291 Deep Dish Trivia

Marcia Smith 0:00
Where in the world are visitors required to turn off Wi Fi and Bluetooth on all devices when they arrive?

Bob Smith 0:08
When they arrive? Yeah, hmm. And who first delivered a pizza to outer space, the Russians or the Americans? It’s complicated. Answers to those and other questions coming up in this episode of the Off Ramp with Bob and

Marcia Smith 0:23
Marcia Smith.

Bob Smith 0:40
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. Our cause is lifelong learning. That’s what we try to encourage here with all of these bits of information we bring to you.

Bob Smith 0:56
Well, Marcia, who first delivered a pizza to outer space, was it the Russians or the Americans?

Marcia Smith 1:02
Russians?

Bob Smith 1:03
It’s complicated, Marcia. It was an American company delivering it to Russian astronauts.

Marcia Smith 1:09
Oh, that’s cute.

Bob Smith 1:10
It was in 2001 Pizza Hut. Made history by sending a custom made six inch salami pizza to the International Space Station. Now that delivery was part of a $1 million marketing campaign in partnership with the Russian Space Agency, the pizza was specially formulated to survive space travel. Salami was chosen over pepperoni because it lasts longer, and extra salt was added to compensate for the way things taste in microgravity.

Marcia Smith 1:38
Really.

Bob Smith 1:39
The pizza was vacuum sealed, loaded onto a Russian resupply rocket, and is designed to fit into the space station’s tiny six inch oven. That’s pretty simple.

Marcia Smith 1:49
Is that what they had? A six inch oven

Bob Smith 1:51
Yeah

Marcia Smith 1:52
A six inch pizza.

Bob Smith 1:53
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Oshakov was the first person to receive a pizza delivery while in orbit, and the first person to eat pizza in space.

Marcia Smith 2:02
Okay.

Bob Smith 2:03
So why isn’t there more advertising by US companies in space?

Marcia Smith 2:07
Because it’s not allowed.

Bob Smith 2:09
Yeah, the US prohibits American marketers from placing obtrusive advertising in space. Obtrusive being defined as anything that can be viewed from Earth without the aid of a telescope.

Marcia Smith 2:19
Oh, yeah.

Bob Smith 2:20
But by contrast, Russia is much more lax about advertising. In fact, the communist country has a history of selling ad space on cosmonauts space suits.

Marcia Smith 2:29
Oh, we’re getting close to all that. Bob

Bob Smith 2:32
Pizza Hut even had its logo put on a Russian Proton rocket. So thanks to Communist capitalists, Houston, we have a pizza!

Marcia Smith 2:43
That’s funny. Okay, Bob, where in the world is a town? Bob, well, actually, I’m going to ask you, because I’m nicer than you, you would ask me, What town? I’m going to just say, what country? In what country is there a town where visitors are required to turn off Wi Fi and Bluetooth on all their devices if they’re coming there.

Bob Smith 3:01
Now it’s a certain town

Marcia Smith 3:03
Yeah.

Bob Smith 3:03
In a country.

Marcia Smith 3:04
Yeah.

Bob Smith 3:04
So are there other towns in this country where it’s okay?

Marcia Smith 3:07
No, no, no.

Bob Smith 3:08
So this is the only place.

Marcia Smith 3:10
Yeah.

Bob Smith 3:10
Okay, it’s the Vatican.

Marcia Smith 3:12
No, oh, not at all.

Bob Smith 3:14
That’s a town and a country combined.

Marcia Smith 3:16
Yeah, no, no. I said you would probably ask me what town, but I’m being nicer and saying, what country has

Bob Smith 3:22
I know you’e virtue signaling by telling me how nice you are.

Marcia Smith 3:24
What did you say virtue signaling?

Bob Smith 3:25
Yes

Marcia Smith 3:27
Oh that’s funny. I got to use that.

Bob Smith 3:29
Oh, it’s used all the time,

Marcia Smith 3:30
Is it?

Bob Smith 3:30
Oh, yeah

Marcia Smith 3:31
I never heard of it

Bob Smith 3:32
But I didn’t ask you for that.

