Bob Smith 0:00
Why was Lady Godiva riding that horse with no clothes on?

Marcia Smith 0:04
Indeed, and what condiment used to be sold as a medicine?

Speaker 1 0:09
Oh, something we put on food that was sold as medicine that’d be a good excuse to eat it now. Okay, answers to those and other questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob and Marcia Smith,

Bob Smith 0:37
welcome to the off ramp, and this is a very special episode, because this is the 250th show. We’ve

Marcia Smith 0:44
done a horn. Well,

Unknown Speaker 0:48
where is it?

Marcia Smith 0:49
I don’t have it. Here

Bob Smith 0:50
it is. There it is. Can you hear it?

Marcia Smith 0:55
I can, all right, we

Bob Smith 0:56
have artificial intelligence making it blow for you there. So thank

Marcia Smith 1:00
you. Well, this is 250 shows. This means we’re going to have a big office party, right, right? Just you and me. Well, we can invite our listeners. We’ll invite

Bob Smith 1:09
all the people who’ve helped us put this together. Oh, wait a minute, that’s just you and me

Marcia Smith 1:13
and our listeners. Well, most of them don’t know where we live, so we’re okay, all right.

Bob Smith 1:18
You know, it’s true. We do this show together, and a lot of people who have podcasts have staffs and have writers and have producers, and we do it all ourselves. Here, we do it each week for the Cedarburg Public Library, Cedarburg, Wisconsin, and after that, it’s put on podcast platforms where it’s heard.

Marcia Smith 1:34
Oh, over the world. Yes, it

Bob Smith 1:37
is all right. Marcia, why was Lady Godiva, riding that horse with no clothes on. What was that all about? What

Marcia Smith 1:45
was that all about?

Bob Smith 1:46
I think we all know about that story. Lady Godiva,

Marcia Smith 1:49
I thought maybe it wasn’t true.

Bob Smith 1:51
Oh no, it really happened. Supposedly, yeah,

Marcia Smith 1:53
yeah. Tell me. Well,

Bob Smith 1:55
she was protesting taxes. I’d like to see more of those demonstrations. Now. That was a big maybe the women of the country would like to say, show me what you think of the Texas. Okay. Anyway, well, Lady Godiva was an Anglo Saxon noble woman. She was the wife of Leo Frick, Earl of Mercia, and he was a patron of various churches and monasteries. Today, she’s mainly remembered for this legend dating back to at least the 13th century, in which she supposedly rode naked, covered only in her long hair, through the streets of Coventry. She was quite an independent lady because she did that to lower oppressive taxation that her husband imposed on his tenants. Can you imagine that? Well, I’ll tell you what I’m going to do. I’m gonna do. I’m gonna go out there and ride naked. If you’re gonna keep charging these people, what you charge they’ve been a hell of a fight. Those two head wonder what their dinner discussions were like, Honey,

Marcia Smith 2:48
you can’t go pregnant around town. In your book, naked. I think that’s how he talked. No husband of

Bob Smith 2:54
mine is going to attach people. No wife of mine is going to be running naked through the streets.

Marcia Smith 2:58
And it happened both ways, right? Okay, Bob, what condiment used to be sold as a medicine? Tell

Bob Smith 3:06
me. Tell me. What is the condiment that we put on food that once was sold as a medicine? Well, take a guess. Okay, is it mustard? Because mustard has properties that people have used, like wrap it up in cloths and put it on people’s foreheads and things like that, was it mustard? No,

Marcia Smith 3:22
it was not okay. All right, the answer Bob is ketchup. Oh, ketchup. A lot of dangerous things were sold as patent medicine in unregulated 1800s America, including mercury, lead and arsenic. Meanwhile, tomatoes, which are in the same family as deadly nightshade, were considered unsafe by much of the population until they were sold as a cure all. Dr John Cook Bennett was one of the tomatoes biggest boosters. There’s always some doctor on a quote out there, right? I love this. He claimed the fruit would protect migrants heading west,

