Bob Smith 00:00
What famous city park has a secret code on its lampposts.

Marcia Smith 00:04
I love codes. Okay? And who is the unlikely presidential hero of home brewers answers

Bob Smith 00:11
to those and other questions coming up in this episode 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 us side road to sanity with some fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia. So you’d like secret code, sir? That’s right. You’re always doing those kinds of Yes. What is that thing? You do crypto crypto grams. Yes. So what famous city park has a secret code on its lampposts. I’ll give you clues. Okay. Hyde Park in London. I have Central Park in New York. Aha, the Imperial Palace Gardens in Tokyo, or Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.

Marcia Smith 01:09
Well, well, well.

Bob Smith 01:12
Which one has a secret code on all of its lampposts?

Marcia Smith 01:15
Well, POB. I’ll take two for

01:17
1002 is Central Park in New York. Yeah, no,

Marcia Smith 01:20
I don’t think it’s that I think it’s When were they Hyde Park in Hyde Park? I think it’s hike.

Bob Smith 01:26
Well, you’re wrong. Marcia. It’s Central Park in New York.

Marcia Smith 01:29
Let’s go with my first. Okay.

Bob Smith 01:31
So what’s the code used for there? Do you know what the codes are all about? For

Marcia Smith 01:35
certain kinds of trees? No, no. distance markers? No. Marking the killings? I don’t

Bob Smith 01:43
know. No. It’s a navigational system. On each of those posts in New York City in Central Park, is the secret code designed to help Park workers find and repair the burnt out or broken lamps. There are four numbers on each luminaire they call them the first to identify the nearest cross street. The second to identify the direction even numbers or East odd numbers are West. And the larger the second number is the closer to the center of the park. You are. Hello. Okay. Secret code. Let’s

Marcia Smith 02:16
talk beer making beer at home. Okay, who is the unlikely presidential hero of home brewers George

Bob Smith 02:24
Washington? No. Oh, well, he did brew his own stuff, I believe I believe

Marcia Smith 02:28
he did. But after Prohibition, it was against the law to brew beer at home. Did you know that? It

Bob Smith 02:34
was after Prohibition? You can make it at home. But you could make it at home during Prohibition? No,

Marcia Smith 02:39
no, it was against the law. Yeah, it was but that law stayed in place. Okay.

Bob Smith 02:43
All right. And who was the president who got rid of it? Yeah. Richard Nixon. No, no, no. Who?

Marcia Smith 02:49
Jimmy Carter? He’s unlikely because didn’t drink and he banned it from the White House altogether. Oh, really? Yeah. No, no booze or liquor in there. He was the man who legalized I didn’t

Bob Smith 03:01
know. That’s why I’m asking well, why would he do that? If he didn’t believe in it? Why would he let people you can’t you go ahead. Have you on the character home if you want to? I just don’t want any here. What’s the deal? How did he change it?

Marcia Smith 03:14
He took the law off the books. Also. Somebody

03:16
had to have come up with the lawn. He signed it, then that’s all I guess so. Okay. So he didn’t really do it unilaterally. He didn’t say I say it’s okay. If you haven’t you help him but not you know, I

Marcia Smith 03:27
give you these little jewels. All right.

Bob Smith 03:31
He used to be a governor. I have a question about a governor. Oh, all right. What governor declared war against a foreign nation. A governor did that a governor of the state here in the 1830s 1830s. He declared war against a foreign nation that

Marcia Smith 03:46
took some Kahunas. Alright, I am Massachusetts and I’m going to war against Germany. I don’t know.

Bob Smith 03:55
Well, now, think about this. You probably have to be near a border with another country. Oh, Canada.

