216 Kissy Face Trivia

Marcia Smith 0:00
How much time does the average person spend kissing in their lifetime? Oh,

Bob Smith 0:05
that’s interesting. And what First Lady was the first to win an Emmy Award? I might know that answers to those and other questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob and

Marcia Smith 0:18
Marsha Smith

Bob Smith 0:35
Welcome to the off ramp a chance to slow down. Steer clear of crazy. Take a side roast. Here is snart there.

Marcia Smith 0:45
went off the road. Okay, sorry.

Bob Smith 0:46
You steered off the road. Yeah. Steer clear of crazy take a side road to sanity and get some perspective with fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia. Well, that is tantalizing. Marcia, what’s How much time do we spend kissing in our lifetime?

Marcia Smith 1:00
Yeah, the average person in an average lifetime. So

Bob Smith 1:03
average lifetime. Yeah. So the average kisser is what we’re talking about.

Marcia Smith 1:07
Yeah. And this is according to CBS News, and they should know, well, you know,

Bob Smith 1:11
kissing is like the punctuation of life. You know, you consider life as sentences and paragraphs. Kissing is like the punctuation you don’t do it that often. But when you do it, it’s very important.

Marcia Smith 1:22
It is very stops the

Bob Smith 1:23
show. Just like um, guys.

Marcia Smith 1:25
Yeah. Not all some guys.

Bob Smith 1:27
It starts the show. Okay, so let me see. Are we talking in terms of hours? How do you measure it? I’ve

Marcia Smith 1:34
got it as weeks or minutes or my

Bob Smith 1:37
goodness, weeks? How many weeks a year? Wow, how many weeks in a lifetime in a lifetime? Do we kiss? Wow. I didn’t even think it

Marcia Smith 1:45
would be weeks.

Bob Smith 1:46
Let’s say a week. Okay. A week of kissing in a lifetime.

Marcia Smith 1:52
Two weeks? Yes. I can we spend two weeks of our life kissing are over 20,000 minutes. Wow. 20,000 minutes. And

Bob Smith 2:02
kisses lasts for more than a minute. Most kisses are kind of short. Most cases not all

Marcia Smith 2:06
cases are Yeah, but once you get going, you know the average person?

Bob Smith 2:14
Yes, it kept going. I love the average person

Marcia Smith 2:16
has about 15 Kissing partners before finding the one Oh, but another survey because I did multiple euphemism

Bob Smith 2:25
is it kissing isn’t a euphemism for something else. Okay, stalking, jacking. kissing. Kissing. Okay,

Marcia Smith 2:31
now these surveys suggest the average person over a lifetime kiss is 21.5 people. I had that point five. And he wasn’t that good. for a lifetime. Do you ever think about it? We’re not talking your sister and your mother here. How many people do you think you’ve kissed? That

Bob Smith 2:48
guy was a fractional kisser. He wasn’t even worth a whole point. Wow, that’s

Marcia Smith 2:54
pretty bad. 21.5 Yeah, well,

Bob Smith 2:56
you know, there’s a lot of pics. You know, those like you said mothers and you’re

Marcia Smith 3:01
talking about we’re talking real kiss.

Bob Smith 3:02
We’re talking kiss it two weeks in a lifetime? Yeah. Wow. That’s a long time to be spending kissing. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 3:08
You know that when they tell you that? They don’t say is that 24 hours day and night

Bob Smith 3:13
till I assume it is. Yeah. That’s a lot. That’s a lot of Kiss. Yeah. Well, that’s pretty cool. Well, that’s 1000 minutes. That’s one of the racier questions we’ve had on the show. And thank God, it’s not a euphemism for something else. Okay, Marsha, which us first lady was the first to win an Emmy Award?

