You know when you texted me earlier because it was raining, and you were at a standstill on the highway?
Uh huh.
And I wrote back, it's raining, and then I said people are dumb. My phone wanted me to send, people are hung.
Oh, whoa.
And it was such a quick text I almost just hit the send without even checking it. Then I was like, whoa.
[Theme song]
Welcome to Delete This History, a podcast by two besties of a certain age searching for answers.
We're your hosts Cara Burch.
And Brea Brown.
Hey.
Hello, it's episode six.
Six.
What have you been up to?
This week was really crazy cause it's back to school.
Oh, golly gumdrops it was.
I forgot it was the first day of school and I was just doing my normal routine. Didn't leave earlier like I should have. Traffic.
Yeah. And we had heat advisories, and I really did not want my kid walking home in hundred-degree weather with eighty-seven-degree humidity. So, I had to brave the effing school pickup line. We braved and survived the line at the school, and we got some rain this morning. I hope it cools things down outside so that my kid can just walk home like he should. In his new Crocs that he's getting that will be arriving next week. Yep I caved and I did it.
I hate Crocs.
I do too.
And I thought he was going to get like black ones so that they wouldn't be too like too horrible.
Oh no. Are they like flamin’ red?
What color are they?
He totally shocked me. He got like a light powder blue.
Oh, what made him choose powder blue?
I have no idea.
You didn't delve into the choice reasons.
No.
That's all right.
I just wanted to get the purchase done and over with.
Pretend like it never happened.
Yeah.
Ugh. Those shoes are the worst invention on the planet.
We ordered them online because I refused to buy them in person somewhere. And have somebody see me buy them.
I don't blame you.
What's going on in your world this week?
Well, I have a correction to make. When I was cleaning up our transcript for human consumption, I realized that I said that Martha has labradoodles.
Yeah.
She doesn't have labradoodles. That was a slip of the lip. She has golden doodles.
Oh, golden doodles.
Yes.
And I know that you knew.
I knew what you meant.
Yes. And then I got to doubting myself, so I texted Martha D. and I said, your dogs are goldendoodles, right? And she said Baxter is, but Teddy is a sheepadoodle.
Sheepadoodle?
Yes. I wanted to apologize on the air to Baxter and Teddy. I think that I did that on purpose. Like I mistakenly called them labradoodles so that I could just put you back in a glass case of emotion and we could yell the word Baxter again.
Okay.
Ready?
Yep.
Baxter!
All right.
What else have you got going on?
I started my conquerors challenge.
How did that go? I'm lying. I know how it went.
Yeah. I've been giving you way too many updates.
No, I want to hear about them.
It's going well. I’ve already cycled 16 miles.
Nice.
Through the Shire.
You have to tell them what you got yesterday.
I get postcards when I cross certain milestones or whatever.
When I saw it, I went, that's so cool.
Yeah.
So, I got a postcard that said Frodo, you must leave the Shire. Go on a quest. Or you must leave Bag End. That's what it said. Not leave the Shire, but you must leave Bag End. Anyway, so I started that. So that's an update and it's really cool and it's fun. I'm just hoping that this just gets me back into the habit of riding my bike.
I would like to just update everyone because I know everybody is wondering. My progress on watching The Young Riders is coming along.
Oh, my goodness. How many episodes have you watched?
I finished number three.
Is it aging well?
So surprisingly, so far, it's been all right. I'm loving it. Hanging out with my boyfriend. I've fallen in love with him all over again.
Oh, my goodness.
Jimmy. He's so young.
Oh, my goodness.
Oh boy.
Well, keep us updated.
Oh, I absolutely will. There's I think a full four seasons of this that I got to work my way through.
Whoa.
I know.
We also did something very exciting together this past week.
Yes.
We went to go see the Barbie movie.
It was so good. So good.
And the theater was packed.
It really was.
I thought we're going to be the only ones in here. We're the only ones who still have not seen this movie. You think those were repeat customers?
