210 Spontaneous Trivia

Marcia Smith 0:00
What countries read the most books every year

Bob Smith 0:03
and what world famous artists was once commissioned to make a snowman? answers to those and other questions coming up for this episode of the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith

Welcome to the off ramp, but she has to slow down. Steer clear of crazy and take a side road to Saturday. Well, what countries read the most books? Yeah, yeah, yeah, we’re talking books as opposed to newspapers and things like that on

Marcia Smith 0:48
an annual basis. Okay. What country reads the most books every year?

Bob Smith 0:53
I’d say China with the most people they’d read the most books, but that’s probably not true. That’s not okay. All right. Give me a moment. How about Britain that great? Probably the center of much of the publishing of the of the European world. No, they’re not even in the top 10. Okay, how about the United States? Were their set second or third? Okay, so what’s number one Marsh? Okay, actually, they’re

Marcia Smith 1:17
Thai. France and Canada are really according to the World Population review, a site that I check every morning first thing. France and Canada tie for annual books read 17 books a year. Wow. That’s a lot that is alive. United States number 212 books a year. Okay. South Korea. 11.

Bob Smith 1:40
South Korea is next. That’s interesting. Spain, nine,

Marcia Smith 1:43
Portugal. Eight is Estonia. Six, Chile five, Peru three, Brazil,

Bob Smith 1:49
two. And China isn’t even on that list yet. Yeah, no. Oh,

Marcia Smith 1:53
well, that’s according to actual books that were read completely. Which is interesting, because I’m listening to this public radio show that I often listened to. Wait, wait, don’t tell me this morning. And they said the average American only reads two books a year and I thought really two books. So I don’t know. I checked numerous different sites. And nowhere did I get that number. We

Bob Smith 2:14
each got four or five books apiece for Christmas this year.

Marcia Smith 2:18
Yeah. Wow. And I finished and read.

Bob Smith 2:21
I know you’ll finish them all. I’ll try to keep skipping around. As we said, that was my resolution to read a full book each time

Marcia Smith 2:29
I drink as much as the French do. And I read as much as they do. Yeah, I read at least 17 books a year. Wow. And it is correlated. More people read with college educations than people that don’t well, that makes common sense, actually, and more men worldwide read than women and that’s obvious because women aren’t allowed to go

Bob Smith 2:51
to school and that’s right. In many countries. Women are not allowed to

Marcia Smith 2:55
read from down on the farm and illiterate and you got yourself a service.

Bob Smith 2:59
Those were the days Those were the days all right, Marsha, what world famous artist was once commissioned to make a snowman Wow,

Marcia Smith 3:07
that just makes me ponder Bob world famous so I know this person you do have I had coffee with him? No, you haven’t wine? No.

Bob Smith 3:15
Okay. Not at all. This is a world famous artists Marshall living or dead. Dead dead long dead

Marcia Smith 3:22
long dead. Alright. I will say snowman did that was it Jackson Pollock?

Bob Smith 3:28
No, wasn’t wasn’t a recent dead person. A long time dead who Michelangelo. Really he was once commissioned by the ruler of Florence to sculpt a snowman. Kind of an interesting story here. This happened back in 1494. So two years after Columbus came to America. Michelangelo was an up and coming young artist under the patronage of Piero de Medici and not quite 20 years old. Yeah, that he’s famous. They had a snowstorm in January and he sent his young artist out Medici did into a snow covered courtyard with instructions to make a snowman I will pay you to make a snowman. And according to the 15th century, art historian, Giorgio bizzare the snowman Michelangelo made wasn’t just any snowman, it was possibly the greatest snow sculpture in the history of the world. The New York Times claims it was a dry run for the sculpture of David, probably a heroic figure, all poise, muscle and magnificence. Those who saw it called the figure very beautiful, but of course, it was made from slow so it didn’t last. So one of Michelangelo’s earliest masterpieces literally melted away. Probably the greatest snowman in human history. I guess that’s interesting. From britannica.com. That’s

Marcia Smith 4:45
very interesting. Okay, quickie. Why did the Emperor of India build the Taj Mahal?

Bob Smith 4:51
That was wasn’t that a memorial to his wife? Yes, yes, it was a Muslim for his wife.

Marcia Smith 4:59
It was a tomb for his favorite wife,

Bob Smith 5:01
oh his favorite in the field, not just any wife,

Marcia Smith 5:04
which begs the question, what do you build for his least favorite wife? Once it had

Bob Smith 5:08
what she educated? Could she read? That’s my question.