Marcia Smith 04:00
Yeah. Could be Canada. Okay. Montana. No, no, New York. Now you’re

Bob Smith 04:07
in the right area. It’s a very obscure little thing. I never heard this fact before, but it was the governor of Maine. In the 1830s he issued a declaration of war against the Canadian province of New Brunswick. Now what was going on? Apparently, there was a lot of uncertainty over the main Canadian border since the Treaty of Paris, which ended the revolutionary war in 1783. and Canadian lumberjacks began to build a road along the disputed eristic river. And the American lumberjacks moved in to stop them so that started tensions and Governor John Fairchild of Maine declared hostilities and mobilized the state militia and the arrow stick war was bloodless. It ceased when President Martin Van Buren sent General Winford Scott to arrange a truce in 1839. He was after the governor of Maine declared war on Canada. You

Marcia Smith 04:58
don’t want to be the Little tiny state of Maine going up against a humongous country like Canada. How

Bob Smith 05:04
well he’s going after New Brunswick. In this province. Yeah, the other

Marcia Smith 05:08
territories would rally around. Yeah, so thanks. Thanks. Okay. Bob, who got the first job offer to command the Union army? Oh, it

Bob Smith 05:16
was Robert E. Lee. Oh, I

Marcia Smith 05:17
knew what I’m not surprised you.

Bob Smith 05:20
Yeah, he was considered the top guy. Obviously. Robert E. Lee be our guy, you know. Yeah. And the top General said, No, I’m going to go for the other country. Yes, I preserve big controversial thing he did. I

Marcia Smith 05:32
prefer people who want to enslave human beings. That was, but

Bob Smith 05:37
it was also his own state. You know, he was going to be loyal to Virginia. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 05:40
but the Union Army encompassed the whole obviously

Bob Smith 05:43
he was on the wrong side of history, Marsha.

Marcia Smith 05:48
Sorry. And so our second big commander we know is grant, but who was the first was a Winford. Scott. No, it wasn’t. Oh, who was it? George Meade. General

Bob Smith 05:57
George Meade. Okay, general Meade. That’s right. Yeah, he was in charge when Gettysburg took place.

Marcia Smith 06:01
Let me do another. Okay. Okay. That humongous fungus spot.

Bob Smith 06:06
Wow. The humongous fungus? Yes.

Marcia Smith 06:08
That’s what they call the largest mushroom on Earth. And it’s located in Oregon’s Malhar National Forest. Okay, can you guess approximately how old or how big this thing is?

Bob Smith 06:20
This is the largest mushroom on Earth that we know of? Yes, the oldest mushroom that we know of. Wow. So this must go back. 1000 years maybe? And it’s probably really huge, like acres. Yeah, it’s gotta be like 100 acres or okay.

Marcia Smith 06:36
Yeah, that’s those are both great guesses, but it’s 8650 years old. Wow. That’s an old mushroom. That’s

Bob Smith 06:44
a very old mushroom.

Marcia Smith 06:45
Can I put that in my omelet occupies more than 2300 acres of land. Wow, can you believe 1300

Bob Smith 06:54
acres of land. So there’s obviously a lot of other stuff growing out of this mushroom that you can’t really see it’s there. So

Marcia Smith 07:01
can you believe it? Speaking of mushrooms, the most expensive mushroom is known as the caterpillar fungus found in Tibet. And it’s nicknamed the Viagra of the Himalaya.

Bob Smith 07:11
Oh really? Is it’s considered an app for disease? Yes,

Marcia Smith 07:14
it is. And it sells for $50,000 a pound. Just in case. Wow.

Bob Smith 07:19
You gotta really want that. All right. All right. Speaking of food, okay, what popular soda is banned in Japan and in the European Union? And why? It’s one of our famous brands of soda in the United States. Is it? Coca Cola? Mountain Dew, Pepsi or a and W Root Beer? It’s banned in what country? It’s banned in Japan and by the European Union. Really?

Marcia Smith 07:45
Is it beer a and w No. What are the Dr. Pepper?

