Bob Smith 0:00
How did a climb in the Swiss Alps? Make your day at the beach much safer?

Marcia Smith 0:05
And how do statues of men on horses tell us how they died?

Bob Smith 0:10
Hmm answers to those and other questions coming up in this half hour 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 with fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia. Okay, Marcia. So how did it climb in the Swiss Alps make your day at the beach better and safer?

Marcia Smith 0:50
Well, did they find some kind of element that floats and that people use today in their life jackets? Or?

Bob Smith 1:00
Well, that’s a good suggestion. had something to do with the gear or something up there? It did have something to do with something that happened on the mountains

Marcia Smith 1:08
than on the mountain. No, I don’t know. Okay, tell me it’s

Bob Smith 1:12
because a mountain climber a Swiss mountain climber invented one of the first sunscreens. Oh, yeah. You think of the sunscreen for the beach. But climbing at high altitudes can expose you to, you know, very dangerous rays to absolutely and britannica.com reports at one day in 1938, France, greater Switzerland and Z while climbing in the Swiss Alps. He got a nasty sunburn. Well, guess what? He just happened to be a chemistry student. And he thought there must be some way to shield his exposure to excess sunlight. So eight years later, he launched it one of the world’s first effective sunscreens, its name glacier cream owl really? And it’s still being sold today under that name. Yeah, I’ll be done. Now. There were other sunscreens invented at the time. Some say the first one was actually invented by a chemist from Australia, Milton Blake in 1932. And then during World War Two a GI, who is in the South Pacific where a lot of American soldiers and sailors were getting sunburned out there, he came up with the formula for the US Army, which later was commercialized by Coppertone. Okay, so that was another

Marcia Smith 2:17
one. They were one of the first big ones too, right? Yes.

Bob Smith 2:21
But back to our mountain climber, fronts Gauleiter. He not only invented one of the sunscreens. 40 years later, in 1975, he introduced something else even more important flippers know, the sun protection factor, the SPF index, he came up with that it’s the global standard for measuring sunscreen protection and how he did that. Well, he worked with other calculations or other chemists and people over time, he became a chemist so well today when you shop for sunscreen or sunblock or look for the SPF factor, right? We all do. And that’s how a climb in the Swiss Alps made your day at the beach much much safer, huh?

Marcia Smith 2:59
And I heard that somebody some doctor on the radio said you don’t need anything over 40 SPF because it won’t do any good. Go up to 40 and I got one that’s from my face is 90 So I guess it’s superfluous. I can’t

Bob Smith 3:16
even see your face. But that thing on it’s just you become invisible. Maybe

Marcia Smith 3:19
that’s best. Okay. I found I found this fascinating. How do statues of men and i They’re usually men, I can’t think of too many women on horses. Tell us how they died. Boy,

Bob Smith 3:32
that’s interesting, because they’re all of those Civil War statues. It has something to do with the stirrups. Their feet in the stirrups are not and

Marcia Smith 3:40
they’re not hanging down. Yeah, I don’t know. Okay. Statues of horse and rider are usually monarchs are great warriors, and are found in places of honor like downtown Wisconsin Avenue. That’s right in the middle of the street. Yes. The tradition is that if the horse is depicted with all four hooves on the ground, the rider died of natural causes. Oh, if one hoof is raised, the guy died from wounds incurred during battle. And if he’s up in the air with two hooves in the air, the writer portrayed in the statute died on the battlefield.

Bob Smith 4:21
So if it horses raised up like silver like the Lone Ranger silver, that means the writer died in battle if there are two hooves are up, if the two hooves are up the front hopes are up. Yeah, if the one hoof is up what

Marcia Smith 4:32
does that mean that he got hurt by the guide later.

Bob Smith 4:35
And then if the if the horse is all four feet on the ground, he just died of natural causes right or something

Marcia Smith 4:42
else other than his wife banged him over the head.

Bob Smith 4:44
That’s pretty cool. I never knew that.

Marcia Smith 4:47
I didn’t either. I will look for that.

Bob Smith 4:49
All right now here I have a question about war for you. How did timezones botch a famous Cold War military operation?

Marcia Smith 4:58
Well, obviously they say that okay at all, you know at all 600 will commence on the battlefield except they were different time zones so they all showed up at different times. Yes, there was a screw up. Yeah.