Marcia Smith 5:13
Okay, I got another quick okay. The Channel Tunnel also known as the channel connects Kent England with what French city? Let’s

Bob Smith 5:23
see what French city it’s a port. Did you go? Did you take the chunk didn’t take the channel? No, I didn’t do that.

Marcia Smith 5:30
Didn’t your relative? Yeah, still did?

Bob Smith 5:32
Yes. Yes, he did. He was one of the operators of one of those big engines that dug it out. Right. You’re right. I think it was Ted. Yeah. I don’t know the answers the question Marsh. Okay. What is the what is the French support? Que

Marcia Smith 5:46
les France spelled? c a l ai? Oh, yes. Oh, yes. You’ve heard of that? Yes, I

Bob Smith 5:53
have. I haven’t. But

Marcia Smith 5:54
if it connects the channel that’s a big deal over there.

Bob Smith 5:58
I have an interesting question from history. Two world countries discovered something unusual about themselves at the 1936 Olympics. That’s the famous Olympics where Jesse Owens ran and you know, Hitler in that whole thing. But two world countries discovered something unusual about themselves at that Olympics. What was it?

Marcia Smith 6:20
I don’t know that they had a lot of Jews on the Olympic team. No, they didn’t know know that they? I don’t know. They

Bob Smith 6:29
discovered they had the same flag.

Marcia Smith 6:35
It’s like wearing the same dress. It

Bob Smith 6:36
is it’s like you just don’t do that. When you go to the Olympics, the countries where Haiti and Liechtenstein I’ll be darned. And at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, they discovered their flags were identical. That’s fine. Haiti flew their civil flag that omitted the coat of arms found in the center of their national flag that’s reserved solely for military and governmental functions. And they discovered that the European country of Liechtenstein had been using the same red and blue striped design since 1921. So the following year, just like two very high culture women, Liechtenstein changed and added a yellow crown to symbolize their prints to avoid any confusion in the future. That’s That’s awesome. You imagine going to an Olympics and discovering Hey, we got the same flag as those guys over there.

Marcia Smith 7:19
I think the flag researchers in those countries got fired. Yeah, I imagine so many look into there.

Bob Smith 7:26
Didn’t anyone know about you imagine that hadn’t been screamed in the palaces?

Marcia Smith 7:30
Yeah, you think you’d look first, but it’s hard to cover every country of the world

Speaker 1 7:34
and holy hell is going on here. Oh, hell.

Marcia Smith 7:38
Okay, Bob. This country’s favorite beverage is a mint tea made frothy by pouring it into a glass from a substantial height or what country is

Bob Smith 7:47
Why do you mean they have like people standing on ladders pouring tea?

Marcia Smith 7:51
I don’t think it’s quite that high. Oh, okay. But this is a famous thing. Miss

Bob Smith 7:55
tea and it’s becomes more frothy because it’s poured from a height

Marcia Smith 7:58
apparently. Yes. And it’s very popular. What countries tea? Yeah,

Bob Smith 8:02
it’s not England, I would assume. No, we just don’t do that. Wouldn’t be China. That’s where tea began? No. So I would say it’s another European country. Perhaps? Perhaps Morocco.

Marcia Smith 8:15
That’s how did you know I

Bob Smith 8:17
just thought it might be something exotic it did not cheat to look at your questions before we went into the studio either of all the countries in

Marcia Smith 8:29
the world you chose mine. All the

Bob Smith 8:31
countries in the world

Marcia Smith 8:32
you chose Morocco wasn’t a setup for your voice. Oh, I’m sorry. Moroccan minty is a Northern African preparation of gunpowder green tea. It’s called gunpowder because it’s got little pellets in it looks like gunpowder with spearmint leaves and sugar and it’s a sign of hospitality and is very popular in many places around the world. Morocco well

Bob Smith 8:55
of all the ginger want you to already had to come into mine and pour that tea. Okay, Marcia, which you? I’m sorry. Okay, Marcia, what US state has the highest cost of living index? Is it Oklahoma now? Wisconsin? No, Mississippi, California, New York. No, or Hawaii? Hawaii. That’s exactly right. We found that out because we went through pretty expensive place. Yes, even the rental cars are expensive.

Marcia Smith 9:23
It was more than the condo was?

