185 Butt Load Of Trivia

Bob Smith 0:00
Bob, what deep secret did Marine Corps major Don Dunnigan have to keep from the men under his command?

Marcia Smith 0:07
Got me All right. What vegetable Bob, can you strap to your knees to reduce inflammation and arthritis pain?

Bob Smith 0:15
What answers to those and other questions coming up in this half hour of the off ramp with Bob and Marcia

Marcia Smith 0:21
Smith.

Bob Smith 0:39
Welcome to the off ramp. A chance to slow down, steer clear of crazy and take a side road to sanity with some fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia. Well, Marcia, what did Marine Corps major Don Donegan, who served during the Vietnam era, what big secret did he have to keep from the hundreds of men under his commands

Marcia Smith 1:00
they were losing the war. No,

Bob Smith 1:02
well, that would have been a secret. Yes,

Marcia Smith 1:05
I don’t know he had some terminal disease. No,

Bob Smith 1:08
he had something he did earlier in his life that he knew would bring ridicule upon him.

Marcia Smith 1:13
Oh, I don’t know. What did the poor man do? Well,

Bob Smith 1:16
as a six year old child actor, he was the voice of Walt Disney’s Bambi. Oh, that’s right, he became a Marine Corps drill instructor, a drill instructor. That’s funny, yeah, the cute little voice of Donny Donegan grew into the rough, tough, gruff voice of Marine Corps drill instructor Don Dunigan. That’s a great story. It is. He became a highly decorated veteran of the Vietnam War. He served 25 years before he retired as a major, won a Bronze Star and three Purple Hearts the Marine Corps was a perfect fit, as long as he could keep his secret, mommy, mom, that scene where he’s crying, mother, mother, when, when Bambi is mother was killed by the hunters. Off screen, he didn’t know it. He says that’s the only thing that bothered me. Nobody told me when I recorded the line, Mother, Mother, what it was all about. Oh, really, yeah. How old

Marcia Smith 2:07
was he six? Yeah, six years old. He was old enough to handle the truth. Yes,

Bob Smith 2:12
you can’t handle the truth. Kid. I don’t think Walt Disney was that kind of a guy. No, I don’t think. But Don Dunigan had an interesting past. He was in poverty as a kid, and then he became a child actor. He worked with Boris Karloff and Basil Rathbone, yeah. And then he was chosen to do Disney. And then, after he did that thing, his family broke up. He ended up in boarding houses, oh, dear, yeah. And then he joined the Marine Corps at 18.

Marcia Smith 2:36
So was his secret ever revealed?

Bob Smith 2:39
He was found out. He told this story that only a few months before he retired, when he was a major, his commanding officer, a general he’d served with in Vietnam, called him into his office and assigned him to a chore he didn’t want to do, Donegan, I want you to audit the auditors. Oh, my God, swamped with other duties, he respectfully asked him, general, when do you think I’m going to have time to do that? He looked at me, pulled his glasses down like some kind of college professor. There’s a big red Top Secret Folder he got out of some safe, oh, it had my name on it. He pats the folder, looks at me in the eye and says, You will audit the auditors, won’t you? Major Bambi. Isn’t that great?

Marcia Smith 3:21
Wow. Dirty pool, man.

Bob Smith 3:24
Disney thought he was dead until he started being interviewed in retirement. And there was an article online how Bambi fought the Viet Cong. So Disney called him up and said, Are you the guy that did that? Yeah. Would you be in one of our DVDs? We’re doing a new DVD release, effective, yes, kind of thing. Then he even toured England for the Bambi DVD. I hope he got paid for everything. He got paid for that, I’m sure. But he kept a secret that he was the voice of Bambi all the years he was in the service. Adorable. Okay,

Marcia Smith 3:53
let’s move on to vegetables. What vegetable Can you strap to your knees to reduce inflammation or arthritis pain.

