267 Bell Ringer Trivia

Marcia Smith 0:00
Where in the world is a bell that has been ringing non stop since 1840 Wow,

Bob Smith 0:06
and where was the highest wind speed ever recorded? Answers to those and other questions coming up in this episode of the off ramp with Bob and Marcia

Unknown Speaker 0:15
Smith. You

Bob Smith 0:32
Music. Welcome to the off ramp. A chance to slow down, steer clear of crazy, take a side road to sanity and get some perspective on life with fascinating packs tantalizing trivia, I forget the rest of it and and more lifelong learning. So there. Okay, Marshall, so a bell that’s been ringing for how long? At least

Marcia Smith 0:56
185 years. At least 185

Unknown Speaker 1:00
years. Where do you think it is? Is

Bob Smith 1:02
it in North America? No, is it in Asia? No, is it in Europe? Yes. Okay, so I will guess, all right, Italy. I don’t know why. I just guessed Italy. No, I could see this little town where the spells been ringing for 185 years. Does it ring every day?

Marcia Smith 1:18
Non stop. I said, non stop, really? Yeah. Why

Bob Smith 1:22
does anybody live there? Why would they want to hear this? I

Marcia Smith 1:25
think they live there. In fact, I’ll tell you the location. Okay, it is in England, but it’s at our favorite Where are there more murders in England than anywhere else? According to Brit box, Oxford

Bob Smith 1:35
and Cambridge. That’s it.

Marcia Smith 1:38
It’s Oxford University. They call it here the bell. It’s been ringing continuously, and no one knows exactly how it works. The university that covers the bell with a double pane glass dome so people can study it too loud, although it’s getting quieter now, the mystery of the battery has gone unsilenced. There’s a battery. Well, that’s just it. It was built by a London instrument manufacturing firm in 1825 and acquired by Oxford in 1840 the Item consists of two brass bells set below two batteries that looked a little bit like wax candles. Between these bells is a small lead sphere or clapper that shutters back and forth, creating a near constant ring. Jeez, estimates suggest that the bell has likely run more than 10 billion times. Can you imagine, good lord, powered by dry pile battery, okay, which uses an incredibly small amount of electrostatic energy to move the clapper back and forth, although they don’t want to open up and to see exactly how they did it, because it would stop the marathon. So God forbid it stops ringing. They’re letting it run its course, and then they’re gonna open up and see what the heck is going on in there. That’s

Bob Smith 2:52
amazing. So this was invented almost 190 years ago, and it’s never stopped ringing. No, ever since. No, wow. All right, Marcia, a totally different thing. And this is natural. This is not man made. Where was the highest wind speed ever recorded? I will give you suggestions. Yeah, Barrow Island, Australia, Chicago, Illinois, Windy City, the Air Force Base in Greenland and Mount Washington, New Hampshire, where is the highest wind speed ever recorded.

Marcia Smith 3:23
Oh, gosh, I will go with Greenland. Greenland, that would be a good

Bob Smith 3:27
one. No, it was way down under april 1996 an unmanned weather station on Barrow Island, Australia measured the gusts of tropical cyclone Olivia, which reached speeds of 253

Unknown Speaker 3:41
miles per hour. Oh, my word, 253 miles

Bob Smith 3:44
per hour. Up until then, the strongest observed wind gust was recorded at Mount Washington in New Hampshire in 1934 with speeds of 231 miles per hour. Mount Washington still holds the record for the strongest winds recorded at a manned weather station anywhere. Source for that is weatherology, actually the name of a website. You check in there. I check in there every day for the features. What’s the forecast going to be like?

Marcia Smith 4:10
Yeah, okay, all right, Bob, you know the nursery rhyme. Little Jack Horner sat in the corner eating his Christmas pie. He put in his thumb and pulled out a plum and said, What a good boy am I? That’s right. So here’s the question, what was the plum that the real Jack Horner pulled out of the pie? You mean there was a real Jack Horner? Yes, really? Yeah. It was written in honor of him. Where did this take place? Not England.