Bob Smith 07:51
No, not one of the choices. It’s Coca Cola Mountain Dew Pepsi Oregon W route. I’ll say Mountain Dew Mountain Dew It is okay. So why is it banned in Japan and Europe? Doo doo I don’t know. It has something in it. Oh, electrolytes. It’s got brominated vegetable oil in the formula. Now that sounds safe brominated vegetable oil what it is a flame retardant in those countries, and yet, we drink it. It’s also found in Gatorade and power eight. Now some consumers in the US have asked for the ingredient to be eliminated from the drinks but a spokesperson for Gatorade said brominated vegetable oil acts as an emulsifier it spreads the flavor evenly across the drink. And the spokesperson pointed out that the ingredient has not been banned by the US Food and Drug Administration. But you cannot find Mountain Dew in Japan or the European Union because of that high flame retardant. Wow, it’s cool. I like this cool flavor. Why is it it’s got a flame retardant in it. That’s why

Marcia Smith 08:56
you cannot set yourself on fire with exactly what’s unusual Bob about the paradise tree snake found in Southeast Asia

Bob Smith 09:05
the paradise tree stay Yeah. Is it because it doesn’t actually go into a tree? It can’t be up in a tree. No, that’s no Okay, so what’s unusual about the paradise tree snake? It’s a snake in a tree. That’s not really that unusual as snakes go up trees and

Marcia Smith 09:23
it has some peculiar trait that other snakes don’t have.

Bob Smith 09:27
Is it about something it eats or the way it behaves? It behaves behaves in a different way. Like a bird. It flies doesn’t really tell me its

Marcia Smith 09:37
lies. It’s also called the paradise flying snake. Oh, you left

Bob Smith 09:41
that out? That would have been a clue.

Marcia Smith 09:44
Yes, one fare this species of serpent is both slim and agile. Interesting. Anyway, I highly capable climber paradise tree snakes prefer to spend most of their time hanging out in coconut palm trees. Okay, and when the flying Snake wants to travel between the treetops it fly is able to flatten its ribcage until it becomes concave. Wow. And at this point the snake can propel itself out of a tree and glide through the air so

Bob Smith 10:12
it’s like a flying squirrel doesn’t have wings to fly but it jumps in it propels and turns into

Marcia Smith 10:17
a slithering S shape

Bob Smith 10:19
slithering S shape that just sounds dangerous as it is doesn’t it? It does all right Marcia Dance Dance Dance

Marcia Smith 10:27
All right dance little man dance every

Bob Smith 10:28
state has you know flags they got official animals official songs. What is the most common official US state dance? I’m gonna give you a lot of choices here to choose from will give me three is it ballroom dancing? Tap dancing, square dancing, swing dancing, or break dancing? What is the most common official US State Dance fam again? Is it ballroom dancing? Tap dancing, square dancing, swing dancing or break dancing?

Marcia Smith 10:58
I was gonna say Polka but I guess it’s not on the list. I will say break dancing. That’s too much for most of us. That’s right. I’ll say the first one ballroom dancing. Yeah,

Bob Smith 11:11
that’s a good one. I would think that because that’s more common for most people and he can do but it’s not the most common and how many states do you think have official dances? I’ll say four, four No. 30 of the 50 states have official dances and the most popular official State Dance is square dancing.

Marcia Smith 11:29
Oh really?

Bob Smith 11:30
It’s everywhere. California, Connecticut, Colorado, Idaho, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Nebraska, New Jersey, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington State all have square dancing is their official dance. And just in case you wondered Marcia polka is the official state dance here in Wisconsin.

Marcia Smith 11:56
does not surprise Oh my

Bob Smith 11:57
god. Funny. Now there are other ones to Delaware has Maypole dancing that goes back to the gods or something you know, the druid times. Let’s see western swing is also a state dance in a couple places and Texas which also claims square dancing has swing dancing. Kentucky has clogging. North Dakota has clogging shag and square dancing and South Carolina has shag and square dance. There’s a lot of different dances. These are from the state symbols USA website. And it traveled trivia.com it some of that stuff. I thought it was kind of fun. But I had no idea. You know, I was think of square dancing is more of a rural kind of southern thing. Whoever Oh, yeah, me too. You know, that was what we did in high school. That’s the first day they had square dancing, and I loved it. I loved it as a freshman. I got to dance with a sophomore. We’re still friends. Of course all these years later. Yeah, of course you Mary Smith, Perry. Donald was my square dance.

