240 Capital Dessert Trivia

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What are the four unique distinctions of Washington, DC,

Marcia Smith 0:04
and what country eats the most ice cream?

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Answers to those and other yummy questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob

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and Marcia Smith. You

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music, 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 and its internet radio station. Well, what country eats the most ice cream? That’s

Marcia Smith 0:50
right, Bob.

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Now, do we have to do some research on this? Because I’m willing to go anyplace

Marcia Smith 0:57
any time. Guess how much they eat? Oh, in quartz or something like

Unknown Speaker 1:01
that. Yeah, wow.

Unknown Speaker 1:01
Is it the United States? Yeah,

Marcia Smith 1:04
that would be my first guess. But new Okay,

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I’m gonna guess someplace in Europe. Is that right? No, okay, I’m gonna guess someplace that’s hot. Sometimes,

Marcia Smith 1:15
will the ice cream melt there? Sometimes in the summer. So it’s not in Europe,

Speaker 1 1:22
it’s not in a place that’s hot, and it’s not the United States. And you’re not going to give me any clues, is it Antarctica or something like that?

Marcia Smith 1:29
No, no, it is New Zealand. Okay, they eat 7.5 gallons of ice cream per person per year.

Unknown Speaker 1:38
Holy cow, seven and a half gallon.

Marcia Smith 1:40
That’s the average. Of course, that’s

Unknown Speaker 1:42
not good. That’s way too much, definitely

Marcia Smith 1:46
not good for the arteries over the long term. Wow. They as the United States, their most popular flavor is vanilla, uh huh. And number two in the US is what Bob

Unknown Speaker 1:59
chocolate. That’s

Marcia Smith 1:59
right, but the second flavor in New Zealand is,

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I don’t know, Marcia,

Marcia Smith 2:05
I didn’t think you would Hokey Pokey.

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What is Hokey Pokey? First

Marcia Smith 2:09
invented in 1953 Hokey Pokey ice cream consists of vanilla ice cream base with small bits of Honeycomb toffee, known as hokey pokey. Wow, that sounds pretty good to me. They love it, and they scarf it up. Sounds great. It does. I’m getting hungry. I

Speaker 1 2:26
remember the Hokey Pokey song. Yeah, they played that all the time at the skating rinks when we were growing up. Oh, yeah, skating rink I went to either in Michigan or Ohio when I was a little kid. Yeah, they always have a special time when everything would stop, everybody would stop, and we do the hokey pokey on skates, in and out and shaker. You know what all about? Okay, Marcia, I have a question for you. What are the four major distinctions of Washington, DC that involve a person, the origins of it, uh huh, and the location of it? That’s three, all right, and what was named after?

Marcia Smith 3:01
Well, I’ll take a stab at our first president. Okay, we got that one, and the other one was, well, the

Bob Smith 3:07
very first thing to say about Washington is it’s the first planned city in the New World, the first planned city in the in America. Anyway, the US Congress debated right and left if it wanted a brand new city or one retrofitted to become a capital and Washington DC was dreamed up on paper before the first brick was laid. And then that’s just one of the four distinctions. The second distinction is, who supervised the planning of Washington DC?

Marcia Smith 3:32
Was it President? Yes, okay. Was it Thomas Jefferson? No. Was it John Adams?

Speaker 1 3:42
No, it wasn’t Thomas Jefferson or John Adams. I don’t know who supervised the building of Washington, DC. Washington himself. Okay, really did he well at the time it was going to be called federal city. He supervised the contest, and he actually chose the French engineer Pierre Charles l’enfant to lay out the city and design the public buildings. And then Washington was asked by Congress to work on it, and he continued working on it, hands on, up until two weeks before he died in 1799, no kidding, it was a big project. Well,

Marcia Smith 4:15
what was it when he was president? Was he there in DC? It was

Bob Smith 4:19
just a swamp. It was a swampy area. He lived in New York. He was president in Philadelphia and New York, yeah. Okay. Distinction number three, two states gave up 100 square miles of land to make Washington DC. What were those states?

