184 Sure Thing Trivia

Marcia Smith 0:00
What do these words have in common motel brunch and podcast, hmm, and

Bob Smith 0:06
why May the fountain of youth be in your next energy drink.

Marcia Smith 0:11
Bring it on, baby. Bring it on. Answers to

Bob Smith 0:13
those and other questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob

Marcia Smith 0:17
and Marsha Smith. You Music.

Bob Smith 0:35
Welcome to the off ramp, a chance to slow down, steer clear of crazy and take a side road to sanity with fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia. Well, those are interesting words that put together don’t seem to have anything in common. Isn’t that the truth? What are they again? Marsh,

Marcia Smith 0:52
motel brunch and podcast,

Bob Smith 0:54
motel brunch and podcast, yep, they all fall into

Marcia Smith 0:59
a category, a category of words. I’m not talking,

Bob Smith 1:03
okay, motel brunch and podcast. Okay, so they are all combinations of words. Ah, motels like hotel, but with motion. Brunch is like breakfast and lunch, and podcast is a pod and a broadcast.

Marcia Smith 1:18
What’s a pod? Bob pod, I don’t know, put a letter in front of it. Pod, spot, mod Codd, put a letter in front of it. Okay, tell me iPod. It’s a combination of iPod. Oh, that’s right, that’s where it came from. It’s a combination of two words. And there’s a name for that word blending. It’s called poor Mentos

Bob Smith 1:40
or Mentos. Yeah, sounds like something I would eat. Does

Marcia Smith 1:43
does it? P, O, R, T, M, a n, T, E, A, U, poor Mentos, wow. In other words, that fit into that category are things like chortle for chuckle and snort like our like our grandson, smog, smoke and fog. Mockumentary, right? Spork, fork and spoon, yes, I remember that moped motor and pedal, motor and pedal. There you go. And those are samples of poor Mentos or Mentos.

Bob Smith 2:13
There’s not something you put on top of something like these. Okay, why May the fountain of youth be in your next energy drink. Let’s

Marcia Smith 2:23
see my next energy drink, which it has to do with an ingredient in those energy drinks that is there. Now, that’s there. Now, I don’t know about the study has

Bob Smith 2:34
shown that taurine, that’s T, A, u, r, I N, E, found in energy drinks, and naturally in meats and seafood could make you live longer. The researchers fed high concentrations of taurine to mice, monkeys and worms, and they published the promising results in the journal Science recently, and all the groups receiving the extra taurine were healthier and lived longer. Mice, they lived about 10 to 12% longer than the control group, and they had more muscle endurance.

Marcia Smith 3:04
All right. Well, who knew? And I don’t like energy drinks, well, this, again,

Bob Smith 3:07
is something that also occurs naturally in meats and seafood. It’s an amino acid, taurine. They don’t know yet whether humans will see similar results, but they think that supplementing with that amino acid might delay your health problems. Now, how much would you need to take? Here’s the problem. The animals were given huge doses of taurine. Well, for a human to take the same level from the energy drinks, you’d have to drink 63 cans of monster per day.

Marcia Smith 3:33
I never even heard of that. That’s a British thing. No, that’s an energy drink out there is it in local YouTube? Oh, yeah. Okay, all right, Bob, go that to the stores Marsh, take a look at the shelves. You know, if you don’t use it, you tend not to look at That’s right, okay. All right, this will pique your curiosity. Around 1900 what pet sold for up to $5,000

Bob Smith 3:56
a pet, yeah, 1900 household pet.

Marcia Smith 3:59
And that’s like 179,000 in today’s bucks. Wow.

Bob Smith 4:03
What kind of pet would be worth that? Wow. Let’s see, in 19 Is this a pet

Marcia Smith 4:10
we have today? People have today? Yes, some people have them. Is it

Bob Smith 4:13
still considered exotic? No, no. So it’s considered normal, common. It’s not a dog, obviously, it’s not a cat. It’s not a well, what is it?

Marcia Smith 4:22
A bunny? What? Yeah, Belgian bunnies, to be specific, Beatrice Potter, the Victorian era, authored behind the Tale of Peter Rabbit and the tale of Flopsy bunnies, right, right? Had a love for rabbits and hares. The Belgian hair, which Potter owned and based Peter Rabbit on, became so sought after, I assume because some of her books, yeah, that adopting one was an extravagant purchase between 1898 and 1901 1000s were imported to the US for adoring buyers. Wow. And this is all due to Peter Rabbit books, yeah. Wow. Caught on. And. The Belgian hair boom emerged, and they sold for, like I said, $5,000 however, like all fads, the Belgian hair market burst when the breed fell out of favor around 1917 so it stopped hopping. It had a good hop. By the 1940s they were scarcely seen in the US, and today, breeders have worked to keep Belgian hairs from going extinct.

