Bob Smith 00:00
What modern leader triggered a locust epidemic in his country? Not always

Marcia Smith 00:06
good thing. Okay and who are ping, ping and Pong?

Bob Smith 00:10
answers to those and other questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob and

Marcia Smith 00:15
Marsha Smith

Bob Smith 00:33
Welcome to the off ramp a chance to slow down steer clear of crazy and take a side road to sanity with tantalizing facts and fascinating trivia. Wait a minute, fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia. Marcia? Yeah, what leader now this is a modern leader by that I mean in the last 60 to 70 years. Okay. What leader triggered a locust epidemic in his country?

Marcia Smith 00:59
Well, it’s not here. I take it. No, no. Is it in India?

Bob Smith 01:03
No, it’s not India.

Marcia Smith 01:04
Is it in?

Bob Smith 01:07
He was that part of the world though? Yeah, it’s

Marcia Smith 01:09
kind of set was in the Mideast? No, Lucas Lucas. Can you give me a country then I have to guess the person China?

Bob Smith 01:16
China. Okay. Who was the person?

Marcia Smith 01:19
Ah, ah, Ling Ling Long

Bob Smith 01:21
No, Chairman Mao. Oh, was it my Chairman Mao. This happened in 1958. He led a campaign to eliminate the sparrow from China. Really? Why? Well, he thought that the bird was a grain stealing pest it did steal grain. However, the sparrow also ate in sales. And according to britannica.com, as the sparrow population declined, the Locust population exploded. And that devastated Chinese crops for years. Improves the law of unintended consequences. Yeah, I

Marcia Smith 01:54
was gonna say, okay, Marshall, what was your question? Who are ping, ping and Pong?

Bob Smith 01:58
These are Chinese emperors before Mao? No, I don’t. I don’t know who ping PING and PONG are that’s not a bad guy. Ping, PING and PONG are these animals from China? Now ping, PING and PONG sounds Asian it is and where does it come from?

Marcia Smith 02:13
It comes from a porcine opera Tarun dot Tarun dot. Yes. And Tarun, that is a princess who tends to kill anybody wants to marry or if they can’t name three riddles. Or where’s this take place in China? Oh, so

Bob Smith 02:27
it is based in China? Yeah, the opera was based on that ping, PING

Marcia Smith 02:31
and PONG are ministers of state and their sages and they try to ward off the guy Prince kala not to pursue this woman because he’s going to get killed.

Bob Smith 02:39
Oh, Prince kala. He’s a leader. And they’re his right hand men.

Marcia Smith 02:42
They are the princess right hand guys. Ah, and, and she doesn’t know he’s the prince. And I’m sure there are doors that everybody goes in and out.

Bob Smith 02:52
So ping, ping and Pong. You’re seeing him Don’t go after this princess. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 02:55
is evil. Well, yeah. And you’re gonna die if you can’t answer the three riddles. And there could be a locust plague, who? It’s always something. It’s always something.

Bob Smith 03:05
That’s interesting. Okay. All right, Marcia. How big was the world’s largest round pizza? There are different pizzas. There are. There’s round pizzas. There’s rectangular pizzas.

Marcia Smith 03:16
It sounds like the Guinness Book of Records. Yes. It is a Guinness Book of Records. America. No, it’s from Italy, Italy. And they had the big alcohol say across 15 feet across 15

Bob Smith 03:27
feet across. That would be a big pizza, wouldn’t it but this one’s bigger. This is 13,580 square feet. The Italian pie dubbed Oh Tavia holds the Guinness World Records. It’s the largest round pizza in the world. So this was built by an Italian pizza chain mogul de Velo Nardi, and he built it in Rome in 2012. It was 130 feet across. So it’s about the length of one and a half baseball fields. This is Italy again. Yeah, they did this for the record, of course. 19,800 pounds of flour, 10,000 pounds of tomato sauce. 8800 pounds of mozzarella cheese, 1400 88 pounds of margarine, 551 blocks of rock salt. 220 pounds of lettuce, 55 pounds of vinegar. And that added up to a 51,257 pound pizza pie. Okay, well, who got to eat it? The people who were there at the time. And guess what? It was gluten free.