Bob Smith 4:01
So this has got to be something that absorbs things from your skin, or something,

Marcia Smith 4:05
no, it actually kind of releases things into, Oh, is that

Bob Smith 4:09
right? Yeah, okay. Are they pickles, putting pickles on your knees, or, I’m thinking of funny things. Are they coconuts on your knees? That would be, is this between your knees? Is that what you said?

Marcia Smith 4:18
Well, this, it’s cabbage leaves. Bob cabbage leaves. It goes back hundreds of years. Really. It was a poor man’s joint pain relief. It still works, and people still use it effectively. Cabbage leaves are high in vitamins and various nutrients that soak into the skin. Wow.

Bob Smith 4:37
To get rid of inflammation, yeah. Wow. Cabbage leaves. If

Marcia Smith 4:40
pain persists, grow a new one in the morning.

Bob Smith 4:45
Apply more cabbage leaves. You know, the only thing is wrong with that is it doesn’t fit into a bottle. You can just, you know, shake it out one at a time. Big, big, big ass cabbage leave.

Marcia Smith 4:55
Yeah, that’s right, wow.

Bob Smith 4:57
Okay, okay, I’ve got a food question. For you. Marcia, me too. What are those tiny holes in crackers for? Well,

Marcia Smith 5:05
funny, you should ask. Oh, yeah, I didn’t know there were tiny holes in crack. Well, think of a salt cracker. You’ve got those little holes. But what else? Well, there are other crackers that my rice crackers, maybe

Bob Smith 5:15
not your rice crackers, but anything made with dough has those in it,

Marcia Smith 5:19
because the heat puckers the dough and makes a little hole. No,

Bob Smith 5:24
they’re known as docking holes, and they’re used to connect the top and bottom layers of the dough during food preparation. The holes prevent large air pockets from forming during baking. So the more holes a cracker has, the denser it will be. So those are docking holes in your saltines.

Marcia Smith 5:40
Where do they come from? The machine has the little pokey the bakers make them. They put them in. They intentionally put them in with little needles or something. Don’t know

Bob Smith 5:50
what they use. Marsh, I think I’ve given you everything you need to

Marcia Smith 5:54
know. I’m gonna go move on here. Okay, Bob, 1987 you were there. What’s the first VHS movie that people could buy or rent that actually had a commercial up front on it, or

Bob Smith 6:07
commercial in front of the show, yeah? And that was usually a preview of coming attractions, yeah.

Marcia Smith 6:12
But this first one had a commercial double your points if you can name the product, 19. So it was a product, yeah, it was a commercial, not for another movie, but for a product. Wow,

Bob Smith 6:23
gee, VHS tapes. God, we had a bunch of those, didn’t we? Yeah, Lady in the tramp got stolen from us one year when our house was broken into pop

Marcia Smith 6:31
tart, our son put inside the VHS That’s right, that

Bob Smith 6:34
was a new machine we had to buy.

Marcia Smith 6:37
And they weren’t cheap, not a toaster.

Bob Smith 6:38
Son, it’s a VHS tape. He

Marcia Smith 6:41
looks so cute, though, when he told us that it was hard to punish him.

Bob Smith 6:46
Okay, all right. What film was it? Was it a Disney film? I’ll

Marcia Smith 6:49
give you a hint here. Its sequel just came out recently, and was equally huge hit. Oh, really, its sequel just came out, uh huh, after all these years, Top Gun. Oh, no kidding.

Bob Smith 7:01
So that was the first VHS tape that had a commercial in front of the film. And what was the commercial for

Marcia Smith 7:07
Diet Pepsi? Back in the day, there it was $100 to buy a movie on VHS to bring down the ridiculous cost of that, somebody figured out, let’s put a Pepsi commercial on the front, and they had a Tom Cruise look alike trying to drink a bottle of Diet Pepsi in the cockpit during maneuvers. They even ran it on TV, so it was a nice cross promotion. Okay, gotcha. Anyway, the ad helped to reduce the cost of buying the film and even renting it. After a while, I forgot

Bob Smith 7:35
we bought those tapes too as well as rented that. And we bought some Disney films for the kids, we bought Dumbo and some of the others, yeah, yeah, all right. History, Marcia, history, what was the greatest advantage the Mongol Empire held over their enemies?

