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Marcia Smith 0:00
What is the oldest Yuletide beverage, and

Bob Smith 0:03
what future state’s naval base was bombed by the Japanese in World War Two? If you say Hawaii, you’re only half right answers to those and other questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob Marsha Smith. You

Bob Smith 0:33
Music. Welcome to the off ramp. A chance to slow down, steer clear of crazy, take a side road to sanity and get some perspective on life with fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia. Well, you’ve got a holiday question there. Marcia, what is it I

Marcia Smith 0:48
do? What is the oldest Yuletide beverage? And it’s still consumed today. People have it every Christmas. They don’t have it other times. But what do you think that might be that goes back to Roman times, rum and coke. No, just

Bob Smith 1:04
okay, but it’s hot buttered rum. Oh, that

Marcia Smith 1:07
sounds good. I had one the other night. But no, that’s not it. Okay. Think about it. It’s something our boy always wants in the refrigerator when he comes home for Christmas. Eggnog.

Bob Smith 1:16
That’s it, the oldest yultide beverage. Many food

Marcia Smith 1:21
historians believe modern eggnog is a descendant of something called posit. Did you ever hear that? No, o, s, s, e, t, it’s a milky Ale, like drink served warm in medieval Britain. By the 13th century, posit had become popular among monks and was used in celebrations and toasts as a nod to good health and prosperity, since it contains Sherry, milk and eggs, all foods eaten only by the wealthy and the monks. Apparently, Sherry was eventually swapped out for rum in the American colonies. So you’re you were on the rum track there. Okay, though some early versions, like George Washington’s personal recipe included bourbon whiskey. Instead you’d like that, so you add the poison and add the eggnog, which is always in our refrigerator at Christmas. So how does it go back to the Roman times they used to drink posit Oh, it’s milky ale drink during the medieval Britain, that was something they made, and it just carried over. And then they started adding milk and eggs and Sherry. But it goes back to medieval times. That’s interesting.

Bob Smith 2:31
It’s interesting. We always know the origins of alcohol based things, but not necessarily other things. Isn’t that interesting? It shows you what we value as people, the

Marcia Smith 2:41
hierarchy of needs, okay,

Bob Smith 2:43
all right, Marshall, World War Two history. What future States Naval Base was bombed by the Japanese in World War Two. And you would say Hawaii, yes, because we have the Pearl Harbor anniversary on December 7, but you’re only half right, the Japanese, Most assuredly did bomb the US naval base in Hawaii. They bombed it twice on December 7, 1941 but most people don’t realize another future state had a harbor and a naval base bombed by the Japanese. In fact, it was bombed three times by the Japanese. Oh, that would have to be Alaska. That is exactly right. US naval bases in Alaska and Hawaii were both bombed by the Japanese in World War Two, six months after the Pearl Harbor attack on Hawaii, Japan’s Air Force struck an American naval and air base in Alaska. They bombed Dutch Harbor twice on June 3, 1942 and then came back the next day and bombed it a third time. Three air raid days on the US Naval Air Base in Dutch Harbor, Alaska, they killed 43 people. Of course, Pearl Harbor killed a lot more than yeah and the 1000s. Bob.

Marcia Smith 3:50
How did the tuxedo get its name? That

Bob Smith 3:53
was the tuxedo club in New York, upper state, New York. No, so it’s not the tuxedo club. I always heard that it was, did you Well,

Marcia Smith 4:02
no. But up until one evening in 1886 Bob, the accepted formal dress for men was a suit with long swallow tails in the back. You know that is those tails? Yes, right, okay. But one festive evening in New Jersey, young Griswold, Lorillard, well, that’s quite a name. Yeah, it Griswold is Chevy Chase, the heir to a tobacco fortune shocked his fellow country club members by showing up for a formal affair in a dinner jacket without tails. Oh, my God, the scandal, the scandal. When the shock wore off, the mimicking began and other young men joined in with that wacky new look, which was first seen in that country club located in tuxedo Park, New Jersey. Okay, so it was tuxedo, yeah, okay, tuxedo Park, New Jersey, it’s a it’s a place, okay, that’s the answer. So I was right. No, you said tuxedo lounge or something. Oh, I

Bob Smith 4:59
said Club. Right, yeah, okay, yeah, but you

Marcia Smith 5:01
were on the right track.

