231 Discombobulated Trivia

Marcia Smith 0:00
Do babies cry with an accent?

Bob Smith 0:05
Okay, and how did the Civil War lead to police becoming the men in blue? answers to those and other questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob and Marsha 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, Marsha. So your first question,

Marcia Smith 0:45
do newborn babies cry with different accents?

Bob Smith 0:49
You mean like, French baby sounds different than English

Marcia Smith 0:53
baby passed a croissant?

Bob Smith 0:55
I wouldn’t have thought so I thought they just come out going.

Marcia Smith 0:58
Can you say Well,

Unknown Speaker 1:00
okay. What’s the answer? So

Marcia Smith 1:03
the answer is yes, yes, they do. Really, it seems that babies soak up the language around them starting before birth. In a 2009 study, researchers recorded 60 French and German babies very distinctive language differences. They recorded them crying and found that subtleties in their cries mimicked each language. French cries had a slight lilt with all German babies started off intensely and dropped off quickly at the end. Not only can babies recognize and mimic the musicality of their parents language, but they’re likely to pick it up while still in the womb. Wow. I believe that they can hear because that’s why I played classical music for the babies in my stomach, talk to the babies talk through my belly

Bob Smith 1:52
button. And I remember when Chelsea was born she was crying quite a bit with you and nothing changed. She came over to me and when she heard my voice, she stopped crying. Yes,

Marcia Smith 2:03
that was that was cool. Because I was too tired the bond but you she heard your voice and when?

Bob Smith 2:11
So they actually do they actually mimic the language a little

Marcia Smith 2:14
bit. They understand the sound of the lilt of it. Very good. Where

Bob Smith 2:18
was that study?

Marcia Smith 2:19
It was a 2009 study published in Current Biology. Well,

Bob Smith 2:23
sounds like it’s a legitimate publication. Yeah. Okay. All right, Marcia. How did the Civil War lead to police becoming known as the men in blue? Oh,

Marcia Smith 2:33
really? The Civil War? Yeah. Well, they’re what the North was in blue. Yeah. The South was in gray. Yep. And so so the North one and they had blue uniforms and they became the police. No. My deductive reasoning is fails me.

Bob Smith 2:51
Uniforms adopted by many American police departments in the mid to late 19 century were blue because they were surplus US Army uniforms from the Civil War.

Marcia Smith 3:01
Oh, surplus. Yeah. Oh, leftover from the war. Yeah. When they were short on a lot of supplies. Well, by the

Bob Smith 3:07
time the war ended, they were making a lot of uniforms. And so they had a surplus left. And it appears that the Los Angeles Police Department started the fashion trend, including those cowboy hats you see in the Civil War uniforms. Like this picture right here, which I’m showing you. They look like Union officers with those cowboy hats, the union head and the uniforms but those are Los Angeles Police Department

Marcia Smith 3:30
officers so I was right. That’s what the uniforms came. He just didn’t connect the dots.

Bob Smith 3:34
But yes, it appears the Los Angeles Police Department may have started the trend in LAPD publication reports. Its first official uniforms were army surplus, the dark blue of the Union army. In 1893. The cowboy hats for beat cops were replaced by stove pipettes or helmets like the Bobby’s head. Yeah, that makes more sense in a stovepipe, and then later flat top hats were adopted for sergeants and officers Okay, so uniforms adopted by many American police departments in the mid to late 19th century were actually army surplus Union army uniforms. That’s that’s that’s intriguing. So that’s why they became known as the men in blue. Okay,

Marcia Smith 4:13
all right time for who done it.

Bob Smith 4:15
Who done it? This is this is a new one. I

Marcia Smith 4:18
make these categories up on the spot. This is regarding presidents which President Bob skinny dipped in the Potomac every day John Quincy

Bob Smith 4:27
Adams. Wow. Tea Yeah, well, I knew that that’s a famous fact John Adams skinny dipped in the Potomac. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 4:37
Every day even while serving as James Monroe secretary, Adams wrote that he would wake up every morning between four and five God helped me walk two miles over to the creek and enjoy a swim without clothes. Adams continues skinny dipping in the Potomac during his presidency, swimming between 20 minutes and an hour each day. Well, he did however, eventually The cutback per the advice of his physician who spent years warning Adams about over exerting himself.

Bob Smith 5:06
Well, that’s a lot swimming naked for an hour and 20

Marcia Smith 5:09
minutes to an hour and a river. Yeah, that’s a lot was cold. Well,

Bob Smith 5:13
yeah, but also there’s a current so a river is much more difficult to swim in a lake.

