218 Capital Trivia

Bob Smith 0:00
What state had three cities serve as the US Capitol in one year?

Marcia Smith 0:05
And who are what keeps an office in the Arctic Circle?

Bob Smith 0:10
Keeps an office? Wow, that’s weird. Okay, answers to those and other questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob Mr. Smith

Welcome to the off ramp a chance to slow down steer clear of crazy and take a side road to sanity with fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia. Okay, Marcia, who or what keeps an office in the Arctic? Is it a military office use government installation?

Marcia Smith 0:52
Actually, you’re pretty far away Bigfoot.

Bob Smith 0:55
Does Bigfoot have an office in the Arctic Circle? Is that what we’re talking about? No. Okay, think it through or what keeps an office in the Arctic? Okay, what’s the answer?

Marcia Smith 1:06
It’s Santa Claus. Oh, for God’s sake as an office up there seven days a week, all year long. And you can go in there and meet him. He has his own office. He’s adorable. You can see him online. Really? Yeah. Everybody is welcome to visit this atmospheric place and enjoy a private chat with Santa. And where is it? It’s in Finland. Rovi enemy. Oh, really? It’s free of charge. It’s right there in the Arctic circle next to Santa Claus Village. Oh,

Bob Smith 1:34
my goodness. I didn’t know such a thing actually existed. I

Marcia Smith 1:38
didn’t either. And many of the fairy tale secrets of Christmas have their roots in this magical area. So

Bob Smith 1:45
they say. So they’re really sharp again. There press release. Yes.

Marcia Smith 1:50
But it’s free. So you know.

Bob Smith 1:52
Okay. Yeah. Okay. Well,

Marcia Smith 1:55
I found it interesting.

Bob Smith 1:56
Bob, back down to earth. Marcia. What US state had three cities serve as the US Capitol in one year.

Marcia Smith 2:05
Well, you think that’s more interesting than Santa’s Village? Okay.

Bob Smith 2:09
What state? Had three cities serve as the US Capitol in one year?

Marcia Smith 2:15
New York? No, Maryland? No, it was Think it

Bob Smith 2:19
through Marsha. As you would say to me,

Marcia Smith 2:21
I don’t know Bob. Oh, you do to enlightened what

Bob Smith 2:24
city was the first US? New York? No. All right. What are the three cities in Pennsylvania that served as the US Capitol?

Marcia Smith 2:33
Okay, Philly. Yeah. I don’t know. Did Hershey

Bob Smith 2:37
suspect? Okay, here’s the story Marsh. Yeah, Philadelphia was the first Pennsylvania city to be the US Capitol. It was there on July 4 1776, that they signed the Declaration of Independence, right? That put a bounty on the heads of the members of Congress. And a year later, when the British arrived September 27 1777 members of the Second Continental Congress fled Philadelphia to Lancaster

Marcia Smith 3:03
to get away. Oh, Lancaster Pitt. So that’s the second one. Yes, they

Bob Smith 3:07
rested there for a day. They made Lancaster, Pennsylvania, the US Capitol, but just for 24 hours, and then they fled to New York, Pennsylvania. And that became the third US Capitol in Pennsylvania that fall. They were there for nine months. So those were the three cities in Pennsylvania that served as the US Capitol in one year. Philadelphia, Lancaster and York, Pennsylvania. All

Marcia Smith 3:29
right. Do you know about what country in the world has the most islands? What’s it? What country in the world has the most islands?

Bob Smith 3:37
I think it’s Indonesia is? No, it isn’t? No, Malaysia? No. Indonesia. No. You said Indonesia and Malaysia together have the most

Speaker 1 3:49
No, no. Go farther north. Farther north. The Philippines? No, Japan No. Farther north farther north. Russia,

Marcia Smith 3:58
Sweden. 220,000 Island.

Bob Smith 4:02
Oh my goodness. I had no idea. I

Marcia Smith 4:04
didn’t either. Who knew?

