228 Topical Tropical Trivia

Bob Smith 0:00
What world famous city once had a future superheroes name? The city was called Batman. Really? Yes. Why

Marcia Smith 0:08
were trainers in the original Olympic Games required to attend in the nude?

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

Welcome to the off ramp, a chance to slow down steer clear of crazy and take a side road to Saturday with fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia. Well, Marcia, what world famous city once had the name Batman? Really? It’s

Marcia Smith 0:53
not in America. No, it’s

Bob Smith 0:55
not in the United States. It is in the English speaking world. That’s

Marcia Smith 0:59
the way I’ll put it. Is it England?

Bob Smith 1:01
No, it’s not an England Australia. Yes, it

Marcia Smith 1:04
is. Okay, and it would be Melbourne.

Bob Smith 1:07
That’s exactly right. Of

Marcia Smith 1:08
course it is. And I have no idea why it is. Modern

Bob Smith 1:12
day Melbourne, Australia’s second largest city after Sydney was briefly named for John Batman. Oh, that’s fine. He founded the city in 1835. So you can say Batman founded the city. Other names used to describe the settlement at the time included Neram Neram, and bare breasts B E AR BRFSS. Okay, so Batman’s not bad when you consider those are the other options. But in 1837 Governor Richard Bork renamed the city after British Prime Minister William Lamb who was the second Viscount of Melbourne but originally Melbourne Australia was Batman Australia

Marcia Smith 1:50
I’ll be that that’s that’s very interesting. Okay Bob why were trainers in the original Olympic Games required to attend in the nude

Bob Smith 1:59
this is back in ancient Greece we’re talking yeah didn’t they do the activities in the nude. They ran in the nude they wrestled in the nude. They did everything in the nude. It’s kind of a nude event.

Marcia Smith 2:08
I don’t know I can’t answer that a nude and lewd is that nude in lewd event they might have in the beginning. Then they got to close. I don’t know the whole background Bob. But I do have about why the trainers had to show up nude. Why did they have to show up because they have the women won that was to stop women from sneaking into the competitions from which they were banned. Oh, no kidding. Yes. It has happened because one woman which I call today’s soccer mom attended an event disguised as her son’s trainer. Thereafter, the new ruling was brought in so they could make sure that the trainer was legitimately a male.

Bob Smith 2:48
Isn’t that funny?

Marcia Smith 2:52
Wanting to see her son compete and sneaking in as a guy and then the

Bob Smith 2:57
stripper apart and go you are a woman? No. I

Marcia Smith 2:59
have no Dingle dangle. Okay, let’s

Bob Smith 3:03
move on. Marsha. This is an interesting question. And it was brought to me by our listeners Jeff and Margaret Burrell of Kansas City. Okay. You know, recently we featured several stories about underground cities. We went all the way back to Turkey and some other ancient cities. Here’s a new one. What world capital has a vast underground city built as a massive bomb shelter in case of nuclear war? Now before you answer, it was not built because it was feared there would be a war between Russia and the US. What is the city? The city that build a massive underground?

Marcia Smith 3:39
Is it in the Mideast? No, it’s not. Paris?

Bob Smith 3:44
Nope, not Paris.

Marcia Smith 3:45
London.

Bob Smith 3:46
I’ll give you this clue. Thank you. The war had anticipated a nuclear war was a sino Soviet war. Do you remember the term sino being used for China? That’s right. So it’s Beijing. They anticipated a war between Communist China and the Soviet Union because as you remembered, unlike now where they’re kissing cousins, back in the day, they were at each other’s throats. Yeah, Communist China and the Soviet Union were at each other’s throats, even though they were both communist regimes, and it was feared that they’re going to come to blows. And so an underground city Covering 33 square miles under Beijing was built. This was at the ordering of Chairman Mao Tse tune. He ordered this massive underground bomb shelter be built and they hit 300,000 workers not this isn’t just any bomb shelter like you imagine, you know, like just concrete walls and then toilet paper rolls. And you know, the underground city was designed to withstand nuclear, biochemical and conventional attacks and it was equipped with restaurants, clinics, schools, theaters, factories, a roller skating rink, teeth, grain and oil warehouses at a mushroom cultivation farm. Why they needed that I don’t know

Marcia Smith 4:54
well stir fry. Oh, okay.