Bob Smith 4:35
England. Okay, so what plum did Jack pull out of the pie? Yeah. Was it a bird? Remember they had pies with birds? Yeah,

Marcia Smith 4:41
no, no. What was it? This is at a time when Henry the Eighth was confiscating church property. One monk appease the king with a gift of a special Christmas pie, and inside the crust were deeds to 12 manor houses. Oh, my goodness, secretly, all. Offered in exchange for his monastery. So he was, he was saying, Here you take these deeds to all these houses and save my monastery. Don’t take it over this church leaders monastery. Wow,

Bob Smith 5:11
must have been people who were in his congregation, yeah, offered up their lands in exchange for save

Marcia Smith 5:16
my monastery, something like that. Wow. Well, the courier, the steward who carried the pie to London was none other than Jack Warner, okay? And along the way, he extracted a plum deed, Plum meaning special for himself. And this, this place was called Mel’s Manor, Mel’s Manor, Mel’s Manor. And you’ll love this. Not Mel’s diner melts manner, where Horner’s descendants still live today. Oh, no, kidding.

Bob Smith 5:47
So Little Jack Horner was a real person, yeah, still has descendants, yeah, living in the house.

Marcia Smith 5:52
Uh huh, that he pulled out of the pie and took it from the King, so he stole

Bob Smith 5:56
the manor, yeah, his stolen property. Yeah,

Unknown Speaker 5:59
I’ll be dark

Marcia Smith 6:00
if he’d call it stealing. It’s just didn’t give it to the king with the other 11.

Bob Smith 6:06
So this rhyme is just an allegory to kind of tell the story of this thing. Yes, he was so proud of himself that

Marcia Smith 6:12
he stole the property, pulled out a plum. It was a plum deed.

Bob Smith 6:16
Wow, that is so different than what you would expect that to be about. Yeah, I thought

Marcia Smith 6:19
it was real plums. And was a little guy, but it was, you know, a guy looking for a house.

Bob Smith 6:25
Well, this is a story of a real guy. This is a music question, okay, okay. Do you remember back in the 1960s the show shindig that was one of the top American music TV programs the 60s was that, yeah, I watched. It showcased a lot of different musical acts. What famous stars, antics resulted in the most expensive episode of that series,

Marcia Smith 6:44
really. His antics resulted in expensive

Bob Smith 6:49
it cost more to produce that episode than any other

Marcia Smith 6:52
because he had a big band. He had some problems. He had some problems. Tell me, I have no idea. He had

Bob Smith 6:58
some substance abuse problems. Yeah, it was Johnny Cash of all. Oh my god, yeah. In a 1980s interview the Shindig, host Jimmy O’Neill discussed one of his saddest memories of the show. It was a performer who ultimately had happy ending, but Johnny Cash. This was in the days when Johnny Cash had a big problem with amphetamines and alcohol. And here’s the story. In Jimmy O’Neal’s words, we booked him. The song we asked him to sing was the old gospel song, Amen. You know one word and you’ve got the song. Well, we had an intricate choreography routine with the shindig dancers, and Johnny had to sing the right number of choruses to match the dance routine. What was the problem, he couldn’t remember how many amens he was supposed to sing, he would lose count, and as a result of that, the taping of that episode ran until about 4am Oh, my word. It was the most expensive episode of the entire series because of the overtime. Wow. He says I was so happy later when Johnny Cash married June Carter and got his act together, but that was the saddest thing I’d ever seen professionally.

Marcia Smith 8:04
Oh, man. Well, that’s hopefully it humiliated him. There

Bob Smith 8:08
was probably a lot of hidden stuff like that when drugs were a big problem, yeah, entertainment, yeah, so much drugs. But you would, you would think that would be somebody Led Zeppelin or, you know, somebody else, right? Johnny

Marcia Smith 8:18
Cash, huh? Okay, Bob, want to take a guess where the word villain comes from. Okay,

Bob Smith 8:25
villain, villain. Is it a person? Nope, no, it’s not a person. Is it Latin?

Marcia Smith 8:31
No, okay, I don’t think it’s Latin, but the word is right in it.

Bob Smith 8:35
Villain, V, I, L, L, I, a n, is it ill? No, it’s

Marcia Smith 8:39
villa. Oh, no, kidding, yes. Goes all the way back to feudal times, when a class of serfs held the status of free men, except for their overlords, who lived in villas and literally owned their tenants. You know, okay, because they often had a steal to stay alive. The word villain came to mean someone who worked at the villa and couldn’t be trusted. Oh, no

Bob Smith 9:02
kidding, yeah, so he’s a villain, yeah? He lives over there. Don’t trust that guy. Yeah, I’ll be darned I had no idea.

Marcia Smith 9:08
No, I thought that was fascinating. That’s great.

Bob Smith 9:10
That’s a great one. I love those word origins. Yeah, me too. Okay, Marcia, back to music. I got several music questions, okay, what do all of these acts have in common? Little Richard Ike and Tina Turner the Isley Brothers, Wilson Pickett and Joey D and the star lighters, they all have one musician in common.

