239 Hard Deadline Trivia

Bob Smith 0:00
What country’s tallest building is a 105 story hotel that’s never hosted a single guest? Oh, really, yes,

Marcia Smith 0:09
and Eleanor Roosevelt had a famous maiden name. What was it

Bob Smith 0:14
answers to those and other questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob and

Marcia Smith 0:19
Marsha Smith.

Bob Smith 0:36
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. We do this each week for the Cedarburg Public Library, Cedarburg, Wisconsin’s internet radio station. Well, Marcia, there is a modern country, yeah, whose tallest building is a 105 story hotel of doom. Hotel of doom that’s never hosted a single guest. It’s the tallest building in the capital city. What country is it? Well, has never hosted, never had a guest in that hotel.

Marcia Smith 1:13
It was built, Mm, hmm. Is it used for something else? No, not at all. And they’re not tearing it down, no. And they’re not tearing it down. I don’t know. Tell me,

Bob Smith 1:22
North Korea. The building is the 105 story Pyongyang Hotel. It’s the world’s tallest unoccupied building. Beautiful on the outside, concrete on the inside, it’s an unfinished, abandoned skyscraper nicknamed the hotel of doom.

Marcia Smith 1:43
Well, that’s catchy. I didn’t see that on Expedia. Well,

Bob Smith 1:46
here’s a picture of you can go there and look at a picture of it. They wanted it to be the world’s tallest hotel. It began in 1987 under the rule of Kim Jong Un’s grandfather, and the building reached its 1080 foot height in 1992 and then the project stalled in 1993 due to the collapse of the Soviet Union. Do you understand that? Well, had to be because of funding the Soviet Union was giving communist North Korea

Marcia Smith 2:13
had anything to do with nobody wanted to go to North Korea. And maybe, maybe the Russians did,

Bob Smith 2:21
I don’t know. They needed a place to go. Apparently, construction started and stopped numerous times. They finally completed the exterior 24 years after they started. Wow. 2011 they were going to open it in 2012 partial opening was announced in 2013 but was canceled. And then in 2018 they put a display on one side, which was used to show propaganda and animations and film scenes, and that’s the only site that has anything to it. Four decades later, this pyramid shaped building slated to have originally five revolving restaurants, wow and 2000 to 7665 guest rooms, remains ominously empty the tallest building on the skyline of Pyongyang, North Korea’s capital,

Marcia Smith 3:05
five revolving restaurants. Does that mean they’d all be on different levels? Don’t know

Bob Smith 3:10
how it would work. Yeah, that’s interesting, but they had big plans, and nothing’s happened. Okay, all

Marcia Smith 3:16
right. Bob on to Marsha’s question. Okay? Eleanor Roosevelt, great heroine of mine. Anyway, she had a famous maiden name. What was it

Bob Smith 3:26
a famous maiden name? Now, she was a cousin of Franklin Roosevelt. So what was her maiden name? It wasn’t Roosevelt. Was it? Yes? Because

Marcia Smith 3:35
they were cousins, I think about how easy it should change all your documents when you marry Roosevelt to Roosevelt, yeah, so Eleanor had presidential connections far before her marriage to FDR, when the time came, she didn’t even have to worry about taking his last name. She was born Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. She was Teddy’s niece. Her father was Teddy’s younger brother, Elliot, right? But don’t get excited here. FDR, comes from a different branch of the Roosevelt family, although they are all related. Yeah, he was Teddy’s fifth cousin. This

Bob Smith 4:09
is very clear to me. I’m wrecking the charts right now. You and your branches genealogical charts here, I’ve

Marcia Smith 4:15
got it sketched out. Yes, I did read this whole, the whole Roosevelt history. And anyway, Teddy’s fifth cousin, and fifth cousin once removed was Eleanor. The family was split into two distinct clans, while both based in New York, and each with its own distinct culture and ethos. FDR came from Hyde Park, Roosevelts, and that was a rather Tony upper class, right, right? While Teddy and Eleanor came from the Oyster Bay Rosa felt that were what more fishing fishermen? I don’t think so. But

Bob Smith 4:45
they lived in New York City, didn’t they? Or that area? Yeah,

Marcia Smith 4:47
they all came from New York area, Oyster Bay. Rosa felts and I come from the Milwaukee Smiths north side.

Bob Smith 4:58
What Bay is ours here? Whitefish Bay, Whitefish Bay.