Bob Smith 4:57
Well today on busy streets, some portions of the Comp blacks can still be found as cheap hotels, small shopping and business centers. Even theaters at one point it was a tourist attraction. In 2008. The government opened it up and they were showing off parts.

Marcia Smith 5:09
I was gonna ask what is it today? It’s just a tourist still a tourist,

Bob Smith 5:13
it’s still there. It’s still underground, 33 acres of it and it’s like anywhere from 29 to 60 feet underground underneath all of downtown Beijing. You can still find 90 entrances to this all hidden in shops along the main streets of Chi Minh, they thought that they would be able to bring 6 million people

Marcia Smith 5:30
down that’s my question. How many would fit 6 million 6 million people? Oh god underground together. I guess I’d stay up at top. Apparently you

Bob Smith 5:39
can still find places down there where chambers are labeled with their original functions. There’s also directional signs to the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, and portraits of Nazi tone can be seen on the walls, I’m sure everywhere. So thanks again for our listeners, Jeff Burrell and Margaret Burrell of Kansas City for tipping us off to that Jeff read about it in a adventure novel that was mentioned.

Marcia Smith 6:00
Oh yeah. All right on from the profound to the banal. Okay. What candy Bob offers flavors that include rotten egg, liver and onions stinkbug and dirty dishwashers.

Bob Smith 6:15
Is it Jelly Bellies is

Unknown Speaker 6:16
that you know,

Bob Smith 6:17
that’s the candy that Ronald Reagan I like the Jelly Bellies that Jelly Belly jelly beans, it was the name of the company and so he used to order those and I know they had all kinds of incredible flavors. Yes, still do apparently. All right.

Marcia Smith 6:30
Jelly Belly as part of the Bean Boozled line Jelly Belly added rotten eggs to its list of flavors along such stomach Turner’s as liver and onion stinkbug and dirty dishwasher why

Bob Smith 6:42
would you want any of those flavors

Marcia Smith 6:43
each looks identical to a normal Jelly Belly and there’s no way to know which you’ve gotten until taking a bite

Bob Smith 6:51
she’s what are they again? What

Marcia Smith 6:53
are these flavors rotten egg liver and onion stinkbug and dirty dishwasher which

Bob Smith 6:58
one of those you want to try days

Marcia Smith 6:59
law ways

Bob Smith 7:00
of all those the dirty dishwasher sounds the best? I don’t want to stinkbug I don’t want Oh my goodness. years ago you could never have named anything like that and it would have been successful. I

Marcia Smith 7:11
imagine the kids by this I don’t know the world is turned upside down. It’s gone to hell in a handbasket. Okay

Bob Smith 7:17
Marsh All right. city names again Marsh I got other city names. Okay talked about Batman, Batman, Australia. Yeah. Now Melbourne. What famous European cities name means to throw a hand to throw a hand.

Marcia Smith 7:31
I’ll say off hand Germany, offhand.

Bob Smith 7:34
Antwerp in Belgium. According to legend, a giant named Drew on Dru O N drawn and ticketless once guarded the Scheldt river he demanded tolls from sailors and cut off the hands of any who couldn’t pay sounds fair. Roman soldier Silvius Bravo took on the giant he repaid the favor. He tossed the Giants huge hand in the water. Giving Belgium second largest city the name Antwerp. It literally means to throw a hand. Ah,

Marcia Smith 8:03
I’ll be done.

Bob Smith 8:03
I thought Antwerp had something to do with insects. That was wrong. Okay, Bob,

Marcia Smith 8:08
here’s three George Washington chuckles see if you can guess the answers. Okay. All right. What far reaching decision did George Washington have to make about how to cross the Delaware?