Marcia Smith 9:30
One musician in common mean that they were mentored them or something. One

Bob Smith 9:34
musician played in all of their bands. Oh, okay, I see now Little Richard Ike and Tina Turner, the Isley Brothers, Wilson Pickett and Joey D and the star lighters, a hint he was

Unknown Speaker 9:47
a guitarist. Was it Jimmy?

Marcia Smith 9:51
It’s Jimmy, something I can see from the light in your eyes. Jimmy Hendrix, yes.

Bob Smith 9:57
Jimi Hendrix, he played guitar for all. Those acts in his early years. No kidding. Now I can see all of those acts. Little Richard Wilson, Pickett, Ike and Tina Turner, Isley Brothers, but Joey D and the Starlighters sounds like an outlier group, doesn’t it? No, I remember them. They had to hit the peppermint twist. Remember that? But they were soulful because the members of that band later left Joey D and became the young rascals, oh, which we both liked. Yeah, right. It’s a beautiful morning. All those songs, I used to love that song, anyway, so that’s a little interesting music question there.

Marcia Smith 10:29
All right, Bob, can we do aka before the break? Sure. All right, this is my favorite card game, aka also known as Yes, so I give you a word and you give me another word meaning the same thing, okay, the category is football positions, football positions, football positions, 25 cent. Spine, well,

Bob Smith 10:51
that has to be the quarterback.

Marcia Smith 10:54
Jogging spine. Jogging

Bob Smith 10:56
spine, running back, yes. Jogging spine, is

Unknown Speaker 10:59
that what you said? Uh huh. Middle,

Bob Smith 11:02
well, the center, that’s it, okay, okay, this is good,

Marcia Smith 11:06
clenched, but Whoa,

Bob Smith 11:10
okay. I don’t even want to try that. Tell me what the answer there

Marcia Smith 11:13
is, tight end. Oh, dear God, you were being safe there. Yes, I was okay. A diaper pin.

Bob Smith 11:21
A diaper pin, a diaper pin. See, those were the safety, safety so, safety pins, okay,

Marcia Smith 11:28
fishing gear, fishing gear, tackle. That’s it. And the last one, deodorant, brand

Bob Smith 11:36
deodorant, brand ban, brand deodorant, brand Old Spice. That’s not it. Let’s see secret, that’s not it.

Marcia Smith 11:46
Our fans are out there yelling it to you, the answer, what is it? Right guard, okay,

Bob Smith 11:50
yes, right guard, all right. Gotcha. That’s right, that’s right. That’s what right guard was about. Originally, wasn’t, was it? It was they did it with sports heroes, when they did, when they introduced it? Oh, I didn’t, yeah, I used to everybody use all guys use that when they were kids, right guard, you know, some more music questions, and then we’ll go to the break. Okay, okay, who were the cousins? They were two songwriters. They called themselves this. When they sang demos, they sang demos for musicians that were more famous than they were, but they became more famous than those musicians who were the cousins. They weren’t really cousins. They were two songwriters who were singing their own demos. Yeah. Is it a man and a woman? Yeah, man and a woman famous? Was it Carole King and Carole King was one, and

Marcia Smith 12:33
what’s his name was the other? I can see him. He has that little hat on. Paul Simon, no, oh, was that the answer? That was

Bob Smith 12:43
the answer, who’s the singer with a little hat on? Who’s that I

Marcia Smith 12:48
was thinking of? You know, he was, everybody still loves him. Neil Diamond, no, little hat. He’s bald now, and he wears a little visor hat. He sits and plays the guitar. James

Bob Smith 13:01
Taylor, yeah, that’s it. Oh, no, no, no. It was Carole King and Paul Simon. They recorded demo records for other singers under the name of the cousins, really, back when they were working the Brill Building in New York, most musicians didn’t write their own stuff. Carole King, Paul Simon, Neil Diamond, they were all writing songs for other people before they became famous on their own. All right, that’s it for now. Oh, I guess we will be coming back, won’t we? Hopefully? Let’s take a break. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marcia Smith. We’ll be back in just a moment. Okie dokie. Okie dokie, we’re back. Bob and Marcia Smith, you’re listening to the off ramp. We do this every week for the Cedarburg Public Library, Cedarburg, Wisconsin, and then put it out on podcast platforms, and it goes all over the world. Alright? Marcia, who was the first woman to win this prize. This is the Gershwin Prize for popular song, and in 2013 this person became the first woman to receive that prize.