Marcia Smith 5:03
Dismiss of Whitefish Bay. And

Bob Smith 5:05
we remember what Eleanor Roosevelt’s first words were to Harry Truman when he became president, right? Maybe you remember, oh, remember, upon learning that FDR died, he said, Is there anything I can do for you? And she said, Is there anything we can do for you, Harry, you’re the one in trouble now.

Marcia Smith 5:22
Oh, that’s right. I love that. Oh gosh.

Bob Smith 5:25
Say, how long was Harry Truman, the vice president before becoming president?

Marcia Smith 5:30
Did you just have that chalked up there before you segued into I did? Yes. We often hear people

Bob Smith 5:36
say, well, the vice he’s just been a vice president, or she’s just been a vice president. There’s no experience there. Well, how long was Harry Truman experienced as a vice president? He

Marcia Smith 5:45
became president because FDR died, right? So did he go through the 12 years with FDR?

Bob Smith 5:51
No, he didn’t. How long was Harry Truman vice president before assuming the role of President of the United States? I’ll say two years. You’ll say wrong. 82 days. Oh, gosh, 82 days as Vice President. That’s all the experience he had. And according to author AJ BAME, during that time, Truman had only visited FDR on official business twice, twice he came to the White House.

Marcia Smith 6:16
What did he do before he was a vice president? He was a senator. Oh, okay, so yes, politically,

Bob Smith 6:22
the Java Vice President wasn’t all that interesting, because earlier on that day that FDR died, April 12, 1945 while presiding as VP over a boring argument in the Senate, Truman took up a pencil and started writing to his wife and sister, Dear Mama and Mary, I’m trying to write you a letter today from the desk of the President of the Senate, while a windy senator from Wisconsin is making a speech on a subject with which he is no way familiar. We’ve had a week of beautiful weather, but it’s raining and misting today. Two hours later, he got a phone call summoning him to the White House immediately, and he and his driver, with no Secret Service protection, race to the White House, where he learned FDR had died in Warm Springs. Give

Marcia Smith 7:05
me your quote again from Eleanor. Eleanor,

Bob Smith 7:08
Mrs. Roosevelt, is there anything I can do for you? She said, Harry, is there anything we can do for you? You’re the one in trouble.

Marcia Smith 7:16
Now, you’re the one in trouble. Now, that’s a brilliant quote. Actually, it is okay. Ready? You know, we’ve had this question before, the smallest country in the world

Bob Smith 7:25
is the Vatican Vatican City. Yes, Vatican City. That’s considered

Marcia Smith 7:29
a country, right? But my question today, Bob, is, what is the second smallest country in the world? This country is less than a square mile. It’s

Bob Smith 7:40
European and it’s it’s wedged between France and Switzerland or some other country. What is it called?

Marcia Smith 7:46
Thinking it’s not wedged, I think it’s between France and the Mediterranean. Okay? Monaco, okay. It’s the most densely populated country in the world, with 38,400 people located in an area about the size of Central Park, wow, yes. And 125 nationalities make up the population, including a fair amount of Brits and Americans. Okay,

Bob Smith 8:11
here’s a test for you. All right. They have a coastline like other countries, but they have the smallest coastline of, I think almost any country on earth. How long is their coastline? Half a

Marcia Smith 8:21
mile, two miles. How can it be if it’s only a point eight square miles? I

Bob Smith 8:26
don’t know, but it’s two miles. Okay, fine. What was the first unorthodox action Harry Truman took as president? Small thing.

Marcia Smith 8:34
Small thing. He, um, is he the one with the buck stops here? Yeah, he had that. Did he have a buck put up on his

Bob Smith 8:41
No, no, yes, no. This was, this was at the swearing in ceremony.

Marcia Smith 8:44
Oh, I don’t know what it did. He give a real, short speech. No, he

Speaker 1 8:48
had his emergency swearing in captured in a photo. Now, that had never happened before, when a president died in office. Oh, the first, first picture of a president being sworn in office after his predecessor died in office. Well anyway, that had never happened. When a president died in office, he asked his secretary of state if he thought it would be appropriate for a photographer to capture the moment. What motivated him to want his picture taken? It wasn’t history or vanity. Oh, wasn’t

Marcia Smith 9:15
history or vanity. What

Bob Smith 9:17
motivated Harry

Marcia Smith 9:18
he wanted to show his mother. That’s exactly right, because I was always telling the kids, send me a picture. He’s very

Bob Smith 9:24
close. He was very close to his mother. He knew that his 92 year old mother was at home in Missouri, and she would have wanted to be there, so a photo was taken. Oh gosh, Mama, for Mama, as he called Bravo.