Marcia Smith 3:34
Okay

Bob Smith 3:34
I’m asking you, are there other towns in the country?

Marcia Smith 3:37
Yes

Bob Smith 3:38
In those towns, are you able to go in and do all this without turning off all these devices.

Marcia Smith 3:43
Just this one town in the whole world.

Bob Smith 3:45
Okay. Is it in Europe?

Marcia Smith 3:46
Yes

Bob Smith 3:46
Okay. Is it in Scandinavia?

Marcia Smith 3:48
Yes.

Bob Smith 3:49
Is it near the Arctic Circle?

Marcia Smith 3:51
Yes.

Bob Smith 3:52
Okay! So. Is it at a military base somewhere on the Arctic Circle?

Marcia Smith 3:56
No.

Bob Smith 3:56
Ok tell me the story.

Marcia Smith 3:57
It is in a place called Neal I soon Norway, hmm. Nay-uh-lay-soon.

Bob Smith 4:03
That’s how they pronounce it?

Marcia Smith 3:57
Yeah, I looked it up.

Bob Smith 3:57
Okay

Marcia Smith 3:57
it’s Norway in the world’s northernmost year round settlement. The town is home to approximately 40 permanent residents

Bob Smith 4:09
Not 40,000 not 40 million.

Marcia Smith 4:20
Yeah, 40. This little town welcomes visitors, but they have some unique rules tourists must abide by, and they have to immediately turn off Wi Fi and Bluetooth on all their devices. Why you say?

Bob Smith 4:33
Why Marcia? Why?

Marcia Smith 4:33
Because this former mining town, established in 1916 and still owned by the Kings Bay mining company has also doubled as a research station since the 1960s and surrounding it are finely tuned instruments that measure the Earth’s slightest movement.

Bob Smith 4:53
I thought it was something like that, did you well, it’s probably military. I was thinking,

Marcia Smith 4:56
yeah, it is. And as smartphones can interfere. Their measurements. Visitors must observe radio silence while visiting. So that’s it. That’s the answer. That’s interesting. Yeah, who knew? I didn’t out of the people there. They don’t have any connectivity then, huh?

Bob Smith 5:12
I guess you’re telling me nobody can have any of that on they’re 40 people, yeah? And if you they’re sending letters to each other with postage stamps.

Marcia Smith 5:19
They don’t have any overnight accommodation. So I guess you’re not welcome to stay too

Bob Smith 5:24
long. I guess you can’t make any reservations online, but they

Marcia Smith 5:27
got a free museum and the world’s northernmost gift shop, along with many cultural artifacts. Case you’re thinking of maybe taking a little jaunt there.

Bob Smith 5:35
What would the souvenir be? Marsh? It’s a place I can’t buy something. I can’t

Marcia Smith 5:39
know. What is that? You know? What is the souvenir? That’s a, I don’t know. Bob, okay,

Bob Smith 5:44
Marcia, who is Cumberland Posey. This is a person with great distinction. I’ve heard that name now last time we did a name of a British gentleman who was both a Olympic athlete and the winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. This is similar to that. Who is Cumberland Posey?

Marcia Smith 6:00
You’ll have to tell me he’s an athlete. He is an athlete. Okay,

Bob Smith 6:04
what would be unusual about him?

Marcia Smith 6:07
He liked to Posey for pictures in the

Bob Smith 6:09
early 1900s he’s the only athlete in both the baseball and the Basketball Hall of Fames, widely regarded as the best African American basketball player in the early 1900s he won four consecutive colored Basketball World Championships and later became a baseball player, but not just any baseball player. He became a player, manager and owner of the Homestead Grays, a Negro League baseball team that won nine consecutive pennants. And for both of those sets of achievements, Cumberland Posey is in the basketball hall of fame and the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown. Go, go Cumberland. Okay, now there’s a example of somebody who’s great distinction. You never heard of him.

Marcia Smith 6:48
Fascinating. Okay, Bob.

Bob Smith 6:50
Why to me, anyway,

Marcia Smith 6:52
why? Oh, why, Bob, do we have middle names? And when did we start to have middle names?

