200 Club Trivia

Marcia Smith 0:00
What country brews the most beer in the world?

Bob Smith 0:03
And wouldn’t you know it? It was a politician who was the first person to get off on a murder charge by pleading temporary insanity will tell you the story coming up in this 200thepisode of the off ramp with Bob and Marcia

Marcia Smith 0:17
Smith.

Bob Smith 0:34
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. And Marcia, this is our 200th episode. Holy

Marcia Smith 0:49
cow.

Bob Smith 0:50
100 times

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that fireworks I hear are you putting off fireworks?

Bob Smith 0:55
I’ve got a few fireworks going up. Look at that. Hey, there’s a big way.

Marcia Smith 0:59
It sparks on my microphone, honey. I think they’re really gorgeous. Too much.

Bob Smith 1:05
Okay. Anna scares you.

Marcia Smith 1:06
That you do it in the office? Yes. 200 shows Bob. Yeah, I did it as a pity project for you and COVID started and now I’m in 100%.

Bob Smith 1:15
I had done about 30 episodes of this podcast. And then COVID hit and out of pity for Marcia COVID hit and I thought why don’t we do something together as a creative project.

Marcia Smith 1:26
We already do that

Bob Smith 1:27
nobody was going anywhere. So we were gonna be here. Let’s just start doing this. And it’s kind of fun stuff. You know, it was so depressing back then. Yeah. And it was like, well, let’s just focus on interesting facts and things. And so that’s how we got started. And now 200 episodes later, here we are. That means

Marcia Smith 1:43
100 hours of us are out there in the ether

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sense. The episodes are a half hour apiece,

Marcia Smith 1:49
it’s right that we’re talking nonstop.

Bob Smith 1:51
You could go 24/7 100 hours of us talking back and forth. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 1:56
you get sick and you’re bored, can’t sleep, we’re with you, at least for least for 100 hours.

Bob Smith 2:01
We do actually encourage you if you like our show to go back and listen to any of our previous episodes because none of them really are related to the specific time we do them. They’re kind of timeless, historical and trivial information. Marcia has actually been on the show from the start, you are on many of the first 30 episodes, we did little trivia, things of music and some other stuff. But we really turned it into a trivia show in March of 2020 when the COVID shutdown occurred, and we’ve been going at it ever since. So it’s fun. It is fun. Speaking of fun, you have a question on beer. Of course.

Marcia Smith 2:37
What country brews the most beer in the world?

Bob Smith 2:40
What country brews the most beer in the world? And it’s not the United States? No, it isn’t. No. Could it be? Ireland? No. Or England now? Oh,

Marcia Smith 2:51
I would have said Germany. Okay. Yeah, that would be a good one. But it’s not it.

Bob Smith 2:55
Is it in Europe?

Marcia Smith 2:56
It’s the Czech Republic. I

Bob Smith 2:58
was gonna say check. Are you I was because I know they’re great for beer.

Marcia Smith 3:02
Not only that they have been the leader in beer consumption for over 30 years. Bob. Wow, this isn’t a brand new title. In 2021, check this. The average check. drank more than 49 gallons of beer. Oh my goodness. That’s 184 litres in one

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year. Yeah. Holy cow over

Marcia Smith 3:23
a gallon of milk. 49

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gallons of beer a year seems like a beer per person. Yeah, my goodness.

Marcia Smith 3:30
The Republic is known for its affordable beer, which in some parts of the country, Bob is cheaper than water.

Bob Smith 3:37
Wow. That says something. Yeah. Okay.

Marcia Smith 3:40
What do you got there for there? I’m curious to know what President got away with murder.

Bob Smith 3:45
I didn’t say it was a president. A politician was the first person to get off on a murder charge by pleading temporary insanity. So how did a congressman help establish this? Would you like to know the story? I’d like to know the answer. First. This comes from britannica.com. In 1859, New York Congressman Daniel sickles found out that his wife Teresa was cheating on him with a friend. And the friend wasn’t just anybody. He was Washington DC District Attorney Philip Barton Key who is the son of Francis Scott Key who wrote The Star Spangled Banner. He was actually a friend of both sickles he frequently accompanied Mrs. sycl to entertainment events, but her husband was unaware of the affair. How did he find out through an anonymous note? The anonymous note says that quote, key hangs a string out the window as a signal to her that he is in and leaves the door and fastened and she walks in, and he apparently also signaled his availability with white handkerchiefs. Isn’t that? Well, Congressman sickle confronted his wife Teresa who admitted to the affair he insisted she write out a confession and the severity of her despair convinced him that At the district attorney had taken advantage of his young wife, so he’s trying to figure out what to do well two days later while he was in his house brainstorming with friends about what to do about key he spotted his wife’s lover in front of his house trying to signal her with a white handkerchief. This is on Lafayette Square right in the middle of Washington DC God says so sickles barged out the door onto the sidewalk. He saw him coming and extended his hand saying how are Sickles was enraged. He shouted You villain. You have dishonored my house and you must die. The Congressman pulled out a pistol from his pocket and shot key twice. He died in broad daylight on their sidewalk right there in