Marcia Smith 9:36
Marsha, I get it, don’t? I get a little credit here for that obscure Thank you. Thank you. Speaking of Monaco, we are still Yes, okay, what kind of government does the country have? Well, they

Bob Smith 9:49
have a royalty, don’t they? Or at least they did that is correct, because Grace Kelly was the queen

Marcia Smith 9:53
of Monaco. It’s governed under a form of constitutional heredity, monarchy. Obviously, it. Staying in the same family. The current chief of state is his Serene Highness, Prince Albert the second, who, by the way, is the son of us, actress Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier the third, right. This family monarchy is called the House of Grimaldi. It has ruled Monaco since 1297,

Bob Smith 10:20
wow. I had no idea. God, how could a tiny little country stay a country like that, the house

Marcia Smith 10:25
of Carmel de since 1297, amazing to this day, French is the official language, and the literacy rate there is 100%

Bob Smith 10:34
that’s amazing. Wow. I had no idea. And you think about that, how did that little country stay independent all of these centuries, with all the wars that went on in Europe, yeah, yeah. So tiny, isn’t that where they have a lot of gambling and casinos there? Oh,

Marcia Smith 10:49
yeah, that’s what it’s known for, and that’s why so many people go there to gamble. Yeah. Okay. The first casino was built by Charles the third in 1865 it was so successful that they could get rid of taxes. Oh,

Bob Smith 11:04
my goodness, that’s pretty good. That is successful. Let’s try that here. Okay, Wasn’t it supposed to happen here? I

Marcia Smith 11:11
don’t know it’s supposed to happen with casinos and weed and all sorts of things. Yeah, okay, but still, we have all that and taxes at that. All

Bob Smith 11:20
right. Marsha food question, alrighty, what breakfast cereal was born because a doctor was called away to an emergency.

Marcia Smith 11:28
Oh, this sounds like the famous Oh, he left it on the table, oatmeal or something, and when he came back, it was, it’s

Bob Smith 11:35
similar to that, yes, I don’t Okay, which? So it had to be at a place where a doctor was dealing with patients and food and everything else. So it was Kellogg’s Corn Flakes. Oh, the that was Dr John Harvey Kellogg. He was the chief surgeon and the superintendent at that world famous Sanitarium in Battle Creek, Michigan. And his brother William was his business manager and Dr Kellogg a Seventh Day Adventist. He and his patients were vegetarians, and to make Meatless meals more tasty, they experimented with foods in the sanitarium kitchen. Well, one day, Dr John had to leave boiled wheat on a baking tin when the emergency developed. The next day, the Kelloggs ran the wheat through a roller, expecting it to come out in sheets, but instead, individual flakes resulted, and eventually the brothers began producing flakes for their patients who loved them. They became so popular, the Kelloggs began producing wheat flakes, rice flakes, corn flakes. And guess what? Across town at another sanitarium, a man named post copied them, and he started making flake cereal too. Post toasties,

Marcia Smith 12:40
little Dickens, all right. Bob, according to Rolling Stone, who has a lot of opinions on a lot of things, according to Rolling Stone in 2023 who are the top singers of all time, the top singers of all this would be half. This is limited, okay,

Bob Smith 12:59
I would say Tiny Tim, Mrs. Miller, Miss Piggy. See who are the top singers of all time? How would you judge that

Marcia Smith 13:10
again? Them? Yes,

Bob Smith 13:11
we’re not talking Pavarotti, apparently. No, okay, okay, I would say Tina Turner. They love Tina Turner,

Marcia Smith 13:18
they do. But she’s not on the top 10, really. Okay. Who are they? All right. Aretha Franklin, number one that makes sense, followed by Whitney, Houston, Sam Cooke, Billie Holiday, Mariah Carey Ray Charles Stevie Wonder, Beyonce, Otis, renning and Al Green, wow, yep.

Bob Smith 13:35
All right. Marcia, we often think of the north and south poles as frigid, hostile environments, but one is warmer than the other. Which one?

Marcia Smith 13:45
Oh, they which is warmer than the other? It’s the North Pole. Is the North Pole is cooler. That’s what you’re saying. No, it’s warmer.

Bob Smith 13:53
Which is it Marsh warmer?

Marcia Smith 13:54
And

Bob Smith 13:56
come on, decide which one. That’s

Marcia Smith 13:58
what I said. No,

Bob Smith 13:58
you started by saying it was cooler. Well,

Marcia Smith 14:01
North was cooler than it’s not I think it’s warmer than the South Pole.