Bob Smith 6:58
Middle names were originally to link you to your, I think the mother’s family, at least in the English tradition, it was

Marcia Smith 7:04
before that, before that, yeah, we’re going back to the 15th century, okay? And

Bob Smith 7:09
it wasn’t a trade or anything. What because a trade? Because your last name, your surname, often, was your trade. You were a Smith, yeah, yeah, Smith or cobbler, or whatever. No,

Speaker 1 7:18
this is middle names. Okay? What’s the answer?

Marcia Smith 7:20
Middle names as we know them today started in Italy just as it was entering the Renaissance. The earliest middle names were Catholic saint names given to children in elite families in the hopes that the saints would protect them. The practice became common by the late 15th century, then spread to lower classes and nearby countries in the early 1800s 45% of French boys were given at least one middle name, and by the end of the century, the number jumped to 69%

Bob Smith 7:49
so this was a fad among the elite that the regular people copied,

Marcia Smith 7:54
and it gained traction in Great Britain, in the United States in the 19th century, although it was exceedingly rare to have middle names in those countries before 1800 by this point, middle names weren’t necessarily religious. They just gave families more room to honor a second relative or a matriarchal lineage with naming their children. And that’s what we all do. We honor grandparents, yeah, all sorts of things with the middle

Bob Smith 8:19
names. Yeah. That was, like I said it was, generally, it was to honor the one spouse name that came into the marriage. Yeah, didn’t have the dominant

Marcia Smith 8:27
name. And it gives, if you do it, right, it gives a little panache to a plain name like

Speaker 2 8:31
Bob Smith, yes. Bob Aloysius

Bob Smith 8:36
Smith, no, that’s not my phone, okay, all right. Marcia, back to outer space advertising. Pizza Hut wasn’t the first to actually do that. Do you know who was the Tokyo Broadcasting System? They paid $10 million to Russia to send a journalist into space with their logo on the rocket. This is back in the 90s. Other companies have launched products, logos, even people. Israeli dairy, tanuva, they filmed a milk commercial aboard a space station in 1997 Pepsi, in 1996 conducted a publicity stunt involving a can in space. And now, how about advertising to other worlds? Okay? In 2008 Doritos became the first to do that. It beamed a commercial out to potential extraterrestrial life directed at a solar system, 42 light years from Earth, believed to host small life supporting planets like Earth. What a dubious product to market to extraterrestrial life here. Try these Doritos. We like them here on Earth. Okay?

Marcia Smith 9:39
Mr. MC history presidents speaking of middle names, who was the first president to have a middle name?

Bob Smith 9:45
Can you give me an era or something? Was it the 19th century?

Marcia Smith 9:49
This guy was president. He was born in the 1700s so it was unusual.

Bob Smith 9:53
Oh, I bet I know who it is. He was born in like, Kinderhook, New York, and he was from Dutch parents, and he was actually the first. First American president because he was the first born in the United States. Van Buren, is that?

Marcia Smith 10:06
Is that the guy? No, okay, who was it? John Quincy Adams,

Bob Smith 10:10
so he was the first president with a middle name? Yeah, really, yep.

Marcia Smith 10:13
The first five presidents born between 1732 and 1758 didn’t have them. The first president with a middle name, John Quincy Adams was born in 1767, it wound up being a pretty good way to distinguish him from his father. Yes, John Adams, the second US President.

Bob Smith 10:31
So John Adams, the original John Adams didn’t have a middle name. No, I didn’t know. None

Marcia Smith 10:36
of them did and but he gave his son one. I guess it was a very posh thing to do.

Bob Smith 10:40
Well, Quincy was her family. Was the Quincy family. She was from the Quincy line. Her name was Smith, but she was from the Quincy line. Oh, okay.

Marcia Smith 10:49
And the next president with a middle name, William Howard Taft, William Henry Harrison. Oh, okay. Next one

Bob Smith 10:58
grandson of a president. Oh, he was, yeah, didn’t know that, all right, Marcia, where did mod fashion first become popular? Do you remember mod fashion England, London? That’s where it was. You’re right. And it was derived from the word modernist, yes, associated with music and fashion, typically tailored suits clean lines and androgynous stylings.