Bob Smith 5:23
Wow, so totally different now, geez, Belgian hairs. Never heard of that.

Marcia Smith 5:28
Remember, the friends had a bunny. Was that a Belgian hair? I don’t

Bob Smith 5:32
know. That’s a good question. Well, here’s something that we see a lot of I want you to name this plant. Okay, it’s used as a food for silkworms, its leaves can be eaten as a salad. For people, its roots used as a medicine. And at least one country, the plant is a commercial source of rubber. Now we consider it a nuisance, almost worthless. What is it? You’ll be seeing them popping up in your yard as the summer comes around?

Marcia Smith 5:59
Well, it’s it’s a tree, right? No, some kind of tree? No, it’s some kind of plant. Yes, a pod. It’s a plant with pods. No, I didn’t say pods. Okay, I’m saying, Where did you get that? I don’t know. First question, no, okay, I don’t know what’s the answer.

Bob Smith 6:14
It’s the dandelion, really? Yeah, it’s used as a food for silk worms. When mulberry leaves are in short supply. Its leaves can be used to make a salad, if necessary. The root is used as a medicine and can also be roasted as coffee. Believe it or not, in Russia, the dandelion is a source of commercial rubber, and the dandelions name comes from the French dent de Lyon, meaning the lion’s tooth. Oh, say that again. Dante Leon, Oh,

Marcia Smith 6:42
I like you talking French, the

Bob Smith 6:44
Alliance too, because of the shape of the leaves the dandelion, we consider it kind of worthless, you know, cut it out. Oh, here they are popping up all over everything. Little kids love them. Of course, they look beautiful, right? That’s probably the first flower most kids ever picked for their mommy was a dandelion, but it has a lot of different uses

Marcia Smith 7:02
for my mom. You Yes, of course, little bouquets, and they all acted thrilled to have them, that’s right, and then threw them away. My mind, put her in a little glass for a couple of days. Oh, sure, with water, yeah. Speaking of bunnies, okay, rabbits eyes have the ability to do what when they sleep. Rabbit’s

Bob Smith 7:19
eyes have the ability to do something when they sleep, correct. The rabbit’s eyes stay open.

Marcia Smith 7:25
They stay open, that’s the answer. I don’t know if they’re seeing, but they stay open, probably

Bob Smith 7:29
to keep them aware of a predators and things like that. Despite being

Marcia Smith 7:33
blind for their first weeks, rabbits develop an amazing range of vision once they can peek through their eyelids, bunnies have nearly 360 degree view. Did you know that? No, I didn’t know that which helps them spot predators. They also have the ability to sleep with their eyes open, because they have a translucent third eyelid, which keeps the eye moist. Wow. Why they’re sleeping and beyond their eyes, bunnies rely on two other noteworthy senses, their sound and smell. They breathe only through their nose, which allows them to smell the world around them, even while eating, to detect danger. And their ears, which we love, little bunny ears, right, incredibly sensitive, and they can rotate each year 180 degrees. Oh, no kidding, picking up sounds and potential threats up to two miles away. We always

Bob Smith 8:23
think of owls being able to rotate that way with their necks, but a bunny can actually twirl its ears

Marcia Smith 8:28
and they can hear two miles away. Holy cow. So you know how when we go in the yard sometime and you see a bunny way across the yard looking all of a sudden at you, that they pick that up immediately?

Bob Smith 8:38
Well, I know that we are blessed with wildlife in our backyard, and I’ve seen both bunnies and deer pick up their ears when I do something in the kitchen between two or three panes of glass. It’s amazing.

Marcia Smith 8:48
While they’re eating all my plants, that’s right, they’re doing out there, yeah?

Bob Smith 8:53
Oh, there’s her husband. Now we’re in trouble. All right, going along with nature. There are no hummingbirds in the state of Hawaii. Did you know that? No, I didn’t. No native hummingbirds. In fact, hummingbirds are banned in the state of Hawaii, and why is that? That’s

Marcia Smith 9:09
what I was just gonna ask you. Okay, that’s the question. Because they take the nectar away from those flowers, and so they don’t reproduce.