Bob Smith 5:02
So that’s where it got its name,

Marcia Smith 5:05
New Jersey. No jersey. So

Bob Smith 5:07
what he did was a fashion faux pas, yeah? Which became a big thing, a modern thing.

Marcia Smith 5:13
Can you imagine, the scandal isn’t that interesting? Yeah?

Speaker 1 5:16
All right, I’ve got a couple of holiday questions about holiday windows. You know, Windows and stores, okay, yeah, New York City has four famous stores that continue to create holiday window displays. Oh, good. Macy’s, Bergdorf, Goodman, Bloomingdale’s and Saks, Fifth Avenue. But which originated the first holiday window

Marcia Smith 5:37
Gosh, which one is the oldest? I don’t know if Macy’s goes back. I know the parade goes way back, but I Well, what was the first I’ll just say Bloomingdale’s.

Bob Smith 5:48
No, it is Macy’s. Yes. Roland Hussey Macy senior, who is the founder of Macy’s department store, he’s believed to have unveiled the very first Christmas themed display window in 1874 now, by that, I mean, they didn’t use merchandise. They’re trying to create some kind of experience for people. Magical thing, yes, just as today’s window displays reflect current pop culture, what was the first holiday window display doing?

Marcia Smith 6:17
What pop culture did it reflect elves and Santa’s

Speaker 1 6:21
like, yeah, like, Bloomingdale’s recently teamed with Warner Brothers to create scenes from the film Wonka, about young Willy Wonka. So, yeah, that’s their holiday window display. So in 1874 what was the first Macy’s holiday window display featuring? I

Marcia Smith 6:36
would just think it was Santa and his workshop elves. I would think so too. But no,

Bob Smith 6:40
no, it was a collection of porcelain dolls depicting scenes from Harriet Beecher Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin. No kidding. Wow. Now that was the most famous runaway success novel of the 19th century, and the connection to Christmas was the fact that the slave Tom never abandoned his Christian values despite his life of slavery. And then in 1883 Macy’s added animation with the circular track depicting Santa being pulled by a reindeer. So they came out with the beginning of this whole stuff,

Marcia Smith 7:11
I tell you, windows, department store windows were a big part of my childhood. My mom and I would go downtown on the bus and go to look at all the window displays, and it was fabulous.

Bob Smith 7:22
1874 was the first one. That was Macy’s. That’s the answer. I wasn’t

Marcia Smith 7:25
there, but I was it

Bob Smith 7:27
was you and your mother. Weren’t there. Then, okay, later,

Marcia Smith 7:31
okay, Bob, why do we say that the person in charge is calling the shots?

Bob Smith 7:36
Um, that must have a military connotation. Maybe it was the the leader or the commander in the field. He’s calling the shots. He’s telling when to when to fire the cannon, when to fire the guns. So I think that’s where it came from.

Marcia Smith 7:50
Yeah, yeah, good guess. But nah, nah. Well, really, not at all. The expression comes from a form of billiards. In the game of straight pool, the person shooting is required to specify both the ball they intend to hit and the pocket they will sink it. Okay, so the eight ball in the side pocket, that’s right, yeah, and in straight pool, you’d call every shot. So it’s it can get very hard to do. That’s where it came from. It wasn’t until the mid 20th century that the term moved out of the smoky pool halls and into everyday usage. It was just a pool hall term until the mid 20th century.

Speaker 1 8:24
All right, more things about Macy’s and shop windows. What did Macy’s introduce 12 years before its first holiday window display, another Christmas tradition in retail shopping. It wasn’t the parade. That was later, and that was one of their innovations. Yes, believe it

Marcia Smith 8:42
or, Macy’s is all about Christmas. Yeah, Santa Claus in the

Bob Smith 8:46
store. That’s exactly right. It was in during the Civil War. Some sources say the Santa first appeared in Macy’s in 1862 others in 1864 but they were the first to do it. Now, you might think there were other retail centers around the world that started these things, like London, like Selfridges, but you know what? Harry Selfridge? He was American? Yeah, he left Chicago to go to London to open up a British store, and he brought this window idea there. He had elaborate window displays year round, especially at Christmas, and then other retailers followed, by the way, he’s also credited with coining the phrase only x more shopping days till