Marcia Smith 4:36
Would it be Maryland? Maryland was one and Delaware? No, no, would it Maryland? And what’s that? Washington’s

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home State College, Virginia. Virginia, yeah, so Maryland gave up 69 square miles and Virginia gave up 31 square miles together. That’s 100 square miles, and the location was a compromise, because the the economic. Capital at the time was Philadelphia and slave states, one of the political capital in the south, which is where Washington was chosen to be built. The fourth distinction was the fact that the city was named after a president. Eventually, in DC stands for what District

Marcia Smith 5:15
of Columbia, which honors Columbus. Yes, Christopher

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Columbus. So it went from federal city in the territory of Columbia to Washington, comma territory of Columbia. When was the DC added to the name? I’m surprised at this middle

Marcia Smith 5:33
1800s No.

Bob Smith 5:34
Late 1800s Okay, after the Civil War. Oh, okay, yeah. By then, the term territory was synonymous with sparsely populated land on the frontier about to become a state. So the territory of Columbia was renamed the District of Columbia, and the city’s official name became Washington district of Columbia, or Washington, DC, for short. But those are the four distinctions of Washington. Same again, first planned city,

Marcia Smith 5:59
yeah, supervised by George Washington. Mm hmm.

Speaker 1 6:03
Location was a compromise. Two states gave up land for it, okay, and it was the first city named after a president. Okay, so there you go.

Marcia Smith 6:12
I’m glad his name wasn’t Humperdinck or something. Yeah, Humperdinck, DC, ice cream. Back to ice cream, yes. How long has this stuff been around? Well,

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I think the Chinese were the first inventors of ice cream. That was 1000s of years BC, I don’t know that

Marcia Smith 6:29
was dairy based ice cream, yeah, but you know, Alexander the Great and the Roman Emperor Nero were both said to enjoy snow flavored treats, well, like snow cones, yeah, huh, with sweeteners, including honey and fruit juices. So they would get snow things and put sweeteners into them, just like we do today.

Speaker 1 6:50
And so that’s supposed to be in the history of ice cream. I don’t think so. Well,

Marcia Smith 6:53
it’s considered a treat. Chinese nobility, you were right. Enjoyed milk ice made from rice milk paste, which doesn’t sound that tasty, okay, but well, and

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you know, we had this question earlier, why was the ice cream something most people didn’t have? Remember, we did one on Yeah, Thomas Jefferson, refrigeration. Yeah. Refrigeration is the only reason most people, regular people, ever tasted ice cream, because it was too expensive, yeah, to have ice houses and everything. That’s why only emperors and people like that could afford it back in

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the day. And Alexander the Great, I think he had an ice house. Well, Alexander

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great was conquering the world. I think he could afford it. Okay, okay. And

Marcia Smith 7:32
he’d say, keep that snow. We’re gonna pour some honey on it. I think so. Wow.

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All right, Marsh under us, law, corporations are considered people? What us? State has more corporate people than people. People, meaning

Marcia Smith 7:45
corporate entities, correct? Yes, I’ll say California. I

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was going to give you some choices. Oh, please do. Okay, I’ll take that back. Washington, Maryland, California is not one. Delaware or New York, Washington, Maryland, Delaware or New York. New

Marcia Smith 8:03
York sounds like it should be, but for some reason, I’m thinking Delaware. It is Delaware.

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Delaware has more corporate entities than residents, isn’t

Marcia Smith 8:11
it? When you go Inc, you obviously do it in Delaware for some reason, and has

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tax advantages. Delaware is home to more than 1 million businesses. That’s 1 million corporate people, compared to its population, about 970,000 real people. More than 50% of publicly traded US companies from Google to Coca Cola to Bank of America are incorporated in Delaware due to their business friendly laws, courts and tax policies. The state also has a special business court that was established to rule on corporate law disputes without juries, only with judges who specialize in corporate law. That goes all the way back to 1792 Wow, a court that was meant to expedite business cases to a judge, not a jury. So you can see why. Yeah, it would be favored by all these companies. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 9:00
for decades now I’ve heard, oh, you should incorporate in Delaware, right? I never knew the answer. Why? Now you know I do. You are so informative. Thank you. Thank

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you, Bob. What

Marcia Smith 9:10
does it mean if there are 500 strands of silk in your corn husk,

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somebody’s been messing with the corn husk. Somebody’s messing I know was that Dinah. Isn’t that her name. She’s in that song. Dinah was in my corn husk. I

Marcia Smith 9:30
think I caught you the other day counting your silk strands in your corn husk. Remember, we bought corn at the okay vegetable. How

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many did you say? 500 500 silk strands in a corn husk.

Marcia Smith 9:40
Actually, the average is 500 to 1200 Wow.