Bob Smith 4:06
Are you in a Scandinavian history thing today is that

Marcia Smith 4:09
we got Santa and we got islands. Yeah, I’m done with Scandinavia right now. That’s fantastic. It is okay. You want me to do another one? Yes, sure. Sure. Why Bob is the hair of the dog. A hangover cure? Where did that come from? Oh,

Bob Smith 4:24
that’s an old English or Scottish thing. The hair of the dog.

Marcia Smith 4:28
You know what it means? No, I don’t know what it means. It means you see it in movies and stuff. They get up in the morning and they lift some beverage and say are the hair of the dog and that means they’re drinking more liquor to cure their hangover.

Bob Smith 4:39
Okay, but always made sense to me that gave you a hangover. Let’s have more of it.

Marcia Smith 4:44
Yes. Well, where did that phrase come from? I don’t know. Okay. In the Middle Ages, a rabid dog bite was treated with the ashes of the canine culprits hair. They took the hair and put it in the wound.

Bob Smith 4:56
The hair of the dog that bit the person Yeah, really a rabid dog. Okay. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 5:02
This medical logic came from the Romans who believe that the cure for any ailment including a hangover could be found in its cause. What does that sound like?

Bob Smith 5:12
Sounds like a vaccination. That’s

Marcia Smith 5:14
exactly right. Yeah. In today’s modern medicine, we use vaccines for immunization and it comes from usually the disease. Yeah. So they were on to something but I don’t know about the hair of the dog or putting in your rubbing it your wound. The

Bob Smith 5:29
question is Did it work? You know, it

Marcia Smith 5:31
didn’t say

Bob Smith 5:34
okay, that’s a good one. All right, Marsh. I got some a tourist questions here. Okay, good. I’m a tourist, tourist wise. What is the most visited country in the world in terms of the number of tourists

Marcia Smith 5:47
I think it’s either France or America. Wow,

Bob Smith 5:49
you got it. It’s France. Why did you think it was France? That’s

Marcia Smith 5:53
a lot of people me included. Like to go there. That’s true.

Bob Smith 5:57
France has 68 million people, and they have 80 million tourists annually. Wow. That’s amazing, isn’t it? That’s a lot of tourists. Yeah. And it’s tourism has gone up 64% Since COVID, so they recovered pretty well. What is the thing that tourists do most in France? What’s the number one thing people like to do when they’re there? Go to the the Eiffel Tower, the Louvre Notre Dame Cathedral going to have some wine, the Musee d’Orsay, the Palace of Versailles. All these

Marcia Smith 6:28
places we went but what the most tourists want to do is have a glass of wine, no croissant? No.

Bob Smith 6:34
The top tourist destination in France is Disneyland Paris now Yes. Oh my god. Yes, France is the most visited country in the world and Disneyland Paris is the most popular attraction. My

Marcia Smith 6:48
goodness, that was a surprise. Viva la Disney. She

Bob Smith 6:52
Alright, Disneyland Paris has about 15 million people. The Louvre has about 8 million people go there. How about the Eiffel Tower? The Eiffel Tower is the fourth 6 million people and then the Versailles Palace is third with 7 million visitors. So it’s Disneyland Paris the Louvre Museum, the Versailles Palace and the Eiffel

Marcia Smith 7:11
Tower. I’m glad the Louvre is up there even if it is only half a Disney. Okay,

Bob Smith 7:15
France is the top country for tourists. What are number two and number three? Number two is Spain and has more than 72 million visitors a year. Okay. And number three is the United States with 51 million. So in order France, Spain and the US are the top three countries for tourists.

Marcia Smith 7:31
I think we should go to Spain just to get our ducks in a row. Hmm.