Bob Smith 8:21
What far reaching decisions to make about crossing the Delaware? Well, if the if the water had too much ice in it because it was an icy night? Uh huh. If the chips the I don’t

Marcia Smith 8:35
know. This is a joke. Don’t Oh, okay. I’m

Bob Smith 8:36
sorry. Tell me. You’re

Marcia Smith 8:38
looking too seriously at it. Looking

Bob Smith 8:40
at it history here. Let me see. Pull out the Washington file. What far

Marcia Smith 8:44
reaching decision did George Washington have to make about how to cross the Delaware? Obviously, Roe versus Wade. Oh.

Bob Smith 8:56
Oh, no, that’s

Marcia Smith 8:57
terrible. Okay, number two. Oh

Bob Smith 9:00
my god. Did they get worse or better?

Marcia Smith 9:02
You decide, oh, they’re having bad teeth. What did our first president wear in his mouth? Okay, I don’t know. The George Washington Bridge. Oh,

Bob Smith 9:12
no. Oh, it’s even getting worse. And there’s one more Yes.

Marcia Smith 9:16
Okay. Thank God. Yeah. If George Washington were alive today, Bob, why couldn’t he throw a silver dollar across the Potomac?

Bob Smith 9:24
Why couldn’t he I don’t know. Marcia, why couldn’t George Washington if he were alive today throw his silver dollar across the Potomac because

Marcia Smith 9:31
the dollar doesn’t go as far as it used.

Bob Smith 9:34
Of course not. Okay.

Marcia Smith 9:35
My favorite though there versus wait there groaners,

Bob Smith 9:38
Mark. Yeah, no, really?

Marcia Smith 9:40
I like I like it. Okay,

Bob Smith 9:42
Marcia got some fun facts. You know, we think of the late 60s and early 70s as a pretty hip time. Primarily because you and I lived through kind of say says who? But you wonder Was it really that way? Was it really a cool, fun, creative era? Well, here’s some evidence that they were indeed groovy times. All right. These are actual names of colors offered to owners of Ford Maverick cars in 1969 through 1975. Listen carefully these colors and the puns for the marketing humor Marcia. The colors not blue, but Hulu blue who love blue. Blue who is a red shade called thanks, vermillion. Here’s another one. A golden paint called Freudian guilt. Gi Lt. Oh, that’s funny. This is my favorite. Remember this was during the Vietnam War, a shade of green called anti establish mint. Those are all they were actually official colors for Ford Mavericks from 1969 to 1975. And two bad Ioannidis Chevy Vega. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 10:47
Did they actually sell those? I mean, the people buy them. They were in

Bob Smith 10:50
the catalog. Wow. So that was a pretty hip time to live. That’s from britannica.com.

Marcia Smith 10:54
Okay, Bob, in the first half of the 18th century mapmakers called The Great American Desert, the land west of the Mississippi uninhabitable.

Bob Smith 11:04
What was it? What was the uninhabitable? The Great American Desert. Was it the Grand Canyon? Nope. All right, was a Death Valley? No. Was it the Great Plains, which is the breadbasket of the

Marcia Smith 11:16
world? Yeah, they said it was uninhabitable. The map makers on inhabitable two thirds of the Indians west of the Mississippi lived in this Great American Desert now known as the Great Plains, including the Sioux, the Blackfoot, Cheyenne, crow, Arapaho, Pawnee, Ki, whoa, patchy and Comanche. These migratory people depended on what for a living the buffalo. That’s right. Yeah, they bombed the Great Plains back in the day. So there you have it.

Bob Smith 11:43
Well, it was certainly inhabitable and became barely the place where all of the grain and corn in America came from most

Marcia Smith 11:51
of it, I guess, so that mapmakers had it wrong on that? Yes, they did.

Bob Smith 11:55
Well, that happens a lot. You know, especially if you’ve never been there. You take somebody else’s word for it. Oh, that’s just a desert. Okay, well, right desert across here. Yep, that’s the investigation. Okay, Marsha. We talked about Hawaii a couple of shows ago, the island city, considered the most remote urban population on Earth was Honolulu. Right. Okay, it’s composed of eight major islands. How many people live in Hawaii?

Marcia Smith 12:20
Oh, all the eight how many altogether? 5 million people?

Bob Smith 12:25
Nope, it’s not that many. It’s only 1.4. Wow. And two thirds live on a Oahu which is home of Honolulu though. How many volcanoes do you think are in Hawaii?