Marcia Smith 3:33
Well, I think it’s between I’ll

Bob Smith 3:34
give you choices. Okay. Eleanor Roosevelt, Hillary Clinton, Jackie Kennedy, or Nancy Reagan. I

Marcia Smith 3:43
was gonna guess, Hillary or Michelle. But the first you said, I’ll say Hillary,

Bob Smith 3:50
well Emmys deal with television. Right. Yeah. So let me give you that again, Eleanor Roosevelt, Hillary Clinton, Jackie Kennedy, or Nancy Reagan, which was the first US First Lady to win and well, would

Marcia Smith 4:02
that be Jackie for her White House tour? That’s

Bob Smith 4:04
exactly. All right. All right. Yeah. Jackie Kennedy,

Marcia Smith 4:09
is where the President’s newest before he would deny

Bob Smith 4:14
to the 1962 televised tour of the White House earned her an Emmy making her the first and only First Lady of the United States to ever win that award. Lady Bird Johnson, who was in attendance accepted the award on Kennedy’s behalf. And that statue is now displayed at the JFK presidential library in Boston. As is the recordings of the First Family which we ran. Yeah, that was earlier. That’s one of the funniest routines on that album is that White House tour because of Jackie Kennedy. Yeah, breathy delivery.

Marcia Smith 4:48
Frankly, I always hated that show because of what I thought was ridiculous. East Coast pretension. Her school, where did she go? I know Bryn Mawr somewhere. They talk like this from the top And it was just so annoying to me.

Bob Smith 5:03
You were just a kid at a time and me

Marcia Smith 5:05
then I don’t remember what my parents that did your family watching. We

Bob Smith 5:09
all watch that buddy, watch everybody watch it because nobody at that time had been to the White House

Marcia Smith 5:12
to see the whole thing and it was bringing up her to say let’s everybody see the people’s house and

Bob Smith 5:17
it was her idea. And so she organized it. And so that’s why she won the Emmy. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 5:22
I don’t take that away from her. Just

Bob Smith 5:26
a breathy voice. Okay. All

Marcia Smith 5:28
right. Okay, you ready? This is fascinating to me. Can you define Bob Cora mania? It’s spelled like chore mania, but has nothing to do with chores. Ch o

Bob Smith 5:39
r e ma Nia. Yeah, sure. Mania? Yeah. Not the craziness of doing chores. No, that’s what I go into. I’ve seen Yes, spring every spring I do the chore mania.

Marcia Smith 5:50
I would pronounce this Cora mania Hora myth that helped you at all. Chorus

Bob Smith 5:54
is it’s not from singing or anything isn’t now

Marcia Smith 5:57
Cora. You might have missed this in your history reading Bob, but it was the mid evil Dancing Plague.

Bob Smith 6:05
The medieval Dancing Plague. There was a dancing play. Yes, I’m not kidding. Okay. It’s true

Marcia Smith 6:12
in 1518. Between July and September of that year, somewhere between 50 and 400 people actually died from exhaustion when they took up non stop dancing.

Bob Smith 6:25
This happened back in the 19th century. And it also happened back during the the Poco craze and all that stuff, for sure.

Marcia Smith 6:32
It’s somewhere between 50 and 400. And oh, it happened in Strasburg within the Holy Roman Empire, which is now France. And it ended in September as mysteriously as it began. Nobody knows what the hell got into those people.

Bob Smith 6:50
They dance themselves to death. Yeah, she’s. And where was

Marcia Smith 6:54
that again? 1518. Wow.

Bob Smith 6:57
Okay, well, this goes back even farther. This is an interesting question. What American actress successfully starred in a film set in the year 1183, a famous American actress successfully starred in a film that was set in the year 1183. Now my hint is 1968 is when it came out, was the actress that was able to successfully star in a film set in 1183.

Marcia Smith 7:27
It’s like, really think I’ve seen this movie? Oh, yeah. You’ve seen it. Oh, okay. Was this the Mel Brooks film? No, it

Bob Smith 7:33
wasn’t that. Because he like the history of the world or

Marcia Smith 7:36
something. Yeah. Okay. Well, then, I don’t know. The

Bob Smith 7:39
film was lying in winter. Remember that? Yeah. That was a 1968 historical drama and it was set on Christmas 1183. It starred Katharine Hepburn,

Marcia Smith 7:50
Katharine Hepburn and anyone that word for that. That’s right. It centered

Bob Smith 7:54
on political and personal turmoil among the royal family of Henry the second of England, also starring Peter O’Toole, who was actually the lead actor in that yeah, Katharine Hepburn, John castle, and then two people made their film debuts in that film. Anthony Hopkins, it was his first movie, this movie, his first movie. I’m sorry, my tongue is really fluffy today.