Marcia Smith 04:29
Gluten Free. Well then let’s have at it Bob and

Bob Smith 04:31
the gluten free food company Dr. Sharp. They sponsored this whole thing. That’s the largest round pizza. How long is the longest skinny rectangular pizza? Just give me an idea. Ah,

Marcia Smith 04:43
85 feet a mile long. Alright, that was done in a pizzeria in Naples. Where do you get an oven to them? Well, these

Bob Smith 04:51
ovens like the first one, the big brown one, they bake that over 48 hours in I don’t know how many ovens and then they put it all together. Yeah, the same thing five today. You know, wood burning stove. I’m

Marcia Smith 05:01
getting hungry. I’ll tell you. I really am.

Bob Smith 05:03
These are big pizzas. Okay, let’s

Marcia Smith 05:05
move along big pizzas. I went to go eat Okay, Bob, whose faces were originally supposed to be on Mount Rushmore.

Bob Smith 05:13
Well, let’s see. They were presidents Weren’t they? The original?

Marcia Smith 05:17
I didn’t know. Or they weren’t now. Oh, the words. Yeah, I’ll give you a clue. Okay, they were Western heroes.

Bob Smith 05:25
Oh, no kidding. Yeah, like Kit Carson and he flat. No kidding. That’s why so Kit Carson was gonna be one. Yeah. Okay. Wild Bill Hickok or Buffalo Bill. One

Marcia Smith 05:33
of the two. No, I’m not sure. Who is Jim Bridger. Oh, Jim Bridger. He

Bob Smith 05:38
was a famous explorer. And

Marcia Smith 05:39
the third one, I think, I know John Coulter, wasn’t he the Colt? 45.

Bob Smith 05:44
No, John culture is the guy who discovered as a white person, the Grand Tetons, through Yellowstone. Okay,

Marcia Smith 05:50
so that’s the three. But the sculptor John Goodson Berglund proposed that instead, it should have the faces of four Presidents George Washington, a Blinken, Thomas Jefferson and Teddy Roosevelt, Teddy Roosevelt. And they went along with it, whoever they were. And that’s how we got it. Well,

Bob Smith 06:09
it was the South Dakota wanted something to bring tourists and that’s that was the idea for it. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 06:14
And you know, over time, I think John was a pretty smart cookie here.

Bob Smith 06:18
John did the right thing he shared some people said he was atoning for his other big sculpture down in Georgia, which is all the Confederate generals at Stone Mountain, he really did that one yeah. Wow. What Oh, he had a lot of different Commission’s what a talent. Oh, yeah. Yes, yeah. And he died while this was going on. His son had to finish it. So Oh, did he Yeah, it was not a public project. It was kind of a private project. And then the government took it over because it was like, well, we gotta get this done. Well, who’s doing crazy horse that is another sculptor who also has passed away. Yeah, but his son is taking over Yeah, same kind of thing where it was a multi generational project. Beautiful, and it’s still far from finished. I saw it when I was a kid and Chelsea saw it. Our daughter saw that a few years ago and still not finished. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 07:04
it’s gonna take a while and it’s still out there nearby. Mount Rushmore. Yeah.

Bob Smith 07:08
Oh, close by. Okay. And how did the mountain get its name? Do you remember that? It was a guy named Rushmore. That’s right. He was a lawyer used to come out there. And he said, what’s the name of that? And he goes up, it could be Rushmore.

Marcia Smith 07:21
And they did it. It sounds so noble. It was just a lawyer. Well, I

Bob Smith 07:24
think he actually contributed some money to the show that often it

Marcia Smith 07:27
naming rights again, it’s very helpful. Absolutely.

Bob Smith 07:30
Okay, Marsha. I’ve got a question for you. In Denmark, there is a huge collection of human organs. 10,000 of them stored in plastic containers. What are they?

Marcia Smith 07:42
What are the organs? Yes.

Bob Smith 07:44
What are the organs? Some kind of organ? What kind of organs?

Marcia Smith 07:48
Are they hearts? No. Are they kidneys?

Bob Smith 07:50
No.

Marcia Smith 07:52
Are they kidneys?