Bob Smith 9:19
No, the reason is they don’t want them there, because they will pollinate something. Well, they will pollinate Yes, and that will change the nature of that food. What is it? Why are there no hummingbirds in the state of what? Pineapples? Yes. Pineapples originated in Brazil, and they’re full of seeds when they’re shipped from Brazil. The problem was the pineapples had been pollinated, pollinated by hummingbirds, which are native to the region, and once they’re pollinated, the pineapple becomes inedible. Well, really, in 1899 when James dole graduated from Harvard with a degree in agriculture, he went to Hawaii, where his uncle was the governor, and he. Decided he would import pineapple plants and grow pineapples in Hawaii because there were no hummingbirds. There no natural hummingbirds had ever been made out. Yeah, he knew that if we could have this plant without being pollinated, the dole pineapples were seedless, tender and sweet as sugar. Oh, right. And then, from that point on, they’ve decided we don’t want any hummingbirds. They just prevented them from coming in. How? By law, legislature, how could there not be a hummingbird there? Because none had ever reached there. There were none. There many species never made it to Hawaii, yeah, because it’s so isolated, one of the most isolated places on Earth, 2000 miles from mainland anywhere. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 10:41
that’d be hard on your wings. Yeah, hard on those tiny little wings. Okay, this just in from Benjamin Christopher in Los Angeles. He wants to know, why do we call hair raising events goose bumps?

Bob Smith 10:52
That’s a good question. Is it, does it have something to do with the birds? Yes, it does. It really does. Yeah, okay, do geese get bumps when they get excited? And that’s why we call these goose bumps. Nope. Okay. What is it

Marcia Smith 11:06
we get goose bumps on our arms, our little hair rises up right from fear or sudden feeling of excitement or even being cold. Okay, the term goose bumps derives from the phenomena association with goose skin. Goose feathers grow from pores in the skin that resemble hair follicles. And when a goose feathers are plucked, its skin has protrusions where the feathers were, and these bumps are what the human phenomena resembles. Oh,

Bob Smith 11:33
no, so then it does resemble something on the geese. Yeah. They look like bumpy flesh

Marcia Smith 11:37
of a freshly plucked goose. They’re all it’s, it’s a holdover from our prehistoric days. Goose bumps are the end result of an adrenaline rush meant to ward off a big chill or predators back in the good old days, prehistoric days, Brits call them goose pimples. Goose pimples. Yeah. But if you, if you take the hair off a goose that looks like they got goose

Bob Smith 11:59
bumps, that’s good. What do corn, sweet potatoes, peppers, all spice, pineapples and turtle meat have common. They have something in common. They all have something in common. In history, in corn, sweet potatoes, peppers, all spice, pineapples and turtle meat,

Marcia Smith 12:16
is that the stuff they took on the ships to cross the ocean,

Bob Smith 12:20
that’s right, they were all discovered in 1492 and brought back to Europe by Christopher Columbus. He discovered all of those foods which were unknown to Europeans, the corn, the peppers, the plantain, the pineapple, sweet potato, and yes, some of those peppers that he brought back were used as a medicinal preparation to treat Queen Isabella, who fell ill for a time in 1493 so some of her medicine that she was given came from the New World, and she survived. Which one did she take peppers? Some of the peppers came back from the Indies. Okay.

Marcia Smith 12:54
Ready? Bob, yeah. What animal can never die from old age?

Bob Smith 12:59
That means it dies really quickly. Is it an amoeba? No,

Marcia Smith 13:02
in this case, it means it can only die if a predator kills it. Oh, it won’t die from being too old, okay. But that was a good deduction. You did. Is it something that, just yeah, like a cellular lives an hour or something? No, that’s a good guess. But no.

Bob Smith 13:17
Okay, so does this have legs? Oh, well, like a quadruped, four legs. No. Is it an insect?

Marcia Smith 13:25
No, it’s not an insect. Does it live in water? Yes, it lives in water. Okay,

Bob Smith 13:29
would this be some kind of we’ve talked about this animal

Marcia Smith 13:33
before, not a minnow, no. And we It has many weird properties. Octopus, no. Dolphin, no, the immortal jellyfish. Oh, no, kidding, yep, known scientifically as the taropisis darini.

