226 Insane Trivia

Marcia Smith 0:00
More than 16 million men alive today are related to this man. Who is he? Wow.

Bob Smith 0:06
And Yellowstone was America’s first national park. What was the second? And why doesn’t the government own it today? Oh, he gave it away. I did. Yes. answers to those and other questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob and

Marcia Smith 0:23
Marsha Smith.

Bob Smith 0:40
Welcome to the off ramp, but she has to slow down steer clear of crazy take a side road to sanity and get some perspective on life with fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia. Well, Marcia, what was America’s second national park and why did the government give it away? Well, or do you want me to give you another clue?

Marcia Smith 1:00
Yes, please.

Bob Smith 1:01
What Great Lakes tourist attraction was America’s second national park. And why did the government given away

Marcia Smith 1:08
Great Lakes huh?

Bob Smith 1:10
Yeah,

Marcia Smith 1:11
well, now I’m confused. I

Bob Smith 1:13
was very surprised to learn this. Tell me Mackinac Island really well. We’ve been there together Mackinac Island, which is now a state park in Michigan. After Congress created Yellowstone in 1872. Senator Thomas Berry introduced legislation to create a second Park on Michigan’s Mackinac Island, located in the waters connecting Lake Huron and Lake Michigan. So it’s in the straits between the two peninsulas of Michigan. And of course, that was a historic park. What was there before it was a national park? I

Marcia Smith 1:44
don’t know. Well,

Bob Smith 1:45
it was a British fort. Okay. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 1:47
that’s right. We saw that too.

Bob Smith 1:48
Actually, there was a French for it first, then the British took it across the ice from Northern Michigan to the island, and the soldiers stationed at Fort Mackinac could act as caretakers. So the park would cost almost nothing. That was the way the Congressman thought of it. And so after two years of campaigning, President Ulysses Grant created the Makkonen National Park, the second park in the country on March 3 1875. Now, so what went wrong? Well, they decided we better fix this fort because it’s kind of falling apart. It had been used in a long time. So they fix that. And then people started wanting tourist cabins and stuff on there. So they let people start building cabins, and they built roads on it. And finally, the War Department said this shouldn’t be our expense anymore. That’s right. We don’t even need this island anymore. The government chose to close fort Macedon as a cost saving measure. In 1895. The last soldiers transferred from there they left. So the War Department said well, let’s just close it off and sell the land. And that was an uproar after that, as you can imagine. So then the state government took it over and turned it into a state park and it’s been a state park ever since. Wow. I had no idea. Basically, there’s no cars or anything added and

Marcia Smith 3:00
that’s the cool part. Cars are not allowed on Mackinac Island. We stayed at a place up there, the famous Grand Hotel and only thing you heard were horse hooves. That’s right. It was very

Bob Smith 3:11
cool horses and buggies. And it’s yes, it’s a great place. But it was originally the second national park of the United States.

Marcia Smith 3:18
And that’s where they filmed some place in time. A romantic movie travel movie with Christopher Reeve.

Bob Smith 3:26
That’s right. They had actually a room in that hotel dedicated to that film. And they showed it every night. Yes. All right. So you’ve got an interesting question. Well,

Marcia Smith 3:33
actually, it’s part of a who. Whoa, okay. And that’s the first question to this. More than 16 million men Bob alive today are related to this guy. Who is 16

Bob Smith 3:48
million men are related to this guy and deserve some kind of birth control experiment. Oh,

Marcia Smith 3:55
no, he was just shall we say, promiscuous? Okay, was it Casanova? No. second clue. His original name is to motion

Bob Smith 4:05
to move, Jen. Yeah. Alright. So you got 16 million people related to this guy. So is this person Asian? Yes.

Marcia Smith 4:11
Okay, next next clue. Okay, when he wasn’t having sex, he was a bloodthirsty tyrant.

Bob Smith 4:19
Oh my goodness. gangers. Carter, is a gang is really

Marcia Smith 4:23
good for you. He died in 1227, around 65 years of age, and everyone involved in his burial was slaughtered so no one would know where he was buried. That’s right. I remember that story. Kangaskhan was one of history’s most feared and brutal warriors who established what Empire the Mongol

Bob Smith 4:42
Empire That’s right, which was actually the largest from a landmass standpoint empire in the world.

Marcia Smith 4:49
So that’s Kangas 60 million men alive today. carry his

Bob Smith 4:54
genes are on the zone. Oh geez. That’s amazing. Wonder where they came up with that. That’s interesting. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 5:00
they had a very big chart every late night. Yes, yeah.