Bob Smith 5:10
Do you have any idea what that might have been? That

Marcia Smith 5:12
was a snafu. Yes, it

Bob Smith 5:14
was a snafu.

Marcia Smith 5:16
Do I have any idea what what it was?

Bob Smith 5:18
It was a 1961. Bay of Pigs. That’s it. That’s right. That was the Kennedy administration’s effort to overthrow Fidel Castro in Cuba by backing Cuban mercenaries a revolution and the operation had been in planning since the Eisenhower administration, but it’s believed it failed, in part because the supporting air cover from Nicaragua arrived an hour later than scheduled due to timezone snafu is yes, the according to britannica.com. Today, it’s believed the lateness of the planes was due to a planning. Let’s say it together snafu. Yes. Situation normal all bricked up. Yes. The result of Nicaragua and Cuba being in different timezone. So the air support took off an hour after the invaders began landing on the beaches. Wow. Which was faster? Yeah.

Marcia Smith 6:05
Can you imagine D Day? Oh, yeah. If everyone wasn’t coordinated. Up, up, here comes France two days later. There you go. Okay. Bob, do you ever think about what’s the average size of a medium or the average size of a medium? Yeah, you can compare it to something like a building or whatever, compared to the size of a football field. Okay, wow, that’s pretty big. Well, the majority range in size from a small pebble down to a grain of sand. Really?

Bob Smith 6:33
Yeah. A small pebble is the normal size, the average sized

Marcia Smith 6:37
grain of sand is even more common. Well, and they weigh less than one to two grams. Yeah, you I always think of meteors as these big huge things do so put that in your pipe and smoke

Bob Smith 6:48
kind of hard to do a Hollywood movie about something. a grain of sand heading towards the White House. I

Marcia Smith 6:53
think you’re onto something. That’s why we have so many misconceptions about so many things. Oh, Lord.

Bob Smith 6:59
Well, there’s a meteor heading towards the White House and it’s the size of a grain of sand. This is very common

Marcia Smith 7:06
doesn’t have the same impact. Okay,

Bob Smith 7:09
Hey, speaking of buildings, the best steel was a notorious what? In France? Oh. A steel steel building?

Marcia Smith 7:17
Or was it a barricade building building used for prison for our amendments? No.

Bob Smith 7:25
It was a prison. Marsha, I thought you knew this Bastille days. If you thought I knew this. Why did you ask Bill? I thought you’d come up with the answer. And we both look good, but only one of us did. All right. Best steel originally meant fortress or fortification in France. And the famous Bastille was a fortress built on the eastern gates of Paris in the 14th century. But 400 years later, it had become a prison, the Bastille in prison the political enemies of France’s crown. What famous American was given the key to the Bastille after it was destroyed in the French Revolution, really, a famous American was given the key to the Bastille after it was destroyed. This would have been the late 18th century 1700s. It was seized by writing citizens July 14 1789. It was an iconic moment in the French Revolution, who was given the key to the Bastille after it was destroyed. famous American founding

Marcia Smith 8:20
father. Yes, it was. Was it Ben? No, it was

Bob Smith 8:24
George Washington. Oh, George God. Yes. Because the Marquis de Lafayette, who aided the US during the revolution later played a part in the French Revolution. So he gave George Washington a key to the Bastille after it was destroyed.

Marcia Smith 8:38
George loved Lafayette, like a son. He did. Yeah, he never had a son. So Lafayette, was it

Bob Smith 8:43
his little French son?

Marcia Smith 8:47
Indeed, branding Bob, and the cult of personality often work hand in hand in today’s world, don’t they? Yes, they do. Okay, this religious gentleman from the 1600s is considered to have invented marketing by lending his name to a product he helped to develop. Who is he? Wow.

Speaker 1 9:06
1600s Any a product? Yeah, I’m trying to think the other people from that time I’m thinking of all Shakespeare. He was writing then. And then we had one you’ll know, we had the Gutenberg of the Gutenberg Press. Of course. That’s it the Gutenberg Press.

Bob Smith 9:23
I don’t know the answer. Marsh.

Marcia Smith 9:24
Okay. I’ll give you some hints. Okay, okay. He was French. He was religious. He was 19 years old. And a monk, a

Bob Smith 9:33
monk, a monk, a 19 year old French monk from the 1600s and I should know his name. Yes. No, no, I’m selling like you. Pardon me. Okay. Who

Marcia Smith 9:44
is the DOM pairing your old?