Maybe. I felt like we were the only ones laughing.
I know. You and I were laughing our asses off on so many parts and no one else was laughing.
Oh my gosh.
We were very out loud.
I was laughing so hard.
I thought Ryan Gosling, as Ken stole the show.
He did.
He was just so funny.
It was such a fun movie.
Clint was not interested at all in our play by play of the Barbie movie. And he does not like that I keep singing that Ken song around the house.
Ken song is hilarious. Oh my gosh. I'm just, oh I sang it. Oh, no. I’ll cut that out.
Well, you didn't sing enough of it for us to get in trouble.
Oh, here we go. [sings Pomp and Circumstance]
Yes, that's acceptable.
Thank you.
All right, Cara, we need to move on.
Okay.
You know what we’re here for?
I do.
Sharing our internet search histories with the world to get some laughs. And so now it's time for the reading of the lists. Where we tell you our top five most interesting slash funniest most successful searches of the week in list form and Cara's going first today.
Episode six Cara's list.
Number one, top stories from 20 years ago. Number two, author Robin McKinley. Number three, how are contacts made? Blink blink. Number four, popular recurring dreams. Number five, elegant feminine names.
I wonder what that's for.
Your turn.
Number one, shoulder season. Number two, agate. Number three, Kelce Amazon Prime show. Number four, Denmark stance in World War Two. Number five, occamy.
Now it's time for our segment that we like to call Search Me.
Where we each pose one question to each other and see if she can answer based only on the reading of the lists.
That's right. This week, I'm really riding that nostalgia high from last week.
Yes.
I'm going to do that in my searches as well. In that same vein of nostalgia, which oh, I need to tell you what you're playing for.
Yeah, what the hell?
I'm sorry.
What's going on?
Are you ready? You're going to love this.
I'm so ready.
You're playing for your very own bag of Swedish fish.
Oh my gosh.
I love Swedish fish.
I know that you do. I'm going to put those little fishies right there. They want to be in your belly.
I'm going to eat those while I ride my bike through the Shire. I'll just be putting calories in while I spend calories.
Maintain. Maintain.
Right. Net zero is just fine for me.
Yeah. I apologize.
I should have brought you like an orange or an apple.
It's fine. I'm really okay with it.
Okay. Your question is, which of my searches contains the least amount of nostalgia for me?
I'm going to say how are contacts made?
That's correct.
Yes.
That's correct.
I'm shoving those Swedish fish in my face.
They are yours. Take those fishes.
All right. Why'd you look this up?
Oh, yeah.
This year I got my first pair of bifocal glasses.
Yes, you did.
I was very sad about it until I started using them and I was like, these are awesome. I can see again. So, I didn't choose to get bifocal contacts because at the time the doctor said, well, we have four options. And I asked him to explain them to me and try and help me decide which would be the best for me. And he said, I will explain them to you, but you're going to have to make the decision on what you think will work best. I couldn't decide right then and there. And so, I said, you know what? I'm just going to get my normal contacts. I'll wear reading glasses if I need to. I'll get this figured out. We'll do something next year. Well, it's coming up. It's about time for me to make a decision.
Already?
Yes.
Oh, that was such an old lady question. Already?
Put down your knitting needles.
Time flies when you're knitting a scarf.
So, I started researching contacts and then I got to thinking, how are contacts made? Because I like to know how things are made. I love videos of how things are made.
Like factory videos where they've got assembly lines. Remember that show, How Things Work?
Yes.
You know, you're reminding me now, uh oh, I'm going to make this answer nostalgic. I'm going to have to take those Swedish fish back.
Well then that means that your question is bunk.
Well, but you're just reminding me now.
Right.
So, it doesn't count.
You're reminding me of the Sesame Street shorts that they would do. They were like three or four minutes long on how things are made. Were you a Sesame Street person?
Not really.
Oh gosh. Well, man, we were Sesame Street kids. So, they had one that was like how to make cheese and then crowns.
