215 Heads I Win Trivia

Bob Smith 0:00
What you as president’s mother refused to sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom

Marcia Smith 0:09
I love it. And who was the very first Superbowl halftime performer

Bob Smith 0:15
answers to those and other questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob

Marcia Smith 0:20
and Marsha Smith.

Bob Smith 0:37
Welcome to the off ramp a chance to slow down steered clear of crazy. Take a side road to Saturday and get some perspective on life with fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia. We do this each week for the Cedarburg Public Library. Cedarburg, Wisconsin and today Marsha I am asking you what US presidents mother refused to sleep in the Lincoln Bedroom and why?

Marcia Smith 1:01
I’ll bet she thought it was haunted because it is well that’s a good one. It but that’s not why

Bob Smith 1:06
No, that’s not it. No. First who was it? Whose mother? Yeah, I’m

Marcia Smith 1:10
thinking, Oh, can’t give me a century, the 20th century okay. So I’ll say Bill Clinton’s Mother, no.

Bob Smith 1:20
Harry Truman’s mother, Margaret Ellen young Truman, because because her family were Confederate sympathizers. In fact, her brother was in the Confederate army. Oh my god, Harry Truman’s uncle. Wow. Shortly after he became President Harry Truman flew his 92 year old mother to Washington DC for the first visit to the city, and the first visit to the White House. It coincided with Mother’s Day weekend. And he played a joke on her. He escorted her into the Lincoln Bedroom and he said Mama, if you have a mind too, you can use this bed while you’re here. She said what sleep in that bed that man used? Oh, my she was from Missouri, which was a border state. And she’d been alive a long time when she was 12. Abraham Lincoln died and even though had been 80 years since the Civil War, she never got over the South losing. And apparently the story got around. It was in the New York Times and several other places the family denied it. But most people think it was probably true. Because as a little kid twice, she watched the family farm get rated by Union troops or union raiders and they actually had to move off of their land. She remembered all this. So she came to hate the union and it’s blue federal uniforms. And here’s an even funnier fact about that. Marsha, okay. During World War One, when her son Harry Truman walked into her farmhouse in his National Guard blues, she said, I don’t want that uniform in this house. Harry, I’ll be done. Oh, my God. So even though he grew up being the President of the United States, she did not like the fact that the union won that war. Wow.

Marcia Smith 2:54
Harry came a long way. Yes, he did. It seems unseemly. Does it? Well, a little bit. I don’t know. Let it’s family. Okay. All right. The Super Bowl Bob, who was the first half time performer or performers in 1967?

Bob Smith 3:11
I don’t know if this is true or not. But I’m thinking of up up in a way who are those people? The fifth dimension?

Marcia Smith 3:15
Oh, that would be good. So who was it? It was college marching bands? Oh, no. They were

Bob Smith 3:23
the halftime performers. Of course. The traditional halftime entertainment was marching bands.

Marcia Smith 3:28
People like Al heard Carol Channing. Even Ella Fitzgerald they all performed with or around these marching bands until 1993 When one singular sensation took the stage. Guess who? Michael Jackson all no kid and he blew everybody out of the water. So

Bob Smith 3:46
he was the first that was the first show where it was only the superstar in his team doing it. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 3:51
I’ll be done. And he took up the whole 15 minutes. So

Bob Smith 3:53
he’s 26 years for them to get to that point. That’s interesting. Well, that they

Marcia Smith 3:58
did have you know, guest celebrities. Yeah, multiples.

Bob Smith 4:01
I saw here on the list. George Burns even was on stage. Somehow that Mickey Rooney.

Marcia Smith 4:06
How did they? What did they do? They frenzy up to

Bob Smith 4:10
see that? That stage? Yeah. That was with a band with marching bands. Yeah. Wow. Okay. So since then, we’ve had every kind of halftime show. You can imagine it my superstars of the day, hip hop, country, rock, everything, every kind of flavor that’s out there, which is wonderful, isn’t it? That it’s so many different things. Prince, Paul McCartney, The Rolling Stones, all these great groups, and none of them perform for money

Marcia Smith 4:35
now not as Penny but the NFL does pay their transportation fees,

Bob Smith 4:40
but not for the show. The show is free. Yeah, it’s their opportunity to have the largest audience in the world. Yep. Okay,

Marcia Smith 4:46
great. Okay. Where is the world’s largest underground city Bob,