Marcia Smith 11:19
And who was the big mod girl. That was

Speaker 3 11:22
Twiggy. That’s right, yeah, okay, Bob, what are the most

Marcia Smith 11:25
popular dog names?

Bob Smith 11:26
Well, there’s William Howard Taft. There’s Oh, okay, let me ask you a question. Sure. Are they names that you could give to a man or a woman, like Madge or midget or, well, that’s not the name of a woman or a man. Is

Marcia Smith 11:38
my friend? Midget? Small? Yeah, these are real names. It’s not like George and Harriet, but okay, the two most popular names for dogs today are Milo for male dogs and Luna for female

Bob Smith 11:50
dogs. Wow, really. Milo. I like those names, though. And isn’t that a cartoon character? Milo, it sounds like and Luna, it sounds like a duo. Is what it sounds like. It does

Marcia Smith 11:59
sound like a cartoon bio and Luna in and other incredibly common dog names are Max Bella, Teddy and Daisy.

Bob Smith 12:07
Now, most of those are names that you could give to a woman or a man. Yeah. All right, Marcia, what iconic woman’s hairstyle was created by this woman named Margaret hilt, and I’ll give you the year 1960 and she created something when modern beauty shop magazine asked her for a unique hairstyle. Is it a beehive? That’s exactly right, I had one. Did you she designed a hairdo that fit inside hats and remained intact when the hat was taken off. So during the first photo shoot for the hairstyle, she added a last minute embellishment that the editor thought looked like a bee, hence the name bee hive. She plucked an embellishment off a black denim hat and tucked it into the model’s hair, and that’s when the editor said that just looks like a bee you put in there. So it’s a beehive. It’s a hive. You know what a beehive? I know what they look like, that big, kind of like bun, right? One of my bosses had that. Carol Berry had that, yes, she did modern beauty shop in 1960 that’s where that first appeared. And it didn’t take long to grow into a phenomenon. Just a year after its debut, Audrey Hepburn was sporting the hairdo as Holly go lightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s in 1961 and Bridget Bardo, Jackie Kennedy and the Ronettes all helped make that style mainstream, and Marcia Drew and Smith and Marcia Drouin in the 1960s

Marcia Smith 13:26
Yes, I rocked the beehive. Here’s

Bob Smith 13:28
here’s how they described them. The look was capable of holding its shape for over a week. Women would often wrap toilet paper or scarves around their heads before bed and wake up in the morning looking ready to go. That’s from Mental Floss, where I found

Marcia Smith 13:44
that. Can I tell you my one quick beehive story kind of saved my head from injury. I was in a back seat of a car that flew over tree tops and landed upside down. Oh, dear, that accident you told me about. Yeah, I was a teenager, and my head hit the light fixture in the middle of the car roof, okay? And all the pieces broke off into my beehive, but it never hit my head,

Bob Smith 14:08
so it cushioned the blow, and the glass broke, but it got into your hair, not

Marcia Smith 14:12
never got down to my scalp because you had

Bob Smith 14:15
a beehive haircut. Yeah, it saved your life. Wow, that’s pretty impressive. Yeah, I knew you’d love it. Oh my goodness, that’s, I didn’t know that part of the story. Yeah, I think we better take a break. Yes, I think you’re right. You’re listening to the off ramp with Bob and Marcia Smith. We’ll be back in just a moment. We’re back. You’re listening to Bob and Marcia Smith and the off ramp. We do this every week for the Cedarburg Public Library, Cedarburg, Wisconsin, and then we put it on podcast platforms where it is heard all

Speaker 4 14:43
over the world. I get so excited. Yes, you do, don’t you? It’s amazing.

Marcia Smith 14:50
Okay, Bob, what percent of women in heterosexual marriages still take their husband’s name? I bet it’s 40% maybe 50. It’s a. Lot more really? What is it? 79%

Bob Smith 15:01
really? I would have thought by now people would have changed that, you know, that’s why I put

Marcia Smith 15:06
it in here. I was surprised when a woman marries a man in the United States, it’s more common than it used to be for her to keep her own last name. But according to a Pew Research Study, around 79% still adopt their husband’s last name. Well, in this study, 14% kept their last name, 5% hyphenated both names. You did that for a while when you were a reporter, yeah, just for a byline. And then more than 90% of men keep their last names with 1% hyphenating and 1% taking their spouse’s last name.