Bob Smith 9:24
Yes. The highest cost of living index in the United States is Hawaii that it is indexed at 184 which is higher than any other state in the country. The lowest cost of living index is in Mississippi where the score is 85. Other states with relatively high cost of living include California New York and Massachusetts. Yes, states with the lowest include Arkansas, Oklahoma and Kansas. All right, on the other hand, what’s the most expensive fish you can eat Marcia? Is it swordfish? Mackerel, catfish, bluefin tuna or tilapia?

Marcia Smith 9:59
Not tilapia.

Bob Smith 9:59
No, it’s not. And it’s

Marcia Smith 10:01
and I’ll

Bob Smith 10:03
tell you how much it costs. Okay, what $5,000 A pound

Marcia Smith 10:06
Whoa. That’s not that I always think a caveat but that’s not a fish that’s a byproduct of a fish. What are the choices are

Bob Smith 10:15
swordfish mackerel, catfish? bluefin tuna fish? No,

Marcia Smith 10:19
no blue fish,

Bob Smith 10:20
bluefin tuna. Yeah, yes, bluefin tuna used in various raw fish or sushi dishes. It can sell for a great deal of money in Japan in 2019 600 pounds a bit sold for $3 million. Oh Ma, which is equivalent to $5,000 a pound. More typically though, it goes for about oh only $200 A pound $200 A pound in Japan and between 20 and $40 per pound in America but part of the reason for that is the taste its distinctive flavor and many people consider it the tastiest tuna there is hmm sounds like a nice slogan, doesn’t it? But a tasty tuna.

Marcia Smith 10:55
What is that tuna phrase was so popular in commercials? Sorry, Charlie.

Bob Smith 11:00
Yeah, that’s it. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 11:02
Yeah. In sushi. I suppose they do like they do with any decent seafood. They put a flax aphelion. Yes.

Unknown Speaker 11:09
All right. little fleck.

Marcia Smith 11:10
Yeah, that’s it. Well, I’m

Bob Smith 11:11
sorry. That’s $50 Yeah. Ridiculous.

Marcia Smith 11:13
So and is it real crab in that? No, no, it’s pretend it’s

Bob Smith 11:18
potato. It’s It’s tuna, honey, it’s not crap.

Marcia Smith 11:20
I know. This is tuna. Okay, but there is crab in my sushi and it never is really?

Bob Smith 11:26
Okay. I’m sorry. We’re not talking about your sushi right now. Okay. We’re talking about bluefin tuna. Okay. All right. Any other things you want to complain about in your life?

Marcia Smith 11:35
Let’s move on. Okay, here’s fill in the blank. Okay, wait till I’m finished with it. In case you jump in and know the answer.

Bob Smith 11:44
Okay, what is the what is the question? Sorry. Oh, boy.

Marcia Smith 11:47
I’m gonna go to bed with that reading and writers are no. Okay, fill in the blank. In the heyday of the cowboy, John B blank, created a hat with a high crown to hold a cushion of warm air and a wide brim to deflect rain and snow. A Trapper offered him $5 gold piece for the hat. And he sold it right off his head and decided I’ve got a winner here. So I know it is. Who was John B. Stetson?

Bob Smith 12:14
That’s right. Yes. Right. Isn’t that interesting? And he actually it’s an engineered product. I mean, it wasn’t just any floppy hat all the other gold miners had. But this is something that really was engineered for, for a good purpose.

Marcia Smith 12:27
He lived from 1830 to 1906. And his hat is still being made today in Garland Texas.

Bob Smith 12:33
Ah, so the Stetson hat company is still in business as well. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 12:37
it’s under another name now. But yeah, it’s Stetson is one of their product line. All right, Marsha, what

Bob Smith 12:42
happens when bankers go on strike? I have a good. Now today, it might not be the same story since so many of us do our online banking or we use apps on our phones. But the only 50 years ago it was a different story. And it happened in Ireland. Okay. 1970 was the year bankers in Ireland went on strike any idea what went wrong? You know, back in the day, the only place you could get your telephone was from the telephone company. Remember that they had to come in and install it. You know, you couldn’t buy him in a store, right? Kind of like bankers had checks. That’s the only place you could get checks or anything any instrument to use to pay off debt had to come from a bank. Okay. So here’s what happened in 1970. When the Ireland bankers went on strike her lady. People began using up all their checks, so they resorted to writing debt notes and whatever was handy, secondary tellers, cigarette boxes, toilet paper, even eggshells and potato and potato. When the six months Irish banker strike ended, there was $7 billion in checks waiting to be cashed written on all sorts of things. I’ll be darned. So don’t let your bankers go out on strike. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 13:52
you can I learned somewhere along my life that you can write it check on anything. Yeah, except it. Yeah, who knew? Till you need it? You don’t know. I see this scope. Write it down that napkin and sign your name.