Marcia Smith 5:42
Lafayette Square holy man, the missus did she witnessed all this? I don’t think she witnessed it.

Bob Smith 5:47
But she was very much in despair. Of course, the murder was a national sensation. Now we’re talking 1859 But this was talked about everywhere. Here’s a quote from a newspaper. This dreadful affair is the theme of conversation in every social community in the country. That’s from a Kentucky newspaper.

Marcia Smith 6:04
You can think about the gossip. Oh, well, he was he was right to do so. And actually the insanity plea works on this one, doesn’t it? I mean, if I would be enraged if there was a woman out there waving her hanky at you.

Bob Smith 6:18
After surrendering to the police, he hired a crack legal team to defend him and that included James T. Brady and Edward M. Stanton, who is a renowned trial lawyer if his name sounds familiar, he later became Secretary of War for Abraham Lincoln. The defense paid to the Congressman as a sympathetic and wholesome husband and father claiming blind rage and jealousy had driven the Congressman briefly mad, not totally mad, but briefly mad. The judge instructed the jury consider the Congressman state of mind at the time of the shooting, and after deliberating for a little more than an hour Wow, the jury returned a not guilty verdict. Did they get divorced? They actually reconciled later, believe it or not, but she didn’t last long. Teresa never fully recovered from the scandal. She died of tuberculosis in 1867 at the age of 3131. She was like a 2829 when this happen, okay, sickles went on to become a brigadier general, he lost a leg at Gettysburg, he served as a diplomat and he was instrumental in making Gettysburg Battlefield a national park, but there you have it, a politician was the first person to get off on a murder charge by pleading temporary insanity, but just the whole little idea of putting little white strings out or flashing a little white handkerchief. It seems so silly. Yes, it does. Until he was shocked. And then it wasn’t funny

Marcia Smith 7:35
anymore. Yeah. Okay. All right, Bob, US geography. Something you know and love. Okay. What two rivers in the US have names that mean? Big River?

Bob Smith 7:46
Big River, Mississippi, I think Big River.

Marcia Smith 7:49
The Mississippi is Algonquin for big river.

Bob Smith 7:53
And then what is the other big river take forever Big River. Is that the Ohio River a

Marcia Smith 7:58
big river now?

Bob Smith 7:59
Okay, what’s the other one?

Marcia Smith 8:00
It’s the Rio Grande. Oh, yes, of course at large. It almost just says it and the Rio Grande in Spanish means big river. There you go is the two big rivers

Bob Smith 8:10
and they’re still called the Big River river. And River. That’s

Marcia Smith 8:14
exactly right. Okay, that was short. All right. Moving on to another topic. Apparently. Bob. Apple’s iPhone 15 is becoming too hot to handle. I heard about the digit. Yeah, so the phone is overheating and Apple is blaming who for the problem.

Bob Smith 8:31
The people using it now? I don’t know who know. They

Marcia Smith 8:35
say that popular programs such as Instagram and Uber apps are causing the problem. Oh, Instagram and Uber. Both of which are no problem on my phone, which is not Apple. For the record. They are rolling out updates to fix this for the Apple people. So it doesn’t burn a hole in your pocket. Oh, yeah. Isn’t it odd?

Bob Smith 8:57
It is odd. Yes. Okay. Marcia, here’s a question for you. Yeah. What song has earned millions of dollars for the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts of America? Well, yeah. Loyalty thing royalty thing. Really? They

Marcia Smith 9:11
get royalties? Yes.

Bob Smith 9:12
What song has earned the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts millions of dollars. There’s

Marcia Smith 9:17
a song that both of them relate to Yes.