Bob Smith 5:04
And they went all the way into Europe so you know, Kyiv and other places and he

Marcia Smith 5:08
was busy along the way. Very busy man.

Bob Smith 5:09
All right. What creature has eyes the size of soccer balls on land? The animal with the largest eyes is the ostrich. But according to britannica.com, this sea creature has the biggest eyes of all in the animal kingdom to put not an octopus. The word colossal is in its name

Marcia Smith 5:30
colossal platypus know how

Bob Smith 5:34
the colossal squid Oh yeah, it has the largest eyes of any animal roughly the size of soccer balls.

Marcia Smith 5:41
Within this is amazing, isn’t it

Bob Smith 5:45
is iser as big as soccer balls, but its pupils are three and a half or four inches wide. Wow. So the colossal squid live 1000s of feet underwater and their large eyes. Allow them to collect as much light as possible down there. Wouldn’t that be scary? Just to see with eyes the size of soccer balls? Oh, my goodness. Yes. Okay. Maybe it would be a whale, you know? Yeah. But no, it’s the colossal squid cache.

Marcia Smith 6:10
All right, quickie. That first known radio commercial, Bob, this is your wheelhouse? Oh, I think I know this aired in 1922. For Hawthorne Court Apartments in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York. And New York station. WEAF. How long was that commercial?

Bob Smith 6:28
There was an hour long talk, wasn’t it? No. Oh, no,

Marcia Smith 6:32
no, not that long. Was it? Five minutes? No. Okay. What was it 10 to 15 minutes. They can’t decide which one? They don’t have a recording of it. Now. They don’t. Yeah, there’s still disagreement about how long it was. It didn’t air that long, because finally they thought we should make this shorter.

Bob Smith 6:47
Well, you know, it was a paid talk is what it was.

Marcia Smith 6:51
Oh, yeah. They have those infomercials today. They’re a half hour.

Bob Smith 6:54
It’s like a little program and it was about a real estate opportunity in New York City. Hawthorn

Marcia Smith 6:58
car department.

Bob Smith 7:00
Sounds good.

Marcia Smith 7:01
Let’s go. You want another radio question? Sure. The last two scripted shows from the Golden Age of radio ended in 1962 and signed off for the last time both on CBS what were

Bob Smith 7:14
that they were Gun Smoke and Have Gun Will Travel. No.

Marcia Smith 7:17
Wrong on both. The detective series yours truly Johnny dollar. Okay. Yeah, that went off the air and that had begun in 1949. And the other one was suspense. Okay, well,

Bob Smith 7:29
the other two did end the same year, I believe two so it says these were the last teaser last two. But the Westerns also went that long. So we were listening to those when we were little kids. I never heard Oh, I heard the radio shows. I when I was a kid, I didn’t know they were on because we would drive back from my grandparents place in southern Ohio to where we lived in northern Ohio or in Michigan. So could be you know, anywhere from a four to six hour drive. And if it was Sunday evening, when we usually came home from the weekend visit there would be half Gun Will Travel or Gunsmoke are these shows and I love listening to those

Marcia Smith 8:03
I never heard old radio shows until we got married and we listened to them as a an amusement.

Bob Smith 8:09
Oh, till I introduced them to you. Oh, how lucky we bought how lucky that you met me?

Marcia Smith 8:14
We did. And you bought them on cassettes. That’s right. And before that they were unreal. Unreal. And our children are very fond of old radio shows because of it. Yeah,

Bob Smith 8:23
they grew up listening to those two okay, because it was safer than television watching TV.

Marcia Smith 8:28
Got that right. Okay, Bob going Hey, Marcia. This

Bob Smith 8:30
is interesting. What ancient civilizations engineering helps to produce hydro electric power today. 2300 years later.

Marcia Smith 8:41
What was the question? What is the country

Bob Smith 8:43
what ancient civilizations engineering? Yes, Rome. What was the kind of engineering that what did they build aqueducts? Well, I would have thought that too. But actually, they were also in the waterfall business believes.

Marcia Smith 8:54
You mean like water features in your backyard. This is bigger

Bob Smith 8:59
than that. The Roman engineers built a 541 foot tall waterfall, the tallest artificial waterfall on Earth at cascata del McMurray in Italy. And guess what? The waterfall is still falling? Yeah, it was built, built in 271 BC. What happened was their local Roman consul there he wanted a construction of a canal because there was a river atop a hill and it had channeled into stagnant waters, and it was creating harmful swampy areas. So they decided let’s get that water to flow over the cliff and fall into the river below another river below.