Marcia Smith 12:50
Right. Alright, enough your long list of women? How do we know that anyone can be elected president?

Bob Smith 13:00
Well, there’s a good answer to that and a bad answer. Probably. Let’s consider that after we take a break. Okay, you’re listening to the off ramp with Bob.

Marcia Smith 13:09
And Marsha Smith.

Bob Smith 13:10
We’ll be back in just a moment. kind of

Marcia Smith 13:12
left the building there for a minute.

Bob Smith 13:17
We’re back. And Marsha had an interesting question there. And we just want to let you know we do this show every week for the Cedarburg Public Library Cedarburg, Wisconsin, which has one of the only internet radio stations in a library in the United States in the world. We’re on Monday nights on that. And then we go out over the podcast platforms and are heard in the world. Thank you, Marcia. All right. Now your question again?

Marcia Smith 13:41
How do we know that anyone can become elected President? Well, because

Bob Smith 13:45
the Constitution, it doesn’t have any real qualifications. There’s just ah, basically,

Marcia Smith 13:50
here’s the clue. This is more of a little trick question. Oh, I see. Of course. Okay. Here’s a clue. All right. Jefferson did it. Nixon did it. And Truman did it.

Bob Smith 13:58
They all did it. Right. They did what

Marcia Smith 14:03
became president Yeah. Which shows you that any Tom Dick or Harry can do it. Lord, did

Bob Smith 14:08
we actually fall for that? Just now? I can’t. I’m so disappointed in myself. Oh, my God. Only

Marcia Smith 14:15
two first ladies, Bob have been both wife of a precedent and mother of a precedent who were that you should know.

Bob Smith 14:23
It’s John Adams and his wife. What was her name? Her name was originally Smith. But I don’t think she was related to me. John Adams and his wife.

Marcia Smith 14:35
Uh huh. That’s the question to First Lady. Just give

Bob Smith 14:39
me a moment here. For the record. That

14:41
was Abigail. Abigail. That’s right. There

Marcia Smith 14:43
you go. And the other one. Come on, Bob. Oh,

Bob Smith 14:46
it’s got to be Barbara Bush. Yes.

Marcia Smith 14:47
Very good.

Bob Smith 14:49
Her husband was George Bush, senior and George Bush Jr. was her son. Correct?

Marcia Smith 14:53
Correct.

Bob Smith 14:54
All right. I got it. Thank you. You’re welcome. All right. What is the newest island on Earth? Marcia, where Is it? It’s only about it’s less than 10 years old here. Is it in the Philippines? Is it in American Samoa? Is it in the Bahamas? Tonga or ice land? Well,

Marcia Smith 15:10
whale bomb. I will say, Tonga.

Bob Smith 15:15
You got it? Yes, you’re absolutely right. Yes, I’m

Marcia Smith 15:18
so knowledgeable that way. Islands

Bob Smith 15:20
often result from volcanic eruptions and the world’s newest Island is in Tonga in the South Pacific and traveled trivia.com reports that in 2014, a new island form northwest of Tongass capital of Nuku’alofa after a massive eruption. That eruption caused rock and ash to pile up on the ocean floor piling high lift to reach the surface of the sea. And it created a brand new island remember what year was that? That was 2014. It hasn’t been officially named just in case it returns to the ocean floor.

Marcia Smith 15:51
We could name it the off ramp.