Marcia Smith 8:16
You’ve been licking trading stamps. Again. It’s

Bob Smith 8:18
the first movie and then Timothy Dalton. Timothy Dalton was also in that film. That was the first film he was into. So who can star in a film set in 1183 and make it successful? Katharine Hepburn.

Marcia Smith 8:29
She can do anything

Bob Smith 8:30
that that was pretty cool. Yeah. Okay, here’s another movie question. What movie was one of the biggest losers in Oscar history that occurred in 1977? He was a ballet movie. Do you remember this one?

Marcia Smith 8:42
A ballet movie? 1976 1977 Seven. Was it Oh, was that the black swan or something? No, it’s

Bob Smith 8:51
called the turning point. Oh, yeah. That was a good movie. It was nominated for 11 Academy Awards. It didn’t win one.

Marcia Smith 8:59
Wow. All right, Bob, you’re like this. Okay, can you name any of the top four misspelled words that employers find on resumes today?

Bob Smith 9:09
Oh, really? There’s they got Oh god this is awful when you find one and resume

Marcia Smith 9:15
Yes. And employers say it’s it’s a big Buzzkill.

Bob Smith 9:19
You know, I used to hire writers and of course if I found a misspelled word that just disqualified them right away.

Marcia Smith 9:24
Yeah. And with spellcheck How can this keep happening? Well,

Bob Smith 9:28
now it doesn’t make any sense back in the day you can see why somebody could miss something. Yeah, let’s see would career be one

Marcia Smith 9:35
not in the top? What did I say for the top four? You know, I have no idea Well, this is a survey done by newsweek.com of employers these

Bob Smith 9:44
are generally any kind of employee This is writers Okay, resume right.

Marcia Smith 9:47
The top misspelled words are experienced I’m an experienced

Bob Smith 9:53
that’s a deadly Windows mess up Yes.

Marcia Smith 9:55
All these are successful. There we go. Very bad. Very Bad screwing that up counsel that I can see sometimes your judgment. Yeah. And as another very bad one responsible. Wow,

Bob Smith 10:10
those are all deadly words to misspell on a resume that’s for sure it’s

Marcia Smith 10:14
describing your attributes and they gave some examples of the alternative spellings and it ain’t pretty. Oh

Bob Smith 10:20
my goodness. Well, that’s good. Marcia, I had never thought of this before so I’m going to ask you you know the abbreviations Mr. For Mr. And Mrs. For Mrs. Right that yes, now mr. is spelled Mi s t e r, so m&r Makes sense. Why does the abbreviation for Mrs. Mr. S. happen? Our Mrs. That has no art at the back from the word mistress. That is exactly right. It started out his mistress, and it didn’t have a negative connotation. Both terms originate in the 1500s in England, and according to Cambridge University, Mrs. was the equivalent of Mr. Mistress was a term you used instead of Mr. Mr. And mistress. And that was usually a female business person or the head of household, somebody successful or somebody the head of a household, okay. The women who took membership in the London companies in the 18th century were all termed mistresses. They were involved in luxury trades and so forth. So they were masters and mistresses of their trades, the people who were in business back then. And then in the 19th century, the abbreviations Mr. And Mrs. Were also used to identify servants think of Downton Abbey. The top servants always had those names. It was Mr. So and so yeah, yeah, Mrs. So and So, in aristocracy, even our top servants will have names like we have, but not the other people. They’ll just be Tom or Anna or daisy.