Marcia Smith 7:52
They were bigger, they were taller, they were scarier. They were scarier. They had weapons that nobody else had,

Bob Smith 7:58
yes, according to National Geographic, they did have arrow storms. They called them. So that was like 1000s of arrows going against, you know, another army and they did the hit and run barrages and seizures. They were taller, in a way, but it wasn’t because they were taller. Why would they be taller? What was their big secret weapon, weedies?

Marcia Smith 8:17
I don’t know. What was their big secret horses. That’s

Bob Smith 8:22
right, they had many advantages, but the biggest the military superpower of the Middle Ages may have had is they controlled more than half the horses on the planet.

Marcia Smith 8:32
Wow. My mind’s eye went to what did a Mongol look like, and he was always on a horse. That’s right, that’s why I deduced that they ruled for 160

Bob Smith 8:40
years, from 1206, to 1368, horses were their biggest military advantage, and not just horses. Researchers believe that the Mongol hordes may have had climate change, mild weather and above average moisture that produced abundant grasses for their horses and better conditions for livestock breeding.

Marcia Smith 8:57
Weird, yeah. What things precipitate other things. They did

Bob Smith 9:01
have the stirrup, which was a new technology to keep them in their saddles. Uh, huh, yeah. So that was it. They had control of more than half the horses on the planet, these magnificent horses they were using in battle, yeah. Okay,

Marcia Smith 9:13
you’ll like this one Bob electrical engineer Judith love Cohen, helped to bring the Apollo 13 astronauts home safely after an oxygen tank exploded on board back in 1970 you remember that, yes, it was very touch and go for a moment in the world that was the Houston, we have a problem, and the mission to the Moon was abandoned, right? What makes this story particularly interesting was that Cohen was in the hospital at the time, about to give birth to a baby. Oh, I didn’t know that. And she phoned in her math calculations, which helped to save the day. Oh, my God, in a very big way, it helped to say yes. But here’s the question, Who did she give birth to that day?

Bob Smith 9:55
Who did she give birth to that day? What’s her name? Again? Judith love, COVID.

Marcia Smith 9:59
And which has nothing to do with the name we know.

Bob Smith 10:02
Okay today, so she gave birth to somebody who uses a different name today, who’s well known. Yeah. Oh, so an entertainer. Yeah, really, uh huh. Who did she give birth to on that day? So that she gave the math equations to NASA, which saved the astronauts lives 1970

Marcia Smith 10:18
who Jack Black. Oh No, kidding, that little munchkin that, wow, yeah, what was that movie he did, the rock.

Bob Smith 10:27
Oh, the school of rock that was so good. Yeah, he did. And he was in a lot of other,

Marcia Smith 10:32
oh yeah, high fidelity was awesome. And that a lot of them. But anyway, that’s who her son was, no kidding. And she died not too long ago at 83 or something, and he posted a picture of her and told that story. What

Bob Smith 10:45
a great story. What a great legacy. Yeah, for your mom, your mom saved the astronaut the day you were born. Holy cow, that’s just wonderful. What a wonderful story. That is. I knew you’d like Jack Black’s mom, who would have thought, Okay, I’ve got two questions on birds. These birds are native to South America. Yet today they can be found in the wilds of New York City. Which birds are they? I’ll give you names here. Oh, okay, emus, Monk parrots, gray crowned cranes, or coca Buras. Gosh, I can’t

Marcia Smith 11:19
picture any of them living in New York City, passing over New York City. I’ll just say

Bob Smith 11:25
emus. No, it’s the monk parrots, really. There are parrots in New York City. They’re native to South America. They were introduced into the United States as pets in the 60s, and today they’re an estimated 550 thriving in the wild in

Marcia Smith 11:40
New York City. No kidding, where they hang around Central Park? I don’t know. Maybe it’s the

Bob Smith 11:44
buildings they like, you know, instead of a jungle, and I got one more here. Okay, it is a jungle Bob. Which bird has stomach acid more potent than the acid found in your car batteries?