Marcia Smith 9:34
That was my question. Why did they do that? Yes, it

Bob Smith 9:37
was the Valina river above and the Nero river below so the Roman engineers who were the best in the world at the time, got the canal finished and a 541 foot waterfall tumbled into existence. Guess what it’s still tumbling still useful for different Pope’s over the centuries have fixed that because you know, maintenance was required on these canals rebuild or replace the canals and by the 19 set venturi it was harnessed to power steel mills in nearby Terni, Italy. And today, the water headed for the Falls produces hydroelectric power for the entire region. That’s why the full flow of water is managed, it’s only released certain times of the day for scenic purposes. Really, the waterfall is that that’s funny from 11am to one and from four to six, but the rest of the time the water from the upper canal is diverted to the galletto hydroelectric power plant built a century ago in 1929. So that’s how Roman engineering in the goon broad region of Central Italy helps to produce hydroelectric power today. 2300 years later.

Marcia Smith 10:38
That’s amazing, isn’t it? Yeah. When you think about it, and the pictures of

Bob Smith 10:42
it are beautiful tumbling over this. It’s like coming out of the woods and tumbling. Oh, really? Yeah. It’s got two or three levels. It’s gorgeous.

Marcia Smith 10:49
Okay, Bob, what is the world’s largest living structure? Why

Bob Smith 10:54
the world’s largest living structure? Now? Why would be a living structure? Something made out of bamboo or something like

Marcia Smith 11:01
that? No.

Bob Smith 11:02
The largest living structure. So it was this something people have created? Nope. Okay, so God created this. Yeah, living Sure. It’s like a huge living plant or

Marcia Smith 11:13
a natural thing. A tree? A large tree? No bigger than that.

Bob Smith 11:18
Bigger than a tree and it’s the world’s largest live okay, I give what is it? Okay. It’s the

Marcia Smith 11:23
Great Barrier Reef. Oh, of course, situated off the coast of Australia. It stretches for 1429 miles over an area of approximately 133,000 square miles. Isn’t that hard to believe? So it’s that big and it’s living? It’s

Bob Smith 11:39
a lot of people think it’s not living. It’s coral. But coral is alive. Yeah, because it

Marcia Smith 11:43
can die. And that’s what they’re worried about today that pollution is killing it off. Wow.

Bob Smith 11:48
I never thought of that. And you know, you said structure. So I’m thinking above ground of course, of course, but it’s below the surface of the sea. Wow. All right, Marcia, our romance languages called that because they’re the language of love. Oh, how did Romance languages get their name? Ganga Genghis Khan didn’t write. No, he didn’t use the Romans. Now this is in Europe, of course, because it’s just

Marcia Smith 12:13
more pleasing to the ear. It’s more sexy. It’s more romantic sounding than what I would have thought say the guttural languages. German, German

Bob Smith 12:22
and Anglo Saxon. It’s not like those. Yeah. So why the word Romans indicates their tie to Rome and the Roman Republic. No kidding. Romans means of Rome. I didn’t know that. The romance languages actually all come from Vulgar Latin, meaning common or colloquial Latin. So it’s Latin of the common people. The upper classes used Classical Latin. So not only is it not romantic, it’s common. It’s common language of common people. So what are these languages derived from the Roman Republic? Can you tell me what they include?

Marcia Smith 12:55
Well, there’s French, Italian, right? And others.

Bob Smith 13:00
What others? You tell me Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian. They’re the national languages of countries whose lands were once under Roman control. Okay, during the Roman Republic, now, England was under control of Rome. But English is not a Romance language. It’s an Anglo Saxon, like you said Germanic origin. Romans Lang languages share similar vocabularies and grammatical forms, but none of it means romance. Okay. So much for that. Broken Dreams. Time. Maybe it’s time for a break.

Marcia Smith 13:31
I think it’s breaking. I’m a little upset. So

Bob Smith 13:33
let’s just take a break. We’ll be back in just a moment. Where are we? Well, maybe you’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith. We’re back romance is in the air. It is you’re listening to Bob and Marcia Smith. We do this show the off ramp for the Cedarburg, Public Library Cedarburg, Wisconsin every week. It airs on their internet radio station. And then after that, it goes on podcast platforms all over the world. That’s right. Okay. Marcia, what

Marcia Smith 14:02
you got there? Well, Tolstoy, Bob. Okay. And what’s his famous book?