Bob Smith 07:53
No. You said that twice. Lungs? No, no, they are brains. Oh, it’s the world’s largest collection of brains. Yeah, the brain collection began just after the Second World War. It continued collecting into the early 80s. There are 9479 brain stored in numbered white buckets. And they’re in storage in basements at the Denmark University of Rhode dents. Where did they come from? They were collected from psychiatric patients at all Danish psychiatric hospitals. During autopsies was this legal doing autopsies back then were automatic for psychiatric patients. And the brains were collected without the knowledge or consent of their families. As one researcher told the BBC, the patients had been hospitalized for much of their life wasn’t normal to ask a patient for consent for anything. So the prevailing philosophy was doctors decide for you. So over 40 years time, they gathered these brains with many different diseases. And then finally, in the 90s, it was brought to public attention. And then there was the question, what do we do with these? Should we get rid of them? Bury them, but there was something different about them? What was so unique? Well, the oldest were collected 80 years ago. So these researchers can look at raw illnesses untouched by modern medication. Ah, so they can look at dementia and schizophrenia and other things without having any medication and those brains Oh, that’s cool. So they can test them and stuff. How are they stored, they’re stored in these buckets at kind of room temperature and a basement couple of buckets inside each other. They’re in an odorless solution of formaldehyde in water, which it doesn’t smell. And that’s used chiefly for biological specimens. Now, modern brain bags, they keep materials at minus 80 degree temperatures. But these have been on these rolling shelves for 40 years, and they pull them out and they look at them, man. They also have books and records information about each patient. They call them brain journal. So there’s a lot of data. And the researchers at the University of Southern Denmark are currently working to digitize those records.

Marcia Smith 09:52
And I’m torn about that. I mean, obviously, it’s still rendering good things. But then part of you says these poor people, but they’re their brains. To go into good use, right?

Bob Smith 10:01
Well, that was the dilemma when they discovered these the first thing was we should bury these. We should get rid of these. And the someone else said it wasn’t right that this happened. But wouldn’t it be wrong to bury all these when we can use these for research? They’re here. Yeah, it’s it’s an ethical conundrum. So the world’s largest collection of brains. 9479 brains. It’s in Denmark. Okay, got it. Now, I just told you that right after that pizza story. So are you hungry? Now?

Marcia Smith 10:31
Here’s a quickie. Okay, what made your change happened to the White House during Martin Van Buren this term, which was like 1837 to 1941 1836 is an actual physical change they made to the White House when he was in office.

Bob Smith 10:48
Does it have to do with a whitewash the white? No. Okay, so they did something in the 1840s for Martin Van Buren last time, and that was long before electricity. So it wasn’t that. I don’t know what’s the answer to this.

Marcia Smith 11:04
They put a lock on the front door.

Bob Smith 11:07
The first lock on the front door was 1880.

Marcia Smith 11:09
That’s because old Van Buren came down one day and there was a vagrant sleeping on his couch. Oh my god. Hyundai’s? Well, I guess we better put a lock on front door.

Bob Smith 11:20
So funny. Why me? Can

Marcia Smith 11:22
you imagine just having the front door open to the White House? Well, it was that way people could come in. It’s the people’s house. That’s what they said. Yeah, but a little too much people. What

Bob Smith 11:31
about Martin Van Buren? What’s distinctive about the way he was raised? I don’t know Bob. Dutch was his original language. His parents he was raised with the didn’t speak English originally. Okay. lived here in America, obviously was born here. But yeah, I thought that was interesting. Okay, Marsha. I have a question for you here in the 1950s Herb Alpert. Remember the Tijuana Brass. He helped write a very popular song for one of the top black singers of that day. What was the song that he wrote? This is in the 1950s eau de wrote it for a black singer of the day

Marcia Smith 12:05
of the 50s Nat King Cole. No. No, it wasn’t Sammy Davis.

Bob Smith 12:11
Oh, okay. I’ll give you a hint. Okay. I don’t know much about his student.

Marcia Smith 12:16
That was Sam

Bob Smith 12:17
Cooke. That’s right. 1959. Was it wonderful world is the name of that. Oh, okay. So that was the one and Herb Alpert was one of the CO writers. Sam Cooke was too and so was chip. Took. That’s right. That’s right. But I do know that I love you. I know that you love me too. Okay. And what a wonderful world. It would be. It

Marcia Smith 12:38
would be okay. Well, if what if we Oh,

Bob Smith 12:40
nevermind, speech. Can’t we just move on? Okay, Bob.

Marcia Smith 12:44
What President? What President had a wife who was a descendant of the Indian princess Pocahontas. Oh, I didn’t

Bob Smith 12:51
know that. Yeah, one of the President’s wives was supposedly descended from Pocahontas, huh?

Marcia Smith 12:58
Wow. You don’t know everything? Well,

Bob Smith 13:00
I didn’t say no to everything. I didn’t say I knew everything. Or know everything, either one. Well, that was bad grammar. Was this in the latter? 19th century or early 19th century, 20th century or the 20th century? Somebody who’s related to Okay, I’m going to take a stab in the dark and say it’s Calvin Coolidge, his wife for some reason? No. Okay.