Bob Smith 4:51
the world’s largest underground city. It’s

Marcia Smith 4:55
hard to believe, but it’s 18 levels underground. Well Wow, where was this in Turkey in the semi arid region of kappa dosha Oh, and had tourists go there today, Bob and you can meander through tunnels and walk among the subterranean rooms, stables, schools, wineries, and even a chapel holy cow. Imagine that all underground at its peak during the Islamic raids on the Byzantine Empire in the seventh century. It housed up to 20,000 people so that that is those my yeah used

Bob Smith 5:29
candles and they had 20,000 people down there candles. Well, I mean, how else did they light the blow? I

Marcia Smith 5:35
don’t know. And this is 1200 BC 1200 BC. A whole world down there but they had wineries so I’m in

Bob Smith 5:46
Yeah, well, they needed to drink if they’re living under ground cash. Oh my goodness. That’s amazing. It is. Is there a name for the city Darren

Marcia Smith 5:53
qu u d e r i n NK you why you

Bob Smith 5:57
Darren qu us the name of the underground city? Yeah. Okay. You were talking about football a moment ago here. I’ve got a question for you. You know, Sunday night football. You know, that theme, the Sunday Night Football theme that Carrie Underwood sings Yeah, that’s great. Okay. How many different versions of that Sunday Night Football fee must be prepared in advance.

Marcia Smith 6:16
Oh, because they have to do all the different types of

Bob Smith 6:18
teams. They don’t do it every week. It’s all written out in Ryan’s and everything. So there’s an awful lot of permutations. Yeah, NBC Sports says Carrie Underwood records at five Oh, my goodness, permutations of the rhyming line every year. Okay. She has to record and they do it in one session a single day at five different permutations of the rhyming. Oh, wow. So they just drop in the rhyming lines for the different teams.

Marcia Smith 6:44
They know the teams in advance, but they don’t know what the rhyme will be. You know, what, what they’re hot at right at that moment.

Bob Smith 6:51
Isn’t that interesting? It’s very interesting. Yeah. Anyway, that’s according to The New York Times.

Marcia Smith 6:55
Okay. Well, that’s fascinating to me.

Bob Smith 6:57
You’ve heard of the Ford Model A and the Ford Model T. Yeah. How many letters of the alphabet did Henry Ford use for his cars? Well, you

Marcia Smith 7:06
know, just as you said that I was thinking what happened to B, C? I don’t think there I think there were only two.

Bob Smith 7:12
Well, actually, he did use all those letters in his attempts to improve the model a car now we think of the Model A is a car that followed the Model T and there was okay, but he used all of those letters. Some of the alphabet numbers were completely experimental cars that never reached consumers. Others were sold to the public, the model K car, that was the biggest it was a limousine that cost $2,000 which was a huge sum back in those days. It was also the worst seller of his alphabet cars. It was a limousine. $2,000 limousine. This is back when that was a lot of money. The model N four cylinder car sold for $500. His experience with the n and k cars convinced him that the future and automobiles lay in producing inexpensive cars. That was the Model T that was the result. It was so popular, he couldn’t keep up with the demand. And that’s what prompted him to try a new type of assembly the assembly line. Eventually the Model T’s were made so efficiently one rolled off the assembly line every 10 seconds. It’s pretty amazing. But you know, the problem with the Model T was one color one model. Yeah, that was it. Yeah. So he introduced a new model a after the first model a in 1903. A new model a in 1927 to replace the Model T multiple colors, multiple body styles.

Marcia Smith 8:32
Okay, Bob, where is the highest birth rate in the world? The

Bob Smith 8:35
highest birth rate in the world? The most babies being born right?

Marcia Smith 8:38
per woman. We’re talking the birth rate per woman. Yeah. Also

Bob Smith 8:42
the most babies per woman. Yeah. Okay. Is it in America? No. Is it in Europe? No. Is it in Asia? Yeah. Is it in Africa? Yes. I knew it was in Africa, Sub Saharan Africa countries. In Antarctica. It could. But no, yeah. Not much going on. So what’s the rate per woman?

Marcia Smith 9:03
It is almost seven children per woman.

Bob Smith 9:06
Oh my goodness, hard to believe. And where is that?

Marcia Smith 9:08
It’s in Niger. Geez, Niger, South Africa. Okay. It’s the highest fertility rate in the world. And that’s followed by Molly. Molly. Ma li ma li Okay, six, something.