Marcia Smith 5:18
He did cut back a little, but he continued doing it for 17 years after leaving the presidency. And he was 78 years old, he returned to the Potomac for a final Skinny Dip. Okay, before his death less than two years later. Okay. All right. And my second right now, who ate at 12 ounce steak every morning for breakfast, William Howard Taft. Oh, for heaven’s sake.

Bob Smith 5:41
It’s true, isn’t it? Yeah. Well, he was a big guy. Well, he does. But still,

Marcia Smith 5:45
he’s notorious for being portly. He consumed a substantial breakfast each morning he began each day with a doctor prescribed workout with a personal trainer no less in his private quarters, which he followed with breakfast at precisely 830 his usual meal consisted of a 12 ounce steak. God, can

Bob Smith 6:05
you imagine that? A 12 ounce steak, plenty of

Marcia Smith 6:08
butter toasting coffee. Oh, coffee loaded with large amounts of cream and sugar. As he got older. He eventually had to cut back to six ounces every morning for breakfast on doctor’s orders, but a steak every

Bob Smith 6:20
morning. Yeah. Now this is a man who not only was president he became a Supreme Court justice. So it served him well. Yeah. He blazingly how that protein but a 12 ounce steak every I assumed it had to be him. So that’s, that

Marcia Smith 6:35
was actually very good. Okay, I got two more of which I’ll ask after your next question. Okay.

Bob Smith 6:39
I have a federal government question too. Now, every year the federal government spends a lot of money, what it needs to operate, but how much does it have on hand in cash? This came about because the New York Times had an interesting little headline in history, it said on December 31 1909, just before a new treasurer took over, what did the government do? You had a group of people sit down and count the cash. Oh, come

Marcia Smith 7:07
on. Yeah, charge. We’re gonna count that count the coffers today. Take a break from your office and come over here.

Bob Smith 7:14
They counted every penny in government storage. And they reported Not a cent was found to be missing from Uncle Sam’s pocket book. A committee of four people supervise 30 to 40. Counting experts. They took two months to come up with the total it was the quickest count to date in 1909. How much physical money do you think the government I haven’t

Marcia Smith 7:35
a clue what year was this? 1909 1909. And they’re counting and I don’t know they had $2 million. It was more

Bob Smith 7:44
than that. Marsha. Okay, good. The federal budget in 1909 was 694 million. She’s how much cash do they have on hand? 1 billion. Wow. $259,001,756.37 37 cents

Marcia Smith 8:00
and 30? People counted that out? How long did it take them

Bob Smith 8:04
took them two months. And that amount included more than 156 million silver dollar pieces? Well, where did they keep this money? Well, Fort Knox are somewhere in Washington DC. Yes. So now they made a similar count in 2022. How much money did they find on hand? Okay. First, how much money do you think the government spends? Oh,

Marcia Smith 8:27
I don’t know about logistical numbers. No idea. The budget every

Bob Smith 8:31
year is around $6.15 trillion. Okay, so, back in 1909. They had more money on hand and they spent what about now?

Marcia Smith 8:40
owe a lot less suggest the opposite? Yeah. So

Bob Smith 8:44
when they did a count in 2022, they had $877.8 billion in cash and other monetary assets. But they spent more than 6 trillion so it’s just the opposite of what it was 1909

Marcia Smith 8:56
the opposite. Okay, Bob, which President rode a mechanical horse every day?

Bob Smith 9:03
He wrote a mechanical horse every day.

Marcia Smith 9:05
Oh, this one that

Bob Smith 9:06
had to be Teddy Roosevelt. No,

Marcia Smith 9:08
it does sound like him. No, you’re right. Oh, was

Bob Smith 9:10
it Calvin Coolidge.

Marcia Smith 9:12
Did you say that? Because

Bob Smith 9:12
I heard he did something like that too. Well,

Marcia Smith 9:15
for cue get three for three here. Coolidge is time in office was unique for many reasons. He became president unexpectedly after the death of Warren Harding. And he was such a big animal lover that many unusual creatures occupied the White House including donkeys and raccoons. They run the White House inside. Oh my god, it said occupied the White House. About one of colleges most notable quirks was his untraditional take on staying fit and healthy. He believed his mechanical horse which he had installed in the White House. He wrote it three times a day in order to lose weight and improve his liver function prove

Bob Smith 10:00
his liver function, you know, he could drink more. After

Marcia Smith 10:03
the press caught word of this mechanical horse he was teased relentlessly by fellow politicians. And to avoid further ridicule, he switched to an electric vibration machine that purportedly reduced the waistline. Now, when I was a kid, I use those those little electric vibration machines. They did nothing else. It shook your belly, right? Yeah. And you believed that that actually helped you stay in shape and it did. I don’t think it did anything but

Bob Smith 10:32
up your digestion probably. I think I have an audio tape interviewing my mom wearing one of those. She’s going like this. Remember dad bought her one of those in one year?