Marcia Smith 13:23
It was Woodrow Wilson. His second wife, Edith bowling golf. Wilson was first lady of the United States from 1915 to 1921. And she married him during the first term in office. That was his second wife. And she was related to Pocahontas. Yeah, who knew? Well, now you do. Okay,

Bob Smith 13:42
I’ve got a presidential question. And a First Lady question, okay. How many divorcees have lived in the White House? How many divorced men became president? How many divorced women became first lady? First, let me give you a hint. Oh, okay. There have been two presidents who were married before and got divorced. Really. Now. There’s other presidents who were married before, but their wives died before they became president or wives died while they were president. Okay. But these two men were both married and divorced before they became president and the modern presidents. Really? I didn’t know in your lifetime in the last 40 years. Really? Yes.

Marcia Smith 14:22
Well, wasn’t Clinton or LBJ. Or, or

Bob Smith 14:28
Oh, Trump was one. That’s right. Donald Trump was one. Neither Bush was No, right. No. And this guy was a movie star. Oh, Reagan, Ronald Reagan, Reagan and Trump. Ah, yeah. Okay. He was elected president in 1980. He had been married to Jean Wyman and after that he got married to Nancy Davis. They were both actresses and he had children with both of them. And Donald Trump has been married three times divorced twice, and he’s had children with all three wives. Okay, now, as for the first ladies, there have been three divorced First Lady’s shameful that’s true. Marcia, who are they shameful? Any idea? Now? First one was Florence King Harding. She divorced before her marriage to future President Warren G. Harding. And then the second one was Betty Ford. Oh, really? She had been married before. She was married to a young man. And then that didn’t work out. And then she met Jerry when he was about to be a congressperson. And then let’s see who else Jill Biden was married and divorced before she met me. Oh, I didn’t know that. Who was the woman who almost became a divorced first lady but died before she was able to be first lady. Oh, famous president. Yeah. He and his wife thought they were married legally. But she actually hadn’t gotten

Marcia Smith 15:45
divorced. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. It was one of the early ones.

Bob Smith 15:50
Andrew Jackson. Yeah. His wife, Rachel, Andy and Rachel. Yes, she was married earlier to a man named Louis robots. But that marriage failed. And then she eloped with Andrew in 1791. And they thought that robots had secured a divorce for that marriage, but he hadn’t. So they had to marry twice. And then that became a big election issue. And all the stress of that caused Rachel to either have a stroke or a heart attack.

Marcia Smith 16:13
She died. Oh my god. Oh, yeah. And thanks. She didn’t live today.

Bob Smith 16:17
Andrew Jackson believed his political opponents hastened her death at her funeral. He said, may God Almighty forgive her murderers. As I know she forgave them. I never can.

Marcia Smith 16:26
Ooh, wow. Yeah. distress. And it was, Your Honor. Was everything back in the

Bob Smith 16:31
day? Yeah. I think he fought numerous duels with people. Oh, really? Yeah. Reputation. Everything.

Marcia Smith 16:39
So little honor today. Okay, Bob, we are full of precedent questions today. What precedent, last eight elections, twice, failed in business, had a fiance die and had a nervous breakdown.

Bob Smith 16:54
answers to that coming up after this message. And it gives me a time to Google the answer. I’ll be back. I’m Bob Smith.

Marcia Smith 17:01
Hi, Marcia Smith is better. Now. I

Bob Smith 17:03
won’t do that. We’ll be back in just a moment. Oh, okay. We’re back. And I didn’t have enough time to Google that answer. But I think the answer is actually Abraham Lincoln. That’s correct. So give the question again. And we’ll give the answer

Marcia Smith 17:16
what President lost eight elections twice, failed in business, had a fiance die on him and had a nervous breakdown got

Bob Smith 17:24
obviously somebody who wouldn’t amount to anything. There was no chance of him doing anything important in American history. That’s right, Abraham Lincoln. I didn’t know he had eight elections he tried to write

Marcia Smith 17:35
weren’t presidential. But he ran in eight different kinds of elections. And this was all before he got married and had all the tragedies in his life with his wife being a little off the off the rocker there and some sons that died and course getting assassinated. He had a pretty rough life. Yes. Yeah. What an amazing man. What a noble, fabulous man who had a very difficult

Bob Smith 18:03
typical time. Yeah. And then he had so much of a

Marcia Smith 18:06
war just add a little extra sample. Yeah,

Bob Smith 18:08
that little thing, and how kind he was to other people you read? Yeah, he was brilliant. There was a great movie on him that what Steven Spielberg did Lincoln remember? Oh, that was great. Yeah, I think you’d find that on Netflix or speaking of Netflix. My question is that your transit was my transition. Okay. Now that Netflix has been around for a decade, how much more choice do we have and things to watch on Netflix than

Marcia Smith 18:33
before? Probably less.