Marcia Smith 12:36
Oh my goodness. 4040. Well, that would be a lot.

Bob Smith 12:39
I have there are 15. Okay. 15 volcanoes, among those eight main islands. Six on the big island alone. Okay. So every once awhile, you hear that one erupting? Well, there’s five others waiting. Okay. And Hawaii has three major geographical distinctions. What are they? I’ll give you one. It’s the only state not on the North American. Mainland or continent. Yeah. Okay. To other distinctions. Marcia?

Marcia Smith 13:07
Not on the mainland surrounded islands.

Bob Smith 13:11
That’s right. It’s the only state that’s an archipelago, which is an island group or an island chain?

Marcia Smith 13:16
Uh huh. And thirdly,

Bob Smith 13:17
it’s the only state. That’s right in the only state in the tropics. That’s right. So that’s the three distinctions I got them right. You finally did. You didn’t get the first one. I had to give you that one. You’re not very giving with praise. All right. Marsha. Eight main islands. But how many altogether? Tell me 137 that comprise the entire Hawaii archipelago.

Marcia Smith 13:40
Now. All right.

Bob Smith 13:41
May I go to the archipelago? Yes, you may.

Marcia Smith 13:44
That’s a good name for a song. That’s right. I go to Okay, Bob, aka also known as it’s time for games. All right. Steven Spielberg movies. So if I say Mesozoic land, Jurassic Park That’s right. Okay. Ready? Yes. Grab me if possible.

Bob Smith 14:05
Grab me if possible. Grab me if possible. What the heck would be

Marcia Smith 14:13
Oberg movie

Bob Smith 14:14
I know I’m thinking I’m thinking I didn’t I forgot he did this move. Grab me if possible. Okay. I don’t know that one. Catch Me If You Can. I didn’t know that. He did that. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 14:23
I forgot that. He did. Okay. Okay. Toy logs.

Bob Smith 14:26
Toy logs, toy logs. Toys. He

Marcia Smith 14:30
did this one to Toy law. famous movie

Bob Smith 14:35
trees something? No. Okay. Well, what

Marcia Smith 14:38
kind of logs do the kids play with their

Bob Smith 14:40
toys? Lincoln Log. That’s it. Lincoln

Marcia Smith 14:42
though. Lincoln.

Bob Smith 14:44
Lincoln. Okay. Okay, well, that was quite a rich. Stellar here buffalo toy logs. Come on. All right, go ahead. Okay,

Marcia Smith 14:51
near meeting number three, near meeting Uh huh. Near meeting if you know all his movies, it’s alright. What is it? Close Encounters. Third time

Bob Smith 15:02
God Yes. Counters near meeting all right. Okay,

Marcia Smith 15:06
battle pony. Battle pony.

Bob Smith 15:09
warhorse? Yes.

Marcia Smith 15:12
This one I like mandibles.

Bob Smith 15:16
That’s jaws. Yeah. This is a mandible is a jaw. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 15:20
Okay. Okay. And the last one. What violet basically is

Bob Smith 15:25
the color purple. That’s got the last few. Yeah, you did. All right. I think I’m gonna take a break now. Okay, I need to rest. Just too much. Too much failure. Take

Marcia Smith 15:34
a little nap here. All right. I’m Bob Smith and Marsha Ceman. Join us

Bob Smith 15:37
in just a moment. We’ll be back after this little nap. I mean, this little break. Oh. Okay, we’re back. We’re back after our break. I did not take a nap just for the record. And 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 internet radio station, Cpl. Radio. Then after that, we put it on podcast platforms, and it’s distributed all over the world. Alright, Marshall, what was the smallest us coin ever minted? I’ve never heard of this one half

Marcia Smith 16:09
Penny, no. The smallest coin in size or in worth in size.