Marcia Smith 9:22
Christmas. Yeah. What a winner. That was too right? And

Bob Smith 9:26
the customers always right. He also pioneered, okay, back to Macy’s window, yes, even its current window, all right, every Christmas time, what does Macy’s always devote some holiday window space to? It’s a movie, a story that was in a movie. It

Marcia Smith 9:41
would have to be an old movie, old Christmas movie. It’s a Wonderful Life, no more of a cartoon. It involved Macy’s, Oh, of course, Miracle on

Bob Smith 9:52
34th Street. Every year, Macy’s devotes a set of windows to Miracle on 34th Street. That story about the little girl who learns to believe. Even Santa after meeting Chris. Wonderful movie. Yeah. And like you said, they also invented the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. The first one was in 1924 and in that first one, store employees were dressed in costumes, live animals borrowed from the Central Park Zoo were also used and professional bands and floats, and it was an instant success. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 10:21
our local bands go there for Thanksgiving now to perform. That’s right. It’s amazing. Okay, Bob, can you name any of the eight countries located in the alpine region of Europe? The Alpine region, you know, the Alpine mountain range, yes, 750, miles long, eight countries, right? Yeah. Okay, so there’s how many you can get. France,

Bob Smith 10:43
Italy, Switzerland, German, Austria. That’s five.

Marcia Smith 10:47
Wait, France, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, uh huh. Let’s

Bob Smith 10:51
see what would be another one or two to go. Okay, so Czechoslovakia or the Czech Republic? No, okay, tell me

Marcia Smith 11:01
Liechtenstein, Monaco, Slovenia, okay, those are the reasons I didn’t, I wonder, but you did very well. And calling out Switzerland, Austria, Italy. Liechtenstein, France, Germany. Monaco, I think it’s Liechtenstein. Liechtenstein, yes, I guess. Anyway, that’s all the countries on the elk mountain range. Isn’t that amazing? Yeah. Okay, back

Speaker 1 11:22
to history. Back to World War Two. History. Okay, yay. We were talking about two states that had naval bases bombed by the Japanese Hawaiian, and Alaska. What future state was physically invaded by the Japanese in World War Yes,

Marcia Smith 11:38
a future state. Well, that would be Alaska too. That’s right.

Speaker 1 11:41
Several days after that Dutch Harbor attack, 6000 to 7000 Japanese troops landed in the Aleutian Islands. I don’t remember reading about that. I don’t remember reading about that either. They occupied Alaska’s Attu and Kiska islands for nearly four months, and by August, they’d been driven out by US and Canadian Forces. Now the Aleutian Island campaign, that was the only foreign invasion of US soil in World War Two. There were also some air attacks on Oregon with fire balloons, which killed six civilians. But this was the only actual foreign invasion of US soil in World War Two.

Marcia Smith 12:16
And aren’t the Aleutian Islands, the islands that are just a few miles from Russia. That’s right. So Russia could have taken care of them for us. Well,

Bob Smith 12:25
don’t know they were kind of on the fence at that point. I think before they came on our side, nobody knew where the Russians were going to go. Still

Marcia Smith 12:32
don’t Okay. The artworks Bob of the birth of Venus, the Botticelli painting, and the vitrovian Man, that’s Da Vinci’s famous artwork appear on two euro coins in what country?

Bob Smith 12:46
Well, I would say Italy.

Marcia Smith 12:49
Yes, it does. I’m just seeing if you would get it, since

Bob Smith 12:51
that’s where they were probably painted, painted by an Italian and

Marcia Smith 12:55
the trovian man represents the perfect man based on ancient knowledge and proportions present in human anatomy. Okay, the illustration depicts the naked ideal of a healthy form of man. Oh

Bob Smith 13:09
yes, indeed. You know, I won’t say who the client was, but I worked for an ad agency in Milwaukee in the 90s, and we had a major pharmaceutical as one of our clients. And we put that illustration on one of the brochures that they used, and they insisted on a loincloth covering the vitrovian man. Oh, you get it? Oh, for God, I remember the artist doing it. Was so disgusted. I can’t believe they want to do this, you know, yes, we had to cover up the vitrovian Man’s petrovi. So okay, all right,

Marcia Smith 13:45
I put it up on the wall in our bedroom. He used to

Bob Smith 13:48
have bodybuilders and other people come into a studio model study anatomy. Absolutely okay. So we were talking about Macy’s influence on retail shopping during the holidays. So all of the things we talked about were pioneered in New York, the first holiday window display, the first in store, Santa Claus, a Thanksgiving Day Parade to kick off the shopping season. What other holiday traditions can New York