Bob Smith 14:05
And you are right. That’s right. You might think that the North would be colder with the South warmer. But according to britannica.com because it’s situated in water rather than on land, the north pole has a much warmer average temperature than the South Pole. In the summer, the North Pole warms up to an average temperature of 32 degrees Fahrenheit. I’m surprised at that, really, yeah, while the South Pole’s temperature averages 18 below zero in its summer, that’s pretty cold. But in winter, things are cold. In both places, the winter, North Pole is frigid at minus 40 degrees, that’s 60 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit. And the South Pole is much, much colder at 76 degrees below zero, Fahrenheit in its winter.

Marcia Smith 14:52
So 40 and 76 below zero, yeah. Okay,

Bob Smith 14:56
so still, even in the winter, the North Pole is warmer, yeah. You could call 40 degrees below zero Fahrenheit warmer. I guess you can when you compare it to 76 below,

Marcia Smith 15:05
wow. No cruise to that place for

Bob Smith 15:09
for us. Bob, oh, no, not gonna take a Viking there. Okay, all right. American

Marcia Smith 15:12
singer, Bob Tim storms, who Tim storms? He’s in the Guinness Book of Records, really, for being able to sing. How many octaves? Uh,

Bob Smith 15:23
well, let’s see, four would be big. Let’s say five octaves.

Marcia Smith 15:27
Let’s say that. Okay,

Bob Smith 15:29
10. Oh, my goodness, he

Marcia Smith 15:31
hits notes so low, only elephants can hear him. Holy

Bob Smith 15:35
cow, are you kidding me? James and

Marcia Smith 15:39
I’ve listened to him singing when he goes that low, it’s not that appealing. It’s he’s not a big hit star, because having 10 octaves doesn’t always make you well, that’s true, great singer. But if, since I was going down this rabbit hole, if you want to hear something really amazing, Google the Chinese singer damash quad de burgeon, who blows your mind with singing seven octaves from bass to soprano, jeez. Oh my god, he can. I mean, he sings and he acts, and you can see him in the theater or just singing, oh my gosh on stage. Really phenomenal. So,

Bob Smith 16:12
and he’s successful, obviously, yes. What about the other fellow storms?

Marcia Smith 16:17
Tim storm, does

Bob Smith 16:18
he have any hit records? No, okay,

Marcia Smith 16:20
buddy, he gets so low, nobody can hear him except the elephants.

Bob Smith 16:24
So he’s more of a scientific curiosity. Yeah, I think it’s time for a break. We’ll be back with more scientific curiosities in just a moment. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marcia Smith. We’re back. We are with scientific curiosities, which I feel like sometimes after I’ve been to the doctor. 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 its internet radio station. After that, it goes on podcast platforms and is heard all over the world, everywhere, everywhere. By everyone. Well, not by everyone. We have 1000s, maybe, but not millions. Okay, all right.

Marcia Smith 17:06
Bob, time for AKA, also known as my favorite game, and the category today that you’ll have to answer questions in Beatles songs. Bob, okay, and if you don’t get all of these right, I’m gonna take away your 1000 Beatles albums. So for instance, not

Bob Smith 17:23
the box set, anything but that. Okay, go ahead.

Marcia Smith 17:27
So for instance, if I said the name of this Beatles song was a mustard color submersible, the answer would be the Yellow

Bob Smith 17:36
Submarine. Very good. Not an inch 10 down, two to go. But okay, okay,

Marcia Smith 17:40
ready, yeah, one cent Avenue.

Bob Smith 17:43
One cent Avenue, that would be Penny Lane. Yes, this is too easy for me, I think. But go ahead, maybe

Marcia Smith 17:50
not. Okay, 48 hours before tomorrow. 48

Bob Smith 17:55
hours before tomorrow that’s not tomorrow. Never knows. 48 hours before tomorrow. You

Marcia Smith 18:02
were just bragging. This is going to be too easy for me. See. What am I? God is punishing you because,

Bob Smith 18:09
all right, what is the answer to that? Well, now figure

Marcia Smith 18:11
it out logic. 48 hours tomorrow, before tomorrow, before tomorrow is what it’s yesterday.