Speaker 1 11:56
Which bird do I get a choice? I can give you a choice. Thank you. Okay, these are

Bob Smith 12:00
the bird choices for you, the chicken, the bald eagle, the great blue heron, or turkey vultures. Turkey vultures, that’s right. The stomach acid of a turkey vulture is more potent than your car’s battery acid. I

Marcia Smith 12:13
said that because they eat a lot of disgusting things off the

Bob Smith 12:16
road. That’s exactly right. Yeah, it’s useful for digesting rotting carcasses, wow. In fact, a turkey vulture stomach acid lets it digest organisms that cause botulism, Anthrax, rabies, cholera, hepatitis and polio without being affected because of its its battery acid, like stomach Wow. That’s something to ponder. How did it evolve to get that. That’s the interesting question, isn’t it, what led to that?

Marcia Smith 12:44
Gonna say, what’s the evolutionary journey? I

Bob Smith 12:47
guess we should come up with something else for this creature. What’s a little

Marcia Smith 12:50
battery acid in there? Holy cow. But you know what? He didn’t do well on the Atkins diet. So you know, everything has its limitations. Okay, Bob, why is someone in a hopeless situation said to be over a barrel? Does

Bob Smith 13:05
it have anything to do with Niagara Falls and all those people that went over the falls and

Marcia Smith 13:09
barrels? Good assumption. But no, okay, that’s not it. Over

Bob Smith 13:13
a barrel, under a barrel, under a barrel, over a barrel. Okay. Is it something to do with being

Marcia Smith 13:18
on a ship? No, no. As many things do, it goes back to the good old crappy days when they used to flog people. They’d actually strap them over a barrel to make it easier to flog. Oh, dear. And it was often used to punish difficult school children too. So I really Yeah, the expression became popular in the 1939 Raymond Chandler novel The Big Sleep, and he was the first one to use it, and he used it euphemistically. So that’s from the 19th century, when they used to strap people over a barrel make it easier to whip them. Wow. Okay. Marcia,

Bob Smith 13:55
speaking of people, I have a question for you. We all know China is a big country. Lots of people over there, right? Lots of people. Okay, my question to you is, when did China’s population reach 1 billion? I’ll give you times. Okay,

Speaker 1 14:08
okay, you’re so much nicer than me. You give me choices. I do give you choices, and I

Bob Smith 14:12
am nicer than you. That’s a fact. 1982 1709, 1896, or 2004 what year did China end up with a billion people? Can I have the dates again, 1982 1709, 1896, or 2004, 82 That’s right. That’s exactly right. Seems like they’ve had a billion plus population for centuries, but it was in 1982 they exceeded that mark, and that meant that the Chinese accounted for 25% of the Earth’s total population, okay, the only other country to exceed a billion in population in size is what country, India, India, right. They reached that milestone in 1998 Okay,

Marcia Smith 14:54
all right. Well, that’s a butt load of people.

Bob Smith 14:56
I don’t think we would call it that. Well, that’s

Marcia Smith 14:59
because Mike. Question is, how much is a butt load? Oh, geez, we can quantify.

Bob Smith 15:06
Well, I think we’re saying a billion Marsh I think you just told me that’s what it is. That’s a butt load of

Marcia Smith 15:11
people, I bet you didn’t know, but is a unit of measurement? No, what’s

Bob Smith 15:15
it? How do they call something a, but it’s not an and it’s a, but

Marcia Smith 15:19
it’s mostly obsolete, but it’s still used in the world of wine. Bob, oh, so quantify, please. How much is a butt load

Bob Smith 15:29
all the things I’m asked on this

Marcia Smith 15:31
show, but this is, this is not how much to be funny. This is okay.