Bob Smith 14:07
Leo Tolstoy? Yeah. The one about the War of 1812.

Marcia Smith 14:11
Is that War and Peace? Yeah. Yes. The answer is yes.

Bob Smith 14:15
Okay.

Marcia Smith 14:16
How many words do you think are in this just a ballpark?

Bob Smith 14:19
That is a huge book. Even in paperback? It’s like it’s thick thick as a brick. Yeah. I don’t know hundreds of words. I don’t know how many hundreds of just take a ball 199,000 words

Marcia Smith 14:30
out Yeah, well, that’s a lot 587,287 words Good lord over a half a million words. And have you ever read it? I’ve read parts of it. Yeah, me too.

Bob Smith 14:43
And I’ve seen the movies.

Marcia Smith 14:46
But no, I never got through it either. And you know what people including me always said that Russia novels have what too many characters right get all these long Russian names and you think Who the heck is that

Bob Smith 14:57
got confused by it? Very. Okay. So how many characters are there? And War and Peace?

Marcia Smith 15:02
How many, you think?

Bob Smith 15:03
Oh my goodness. Well, so many characters plots and subplots over 100 characters? I don’t know

Marcia Smith 15:09
there are there’s 559 characters. Oh

Bob Smith 15:13
my goodness. That’s amazing. What a work of art. Oh, holy cow. I

Marcia Smith 15:17
mean like it. He didn’t like he didn’t like the book at all. He wasn’t a fan. He said that, quote, people love me for those trifling things like war and peace, etc, which seemed to them to be very important.

Bob Smith 15:30
We’ll Leo who knew what was in Leo’s mind.

Marcia Smith 15:34
I think it almost killed him because it took him so long to write it. How long did it take six years? Wow, six, one of the reason he wasn’t a huge fan of the book. And

Bob Smith 15:44
he kind of considered it a narrative instead of a novel, I guess. Yeah, yeah. He was. It was a history of what the invasion of Russia by Napoleon. That was the big, big mistake Napoleon made was getting that far away from France, you know, with all of his supply lines, and most of his men died from that. He had hundreds of 1000s of people there and came back with a fraction of the people because the Russians put up such a fight. All right, okay, Marsha, why do certain professionals specifically soldiers, teachers and nurses disappear weekends during harvest time in a certain Central Asian country, because

Marcia Smith 16:18
all the kids and stuff are working, and there’s no work because everybody’s out in the fields

Bob Smith 16:25
while they’re working? They’re working in the fields harvesting, who is the teachers and teachers, the nurses and the soldiers because the country Turkmenistan, a central Asian nation is authoritarian. It’s one of the biggest cotton producers it’s run by an authoritarian government. And every year during harvest time, the Turkmenistan government requires its students, teachers, nurses, soldiers and other state employees to work the cotton fields each weekend during harvest time this is going on now. This goes on all the time. Wow. And that’s why the teachers, nurses, soldiers and students disappear on weekends in Turkmenistan. They’re in the fields picking cotton. Okay, what’s next? Considered

Marcia Smith 17:04
one of the most successful April Fool’s Day prank of all time, Bob. Oh, it happened on the BBC. In 1957, our popular and very serious newscaster narrated video footage of a Swiss Family trying to rescue our crop from trees after a killing frost. What was the crop? What

Bob Smith 17:28
was the crop crop? Oh, I didn’t I knew that one of the they used to do this on radio BBC also one day so there is there is no news today. And then they just played music. But this is a family they must be like

Marcia Smith 17:41
I do I got I saw a video these

Bob Smith 17:44
Easter eggs or something they’re harvesting in the

Marcia Smith 17:46
tree. It’s spaghetti.

Bob Smith 17:49
Spaghetti Tree Of course. All

Marcia Smith 17:51
these this whole family out there in full costume taking strands of spaghetti from the killing frost as a great prank is in 1957 they convince a whole lot of viewers that spaghetti grew on trees in Switzer. Oh,

Bob Smith 18:08
that’s hilarious in Switzerland. Place. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Marcia, a weather question. Yes. On average, what is the wettest month of the year in the United States? Is it is it August? Yeah. June, April, March, November, April.

Marcia Smith 18:23
It’s June. In the United States. Yeah, I

Bob Smith 18:27
didn’t know this. April is known for its precipitation, right. April showers bring May flowers. But rain in June tends to be much more prolonged than any other month in the United States.