Bob Smith 9:46
Course the champagne? Yes.

Marcia Smith 9:49
A Benedictine monk whose order was in the Champagne region of France. He didn’t invent it exactly. But he perfected it into what we consider champagne today that it was Some kind of double fermentation. Wow. And I like this and tasting his first glass of true champagne he declared, come for I am drinking stars. Anyway, the beverage was much sought after because they knew this guy and what he did and people knew who he was. So he decided to name it after himself, and it sold at twice the price as the competitors.

Bob Smith 10:25
Well, it still sells very expensively. Domperidone very expensive. Yes.

Marcia Smith 10:29
In 1937, Monet and Chandon bought Don Perrin young brand, and to this day it is high priced and often breaks bidding records in auction. Well, what travesty did you and I commit with Dom Perignon Bob? It was in the hospital room with Chelsea it was in

Bob Smith 10:46
that a unicorn, some kind of big unicorn and a saddle and a yawn? Yeah, what a travesty did we we did it.

Marcia Smith 10:54
We did it with the sports writers at my newspaper. We drank DOM pairing young and little paper cup.

Bob Smith 11:01
Oh my God, I didn’t remember that. I

Marcia Smith 11:03
don’t Oh, I forgot. never forgot that they were there. And you can only keep that bubbly so long, and none of us probably had it much after that.

Bob Smith 11:11
No, I think none of us had ever had anything that expensive to drink. It was probably wasted on all of us at the time. All right, Marsha. Did you know I don’t think so. Did you know banning clotheslines is banned in Vermont.

Marcia Smith 11:24
Apparently it was a problem we didn’t hear about is that strange? Yeah.

Bob Smith 11:27
Well, it’s illegal for anyone in Vermont to ban the use of clotheslines. Now, as we always say there’s always a reason for a law. Why would you need a law about banning clothesline?

Marcia Smith 11:36
I don’t know where you happen to know. This law

Bob Smith 11:40
is actually from this century. It’s not from a century before it was passed in 2009. It’s common for homeowners associations to ban homeowners from solar drying. That’s what they call it, with some calling it up unsightly, but not any longer. In Vermont State Senator Richard McCormick inserted the law into an energy bill because he had long sought to protect this very Greenway to dry your clothes. Now the law doesn’t apply to patio railings in apartments or condos so Vermonters will want to stay on the safe side and use actual clotheslines. But you cannot ban a clothesline because it is a green thing to do.

Marcia Smith 12:16
Well, keep that in mind. Okay, Bob, how fast do you and I and the earth travel around the sun?

Bob Smith 12:23
how fast we travel around the sun? You mean in terms of miles per hour? Not days? Right? I can tell you 365 days we traveled? Correct? That’s correct. But no, I don’t know what the velocity of our travel miles per hour.

Marcia Smith 12:37
Take a guess.

Bob Smith 12:38
24,600 miles per hour. That’s

Marcia Smith 12:41
pretty fast. But right now we are traveling 67,000 miles per hour. Wow. 18.5 miles a second. And gravity grant that for you and me.

Bob Smith 12:53
I’m surprised my hat doesn’t blow I know it’s nuts.

Marcia Smith 12:55
When you think about it. 67,000 miles an hour right at this second. We’re traveling around the sun. Put it in perspective. The Mars Pathfinder went to Mars at 75,000 miles per hour. So okay, we’re a little sluggish.

Bob Smith 13:12
I have some interesting stuff about cats. Okay. Both of our children have cats. What has cats and dogs, but a recent New York Times sketchbook feature showcase famous authors and their cats. Did you know that Charles Dickens had his cat Bob’s paw stuffed and made into a letter opener

Marcia Smith 13:31
after he died? That’s very clever, creepy, but clever. And

Bob Smith 13:35
you can see it at the New York Public Library. Mark Twain had 11 cats and yes, yeah Connecticut farm. Wow. One of them Bambino went missing. He took out an advertisement and offered a $5 reward. So that was probably big money back then. Charles Bukowski had a one ear tom cat named Butch Van Gogh are tall BUKOVSKY,

Marcia Smith 13:55
I get Yeah. I get the Van Gogh.

Bob Smith 13:57
Edgar Allan Poe had a cat named Katerina, one of the scariest stories as the Black Cat. He once said, I wish I could write as mysterious as

Marcia Smith 14:07
a cat. Hmm. Interesting. I think it’s time for a break.