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That’s in every ear of corn that’s got the leaves around it and all of that. Then you have to husk it, and you have to take out 500 to 1200 Yeah, wow. That is a lot of work, isn’t it?

Marcia Smith 9:55
Yeah? Remember, we went to the farmer’s market the others, right? And then not so. But that always tastes so good when it’s that fresh. Gosh, yeah. So what does it mean if you have an average of 500 strands of silk, what does it mean for your piss

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of corn? Means it’s healthy corn, does it? It’s gonna taste better. Now,

Marcia Smith 10:12
this is interesting. Oh, okay, it means then you have 500 kernels on your cup. Oh, no kidding, there’s a strand of silk for every kernel.

Speaker 1 10:21
I didn’t know that again either. So they did that so you could count them.

Marcia Smith 10:27
Yes, the divine maker,

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the divine corn maker, decided you could count them.

Marcia Smith 10:34
The average ear of corn is between 500 to 1200 kernels and silks, with the average being 800 which seems a lot to me. But anyway, so what comes first? The silk or the kernel?

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Well, what do you mean? What comes first?

Marcia Smith 10:49
You know, if you have 500 silks and 500 kernels, which came first, I

Unknown Speaker 10:54
guess the kernel came first and secreted the silk. Absolutely

Marcia Smith 10:57
not. What is it? The silk emerges first, and they are considered Bob, the female part of the corn. Hmm. Because why? Because it pollinates the cub, creating each kernel. I didn’t know that. I know I’m here to inform Wow. And when full pollination has occurred, the silks dry up and turn brown and fall off or hang out of the husk.

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So when we get them, they’re usually in the husk. Well, they’re kind of hanging

Marcia Smith 11:23
out of the end. That’s true. And then inside, there’s a bunch, but there’s some that just fall off at the old field too. Wow. That

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is, I love to see an animation of how that works, how that how that pollinates, yeah, yeah. That’s, that’s something else, yeah. Well, here’s something else. Mother. Mother, well, I say that because you are the mother of two children. I

Marcia Smith 11:43
am and happily, they’re yours. What is the

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newest trend in weddings? One of the newest

Marcia Smith 11:49
trends in weddings, there’s so many new trends that are so bizarre to me. This is a

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new trend in wedding invitations. And I wanted to bring this up because I wanted to get your reaction to it. You’re a person who, you know, appreciates change, but sometimes you don’t like change.

Marcia Smith 12:02
I think I know the answer to this. Okay, what is it? They’re sending out emails, no

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texts, text invitations.

Marcia Smith 12:12
Yeah, you’re right. Your text is more likely to be read than your email. And

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you know, it’s not just the text, not just like, Oh, here’s a text which says, come to our wedding. And here it is. These are texts with graphics. Ah, you know, you can go online and go to places like Etsy or Canva, which we use to create our little badges we do in Facebook that, you know, dramatize each off ramp episode. It’s a picture and it says, the off ramp. We use Canva. People go there and use that to create wedding invitations, and then they just text those little images.

Marcia Smith 12:44
What do you think about that? Well, I

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think it’s okay. This is almost an overreaction, or a reaction to people who have huge weddings. These are people who have small weddings. A lot of them, they don’t want to spend a lot of money. They may only invite 30 people. They might have a family only wedding reception with 30 friends, and they figured that’s a great way to invite and control how many people you’re going to get there. You can’t pass around a text. You can pass around invites. Also the expense, the average total cost of wedding invitations and stationery. This is average $530

Marcia Smith 13:14
You’re kidding. I would do text for

Bob Smith 13:17
some weddings, though, the cost can be significantly higher. Laura Rich, who runs grit and grace, which is a luxury wedding planning service, says the engaged couples she works with, spent on average, 5000 to $10,000 on wedding invitations.

Marcia Smith 13:33
Who says that

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this is a woman who runs a luxury wedding planning service and probably wants them to spend that much.

Marcia Smith 13:41
Oh my gosh, this is why we eloped

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anyway. Texts with illustrations, graphic headlines, date and directions. Those are being sent out. And people say, Hey, we’re getting married. Come out and join us. Make it easy. Yeah, several dozen friends. Let’s party. You know,

Marcia Smith 13:57
sounds good to me, or the way we did it. We had a ball Canvas

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says it has had nearly 80 million users of its wedding and save the date templates, 80 million globally in a year’s time. Globally, 80 million with consistent growth since 2021 so it’s a kind of a post pandemic, yeah.