Bob Smith 9:21
It’s a patriotic song. Oh, it is. I’ll give you a hint. It was written by Irving Berlin. Oh, and it’s not in your Easter bonnet. It is it is. God bless America. Oh God bless America. Irving Berlin set up a trust so that all the royalties from his song God Bless America would be donated to the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts are fine. We know that so far. The song has earned the scouts over $10 million. And it’s not due to enter the public domain until 2034. What a great idea. Born in Russia. Irving Berlin was an American immigrant who became a millionaire by writing songs and Broadway A show. Yes. That’s a great gift to give to your country. Isn’t

Marcia Smith 10:02
that I never thought of that you could be quite the royalties to a young deserving American group isn’t a great yeah. He was very grateful for the United States was

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he was a grateful American immigrant citizen. Yes, absolutely.

Marcia Smith 10:15
There were a lot of them. Yes, there still are. Okay, Bob. This year, you might have missed the passing of James Franco Tierra JFK. He’s the man who created the world’s heaviest ball of twine. Oh, no, I missed that one in northern Wisconsin. Deer. gotta read more in the local paper. I guess the town rally together to have the ball towed to be on display near the near the Highland town hall.

Bob Smith 10:41
Just the idea of having the ball towed. I’m thinking of being kicked.

Marcia Smith 10:43
No, it had to be towed. Okay.

Bob Smith 10:46
So, a tow truck your truck? Yeah. Okay.

Marcia Smith 10:49
So the question for you, Bob is how heavy is this ball of twine. The

Bob Smith 10:54
biggest ball of twine are the heaviest but I have the highest ball of twine. That’s a it’s 5000 pounds.

Marcia Smith 11:03
It’s 24,100 pounds.

Bob Smith 11:06
Holy cow. That’s over 12 ton. That’s

Marcia Smith 11:08
why the whole town had a pitch in to have this sucker move to someplace to preserve it. Oh God, and people do come to see it from all over the world. So it’s sort of a tourist thing right next to the township Hall. And so this guy Bob, people would just come to him after a while when he started the project and bring him little pieces of twine. He weighed in each piece of twine he added why so he could know how much the ball finally weighed. It was too heavy to put on the scale. I see. Okay, so he carefully measured kept weighing it then added up all that before he added it to the ball. Well, anyway, he died this year. So in his JFK

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was his initials. Yeah. How American may he rest in peace? Okay, Marcia. Speaking of American Benjamin Franklin was quite an American was early was here’s the question. Did Benjamin Franklin actually propose the turkey as the national bird instead of the bald eagle? What I read to believe that’s what we all thought, right? Uh huh. Well, britannica.com states there is no record that Benjamin Franklin ever promoted that false news. No evidence he promoted the turkey as the national bird over the bald eagle. However, he did say what he thought about each bird. We look up to the bald eagle but Franklin described it as a bird of bad moral character.

Marcia Smith 12:27
Why didn’t didn’t go to church? He does

Bob Smith 12:29
not get his living. Honestly, he is too lazy to fish for himself. On the other hand, he felt that Turkey was quote, a much more respectable bird. He admitted the turkey could be a little vain and silly. Nevertheless, he described it as a bird of courage. But apparently that’s as far as he was. He didn’t say let’s make this one national symbol

Marcia Smith 12:49
of birds that Turkeys we see out they look scary. They’re very pretty stark. They do

Bob Smith 12:55
look very strange. They mean but very

Marcia Smith 12:58
noble. Okay. A noble

Bob Smith 12:59
mean birds. Yeah. Okay. In my turkeys look strange and silly. In my opinion. Prehistoric. Silly prehistoric. Okay, that’s weird. All right. Moving on.

Marcia Smith 13:10
Who was the first lady to get the title? First Lady. Oh,

Bob Smith 13:14
that’s a good question. First Lady. So it wasn’t that way from Washington. Oh, she

Marcia Smith 13:21
wanted to be called Lady Washington. Lady Washington. Okay.

Bob Smith 13:24
I must have been somewhere along the line. Was it after the Civil War? 1849. Okay, no, so it’s before the Civil War. So it must have been William Henry Harrison’s wife.