Bob Smith 3:58
people heading west in the United States, yes, heading west. Okay,

Marcia Smith 4:01
let’s take catch up with you. It will keep you from the danger attendant upon those violent, bilious attacks to which all unacclimated citizens are liable. Boy, does

Bob Smith 4:12
that roll off the tongue? Boy, I

Marcia Smith 4:13
could hardly say that, and so

Bob Smith 4:15
he’s saying that everybody is subjected to these kinds of things. And catch up

Marcia Smith 4:20
will cure you. Will cure you. He provided several tomato recipes to be taken as medicine, including ketchup, which, at the time, typically contained mushrooms and or walnuts. That’s interesting. Then that’s interesting too. Some eventually Americans figured out that tomato ketchup worked much better as a tasty condiment than a medicine. Yeah, but to be fair, Dr Bennett, he did suggest using it as a replacement for mercury, so he may have helped some folks out. I hope

Bob Smith 4:49
so. Mercury will kill you well, you know. And it’s funny, ketchup was one of those things that was sold in brown bottles, and it had all kinds of stuff in it. It wasn’t necessarily the best stuff. And. That’s when HJ Heinz, when he came up with the idea his stuff was so pure, he thought, we’ll put it in a clear glass bottle, and people can see that it’s pure, and it’s not that it’s still sold that way today,

Marcia Smith 5:10
not full of weird lumps. That’s right. And what’s the new invention? We were just talking about this at dinner, that ketchup is upside down the bottle. That

Bob Smith 5:18
is a brilliant move when they did that, when they started putting upside down,

Marcia Smith 5:22
Bob, it’s been that long till somebody said, Hey, let’s just keep it upside down. Because

Bob Smith 5:25
remember, years ago, they had that anticipation spot that Carly Simon sang. It was about the ketchup coming out of the bottle. I don’t know when the bride

Marcia Smith 5:32
was. Some guy said, stored upside down. Yeah, that’s all you got to do. The

Bob Smith 5:36
New York Times has a feature every week in which they test all kinds of things. And one of the latest was ketchup. And they had all these very sexy high end boutique products that were ketchup, and they did a blind taste test with children and adults. Guess what? Heinz came out number one

Marcia Smith 5:55
with all the Bougie ketchups and up against the really expensive ones,

Bob Smith 5:59
the best taste, the best, feeling, the best consistency. And I thought that was pretty cool. That’s very good. You know, people are out to always say, Oh, these brand names aren’t any good. Well, no, apparently Heinz is number one.

Marcia Smith 6:09
Still, a lot of people say that if it’s popular, it can’t be any good. That’s right. Like Starbucks, hello. It’s a good cup of coffee.

Speaker 1 6:16
All right. All right. Marcia, what American inventors instrument inspired Beethoven and Mozart to write music for it. What say again, what American inventors? Instrument inspired Beethoven and Mozart to write music for it. Gosh. Now you don’t associate this name with music, let alone Beethoven and Mozart and it’s an American and it’s an instrument, and it’s an instrument he invented. He invented the guitar. Famous guy. We all know his name. Everybody knows. I’m trying to help you here. Founding Father, Joe, harp, no. Founding Father, oh, really, yeah,

Marcia Smith 6:53
was it like a harpsichord? No,

Bob Smith 6:56
okay, tell me it’s called harmonica. It’s like harmonica without the H I went to got that. Okay, guess who it was? That’s the question. Who invented it? John

Marcia Smith 7:05
Adams, no. Benjamin Franklin. Benjamin Franklin invented everything

Bob Smith 7:09
while serving in London for the US government, he invented something called the glass harmonica, after the Latin word for harmony, and the instrument created a beautiful, ethereal sound, and he charmed visitors with his performances. He was inspired by performers who made music by dragging their fingers around the rims of wine glasses filled with various levels of liquid. He thought, why don’t I build a machine that rotates the glasses on their side so then you could play multiple glasses at once with his hands? Have you ever heard this? No, here’s what it sounds like,

I think that’s just gorgeous. What do you think?