Marcia Smith 10:41
Oh, that’s funny, but I love that Coolidge. He wrote his mechanical horse three times a day. Okay, who enjoyed a vigorous 5am walk every morning followed with bourbon.

Bob Smith 10:52
That was Harry Truman. And the bourbon was the key because I knew that was his drink. He loved bourbon at six

Marcia Smith 10:58
in the morning. Yeah, well, your four for a morning stall was often a relaxing activity, but Harry Truman’s daily strolls were conducted at a rather brisk pace. He began every morning at 5am putting on a suit and tie and then going for a two mile walk. Yeah, who goes for our two mile walk in a suit and tie

Bob Smith 11:18
Harry Truman? Yeah, we have to remember he ran a men’s clothing store. Oh, okay. As a young man,

Marcia Smith 11:24
and he didn’t meander, he preferred walking at a rate of about 120 steps per minute equivalent to the pace of a traditional Quick march in the US Army. Upon returning to the White House, the President would down a shot of bourbon at the advice of his doctor who is that doctor? Then he the doctor on the phone, then he did a light breakfast and begin his workday. So

Bob Smith 11:45
well. My parents saw him and they always said you saw Harry Truman as a little boy. Yeah, tiny little guy. 1952 I think he came to Western Ohio. And my dad said he would walk very briskly. And when he came to an intersection, if the light was red, he’d make a right or left turn and just keep walking. Then the Secret Service had no idea where he was going at any time. He did. He’d stop in a town on a whistlestop tour. And he’d get out and walk like that. I’ll be darned. Yeah, he actually left the White House a couple of times and went places and the Secret Service didn’t know about it. And finally, one day he went to his bank. He said, Well, he needed some cash and the Secret Service like well, we could do that for you, sir. But they were people were on the street going. That looks like Harry Truman. This was like few days after he became president. That’s funny now. Yeah, Truman was a different kind of cat. That’s for sure. Once you get for me, how is an 1880s drowning victim saving lives today, Marsha, how is an 1880s drowning victim saving lives today? This comes from britannica.com How was an APD?

Marcia Smith 12:49
I heard it three times. And I don’t know. I can’t even have a thought. I’m trying to think he was already dead. So it wasn’t a he it was a she it was a she and that I was going to say that she was the first one that they resuscitated, but obviously if she was a victim, she died. You’re

Bob Smith 13:04
on. You’re on track, though. Very good. Very good. Sometime in the 1880s and unidentified young woman drowned in the Seine River in Paris. And a morgue worker made a plastic mold of her face, which became famous and was mass produced as a decorative item. The face of this rescue Annie, the common CPR training dummy is modeled after that famous mold of the unknown woman of the same.

Marcia Smith 13:31
Oh really.

Speaker 1 13:32
They took this famous plaster mold, and they decided that we’ll put that face on our rescue dummy. And it will train people that way. So in a way, it’s she’s helping to save people’s lives today.

Marcia Smith 13:43
She probably doesn’t look at it that way. But okay, good. All right. Y’all know, Bob, that the tallest president in the US history was Abraham Lincoln. Yes, he stood six foot four inches and that’s without his stovepipe hat. It’s a height that still sounds fairly tall today. Yes, it does. But how many presidents have been over six foot tall in the history of this great country of ours? Okay,

Bob Smith 14:06
let’s see. There’s Abraham Lincoln. There is Bill Clinton, I believe was a Oh, you’re

Marcia Smith 14:11
gonna name something? I just was looking for the number but go ahead.

Bob Smith 14:14
I think Bill Clinton was one. And let’s see who else was. I don’t think there’s that many. Ah, let’s say Bill Clinton. Just one more. Okay,

Marcia Smith 14:22
well, absolutely wrong. There’s 18 of them.

Bob Smith 14:25
No kidding. Yeah.