Bob Smith 14:03
All right. I’ll just do that. I’ll sign my name, but we’ll do that. Alright. Can we take a break? Oh, okay. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith. We’re back. You’re listening to Bob and Marcia Smith. You can find us on the web at the off ramp dot show. That’s where our website is. We do this program every week for the Cedarburg Public Library Cedarburg, Wisconsin, which has an internet radio station. And then after that, it goes on podcast platforms all over the world. Okay,

Marcia Smith 14:31
I got a new segment, Bob. Okay. It’s called Who Am I? Oh, dear. Yes. And this I’m taking three of these. Not in a row. You look just like Marcia Smith. Thank you. Yeah, I’m taking him from the American trivia book, American

Bob Smith 14:46
trivia book. There’s actually a book called The American trivia book,

Marcia Smith 14:49
The American trivia American trivia quiz to buy Yes, I

Bob Smith 14:53
did buy you that book. Yes, that’s true.

Marcia Smith 14:55
Now you will pay the price. Oh dear. Okay, who am I? Okay. He is often called the Father of the American Navy he joined the continental Navy and served as First Lieutenant aboard the outfit, the first naval ship bought by the Continental Congress. He later captain the behind me, Richard, he battled the larger and better armed squadron of British ships. And when the British demanded he surrender, he said, I have not yet begun to fight.

Bob Smith 15:20
I’ve not yet begun to fight. Was that Lawrence? Was that his name?

Marcia Smith 15:23
It was John Paul. John Paul

Bob Smith 15:26
Jones. That’s the other one. Okay. And yes, buried in Paris. I didn’t know that. Yes, John Paul Jones. Okay. That’s a good Who am I another one. She

Marcia Smith 15:35
became a heroine at the Battle of Fort Washington in northern Manhattan on November 16 1776, as many wives did, and yours truly, she followed her husband John, while he served in the army to cook for him wash his clothes and help tend to the wounded. We never did any of that for me. Well, you never went to work. Okay. But isn’t that something that wives would go along? Yes. John, and another soldier man, one of the two cannons at Fort Washington when they were both killed. She took their place at the cannon, seriously wounded and permanently disabled. She became the first woman in America to receive a military pension.

Bob Smith 16:16
Was that Molly Pitcher? No. Okay.

Marcia Smith 16:18
I’ve never heard of this one. Okay, what’s her name? Margaret Cochran Corbin. Well have you know I don’t believe so. took over for the men and just ran out cannon down their throats apparently, and then got really wounded in the process. You wouldn’t

Bob Smith 16:32
be that way. If you saw your husband. Oh, yeah, you get a little cranky. All right. I’ll take this over.

Marcia Smith 16:36
And she got she was the first woman to get a military pension.

Bob Smith 16:40
You know, there’s so many unsung heroes like that, that, especially when you find females and minorities and great American battles, you know, things like that. Yeah. Good to hear.

Marcia Smith 16:48
Here’s a more common name. He was Yale educated teacher who became a captain in the Continental Army and a member of a select group of fighters called the Rangers. He volunteered to go through the British lines to gather intelligence on troop positions in New York City. At the age of 21. He was captured and hanged as a spy Nathan Hale before he was hanged.

Bob Smith 17:13
was saying Nathan Hale. What did he say? I regret that I have but one life to give to my country.

Marcia Smith 17:19
Excellent. Bob. That is exactly right on both counts. All right. All right.

Bob Smith 17:23
Well, let’s those are pretty good. That’s a nice set was a nice series of things. Thank you.

Marcia Smith 17:27
I’ll do more. Who am I? Next week?

Bob Smith 17:29
Okay. All right, Marsha. You think your cell phone is expensive? How much did the first cell phone cost? Was it $159 $499 $3,995 or $1,506? I’ll go with the 3000. That’s right. It was nearly $4,000 That was the 1973 Motorola prototype the world’s first portable cellular telephone. It measured more than a foot long and weighed two pounds. It costs $3,995 Ultimately, it became commercially available in 1983. It took 10 years, known as the Motorola DynaTAC 8,000x. And here’s how much power that little puppy had its battery could provide one hour of talk time. And and it’s memory could store all of 30 phone numbers. That was it. Wow. For $4,000.