Marcia Smith 7:58
I don’t you don’t know.

Bob Smith 7:59
What does it sound like to you?

Marcia Smith 8:01
A little cake, coffee, disc. Gordon, Oh, I see just doesn’t work for my ear.

Bob Smith 8:06
You don’t have a cold or anything. Do you? No, thank you, because his wife said it sounded like the music of the angels. Did she realize Ben’s wife thought it was

Marcia Smith 8:14
beautiful. We have, I guess, a different ear,

Bob Smith 8:16
an 18th century ear and a 21st century ear, competing with one another, too. She never called me that before. Well, you’ve got a 21st century ear. What do I say? I kind of like it. And there are a number of pieces Mozart wrote where that’s one of the instruments playing solos. And it’s really very interesting. He hired a London glass blower to create 36 glass bowls of specific thicknesses and sizes, and then he nested them, one inside the other, mounting them on a treadle powered horizontal spindle that he would pump like a sewing machine, pedal, you know, over a trough of water. And as the glasses rotated, he wet his fingers and played them like a piano. It caused a sensation in France. In Austria, one of his instruments provided the music for the royal wedding, and both Mozart and Beethoven wrote music for it, and he refused, like all of his other inventions, to patent or profit from it. And soon it was being copied widely. And by the time he died, there were more than 5000 harmonicas that had been manufactured around the world. Harmonicas, yeah, armonica without the H, Benjamin Franklin, all right.

Marcia Smith 9:17
Good old Ben. He was quite a guy, a renaissance guy in every way. All right, Bob, what is carrotnemia? What carotenemia? How do you spell that? C, A, R, o, t, e, nimia, N, E, M, I,

Speaker 1 9:33
anemia, e, i, a, usually that means it’s like a condition or something correct, like you have a some kind of a disability or a disease or something that’s correct, I say so it has something to do. It’s not carrots, though. Yes, it is, oh, it is too many carrots. You have a problem, or too few carrots,

Marcia Smith 9:48
too many. Okay, tell me you get orange. Oh,

Bob Smith 9:52
is that right? Your color changes. Yeah,

Marcia Smith 9:55
it’s not that common. And especially in adults, if more kids get. Or babies, but carrots and other similarly colored vegetables like yams, get their color from a pigment called beta carotene, which I’ve heard of that which converts to vitamin A in the small intestine. When you eat too much beta carotene, our small intestines can’t process it, and the excess pigment hits our bloodstreams instead, and if someone eats enough carrots Bob to overload their body, they turn orange, especially on the palms of your hands and the soles of your feet and nose. So you might have these little orange pockets of weirdness That’s strange. This syndrome is called carrotnemia, and it usually only affects babies and toddlers who chow down on a little too much puree.

Bob Smith 10:42
Isn’t that funny? It’s weird, but it’s harmless, so pure A like, carrots that have been pureed. Like, yeah,

Marcia Smith 10:47
so much of it. I’ll be darn Bob, what planet used to be called George’s star? George’s

Bob Smith 10:54
star, yeah, Georgia, like the country of Georgia, or the state of Georgia, like, the name George. Who’s like George’s star? George? George? Yeah, so very George of England. The Yes, all the King of England. King George to the third or second. Okay, so one of these stars in the sky was George’s star. Was it the North Star? No, since he had north as his Prime Minister at the time, that would make sense, right? But that’s not it. Okay. What’s the answer? Oh,

Marcia Smith 11:22
that you got King George the Third, right? I’m very impressed. The answer is Uranus. Okay, yes. Despite the fact that it’s four times the size of Earth, did you know that no times bigger than us? It took astronomers a while to realize that it was a planet rather than a star, and it was named after King George the Third. English astronomer William Herschel made the first recorded discovery of Uranus as a planet in 1781 during the reign of King George the Third, he named the planet georgium situs, Latin for George’s star in honor of the king the international astronomy community was less than thrilled about a planet being named after an unpopular British monarch rather than a deity, and in 1850 it settled on naming the planet Uranus, okay, after the Greek god of the sky. Okay, did you know that? What the Greek god of the sky? Didn’t know that? Me either. There’s your answer, and

Bob Smith 12:19
we’re still learning things about that planet. Wow, amazing. All right, Marsha, what historical figure said, if you’re going through hell, keep going. Oh, I know that. Do you want me to give you any examples

Marcia Smith 12:32
of people? It’s one of my heroes, Winston Churchill.