Marcia Smith 14:26
The tallest was Lincoln six, four, but right after him LBJ. Oh, really? Okay. Yeah. Oh, six, three. And following that. Donald Trump Thomas Jefferson, Chester Arthur, Bill Clinton, George W. H. W. Franklin D. George Washington. He remember he was too All right. Andrew Jackson, John F. Kennedy was six foot one. Well, I guess I didn’t notice because Jackie was tall too. So Barack Obama he was same height six one, Ronald Reagan six one James Buchanan, Gerald R. Ford, James Garfield, William Harding, James Monroe and John Tyler all over six feet one,

Bob Smith 15:02
and that goes along with the old adage that people look up to tall people and make them their leaders. Yeah. Isn’t that interested?

Marcia Smith 15:09
I was very surprised to see there were 18 and do that with that man. Now me there.

Bob Smith 15:14
That’s a lot. Yeah, Washington was an absolute giant in his time.

Marcia Smith 15:17
Well, Lincoln, who was considered a giant because in his day, the average man was five, nine, something like That’s exactly right. five foot seven, actually. Oh, my. So he was nine inches taller than the average guy of the time. Yes.

Bob Smith 15:33
Almost a foot taller. Yeah. All right. All right, Marcia. Here’s something given to me by a listener and it’s from a Jeopardy calendar. Okay. Why did they give them to you? Oh, because they want me to torture you, I think. Right?

Marcia Smith 15:46
Jeopardy counting sounds fun.

Bob Smith 15:48
This is a seven syllable word. And I’m going to ask you what it is. Okay, I’ll read it to you. Okay, what is Treska? Deck guy phobia? That spelled tra sera

Marcia Smith 15:59
Triscuit crackers. No, it’s

Bob Smith 16:02
not that spelled T ri es que aid que a phobia? You know, in jeopardy, they always say the answer is

Marcia Smith 16:11
Oh, yeah. What’s the answer? I don’t know the answer or the question. Okay. What is it? The answer? The answer is if you

Bob Smith 16:17
fear the number 13 You suffer from this. Okay. trischka des chi phobia. Oh, there it is. There it is. Now, if you’d gotten that right, Marsha, it would have been worth $1,200

Marcia Smith 16:28
that I get a cup of coffee after the show. All right. Thanks

Bob Smith 16:30
for that to a listener who gave that to me ripped off their Jeopardy calendar. I believe it was either listener Tim Clark or Randy or Kay Freeman. And that was at a party we were at the other night

Unknown Speaker 16:42
really? Oh, I

Bob Smith 16:43
love it. Whoever it was, you know who you are correct me correct me please tell me who gave me that Throw

Marcia Smith 16:49
me a bone okay.

Bob Smith 16:52
And please send Marcia your 1200 Okay,

Marcia Smith 16:55
well, speaking of games it’s time for aka also known as okay category Bob is beans types

Bob Smith 17:03
No, there we go. Wow, I hope it’s better than my hotel chain. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 17:07
you were on surprisingly bad. All right, but beans okay. Like for instance, if I say grass color you’d say what kind of beans green beans. That’s right. Okay. Okay, here we go. That was easy. Yeah. Candles substance. Candles substance wax beans. Correct. Okay, and Apalis armed force.

Bob Smith 17:28
Navel beans, navy beans. Beans Correct. Doing so far so good. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 17:33
waste removing Oregon. Waste

Bob Smith 17:37
removing Oregon. Oregon. Liver beans. Liver. What? What

Marcia Smith 17:43
is kidney beans? The

Bob Smith 17:44
beans. Okay. Yeah, all right. And

Marcia Smith 17:45
your chili bib. Okay, this is I am in Spanish.

Bob Smith 17:50
I am in Spanish. I am but I am Yeah.

Marcia Smith 17:53
Any Spanish words that add up to I am? No, it’s soy. I guess Did you really okay, so I in Spanish and last Bob. What been is this famous Ford failure. Edsel been

Bob Smith 18:10
famous Ford failure Yeah,

Marcia Smith 18:12
a Ford failing this one was known for kind of starting on fire. Ford

Bob Smith 18:17
I don’t know what is Pinto be open to all the bento car.

Marcia Smith 18:21
Yes. Start on fire. Oh

Bob Smith 18:23
my god. Yes. If you were rear ended you could be set on fire. Right. The topic there again. Yes. Being category was beans and aka the card game.

Marcia Smith 18:31
Yeah. All right. Shall we take a break?

Bob Smith 18:33
I think we should be listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marsha Smith. We’ll be back in just a moment. We’re back. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marcia Smith. We do this each week for the Cedarburg Public Library Cedarburg, Wisconsin. And it’s internet radio station, Cpl. Radio. He plays Monday nights. And then after that it goes on podcast platforms and his herd. Oh, over the world. All right, Marsha, what is price pack architecture?