Bob Smith 16:16
You’ve heard of nickels and dimes. Indeed. Have you ever heard of a time? No. It’s called that from 1851 to 1873. The United States Mint had a three cent coin called the tribe T ri M E. They were nicknamed fish scales by people because of their small size. Tribes were 20% Smaller than today’s dimes. So they were pretty tiny. And then they’re about 1/3 of the weight of a dime, so you could easily lose those crimes didn’t last long. 1851 1873 22 years and after that they’re gone. And we’ve never heard about him saying, I never heard I never did either.

Marcia Smith 16:56
Okay. All right, Bob. What happened in March 1925. That killed all but three people in parish Illinois parish. Yeah, P A R I S A and what

Bob Smith 17:10
happened that killed all but three people. Yeah, how many people were there altogether?

Marcia Smith 17:13
500. Oh, my

Bob Smith 17:15
goodness. Was it some kind of a gas leak or some kind of an explosion? Or was it some kind of malarial kind of thing? Where were the water went bad?

Marcia Smith 17:24
Very basic.

Bob Smith 17:25
I have no idea what’s no clues no clues for Bobby. No. I have to give you clues on everything you do. Now I do to

Marcia Smith 17:32
a tornado Bob.

Bob Smith 17:35
What about a tornado? That’s Oh tornado happened

Marcia Smith 17:37
in March 1925. The deadliest tornado to date in the United States left a 300 mile trail of destruction through Missouri, Illinois and Indiana, killing nearly 700 people in a span of about five hours. In DeSoto, Illinois, the rapid change in air pressure as the tornado struck caused us schoolhouse to simply explode. Can you imagine? Among the 500 residents of Parrish, Illinois, only three escaped injury or death. One victim in Princeton, Indiana was found sucked halfway up the chimney in their house. Holy

Bob Smith 18:15
cow. What a freak accident that was. That’s a lot of air pressure. Can

Marcia Smith 18:20
you imagine? Oh

Bob Smith 18:21
my god.

Marcia Smith 18:22
I don’t know how that happens. But that

Bob Smith 18:24
would suck them through the fireplace. Yeah. Holy cow. Yeah. That’s how I know where that town is. That’s near where I went to high school and Lawrence, Princeton, Princeton, Indiana. So up in southern Indiana southern Oh, okay. Okay. Wow. So in the town of Parrish, Illinois, though. Yeah, everybody died. But three people so 497 people died there. Yeah. What a tragedy that would have been wiping out a whole town. Marcia, when did the word money first appear in the English language? Yes. In the English language, the English word money.

Marcia Smith 18:58
moolah. It came from moolah. No, it did not.

Bob Smith 19:03
Okay, was that an anthropological answer from the moolaade? Try? Yes. Yes, I

Marcia Smith 19:07
don’t know. The word money

Bob Smith 19:09
first appeared in the 14th century. So before that time, people didn’t describe money as money. It was derived from the Latin word Monita mo Ne ta or mo Netta. A name given to the Roman goddess Juno at or near whose temple the Romans first began minting coins around 300 BCE. Okay, so that’s where it comes from. Okay, that’s the word now. The Romans and the Turks weren’t the first to use money as an exchange of value. In what modern day country was money first used? You’re not giving me choices. It was a Middle Eastern country. Yeah. What modern day country? Yeah.

Marcia Smith 19:45
Was it turkey? No. Nearby nearby Iraq,

Bob Smith 19:50
Iraq. That’s right. As early as 5000 BCE, the Sumerians in modern day Iraq began to produce silver ingots to be used as a standard Measurement and currency. They also invented the wheel and arithmetic. So they were pretty busy. The Egyptians began using gold as a form of currency about 4000 BCE. But before that time, people were like trading for things. Instead, they didn’t have currency per se. So we’ve had currency for some 7000 odd years. Mostly odd.

Marcia Smith 20:21
Bob, do you know the difference between the internet and the web,

Bob Smith 20:25
the World Wide Web is a part of the Internet. The Internet is a all of the networks connected together. But the World Wide Web is what we go on for the entertainment and the benefits and all of the things we do for commerce and all of that. So the World Wide Web rests within the internet.

Marcia Smith 20:42
Very good. In other words, the internet is the invisible infrastructure that supports all the wonders of the world wide web? That’s correct. Because most people use them interchangeably. Yeah, incorrectly.