Bob Smith 9:21
That’s a lot of babies for women.

Marcia Smith 9:22
Oh my god. Can

Bob Smith 9:23
you imagine that? Yeah. I got a couple more automobile questions here. What automobile was named for the strength and durability of early American pioneers. Sagan? What automobile was named for the strength and durability of some early American pioneers. It makes sense when you hear the name but I never thought of it before cash. early pioneer early pioneers the automobile was specifically named for them. I don’t

Marcia Smith 9:48
know that Crockett. No. The Plymouth

Bob Smith 9:51
Plymouth by Chrysler Walter Chrysler approved the name as a tribute to the stamina and courage of the pilgrims. Oh, Plymouth Massachusetts. Yeah. Okay, that’s how the car got its name. I

Marcia Smith 10:03
didn’t know that. I didn’t either. What kind of car did you have folks? Like folks mostly

Bob Smith 10:06
had Chevrolet’s?

Marcia Smith 10:08
Yeah, we had that. And Oldsmobiles Yeah, your dad had

Bob Smith 10:12
that Oldsmobile 88, which we had as one of our first cars to go.

Marcia Smith 10:16
They gave it to me for what? 50 bucks or something, and had 12,000 horsepower.

Bob Smith 10:21
Thing was incredible. You just barely touch the accelerator and it just lunch. Yeah, but it was full of rust. It was all rusted and everything.

Marcia Smith 10:30
I arrested it Bob when I was traveling, I’m traveling the world. He was when I came back home he was he was appalled to see what I did to his baby. Oh my god. Okay, Bob. Time for who am I? Alright.

Bob Smith 10:47
Let’s tell a story about a person Bob has to guess who it is. Okay, I’ll

Marcia Smith 10:50
give it to you in dribbles. Okay. Known as the hero of two worlds. Okay, served as a general of great distinction during the Revolutionary War. Two

Bob Smith 11:04
Worlds served a great distinction during the Revolutionary War. Oh, wait, wait a minute. Could this have been Lafayette

Marcia Smith 11:10
Ah, there’s my guy who worlds that’s why I got Yeah, fought in the battles of Brandywine, Rhode Island and Yorktown. And he helped rally French support for the American cause. That’s right. And he was best buddy to George Washington’s right. And you know what he named his son, George Washington de Lafayette. Okay. Did you know that I didn’t know that. He served as a major general when he was just 20 years old under George Washington. And he was considered his surrogate son. That’s right. That’s right. But boy had to be 20. And to have that kind of title.

Bob Smith 11:48
Yeah. But he’d had military training. So he was in they came over and yeah, Washington kind of adopted him. Yeah, he came back to the United States for a tour and actually went to Marietta, Ohio, where my family started to help found back in the 1780s before he died, so he was there.

Marcia Smith 12:06
He’s one of the fascinating characters in history to me of American history.

Bob Smith 12:10
Marcia, where’s the world’s oldest jewelry store? I’ll give you some choices. Is it London? England, Amsterdam, in the Netherlands? Baghdad, Iraq, Paris, France or St. Petersburg? Russia? Baghdad? No, it’s in your favorite city?

Marcia Smith 12:25
St. Petersburg.

Bob Smith 12:26
It’s in your favorite city?

Marcia Smith 12:28
What were the other choices?

Bob Smith 12:29
Jeez, it’s in Paris. Marcia? Ah, yes. It’s been in business for more than 400 years and it’s still operated by the same family that founded it. See, it’s near the glamorous so cost Vendome in Paris. The name of the store is McLaury DT Mela. Yay. And the business dates back to 1613 When an Italian family of jewelers earned the patronage of the rich and powerful Medici family and their stunning work attracted the attention of Marie Antoinette, the queen of France, who brought the Italian family to Paris. And since 1815, it’s been located near Laplace Vendome, known as the jeweler of the Queen. You didn’t take

Marcia Smith 13:08
me there when we were in Paris. Yep. So sorry

Bob Smith 13:11
about that. You’re not. So now the 15th generation of the family still operates the same family jewelry store in Paris.

Marcia Smith 13:20
I’d like to pay tribute to them. Bob. What

Bob Smith 13:22
by buying something? Of course.

Marcia Smith 13:25
Just sad. All right, where

Bob Smith 13:27
does the word hustle come from? Word origins.