Speaker 1 13:59
Ella Fitzgerald, no, it’s somebody we just talked about, oh, Carly Simon. No. When did we talk about Carly? Oh? We talked about Carol King.

Bob Smith 14:07
Carole King, yes, Carol King. In 2013 she became the first woman to receive the Gershwin Prize for popular song, and President Barack Obama presented that honor to her at a special ceremony held at the White House.

Marcia Smith 14:19
Was that, what was that production we saw, beautiful, her

Bob Smith 14:24
life story. Oh, was that good? It was a good show, and it really explained a lot about the Early Music Days in pop music, in the rock and rolling, yeah,

Marcia Smith 14:31
okay, what is the only animal that can only eat with its head upside down?

Bob Smith 14:37
The only animal that can only eat with its head upside down. That’s right, an animal that has to eat with its head upside down. Is this an insect?

Marcia Smith 14:46
No, no, this is an animal, you know, really? Okay,

Bob Smith 14:50
not an elephant. No, they can’t even get on the ground. I don’t think and get up. I don’t know.

Marcia Smith 14:56
It is the flamingo, really? Yeah. Flamingos are filter feeders, meaning they strain food from the water, and their beaks are adapted to this method. Their specialized beaks allow them to stir up food from the bottom of water and then filter it efficiently while upside down in their in their head, they use their tongue as a pump to pass water through their bill more efficiently, and that’s how they eat. They got to have their head down there so they can do the processing of filtering the water out. That’s so strange, isn’t it? Yeah, who knew? You know, you often see them with their heads down, yeah, but that’s the only way they can eat.

Bob Smith 15:33
I never thought of that me, either, was this something God? Was this a mistake God made, or

Marcia Smith 15:38
something? Sorry about that one. What’s that great routine about that? You know, I made some mistakes. Yard, bark. Not so good.

Bob Smith 15:48
All right. Okay. Marcia, this is a fun one. What country has a holiday called the first day of summer? The only country in the world that has a holiday called the first day of summer. So this country loves the summer. What country would it be? I’ll

Marcia Smith 16:01
have to say, some very cold country would it be.

Unknown Speaker 16:08
I had some suggestions here. Please up to you. Give me

Bob Smith 16:12
Australia, Spain, Ireland, Iceland

Unknown Speaker 16:16
or France Iceland.

Bob Smith 16:18
You’re right. Remember, on a recent show, we revealed the fact that Iceland, despite participating in nearly every winter game since 1948 have never won a Winter Olympic medal, but they’ve won medals in the Summer Olympics. Well, guess what? Iceland really does love summer so much so it’s the only country that has a public holiday called the first day of summer. Do they all get off work? They get off work, they have parades. Now in Iceland, the first day of summer arrives earlier than the rest of the Northern Hemisphere. Oh, yeah. The first day of summer in Iceland is the first Thursday after April 18. So it’s very early. It’s in spring for most countries, but it’s called Sumardagurinn Fyrsti,. That’s what I thought. Sumardagurinn Fyrsti. Oh, very nice. Dates back to the Old Norse calendar, which divided the year into just two seasons, winter and summer. And despite the chilly climate, this day, Sumardagurinn Fyrsti marks the arrival of the longer daylight hours and is celebrated with parade sporting events and entertainment across the country. So Iceland loves Summer. Summer is a big holiday in Iceland. Who knew?

Marcia Smith 17:24
All right, here’s one I think you will nail to the floor. What did George Washington do that was considered at the time by leaders and kings around the world as one of the highest moral lessons ever given to the world that

Bob Smith 17:39
he left his power after the revolution, he gave up the army, he gave up everything, and went off to be a farmer.

Marcia Smith 17:45
He resigned as commander in chief of American forces. That’s right,

Bob Smith 17:49
because people wanted him to become a king. Yes,

Marcia Smith 17:51
even the king that we defeated, King George the Third, gave him Huge shout outs. This was considered to be one of the most important moments in American history. He gave up the chance to be a king with great power and wealth. Instead, he stepped down and gave the country the power to rule itself with the checks and balances of three branches of government.