Marcia Smith 11:45
Wait, say that again. That last part. The servants

Bob Smith 11:48
in Downton Abbey? Yeah, the head of the meal servants. And Mr. Karlson, head of the female servants, Mrs. Hughes, but all the rest were just Tom or Anna or daisy. So to sum up, the original point I was making M R. S, didn’t stand for Mrs. Originally, it stood for mistress. And that was a proper term, not a term of derision. We’ll find out when that became a negative term shortly.

Marcia Smith 12:16
Well, we can go into the pronoun debate to that. That’ll take you down a rabbit hole. All right. So you know, I often listen to WGN radio in Chicago. Yeah. Well, they talked about a survey that was done in Chicago of Gen Z people, Gen Z, born between 1997 and 2012. Okay. And they asked them what they wanted to get them to start coming back to the office with a neck into the office and out of the house after koboko.

Bob Smith 12:43
So these are, what would you call these benefits? Like job benefits, perks,

Marcia Smith 12:49
the benefits, whatever you want to come? Okay. This is pretty much in just in Chicago. So think big

Bob Smith 12:56
city, I would think they would want some days to be able to work from home. That’s not in the top three. Oh, really? Is it orange juice or maybe a bourbon or maybe a Bloody Mary?

Marcia Smith 13:08
To start today? Now there was an interesting, that’s what I would say, on your desk where

Bob Smith 13:12
you go when you get there. The Bloody Mary’s there. Gosh, what depends on what kind of works do

Marcia Smith 13:16
I know I needed a doughnut and a cigarette when I was in the newsroom. Okay,

Bob Smith 13:20
so what are the new survey of Gen Z’s say they needed to get back into the office after

Marcia Smith 13:26
COVID? The number one thing they wanted was commuting costs. parking costs, which in Chicago Loop that’s gonna cost the over 1000 a month

Bob Smith 13:37
in Milwaukee at cost a lot when I was working downtown. Yeah, it’s quite expensive.

Marcia Smith 13:41
Number two, they wanted more privacy at the office. So what do you think these people are all working in cubicles?

Bob Smith 13:48
Probably. Yes. And when I call those fabric walls, yeah, so

Marcia Smith 13:52
they want more privacy. And the third one is no dress code. They should be able to wear whatever they want. depends

Bob Smith 13:59
on the kind of work you do. I mean, really, how much more lacks, can

Marcia Smith 14:04
you get dress code? Oh, what are they again, the

Bob Smith 14:07
top are what again, commuting

Marcia Smith 14:08
costs, okay, parking costs, part of the commuting fuel, or maybe a train ticket or whatever it takes to get into work, more privacy in their office and dress code in Chicago. That’s the top three things to get me back in the office.

Bob Smith 14:23
So that’s what they need to get back in the office. Okay, we’ll get back into the show after we take a break. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob Mr. Shep Smith. We’ll be right back. We’re back and amazingly, I got doughnuts right here. How did you do that? It just you magically gave me that? You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith. We do this every week for the Cedarburg Public Library Cedarburg, Wisconsin, and it’s an internet radio station and then it goes on podcast platforms throughout the world. We’d like to also invite you to visit our website, the off ramp dot show where you can subscribe to the program and then Your podcast app will automatically come up with the new show and notify you of that. Marsha back to mistress and Mrs. When did mistress become a negative term? Any idea? Oh, well,

Marcia Smith 15:10
let me see when they became that Walton woman right? I don’t know the 1800s No, in

Bob Smith 15:17
the late 1700s. By 1755 Mistress was already beaten used sarcastically to refer to the head of a household that happened to be a brothel. Oh dear. So mistress was a positive term and then they started saying, Oh, she’s the Mistress of the brothel. And that’s how it turned into a negative term. The terms downfall progressed from there with mistress eventually meaning a woman in a love affair with a married man. But originally it was a good term.