Bob Smith 15:39
1% Yeah. And in some cultures, that’s more dominant than that. Okay, all right, I have another fashion question for you. What men’s fashion movement took off in the 1960s

Marcia Smith 15:50
because of a the Nehru jacket, not the Nehru jacket. No different kind of jacket, camouflage jackets. No, not camouflage jackets in the city. Did you have more there?

Bob Smith 16:00
I was going to tell you that it was a rock and roll group that popularized these Beatles, and what was the weren’t those narrow No, they weren’t neighborhood jackets, collarless jackets. Yeah, fans all over the world copied their longer hair and their collarless jackets and their slim fit pants and those chelsea boots, and over the course of the decade, their style evolved, but was always the cutting edge of fashion, the Beatles and the source comes from fashion history.com.

Marcia Smith 16:24
All right. All righty, here’s a question, Bob, what is the only tree to have survived the atomic bomb of Hiroshima? The only

Bob Smith 16:32
tree, yeah, that survived the so this is over in Hiroshima, and it apparently thrived despite this. Yeah, terrible thing

Marcia Smith 16:39
that happened, only one is it a tulip tree? Nope, a hint, okay. It’s outside our living room window, maple tree, no, a walnut tree. Our other window in the What’s that called the ginkgo tree? That’s

Bob Smith 16:54
what I was thinking of when I said Tulip tree. I’m sorry, a ginkgo tree? Yeah, yes, because those go back to prehistoric

Marcia Smith 17:00
times. Do those trees survived? And by the following spring of 1946 residents realized that their singed, barkless ginkgo trees had once again bloomed, inspiring hope among survivors. Amazing the surviving 170

Bob Smith 17:16
trees, 170 of them. Wow. So it wasn’t just a fluke like one or two trees.

Marcia Smith 17:21
They call them survivor trees, and they’re all labeled with plaques that share their story. That is amazing. Yeah, very healthy leaf. When it’s boiled down to various things, it’s got all sorts of properties that are helpful for you.

Bob Smith 17:36
I don’t know how thick they are, several millimeters, I would think, but you can rub those between your fingers. It’s like, it feels like rubber. It’s amazing. How did President Franklin Roosevelt use music to help improve US Foreign Relations? Oh. FDR, yeah. FDR, this has to do with Latin America.

Marcia Smith 17:53
Did he broadcast things and play their music different times to say, Hey, you’re we’re here for

Bob Smith 17:59
you. You’d think it’d be something like that. No, this was just one little added thing he did because the United States had exploited Latin America, South America, Central America, for a lot of things. So the good neighbor policy was what FDR did in the 30s to renounce the United States right to unilaterally intervene in the internal affairs of nations in Latin America. So one thing he had to do, as far as music went, he had the State Department commission an official Spanish language version of the Star Spangled Banner. It had never been done before. Oh, that’s interesting. So there was a moment, there a bright, shining moment when music was used to help with foreign relations in the United States.

Marcia Smith 18:39
Okay, good to know what makes the super generation of Monarch butterflies different from other monarch butterflies. What do you mean the super generation? Oh, that’s your question. What is a super generation? What is a

Bob Smith 18:53
super generation? Okay? Marcia, answer this question. What is a super generation butterflies? You want to take a guess? Well, I know that there are numerous generations required for these round trips they make, yeah, from like Mexico to Canada

Marcia Smith 19:06
and back, usually 444, or five. So the

Bob Smith 19:09
super generation is that the last generation or the first generation?

Marcia Smith 19:13
No, that’s the interesting part. It’s the one that makes it in one generation. Oh, there is one, yes, and that’s it. Know that it lives. This monarch lives eight times longer. It’s born in late summer, and it can live up to eight months, and that’s why it can make a long flight back to Mexico to over winter. Most of them live four

Bob Smith 19:33
weeks. So the others last four weeks. This last 32 weeks.