Marcia Smith 13:35
No. It was Dolly Madison, Dolly Madison. And it was used in her eulogy. Oh, that’s

Bob Smith 13:42
where it came from

Marcia Smith 13:43
her eulogy before that. They were called like I said lady Washington. Mrs. Hi, love this president truss. President truss. And some others were called Mrs. President. But dolly got a shout out in her eulogy that called her the First Lady and that stuck for all the ladies to come as

Bob Smith 14:02
well. And she saved the Big White House portrait of George Washington saved a lot of the things in the White House. They packed it all up because they were leaving because the British were coming. Good for her. She was quite a gap. She was quite person. All right, Marcia. Why did Belgium recently destroy 2300 cases of American beer? No. Yes, yes. In 2023, Belgium customs seized and destroyed 2352 cans of Miller Highlife.

Marcia Smith 14:32
Oh and our local beer two why?

Bob Smith 14:35
Why would they destroy Miller high level? Think about it. Think about it. Marsha. Give it some thought tag. What is it known as?

Marcia Smith 14:43
The Highlife beer the champagne of bottled beer is that the word champagne, the word champagne. Because of France and

Bob Smith 14:52
the European Union only beverages from the Champagne region of France can use the term champagne. Now you might say Why hasn’t Miller been using that slogan for a long time? Yes, yes they have since 1906 I believe it that’s when they introduced Miller High Life as the champagne of bottle beers when they went into cans and 69 they just shorten that to the champagne of beers. Didn’t the company no, that would be a problem. Yep slogan.

Marcia Smith 15:17
Of course they did. Yes, they

Bob Smith 15:19
did. Oh, they did. They don’t export Miller Highlife to Europe. Well, how did they wind up with somebody in Germany ordered it and on the way there the ship was intercepted by Belgium customs officials in Antwerp. They alerted the EU trade association for the slogan is incompatible with their rules, which make it clear that goods infringing on a protected designation of origin can be treated as counterfeit. So the Belgian officials crushed 2352 cans with the champagne of beers slogan,

Marcia Smith 15:51
Oh, that’s too bad. And that’s that that’s a decent beer for an American beer.

Bob Smith 15:55
The EU trade association paid for the destruction they use one of those machines that just crushes the cans. It reported the destruction was carried out quote, with the utmost respect for environmental concerns. Both contents and containers were recycled in an environmentally responsible manner that’s

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important. Now,

Bob Smith 16:15
Frederick Miller, who founded the Miller Brewing Company in the 1850s was a German immigrant that can’t ship his beer back to German. Yeah. Isn’t that weird? Anyway, that’s why the officials destroyed 2300 cases of American beer recently. I wonder who ordered it and why somebody from Germany individual party. They talked to them and they said, Okay, nevermind, they knew they were doing the wrong thing.

Marcia Smith 16:38
And they paid for it had to be destroyed. That’s right. That

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would never stand in this country. ordered. That’s my time for a break. We’ll be back in just a moment. You’re listening to the 200th episode of the off ramp with Bob

Marcia Smith 16:53
and Marcia Smith. 200. Hard to believe.

Bob Smith 16:59
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 Cedarburg, Wisconsin’s internet radio station. It goes out over podcast platforms all over the world after that. Okay, Marcia, back to this 200th episode thing. Yeah, I got on kind of a Jag, I was on the web trying to find out what would be the word we would use for 200. Centennial means 100. But that usually means 100 years. Bicentennial means 200. But most people associate that with yours. Then I saw a thing called the 200 Club. Of course, I clicked on it. Interestingly, it’s about some of the most famous shows on TV history only went 200 episodes, not much more than that. Now, of course, ours is just a two person show and it’s audio only but we have to research right perform. Edit, you know, there’s effort that goes into it. So I thought you might find this interesting Frazier Murder She Wrote and married with children. Those are big, big shows in TV history. Everybody remembers them. None of them made more than 264 episodes. Mash Happy Days. Andy Griffith and friends they never went beyond 250. And then the Lone Ranger, the Waltons all in the family, they all average 200. So my point is, few performers ever get a chance to do more than 200 of anything, but we did. Well, we’ve done 200 Next week, next week, we’ll go beyond. Anyway, I thought that was good. And it’s great to be in that company. Yes, it is. All right, what you got for your 200th anniversary question. Where it makes you feel old doesn’t it? 200th anniversary question is this much longer but

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the Declaration of Independence. Here’s a quickie here’s a gift for you. Okay, anniversary gift,

Bob Smith 18:42
so I can imitate some of the founders what they sounded like.

Marcia Smith 18:46
You can make up whatever you want. The Declaration of Independence guarantees three unalienable rights.