Marcia Smith 15:42
Okay. All right. I’m going back to Gen Z one more time. Fortune magazine survey of employers and workers in the UK, revealed what percentage Bob of people ghost their interviews. In other words, they said an interview and don’t show up. You

Bob Smith 15:58
know, I read about this this thing. I read that statistic last week, and I was appalled by it appalling that this was something it was horrible when you are hiring and somebody never showed up. That would have happened only once in my whole career, your whole career. Somebody I was trying to hire didn’t show up. But tell me about this. 93%

Marcia Smith 16:15
did not show up for the interview after making the appointment. Really? This is in the UK, but I doubt it. But that’s what I thought. Yeah. Isn’t that horrendous that how many people set an appointment for an interview for a job and did not show up? 93%? That

Bob Smith 16:33
is outstandingly bad. This is in the UK.

Marcia Smith 16:37
Yeah. And I don’t think it’s much better here. It’s a little better than that here. But it’s getting bad. And out of those few who do show up what percentage fail to show up for their first day of work. Without a phone call, I might add, I don’t know how many 87%? Well,

Bob Smith 16:56
so it’s hard to hire it all in the UK right now. Oh, my God, that’s terrible. So

Marcia Smith 17:01
yeah, hire somebody, and they just don’t show up. And they don’t tell you why that’s those numbers are very difficult for me to believe. And it took me 12 months to get my first job for a newspaper reporter. So apparently, employers aren’t that great either. In this UK survey, Bob, one in five workers said that prospective employers failed to show up for a phone interview, that the employer failed to show up for the phone interview and 23% of them said they were given a verbal offer for a job and then never heard from them. Again. I’ve heard

Bob Smith 17:35
that that shows you a lot of things are broken right now. Quid pro

Marcia Smith 17:39
quo, the employers lot of them don’t care. The employees seem

Bob Smith 17:43
worse. Wouldn’t you feel if you were looking for a job? And somebody did that to you? Oh, you wouldn’t want to work? Yeah, of course you wouldn’t. So it’s just a lot of things are broken. Like I said, I agree. Okay, one more question on this. Mr. Mrs. Mr. Mrs. When did the term Ms. First show up? It was being proposed as a neutral term for women. You mean Ms. Ms. Yes. And neutral term meaning you can’t tell from that. Whether they’re single or married. When did that show up? Yeah. When? When was that first proposed?

Marcia Smith 18:12
That was in the I’ll say 70s 19 1970s.

Bob Smith 18:16
That’s when it showed up. But guess when it was first proposed? 1950 1901 Oh, okay. Wow. Yeah, the abbreviation Mrs did not definitely signify a married woman until 1900. And the following year 1901. The abbreviation M S was first suggested as a neutral alternative for Miss. Did you use that term? When you were in our current? I

Marcia Smith 18:37
was single? Yeah. Sometimes,

Bob Smith 18:39
there’s no reason to have the term see whether you’re single or married men don’t have to worry. Yeah. So why should women? Yeah, so that’s why I thought Ms. was a good thing. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 18:48
Yeah, I know. Sometimes I use it if it’s to my advantage. All right, Bob. It’s time for who am I?

Bob Smith 18:55
Wow. Where did that come from? Your voice got so big there.

Marcia Smith 19:00
Who was the only president for whom English was a second language? Oh,

Bob Smith 19:05
I know that. Martin Van Buren.

Marcia Smith 19:07
What was his main length?

Bob Smith 19:09
His main language was Dutch. Like,

Marcia Smith 19:11
don’t you have to be an American to be President?

Bob Smith 19:14
Yes. He was born an American. His parents came here from the Netherlands. I believe it was but they spoke at home. They spoke Dutch. And then he learned English as he got older.

Marcia Smith 19:23
You’re absolutely right, Mr. Smarty Pants.