Bob Smith 7:35
So do you want to tell me what the rest of the top 10 are for tourists? Go ahead. Turkey is Turkey Turkey, which is now spelled t u r KIY. II, it got 51 million visitors. Italy is fifth with 38 million. Then there’s Mexico, United Kingdom, Germany, Greece and Austria. So those are the top 10 In terms of the number of tourists who go to them

Marcia Smith 7:56
Turkey is the big surprise in that. Well, I was kind of surprised at that to have you ever thought about oh, let’s go to Turkey. Well, the Hagia

Bob Smith 8:02
Sophia, I’ve always wanted to see that it’s the world’s biggest church. I believe it is. It was a church and now it’s a mosque. It was built about 500 ad. It’s still standing. Yeah. Great. big dome. I’d love to see that. And then I’d love to see some of the places big and Christianity Ephesus and some of those places and then there’s that underground city. You spoke of that. We went oh, gosh, eight levels. Yeah, that would be interesting. So yeah, there’s a lot of interesting stuff there. Okay, Marsha of all those 10 I’ve just spoken about Turkey, Italy, Mexico, United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, Austria, France, Spain and the United States. Which country boasts 250 days of sunshine?

Marcia Smith 8:40
Well, that shows how many England?

Bob Smith 8:44
That’s right. And it’s not the United States. Right, Greece. Oh, yeah, that makes sense. Greece has 250 days of sunshine. So just some tourist information as you get ready to go on vacation.

Marcia Smith 8:56
I’ll keep it in mind. Okay. Speaking of languages, in different parts of the world,

Bob Smith 9:01
we didn’t speak of languages. Okay, what language

Marcia Smith 9:05
Bob in the world has the most words according to dictionary entries?

Bob Smith 9:11
Oh, geez. The language he has the most words. This might be a very obscure language in like somewhere in Africa or something? Ah, is it? No. Oh, is it one of the big languages that we Okay, so it? Is it Chinese now? Japanese now? Or could it be? It’s not Spanish? No, it’s not German. Okay. I don’t know. What is it? English? What? Yeah, English has the most words. We borrowed a lot of them out. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 9:38
Well, that’s just it. We did indeed. But their dictionary entries? Don’t forget 220,000 of them. Wow, that’s a lot. Now here’s one. I won’t ask you to answer. What language has the least words? It’s only 137 words. That’s

Bob Smith 9:54
American Sign Language. No, no. Okay.

Marcia Smith 9:58
It’s a human language. invented in 2001 by a Canadian linguist and translator, Sonya Lang, she felt the world needed to simplify with a simpler language a more minimalist,

Bob Smith 10:10
so she took this on herself. Yes. And she created a small language. It’s based on English. No,

Marcia Smith 10:15
it’s based on all these different languages put together. Toki Pona. It’s called tea. Okay, I capital P O Na. And it’s estimated back in 2021. There were from 500 to 5000 people were speaking this language were all over the world. Oh, really? Yes. She grew up in Canada, right. So one parents spoke English one spoke French, so it probably drove her nuts and drove her to do this. Who knows? So I’ll give you an example. If you want to say everything is good in Toki Pona. You say? eju li su li.

Bob Smith 10:48
Of course.

Marcia Smith 10:50
That doesn’t seem shorter to me. No, it doesn’t. Then everything is good. But acid. But there you go. That’s the least amount of words in our language. Toki

Bob Smith 11:02
Pona Toki Pona. Sounds like tick talkers.

Marcia Smith 11:06
But it’s you can go online and get all the words and all the pictures that go with it. Okay,

Bob Smith 11:10
Marsha. I have a new feature called Who Am I? Wait, no, that’s

Marcia Smith 11:14
my Oh, I’m

Bob Smith 11:15
sorry. I wanted to use the echo. Oh, go ahead,

Marcia Smith 11:18
honey. Go ahead. Oh, all right. Give me some clues. I

Bob Smith 11:22
love that. Okay, this is a soul singer. Her name was Eunice Kathleen Wayman, w a y mo N unis. Kathleen Wayman was it at a James. Aretha Franklin, Elvis Gerald or Nina Simone. Eunice Kathleen Wayman. Nina

Marcia Smith 11:42
Simone.

Bob Smith 11:43
That’s right.