Bob Smith 15:53
It’s been here long enough to see plants and wildlife take to but it’s a large black mass 1.25 miles in length, half a mile wide, has a 300 foot mountain at the center located within the Pacific Ring of Fire. I think off ramp would

Marcia Smith 16:07
be a good name for just a little branding out there.

Bob Smith 16:10
It’s good to wait and see if these islands stay around because another one another a huge volcanic eruption and 2019 that’s the one you’re remembering at Tonga. Oh, that form didn’t even newer Island. And it’s gone or and it’s already disappeared. Oh, well, then

16:24
I was accidentally Correct. Yes. You were accidentally Correct.

Bob Smith 16:27
All right. You’ve been intentionally and accidentally correct on the show so far in this episode. Amazing. Yes. Okay. Speed

Marcia Smith 16:35
round for you. And our listeners quickly named the city that have inspired these nicknames. Okay. Let’s see how many you can get. All right. No, most of them but I don’t think all

Bob Smith 16:46
okay. These are around the world. No, no. United States. Okay.

16:51
The Big Apple, New York City. Windy City, Chicago. Bing town, Boston. City of Brotherly Love Philadelphia.

Marcia Smith 16:59
The Mile High City, Denver. The Big Easy. New

Bob Smith 17:03
Orleans or New Orleans says My friends

Marcia Smith 17:05
call it the heart of bluegrass country.

17:09
Let’s see. Would that be Nashville? Or am I thinking of? Oh gosh, let me see. That’s a good one. Is that Memphis? You? Oh, I’m too down. Yeah. Is it in Arkansas? No.

Marcia Smith 17:19
It’s Lexington. Lexington Kentucky. Yeah. Oh, I

Bob Smith 17:22
didn’t. That’s the heart of bluegrass country. Look. I

17:24
didn’t know that. I am so

Bob Smith 17:25
sorry. And Jenny, so will be so disappointed. Bruce Beren to always be there together from Kentucky. Motown, Motown. That’s Detroit. Of course. The entertainment capital of the world. That has to be Los Angeles.

17:40
Correct. Big D. Dallas, Music City. Nashville. The Golden Gate City. San Francisco.

Marcia Smith 17:49
You got them all? Oh, good. Except the heart of bluegrass country. Very good.

Bob Smith 17:52
God. I’m so sorry. All right, Marsha. I have a question. How did Cleopatra win a bet to drink $1.5 million worth of wine in one sitting?

Marcia Smith 18:03
Wow, my mind that is hard to comprehend. All right. It must have been must

18:07
have been one of those games that lovers play really good vintage. They were very rich lovers. Yeah, who would be the person that king of something? No, Cleopatra,

Bob Smith 18:16
she was age 30. Her new lover Mark Antony, Richard

Marcia Smith 18:20
Burton to most of us. She said that she could

Bob Smith 18:24
drink what would be $1.5 million worth of wine without leaving the table and he accepted that. And he lost because Cleopatra dropped to pearls worth 10 million Steria into a glass of wine that made it $1.5 million worth of wine. Oh, just having those two girls in it. So she she drank the wine and she drank the pearls down. I don’t think she drank the pearls. Oh, she just had to drink the wine. She flirtatiously dropped the pearls in it and drank knows how the celebration went after that. That’s

Marcia Smith 18:55
that’s sort of like any Tom Dick or Harry. There’s a little trickery there is

Bob Smith 18:59
okay, I got another question. This is involving food. Okay. Okay. What country consumes more mac and cheese per capita? Is it the United States? The United Kingdom? Canada, Norway, or could it be France? France? No, it’s not the US? No, it’s not the US it is Denmark. Well, that would be one to choose. But that’s not on the list. The United States The United Kingdom, Canada or Norway? One of those consumes more mac and cheese. No, Marsha. This makes up for all of your good wins so far in this episode on with it, Bob. Okay, the answer is Canada. The Food Network reports that Canadians consume 155% of what US eaters eat in terms of Kraft macaroni and cheese. They need comfort food up there in Canada. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 19:52
well, I was thinking that when it gets cold you need comfort food. It’s chili and mac and cheese.