Speaker 5 19:36
Yeah, I guess you’re right. Wow, yeah, that was it. Okay. All right, Bob,

Bob Smith 19:40
all right. Marsh, you lived in Michigan. I did. Why might it cost you $3,000 to visit a specific set of Michigan beaches? I’ll give you the name of the beaches, Sleeping Bear Dunes, National Lakeshore, though that’s on the the western shore of Lake Michigan, some of the tallest sand dunes in the world. Some of them are 450 Feet tall, which is taller than a 40 story skyscraper. Yeah, wow. So why does it cost $3,000 to visit these beaches at

Marcia Smith 20:10
times to visit? Yeah, I haven’t a clue, because it costs that much to leave if you,

Bob Smith 20:18
if you’re a daredevil and you descend the massive Dune, unaware of the grueling climb back up that can take two hours on average every year, 32 people require a rescue during the climb back up, and that can be accompanied by a $3,000 bill.

Marcia Smith 20:33
Oh, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Mean, they go down the dune because they want to descend, right? Yeah, instead of just going, Wow, that’s a long way down there, or slide down, and then they can’t get back,

Bob Smith 20:43
get back up. So sometimes they’re having a heart attack. There’s all kinds of problems. So here comes the helicopter to pick you up, or a team of people have to come. No kidding, $3,000 so next time we go to Sleeping Bear Dunes, National Lakeshore, just stand on the edge. Look at it and don’t go down again. Marsh, I told you the last time, okay, that cost me $3,000 what a kick in the head that would be. Yeah, our budget vacation.

Marcia Smith 21:08
Yeah, you blew it, baby. What Bob? What is the biggest turkey growing state in the United States?

Bob Smith 21:16
The biggest turkey growing state in the United States? Correct? Let’s see, I think it’d be a warmer climate. I’m thinking Arkansas, for some reason, good. Somewhere around there, maybe Oklahoma,

Marcia Smith 21:27
Arkansas is number three. Oh, okay, but Minnesota really is number one. It produces over 40 million birds annually, and it’s home to a large number of Turkey farms, including Jenny Oh and northern pride cooperative number two is North Carolina, and it’s followed by Arkansas, Indiana and Missouri.

Speaker 6 21:47
I wonder why they’re so prevalent there. That’s interesting. It got

Marcia Smith 21:51
me because it ain’t warm up there. Yeah,

Bob Smith 21:53
no, it’s not, that’s for sure. I thought turkeys would require that, you know, a little more warmth or something.

Marcia Smith 21:59
Here’s a quick question, okay, over time, 254 actors have played this character. Who is it? 254 Yes, actors have played this one character.

Bob Smith 22:11
Okay, I’m thinking of Sherlock Holmes. You got it? That shows you how many people have liked

Marcia Smith 22:15
that. And it just comes out in so many different forms. And it’s amazing. All right. Time for AKA, also known as, all

Bob Smith 22:24
right, what’s the topic today?

Marcia Smith 22:26
The category is shades of red. What’s the category today? Shades of red, shades of red, yes, okay, you’ll get this. I hope so. Maybe not. Oh, dear, thorny flower. The color is

Bob Smith 22:39
roses. Rose.

Marcia Smith 22:41
The clue is Bing, bing, yeah. What is the shade of red cherry? That’s it. Bing cherry. Okay. Ms, Johansen. Ms, Johansen, Scarlet. That’s it, okay, the third pig’s house. The third pig’s house.

Bob Smith 23:00
Oh, like the three little pigs, yeah. Okay, so let’s see. The first one made his out of straw, and it blew away. And our next one in his house sanded. It blew away. I know it wasn’t sand. I don’t know what they were. I’m trying to get to this. Okay, it’s a shade of red, a shade of red, okay, I don’t know what was it. Brick is Brick a shade of red, sure. Brick red. It’s a, it’s a color. I did not know that. I had no idea stuff, okay,

Marcia Smith 23:25
denzil’s tide. What denzel’s tide?