Bob Smith 20:54
Yeah. And there’s a lot of the internet you don’t see or ever use. So yes.

Marcia Smith 20:58
A popular analogy to describe the difference between the two is to picture the internet as a system of highways and the web as the objects you see on those highways. So is that right, such as buildings, gas stations, or big big 18 wheeler truck app? So what are those? You know how many approximately websites there are on the worldwide web today? No. Take a guess.

Bob Smith 21:21
Okay, I’ll say it’s in the millions. Yes, probably two or 300 million. 2 billion. That’s amazing. It

Marcia Smith 21:28
all started with just one small website in 1991. But in the decades since the web has blossomed into nearly 2 billion as of 2022, and the number of registered websites which we have a few have hit the 1 billion mark in 2014. But it nearly doubled in only eight years. Estimated projections for 2050, the World Wide Web will contain 37 petabytes. a petabyte is a massive unit of data equal to 1 million gigabytes.

Bob Smith 22:02
Okay, Marsha, one more question on Hawaii. As we said it’s isolated. If it is so isolated, how does Hawaii get its power? The water, the water? Yeah,

Marcia Smith 22:12
water, hydro hydro electric. Well, no,

Bob Smith 22:14
you need currents, you need rivers for that. Okay, I don’t know. Hawaii has no large rivers to produce hydropower, and no native oil, natural gas or coal deposits to run power plants. So everything, everything that fuels modern life, in the Hawaiian Islands, everything, petroleum for your cars, boats, planes, oil, coal to run electric power plants has to be imported. And Hawaii is the most fossil fuel dependent state in the United States, more than 80% of the energy for modern life has to be imported to the islands. And 80% of that is imported petroleum and coal. So your carbon footprint is very big in Hawaii. It seems so natural and beautiful. Yeah, but it’s very expensive. Each one of those major islands has power plants, separate power plants, there’s no way to connect them together. They’re hundreds of miles apart. So they’re all self sufficient, but they’re not self sufficient. Because everything that runs the power plants, fossil fuels have to be brought to the Hawaiian Islands by huge barges. It’s amazing that they sustain life in a modern culture there. It is as far apart as it is from everything else.

Marcia Smith 23:24
Bob, what candy was created to help people quit smoking? What candy was helped to was created to help people quit smoking. So

Bob Smith 23:35
there was one of the candies that we eat today was created to help people kids candy. Oh, really? Yeah. It’s not like peppermint or something like that. Well, can you give me any kind of clues? Is there is there a brand name I should be assured of? Well,

Marcia Smith 23:47
the brand name comes from its original name, which was Peffer mints? Which was German. Oh,

Bob Smith 23:54
I know what it is. It’s the candies that have that little dispenser. What is that called?

Marcia Smith 23:59
It’s combs. He took the first middle and last letter is

Bob Smith 24:04
Sam Silverman.

That’s right Pez candy. So Pez candies were originally for people to keep from smoking

Marcia Smith 24:11
the guy who Yeah, decades before doctors began to publicize the harmful effects of cigarettes. A 30 year old Austrian executive decided to invent a refreshing alternative. In 1927 Edward Haas The third was managing his family’s baking good business, the ED Haas company, which it still makes Pez today, when he expanded the product line to include these little round peppermint flavored treats. And like I said, the German word for it was called peppermint. But guess what Americans of the day showed little interest in giving up smoking. So PES pivoted and replace the mint palettes with fruity ones, change the shape and target a new demographic kids. Funny and it’s still owned by the ED Haas company. And

Bob Smith 25:00
those dispensers were made to help smokers and kids use it now. Yeah, it’s so funny. Okay, I do have a couple more questions on Hawaii here.

Marcia Smith 25:07
Okay. All right, I’m

Bob Smith 25:08
using my leftover Hawaii question. All right, how much of Hawaii’s food is imported? Now we know Hawaii produces some agricultural goods, gotcha

Marcia Smith 25:16
pineapples, you gotta check out Ken offI coffee, coconuts. And so

Bob Smith 25:22
what percent of food consumed in Hawaii is imported?