Bob Smith 18:19
Oh, for God’s sake. Okay, okay,

Marcia Smith 18:23
got it, yes, I guess. All right, here’s another one, brilliant Beatles song, arrive simultaneously, come together. Very good. Soft cover. Scribe, what soft cover? Scribe, paperback. Writer, that’s it. Greetings. Mr. Law,

Bob Smith 18:40
Greetings. Mr. Law, hello, goodbye, nope. Greetings. Mr. Law,

Marcia Smith 18:48
put two things together. Greetings, a form of greetings. And this celebrity whose last name is law,

Bob Smith 18:54
okay, what is this? Hey, Jude Oh. Jude Law, oh, god, okay. All right. All right,

Marcia Smith 19:02
ready. Last one, okay, mahogany from Oslo,

Bob Smith 19:07
Norwegian Wood.

Marcia Smith 19:08
Yes, very good. Well, you did pretty good. I think you got eight out of 10, something

Bob Smith 19:13
like that. Okay, a little bumpy there in the middle, but we’re, we’re there. It only

Marcia Smith 19:17
got bumpy after you bragged. That’s true,

Bob Smith 19:19
and that’s usually the way it goes, isn’t it? Oh, absolutely. Things only do that when you brag. Yeah. Okay, no bragging anymore. Here’s a question for you. This is interesting. What world power encouraged Mexico to attack the United States in 1917

Marcia Smith 19:37
I’ll say

Bob Smith 19:39
Spain. What country encouraged Mexico to attack the United States? Yeah,

Marcia Smith 19:43
it wasn’t Spain. No,

Bob Smith 19:45
it was Germany. Was Germany, Germany? Yeah, you have to remember, in World War One, that’s when submarine warfare began, okay? And we all know the name of the ship, Lusitania. I always think that’s what started the war for the United States,

Marcia Smith 19:58
yeah, but I’ve read differently now. Now, that’s right,

Bob Smith 20:00
even though there were 1198 civilians, including 128 Americans, who drowned in 1915 when German U boats sank the passenger ship, the United States didn’t declare war. Woodrow Wilson’s administration clung to its policy of neutrality. They could kind of do that, because the Lusitania was carrying 173 tons of ammunition for Great Britain and Germany had circulated warnings that they would sink ships, you know, if they supported the war effort. But it wasn’t the German U boat campaign that drove America into the war. It was a telegram, know anything about that? No, there was an encrypted telegram that was intercepted in 1917 known as the Zimmerman telegram. Did

Marcia Smith 20:43
you ever hear about this? No,

Bob Smith 20:44
it was an encoded message sent by Germany’s Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmerman. He sent it to Mexico. It was intended for the President of Mexico, and its purpose was to prevent the US from entering the European war by starting a war with Mexico, Germany would provide the funding.

Marcia Smith 21:01
Oh, really, isn’t that special?

Bob Smith 21:03
Here’s what the telegram said. We intend to begin on the first of February unrestricted submarine warfare. We shall endeavor, in spite of this, to keep the United States of America neutral. In the event this is not succeeding, we make Mexico a proposal or Alliance on the following basis, make war together. Make peace together. Mexico is to reconquer its lost territory in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. So the telegram went on to say Germany would provide funding. They also suggested invite Japan to join in too. This was in World War One, but the British intercepted that telegram. Took some time to decipher it. Woodrow Wilson made the telegram public. Germany admitted it was true, but they said, We hope the United States will not do anything if you don’t get involved in the war. Well, we did. Congress was outraged. Here’s Germany trying to bribe Mexico to go to war against us, our ships getting sunk by the U boats. God, I thought that was interesting, that a telegram is really what started World War one for us. Zimmerman, telegram.

Marcia Smith 22:06
All right, Bob, here’s a quickie, what percentage of bats are rabid?

Speaker 1 22:12
Rabid bats? Yeah, I always assume that most bats are not rabid, that this was just a problem you might have with bats. But what’s the percentage? 6% only 6%

Marcia Smith 22:24
Yeah, testing in 2020 showed that 6% of bats tested had rabies, and you can’t tell by looking at them, so you gotta get the shots if you get big because you’re almost certain to die. And I think she was from around here, only one person survived without getting the shot. Well,

Bob Smith 22:42
we mentioned that on her show, she was a rabies victim in Milwaukee, wasn’t she? Yeah,

Marcia Smith 22:46
they put her under this incredible protocol of treatment, and darned if she didn’t live, hmm, but that’s the only time it happened. So you don’t want to get bitten by a bat, that’s right. So on you go, okay,

Bob Smith 22:59
Marsha, the fall is when a lot of high school reunions take place, and some people make a big splash at their high school reunions. But what future celebrity made a big splash at his high school graduation? This was way back in 1955 this high schooler came to his graduation in a new Royals, Royce, Silver Cloud, he bought he was Jim Henson,

Marcia Smith 23:21
how did he get the money for that? Well,

Bob Smith 23:23
he had a puppet show a local NBC, a local NBC TV station. He also drew a comic strip for his Maryland high school. He’d go on to create the Muppet characters for Sesame Street. Amazing, isn’t it? Crazy Talk. He remained a lover of expensive luxury cars, and his collection would eventually include a Kermit green Lotus.