Bob Smith 13:49
Well, I’ve talked about that many times in my life this morning over corn flame. It’s the pteroposis dorini. Yeah, this. I thought it erupted. I thought that was one of those volcanoes. Well,

Marcia Smith 13:58
it’s a particular kind of jellyfish that has the ability to essentially regenerate to its previous life stage. When this species becomes damaged for whatever reason, it can revert back into a polyp and repeat its developmental process well, so it never dies unless, of course, it’s eaten or taken out. But this amazing regenerative ability means they will never die from old age.

Bob Smith 14:23
Interesting, isn’t it, though, okay, I got a couple historic questions, okay, what US president was also a hangman. He was actually an executioner at one

Marcia Smith 14:34
point in his life, executioner. Yeah, former president, yeah.

Bob Smith 14:37
Well, no, he was a future president. He was an executioner at one point, the only US president to serve two non consecutive terms that should get it right there. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 14:46
it should. That would be, that would be, yes, what’s his name? What’s his name? Buddy knows everybody does

Bob Smith 14:55
and his name is, you tell me, on Sesame Street there was a character. With his first name, Grover Cleveland,

Marcia Smith 15:05
I had to go to puppets to get the

Bob Smith 15:07
we’ll get there one way or the other. Thank you. Yes. Grover Cleveland, the only US president who served two non consecutive terms. So he went away and came back and was President again. He also held another record. He was the only president who had served, at one point in his life as a hangman. That’s when he was the Sheriff of Buffalo, New York. He personally operated the lever of the gallows for two men’s execution.

Marcia Smith 15:32
Imagine the commercials against that guy. No kidding.

Bob Smith 15:34
He’s a killer,

Marcia Smith 15:36
just showing him, you know, chopping somebody’s head off.

Bob Smith 15:39
And then I’ve got another question here for you. Okay, okay, what famous discovery was made during a top secret Cold War Project? And we’ll answer that when we return with more of the off rip

Marcia Smith 15:54
while I google the answer. No, no. Okay. I’m Bob Smith, Marcia Smith, we’ll be

Bob Smith 15:59
right back in just a moment. That’s good. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marcia Smith. We do this every week for the Cedarburg Public Library, Cedarburg, Wisconsin, and its internet radio station CPL radio. Once that show’s done on Monday nights, we go out over all the podcast platforms all over the world, and here we are in your ear. All right, Marcia, what famous discovery was made during a top secret Cold War Project for the US government. I don’t know. This is a major discovery. We were all fascinated by it when it happened, we saw the first pictures of it in about 80 years.

Unknown Speaker 16:36
Oh, yeah, hello.

Bob Smith 16:37
What is it? Everybody knows, Marcia,

Marcia Smith 16:42
it’s under the ocean. It’s Oh, the Titanic. The Titanic.

Bob Smith 16:45
Yes. Robert Ballard went to the US Navy in 1982 he was requesting funding to develop these robotic submersible technologies to find the Titanic. Well, the Navy was interested in the technology, but not for the Titanic. They wanted to put it to use to find out what went wrong with two nuclear submarines that sank. So he was funded to find those. Once he found them, if he had time left, he could do whatever he wanted to do. So he and his team went to work. They discovered the wreckage of the US Navy’s thresher and the USS scorpion. So what he determined was the nuclear reactors were safe on the ocean floor. They were having no impact on the environment, and he found no evidence that any Soviet weapon sank either one of the ships. He said, one of the most valuable lessons he learned while searching for those sunken submarines was that the heaviest objects sink first, and that results in a debris trail. So he used that knowledge to track down the Titanic. He assumed the ship had broken in half and left a debris trail. It turned out to be true, and only in 2022 and 2023 has the US government ever acknowledged that was the reason he was on that mission was to find these two submarines. Oh, really, we all thought he was out there and found the Titanic. Yeah. Well, he was funded by the US government to find nuclear submarines that had sank. Jeez,

Marcia Smith 18:05
interesting. Okay, Bob, earlier this year, the Harris poll people and Axios news outlet did a survey of 16,300 people, and they asked him to name the most reputable brands. Okay, there were 100 listed. You want to guess what the top ones were.