Marcia Smith 25:26
I’ll say 70% 90% 80%. I’ll

Bob Smith 25:30
say Yeah, wow. 90%. Because there’s very few things you can grow there in terms of agriculture. Then even if you have cattle, that’s all imported, right? Yeah. Also, most of Hawaii is volcanic terrain. And that’s not good soil for large scale agricultural products. So So what food does Hawaii import? What are some of the things that they import? What’s the one of the biggest ones? It’s a staple of Hawaiian food? They can grow it there, but not that much. It’s not an animal. No, it’s

Marcia Smith 25:55
not an animal. It is grain, a grain wheat?

Bob Smith 25:59
No rice. Rice is the staple foundation for many of traditional Hawaiian dishes. But the majority of rice is imported. Local meat production is limited. So it imports significant amounts of beef, pork and poultry. And something else they import 100% of it comes from outside of Hawaii. What is it?

Marcia Smith 26:20
What is it?

Bob Smith 26:21
I’ll say the biggest single industry in Hawaii, boos tourists Oh, and 100% of those are imported. Okay, all

Marcia Smith 26:31
right. What bone in your body? Bob Say that three times can support 30 times the weight of your body.

Bob Smith 26:39
What bone in your body can support 30 times the weight? Is it the femur? Yes, very good. That’s supposed to be one of the strongest things in the body.

Marcia Smith 26:47
It’s just like the world’s most important pieces of infrastructure. The femur is over built with safety in mind. Its largest bond and it’s located between the hip and the knee that’s capable of holding up to 30 times your body weight or roughly 6000 pounds. Yes. Can you imagine? Yeah. So that’s,

Unknown Speaker 27:06
that’s a lot.

Marcia Smith 27:07
Yeah, it is. I had no idea. Alright, Marsha

Bob Smith 27:10
more on money. Why were most money in Hawaii? Why were the original banks in temples?

Marcia Smith 27:16
Let’s see Bible stuff, isn’t it the Jewish temples, not just the

Bob Smith 27:21
Jewish tradition?

Marcia Smith 27:22
The everybody I don’t know,

Bob Smith 27:23
around 3000 BCE. According to many scholars, some of the first banks may have been inside of temples used for both religious ceremonies and the storage of agricultural products such as wheat and other grains. Farmers would deposit their supply at the temple and then they were given a receipt and the amount of the product they deposited. So it’s thought that this receipt was a value and would most likely be used in trade. Ah, so here’s your receipt. And you could use that with other people. I got a receipt for this. Yeah. Oh, cool. That’s why the first banks were inside temples. I’ll

Marcia Smith 27:53
be done. All right. Before I get to my quote, Bob, here’s the question what modern game was originally known as strike down the heathens?

Bob Smith 28:05
Wasn’t that your family’s game? That that was your family lost at that game every year? Oh, sorry. Just kidding. Strike down the heathens. Okay. I bet that was that was bowling that wasn’t it an ancient Germany game? Yeah. Because they pins represented heathens? Yes. It

Marcia Smith 28:22
was known as Hidin werfen. Hide morphin hide and orphan, which literally means strike down the heathens. So there you go.

Bob Smith 28:31
So then we made a game of destroying people that didn’t believe what we believe that’s there was a religious game. Back in the day when they had hardball was the way they played religion back then with the hard ball, right? Strike down the heathens and those were the 10 pin games. Yeah. Holy cow. All right. Okay.

Marcia Smith 28:49
This quote, Bob comes out to the parents of Theodore Christopher Solovieva Smith. Okay. The most darling toddler on the West Coast just happens to be our grandson. It’s actually a recipe. It’s a recipe for iced coffee. Have kids make coffee? Forget You made coffee. Drink it cold.

Bob Smith 29:11
Okay,

Marcia Smith 29:12
that’s one more here. It’s a quote from a guy named Dave Willis. There are no perfect parents, and there are no perfect children. But there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.

Bob Smith 29:24
All right. Hopefully we’ve given you some perfect moments here today. And this week’s edition of the off ramp. I Bob Smith and Marsha Smith. Join us again next time when we return with more fun facts and tantalizing trivia here on the off ramp. The off ramp 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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