Bob Smith 14:11
No more cat stories. All right, we got more cats coming up. Okay, here on the off ramp. I’m Bob Smith.

Marcia Smith 14:17
I’m Marcia Smith.

Bob Smith 14:18
We’ll be back in just a moment. We’re back you’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith. We do this every week for the Cedarburg Public Library and for its internet radio station after that it goes out on podcast platforms around the world I don’t know what that was, but what author’s home and museum is today home to 60 Cats famous author 60 Cats again is his home is in the United States but it’s a very tip of the United States southern tip

Marcia Smith 14:49
oh it wouldn’t be what’s his name? The miss the the he’s got a beard like me right now.

Bob Smith 14:56
White Beard.

Marcia Smith 14:57
What’s his name? Is it yes, it’s

Bob Smith 14:59
what’s his name? Absolutely.

Marcia Smith 15:01
It’s coming. You know, Carrie right wrote Carrie. No, he didn’t know. Oh, I don’t know that

Bob Smith 15:07
he has a home and Key West and a museum. Yeah. Ernest Hemingway.

Marcia Smith 15:11
Oh, he’s not alive.

Bob Smith 15:12
I didn’t say he was alive. I thought he was I said what authors home and museum is home to 60 Cats not too many authors who are alive have a museum pay should have been a

Marcia Smith 15:21
trigger for getting on my nerves. Okay, okay.

Bob Smith 15:25
Well guess what? Around 60 cats live there, many of them descendants of Snow White, a polydactyl cat, a ship’s captain gave to Hemingway. What is a polytechnic animal?

Marcia Smith 15:37
Multiple feet

Bob Smith 15:39
more than the normal number of toes or fingers. Okay, so today on Hemingway’s grounds, you’ll find 66 toed cats. Really, each one of those cats has six toes. Is that interesting? Yeah, they’re descendants of that cat that he was given. They all have six toes all 60 pretty fascinating. I thought it was fascinating, which is why I brought it to the show. That came from a sketchbook cat people by Bob Eckstein and NAVA Atlas and the New York Times Book Rufio. All

Marcia Smith 16:07
right, Bob, can you name the sunniest city in the world,

Bob Smith 16:12
the sunniest city in the world that is in the mountain somewhere, isn’t it? Nope. And like Pakistan. It’s that part of the world though.

Marcia Smith 16:21
It’s in the United States. Like I thought

Bob Smith 16:25
it’s Yuma, Arizona. Yes, I knew that was the sunniest city in the United States. Also the world I didn’t know that.

Marcia Smith 16:32
I didn’t either. I double check that because I found that hard to believe. But in terms of 90% annual sunshine, the distinction goes to Yuma a southwestern Arizona city on the Mexican border. It has 330 days of sun and 4015 hours of sun a year. Wow. Yuma is not only the sunniest place in the US, but the world on average the sun shines there for 90% of the time. Isn’t that amazing? And even the darkest month of December still sees 82% of daylight hours. Wow, that second and third sunniest cities in the United States. Do you want to guess what those two are

Bob Smith 17:13
second and third sunniest cities in the Yuma

Marcia Smith 17:16
comes?

Bob Smith 17:18
Orlando or Miami?

Marcia Smith 17:21
Maybe now? Neither one.

Bob Smith 17:22
Is it in Florida?

Marcia Smith 17:23
No, neither one.

Bob Smith 17:24
Okay. Are they in Arizona?

Marcia Smith 17:25
No.

Bob Smith 17:26
Are they in Alaska? No. Okay, that’d be something different. So I don’t know. Where are they?

Marcia Smith 17:32
Okay. Redding, California. Okay. Reading we have 88% annual sunshine and the third. Las Vegas, Nevada. 85%. Sunshine.

Bob Smith 17:43
Well, I believe they’re having been there several times. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 17:45
it’s always toasty, toasty. Crazy and toasty.

Bob Smith 17:50
More questions on imports and exports. Marsha, I know this sounds like a glaringly dull subject, but actually kind of interesting here. Hello, wake up. Okay, Marsha. What is the top food export of the United States? Oh,

Marcia Smith 18:04
gosh. Well, I will say

Bob Smith 18:10
no, there are many. There are many there are wheat, there’s corn,

Marcia Smith 18:13
meat. No, none of those.