Bob Smith 18:23
Number one was Acme, the dynamite company in the Road Runner cartoons, because that dynamite always went off. Anything that said Acme on it, we knew the Road Runner was in trouble. That’s not the answer. No,

Marcia Smith 18:35
it’s not. I don’t even know this first one, Patagonia, okay, that came in. Number one. You know what that is, it’s exercise equipment, isn’t it? It’s outdoor clothing and gear. Oh, outdoor clothing and gear. Okay, that came in at number one, followed by Costco, where you and I, we know that one, John Deere, Trader Joe’s and Chick fil A.

Bob Smith 18:54
Well, those are all the top brands in terms of people’s minds. That’s right. But going

Marcia Smith 18:58
down to the bottom five, what are they? 95 it comes in spirit. Airlines. Then Facebook, Oh, really. Then Twitter, then 98 Fox Corporation, well, 99 FTX, that’s a digital currency exchange company. And number 100 the least reputable brand, the Trump Organization, good

Bob Smith 19:19
lord, so down at the bottom were all those names. Yes, you know what I find fascinating is that social media is held in such low esteem as a brand. Yeah, Marcia. In what country is it illegal to mow your lawn hang your laundry or recycle on Sundays? Well, is it South Africa? Norway, China or Switzerland? I

Marcia Smith 19:41
know that sounds China like is it? No, it’s not okay. That’s why I’m saying Switzerland.

Bob Smith 19:49
Yes, it is Switzerland. How did you get that on the second choice? According to travel trivia.com and time out, Switzerland has a number of. Idiosyncratic laws on the books. Three of them concern what you are not allowed to do on Sundays. I don’t care for that, mowing your lawn, hanging your laundry, even dropping off your recycling. See, that

Marcia Smith 20:11
would not fly in America. No, we think of Switzerland as you know, pretty much utopia in a lot of ways. But you’re not gonna tell me what to do on my Sunday don’t mow your lawn, then, all right, good to know. Okay, baby, how tall is a baby giraffe when it’s born? Oh,

Bob Smith 20:27
that’s a good one. We’ve been watching the National Geographic special on elephants to see one of those being born. And boy, that thing was big when it was born. Yeah, couldn’t believe it must have been three and a half feet tall. Okay, how big is a giraffe? A giraffe, when it’s born, how tall is it four feet? Is it three feet? Well, what does zoom mean?

Marcia Smith 20:50
Six feet? Oh,

Bob Smith 20:51
my God, when it’s born, it’s six feet tall. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 20:55
holy cow, 150 pounds when it drops out of its mother’s womb. Wow. Reaches full weight and height around age 416, to 18 feet for males, the average height and girls come in at 14 to 16 feet tall. Jeez, 18 feet tall for a male giraffe, my

Bob Smith 21:15
God, well, we’ve seen him at the zoo, you know. And full weight

Marcia Smith 21:19
also comes in at around seven or eight years old, is 4250 pounds for the male, wow.

Bob Smith 21:25
But a baby that’s six feet tall, weighing 150 pounds when it comes out of the womb, oh, that poor mother. Holy cow, I had no idea. Wow. All right, that sounds unrealistic, yeah. Why is this unrealistic? Marcia, you’ve seen those old war movies where a guy will pull a grenade pin out with his teeth before he throws it. Why is that unrealistic?

Marcia Smith 21:52
Oh, it is. Yeah, it’s not a thing. Well, it could be done, but it would be very difficult, because I don’t know why the

Bob Smith 22:01
pin on a common M 67 grenade requires seven to 11 pounds of force to pull. That’s a lot of teeth. Well, pulling a grenade pin out with your teeth would probably remove the teeth as well. I’m sure when World War Two veterans were watching these films, when they first came out, they’d go, Oh, come on. Nobody do that.

Marcia Smith 22:21
Okay, here’s a question, why do we say every dog has his

Bob Smith 22:25
day? Why do we say Every dog has its day? Yeah, you know

Marcia Smith 22:29
what that means? Yeah. It’s kind of like, no matter who it is, you know, get your moment in the sun. Moment

Bob Smith 22:35
in the sun, yeah, hmm. Why does every dog have its moment in the sun? Why is that? I don’t know. Why is that an expression good

Marcia Smith 22:43
old ancient times again and today in some third world countries, dogs lead miserable lives, which has led to hard time. Expressions like sick as a dog, dog tired. And it’s a dog’s life that’s true as for the proverb, every dog has his day. It was first recorded as an Epilog in 405 BC, holy cow for Greek playwright Euripides, who was killed by a pack of dogs, and that was in his

Bob Smith 23:10
Epilog. So every dog has his day that had something to do with him. Well, yeah, he was killed by a pack of dogs. So Every dog has its day, yeah, meaning they get a chance to do something they want to do.