Bob Smith 15:35
Is it 10 gallons? No, it’s much bigger. It’s bigger than 10 gallons. 50 gallons,

Marcia Smith 15:40
it’s more than double that. Okay, tell me so if we’re talking Imperial measurements, that means it’s out of the UK. A but is a cask of liquid like in wine or brewing contexts. In the wine world, a but is around 108 imperial gallons, just under 500 liters. Wow. Okay, in US terms, 126 gallons. So it turns out that a butt load is a butt load. I guess

Bob Smith 16:08
that is a but load of 26 gallon, 26 gallons. So that’s what a butt load is. Yeah, from now on, I’ll know that even I can’t handle that. How can I unremember what a butt load is? All right, I think it’s time for a break. Marcia, love that. All right, we’ll be back when the off ramp continues. I’m Bob Smith. Marcia Smith, we’ll be right back in just a moment. We’re back. 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. Two questions about Frank Lloyd Wright. Marsha, okay, his son designed something everybody knows about these days. Okay, what is it? Lincoln Logs, that’s one thing he designed. What’s the other thing that was designed by a son of Frank Lloyd Wright?

Marcia Smith 16:53
That’s the only thing I know. Oh, come on, a building. Yes. Famous building, famous

Bob Smith 16:59
Performance Center in

Marcia Smith 17:01
New York, in California, California. Was it? Oh, could it be the big outdoor

Bob Smith 17:10
what’s it called? Yes, everybody knows,

Marcia Smith 17:13
everybody knows it. Our son has gone there, and we went there. He took us there, yeah, it’s that big amphitheater the

Bob Smith 17:19
Hollywood Bowl. That’s it. Okay? We went to get it out before the show ended. So there we go. Yeah, his son, Lloyd Wright designed an acoustic shell for the natural Canyon amphitheater where the Hollywood Bowl is. It was done for a 1916 Shakespeare production, okay, Julius Caesar. We always think of this as being where, you know, bands perform and everything, uh huh. But it was that was done for that 1916 performance, and the amphitheater was preserved and improved upon and reworked into what is now the Hollywood Bowl. Wow. Okay, what Academy Award winning actress was Frank Lloyd Wright’s granddaughter? Was her name? Wright? No, her mother was Catherine Dorothy Wright. Her father was a salesman named Kenneth Stuart Baxter,

Marcia Smith 18:04
so it was Meredith Baxter, it was Anne Baxter. Anne Baxter, she won

Bob Smith 18:08
an Oscar for the Best Supporting Actress in 1946 she was one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s grandchildren.

Marcia Smith 18:13
So I was wrong about Wright. Yes, that’s right. That’s correct. All right, Bob, why is the last minute before a deadline called the 11th hour.

Bob Smith 18:22
I didn’t know we called the deadline the 11th hour. Well, yeah, you’re, I’m

Marcia Smith 18:27
working on this till the 11th hour. Haven’t you ever used that?

Bob Smith 18:30
I guess so, yeah, you’re an hour away from midnight, so that’s when the day changes. So dig it’s because you’re going into the next day.

Marcia Smith 18:37
Well, that’s pretty much it, but the reference goes back to the days of the sundial. Okay, remember that when you were little, you had a sundial strapped on your wrist. There

Bob Smith 18:46
was such a thing. I found that during the 17th century and 18th centuries, they had little mini sundials that wealthy would wear on their like a ring, really? Yeah, I said that to be amusing. No, I saw one in a history book the other day, and I went, Oh my God, what a great question.

Marcia Smith 19:02
Well, too late, and it’s my question, so let’s get back to me. Okay, all right, it’s all about you. Marsh, yes, right now it is. So the sun dial Bob. The period from dawn to sundown when a sun dial was usable was divided into 12 hours. So the 11th hour came just before sunset, and that meant you ran out of daylight, and that meant you couldn’t do any more work.

Bob Smith 19:24
Oh, so the 11th hour meant a different time of day than it does now. That means you

Marcia Smith 19:28
can’t get any more work done because there won’t be light. Well, that makes sense, yeah, so working on deadline or the 11th hour means that’s it. You’re out of light.