Bob Smith 18:54
What are they life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? Just

Marcia Smith 18:58
making sure you remember. All right, good. Time for a new segment.

Bob Smith 19:02
What is it? Who said it? Okay.

Marcia Smith 19:05
This is another one of your favorite things, not who done it, but

Bob Smith 19:10
who said it? Who said it? These

Marcia Smith 19:12
are all presidents. Okay. Okay. I’ll give you the quote and you tell me the gap. All right, I’ll try. We hold these truths to be self evident. Abraham

Bob Smith 19:21
Lincoln. Oh, no, no, wait a minute. No, that’s Thomas Jefferson. Shoot. I thought ahead, Jim Thomas Jefferson, if

Marcia Smith 19:27
that is correct coloration of independence. That is correct. Okay. The presidency is not a bed of roses.

Bob Smith 19:34
That is John Adams. I think Ah, no, no.

Marcia Smith 19:38
James pulk. Oh, really? Number three, the government of the people by the people and for the people shall not perish from the earth. That’s Lincoln. That’s link sorry. Speak softly and carry a big stick Teddy Roosevelt. The world must be made safe for democracy. Woodrow Wilson. Very good. The business of America is business Harding.

Bob Smith 19:59
Well Warren G Harding. No, Calvin Coolidge. That’s it. Okay, I knew it was one of those. I didn’t get 20s. Guys. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 20:05
How about a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage? My grandma

Bob Smith 20:10
used to talk about this. Really? Yes, they were big Hoover supporters. And then the Depression hit. And it was like, well, he kept saying prosperities around the corner. Well, it never came around the corner. And that was his. That was his chicken, every pod. What was the rest of it? And a car in every garage was one of the campaign promises, essentially, that went on

Marcia Smith 20:29
to haunt him just like Who was it that said, Read my lips. no new taxes. Bush the elder? That’s right. That’s exactly. He had raised taxes. Here’s one of my favorites. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself that of course, is FDR correct. We must guard against the unwanted influence of

Bob Smith 20:49
the industrial segment. That was Eisenhower had said

Marcia Smith 20:52
very good because you and I are very cognizant of that, quote, It was to be exact. We must guard against the unwarranted influence whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex. Yes.

Bob Smith 21:06
Because during his time it had grown into an industry and it had never been that way before.

Marcia Smith 21:09
And it scared him. And he was saying beware, be aware.

Bob Smith 21:12
And he was a general is scared. Yeah, that’s the fast i

Marcia Smith 21:16
Ask not what your country can do for you, buddy. JFK. That is correct. The buck stops here.

Bob Smith 21:24
That was Harry Truman. That’s it on his desk as a sign.

Marcia Smith 21:28
Yeah. Let’s stop with the buck stops here.

Bob Smith 21:30
All right, Marcia, a question from britannica.com. How is the highest point on Earth? Not Mount Everest? This is an interesting one. How is the highest point on earth not Mount Everest. And it doesn’t have to do with one of those volcanoes. It’s in the ocean that goes all the way to the top? It’s not that it’s

Marcia Smith 21:48
not a manmade building? No, it’s not. It’s not. Yeah, couldn’t be that.

Bob Smith 21:53
How is the highest point on Earth? Not Mount Everest.

Marcia Smith 21:56
I’m thinking I’m thinking you’re thinking? I don’t know. Wait, let

Bob Smith 22:00
me repeat the question March. How is the highest point on Earth? Not Mount Everest? I don’t know. It’s because of the Earth’s rotation. Marcia. It makes it thicker around the middle then from top to bottom than what mountain is the highest point on Earth and ice capped inactive double volcano in Ecuador? Mount Chimborazo, it’s almost 7000 feet farther from the center of the earth than the peak of Mount Everest. So this is a physics or earth science thing that nobody would notice. But scientists, the highest point on Earth is Ecuador’s Mount Chimborazo. Okay. And that’s from a legitimate source. britannica.com that is, that is what legitimate Yeah.

Marcia Smith 22:43
Bob in 1900 ish architect Frank Lloyd Wright declared what city as hell with the lid off?

Bob Smith 22:53
He declared a certain city as hell with the lid. Ah, is that a large city? Is it in the let me see here. Is it in the middle United States? Nope. Is it in the eastern United States? Yep. Is it in New Jersey? Nope. Okay, where is it?