Marcia Smith 13:30
Oh, I remember the hustle when I was a teenager. That was a dance, wasn’t it? Yes. So stupid dance, but they were all wearing I’d loved it. Now we

Bob Smith 13:37
think of hustle as working hard. But that’s not how the word started. Tell me Well, according to The New York Times, the verb hustle comes from the Dutch hustling Hu s se le N meaning to shake or toss. And it was first recorded in the 17th century. Okay, according to the Oxford Dictionary, by the 18th century, it meant to push or knock a person about roughly or to move hastily, which kind of led to where we are today. And then, in 1800 Hustle meant to rob someone while pretending to bump into them. Oh, I’m sorry. And then you pickpocketed though, you know hustles became money making schemes like hustling, drugs and stuff. But today’s positive connotation for hustle as a side job can be traced to middle class African American families. For instance, in 1964, a New York Times article by scholar read the head of the family works at two jobs and occasionally three. Such supplementary work is known as a hustle. That’s where the term side hustle, we call it came from. But by the 1990s, the hustling became pretty much positive you hustled to get ahead. If you were a hustler. You were a striver, but originally, it meant to push to jostle to knock somebody around to steal from them. I’ve got an idea. Let’s hustle to a break and then we’ll hustle back.

Marcia Smith 14:54
Oh, brother, okay.

Bob Smith 14:57
You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith. Okay, we hustle back. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith. We do this each week for the Cedarburg Public Library Cedarburg, Wisconsin, whose internet radio station broadcasts it on Monday nights then it goes on podcast platforms all over the world. We invite you to come to our website, the off ramp dot show and subscribe to the show. Your podcast app will tell you when a new episode is available. Easter

Marcia Smith 15:25
Island Bob is home of those more ice sculptures. Yes,

Bob Smith 15:30
the big heads. Yes.

Marcia Smith 15:31
That belongs to which country? Chile? That’s great.

Bob Smith 15:36
It’s off the coast of Chile.

Marcia Smith 15:37
That’s right. Very good. Our friends just went there. That’s

Bob Smith 15:39
right. I think Randy and Kay Freeman, I think we’re just there. Yes. I’ve

Marcia Smith 15:43
never been there. Should we go?

Bob Smith 15:45
Oh, let’s just go now.

Marcia Smith 15:46
Okay, just

Bob Smith 15:47
leave now. It’s only about I don’t know how many 1000s of miles to get there. Okay,

Marcia Smith 15:50
the rivers yatse. Amazon Nyla, Mississippi, which is the longest?

Bob Smith 15:56
I thought it was the Nile but might be the Amazon.

Marcia Smith 16:02
That’s always the question. Yes, it is. It’s

Bob Smith 16:03
always and it’s only like two miles different. So

Marcia Smith 16:05
there’s more than No, it is. Okay.

Bob Smith 16:07
So is it the Amazon is longer? No. Okay, tell me the answer.

Marcia Smith 16:11
k The Nile is 4132 Miles according to the most recent measurements. And then Amazon is 3977

Bob Smith 16:22
Amazon at 3977. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 16:25
And you know, it depends where exactly they measure them from, you know, till mouth deport and all that. So anyway, but that’s current information from the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Bob Smith 16:37
Thank you very much. So

Marcia Smith 16:38
and the Mississippi is like, you know, 2340 miles so it’s like only half of that but it’s a major river. Oh, yeah. It’s the longest in North America. Yeah.

Bob Smith 16:49
subdivides the continent? Yes. Speaking of transportation, which I am because river is our transport.

Marcia Smith 16:57
Was that okay, that was your that was what was the first

Bob Smith 17:00
machine to travel it more than two miles a minute. Machine? Yes. A machine had traveled over 126 miles an hour. The first one? Gosh,

Marcia Smith 17:13
two miles per minute. That’s pretty fast. And

Bob Smith 17:15
you know, it’s interesting. You go well, a machine that traveled that fast. That would be the standard forever. But it never caught on. When was it? The Stanley Steamer? Oh, the Stanley Steamer automobile, which was basically a steam engine on wheels, right? Uh huh. And in 1906, a Stanley went the then incredible speed of 127.66 miles per hour, becoming the first machine to exceed a speed of two miles per minute. And a year later in 1907. Fred Mariette drove a Stanley at somewhere between 150 and 197 miles per hour. We don’t know for sure, because the car hit a bump broke into pieces and nearly killed Marriott. Really? Yeah. So it was going somewhere between 150 and 197 miles per hour. This is in 1907. That’s how long ago speed was such a big deal. It’s amazing, isn’t it? We think of that as being much more modern. Please mentioned Model T’s. What was the cost of the first model T?