Bob Smith 19:36
Okay, all right. Marcia, a couple more movie questions. Okay, don’t all the main characters in the famous film The Wizard of Oz had prototypes in both the Kansas and the oz scenes. Remember, Dorothy was in both the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and The Lion were the farm workers in Kansas. Who is the only major oz character that didn’t have a prototype. TM, no. Oh, this is the only major oz character that didn’t have a prototype in Kansas. Okay, oh, the Good Witch, that’s right, Glinda, the Good Witch of the North, okay, ding, ding, ding,

Marcia Smith 20:11
I got it. All right, all right, here’s a quickie. Bob, okay. During the 19th century, perfumes were often derived from the fragrance of a single flower, okay? By contrast, today, every ounce of Chanel number five has the concentrated oil of around 12 roses and how many jasmine flowers? I don’t know. I’ll just take a guess. Okay, five 1000

Bob Smith 20:36
Oh, my goodness, for just one ounce, that’s

Marcia Smith 20:38
what it says. 1000 jasmine Flowers in one ounce of Chanel number five. Imagine the concentrated oil of all those flowers would be overwhelming. Jeez.

Bob Smith 20:47
Okay, okay, I got another movie question. What Oscar sat in a storefront window for 20 years after it was won? Whose Oscar was it? I don’t know. It was the Oscar that was won by I don’t know, a boy from Indiana, Pennsylvania. His father ran a hardware store. Oh,

Marcia Smith 21:08
wait, whose father ran a hardware store? That’s a famous story. Oh, I’ll tell you who

Bob Smith 21:15
it was, Jimmy store and what he won his Oscar for Philadelphia. Story 1940 he gave it to his dad, who displayed it in the front window of the hardware store for 26 years. Pretty cool. Where are we

Marcia Smith 21:31
going to put Ben’s Oscar, I don’t know, in the office window here. There we go. All right. Why is it Bob? When we get older, it’s harder to drive at night or read without

Bob Smith 21:43
lots of light. Well, it’s because you get cataracts and you can’t see as well. It’s

Marcia Smith 21:47
not just that our pupils actually get smaller as we age. I didn’t know that. I didn’t know either. It’s one of the things that shrink. The human pupil is controlled by certain muscles, and as we add on the years, those muscles weaken, and so as they get smaller, they’re less responsive to light. So people in their 60s need three times as much light to read comfortably as people in their 20s. You

Bob Smith 22:10
know, I always sort of felt that as I got older, that I needed more light to read, and

Marcia Smith 22:14
I never really put it together. I didn’t have cataracts, but I remember my mother absolutely going nuts in a dark restaurant because she couldn’t read the menu. And instead of feeling pity, I was embarrassed. Oh, that’s terrible. Oh, well, she made such a deal. Oh, sorry, mom said you were mean to your mother sometimes. I mean, I wasn’t mean. Then,

Bob Smith 22:36
all right, what birds have? A beard, a wattle and a snood,

Marcia Smith 22:41
a beard, Oh, it must be turkeys. That’s right.

Bob Smith 22:45
Turkeys, those are the parts of their body. The fold of the flesh that grows from a Turkey’s throat is called a wattle, the long, fleshy ornament that grows from its forehead and hangs over its bill is called a snood, and the long tuft of hair that projects from its breast is called a beard. Okay, so those are all the parts of a turkey.

Marcia Smith 23:06
What common beverage

Speaker 1 23:08
glows in the dark? What? Yeah, there is one. It’s a Mountain Dew, isn’t it? No,

Marcia Smith 23:13
but that looks like it glows without the light. Yeah, it’s this is the time of the year for tonic. Good old gin and tonic. No kidding, tonic water is best known for adding a little bit to cocktails, although it has a hidden talent. While modern tonic water often includes citrus flavors or sweeteners to ease their bitter taste, the mix is traditionally crafted from just two ingredients, carbonated water and quinine. Okay, that’s where the illumination is. In the quinine, its ability to glow. Technically, it’s called fluorescence, and it only occurs when the substance is exposed to the right condition. And how often do we look at your tonic water with ultraviolet

Bob Smith 23:56
I’m gonna say. Where’s that gonna be? In a den, an opium den somewhere.