Marcia Smith 11:44
Why would you just say that because I deduced it. That’s all that you’d be desperate

Bob Smith 11:49
to find a new name if your name was Eunice Kathleen Raymond. She was born February 21 1933. And Tyra in North Carolina and her mother was Mary Kate Ervin. She was a Methodist preacher and housekeeper and her father John Devine, Wayman worked as an entertainer barber and dry cleaner. Her mother encouraged her musical pursuits, but she didn’t approve of non religious music like blues, or jazz, but that’s where she was.

Marcia Smith 12:15
She went and she went there beautiful. She took up the

Bob Smith 12:17
piano before her feet could even reach the pedals. And by age six, he was playing church services. Nina Simone.

Marcia Smith 12:24
Okay, you know, Andy Warhols picture, the Maryland diptych, they call it you know what that is? That’s the Marilyn Monroe art. Can you see it at the Getty in Los Angeles, the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, or at the Tate Modern Museum in London.

Bob Smith 12:42
Well, I was thinking it was that the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, so I’ll go with the other New York City Museum there, which would be the Guggenheim in New York.

Marcia Smith 12:50
You’re wrong. It’s at the Tate Modern in London. I didn’t know that. I didn’t either. We never got there. Okay, all right.

Bob Smith 12:57
I have another famous woman who is an actress, and I want you to tell me who she was okay. Her real name was Margarita Carmen Cansino. Ca en si no Margarita Carmen Cansino. She was an American film actress and dancer. I’ll give you some names Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Rita Hayworth or Elizabeth Taylor.

Marcia Smith 13:18
I don’t know. Rita Hayworth? Yes, yes,

Bob Smith 13:21
Margarita, Carmen can see no pretty name daughter of a Spanish born dancer Eduardo Cansino, and his partner Volga Hayworth, Olga. And as a child, she performed in her parents nightclub act. I don’t know. Yeah, she was quite beautiful. She was gorgeous. So Rita Hayworth Margarita, Carmen can see No, that’s a real that’s

Marcia Smith 13:42
very poetic. Are we ready for a who am I? Alright, okay. Who am I? All right. He was a Polish immigrant who lived and worked in New York City. The British arrested him as a spy in 1776. They did a lot of arresting that year, didn’t they? Pardon. He was hired to work as an interpreter for the British with their German mercenary troops. Any any idea yet? Wow. He secretly encouraged soldiers to desert and helped prisoners escape. He was arrested again in 1778 tried and sentenced to death. But he escaped to Philadelphia, where he helped finance the revolution, both by lending large sums of his own money to the fledgling country. And by arranging loans from France.

Bob Smith 14:32
Wow. I don’t know who this was. He was Polish. You said he

Marcia Smith 14:35
is a Polish immigrant who lived and worked in New York City. Okay, who is it? Hi, I’m Solomon. No kidding. Yeah, he was. He’s right up there with the heroes in that war. The revolution. Absolutely. If he did all those things, yeah, he got arrested twice gave everybody money work behind the scenes to get people to convert.

Bob Smith 14:54
There’s so many people like that in those kinds of movements that get lost. Like for instance, the new movie called brusque. about a gentleman who is in the, you know, civil rights movement. Oh, that was story was kind of lost and what a great movie that is a great movie. It’s nice to learn about these things. I never heard of them before, right people lost to history but who are very important in their roles in the movements that they were involved in. Speaking of movements, we’re gonna move on to the break. We’ll be back in just a moment. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob, Mr. Sean Smith. All right, we’re back. You’re listening to Bob and Marsha Smith on the off ramp. We do this each week for the Cedarburg, Public Library, Cedarburg, Wisconsin, and it’s internet radio station. And then it goes on podcast platforms all over the world all over the world. Thanks so much. We’d like you to visit our website, the off ramp dot show, and subscribe to the podcast. And then your podcast app will tell you when we have a new show. You won’t have to keep looking for Facebook to see if we’ve notified you and all of those or

Marcia Smith 15:55
I can just call you. We could do lunch and I’ll tell you there’s a new show. Oh, no, Marcia will

Bob Smith 16:00
do that. She’ll pass on a card and hand you one of our fancy pens.