Bob Smith 18:14
You know how we know that King George the Third said something complimentary about Washington because one of our great portrait artists from America. Oh, yeah, Benjamin West, that’s correct. He was painting King George the Third and at one point, King George asked him, What’s Washington doing these days? Yeah. And he said he believed that Washington would retire to a private situation, and the king said, If he did, he would be the greatest man in the world, because he knew what giving up power meant. Yes,

Marcia Smith 18:41
that’s a high accolade from a defeated despot. Yeah. No kidding. No kidding. Okay,

Bob Smith 18:49
I have found several more questions of music to give to you today, and I’m going to ask you what novelty songwriter recorded a record with one of the longest titles ever. Oh my gosh. This was a famous novelty singer in the United States. He had a number of hits. One was about running naked through streets. Running

Marcia Smith 19:08
naked through the street. It’s not, please? Mr. Custer, no. Now that guy, no,

Bob Smith 19:15
I don’t know. Remember the big bad of streaking? Remember the streak? They called him the streak. Who has that? I don’t know that was Ray Stevens. Didn’t know that, yeah. Well, he had a record on the charts in 1961 with one of the longest titles ever. And here it is, Jeremiah Peabody, polyunsaturated, quick dissolving, fast action, pleasant tasting green and purple pills. I never heard of that that was released as a single. Did you ever hear that in 1961 No, I never did, and it was on the charts for six weeks. It actually reached 35 on the charts in September of that year. It was Ray Stevens first single on Billboard magazine’s hot 100 list. It’s a fictional wonder drug that when taken in a daily dose and cured. All kinds of ailments, much as patent medicine salesmen marketed their concoctions.

Marcia Smith 20:03
I never heard of that one. I don’t remember ever hearing it. Wonder

Bob Smith 20:07
how you could turn that into a song. Jeremiah, Peabody, polyunsaturated, quick dissolving, fast action, pleasant tasting green and purple pills.

Marcia Smith 20:15
Okay, all right. Bob, what percentage of the world’s population is MB, dexterous.

Bob Smith 20:23
They can basically do things with both the right and left hands, right, correct. Okay.

Speaker 1 20:26
What part of the population percentage Now

Bob Smith 20:30
does that mean that they are masters of both hands, or that they’re really okay? So it’s not like you and me, which are pretty much lean on the right hand, yeah, or some people who lean on the left

Marcia Smith 20:40
hand right now, it’s total ability to Okay,

Bob Smith 20:43
so I think left handers are 10% and I always thought that maybe right handers were 80% but let’s say 30% are ambidextrous, really more

Marcia Smith 20:51
than left handed. Yeah, yeah. Well, that makes no sense. It’s rarer than left handed. The answer is 1% Wow, yeah. Isn’t that something true? Ambidexterity is the ability to use one’s left and right hands equally well when it comes to tasks such as writing or throwing a ball. This rare trait naturally occurs in roughly 1% of the global population, around 82 million people, jeez. Okay, in a 2019 study, 1.7% of respondents said they could use both hands interchangeably, far fewer than the 89% who were right handed and the 9.3% who were lefties. So that lefties, yeah, it’s under 10% okay.

Bob Smith 21:35
One last question on a singer. Okay, what singer took her name from A Milk company. Now this was a singer who was singing in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on k, T, U, L, and her name was Clara Ann Fowler, so that’s my clue. Clara Ann Fowler, she took a new name from the milk company that was one of the sponsors of our program. She sang on she became a very famous singer of the 50s, golden

Marcia Smith 21:59
Guernsey. No, oh, okay. She changed

Bob Smith 22:05
her name to Patty and she took the page milk company’s name Patty page, she became Patti Page. Never heard of the page Milk Company. Clara and Fowler became Patti Page. The Page Milk Company was in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where she was singing, all right,

Marcia Smith 22:19
Bob, what did ancient Greeks use for napkins?

Speaker 1 22:23
Cloth, some kind of cloth? Yeah, no, okay. What did they use leaves?

Marcia Smith 22:29
No, okay, what the ancient Greeks unknowingly set the bar for environmentally friendly dining. The first napkins were edible pieces of soft dough, which which were often then fed to dogs after the meal. Okay? Centuries before, the widespread use of paper napkins, soft pieces of dough were cut into small pieces, rolled and then kneaded at the table before being used to wipe people’s fingers and hands after eating. And you think about it, yeah, that would clean up your hands, I guess. Get the sticky

Bob Smith 23:01
off to make the napkins now too that the people back in the kitchen are rolling the dough to make napkins.