Bob Smith 18:35
That’s true. That’s the trick answer. Yeah, a fraction of what we had originally. Okay. This is a story in The New York Times recently reported back when Netflix back when they used to ship DVDs to customers. There were nearly 100,000 different titles to choose from. And now with streaming because that has a different business model. Netflix doesn’t get them forever to run, you know, that’s reduced to 6600 us titles on Netflix. Wow. And how many before 100,000 Wow. And we’re paying more than we did before

Marcia Smith 19:09
tons more? Fans more and there’s a lot more people doing it. Doesn’t seem right does it? No, no, it doesn’t. Okay, why was the chainsaw invented Bob and hint it had nothing to do with logging.

Bob Smith 19:22
I think I remember we did a story on this. Why was the chainsaw invented? What was that for? It was for something you’re thinking oh my god. Wait, did they have that for a chainsaw? But I can’t remember what what if so what was it used for originally

Marcia Smith 19:35
from childbirth?

Bob Smith 19:37
Oh my god. That’s right. I remember reading about that

Marcia Smith 19:40
was originally a device used to cut through a woman’s pelvis. Oh, I was having difficulty pushing out the baby. Oh my god that worked. So well. Don’t forget there’s no anesthesia. Back in the day use it for amputations to cut off your body parts because it would be more swift of course and less pain. involve course. And so that’s, oh, God, that’s pretty awful.

Bob Smith 20:05
No kidding. That’s

Marcia Smith 20:06
terrible. And it was finally mechanized, and then adopted by the timber industry in 1905. And that made logging a whole lot easier. And by then they were into something to knock you out for your amputations and so forth. But childbirth

Bob Smith 20:23
was still a difficult thing.

Marcia Smith 20:26
They could you could go under then. Oh, my God. Yeah, isn’t that Oh, that’s terrible. Yes, it is.

Bob Smith 20:32
Oh, my God. Okay, I have a question for you. These are names, names of famous actors and actresses, the real names. Okay. Oh, okay. This woman’s name is Anita Lee. Her Schlag. She is a young actress today. And she stone Yeah, her slug. atrs HLA G she was born in Israel. She was an understudy on Broadway at 11. And she starred in The Hitman movie the professional before she turned 13. She started it at 13 Yes, and to protect her family’s identity. She adopted her grandmother’s maiden name as her stage name. Who

Marcia Smith 21:05
is it? You got me?

Bob Smith 21:07
She’s not Natalie. Her slug she’s Natalie Portman. Oh, really? Yeah, she’s huge. So she started at a very young age very young age. Natalie Portman. Interesting. Okay, here’s another one. Who is this, you know, are by a very different name. She was originally Ileana Lydia vazee. Leave na Mironov calm Hi, Ileana Lydia. Desi Aliyeva Mera Naam. Gosh,

Marcia Smith 21:33
I have no idea. Helen Mirren. Oh, his.

Bob Smith 21:37
Yeah, she was born to Russian royalty, actually not Russian royalty, but she was born to the child of a diplomat who fled Russia and became a taxi driver in the 20th century.

Marcia Smith 21:48
Wow. That’s, that’s quite a handle. Helen Mirren is rolls off the tongue a little easier.

Bob Smith 21:54
Well, her British mother anglicized the family name to Mirren in the 1950s. Isn’t that interesting? Yeah, but her real name is? I’ll try that again. Ileana Lydia vazee. The nah, mid enough. Okay. Helen Mirren. Much better.

Marcia Smith 22:10
Which President while at West Point was demoted from sergeant to private for wild dancing.

Bob Smith 22:19
Wild dance Yeah.

Marcia Smith 22:20
Think about if somebody somebody that you know, okay, let

Bob Smith 22:24
me see. Doug Grant was at West Point. I’m thinking I knew that Edgar Allan Poe was at West Point. We heard about that he ran around naked or something

Marcia Smith 22:32
he was this guy was during your lifetime? Really? Yeah. wild

Bob Smith 22:36
dancing? Yes. Not Eisenhower. Oh, my God. He’s reprimanded for for wild dance. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 22:43
Yeah, he was. He was demoted sergeant to private. I can’t

Bob Smith 22:47
imagine no. Dwight doing that.