Bob Smith 12:35
It could be Abraham Lincoln, Mahatma Gandhi, Winston Churchill, Winston Churchill, or it could be Winston, Churchill, all right. Tastes good. You’re right. You’re right.

Marcia Smith 12:44
Okay, Bob question, what is the world’s oldest joke?

Speaker 1 12:49
Okay, well, now I knew there were several that came from, I think, Mesopotamia they found in things that were stories that were like, carved into cuneiform, carved into rocks. So is that one of

Marcia Smith 13:01
those? Well, it’s from Samaria. Okay, that’s Mesopotamia,

Bob Smith 13:04
sure. Okay. That’s basically where Iraq is today. Yes, southern Iraq. Okay, but I don’t know what the joke was. Okay.

Marcia Smith 13:10
It was basically Bob a fart joke. Oh

Bob Smith 13:14
no,

Marcia Smith 13:16
Junior High types. But don’t forget now it doesn’t really translate in today’s humor. Like many jokes, you had to be there. But this is the joke Bob quote, something which has never occurred since time Memorial, a young woman did not fart in her husband’s lap.

Bob Smith 13:34
Oh, my God, what? That’s just gross to talk about. This was actually something that was preserved for 1000s of years.

Marcia Smith 13:41
Yes, oh,

Bob Smith 13:42
dear lord.

Marcia Smith 13:43
I don’t know what to say about that. I

Bob Smith 13:44
think we move on. Yeah, all right,

Marcia Smith 13:48
I got another one to make up for that. Okay, well, I

Bob Smith 13:50
got one that’s interesting here, historical okay, what historical figure popularized gingerbread men? What? What? What? What historical figure popularized gingerbread men. I’ll give you choices here.

Marcia Smith 14:03
We’re talking those cookies, right? Yeah. Okay. Ginger Rogers,

Bob Smith 14:07
no Marsh. Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth the first Julius Caesar, or Napoleon Bonaparte. Napoleon,

no Julius, no, I don’t know Abe or a Liz, one of the two,

Marcia Smith 14:21
I’ll say a Liz. That’s why it was

Bob Smith 14:24
Elizabeth the first the first queen of England. Uh, huh. So the gingerbread cookies go back more than 500 years. Yeah. She her 16th century reign was known for its elaborate royal dinners that included marzipan, which was almond candy dough shaped like fruit castles and birds. And she had a staff that included a royal gingerbread maker. Wow. She did a banquet where gingerbread men represented foreign dignitaries and people in her court. Probably was a little bit

Marcia Smith 14:56
she dressed him up and all that. Thanks,

Bob Smith 14:59
Queen. And oh, there you are, sir, Henry, so and so, don’t you look rotund and fat? So from that point on, gingerbread cookies were a big deal. And it was like, Gingerbread, yeah, I always liked them. Okay. Elizabeth, the first so they go back more than 500 years. It’s

Marcia Smith 15:15
amazing to me. Bob, what river flows through the most countries? Oh,

Bob Smith 15:20
what river flows through the most countries of the world? Yeah, I think it’s the Congo, isn’t it? It’s in Africa,

Marcia Smith 15:25
but that’s how many countries? Oh, man,

Bob Smith 15:28
is it 10 countries, seven countries. It’s

Marcia Smith 15:30
not Africa,

Bob Smith 15:32
okay? Is it the Amazon? No, oh, is it the Nile? No, all right. Must be something like the Danube or the vine.