Marcia Smith 23:06
Eventually, the practice evolved, and diners used sliced pieces of bread to clean their hands. And then the first paper napkins emerged in ancient China around the second century, probably the

Bob Smith 23:17
same time they did paper money. Yeah, okay. We’ll wipe our mouths with these. We’ll buy things with these. That’s good. Marcia, a city in Japan, receives the world’s highest amount of what from Mother Nature. Is it acid rain? Is it fog? Is it sunny days? Or is it snowfall? This

Speaker 1 23:35
is acid rain. No, no snow. That’s it, huh? Toka

Bob Smith 23:40
machi. This is a city 150 miles northwest of Tokyo, experiences a phenomenon similar to lake effect snow in the United States, except the Great Lakes eventually freeze over, whereas the warmth of the Sea of Japan, combined with the cold Siberian air keeps the snow machine humming along that village, it’s called Toka machi. To Komachi receives 450 inches of snow per year.

Marcia Smith 24:06
That is a heck of a lot of snow. 450

Bob Smith 24:10
inches of snow per year that comes from National Geographic.

Marcia Smith 24:13
All right. What do these six foods have in common? Bob, chocolate chip cookies, corn flakes, slushies, Worcestershire sauce, nachos and popsicles. While the

Bob Smith 24:26
popsicles threw me off. Yeah, all the rest seemed I could think of some ingredient. But what were okay? What are they again?

Marcia Smith 24:33
Chocolate chip cookies, corn flakes, slushies, Worcestershire sauce and nachos and popsicles. Okay? They were all accidents. That’s it. Yeah, I wondered if you’d get that, because we had a couple of them on the show,

Bob Smith 24:45
because I knew chocolate chip cookies were and corn flakes were, and then I also knew popsicles were, so they were all accidental

Marcia Smith 24:50
foods, yes, and popsicles, that’s the 11 year old kid who let us left his soda outside. That’s right. Put it with a stick in it, and then, oh, hey, this is good on this. Think it was frozen. This tastes good when it’s cold. Corn Flakes.

Bob Smith 25:03
Kellogg, they dropped them on a stove, I think, yeah, and

Marcia Smith 25:06
everybody loved it. Chocolate chip cookies. She was the proprietor of the Toll House Inn. That’s right. Tool House cookies. She chopped up a block of Nestle chocolate and gifted it to her representative from the Nestle company, and instead of chocolate dispersing while baking in her cookies, it came out in little solid chunks. And everybody loved everybody loved it. Everybody did, but Worcestershire sauce, you’re just saying it is a is a treat. Is not

Bob Smith 25:33
the one where it tasted so bad, the person they did it for said, put that on the shelf. That’s awful. And, yeah, they went back for it later. It was like, this is they went

Marcia Smith 25:40
back for it two years later. Okay? Two years it was created in 1835 when a former governor of India known as Lord Sandy’s was looking for sauces that reminded him of his favorite Asian flavors. And he asked drug store owners this, I love John Lee and William parents, which is the name of our Worcestershire sauce. Yeah, parents right to come up with a product, and they put together fish and vegetable mixture that produced a really strong odor and stuck up the place. So they put it in the cellar of their store, and forgot about it right until two years later. Why? Cleaning the basement, they found it and it had fermented and obtained an appealing flavor, a very different, very different flavor, yes, and it, and it eventually became a popular as a condiment throughout the United Kingdom. And it was named after where it was invented, Mr. Shire. Yeah. Was just Shire,

Bob Smith 26:35
which is a county. Shire means County. It was first exported

Marcia Smith 26:38
to America in 1839 so it’s been around for a while, yeah? Including that brand, for sure.

Bob Smith 26:45
They invented the thing and they keep it going. Yeah? The primary producer, yeah.

Marcia Smith 26:50
All right, springtime, Bob, yeah. Here’s a quote from Robin Williams, okay, spring is nature’s way of saying, let’s party.

Unknown Speaker 26:57
I could just hear him say that. And Doug Larson

Marcia Smith 27:01
said spring is when you feel like whistling, even when your shoe is full of slush. Yeah, it goes well here in the Midwest,

Bob Smith 27:11
that’s for sure. And your shoe usually is dirty when it’s full of that kind of slush. In the spring, it gets dark and dirty and ugly, and can’t wait for summer to come. Maybe we should have a holiday. Oh, wait a minute, Iceland’s already done that. Well, that’s it for today. We hope you’ve enjoyed what you’ve heard today here on the off ramp, and we hope you join us next time when we return with more fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia. I’m Bob Smith. I’m

Marcia Smith 27:36
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Unknown Speaker 27:37
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Bob Smith 27:41
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