Bob Smith 19:58
It’s so popular in Canada. at the Montreal factory where it’s made works around the clock to meet demand and 7 million boxes of Kraft mac and cheese are sold globally each week, Canadians consume 1.7 million of those boxes. And they call it Kraft Dinner up there. That’s the name. It’s not mac and cheese. It’s Kraft dinner, but we think of it is mac and cheese. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 20:21
yeah, we do. Okay, Bob Weir is the only royal palace on United States soil. Well, I

Bob Smith 20:27
would think that would have to be the only state that was once its own country with a king or queen. And that would be Hawaii. Right.

20:35
You are correct, sir. Thank you.

Marcia Smith 20:39
Downtown Honolulu, Lani palace.

Bob Smith 20:42
You can actually visit it today. Yes. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 20:45
We thought we didn’t go in it. No, I don’t believe we did. It’s the home of Hawaii is 19th century royal dynasty. After King David rose to power in 1874. He elected to tear down the deteriorating coral black building that housed his predecessors and he erected an ostentatious, beautiful palace, new home in style that reflected the grand palaces. He had visited touring Europe. Okay, I only served him as a home for 10 years, a decade before we came over and took it all the way. Okay.

Bob Smith 21:15
All right. Speaking of leaders, let me ask you this, what famous president was suffering from a disease when he gave an important speech, although he didn’t know it at the time, it was not a debate where one of the candidates actually had COVID, which we had recently. It wasn’t that this was a speech that a US president gave, and he actually was suffering from a disease when he gave it but he didn’t realize it at the time. I don’t know. Abraham Lincoln. What did he have? Well, he was suffering from a mild case of smallpox when he delivered the Gettysburg Address. Yeah, he’s able to solve small his illness. That’s true. His illness wasn’t discovered until he returned to Washington from the ceremony dedication in November of 1863. You’re right smallpox, a tall man and a smallpox just doesn’t fly. All right, Marcia, the first private railroad car was built for what famous person? Now this wasn’t a politician, a king, a president. The first private railroad car was built for an entertainer.

Marcia Smith 22:18
Oh, really? Some fiery popular one. She was the Taylor Swift of her day. Oh,

Bob Smith 22:22
she was known as the Swedish Nightingale. Jenny Lind. I don’t know who that Oh, Jenny Lynn. She was a sensation back in the 1850s. When you were younger, I don’t know why you remember that. She’s another example of an old adage that from humble beginnings can come great things. She was an illegitimate child. She became an international singing sensation. When she came to the United States. She was touring. And somebody built a private railroad car for her. It was first time anybody ever had that? Very cool. So as an entertainer had the first private railroad, sorry, you didn’t know her? Jenny Lind.

Marcia Smith 22:58
So I’m ready with a quote unless you have some other thing you want to add?

Bob Smith 23:03
I have another one for you. What famous American auto pioneer once worked for Thomas Edison. Thomas Edison employed this man for its time was at Ford because they were good power. Yes. It was Henry Ford. Yeah, yeah, he was 26. He took a job with Detroit’s Edison Electric Company, the Edison Illuminating Company. And it was well he worked 10 hour days at Edison that he would return home at night to tinker with this new idea for a car in his garage. And

Marcia Smith 23:30
those became lifelong friends. They vacation together and everything right.

Bob Smith 23:34
So he was his employer at one point. Yeah, I

Marcia Smith 23:37
didn’t know that. Yeah. Okay, Bob. Well, you know how I usually end with a couple of quotes or something. But today, I’m going to give you a few lines from some famous American poems and see if you can name the poem and or the writer, the poet. And for a gold star in your case, a bowl of graham crackers and milk. You name both Okay, okay. All right. Here we go. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weekend weary.

Bob Smith 24:06
Oh, dear. Is that Longfellow? Nope. Okay, I don’t know. I don’t know who that is. Okay,

24:14
who is the Raven?