Bob Smith 19:26
I think we’ve actually had that

Marcia Smith 19:28
before. I do, too. Yeah. He spoke Dutch at home with his wife, too. He

Bob Smith 19:32
was actually the first president born in the United States. Did you know that? That’s a technicality. Sure. Yeah. The United States was brand new when he was born. All the presidents before him George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Madison, Monroe. They were born before the United States actually exists. They were born in the state. They were born in the North American continent. Yeah. But they weren’t born United States said

Marcia Smith 19:54
okay, fine. Pick up. All right. This artist was on their way. to becoming a doctor, okay, and then a near fatal accident changed everything in 1925 who wasn’t

Bob Smith 20:08
on the way to becoming a doctor? Yeah. In 1925 Who am I thinking? I’m not thinking of Picasso I’m thinking of somebody else there but in that era, but I can’t think of names for some reason right now. It’s not coming to me it’s not coming to me,

Marcia Smith 20:22
right that’s why I’m here Bob. It was Mexican artists free to kalo. Oh, really. She was on her way to becoming not a painter but a doctor. Wow, tragedy struck on September 17 1925. Very unusual

Bob Smith 20:36
for a woman to become a doctor back. Yeah, it was

Marcia Smith 20:38
and she was on a bus ride Bob, and she was crushed in a terrifying and near fatal accident that left her confined to a bed for months and months and was no longer able to pursue her medical dreams. She turned to painting to cope with a loneliness of recovery. And she discovered a new passion that saw her become one of the most celebrated painters in history. Said however eyebrow grew together.

Bob Smith 21:06
I don’t know that’s not kinda know about that. Okay, brow. Oh, yeah. Yeah, but I didn’t know she was the one who was noted to have it. Okay, gotchas, Frida.

Marcia Smith 21:14
What do you got?

Bob Smith 21:16
All right. What animated superheroes have a historical marker in the United States? Animated superheroes? Animated superheroes actually have a historical marker in the United States? Who would this be? Would it be Superman

Marcia Smith 21:31
was gonna say Superman?

Bob Smith 21:33
Would it be Batman?

Marcia Smith 21:34
I’d say Superman.

Bob Smith 21:36
Would it be the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? That’s who it is.

Marcia Smith 21:41
Can you name them all?

Bob Smith 21:42
Yes, I can. That’s Donatella. Raphael, Leonardo and Michelangelo. Named after Renaissance artists

Marcia Smith 21:48
because we have a little boy right? We did.

Bob Smith 21:51
There is a state historical marker at the house where the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles were created in Dover, New Hampshire. Oh, really? That’s funny. Yeah. And that’s not all. They’re also honored. On the street in front of the house. Where did they live in the stories of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles? Do you remember that?

Marcia Smith 22:08
No. I mean, I remember I remember

Bob Smith 22:10
because I went to like three of those movies with Ben when he was growing. They lived in the sewer. Oh, that’s right, of course. So on the street in front of the house, where the historical marker is in Dover, Delaware is a decorative manhole also unranked the four turtles.

Marcia Smith 22:24
That’s great. That’s very cute.

Bob Smith 22:26
We gotta tell Ben, that is his favorite. Oh, my God. He loved that, didn’t he? Yes, he did. There was a TV show. And then they made the three movies.

Marcia Smith 22:34
He also loved the California Raisins and had a t shirt which I sent to his baby this month. And that kids wearing it?

Bob Smith 22:42
That’s right. We just saw a picture of our grandson with the California Raisins that Ben had when he was a baby.

Marcia Smith 22:48
Appropriately enough, he is in California. That’s right. So it works. All right Marsh. All right, who is the most portrayed literary human being in film and TV? Who

Bob Smith 22:59
is the most portrayed? Yeah, human being in film or TV? I would say that’s either Jesus Christ or Abraham Lincoln. Because they both have had probably more books written about them than anything else. I would assume that translates into movies and other movie imagery media right now. Okay, give me the answer.

Marcia Smith 23:19
This is somebody we know very well. Mickey Mouse. Yeah, okay. Okay. It is Sherlock Holmes. Okay, so it’s the most What was your question against human played character in movies and TV human

Bob Smith 23:33
played? See, that’s that’s really dodgy. They’re human played character. Yeah. All right. So this is an invented human character. Yeah. Okay.

Marcia Smith 23:41
So it’s Sherlock Holmes. All right. Well, our dear sweet man that we know that cannon very well. That’s right. Yes. Dracula is the most played character of all times, but they don’t consider him a human.