Marcia Smith 18:25
Remember on TV, see these people using these huge things that it’s

Bob Smith 18:31
some of the movies and TV shows? Yeah, they’re like It’s like putting a shoebox to talk right.

Marcia Smith 18:37
Oh, that’s funny that got imagine $4,000 Okay. All right. Back in days of your Bob, Ancient Romans declared that you had to be at least what age to hold many political offices at least what age to hold many political F age limit for some older or younger

Bob Smith 18:58
than what we have now. We’re not going to help me. I

Marcia Smith 19:02
don’t know what the age groups will say for president what he has

Bob Smith 19:05
to be five to be President of the United States. Okay, younger. Okay. So I’d say 16.

Marcia Smith 19:11
You’d think so? Because what was the age expectancy back then? No. 30 You had to be 30 to hold some offices in ancient Rome. So

Bob Smith 19:19
even then they knew that to be mature, you had to be around for a while a little bit.

Marcia Smith 19:23
And part of the low life expectancy in Roman times was impacted more by high infant mortality better than old age some there were a fair amount of people that did live to be older. Alright,

Bob Smith 19:36
Marsha, I have a couple of questions for you here on animals. All right. Here we go. On average, how many hours does a koala spend sleeping? Is it four hours? 10 hours? 14 hours or 20 hours? 20? Can you imagine you’re only awake for four hours a day? You better be doing something important.

Marcia Smith 19:56
It narrows down your to do list. Holy

Bob Smith 19:57
cow. Yeah, koalas can sleep up to At 20 hours a day, and that’s due to their low energy diet and the high amount of energy required to break down toxic leaves. They’re mostly active at night. What are those leaves they eat? There’s all kinds of names there. eucalypt IK and things like that. Yeah. Okay, Marsha, how many times per minute does a hummingbird’s heartbeat? Oh, is it? 240 beats per minute. 600 beats per minute. 1200 60 beats per minute, or 2860 beats per minute. 1260. You’re right. How did you know that? I

Marcia Smith 20:33
just know things.

Bob Smith 20:36
Well, can you imagine that? 21 times a second a hummingbird’s heart.

Marcia Smith 20:41
Yeah, he can’t, your mind can’t go that fast.

Bob Smith 20:43
That’s amazing. And some fun facts. There are over 330 known species of hummingbirds found only in the Americas. They can fly forward, backward, even upside down, and their hearts beat as fast as 1200 60 beats per minute. That’s the rate measured in the blue throated hummingbird. How long do you think they live? Oh, gosh.

Marcia Smith 21:03
Is it a lot or a little? It’s a little it is a year

Bob Smith 21:08
than average of three to five years. Okay. I guess when you’re that busy, you’re gonna wear yourself out and your heart kind of gives Oh, the current record holder, though, is a female broad tailed hummingbird. Now, she was banded as an adult in Colorado in 1976. And was recaptured in the same location in 1987. So they know that she would have been at least 12 years old. Wow. So that’s the National Park Service. So we know they can live as long as 12 years but we believe we believe the average life expectancy for hummingbirds is three to five years.

Marcia Smith 21:40
She has an old bird. Yes.

Bob Smith 21:43
How many times its body weight? Can a gorilla lift? On average? Any idea? Really? realists are strong, you know? Yeah. How many times give you three choices? Five times 10 times or 50 times? Oh,

Marcia Smith 21:57
Lord. It can’t be 50. I’ll say the middle 10 Did you say you’re right,

Bob Smith 22:00
it’s 10. And here’s some reasons you should stay away from gorillas. 10 times their body weight they can lift so if they can weigh let’s say they weigh 300 pounds. That’s 3000 pounds of strength. They can throw more than a ton they can pick up car because more than a ton of you. Alright, fully grown. Silverbacks are stronger than 20. Adults combined. Don’t go after gorillas. A silverback gorilla can lift 4000 pounds on a benchpress. Well, a well trained man can only lift 885 pounds. And research shows that gorillas can sometime lift up to 27 times their full body weight. Wow. And here’s a bad one. They have a bite force of 1300 pounds per square inch double that of a lion. Our mice don’t get in a fight with a gorilla. All right, all right, but they’re not the lifting champions. Who do you think the lifting champions of the animal world are?

Marcia Smith 22:54
How elephants No. Tiny, tiny, tiny, tiny, lifting more than their weights? Ants.