Marcia Smith 16:04
We do have lovely pens. Okay. All right, Bob. Can you name any of the top 10 richest families in the United States of America

Bob Smith 16:13
top 10 richest families according This is according to Forbes magazine world the Walton family are still number one. They’re behind the Walmart stores.

Marcia Smith 16:22
Yep, they come in number one with 267 billion Gosh.

Bob Smith 16:29
Walmart that is and then there’s the sage of Omaha Buffett. Mr. Buffett’s family’s got to be well

Marcia Smith 16:35
off. It’s not on here. Oh, really? Yeah. Okay.

Bob Smith 16:39
Who else I worked on had Rockefellers people like that or any of those families in those lists anymore?

Marcia Smith 16:44
Yeah. Okay. Tell me who he’s one local number seven SC Johnson family. Oh, okay. 38 point 5 billion for their cleaning products. They’re number seven. Yeah, list. Okay. Number two is the Mars family.

Bob Smith 16:56
The candy bar? Pete? Yeah. Really? I didn’t know that. Yeah, I never hear about those people. Three

Marcia Smith 17:01
Koch family, Koch. Brothers. I see the Cargill Macmillan family.

Bob Smith 17:06
Okay, that started out in Danville, Illinois, the Cargill mills and so forth.

Marcia Smith 17:11
I’ll leave it to you to have a little story on agricultural. Yeah. Number five is the Edward Johnson family in money management. Okay, the Pritzker Family. They do hotels and investments, right. SC Johnson, the Cathy family. Their Chick fil A. Okay. 33 point 6 billion. That’s a lot of chicken. I was gonna say, a lot of chicken. I’ve contributed to that dollar figure. That Duncan family. They’re known for pipelines. And number 10 Is the Cox family and they’re in media

Bob Smith 17:41
Cox media. Okay. Wow. Those are the top 10 families in terms of wealth in the United States. All right, Marcia, back to tourism. What is the most visited tourism spot in the United States? Is it the Grand Canyon? Uh huh. Is it Time Square? Is it the Lincoln Memorial? Is it Mount Rushmore?

Marcia Smith 17:59
I’ll say it’s Time Square. That’s it. 40 million

Bob Smith 18:03
visitors every year, and it’s the most visited tourist site in the United States.

Marcia Smith 18:08
You would think that the Grand Canyon would be the most visited spot in the United States because it’s so incredible, where New York City is a big city and everybody has big cities. Yeah. And I

Bob Smith 18:20
agree with you. Yeah. But I think everybody sees that on TV. You know, they see

Marcia Smith 18:24
the Times Square and then New Year’s Eve and all that. Exactly.

Bob Smith 18:28
So you mentioned the natural wonders, what’s the biggest tourist attraction in Canada, our next door neighbor,

Marcia Smith 18:35
Niagara Falls.

Bob Smith 18:36
That’s it. Niagara Falls draws over 12 million visitors annually in Canada, and it’s actually it consists of three different waterfalls. Did you realize that? No, I

Unknown Speaker 18:45
didn’t know. You know what their names are? No,

Bob Smith 18:47
you don’t know them. You don’t know their names, you know, nothing. Okay, Horseshoe Falls, which is also known as the Canadian falls. Then there’s the American Falls and then Bridal Veil Falls.

Marcia Smith 18:58
Okay. Okay. Bob camino. Inka is a section of the Inca road system that is used as a hiking trail for tourists visiting what historic site

Bob Smith 19:09
is that? The Machu Picchu? Oh, I

Marcia Smith 19:11
was gonna give you choices, but you didn’t need it. Is it? Machu Picchu? Okay, very good. I was gonna say was it that are the salt flats or El Dorado? It’s

Bob Smith 19:21
a hiking trail. Yeah. From the Inca road highway system. Yeah. One of the great road systems of the ancient world. Alright, Marcia, a very rare Arrowhead in Switzerland was recently discovered to have not been from Switzerland. Oh, well, where was it from?