Marcia Smith 18:11
Ah, $200.

Bob Smith 18:13
No, that was when they got into big production. That was the lowest cost, lowest cost was $290. That was a 1924. But in 1908, when it went on sale, what was the cost? What

Marcia Smith 18:24
did we pay? Then? We had it on the lease. What did we pay?

Bob Smith 18:27
The Model T we know we weren’t around them? Oh,

Marcia Smith 18:30
okay. I don’t know. It

Bob Smith 18:32
was $850. That’s a lot of 850. And then they got the cost down to 290. Through mass production. That was the first product that really proved that concept.

Marcia Smith 18:42
Okay, Bob haggis hag GIS, or better known as stuffed sheep stomach. Is the national dish of which country? Is it? Scotland? Austria, Greenland or mukou?

Bob Smith 18:58
I think it’s Greenland. No,

Marcia Smith 19:01
well, where does it Scotland?

Bob Smith 19:02
Scotland? Yeah, I guess ha Gigi is

Marcia Smith 19:05
yeah, that’s stuff sheep stomach. That’s the national dish up there. So if we ever get up there, we know what to order. You know how picky you are? I don’t know. We’ll have to see.

Bob Smith 19:17
I don’t know Marsha. Okay, I have a question for you about exercise. Okay. Okay. What modern exercise regimen was invented by a former circus performer. What modern exercise regimen or techniques were embedded by a former circus performer. Gosh.

Marcia Smith 19:37
I don’t know. stretch. Stretching isn’t an exercise. I guess. I don’t know what to say. Tell me Pilates.

Bob Smith 19:44
I’ll really Yeah, that’s cool. The inventor of the Pilates fitness program was Joseph Pilates. He was born in a small town near Dusseldorf Germany, where he developed an interest in gymnastics. And then in 1913, he left Germany for England where for A time he worked as a circus performer and started to create his own exercise method. He came to the United States and opened up an office in 1926. In New York, it started out as something for dancers and actresses and actors. Did you know that? No, yeah. Some of his very first students took on this low intensity muscle stretching workout, and it became a niche strength, mobility and recovery technique for dancers, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Suzanne Farrell and Ron Fletcher were early customers and guess who? Katharine Hepburn. Alright, Jerry Libby. Hey, Lauren Bacall they were all famous students of Joseph Pilates but he never called his program that you know what he called it. Control ology control OG I guess it is c o n tr o l o g why he even wrote a book with that title in 1945. After he died, people started calling it Pilates. It became so mainstream that in 2000, a US court ruled the term generic. They said it’s like yoga, or aerobics. Okay, anybody can use it. So that’s why today there are more than 40,000 Pilates and yoga businesses across the United States. Yes, that’s amazing. But former circus performer started it. I didn’t know that. Now.

Marcia Smith 21:15
We all do. Okay, Bob, why is it determined person said to be, quote, hell bent for leather.

Bob Smith 21:23
No, they’re hustlers. They’re hustlers. hell bent for leather. Well, this sounds like a cowboy term. It does how bent for leather. Does it go back farther than that? Just go back to Shakespeare or something like that? No. So is it a cowboy term?

Marcia Smith 21:39
No. All right, well

Bob Smith 21:40
tell. He didn’t No,

Marcia Smith 21:42
no. Okay, hell bent means the disturb subject is in a big hurry, and extremely determined to achieve a goal. And the four leather part derives from an 1889 reference to horseback riding. With the leather being the bridle and saddle. The expression at that time then meant writing very fast. And it began as hell for leather. And why does the bed come in where it was held? Because it was bent out of shape meant extremely upset or weird? How bent meaning to be in a big hurry,

Bob Smith 22:15
but you’re so disturbed? You’re hell bent? Yeah. Okay. For leather,

Marcia Smith 22:20
and leather came strange. It just was an expression that meant writing very fast. For example, it’s like go like hell or run like hell. Wow. Okay. Has of 2023. Bob, can you name any of the five top Google word searches?

Bob Smith 22:37
Okay. I would think maybe COVID is still big?

Marcia Smith 22:41
No, I think that was probably 2020 to 20

Bob Smith 22:43
and 2122. Yeah. Are these trade names by any chance?