Marcia Smith 24:00
Anyway, yeah, the excited molecules then quickly release the energy, which appears as a blue hue to the human eye in a darkened room. Okay, so let’s play with that. Later,

Bob Smith 24:12
we’ll have some fun with the tonic water. Fun. The tonic out, honey. Oh my, gives a whole new meaning to tonic, doesn’t it? Yes, it does. Marsha, remember, last week on our show, we talked about the backgrounds of the Hollywood pioneers, the people who started the movies. And we were surprised that, you know, they were the Jews excluded from so many things in Los Angeles originally, but they built the town well, you know. So I thought I would give you the background of some of these people that we just know their maybe their names in history so quickly here. Louis B Mayer was a roving junk dealer. Jesse Lasky of Paramount he was a gold miner who had pan for gold. Samuel Goldwyn was a glove cutter. Daniel Zanuck loaded bananas on the New York City docks. The Warner Brothers had a scrap metal business. And the authors of the book. Hollywood land and legend feel that the diverse occupations of those early film tycoons were an asset to their work in the cinema, and it helped them survive. Gave them an edge over any other producers that came into the medium of film.

Marcia Smith 25:13
They all became look from such humble beginnings, multi million dollar moguls in

Bob Smith 25:18
a huge new industry they invented. Yeah, just amazing. It

Marcia Smith 25:21
is okay. How often Bob, do you grow new taste

Bob Smith 25:25
buds? Oh, I imagine that’s never happened. Really, we have the same taste buds when you were born. You never have new ones. Aren’t you

Marcia Smith 25:35
clever? Is it true? No, every two weeks. Bob, every two weeks.

Bob Smith 25:39
This is why I like seeing certain weeks and certain weeks I don’t like the food after that. That’s right, it doesn’t taste as good as the last time we were here. Yeah. Who

Marcia Smith 25:47
knew you get every two

Bob Smith 25:49
weeks? Yeah? Taste buds. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 25:50
Scientists believe taste buds have a bigger purpose than just tasting. They protect us from poisoning. I never thought about that, but their microscopic sensors in our tongue tell our brains that food is safe to eat based on flavor, encouraging us to consume sweets and alerting us to spit out bitter or unpalatable substances that could make us sick well, so the average adult has between two and 10,000 taste buds, wow, and it generally decreases with age, which is why people

Bob Smith 26:21
older need more salt on their foods. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 26:25
you lose some of your taste buds. More

Bob Smith 26:27
seasoning, please. Yes. All right, you got some thoughts for the day?

Marcia Smith 26:31
I do two quotes here, one from Arm and Hammer, which I like when you work seven days a week, 14 hours a day, you get lucky.

Bob Smith 26:42
In other words, there’s no such thing as luck. It’s all hard work. That’s exactly

Marcia Smith 26:45
what. Okay, okay, and let’s go out with Joan Crawford, the beloved mother.

Bob Smith 26:51
No hangers. No more wire hangers.

Marcia Smith 26:53
Love is a fire, but whether it’s going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell. I

Bob Smith 27:03
Okay,

Marcia Smith 27:05
how many times she was married? Oh, my God, from

Bob Smith 27:08
someone with rotating suitors in her life? Yes. All right, that’s it for today. We hope you’ve enjoyed the show, and if you would like to contribute, you can go to our website, the off ramp, dot show, and scroll down to contact us and leave us a question to ask one another, or just some interesting fact that we didn’t

Marcia Smith 27:25
know about, like, how much is a butt load? Oh, geez. Okay. And well,

Bob Smith 27:29
how can i un remember that? All right, on that note, I’m Bob Smith. I’m Marcia Smith. Join us again next time when we come back with a butt load of other trivia here on the off ramp. The off ramp is produced in association with CPL radio online and the Cedarburg Public Library. Cedarburg, Wisconsin, the.

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