Marcia Smith 23:44
Okay, all right, we are a family of Kermit lovers here, that’s for sure. Jim

Bob Smith 23:49
Hansen is one of only four people who have been honored as both himself and as a character on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He is honored as Kermit the Frog and himself, who are the other three people sharing that same distinction. Well, my

Marcia Smith 24:04
first thought is Mel blank, yes, Mel blank, that’s right, Bugs Bunny. And then has to be Walt Disney. Walt Disney. And Mickey Mouse, Mickey Mouse, right, all right. And the last one,

Bob Smith 24:16
okay, this one, it tricked me up. I didn’t know this one. Okay? Somebody

Marcia Smith 24:19
famous, is he in our lifetime? Yes,

Bob Smith 24:22
comedian and gave the voice to an animated character. Gosh, it’s Mike Myers as both himself and Shrek. So there you go. You got Walt Disney, Mel Blanc and Mike Myers all on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as both a character and as themselves. Very

Marcia Smith 24:37
good. And remind our listeners what was on the tombstone of Mel Blanc?

Bob Smith 24:43
Oh, it said, Better folks, yeah, that’s great. Isn’t that a great line for your tombstone? Oh, it was, that’s the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Our son took us there to see that. That was so cool to see.

Marcia Smith 24:54
Very much. So, okay, before my quotes, Bob, why are the derelicts of Skid Row? Said to be on the Skids. Why

Bob Smith 25:02
would you think I’d know this? Okay, this is because I know the answer to this. This is because Skid Row, the original Skid Row, was in Seattle, and the skids were the guides for the logs that would come down out of the hillsides when they would log them. Skid Row was where all the logs came flying by, yeah, but

Marcia Smith 25:23
still, why? Well, it was a bad neighborhood, yes, in the early 20th century, skids were greased wooden runways used on dirt roads by the forest industry to make it easier to move logs, as you said, from the wood to the river or the sawmill. Yeah, these streets in lumber towns were lined by bars and flophouses, and it’s where transients would go looking for work.

Bob Smith 25:45
So if you were going to Skid Row, it was not the best part of town,

Marcia Smith 25:48
that’s right, you were considered on the Skids. If you were there looking for work,

Bob Smith 25:53
and you go to Seattle day, there’s no evidence of any logging at all.

Unknown Speaker 25:57
Didn’t we go there? Well, we

Bob Smith 25:58
went to where Skid Row was, but it doesn’t look bad. Now I

Marcia Smith 26:01
bought some earrings. There it was. It was a little Mall.

Bob Smith 26:06
All right, so, okay, I’m

Marcia Smith 26:07
ready for my quote closing here. Yes, Oscar arminger said politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich by promising to protect each from the other,

Bob Smith 26:23
that’s true. They always want to be protected from the other.

Marcia Smith 26:26
Oh yeah, keep the rich away from it. Don’t let the poor have been forever. Yes, it is in a democracy anyway. And Will Rogers the taxpayers are sending congressmen on expensive trips abroad. It might be worth it, except they keep coming back.

Bob Smith 26:43
What a great comedian and a gentle humorist.

Marcia Smith 26:46
Very witty.

Bob Smith 26:46
Yeah, all right. Well, we hope you’ve enjoyed the wit, the humor and the Skid Row comments here on the off ramp. And we invite you, if you’d like to to contribute by going to our website, the offramp, dot show, scrolling down to contact us and leaving us a fact or a question, something that I can stump Marcia with, or something Marcia can stump me with. Send

Marcia Smith 27:06
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Bob Smith 27:07
Send her something. We’ll mention you on the air. We’ll send you a pen. If you tell us your address, I will send you a pen if you give me something to ask Marcia. Merch, merch. Okay. We hope you’ve enjoyed our show today, and we invite you to join us again when we come back next time with more fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia. I’m Bob Smith.

Marcia Smith 27:27
I’m Marcia Smith. You’ve

Bob Smith 27:28
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