Bob Smith 18:16
None of those. Fruit some kind of fruit? No, it’s a kind of bean Marsh kind

Marcia Smith 18:21
of bean. Well, it’s not the lima bean.

Bob Smith 18:26
No, it’s the soy bean.

Marcia Smith 18:28
That’s why I got that and fridge. That’s the top

Bob Smith 18:31
export of the United States. Food. It’s used in food products like tofu and lots of dairy and meat substitutes. And it’s an alternate ingredient in many industrial products made of rubber, plastic adhesives, and more. Did you know that no, yes, soybean shows up in all kinds of things. It’s good for you too. Well, not if you eat the steering wheel of your car, which might have soybeans. China is the biggest importer of us soybeans. So that is our biggest market the import $18 billion worth of our soybeans, and we only ship 35 billion. So more than half of the soybeans the United States produces go to China. Now corn is next. Okay, that’s the second one. And then nuts is the third nuts nuts like pecans, almonds, walnuts and pistachios. They’re the major agricultural US export. I’ll be darned. So we are the biggest supplier in the global nut market. Did you know that?

Marcia Smith 19:25
I know right here in the studio. We have our share of not you’ve got your nuts. Yeah. Okay, Bob, you’re ready. Yes. Where were you find the world’s longest golf course?

Bob Smith 19:36
The longest golf course. I mean, the longest fairway we’re not actually the length of it. Yeah. Is it what like two miles long? Three miles long? Something like that. Knew how long is it?

Marcia Smith 19:48
848 mile Wi Fi couloirs. That’s in Australia. Isn’t that crazy? Wow. That’s an 18 hole par 72. course that spans two Australian states. Starting in Kaluga Murray West Australia, the Nullarbor links feature one hole at each participating town or Roadhouse along the highway, and we finish 848 miles away in Sedona, South Australia. The course incorporates some rugged terrain and you can hit kangaroos and wombats along the way. golfers who set out for this course should set aside four days to complete the entire course could be longer than that. Yeah, I would, too. So can you hear the wife or the husband saying Honey, I’m going out to play the course today? I’ll see at the end of the week. Geez, that’s just not sad. Isn’t it? 848 Miles

Bob Smith 20:44
Okay, well, alright. Transportation motor trivia, Marcia. Alright. Motor trivia, what kind of motor transportation did Coney Island New York give the world now we know or think of Coney Island, New York as being a motor transportation hub. You know, they had the boardwalk there. They had rides. Yeah, it’s gonna say they had the Ferris wheel had nothing to do with either one of those. Okay, so what kind of motor transportation did Coney Island New York give the world? The first of its kind? Stalled there

Marcia Smith 21:15
a trolley? A little little train car? No. I had a little boat. No. Bicycle. No. A motor scooter. No.

Bob Smith 21:26
I think I can give you the answer. Thank you, Bob. It’s a little thing called the escalator. Oh, the first escalator was installed at the old iron pier on Coney Island, New York. It was patented in March 1892 by Jessie W. Reno and it was called the Rino inclined elevator. It was a continuous inclined conveyor belt made up of grooved wooden slats with rubber cleats. And it was powered by an electric motor at a speed of about a mile and a half per hour. Those things turned out all right. This was more of a people mover than a step escalator. Yeah. But it was the predecessor of all the steps and what was the year? That was in 1892?

Marcia Smith 22:05
Okay. It’s interesting to find out the date set these things were bigger than it is, isn’t it? Okay, Bob, what major Jesus feature what is missing in today’s painting of The Last Supper, which was present in the original painting?

Bob Smith 22:21
What major feature of Jesus is missing in today’s last supper paintings versus the original? It was in the original haha, but they took it out of all the others.

Marcia Smith 22:32
They didn’t take it out. It’s just not there anymore.

Bob Smith 22:35
Look glass of water. No, that’s not it. It was a nametag Jesus. No, that wasn’t really setting. I don’t know the answer his feet,

Marcia Smith 22:45
Bob. Wow,

Bob Smith 22:46
his feet. This

Marcia Smith 22:48
particular detail was lost in 1652 When the installation of a doorway where the mural was painted, led to removing the portion that included Jesus’s sandals. So they put the doorway over the bottom of the painting. Oh, really? Yes. And it’s still there. It’s in this church. But efforts to digitally restore the Last Supper to its original form had recently been made possible and include digitally if you want to look at on your computer, his feet and also spilled salt shaker on the table salt

Bob Smith 23:21
shaker. You know, it’s interesting, because I think I just would focus on the table and up you know, yeah, it’s on the table. It’s above, never thinking of their feet below. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 23:31
Apparently, Judas his coin purse is gone, too,

Bob Smith 23:35
that’s been stolen.