Marcia Smith 19:38
Africa.

Bob Smith 19:39
Where did it come from? Marcia.

Marcia Smith 19:41
Not Africa,

Bob Smith 19:42
not Africa. Belgium. Not Europe. Marsha. Not Europe.

Marcia Smith 19:46
I don’t know. It

Bob Smith 19:47
came from Australia, outerspace Marcia. How could that be? Well, it’s just one of the latest ancient finds whose metallurgical properties indicate it was once a meteorite, but this is actually a air overhead that’s in the shape of an arrow just like stone arrowheads, but it’s made out of iron. And they dated before the Iron Age before I was known. There’s only 54 Extra Terrestrial objects that are known from the ancient world that have been found. 19 of them were found in King Tut’s tomb. We’ve talked about that before. That shows how valuable the material was considered that that’s the only place you can find it. So this arrowhead made of iron was rusted and scratched it was uncovered near a lake settlement on the outskirts of burn. But they know now that the iron was probably fashioned into a weapon around 900 BC. And the meteorite was probably the Carl Jahve meteorite, which smashed into his Estonia in Northern Europe, around 1500 BC, but it was discovered in Seattle,

Marcia Smith 20:47
and they just and the natives just started using it to make arrowheads. They said

Bob Smith 20:51
it was probably moved from one trading post to the next probably with Amber, another valuable Estonian export. Can you imagine that people trading and just handing a look at this? Oh, this metal arrow here? Yeah. Yeah. They said it was probably kept was a religious item or a sign of status. Okay.

Marcia Smith 21:07
All right, Bobby ready? Why did George Lucas file a lawsuit against a beer company in Chile in 2003, when Star Wars trilogy was shown on TV? Did

Bob Smith 21:20
they come up with a beer to commemorate that?

Marcia Smith 21:23
No.

Bob Smith 21:24
Is that what it was? Yeah, that’s

Marcia Smith 21:25
a good one. Gee, I

Bob Smith 21:27
don’t know what would be the answer.

Marcia Smith 21:28
Well, I can’t believe they did it. And it’s hilarious. You have to look it up on YouTube throughout the whole trilogy. It’s a beer called Sarah visa three star beer. They decided to advertise its product without cutting in for commercial breaks, too. They didn’t want to interrupt the movies. So instead, they seamlessly edited into key scenes, the beer and its jingle oh my god, real funny song full of Pepin energy Sara V stack v

Bob Smith 22:00
star, this just in some of those casino scenes are those are scenes, you

Marcia Smith 22:04
know, in all the key moments like when Obi Wan Kenobi he’s about to give Luke his father’s lightsaber, he looks at Luke and says, I have something for you. Then he leans down and opens a trunk and is full of this beer. Oh, my goodness, and the music comes up for 30 seconds, and then it all goes away. And then he hands him the light so

Bob Smith 22:24
I can understand why George Lucas would sue for that. So they

Marcia Smith 22:27
directly inserted their 32nd commercials into casings, and that’s hilarious. After Lucas sued, the commercials hit the internet, and then it went viral. So in the end, Lucas won, and so did the beer.

Bob Smith 22:40
I’ve never seen that. It’s hilarious. You can see it on YouTube. Yeah. Well, that’s funny. Okay, Marcia. By 1750 This city was the biggest in America and the second largest in the British Empire after London. What was it? 1750? Philadelphia? That’s right. By 1750. Philadelphia surpassed Boston as the largest city and the busiest port in British America, and the second largest city in the entire British Empire. Okay. All right, Marcia, what tropical disease was partially responsible for Philadelphia losing its role as the US Capitol?

Marcia Smith 23:16
What did they have back then? Smallpox?