Marcia Smith 19:00
Is it those tall skinny buildings, you know, that are real skinny?

Bob Smith 19:04
Oh, yeah, that’s good. Guess it’s similar to that in some way. This is something people are hearing when they listen to earnings calls with investors. Executives at large companies mentioned price pack architecture twice as often this year during events with investors in the first quarter according to a search of transcripts of US companies with market values of $10 billion or more. So what is price pack architecture? How many it’s a term describing giving customers less in the package for the same amount of money all suffered from those potato chip for the same amount of money. We’re not going to change the price of this we’ll just put less in the box. Kellogg’s is a master at this. I’ve noticed this the last few years. The boxes on the shelves look the same size but when you pull it off what that’s a skinny box. It’s not very deep. Oh

Marcia Smith 19:52
really. It’s skinny, skinnier. Sometimes

Bob Smith 19:54
it’s not so sinister, Clorox. They make their bottles of Pine Sol cleaning so Should smaller but more concentrated. So they actually offer the same number of uses with less plastic. So they’re kind of environmentally sound right. But other companies have been using it to describe how they’re giving customers less. For more. For instance, James Quincy, Chief Executive of Coca Cola, we are leveraging our revenue growth management capabilities to tailor our offerings and price pack architecture to meet consumers evolving needs than what their needs for what? Less cola.

Marcia Smith 20:28
That’s right. Sue last, just shoot me in plain

Bob Smith 20:32
English, you’re going to be paying more per sip of cola. And actually, Senators Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Bob Casey of Pennsylvania have introduced a bill that would crack down on this practice. Even France has began forcing merchants to put signs in front of products that have been reduced in size without a corresponding price cut.

Marcia Smith 20:51
Oh, good. Yeah, just truth in advertising. Okay, here we are same price, less stuff. Why

Bob Smith 20:57
can’t they just say that we’re going to keep the prices the same? You’ll just have a little bit less I would accept that. Yeah. When people accept the fact that they’re getting a little less but don’t have to pay any more

Marcia Smith 21:06
this way you

Bob Smith 21:07
resent them for Yeah, because they’re lying to you. Yeah. They’re obfuscating. I’m suffocating. Yes, absolutely. The guy from Coca Cola was awful.

Marcia Smith 21:20
God I miss business meetings. You know what? Zorbing is bad.

Bob Smith 21:26
Zorbing not absorbing, absorbing, absorbing. Absorbing is when you bring something in. So serving is that when it’s pushing something out? No,

Marcia Smith 21:33
no. Zorbing is that new sport? You’re getting a big ball a big sphere and you bounce around the backyard or down a hill. Okay, it looks cool. So anyway, my question is bungee jumping and Zorbing. Were both invented in which country? Hmm, I can give you choices. Okay. Sure. USA, Belize, Guatemala, or New Zealand?

Bob Smith 21:57
I would say it was something that was started in the tropics. So I would say it was bliss. No. New Zealand.

Marcia Smith 22:05
Yes, yes.

Bob Smith 22:06
Okay.

Marcia Smith 22:07
I don’t know why. But I think both of those are hugely popular all over the world. I didn’t

Bob Smith 22:13
know that. I didn’t know they were popular all over the world. Yeah, it’s like being in a bubble and running around. Yeah, seems dangerous, doesn’t it? No. It looks like fun. seems dangerous. Thank you. I’m glad you agree with me on that. Okay. We’re

Marcia Smith 22:25
gonna have to take separate vacations.

Bob Smith 22:27
Marcia Birmingham, England. It’s a city in England. That’s an industrial center. But it inspired a setting for what novel will give you clues here. Okay. Great Expectations, Lord of the Rings, the sound in the fury or Moby Dick. Great.

Marcia Smith 22:41
No, what was your date? No, great,

Bob Smith 22:43
but no great. Great sounds GREAT movie. Oh, great expectations, Lord of the Rings The sound of the fury or Moby Dick.

Marcia Smith 22:50
I’ll say, Lord of the Rings.

Bob Smith 22:52
That’s exactly right. JRR Tolkien grew up in and around Birmingham, which is England’s second largest city ,and many of the settings in Lord of the Rings were inspired by the city’s landmarks parrots Foley and the chimney of a Bastien pumping station, are said to have inspired the two towers of Gudor, and Birmingham’s Seerhole Mill reportedly inspired the old mill at Huntington, Huntington with the Hobbit. I never thought of, you know, the hobbits and all that coming out of Birmingham, England. That just didn’t seem to be the place that would be

Marcia Smith 23:25
is it my turn? Yeah. Why Bob is the presiding officer over a committee called a chairman.