Marcia Smith 14:11
City claim? Big Christmas tree in this middle of town? That’s

Bob Smith 14:17
right. The first city to have a public tree lighting ceremony was in New York, and the first place to have a Christmas tree decorated with electric light bulbs. Okay, you know who did that? Edison. It was the vice president of the Edison Electric Light Company, Edward Hibbard Johnson. In 1882 he had a tree in his house wired with 80 red, white and blue light bulbs, and he put the tree in a window in his townhouse on East 36th street, so people passing by could see it. Then he called the press, and they came over, and that was the beginning of it. They publicized it. And one more thing, what famous Christmas story was written by a New York City resident? Oh, well, what

Marcia Smith 14:53
was that?

Bob Smith 14:55
Who was the person? What was his name? I don’t know. Clement. Yes. Clark Moore, yes. He was a prominent property owner in the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City. And he wrote he reinvented Santa Claus as a jolly Dutchman pulled by a tiny reindeer The Visit from St Nicholas. He wrote that for his six children, never realizing he was creating folklore for the whole world. He was a prominent property owner in New York City. I always think of him living out in the countryside, somewhere else,

Marcia Smith 15:21
New York City, yeah,

Bob Smith 15:22
I think it’s time for a break. Okay. No, you’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marcia Smith. We’ll be back in just a moment.

Speaker 1 15:30
We’re back. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marcia Smith. We do this every week for the Cedarburg Public Library, Cedarburg, Wisconsin, at its internet radio station, and then we put it on podcast platforms, and it’s heard all over the world. Okay? Marsh, back to holiday traditions, already retail holiday traditions. How did the Industrial Revolution help make window displays possible?

Marcia Smith 15:54
Oh, oh, I got I’ll bet it’s the mechanization of things where you got a moving Santa Claus and eyes and arms that move and that,

Bob Smith 16:06
but that was not what I was looking for. What

Marcia Smith 16:08
are you looking for?

Speaker 1 16:09
I’m looking for what you look through the window, the window, the window. It was the widespread availability of large plate glass during the industrial revolution that was a new technology out of that that let retailers build Windows spanning the lengths of their shops to display merchandise. Before that, they didn’t have big windows like that, so stores, starting around 1760 and continuing to 1840 and afterwards, that’s the Industrial Revolution era, began competing by showcasing their wares and their windows. Then they began to adopt purely decorative displays, and led to Macy’s original Uncle Tom’s Cabin story with porcelain dolls and the first holiday window display. Very cool, but it was the technology of the Industrial Revolution, the window making technology. And

Marcia Smith 16:54
here’s a question from my beloved which is the kind of question he likes, what are the four US state capitals named after President. Okay, there’s

Bob Smith 17:02
Madison, Wisconsin, right? There’s Jefferson City, Missouri, correct? Just give me a moment. Okay, there’s, there’s Nixon, Utah. No, no, that’s not, I don’t think they named everything after Richard. Two more, right? Are they in the east or the west.

Marcia Smith 17:21
One is the south and one is the Midlands. The Midlands the

Bob Smith 17:25
Midwest? Yeah, well, it’s more Midwest, okay, named after one of the Presidents residents, Washington.

Marcia Smith 17:33
Yeah, big, famous one you’re missing here,

Bob Smith 17:36
Lincoln Nebraska. Lincoln Nebraska, yes. And then who else? Only one left. This

Marcia Smith 17:40
is in I’ll give you the state Mississippi, Jackson,

Bob Smith 17:44
Mississippi. Oh, darn. You know, I never associated Jackson with Andrew Jackson in Mississippi.

Marcia Smith 17:51
Now you will wow. Okay, okay, so they are Jefferson, Madison, Jackson and Lincoln.

Bob Smith 17:57
Yes, okay, all these are state capitals, correct? In what states? Oh, we did that already.