Marcia Smith 15:39
It. You’ve done it, passes through 10 countries. Jeez. Those countries are Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine. The Danube passes through all of them and four capital cities. So it’s quite a river. It was quite beautiful too, wasn’t it? Yes,

Speaker 1 15:59
it was. It’s funny because, you know, you think of the Danube with the waltz done, yeah, but when you get there, it’s like the Mississippi. It’s got barges and commercial vehicles, you know, it’s got great, big ships going back and forth, delivering things. It’s an industrial River. It’s like everything else. Well,

Marcia Smith 16:16
because of its location in Europe, along with its proximity to so many cities, it easily makes it one of the most important rivers in the world. And

Bob Smith 16:24
something I didn’t realize. Call me naive, but when we were there one day, I remember waking up and we were in a lock, and I thought, Oh, I didn’t know they had locks here, just like

Marcia Smith 16:34
when you wake up and oh, my God, what are we what is that cement wall two inches from my nose?

Bob Smith 16:39
Yeah, they have locks, just like we have on the on the Mississippi and our rivers here. And of course, it makes sense, but I just didn’t think of that before. You know about a show or two ago, Marcia, I did a thing where I took two things together that were both historically accurate, took place at the same time, but we thought it was strange, you know, and that was the invention of the facsimile machine, and the Oregon Trail, they actually occurred at the same time. Well, here’s one like that. Okay, what do Jack the Ripper and Nintendo have in common? Well, there’s two peas in a pod. Jack the Ripper and Nintendo,

Marcia Smith 17:16
I haven’t a clue. 1889 does that help you? 19 8918 oh. 1889 Okay, before I was born couple years okay, I don’t know. Okay.

Speaker 1 17:27
Nintendo was founded when Jack the Ripper was still on the loose, oh, by that guy, the Japanese gaming company associated with Mario and Donkey Kong and Pokemon and Zelda originally made playing cards when the company was founded, and they were founded in 1889

Marcia Smith 17:44
it’s just putting everything in historical perspective.

Bob Smith 17:47
Yeah, all right, that’s what I was doing. So

Marcia Smith 17:49
before we go to a break, let’s cheer things up, mister. I’ll do a AKA, all right, also known as right. And the category is uh oh, school subjects. So you’ve been to school, I have and you took subjects. I did. I will give you a word like the past. What is the course? What is the subject of the school? Course would be history. That’s correct. All right. How about Mr. Garfunkel?

Bob Smith 18:15
Mr. Garfunkel, art that’d be art class. Yes.

Marcia Smith 18:20
This language, this language, English, yes, romantic compatibility. Romantic

Bob Smith 18:28
compatibility, is that? Home Economics? No, okay, romantic compatibility, I don’t know that well. What

Marcia Smith 18:37
do they often say about a couple? They have real chemistry. That’s it. Okay, very good. Prince Edward’s initials, Prince

Bob Smith 18:45
Edward, uh huh, pe that’s physical education. Okay, I got that. I wasn’t

Marcia Smith 18:49
sure you get that. Okay, this, you won’t like, but I love it attracts de fish,

Bob Smith 18:56
attracts de fish, uh huh. What attracts the fish? Uh huh,

Marcia Smith 19:00
the pole, close the hook, no. Debate,

Bob Smith 19:03
yes. Oh, dear lord. Debate,

Marcia Smith 19:07
oh my God, and the last one, yeah, compact, Hondas, compact,

Bob Smith 19:13
Hondas, little little motorcycles, little motors, hot, compact, I don’t know the cars,

Marcia Smith 19:20
yeah? Civics,

Bob Smith 19:23
okay, civics. I actually liked civics class. A lot of people hated that. Yeah, okay, well, that wasn’t a bad one. That’s a pretty good series of things. AKA, yes. So I just have a question, yeah, what? What are the refreshments for our office party today, celebrating our 250th off ramp episode? Well,

Marcia Smith 19:40
large, copious amounts of wine. Oh, cheese. Okay, and something for you, some bourbon or something, some bourbon. Yeah, we got bourbon and some ox break all that

Bob Smith 19:52
out. And in the meantime, let’s take a break. All right. All right, you’re listening to the offer at the 250th episode. We’ve been doing this for five years. Years. I’m Bob Smith, I’m Marcia Smith. We’ll be back in just a moment with more after this. Where’s the where’s the punch bowl? Is it over here somewhere?