Marcia Smith 14:18
Well, I’m in favor. Okay. Well, I

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just wanted to know, I’m glad to hear that I’m gonna do that for your next birthday card, just so you know, I love you. Happy Birthday and our 50th wedding anniversary. That’ll just be a text that’s coming up that’s a long time

Marcia Smith 14:33
away before we go to break it’s time for AKA, all right, also known as one of my favorite games. Today’s category is types of chips. Okay, so it can be any kind of chip. Keep that in mind as you struggle here, okay, aka, yeah, the first clue is Spud. Spud

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that’s potato chips. That’s right. Okay, mocha that’s chocolate chips, that’s

Marcia Smith 14:57
right. Fireplace tools. Fireplace tools, that’s

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wood chips.

Marcia Smith 15:02
Hmm, that’s not a tool. Well, what

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would it be? Well,

Marcia Smith 15:06
you don’t know, apparently, fireplace tools, yeah, we use this tool, a poker chip. That’s it. Oh, okay, that’s it. See, you thought it through. How about this bovine?

Unknown Speaker 15:20
Oh, that’s a cow chip. That’s correct. You want to avoid those. That’s

Marcia Smith 15:23
right. Color sky, blue chips. That’s it. Oh, okay, okay. And last one song from CATS, a

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song from CATS, Midnight chips. No,

Unknown Speaker 15:35
this midnight. What

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is that song? Song from cats. You

Marcia Smith 15:38
were just singing it. This one.

Unknown Speaker 15:42
But what is it called?

Marcia Smith 15:44
Come on,

Speaker 1 15:44
I don’t know, memories, memory chips. Oh yes, I use those all the time. I

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know, in fact, I

Speaker 1 15:51
could use a few more of those up in the noggin these days. All right, we’ll take a break now. We’ll return in just a moment. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marcia Smith,

Bob Smith 16:02
Okay, we’re back with memory chips and all. I don’t think we did I eat my memory chip. Wait a minute. Okay. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marcia Smith, we do this each week for the Cedarburg Public Library, Cedarburg, Wisconsin, for its internet radio station. After that, we put it on podcast platforms, and it is heard all

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over the world. Jeez. Well, hello, I

Marcia Smith 16:25
was catch me off guard. All

Speaker 1 16:26
right, let’s try it again and make it clean this time. Okay, and it’s heard all

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over the world. Very good.

Speaker 1 16:33
Marcia, all right, Marcia, I have a question for you, okay, which of these will you find in India’s rain soaked state of mega Halia, birds trained to act as umbrellas, scuba, scuba suits worn outdoors, tree roots grown into bridges or entire villages built underground. Now,

Marcia Smith 16:56
again in India, which one of those is true?

Speaker 1 16:59
Yes, which one of those do you find in this rained soaked state? Well, birds trained to act as umbrellas, scuba suits worn outdoors. Tree roots grown into bridges or entire villages built underground. I

Marcia Smith 17:11
will go with the tree roots. That’s right, all right. Ding, ding, ding, ding,

Bob Smith 17:15
this is interesting. It’s a northern Indian state of M, E, G, H, A, l, a y8, a village there receives an average of 467 inches of rain a year. 467 inches, that’s 13 times the precipitation of Seattle. And for centuries, locals have taken advantage of the rain by training the roots of rubber trees to grow across waterways and gorgeous. Oh, no, kidding. Basically, the more rainfalls, the sturdier their bridges get. Well, isn’t that interesting? Very that’s like an ancient thing that was done and is still done to this day. That’s

Marcia Smith 17:50
amazing. That’s very interesting too. Yeah, but what about tater tots? Bob,

Unknown Speaker 17:55
what? What about tater tots? Is

Marcia Smith 17:58
it a trademark name? Yes,

Speaker 1 17:59
they are, that’s right, by oraida, is it or IDA? The ora, that’s

Marcia Smith 18:03
right? Okay, it’s not a generic term. People have come up with creative names for their own tater tot type things. There’s potato gems, potato crunchies, and spud puppies. I kind

Speaker 1 18:15
of like that, Spud puppies. But Wasn’t this a farmers collaborative? They were potato farmers, and they came up with this the or IDA company,

Marcia Smith 18:23
or my next question, okay? Or Ida brand gets its name from, what Oregon and Idaho. That’s it, two potato growing states. So