Marcia Smith 18:03
Well, here’s something I’ve actually often wondered about. Bob, okay, what the heck is the board in the term room and board? Like, like, I’ll put you up with room and board. Yes, that’s a good question. It’s and I’ll give you this. I thought maybe it was the slats in the bed, but that would be the room. So it’s not that I thought so too. I thought the board is what you sleep on. Yeah, no room on a board. Yeah, the room is board. Okay,

Speaker 1 18:26
so board is a euphemism or a term for something else. So board must be the board you eat from where you have your food, room and board, because usually that’s room and board is a combination of those two things. Deduction

Marcia Smith 18:38
there, sweetheart. Okay, it comes from the planks that were laid across trestles to form a primitive dining room table when you sat down to eat in the good old days. Well, they when people would come over to eat, you’d get out the trestles and put down the boards, which reminds me, we have to get our boards up.

Speaker 1 19:00
Okay, one more holiday tradition that you can relate to New York City. We talked about all the other things. One more, and it started in New York as a public celebration. What is it? It’s the end of the Christmas

Marcia Smith 19:10
week. The end of the Christmas week. Oh, of course, the dropping of the New Year’s Eve Ball. That’s

Bob Smith 19:16
right, yeah, the ringing end of the new year with a public celebration. According to New York City archives, people began doing that in Times Square in 1904 really that long ago, and then starting in 1907 they began watching a specially lit ball descend a flag top, so that Times Square celebration is now more than 100 years old, and every New Year’s Eve, more than 90,000 people gather there, and then millions more watch it from around the world. But isn’t that interesting? How many of those traditions began in New York City? Yeah, the first holiday window display, first store, Santa Claus, thanksgiving parade, Christmas trees lighted with electric lights, and then the holiday tradition of ringing in the new year all started there. Okay, so. New York, a ton of gratitude

Marcia Smith 20:01
indeed. How long Bob was a typical working day in ancient Rome, a

Bob Smith 20:07
typical working day in ancient Rome, for who now it’s for a slave, it was all day.

Marcia Smith 20:13
This is just a typical work. Well, I imagine it

Bob Smith 20:16
would be dawn to dusk. So that’s probably from, you know, like maybe six in the morning until six or seven at night. So 12 hours? Yeah,

Marcia Smith 20:23
he would be so wrong, since tracking the sun was the Roman citizen’s principal timekeeping method, the workday was structured around solar positions that were easy to measure with the naked eye, such as sunrise, noon and sunset. For this reason, a typical citizen would usually start their workday at dawn, like you said, but they would stop working at noon. That’s it. That’s it. They left the rest of the afternoon open for leisure and citizens from all levels, all levels of Roman society, would spend that time attending sporting events, theatrical performances and the all important public baths. I just can’t believe people didn’t work longer than Nope. That was it from sunup to noon. All right. I have two animal questions. All right. All right. Dogs have a total of about 10 sounds. They can make different noises. That’s what we think. That’s what scientists have, I know.

Bob Smith 21:21
But I mean, dogs might think we do more than 10.

Marcia Smith 21:26
That’s different. Bob will now recreate,

Bob Smith 21:28
no, I will not recreate all 10 sounds.

Marcia Smith 21:31
How many do cats have? Oh, cats cats have.

Bob Smith 21:34
I would think cats have fewer if dogs only have 10, but you’ll probably tell me, cats have many, many more. So the answer is, many, many more,

Marcia Smith 21:43
yes, 100 Oh, my goodness. Think about that. We had both a cat and a dog, and Bowser, our cat was able to convey a whole lot of feelings, a whole lot of time. Well, when you

Bob Smith 21:54
name a cat Bowser, what do you think it’s gonna do? He was, come on.

Marcia Smith 21:59
He was a nutcase. Okay. Second question, we humans have five basic taste abilities, sweet, salty, sour, bitter and savory. Okay, how many do dolphins and whales have? How many tastes? Wow,

Bob Smith 22:13
and we know this because we’ve done research on it. We have and we’ve asked them about it. Okay, well, I’ll say they have, okay, I’ll say they have more than we have. I’ve got to be safe here on all these questions. Much more. Uh huh. All right, that’s the

Marcia Smith 22:28
answer. I know the answer is one, one taste. Yeah, only you can only taste one thing.

Bob Smith 22:34
I have no idea, Marcia. I’ll say salt. I’ll say sweet. I’ll say dolphins can taste sweet.

