teeth. enamel. Yeah, it’s protects your teeth from decay and cavities. And bone is the second strongest substance in your body.

Bob Smith 20:50
Wow. Bone a second teeth. Enamel is first and just

Marcia Smith 20:54
as a little factoid to that to add to that Roald Dahl, you know, the author? Yes. He had all his teeth pulled out at age 21. Because he didn’t want to be bothered with brushing and flossing. Oh my god, really? He thought they were more troubled than they were worth. Wow. Okay. All right. Oh, no. Okay. Researchers used to look into residential garbage cans. And they found out what in regards to people lying about what they really did in private? Oh,

Bob Smith 21:22
I don’t know income tax returns. What would it be?

Marcia Smith 21:26
It actually is in regard to consumption. Over the years, researchers have found that people actually consume about two and a half times more alcohol than they say they do when they’re interviewed. Okay. They i It’s

Bob Smith 21:39
easy to figure out how many bottles there are. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 21:42
That was some neighbors once she said, Oh, we don’t drink much. And I saw I don’t know how many bourbon bottles going out into that camp every week. Anyway, there’s a book out called rubbish by William Ross. She, he’s an archaeologist and a professor of anthropology. And he said that he has found that people also eat much worse than they think they do. They found great quantities of microwave food than anything. He’s been doing this for 19 years looking through people’s rubbish. And then he interviews them. And people actually believe they’re eating far more healthier than they really are.

Bob Smith 22:18
Well, people can always tell themselves something that’s not true. And believe it Yeah, that

Marcia Smith 22:21
that little microwave dinner there had a piece of broccoli in it. So I’m good. He estimates that people today exaggerate by 50% the amount of good food in their

Bob Smith 22:32
diet, so they drink more and then at worst,

Marcia Smith 22:35
it says we’re lying to ourselves. That’s the bottom line.

Bob Smith 22:38
Okay, well, this fellow invented something he thought would be healthy. But today I don’t think we think of it that way. What preacher gave his name to a tasty cracker, originally invented for health purposes.

Marcia Smith 22:49
Let’s see what’s an unhealthy crack. It’s

Bob Smith 22:52
not unhealthy. I didn’t say it was unhealthy. I said we don’t think of it as being healthy per se.

Marcia Smith 22:56
This is a preacher. Yeah, a preacher. It’s not those wafers that when you take with the wine who

Bob Smith 23:02
doesn’t know 19th century clergyman No, don’t tell me. Okay, his name was Sylvester. It’s

Marcia Smith 23:08
Sylvester Ritz.

Bob Smith 23:09
No. Graham Graham. That’s it. I was raised. Well, Mr. Graham 19th century clergyman known for promoting coarsely ground wheat flour to improve health. His health regimen included cold showers, hard mattresses, homemade bread, absolutely no alcohol, and a cracker. He happened to invent the graham cracker. Edited way back in like 1829 Originally, and you

Marcia Smith 23:35
love your graham crackers, so I can see why you were researching that they’re healthy.

Bob Smith 23:38
Latent, healthy. Yeah. I’ve convinced myself of that, that they’re very healthy. No.

Marcia Smith 23:43
Okay. So before my quote my last question, and you’ll like this, Bob. Okay, what is the origin of the game of hopscotch?

Bob Smith 23:51
The origin of the game of hopscotch. Do you know what I’m thinking? I thought about this. It’s something like you do this to prisoners, make them do it. And if they land in the wrong box, you kill them, or something like that. Something looks good. It’s like one of those ballgames they had down in the Latin America with the

Marcia Smith 24:08
Mayans. Yeah. Your team will be killed if you lose the game, you know? Okay. No clue. Do you know, I didn’t have any clue. Okay. According to The Big Book of answers, hopscotch was brought to Britain by the Romans, who used it as a military training exercise. Oh, kid. Yeah, the courts were about 100 feet long, and soldiers ran them in full battle gear to improve their footwork. You know, you see football players, just like those football players doing that. Yeah, I’ll be doing it out. So children, watch them and copy the soldiers by scratching out small courses of their own. And then they made up rules and a scoring system. The Scotch and hopscotch if you’re wondering refers to the marking scored on the ground.

Bob Smith 24:49
Well, now that makes sense. Yeah, it does. You could see how that would be a good athletic training event. Right, Terry? Yeah, just like football players, like you said,

Marcia Smith 24:58
Yeah, so the Roman children. actually invented a little hopscotch. No,

Bob Smith 25:02
the Roman legions embedded. Yeah. Speaking of the military, Marcia, okay. What musical instrument was spread by militaries with a nice transition? Yes. This is from 1846. What a popular musical instrument it was patented in France. Oh,

Marcia Smith 25:18
was it the flute because they go marching to their death by playing flutes

Bob Smith 25:22
have been around for 1000s of years Marsh. Yeah, we have the Songs of Solomon with flutes and lions,

Marcia Smith 25:27
you and your biblical history. This

Bob Smith 25:29
is France. 1846, a man named eight off sax invented something saxophone. That’s right. He left no formal account of its development, but he created the saxophone. He created it for use by military bands and orchestras who I don’t know it’s not like brass. Yeah. You think of brass for you know, trumpets. Anyway, it was quickly adopted by the French army. They were wearing berets at the time to walk

Marcia Smith 25:56
around with saxophones. Yes, not easy. And it spread from

Bob Smith 25:59
there to other countries. Well, any read instrument that would be more complex than a brass instrument for military purposes, but yeah, he created it for use by military bands. Eight off sacks. Yeah. Well, I

Marcia Smith 26:11
love the sax in a rock and roll band.

Bob Smith 26:13
Yeah, yeah, that sounds great. All right. I’m

Marcia Smith 26:15
ending with a quote by Frank a Clarke. Quote, criticism like rain should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.

Bob Smith 26:27
Criticism like rain is all wet. I don’t take it. Okay. You don’t like that much. And I have a different goal. That’s okay. Oh, you have another one there. Oh, I heard a snort. I love that. Every once in a while you do that. It’s so feminine. Thank you. Oh,

Marcia Smith 26:41
are we? Oh, gosh, only men can snore. That’s right. All right. All right. And let’s try this. I’m going to finish up with a quote that comes to me from Carol Fritz in Chicago. Oh, Lester. All right. Great. Our suburb from the south. to love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides. A quote from David Visca. I suspect this is because February is coming up and Valentine’s Day. Oh, that’s a good one. She wanted us to have that.

Bob Smith 27:12
Thank you very much, Carol. Yes. And if you have a quote or a question you’d like to send our way you can do so by going to our website, the off ramp dot show, going all the way down to contact us and leave your information. Well, I think that’s all for now. I’m Bob Smith.

Marcia Smith 27:28
I’m Marcia Smith. Join us again when

Bob Smith 27:30
we return next time with more fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia here on the off ramp.

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