Speaker 1 18:32
then they came up with the tater tots, which is basically the waste product of this, yes, processing of potatoes,

Marcia Smith 18:38
of frozen french fries. There was that’s where all the waste came from. When they made the french fries, they what do we do with this? Well, they started giving it to farms for animal feed, but then they thought, how about giving it to people? That’s a smart idea. So they stuffed it with a few things and got a wooden mold to make a little shape out of it. And tater

Speaker 1 18:58
tots were born. They were little bitty tater tots. Okay? Marsha, people usually have the same blood type their entire lives. But what events can cause your blood type to change? Really? Yeah, there are two things that can cause your blood type to change,

Marcia Smith 19:15
vexing me today. Bob, I

Speaker 1 19:17
like that. I’m vexing you. Yes. A vexer, ah, they’re both medical.

Marcia Smith 19:22
Can you change out somebody’s entire blood well, with transfusion?

Speaker 1 19:27
Well, it relates to that, okay, after a bone marrow transplant, oh, or certain types of infection, blood types occasionally change.

Marcia Smith 19:37
Wow. I gave my brother bone marrow his blood change. Good question, huh? I

Speaker 1 19:41
have another one here. Okay, do veins look blue because of unoxygenated blood in them? In other words, is your blood actually blue in your veins? Yes, the answer is yes, no,

Bob Smith 19:56
no. It’s actually a light trick that’s played on our eyes by mother nature. I thought. Was oxygen? No, your blood is Red. Blue. Light scatters when it hits the skin and reflects back to your eyes, causing the veins to appear blue. But they’re not blue. That comes from britannica.com

Speaker 1 20:12
so you can go argue with those people, right? Okay, all right. Sounds like you want to Okay, okay, Bob, I remember hearing that theory too, that

Marcia Smith 20:21
it’s oxygen, right? Well, we’ve been wrong all these years.

Speaker 1 20:27
We’ve been wrong in many cases. Marsh, why? Bob? Why

Marcia Smith 20:30
is a severe labor dispute called a strike? Where does that term come from?

Speaker 1 20:35
Okay? I bet that had to do with some kind of violence or something that was done, or a strike, meaning to shut down, like strike the set in theater. Oh, that’s a good equation, yeah, you strike the set after the show, meaning you take it down. So I think the strike meant that same thing in both military terms and in theater terms. Strike means to topple down or shut down something. And so when company was on strike. The workers were trying to shut the company down. Yeah, they went on strike. You

Marcia Smith 21:06
got part of the equation, right? But it goes way back, okay, to sailing ships. Conditions aboard commercial sailing ships used to be miserable. On long voyages, food and water went bad, and hygienic conditions were lower than the animals in the stables. Whoa, yeah. So if they suspected the sailors that the ship was poorly prepared to go on a voyage, it wasn’t uncommon for the crew to strike the main sail. So it’s a term from the nautical world, as many words are okay, making it impossible for the ship to go to sea until conditions approved. Well,

Speaker 1 21:44
that makes sense, then, to strike the sail. Okay, that

Marcia Smith 21:47
this eventually gave a way to use the word strike to describe any extreme action by Labor against management.

Unknown Speaker 21:55
Wow, that’s pretty cool. They

Marcia Smith 21:56
would not set to see if they foretold that everything was going to be really crummy. That’s bad. We’re not going to go there. Just take that mainsail down. Strike it down. So that’s where it comes from, okay? UNESCO Bob, you don’t that’s the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, right? You see, they’ve designated 21 sites in the US, World Heritage Sites such as Yellowstone Grand Canyon, but two of them Bob, two of those, 21 are from the Revolutionary War. Oh, really, yeah, I didn’t know that. So what are the two? Mr. History.

Speaker 1 22:33
Okay, I’m going to say Yorktown battlefield in Virginia. Uh huh. No, which deserves to be a UNESCO site. Nice try.

Bob Smith 22:45
Uh, how about uh, Philadelphia, and maybe the where the Liberty Bell is, or the Liberty Bell itself, Independence Hall, here, right? Okay, Independence Hall. And then the other one is Yorktown, or should be. Now, this is the home, all right, it’s George Washington’s, Mount Vernon. No, it’s not George Washington’s Mount Vernon.

Marcia Smith 23:04
It is another house. Another house. Oh, I

Speaker 1 23:07
bet it’s a is it revolutionary, wartime? Yes, another home. Okay, who?

Marcia Smith 23:13
Monticello the home of Thomas Jefferson.