Bob Smith 23:30
Denzil Denzel,

Marcia Smith 23:31
Washington tide. It’s a name of a movie. Shade of red. I’m sorry I can’t crimson. Crimson Tide. Okay, okay, plasma, plasma, blood red. Yeah, okay. And last one, anchor man’s surname. Anchor man’s surname. This is a Will Ferrell character,

Bob Smith 23:53
the anchor man’s surname. Yeah, no, I don’t know. I’m sorry,

Marcia Smith 23:56
you saw the movie,

Speaker 7 23:58
yeah? Ron, burgundy. Oh,

Bob Smith 24:00
so I didn’t know burgundy was a color of red. I’ve bought shoes called burgundy, but I didn’t know they were red.

Marcia Smith 24:05
Yeah, they’re dark red. Oh, okay, that’s the color I had of everything when you married me and you said, Why is everything so dark?

Bob Smith 24:11
Well, everything was very dark. And you got any more questions that this girl needs some laughs, so I gotta help her something. I gotta help her. She laughs all the time. Now, yeah. All right. Marcia, this is an interesting question about a US state. What US state was the district of another state for 40 years?

Marcia Smith 24:32
Was it like the Carolinas? Not the Carolinas? Was it it wasn’t DC, no, but it was on the East Coast. Was it our little Vermont?

Bob Smith 24:42
It’s up there, but it’s not Vermont. Is it connect? Going north?

Speaker 8 24:46
Got Maine? That’s it. Maine. Maine

Bob Smith 24:49
was known as the District of Maine. In what state?

Speaker 9 24:53
What state? Ah, what’s right? The one right below it,

Bob Smith 24:57
it was in the state of Massachusetts, believe it or not. No kidding, from 1780 until 1820 that means Maine, just like Florida, was not one of the 13 original colonies.

Marcia Smith 25:07
You see, we should all know that, and I had no clue. I never heard of that. Today, it’s the

Bob Smith 25:11
most northern of the lower 48 states. But for 40 years, it was actually part of Massachusetts, even though it was separated by New Hampshire and the state below it, it’s got a 13 mile coastline which separated Maine from Massachusetts, but it was still considered a territory of Massachusetts, and that changed after the War of 1812 the British held vast swathes of Maine territory, and they wanted to be on their own the Maine land. They became a state March 15, 1820, but for 40 years before that they were part of Massachusetts. Didn’t know that me either. Isn’t interesting, though, when you think about it. So Maine was not one of the 13 original colonies, but the land of Maine was one of the 13 original colonies. It was part of Massachusetts.

Speaker 10 25:52
You brought some knowledge to me, Bob, that’s

Bob Smith 25:55
the point of my show. My show, I mean, our show. Sorry about that,

Marcia Smith 25:58
Simon, last night, you and I watched a great documentary by Ben Stiller on his parents still are in mirror.

Bob Smith 26:04
That was great. Nothing is lost, is what it was called. It was great.

Marcia Smith 26:08
It was nice. But anyway, he said his parents had been married for 62 years. So that got me to thinking about some quotes on marriage. Okay, a happy marriage is a long conversation, which always seems too short. I like that. That’s good. Andre Maurice, Simone senior, a chains, do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which

Speaker 9 26:33
sew people together through the years. That’s sweet, too. That’s very nice.

Marcia Smith 26:38
This one is from David Muir. A great marriage is not when the perfect couple comes together,

Speaker 11 26:45
it’s when an imperfect couple learns to enjoy their differences. Oh, that’s sweet. Yeah, I like that. That really touched you, yeah? Because we have so many differences, apparently, okay, I didn’t realize that. All right, that’s good. And then you got a funny one there. Uh huh. Okay,

Marcia Smith 27:00
this is Rita Rudner, I love being married. It’s so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Bob Smith 27:10
And I found it. I mean, you found it. You found her. Now you found him. I mean, that’s what I’m trying to get out of this now, okay, well, we hope we haven’t annoyed you, and we thank you for listening. We want to invite you. If you have any questions or things you’d like to contribute, you can do so by going to our website, the off ramp, dot show and scrolling all the way down to contact us. There’s a box there you can leave us information. Okay, join us again next time when we come back with more fascinating facts and tantalizing trivia here on the off ramp. The off ramp is produced in association with the Cedarburg Public Library, Cedarburg, Wisconsin. Visit us on the web at the offramp. Dot show.

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