Bob Smith 24:15
Raven? It’s okay. So then that would be Allan Poe. That’s it. Okay. That’s right. That’s right. Of course. That made sense. I thought I’ve heard that in school. I remember. Yes,

Marcia Smith 24:25
yes. You’ve heard all of these I probably in school, okay, by the shores of kitschy Gumi by the shining big sea water.

Bob Smith 24:33
That was the Hiawatha right song of Hiawatha by. Is there a street named after him nearby our house?

Marcia Smith 24:41
Not that I know. Okay, cool. What’s the name? Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. There’s

Bob Smith 24:46
Longfellow okay, I was I had hired the wrong guy earlier. Okay, gotcha. So

Marcia Smith 24:50
far you haven’t won a Grammy. He go me. That’s right. Isn’t that a funny thing? Here it is, quote, because I could not stop for death. He kindly stopped for me

Bob Smith 24:59
What? Yeah, this is a famous poem. Yeah. American poem. Yeah. Because I could not stop for death. He kindly stopped for me. Okay, who’s that?

Marcia Smith 25:10
That wacky jokester? Emily Dickinson? Oh, no kidding. And the name of the poem is because I could not stop for death.

Bob Smith 25:17
Wow, I don’t see I’m not that familiar with Emily. Oh, yeah. Well, that’s

Marcia Smith 25:21
why it’s not very cheery. Okay. And here’s another one. Okay. The outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day. The score stood for to two with but one inning more to play

Bob Smith 25:34
Casey at the bat. Who wrote it? I don’t know.

Marcia Smith 25:38
But you’re right about the dame. Yeah. Was Ernest Lawrence Thayer,

Bob Smith 25:42
famous, famous baseball poet. Story. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 25:46
The score stood for the two. It’s a great

Bob Smith 25:49
one. Actually. It really is well written. And you know, if you ever go to see any oral interpretation person do it. Very fun to watch. Yes, I’d like to see oh, it is it’s because you act it out. Yeah, cash came over the crowd. All this stuff. Okay.

Marcia Smith 26:04
I got to laugh. Okay. What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like A Raisin in the Sun? Raisin in

Bob Smith 26:12
the Sun? That’s a famous book. I think it was called Raisin in the Sun, wasn’t

26:17
it? Or is the famous movie Raisin in the Sun? Yeah, but there was a play. It was taken from

Bob Smith 26:21
Yeah. And I don’t know if the play was called Raisin in the Sun or not?

Marcia Smith 26:25
I don’t know. I think so. But this is a poem. Okay. Where it started dream deferred by Langston Hughes.

Bob Smith 26:30
Okay, yes. And you said one more. Yep. It’s

Marcia Smith 26:34
my personal favorite from American poems. The woods are lovely dark and deep. But I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep Robert Frost and miles to go before I sleep. Yes.

Bob Smith 26:47
Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy? Yeah,

Marcia Smith 26:51
exactly. Oh, a bowl of graham crackers and milk for yet that finally it’s such a beautiful piece. It

Bob Smith 26:57
is. It’s gorgeous. And it makes you you feel like that snow is falling.

Marcia Smith 27:01
Especially if you live where there’s snow. You can still relate to that. Yeah, any given night. Absolutely. Well, Bob, wrap it up. Alright,

Bob Smith 27:08
looks like that’s it for today. We hope you’ve enjoyed our program and we welcome you to participate. Like some of the folks have given us books. They sent us books recently and have sent us questions. Just go to our website, the off ramp dot show, scroll all the way down to contact us. Leave us information and send money. No Marsh, we’re not going to do that. Okay, I told you no more that. Don’t be creepy. Contact us and you can send us your thoughts or a question or comment we would really appreciate it. I’m Bob Smith.

Marcia Smith 27:41
I’m Marcia Smith. Join us again next

Bob Smith 27:42
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.