Bob Smith 23:31
Hmm. A chair person or chair man Acorah Chairwoman. Chairwoman. Why wouldn’t they be called the chairperson? Yeah. Was it the fact that they were the only one with a chair originally and everybody else stood

Marcia Smith 23:44
pretty close. Goes back to the 14th century. No kidding. Yeah, that was surprising. At that time, a chair was a throne. And it came from Greek word cathedrals, leading to the word cathedral for the place housing the seat of the bishop. And he got a big, big fancy chair. Of course, in business, the person in charge used to sit in a comfortable armchair while everybody else had to sit on stools. So that’s how he took on the esteemed title back then it was always a guy,

Bob Smith 24:14
chair, man. No kidding. Yeah. 14th century Yeah.

Marcia Smith 24:17
So the guy the head of the meeting, get to sit with arms in his chair, but he also had to sit

Bob Smith 24:22
on stools with no arms. Yeah, that’s funny. Well, that that makes sense. And, you know, chairs were expensive back in the day, apparently. Okay. Yokohama, Japan. They have a museum dedicated to what food Marcia? Bubblegum Saki noodles or tofu to Toodles noodles, noodles, noodles. You’re right. Known as the father of instant noodles, Yokohama native Momofuku Ando invented chicken ramen in 1958. Really and cup noodles in 1971. He invented both of those goodness. So a museum in Yokohama, which is the second largest city after Tokyo explores that humble dishes fascinate Eating history and allows visitors to customize their own cup of instant noodles at the end of the tour.

Marcia Smith 25:04
That sounds like something you’d say to me. I want to go to the noodle Museum.

Bob Smith 25:08
I’d love to go to the new offering. I went to the Coca Cola Museum. They didn’t talk about price pack architecture when I was there. Let me tell you that. She’s okay Marcia humor question. Are you ready? Yeah. Why is slapstick comedy called slap stick comedy?

Marcia Smith 25:27
Because it had to do with in vaudeville days, they would slap sticks together to emulate clapping.

Bob Smith 25:35
You’ve got the answer, but it goes back to the 16th century. Oh, my slapstick comedy is named for an actual device slap sticks. They were made from two pieces of wood that made a loud cracking sound when slapped together. And that was used to accentuate make believe violence. Oh, because we think of slapstick as somebody slapping yeah, getting into a little fight. So slap sticks. Were used to accentuate make believe violence during plays and skits and everything. And that’s why we call it slapstick comedy, but it goes back 500 years

Marcia Smith 26:10
what’s so curious about all that is how it carries on over the decades Yeah, in you know, evolves into a whole nother meaning but the original is so the original

Bob Smith 26:19
gets lost, you know? Totally. Yeah, slap sticks. We need some of those around here. Then you wouldn’t hit me so hard. Like that. Okay.

Marcia Smith 26:28
Thank you, Bob.

Bob Smith 26:29
That’s it. It’s been real turned me loose now.

Marcia Smith 26:32
And I’ll finish up with a quote on summer. Okay, but okay. When all else fails, take a vacation. Whose quote is that? Betty Williams take a vacation for any day to day problems I always save and so that kind of day. I just want to go to bed and start over in the morning. But if things are really bad, take a vacation.

Bob Smith 26:53
You got another one there? That would be fun. In the

Marcia Smith 26:55
depths of winter. I finally learned that within me there lay and invincible summer. Well, that’s a famous quote. It is at Walt Whitman. No, surprisingly, it’s Albert Camus. Oh, really? Yeah. Wow. I wouldn’t have guessed that. I

Bob Smith 27:09
love that. That’s a great thought. Yes. It’s invincible summer. Yeah. I always thought that about that. My grandparents in my mind.

Marcia Smith 27:18
You’re gonna cry over this. Yes, I’m sorry. There

Bob Smith 27:21
is this summer where I’m always playing with them. You know, is

Marcia Smith 27:24
that right? Yeah. It’s pretty cool. That’s lovely.

Bob Smith 27:27
Okay. All right. Let’s get our act together here. I think time is out. Join us again next time when we return with more fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia here on the off ramp. Let me just go up and cry.

Marcia Smith 27:42
My little second slot is

Bob Smith 27:44
I wear socks to bed. 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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