Marcia Smith 18:38
I didn’t know that. Yeah, I didn’t either. I wouldn’t have guessed that.

Bob Smith 18:41
I think of sunshine when I think of June. Okay, here’s something.

Marcia Smith 18:43
Did you know Bob that 25 Or half of our 50 state names trace their origins to Native American words.

Bob Smith 18:52
Wow. 25. So half the stats are named from Native American names.

Marcia Smith 18:57
How many can you name Bob? Oh,

Bob Smith 18:58
let me go. I think Wisconsin is one correct it’s a French phonetic zation let’s put it that way.

Marcia Smith 19:06
Most of them are we spell it WIS but it’s Oh,

Bob Smith 19:09
you is Wisconsin. That’s where it came from? Illinois. That was from a tribe the Illinois tribe I direct. I don’t know if Indiana is or

Marcia Smith 19:18
not. It is not Michigan,

Bob Smith 19:21
I think was a tribal name. It is. Minnesota. Definitely. A lot of these names you could say are alright, so I’ve given you like five there. Let’s see. Now Washington, Oregon, Idaho. Wow. I’m trying to Oh, Dakota is the both of the Dakota. Yes, of course. Dakota tribes got to there. I’m trying to think oh, I think Mississippi is one correct. Let me see. Ohio I believe is an Indian name. That is correct. Okay. And let’s see. What else Alabama?

Marcia Smith 19:52
Yes. That was a tribe,

Bob Smith 19:55
Oklahoma. Texas. Texas is Oklahoma isn’t

Marcia Smith 19:59
what did say Texas Yes, correct, Arizona?

Bob Smith 20:02
Yes. What are the rest? Alaska,

Marcia Smith 20:05
Arkansas, Connecticut, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Missouri, Nebraska, Tennessee, Utah and Wyoming. Wow,

Bob Smith 20:18
all of those plus the ones I mentioned. Yeah. Native American name. Yeah. Well, that’s great that that heritage

Marcia Smith 20:23
is lasting. They don’t want to get rid of them like they did the football names and baseball names. Yeah. Right. Well, it’s

Bob Smith 20:30
good to have that.

Marcia Smith 20:31
I think so. I think it’s a great tribute to the people live there. The part where we took away their land.

Bob Smith 20:37
That’s true. All right, Marcia. Speaking of names, here’s a name question for you. Okay. Where did the Labradoodle originate?

Marcia Smith 20:45
Oh, the breed was a Brexit in France.

Bob Smith 20:49
Was it in France? No, no.

Marcia Smith 20:52
Was it in Labrador? No,

Bob Smith 20:55
no. Isn’t Australia? Oh, was it? Yeah, this is kind of funny. Okay, okay. According to The New York Times in the 1980s, an Australian dog breeder bred a Labrador Retriever with a poodle to create the first Labra poodle. For what it’s worth in 2019. He expressed regret saying he believed he’d released a Frankenstein monster, because there’s so many of them now. Oh, yeah. They’re all over the place. They have actually a big gathering of them. In England. There’s a picture of one of those big old houses like the one in Downton Abbey and the yard is full of these dogs. They gather from all over the world.

Marcia Smith 21:30
They don’t shed so people really liked it. But the there’s still a high mixed breed and they used to be more skittish. I think some of them are calming down. Well,

Bob Smith 21:39
this comes from an article titled The worst hiccups of all time. So yeah, considered a hiccup in history. Oh, really? Yeah.

Marcia Smith 21:46
Is that a bad thing?

Bob Smith 21:47
I think you would suggest it is I don’t know.

Marcia Smith 21:49
Well, I don’t know. Everybody loves their doodles. And some are just lovely. Somebody are nice. They have a nice disposition. Mostly. Some of them are a bit high strung but that’s from the poodle strain, you know? Yeah. And they’re adorable. Just like you, Bob. Okay, thank you Marsh time for who

Bob Smith 22:06
am I? Oh, woke me up again. Okay, there we go. All right,

Marcia Smith 22:11
this guy. He was one of America’s most active abolitionist. He was publisher of the abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator. And he was founder of the American anti slavery society. He worked his whole life to end slavery and saw his goal realized at the end of the Civil War. Who am I

Bob Smith 22:31
was it Horace Greeley. Now, okay, who was it? It was

Marcia Smith 22:35
William Lloyd Garrison. That’s

Bob Smith 22:37
the guy who was thinking those are like the two big names in 19th century publishing. Well, and you got Pulitzer in there too. But yeah, those are the two big Crusaders. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 22:46
I didn’t realize that he did. Okay, very good. Well, you were close.