Marcia Smith 23:38
This is interesting. If you like to see the work today, you won’t be going to a regular museum. It hangs in the Santa Maria della Ghazi on whose walls it was originally painted, probably between 1495 and 1498. The convent wasn’t exactly built with large crowds in mind. So today, only 1300 people are allowed to see it each day. That’s a lot. That’s how many people still show up. They

Bob Smith 24:04
have to keep moisture out of their view and moisture. And only 25

Marcia Smith 24:07
People can go in to view it at a time. So they have to monitor this all day, every day at this little church.

Bob Smith 24:14
Now, Marsha, I have a question for you regarding the names of months. You know, we were doing this as the year went along? Yes, we did all the months up to June. Oh, so now all right. We’re gonna do July, July and August. Where does the name July for the month of July come from Julius Caesar. That’s exactly right. Yeah, he counted among his accomplishments. the Julian calendar, right. Pretty nice to name things after.

Marcia Smith 24:40
Yeah,

Bob Smith 24:41
let’s call it the Bob calendar. August, August. August was also Augustus Caesar. That is exactly right. Who was a grand nephew to Julius Did you know that? No, I didn’t know the Lin. Yeah, he came after Julius so he was a granted nephew to Julius Caesar. Okay, so

Marcia Smith 24:57
to Caesar it’s like Marcia may A we named the month of May after. Right? Does this mean we hold our breath and you’ll give us September and October in the future? Yes, I will. Okay, give us time to Google it. Okay, but no and blindfolded. What are humans incapable of doing with their bodies

Bob Smith 25:18
when blindfolded? Hmm. So the blindness takes away a aspect of our bodies.

Marcia Smith 25:24
It’s an ability of ability.

Bob Smith 25:28
can’t scratch your back? I don’t know what the answer is.

Marcia Smith 25:30
We can’t walk in a straight line. Oh, no kidding. Yeah. So we have

Bob Smith 25:35
to use our eyes in order to walk in the street. Yeah, yeah. Well, I know I do. But I didn’t know that was true for every Yeah. And

Marcia Smith 25:41
equitably we become bi directional Miss turning in tight loops. We got to try this later. Many studies in the past century have catalogued this phenomena, without some form of reference, such as a mountain, a building, or even the sun. Humans are incapable of walking in a straight line, no matter how hard we try whether we’re blindfolded or just lost in the forest. That’s interesting. And while the theory explains why we do this, scientists aren’t sure of the biological how this straight line continuum remains one of the many mysteries of the human brain and body Well, it’s simple, you

Bob Smith 26:19
can’t see it. Okay. I always love that when they do this just still doesn’t make sense if that makes sense to me. Okay, Bob. All right. You have a thought for the day.

Marcia Smith 26:28
A couple of thoughts for the day, Abraham Lincoln. Most folks are about as happy as they make up their mind to be

Bob Smith 26:34
Well, that’s true, isn’t it? It’s I like I think you generate your own happiness. Yes.

Marcia Smith 26:38
And on happiness. Oscar Wilde, who had a different look at things. Very different look at things. Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others whenever they go.

Bob Smith 26:51
That’s you, Marcia. Whenever you go somewhere you cause happiness. Oh, was that mean? Death? Is that what that meant? No, I’m so sorry.

Marcia Smith 27:00
It means they cause happiness when they leave the room. Oh, I

Bob Smith 27:04
didn’t mean that. Okay, when they get out of here, this.

Marcia Smith 27:08
This show hasn’t gone well for you. Oh, dear. Well,

Bob Smith 27:11
it would go better if we had people who would rate and review us on their podcast. We would love that if you could, if you would rate and review us

Marcia Smith 27:21
if you want to say Marsha is so much better than Bob

Bob Smith 27:23
salutely You’re welcome and free to do that. Okay. That’s it for today. I’m Bob Smith Marsh. Join us again next time when we return with more fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia here on the off ramp. The off ramp is produced in association with CPL Radio Online, and the Cedarburg Public Library Cedarburg, Wisconsin.

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