Marcia Smith 23:22
Well, the stay to shine. They killed the famous playwright Euripides.

Bob Smith 23:28
Well, I didn’t know that’s how he died. That must have been unpleasant. Yes, it’s not something I knew either. Bob speaking about unpleasant. Marcia, if they are bathed, what causes that unpleasant wet dog smell?

Marcia Smith 23:41
Oh, it is. It is stinky. It

Bob Smith 23:43
is, isn’t it? And here’s the answer from the American Kennel Club.

Marcia Smith 23:47
Is it some oil in their skin? That’s when wet permeates your nostrils.

Bob Smith 23:51
You got the right idea. It’s not due to the dog itself, but to the yeast and bacteria that live in dog fur. Ah, good. Times, those microorganisms release volatile compounds as they live out their lives. On our dogs, we don’t usually smell those, but when you mix with water, some of those chemicals become pungent, and the combination becomes pretty stinky, and the water evaporates from the fur, the compounds become airborne, and a wet dog basically makes a little stink cloud wherever it goes. So they say that drying your dog quickly with a towel can lessen that the way that smell, yeah? So you might go, Oh God, I don’t want to put this on my towel. Well, yeah, that’s the way to get rid of that smell from the dog. It’ll keep those microorganisms from doing that quick population explosion that a damp environment gives

Marcia Smith 24:40
them. I have two quick expressions, see if you know where they came from. Close, but no cigar.

Bob Smith 24:45
Close, but no cigar. I always thought that had to do with your winning something at a carnival. And it does. The Carnival would be that would be the prize. You’d get a cigar.

Marcia Smith 24:54
That’s exactly right. It was a prize handed out for carnival games in the old days, I didn’t know. That Close, but no cigar. Yeah. And here’s one that I really like, put a sock in it. It meaning to keep quiet, right? Is

Bob Smith 25:06
that a carnival expression? No, no, no. This is a different put a sock in it. Yeah, I’ve heard of that. I’ve

Marcia Smith 25:11
said it to you. I believe

Bob Smith 25:13
many, many times you’ve said, Put a sock in it, yes, and close your pie hole. As I recall, was another one I’ve heard recently. Oh, dear, um, Gee, I don’t know, put a sock in it. Why does that color

Marcia Smith 25:23
you like this? It comes from the earliest Edison phonographs, which had those big horns, you know, to bring out the sound. Yeah, there was no volume control in those days, so to mute the sound, you could stuff a sock into the horn. Is that where it comes from? It was the perfect size, and it didn’t hurt the paint. Put a sock in it, yeah, I’ll be darned, isn’t that funny? That’s good? Yeah, I’ve got

Bob Smith 25:44
an entertainment question, okay, the term movies that originally did not apply to the films. What did movies originally apply to

Marcia Smith 25:53
moving boxes or something? No, something on wheels? No.

Bob Smith 25:57
What the people working in a movie. Oh, the movie really. In the little but affluent town of Hollywood, people who worked in films were often called movies, and the movies were looked down upon. They were barred from the best clubs. Don’t want any movies in here. They didn’t want movies Jews or negros. That was the thing that was, according to Hollywood land and legend. Did

Marcia Smith 26:20
the Jews kind of start Hollywood too? Yes. It’s hard to believe. Why would they? Why

Bob Smith 26:24
would they not be I do have interesting the background of those guys is fascinating. We’ll have that on a future show. I’ll

Marcia Smith 26:30
get to my quotes then. All right. Are you done? Yes, okay. Helen Keller, keep your face to the sunshine and you will never see the shadows. I like that one.

Bob Smith 26:40
Wow. That’s interesting that a person who was blind could talk about, well, she could

Marcia Smith 26:45
feel it. She could sense it on her face. Yeah. She always fascinated me. Yeah. And here’s one from Jane’s dent. A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken. I think that’s how we finished last summer, right? Yes, it

Bob Smith 27:03
was. The Lawnmower did get broken, all right? Well, that’s it for today. We want to thank Benjamin, Christopher of Los Angeles, for submitting his question to us. That’s good, and we invite you to submit anything you’d like to by going to our website, the offramp dot show and scrolling all the way down to contact us. I’m Bob Smith. I’m Marcia Smith. Join us again next time when we return with more fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia here on the off ramp.

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