Marcia Smith 22:51
I wonder how maybe took that later. Picture those two wild dancing together now. That’s hilarious.

Bob Smith 22:56
Is there any more story that Do you have any more information? No, no, no. Okay. Probably. It’s been hidden.

Marcia Smith 23:02
Those are all from Steve.

Bob Smith 23:04
Steve short. He gave us some real good stuff. Thank you, Steve, for some great stuff on presidents. Yeah. What country has the world’s longest constitution and how much longer is it than the US Constitution?

Marcia Smith 23:14
Okay.

Bob Smith 23:15
You don’t know the answer. No. India, our Constitution has 4400 words in the US has 145 miles or 145,000. Words. It’s 33 times longer. That’s

Marcia Smith 23:28
a lot of constituting.

Bob Smith 23:30
It’s the longest constitution of any country in the world. 23 parts, 395 articles, eight schedules, and over the years. 100 amendments 100 amendments. Now we’ve had a constitution for 250 years, and we’ve only got 27 amendments to it.

Marcia Smith 23:45
Thank God, that’s enough. That’s enough. Nobody reads that. All right, Bob. Where do we get the term redneck from

Bob Smith 23:54
Redneck. See, where would that come from? As

Marcia Smith 23:57
used to describe a poor white farmer or labor from the south? I think

Bob Smith 24:01
it came from because they were out in the sun. And so they would have a bad sunburn and a red Next, if they didn’t wear hats, they’d have redness. Well,

Marcia Smith 24:10
ding ding Oh, okay. That’s right. The South African doors do ers called British soldiers rednecks for the same reason southerners got the title rednecks, only the fair skin of their necks were exposed to the sun, and they often turn bright red, so you got it. Which makes sense. Yeah, does what’s considered the most common spoken word? And the most common written word?

Bob Smith 24:37
I thought the word that was the most common word was Ron, or is but that’s probably neither one right now. Okay, what

Marcia Smith 24:45
are the most common spoken word is I? Oh, of course,

Bob Smith 24:50
that makes sense. I believe

Marcia Smith 24:52
that to be true. And the most common written word is that okay,

Bob Smith 24:57
so there you go, though not being a very A useful word

Marcia Smith 25:00
now doesn’t really depict anything but you use it for all sorts of things. Okay, Marsha,

Bob Smith 25:05
this is interesting. You’ll find this fascinating in 1923 and American music publisher company successfully sued the composers of an American pop song, saying the tune was stolen from Handel’s Messiah. What song was it? Now remember that data that Allah lujah what does that sound like? Yeah, yes, we have no bananas. Sound like Well, I’m sorry. Oh, West Publishing Company. The Westman publishing company was successful in its suit against the composers of that song. Yes, we have no bananas. They prove to the court that the tune was stolen from the opening bars of the Hallelujah chorus. No kidding. 19 Today

Marcia Smith 25:47
why? Yeah, they won the battle. They won. Oh my gosh. I talk about two vastly different tunes.

Bob Smith 25:55
Oh my god. Okay, one more music question. Oh, yeah. What top pop music singer of the late 50s and early 1960s was a direct descendant of one of our most famous American pioneer adventures. In fact, he had the same last name. Yes, it starts with a B.

Marcia Smith 26:13
Ah, first name popped like that like a P. Bobby. Right now.

Bob Smith 26:17
No last name starts with a B. First name starts with a P. Pat Boone. He was the great, great, great, great grandson of the legendary pioneer Daniel Boone.

Marcia Smith 26:28
I’ll be done. Well, that makes sense. Pat Boone. I have a couple of quotes. All right on marriage, Ogden Nash, to keep your marriage brimming with love in the wedding cup. Whenever you’re wrong, admit it. And whenever you’re right, shut up. And I do that. And Will Ferrell has some sage advice. Okay. Before you marry a person, you should make them use a computer with slow internet to see who they really are.

Bob Smith 26:58
If they swear or whatever, like how nuts they go, Oh, my goodness, that’s a good one.

Marcia Smith 27:03
That’s a good test.

Bob Smith 27:04
It is a very good test patient says. Okay, well, we want to thank you for joining us today. Hope we’ve made your day better. And you’re not swearing at your earphones. I’m Bob Smith. I’m

Marcia Smith 27:17
Marcia Smith. Join us again next

Bob Smith 27:19
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Marcia Smith 27:30
the off ramp. First time I missed it forgotten what how I was I just didn’t have the same buildup. Oh, there’s

Bob Smith 27:39
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Marcia Smith 27:42
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Bob Smith 27:46
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