Marcia Smith 20:11
Get your head out of it. Okay,

Speaker 1 20:12
all right, we’re back, and we had a little toast there to this show, and to you, our audience, and many of you people who have commented on the show and sent us things and sent us questions, we appreciate everything that people have done over the past five

Marcia Smith 20:28
we appreciate your listening all over the world. Oh, that’s right, I

Bob Smith 20:32
was supposed to say that so you could, okay, all right,

Marcia Smith 20:34
ready? Yes, what’s the origin Bob of the term? It’s brand new.

Bob Smith 20:40
It’s brand new. Brand new. Where

Marcia Smith 20:42
does that expression come from? All right?

Bob Smith 20:45
Was it new brand is it like when you were branding a cattle or horses, when you’d maybe change the brand of an animal because you’ve sold it to somebody else? It’s brand new.

Marcia Smith 20:54
It’s along those lines, okay? And it goes back to the 16th century. Wow. The original meaning of the word was a fire burning with a furnace or Forge, so to say, an item such as pottery or forged metal was brand new, meant it was fresh from the fires of its creation, okay? And that’s why the verb brand comes from the same source and means to mark ownership of something from cattle to wine casks using a hot iron from a fire. But it’s the brand comes from the fresh fires of creation. Well,

Speaker 1 21:28
I never thought of that, yeah, interesting. I mean, I knew that it came from, you know, branding wine casks or boxes of things, because they actually did, you know, they would burn the name into the wood there. And then, of course, then they started using it for cattle and, you know, branding animals, you know, down in the old west, to have ownership. But I had no idea that the brand was also part of the pottery and all of that. Never thought of that. Yeah, okay, right? Marcia, I have a question for you.

Bob Smith 21:58
What is the world’s largest pyramid by volume. Now here’s the potential answers, Marcia, the Great Pyramid of Giza in Egypt, the Great Pyramid of Cholula in Mexico, which is the world’s largest pyramid by volume. I would think Giza, you’d think so, but it’s not. No. Now that pyramid, of course, is much taller than one in Mexico. This is called the Great Pyramid of Cholula. It’s significantly wider, though. It has a total volume of 158 million cubic feet, whereas the Great Pyramid of Giza boasts a volume of 92 million cubic feet, built from the year 300 BC to the seventh century. AD, the Great Pyramid of Cholula is the largest pyramid in the world by volume. I had never heard of it before. I haven’t either. Here’s why you probably never heard about it. The Europeans never discovered it. By the time they arrived in the 1500s that pyramid had been abandoned and covered in dense vegetation, and when Hernan Cortes, the Spanish conquistador, arrived at Cholula, he built a church on top of this hill. Guess what? What? The Hill was actually a pyramid. He didn’t know that. Oh, that’s fine. On top of that hill, he built a church, which has been there since 1521 and in 1930 that’s when the pyramid was discovered underneath. Okay, an asylum for the mentally ill was proposed, and diggings confirmed, hey, there’s something inside of this hill. And they found out it was a pyramid. The original name of chalachi White Temple meant Hill built by hand. So they had some kind of idea of its origins. It wasn’t just a hill that was have they explored it? No, it’s not been excavated because their 400 year old church there is considered sacred to the indigenous population, so architects are using non invasive means to explore it, and it’s estimated that 100 million adobe brick miles of tunnels are inside that pyramid. So they’ve tunneled into it, and they’ve excavated more than 50 miles of tunnels, and they’ve illuminated them. So this is a totally unknown structure that now they decided it’s even bigger than the original Pyramid of Giza. Its base is four times larger than Giza and nearly twice the volume. Amazing. What do you think of that? Very