Marcia Smith 23:09
It is Pittsburgh. Oh, no kidding. Beginning of the 21st century, it boasted about having 14,000 smokestacks Can you imagine? Yes, it did. And there was such in that city day and night wood. All the steel mills would be just floating around in the air constantly. So

Bob Smith 23:27
he called it hell with the lid off. Yeah. Exactly. What did he have customers there and he probably hated working.

Marcia Smith 23:35
That I just thought that was funny. Okay, well, here’s

Bob Smith 23:37
what it goes along with that for me to wrap up the show today. What country has the nickname Land of Fire and Ice? What

Marcia Smith 23:44
country and I’ll give you choices here. Okay.

Bob Smith 23:47
Is it Russia? Is it Iceland? Is it Norway? Is it Greenland?

Marcia Smith 23:51
I’ll say Greenland. No, it’s not. Iceland. Iceland?

Bob Smith 23:56
Yes. Okay. Yes, as traveled trivia.com It suggests the Land of Fire and Ice sounds like a play straight out of Game of Thrones. So it’s no wonder Iceland is home to several of that shows favorite filming locations in the country is a land of extremes. Fiery springs exist alongside massive ice sheets. It’s got volcanoes and famous glaciers Okay, so it’s known as the Land of Fire. Nice. Volcanic eruptions disrupt the island at least once each decade. I didn’t realize that and build up its rocky terrain while glaciers form ice caves and lagoons over much of the country so the nickname fits Land of Fire and Ice. That’s Iceland.

Marcia Smith 24:32
Moving on. I’ve got two quickies here. feminist icon Susan B. Anthony. Yes. was referring to what when she said this has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world. This has

Bob Smith 24:47
done more to emancipate women. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 24:49
What is she referring? What

Bob Smith 24:50
is she talking about? Is it the vote? Nope. Is it birth control now?

Marcia Smith 24:55
What is it bicycling.

Bob Smith 24:57
Oh my goodness. Yes, that was considered a bit suffragette hobby more or less bicycling.

Marcia Smith 25:02
She rejoiced every time she saw a woman ride by on a wheel. She called it the wheel. It was a picture of a free and untrammeled womanhood. It did exuded freedom. It gave people

Bob Smith 25:14
mobility, but it gave women mobility. Yeah, they couldn’t afford cars, but they could afford a bicycle. You know? Oh,

Marcia Smith 25:20
okay. Here is a quick 1957 Bob the first toilet appeared on American TV sitcom. Watch show. Is

Bob Smith 25:27
it Dennis the Menace? Yeah, you watch this show? Oh, was it Ozzie and Harriet now? Was it Mr. Ed. Now? Was it a comedy? Yes.

Marcia Smith 25:36
Was it a sitcom?

Bob Smith 25:37
It was a sitcom. Okay. It must have been Andy Griffith. No. Wait, what was it? It was

Marcia Smith 25:41
Leave It to Beaver. Oh, yes, Camp Beaver and Wally bought a pet alligator and they hid it in the toilet tank. Oh, that’s funny. Oh, yes. Toilet on TV for the first time little alligator in the toilet pilot tank. They went into the bath. Oh my goodness, that funny. That is

Bob Smith 25:59
the first showing of it. Wow. Well, with this being the conclusion of our 200th episode, we want to thank all those people over the past four years who have contributed to the show we’ve had many people call in write send us books. Recently, we had that. And a lot of folks listening that had been friends of ours for years and new friends as well. So we want to say thanks to all of

Marcia Smith 26:20
you lots of new friends, which is very exciting. And from all over the world.

Bob Smith 26:24
Go Marsh. We got it in. Okay. Got a thing to wrap us up there.

Marcia Smith 26:29
Yes, Bertrand Russell. War does not determine who is right. Only who is left. All right. And then on a lighter note by an unknown anonymous person. The human brain is awesome. It functions 24 hours a day from the day we are born and only stops when we are taking an exam or falling in love.

Bob Smith 26:53
That’s true. Especially the ladder way. Yeah, I don’t mean not present company excepted of course. But all right. That’s it for today. Thanks for being here for our 200th anniversary. Oh, the fireworks are going off again, Mark. So sorry. Please join us again next time. You’re here our theme music you know you’re with us. I’m Bob Smith.

Marcia Smith 27:17
I’m Marcia Smith.

Bob Smith 27:18
You’ve been listening to the off ramp. Oh, there’s a big one.

Marcia Smith 27:24
You silly man. Philly Philly man.

Bob Smith 27:27
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