Marcia Smith 22:41
Yes, no, it’s salt. It’s the only thing they can Oh, well, they’re in salt

Bob Smith 22:44
all day. Is that the reason? Yes, I can taste salt. Yes, I think that they would taste something different because they’re in salt,

Marcia Smith 22:52
you would think, and scientists have concluded that this is likely caused by genetic mutations that they used to have more but that’s just how to lift the bill. How do

Bob Smith 23:02
you know this? Come on, these researchers, we did a survey of the dolphins. 98% of the dolphins said they could only taste

Marcia Smith 23:13
one. Researchers were particularly surprised by the loss of their bitter receptors. As many toxins in the Sea have a bitter taste. But this slow but steady loss of taste is likely tied to how whales and dolphins eat, because they they tend to swallow everything whole

Bob Smith 23:31
chewing. Okay? So they never use their taste buds. They don’t need them.

Marcia Smith 23:35
They don’t say, Oh, this tastes good. They just, I’m hungry. The whole thing, I’m

Bob Smith 23:39
hungry, and then I’m moving on, and this is their

Marcia Smith 23:41
deduction, the researchers. Okay, who knows? There you go. One taste salt. Oh,

Speaker 1 23:47
dear. All right. Marsha, switching to movies. What’s the newest trend in best actor awards? Now there’s a new trend. Okay. Now you might not think of it as a trend, but it is a trend because when you look at the numbers, how many actors have received awards for acting in these pictures? Okay, it’s blank pics, p, i, c, s, blank pics. There’s a name they use for those. Oh, okay, it’s a type of film. I have no

Marcia Smith 24:12
idea. Let me see there are pictures about real people. Oh, okay, that would be biographies, biopics, biopics,

Speaker 1 24:21
that’s right, yeah, yay, yes, there have always been biopics, going way back to God. There was some silent films on Lincoln that were done by Thomas Edison. But rarely did people win awards for them, but no longer. 26 performances from biopics have won the Oscar for Best Actor, and half of them have been since 1990 No kidding, yeah. For the first time in Oscar history, over the last decade, the number of nominees for biopics have surpassed nominees who played original characters a 2322 split that dates back to 2010 now you might say, give me some examples, right? Famous biopics in our life include rage. Bull. That was where Robert De Niro won for playing what Jake LaMotta Sissy Spacek won for playing Loretta Lynn and Coal Miner’s Daughter. Daniel Day Lewis for my left foot. George C Scott was for Pat

Speaker 2 25:12
Patton, yes, soldier. Philip Seymour Hoffman won for playing Truman cabote.

Marcia Smith 25:17
We just saw one Oppenheimer. That’s

Bob Smith 25:19
right, the Oppenheimer film, well, maybe the Barbie film, that’s a biopic. Is it really? She’s

Speaker 1 25:24
not a real person, though she’s not. Oh, sorry, sorry to make you feel bad about that. Other biopic films that recently won Best Actor Oscars include Gandhi Amadeus and The King’s Speech. All those were great. They not only produce Oscars, but bio box office dollars too. Oppenheimer was the highest grossing biopic of all time,

Marcia Smith 25:44
really, of all time. I wouldn’t have guessed that. Yeah,

Bob Smith 25:47
what was the biopic that was more popular prior to this? You won’t believe this one either, and we both saw it too. Barbie bohemian, Rhapsody, the Queen biopic, really. And we’d love that. Yeah, Freddie Mercury. He was great that recently, see that was $910.8 million worldwide, and Oppenheimer recently grossed more than $912 million across the globe. They

Marcia Smith 26:12
were both excellent films, and they both deserved that award, yeah, for acting.

Bob Smith 26:16
So there you go. Biopics, the newest trend in best actor awards. It just kind of crept up on

Marcia Smith 26:22
us. All right, I’m gonna close with a quote by Dorothy Parker, one of the famous, witty women of the world. The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. That’s

Bob Smith 26:36
right, there is no cure for curiosity. You can never satisfy curiosity,

Marcia Smith 26:41
and the cure for boredom is curiosity. That’s right. It is okay. All right. Well, that’s

Bob Smith 26:45
it for today. We hope that you had some of your curiosity satisfied, not all of it, by listening to the off ramp. And we encourage you to participate. If you’d like to submit a question or fax that you’d like us to stump the other one with. You can do that by going to our website, the offramp dot show on the web, and scrolling down to contact us,

Marcia Smith 27:08
little synaptic laps there, babe.

Bob Smith 27:10
I’m Bob Smith. I’m Marcia Smith, join us again next time when we return with more fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia here on the off ramp, you

Bob Smith 27:27
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