Bob Smith 23:18
They had that but that was an it wasn’t it? scurvy. I don’t know. You had a question about this disease the other day about Memphis? Yellow Fever. Oh, yeah, that was like an 1878. Well, in the 1790s, yellow fever hit Philadelphia. And a number of considerations were swaying the political opinion as to the development of where the new capital was gonna be. Philadelphia was, you know, in the running, the fact that they prohibited slavery was a problem for the southern people who wanted to put the capital in certain ways. But one of the nails in the coffin for Philadelphia was the fact that there was a tropical disease outbreak there of yellow fever and a lot of people died and it made people wonder if it was a safe city. This was in 1793. B Darn. So when did the US government and its business in Philadelphia as the Capitol? Tell me June 11 1800. Oh, from that point on, it was Washington DC. Oh,

Marcia Smith 24:17
okay. Yeah. Okay, Bob, I’m gonna gonna pick up on your waterfall question. All right. Where in the world is the largest waterfall? Oh,

Bob Smith 24:28
I know the answer to this. I had this. I was going to ask you this. I’ve got I just researched that the other day. Isn’t it interesting. The world’s largest waterfall is under the ocean. I know. Fascinating.

Marcia Smith 24:41
It is. Its Cascades are 11,500 feet towards the sea floor. So

Bob Smith 24:46
it’s almost two miles exact Hall, this waterfall under the ocean.

Marcia Smith 24:51
It’s nestled between Greenland and Iceland and is a body of water known as the Denmark Strait and beneath the waves lies the world’s largest waterfall known simply as the Denmark strait cataract and

Bob Smith 25:04
I will never get near that thing. Oh Mike, can you imagine that?

Marcia Smith 25:07
It’s an incredible deluge. The cold water from the Nordic sea meets the warmer water from the irmin Garci. Southwest of Iceland. And the cooler denser water sinks beneath the lighter warmer water dropping it more than two miles to the seafloor. Just amazing. Yeah, just amazing. Just see a picture of it.

Bob Smith 25:27
I know I’ve not seen a picture of it. It’s pretty amazing. I I’m just amazed at things like that. And that’s such a phenomenon, right? Yeah, the largest waterfall on Earth. Yeah, it’s underwater.

Marcia Smith 25:39
Alright, you got something else? I got quotes.

Bob Smith 25:41
I’ve got one more tourist question. Okay. You go to Athens, one of the places you like to go is the Acropolis. What does the name Acropolis? Mean? Acropolis?

Marcia Smith 25:51
It means meeting place. No, it means party place. No, it means I have no idea. It means

Bob Smith 26:00
high city. Ah, and of course, the Acropolis is a high city. It’s up on the hill hilltop overlooking Atlantis. And that’s where you’ll see the ancient things like ancient citadels and monuments and temples, including the Parthenon. And that dates back to the fifth BCE and guess what, 20,000 people visit the Acropolis every day every day. Yeah. 20,000 people. That’s

Marcia Smith 26:25
that’s a lot. That’s a lot of tourists. All right, Bob. So here’s a George Orwell quote, seems fitting in times of deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

Bob Smith 26:38
Well, it is. It is a revolutionary act. Okay.

Marcia Smith 26:42
And here’s a quote from live happy.com My personal favorite place, always find a reason to laugh. It may not add years to your life, but will surely add life to your years.

Bob Smith 26:54
Well, that’s very good. And we hope we’ve added some life to your years with a couple chuckles we’ve had here at chortle or two Yes. chuckles And I have enjoyed coming to you today from the off ramp. I Bob Smith. Smith. Join us again next time when we return with more fascinating facts tantalizing trivia and chuckles here on the off ramp.

Marcia Smith 27:14
Did you call me Chuck?

Bob Smith 27:15
I did call you chuckling

Marcia Smith 27:16
Yeah. I’ll call you Charlie chortle Yeah. chuckles And chortle chortle

Bob Smith 27:20
sounds like somebody who’s choking or something. chortle No, I don’t need any nicknames. Yeah, pap. No, I don’t want Yippee. No, stinky No, no, those nicknames. Okay. The off rib is produced in association with CPL radio online and the Cedarbrook Public Library Cedarburg, Wisconsin, visit us on the web at the off ramp dot show.

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