Bob Smith 23:01
Alright, how many times can an ant lift their own way I should slide. I’m not

Marcia Smith 23:06
gonna give you any choices this time. Okay, I’ll say 20 times their weight

Bob Smith 23:10
20 times that would be a lot. But it’s a lot more. How about 100 times their weight? About 150 times their weight? How about 5000 times their weight? Really? Yes. Yes. New research on heavy lifting ants reveals that the neck joint of the common American Field amp can withstand pressures up to 5000 times greater than its own body weight. So some fun animal facts here on the offer.

Marcia Smith 23:36
Yes, I used to be the queen of animal facts. Thank you for that. Okay. Okay, one more before my quote. Do your pupils Bob get bigger or smaller as you age as you

Bob Smith 23:48
age? I think they get smaller. Why would you say well, just observing older people I see their eyes look tinier in their eyes. See the pupils being smaller in size? Yes, that is a correct observation. Okay. Yes. So I’m looking well, it’s not that my eyes are going bad now. Okay, good.

Marcia Smith 24:06
Our hips get bigger, but our pupils get smaller. As we add on yours muscles in the pupils get weaker. Okay. Because of this loss of muscle function pupils get smaller, and were also less responsive to light and hence smaller pupils make it harder to see at night. So people in their 60s need three times as much light to read comfortably by well that’s interesting people in their 20s That’s why

Bob Smith 24:32
older people are always turning on lights and younger people are saying there’s too many lights on here and they turn them off. Yeah. Okay.

Marcia Smith 24:38
And reading in a dimly lit restaurant. I do hear my mother going. What the hell I can’t read by this candle.

Bob Smith 24:46
So much for a romantic dinner that was a Frenchie. What happened there? So that’s what she said to your dad. French. You taste like this just too dark here. Yeah, that

Marcia Smith 24:55
was my graduation dinner.

Bob Smith 24:57
Oh, that was different. Yeah, maybe there were or other concerns of that one? What do you think? Finally, she’s graduated. Okay Marsh one more question on expense. What’s the most expensive cheese in the world? What country What country is the most expensive cheese in the world? Is it Italy? Switzerland, France, England or Serbia?

Marcia Smith 25:18
Serbia?

Bob Smith 25:18
That is it

Marcia Smith 25:20
since I’m good at the guesses today pure cheese que le Yes. Which means

Bob Smith 25:24
don’t know Marsh but it’s the most expensive cheese in the world. $600 per pound.

Marcia Smith 25:30
Where does it come from?

Bob Smith 25:31
It’s made from the milk of Balkan donkeys. Endangered and native to Serbia. The Balkan donkeys at the nature reserve are fed three times daily to gather the amount of milk needed to make cheese. It takes 6.6 gallons of donkey milk to produce 2.2 pounds of pure cheese which sells for $600 a pound. Wow. Apparently a rich complex flavor with a crumbly texture. Cheese is smoked during the production process. So it’s like it’s smoked to you. Yeah.

Unknown Speaker 26:01
Which we like.

Bob Smith 26:02
I love that pure cheese is a rich and complex flavor with a crumbly texture. Yeah, but from

Marcia Smith 26:08
donkeys. I was gonna say add the word donkey and it kind of takes away the mystery away

Bob Smith 26:12
from it. Yeah, tears donkey milk. Okay, well, but hey, it must be good. I would like to taste it if people wouldn’t pay $600 a pound for it. If it wasn’t good, Mark.

Marcia Smith 26:22
I do. Keep that in mind.

Bob Smith 26:23
There’s a lot of things like that. We really don’t want to know where some of the things we eat come from.

Marcia Smith 26:28
Let’s face it. It’s like when I make your dinner. Yeah, it was rare. Okay, it’s just good.

Bob Smith 26:32
But I don’t want to No. No, no, that’s not true. That’s true. I don’t you do wonderful. In the kitchen. You do wonderful things. Cooking is one of them. There we go. I’ll give you thought an insult was coming.

Marcia Smith 26:47
I barely cooked Bob. Okay. Here’s a great quote from Teddy Roosevelt. Okay, ready when you’re at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hold on.

Bob Smith 26:59
I love it. All right. That’s a good one. Well, that’s a good way to tie it up.

Marcia Smith 27:04
All right, and hold on baby. Yes, we want to

Bob Smith 27:07
invite you if you have any questions or things you’d like to contribute, you can do so by going to our website, the off ramp dot show, and scrolling all the way down to contact us. There’s a box there, you can leave us information. Okay. We’ll be back in another week with more fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia. I’m Bob Smith Martius. Thanks for joining us today on the off ramp.

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