Unknown Speaker 23:15
Thomas Jefferson,

Marcia Smith 23:17
you didn’t say that. Well, that’s

Unknown Speaker 23:18
what you told me. Monticello is the home of Thomas Jefferson. You

Marcia Smith 23:21
guess Washington?

Speaker 1 23:22
Well, I know I did that. I we’ve already gone through that. My my failure has already been made manifest. Yes, it

Marcia Smith 23:29
has all right,

Unknown Speaker 23:30
Okay, moving on.

Speaker 1 23:35
Okay? Marcia, what favorite American food was inspired by a cold day at a New York Giants baseball game in 1900

Marcia Smith 23:43
wasn’t the popsicle. I know how that came. No, okay, what was the question? What kind of what

Speaker 1 23:49
favorite American food was invented at a ballpark, a cold day at the New York giant baseball game in 1900

Marcia Smith 23:55
so was something warm? Then, yes, because it was a cold, something hot,

Bob Smith 24:00
hot dog. The hot dog, really, that’s one of the stories. No kidding. Yeah, a caterer, Harry Mosley, realized ice cream and cold drinks wouldn’t suit the New York Giants baseball fans one day in 1900 It was a cold day at the park, at the Polo Grounds, so he took a sausage known as the dachsund and used it to his advantage. The Germans called, he sent the men out, his men out to scour the neighborhood for all the dachshunds and roles they could find. And it wasn’t long before the vendors were shouting red hot dachshunds, really to the chili fans in the stands and the food later, it became known as the hot dachshund, and still later as the hot dog.

Marcia Smith 24:37
And did they sell like crazy that day, and they’re still selling like crazy.

Speaker 1 24:43
They I think Los Angeles stadium there has the biggest venue for hot dogs in the world. I believe it is probably

Marcia Smith 24:49
cost $100 a piece. Now, baseball game, okay? What was used for blood Bob in the famous shower scene in the movie psycho. Okay,

Bob Smith 25:00
well, let me see now, they didn’t use red blood or red coloring, because it was a black and white film, and they wanted to make sure it showed so I bet they used ink. Ah, was it ink? No,

Marcia Smith 25:11
what was it? You’ll like this. This is something you actually like to eat. Oh, really, Hershey’s chocolate syrup. Oh, no kidding.

Speaker 2 25:19
They used Hershey’s Syrup. Yeah, wow. So

Marcia Smith 25:23
that was that terrifying moment that kept me out of the shower for years. No

Unknown Speaker 25:27
wonder people won’t go in the shower. It’s Hershey’s chocolate. Oh,

Unknown Speaker 25:29
my God.

Marcia Smith 25:30
Oh dear. I’ll throw another one. Who was the first president to appoint a woman to his cabinet? That

Speaker 1 25:38
was Ronald Reagan. No, that was FDR, yeah, appointed the Secretary of Labor. What was her name? Wow, oh my goodness, that’s

Marcia Smith 25:46
all right, you got the big part. Frances Perkins, okay, she was the Secretary of Labor, that’s right. In 1933 he appointed her, and she held that post till 1945 very good. All right. All right, ready to go to my closing quotes, all right on humility, Bob,

Unknown Speaker 26:04
oh Lord, it’s

Speaker 1 26:05
hard to be humble, and you’re perfect in every way. I always love that song

Marcia Smith 26:10
from Benjamin wick coat. None are as empty as those who are full of themselves. That’s true.

Speaker 1 26:19
I like that was absolutely true. And

Marcia Smith 26:22
here from Proverbs, with humility comes wisdom. Well, that’s true. It’s hard to argue with that. And this unknown author, Bob George Washington, is the only president who didn’t blame the previous administration for his troubles.

Bob Smith 26:39
That’s right. He didn’t even have a record to run on. How did this guy become president? All right, that’s it for today. Thanks so much for listening. If you’d like to contribute to the show, you can send us a fact or a question to try to stump the other person with. We get that every once in a while, and it’s so much fun to hear from people. Go to the offramp. Dot show, that’s our website. Scroll down to contact us and leave us a message. Send

Marcia Smith 27:01
me, Send me some questions to dazzle Bob. I appreciate it. All right,

Unknown Speaker 27:06
all right. I’m Bob Smith.

Marcia Smith 27:07
I’m Marcia Smith. Join

Speaker 1 27:08
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Bob Smith 27:31
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