Bob Smith 23:54
Alright, Marcia, here’s my last one. Okay. What state has more cattle than people yet? Beef is their top import? Well,

Marcia Smith 24:05
that takes Nerissa

Bob Smith 24:06
conundrum I had is what state has more cattle than people yet. Beef is their top import. Oh my word. Yes, it Yeah. Oh, good. Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota or Nebraska.

Marcia Smith 24:21
I wonder if I was gonna say why. Oh, me. Okay. Tell me the state choices.

Bob Smith 24:25
Kansas, Missouri, South Dakota or Nebraska. Nebraska. Kansas, Missouri, south. No, it’s not Nebraska. What is it South Dakota. Even though South Dakota raises more cattle than it has people its top import is bovine meat or beef. Now why? This is because of a lack of processing capability that’s more cost effective to export the state’s homegrown raw materials and import it back after packaging here comes the hamburger. In other words, all the slaughterhouses are out of state so send the cows then They come back all wrapped up would we do without your sound farm dominated state ranks low on the country’s list of traders that comes in at 48 of 53 exporting territories so that’s it that’s it. That’s a that’s the state with more cattle than people yet beef is their top import. Well

Marcia Smith 25:16
that that is an interesting facts.

Bob Smith 25:19
South Dakota. That’s also the site of the corn palace. Have you ever been there? No, it’s actually pretty interesting. What is it? It’s a building that’s all decorated with different colors of corn in different patterns and different like representing people’s faces and stuff. I mean, it’s actual corn. The walls are corn. They’re decorated like corn with corn actually inside. So it’s quite as they use it for they use it for conventions and things like

Marcia Smith 25:43
I mean, but is it actual corn kernels? Oh, God,

Bob Smith 25:46
Marcia. No, it’s not made of Legos or corn is called the corn palace. It’s decorated with corn. So

Marcia Smith 25:53
it’s corn kernels on the walls.

Bob Smith 25:55
I set on the walls. I didn’t say it was built, they rot and drop off. I’m sure there are ways to preserve corners. It’s

Marcia Smith 26:03
a family trip of yours. Yes,

Bob Smith 26:05
it was one of the trips. I think it was 1960. Or that one? Yes. They missed the corn palace. Well, the people in Mitchell, South Dakota are very proud of the corn pellets. And rightly so. It’s quite interesting. I’m telling you authentically, it is an interesting thing. I just stop and see.

Marcia Smith 26:20
I believe you so you can make fun. Fun.

Bob Smith 26:23
This is your state of Wisconsin’s got a lot of things to laugh at. Let me tell you it’s a cheese on the wall. That’s right. The cheese palace in Wisconsin. I haven’t seen that. Why don’t we

Marcia Smith 26:32
have a cheese girl wearing it on our heads? Bob? Oh, that’s

Bob Smith 26:35
right. We make clothing out of ours. Okay. All right. That’s enough of that.

Marcia Smith 26:40
Okay. I’m from my God.

Bob Smith 26:42
All right, your quote for the day.

Marcia Smith 26:43
It’s a quote by Ellen Brown, Bob. And she says the difference between conscious and conscience. Is that conscious is when you are aware of something. And conscience is when you wish you weren’t. Oh, conscience. Yeah.

Bob Smith 27:01
Wish you weren’t aware of it? Yeah. That’s funny. So the your conscience the n is what makes the difference. Yeah. And it’s

Marcia Smith 27:07
hard to Yeah, it’s hard to say too.

Bob Smith 27:09
Oh, that’s so funny. You’re well, conscious and conscience. Yeah, conscience. That’s the one that’s got the consequences. Yes. All right. Can we hope you’ve had some Guilty Pleasures listening to our show today. We hope we’re one of your guilty pleasures. And that you join us next time when we return with more fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia on the off ramp. The off ramp is produced in association with CPL radio online and the Cedarburg Public Library Cedarburg, Wisconsin, visit us on the web at the off ramp dot show.

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