Marcia Smith 24:12
surprising. Yeah. Okay, how much of the American workforce in 1860 was self employed? Bob,

Speaker 1 24:19
Hmm, I’ll bet that most of the American workforce was because most industry was farmers. You know, the big companies were just starting, so I bet it was probably 75% of the people that were working were working for themselves. Very

Marcia Smith 24:32
good. 80% Wow, by 1900 it fell to 50% yes,

Bob Smith 24:37
that shows you everything after the Civil War, all the industrialization all the big companies, and

Marcia Smith 24:42
in 2023 that number was 10.1%

Speaker 1 24:46
just 10.1% of the people now work for themselves. Yeah, that’s amazing, even with the rise of all the entrepreneurialism, yeah, only 10% of the population works for themselves. Yeah, self employed. And when you work for. Yourself. You take all the risks by yourself too. Yeah, it’s not easy. Well,

Marcia Smith 25:03
here’s another quick key, okay, who bought FDRs old presidential yacht? Famous person. A famous

Bob Smith 25:10
person bought it. No kidding. I thought maybe that was something that the government still owned. Okay, so some famous person bought it. Was it Howard Hughes or somebody like that. Nope,

Marcia Smith 25:21
no. This guy was full of surprises. Elvis Presley,

Bob Smith 25:24
Oh, you’re kidding. Elvis got FDRs yacht, yeah, yeah, and

Marcia Smith 25:29
he purchased it in 1964 for $55,000

Bob Smith 25:34
Wow. It was a bargain.

Marcia Smith 25:36
He didn’t use it for personal use. Instead, he donated it to st Jude’s Children Hospital in 1964 so that they could resell it to raise money. Oh, that’s

Bob Smith 25:46
wonderful, and I hope they did. That would be an interesting thing. How much did they get out of it?

Marcia Smith 25:50
I don’t know. I’ll have to tell you that next week, the yacht isn’t the only presidential connection that Elvis shares. Bob. Genealogists discovered that Elvis is actually a sixth cousin, once removed, of President Jimmy Carter. Oh no,

Bob Smith 26:04
okay, well, he’s another Southern gentleman. I guess that makes sense. Okay, I’ll be done. All right. What you got there for a thought for the day? Okay?

Marcia Smith 26:12
We ready for that. Here we go. Too many pages here, for some reason,

Bob Smith 26:17
wait a minute. We gotta hear the noise makers again. There we go. Congratulations for our 250th episode. Thanks for sticking with us, everybody.

Marcia Smith 26:28
You’re welcome while

Bob Smith 26:28
Marcia still searches for her thought for

Marcia Smith 26:31
the day. It is from John Adams, okay, facts are stubborn things, and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. He was quite a lawyer, wasn’t he? John Adams, didn’t he defend

Bob Smith 26:51
the British soldiers who were involved in the Boston Massacre? Yeah, and that’s

Marcia Smith 26:55
what I believe. That quote came from when he was vilified for defending the British soldiers. He

Bob Smith 27:02
was one of the revolutionaries, one of the revolutionaries who started our country. But he thought, These people deserve to be represented, so we have to keep a rule of law here,

Marcia Smith 27:10
the rule of law, that’s lovely. It was controversial. They cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. Well, the fact is, we

Bob Smith 27:16
have enjoyed the past five years. We will continue to bring you weekly fun with fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia. I’m Bob Smith,

Marcia Smith 27:25
I’m Marcia Smith. Join us again next

Bob Smith 27:26
time when we come up with the 251st episode of the

Unknown Speaker 27:31
off ramp.

Bob Smith 27:39
The off ramp is produced in association with CPL radio online and the Cedarburg Public Library, Cedarburg, Wisconsin, visit us on the web at the offramp, dot show do.

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