Marcia Smith 22:48
Well, some of them Okay.

Bob Smith 22:51
Let’s see who now what would they be? Well,

Marcia Smith 22:55
coming in at the bottom is Gmail. People are always looking up Gmail. I

Bob Smith 22:58
mean, at the bottom number five, okay,

Marcia Smith 23:01
is Gmail.

Bob Smith 23:02
All right? That’s one. That’s

Marcia Smith 23:03
one that people search for sure. Oh, you might find or get to your own Gmail. I

Bob Smith 23:08
do that. But I have an already bookmarked. I

Marcia Smith 23:10
do too. But if I’m somewhere else, I’ll put it in. Okay. That makes sense. Yeah. Google is number four people go on Google looking for Google. Yes. Number three, another one. I put in MSB. Using another search engine to look for Google. I guess. Okay, that’s true. Whether is number three? Oh, that makes sense. Number two is Facebook. Oh, and number one is YouTube. God, I

Bob Smith 23:33
think those two things would be if you really go to those things, you’d have them normal demand or bookmark.

Marcia Smith 23:38
But if you’re, if you’re somewhere else on a different kind of what if you’re at work, you don’t want those apps on your desktop? It’s true. Yeah, that’s probably true. And what’s curious about this is that global searches are almost identical, except also in the top five globally is what’s app web search.

Unknown Speaker 23:57
Oh, okay.

Marcia Smith 23:57
So there you go. Wow,

Bob Smith 23:59
I never thought of all those things. I would think of regular words for the top searches.

Marcia Smith 24:03
But now Yeah, well, last year, it was your right now these are

Bob Smith 24:06
companies people are searching for their products online. Okay, what about Amazon? I would

Marcia Smith 24:11
have thought that would have been a big one to put in. Well, that everybody just has on their desk. Oh,

Bob Smith 24:15
there’s all I see everybody. That’s your just because you do Oh, everybody’s got their desktop desk because I am the the purchasing queen.

Marcia Smith 24:23
It’s the wallet sucking app.

Bob Smith 24:27
Not the only one. Oh, my goodness. Okay. All right. Let’s see. Here’s another question for you. Okay. All right, Marcia, another transportation question. Okay. Okay, history. What form of transportation gave Americans 11 billion individual rides in 1917.

Marcia Smith 24:48
Was it a horse and carriages? Not necessarily.

Was it trolleys?

Bob Smith 24:54
It was trolley cars, okay. Yeah. I can’t believe this. I knew they were prolific but in nine Tene 17 us trolley car ridership reached 11 billion rides yearly with connecting lines between major cities as well as intercity transportation. You know how many electric streetcars there were back then? This is amazing because you know, this transportation is pretty much gone right by now, in that, you know, we’re bringing it back. Well, we’re bringing it back. But in 1917, there were more than 80,000 Electric streetcars covering 45,000 miles of track more than double the numbers of cars and miles of track at the turn of the century. So in that first 20 years, it exploded. It was even possible to travel from eastern Wisconsin to Central New York State more than 1000 miles, you could pay a nickel to ride to the end of the line. 1000 miles.

Marcia Smith 25:47
Oh, my God, that’s quite a line they got there. Well, it was from

Bob Smith 25:51
Wisconsin to Central New York State on trolleys.

Marcia Smith 25:57
Okay, Bob, I have three quick thoughts for the day. Okay. All from unknown sources. When a person says they approve of something, in principle, it means they haven’t the slightest intention of putting it into practice. Okay, the trouble with doing nothing is it’s too difficult to tell when you are finished. I like that. And lastly, we middle class Americans love pro sports, because it’s our only chance to boo a bunch of millionaires in their faces. That’s

Bob Smith 26:29
I think some people do take a perverse reaction to sports that way. Yeah. Oh, dear. Okay,

Marcia Smith 26:34
cheer millions. Sure you almost get killed. But I mean, I don’t care what you get

Bob Smith 26:39
paid for what those people go through. It’s amazing what they put themselves through. That’s why I think of all the celebrities, the people that really earn their money are athletes, and a lot of celebrities, movie stars and stuff. And I know they get stunt people for a lot of that stuff. But man, these people are physically putting themselves on the line like warriors, you know. Good point, Bob. Okay. All right. Thanks for joining us today. Hope you’ve enjoyed our show today and we invite you to come back when we return with more fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia with the off ramp.

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