Bob Smith 22:50
I was close, but no cigar. That’s correct. All right, Marcia, what modern weapon of war was named after a sea creature. Here’s a weapon of war, named after a sea creature. I had no idea this was related to that. Or really, let’s put it this way. It is used by the Navy used by the Navy and

Marcia Smith 23:09
a missile, a submarine some kind of sub submarine

Bob Smith 23:14
missile, what would be a submarine missile? What would you call those things? guy starts with a tea

Marcia Smith 23:20
or tour P torpedo or you go cheese.

Bob Smith 23:26
All right. The animal today known as the electric ray was known to the ancient Greeks and Romans as num fish for the effect of their electrical discharges, they can attack from below and shock and numb its victims into submission. The electric array was also known as a torpedo. That’s its Latin name, which comes from the same route as to a poor meeting sluggishness or lethargy, like after being stung, you know. So the torpedo gave its name to the underwater weapon, the torpedo, which also attacks in stealth, that’s where it came from.

Marcia Smith 23:58
I’ll be darned. Okay, before I get to my quote, to end the day, I bought a new game Bob called AKA, also known as Oh, very good. Yes. And I thought it’d be family fun. We do love our words. I’m going to give you a category. And the category is types of nuts. Okay. And they also known as it’s called veggie and A pod, what kind of nut am I talking about? Types of

Bob Smith 24:23
nuts? Veggie in a pod? Yeah. Nuts, veggie and a pod. I’m thinking of peas or something like that. Is that right?

Marcia Smith 24:31
If your peanut peanuts, right, okay. Okay. You get it category is nuts. Okay, gotcha. Okay. Candy Bar, Joy. Almond Joy. Yeah, but it’s an almond nut. Almond nut, right. Yeah. Okay. greenish brown eyes. Hazelnuts. That’s right. Okay. Rio de Janeiro country. Rio de Janeiro

Bob Smith 24:51
country. Brazilian nuts. Brazil nuts. Okay.

Marcia Smith 24:55
I don’t know if you’ll get this Star Trek’s Chris. Chris Pine

Bob Smith 24:59
Ebionites Chris Pine plays the cap William Shatner’s doing good. torso. Torso means Body Body nuts. Oh, I’m sorry. That’s dangerous. Torso torso nuts. I don’t know what that would be. Well

Marcia Smith 25:14
what is your torso?

Bob Smith 25:16
Your chest nuts. Okay. Okay, and the last one that needed a visual held your hand across your chest, chest Okay, this

Marcia Smith 25:26
one is the last one and how I didn’t know breast notes was

Bob Smith 25:29
type of type of nut Okay. Okay. And finally so the

Marcia Smith 25:34
final knot is m plus education. M

Bob Smith 25:38
plus education. Medication nuts, medication nuts. Don’t know that one.

Marcia Smith 25:44
Macadamia nuts, academic academia macadamia. Oh, that’s

Bob Smith 25:52
pretty funny. Okay, I got it now. Okay, here’s

Marcia Smith 25:55
something that category is Major League Baseball teams. Like if I said beer makers, the answer would be Milwaukee Brewers. That’s it. I will do them fast. Okay. Baby bears. Baby bear the Cubs right Chicago Cubs software Steelers. The software Steelers.

Bob Smith 26:16
Pittsburgh Pirates. Yes, it draft avoiders draft avoiders draft avoiders, Dodgers. Yes, the Dodgers

Marcia Smith 26:24
Very good. Hi Roman Catholic officials. The Cardinals said St. Louis okay, I’m all except you probably won’t get this. Okay. Maybe you will. Charles and Romano? What? Charles and Romano Charles and Romano their names some famous people. Romano. I don’t know, the race is the Tampa Bay Rays. And that’s Ray Romano and Ray Charles. Oh, okay. So you got them all except for the race.

Bob Smith 26:53
Okay, that’s good. It’s from the game called also known as aka. Okay, gotcha. That’s great. Thank you so much. Alright, here’s

Marcia Smith 27:00
a quote from a guy named les Dawson. He said families are like fudge. Mostly sweet with a few nets.

Bob Smith 27:12
Okay, in our family, who’s the net? That’s the question, Bob, I don’t want to hurt Okay, that’s it. That’s an all. You’ve been listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marcia Smith. We hope you’ll join us again next time when we return with more fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia here on the off ramp.

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