Crans is how I say it.
I say crayons. Um, what else? Oh, they had one for milk. Oh, that was kind of a weird one.
Well, you don't like milk.
I hate milk. So, oh gosh, I'm having another. Oh yeah, because I remember it started out with the farmer and the cows and I remember they, I thought you just milked cows, you know, with your hands. This guy had suction, like the automatic milkers and put them on the shookums. And I was like, 
The shookums?! What is the shookums?
Yeah, the shookums.
The udders?
That's what my grandma used to call.
Oh my gosh, that is so country. Was the word udder too racy for her or what?
Well, like teats, that's what it's not the udder. So, the udders is this part, and the teats are… the teats are the shookums. Anyway, so I was a little bit, you know, I was very young and I'm crying. That was shocking to me that you didn't milk cows by hand. And so that freaked me out at first, like what are they doing to this cow? But then you follow it along and the truck goes to the factory, and they bottle it. And I loved the Sesame Street. How are things made?
Laura Ingalls Wilder over here. She's like, what?
There's machines that will do the work for you. You don't have to actually touch the shookums. You've never heard the word shookum?
No. Nobody freaking calls them that.
Well, the Callaways do.
Well, your grandma made that up. Because that is not a word.
Hey, that word has been around so long. It's a word.
Okay.
Holy cow.
It's a word if you say it is, right?
I think there's someone out there that has also heard the word shookums.
Let us know, country folks.
Lord have mercy. Let's circle back to how contacts are made.
Yes, how are contacts made?
All right. I'm going to read this. There's a couple of ways. There's lathe cutting. That is a process where small hard disks of contact lens material are placed on a spinning shaft that rotates 600 times per minute. So, once they're created the lens then goes through different stages of polishing and hydrating before it's tested for quality assurance. The second way is injection molding which is kind of what I was thinking would be a process.  I didn't know they would do lathe cutting. The injection molding is a process where the soft contact material is actually heated until it's in a liquid state and it's injected into precise pressurized molds. Once shaped they also go through polishing, hydrating, quality assurance testing. So apparently what I also learned is soft contacts are actually hard until they go through that hydrating process. And so unless they go through that hydrating process they're not usable. How interesting is that? Da Vinci is credited with the idea of contacts when he suggested altering corneal power by submerging your head into a bowl of water or wearing water-filled glass hemispheres over your eyeballs. Now obviously these are not practical solutions, but he wasn't interested in vision correction. He was interested in exploring the mechanisms of accommodation which is where your eye is reacting to what you're looking at. So, it's either focusing up close or focusing far away. And so that's what he was kind of trying to figure out.
How does an eye do that?
Yes.
Contacts actually have a very long history and to be perfectly honest I got a little bored reading it. So, I wasn't going to subject everybody, but people have been trying to make contacts for a long time.
Well what contacts are you going to get? Did you decide?
I think what I'm planning to do is to just ask the doctor if I can just try all four different ones and just see which ones I like the best and then pick from there. Because I don't know how else would you know which one works best for you.
You got to try them out.
Yeah. I'll update everybody because this is a riveting story. Please save us and talk about something far more interesting.
Cara, today you're playing for this set of tiny paper punches. I bought these for paper crafting thinking they were stamps and I got them and realized they were little punches like you could make confetti.
Yes.
Or little tiny things. I brought them over to your house one time when we were paper crafting and you loved them.
I'm pretty excited.
And you thought they were so cute.
They are cute.
What is my question?
Now this is a tricky question.
Okay oh geez.
So, I advise you to take the hint.
Okay.
Because I am offering a hint after I give you the question.
Thank you.
Which search eventually led me to one of the funniest finds of the year and something that immediately went on my birthday gift wish list that I keep for my husband to reference on special occasions?
Alright, what is my hint?
Your hint is the actual search isn't a gift or an item that you can buy as a gift.
Oh okay.
But it's about someone I lurve.
Oh, Kelce Amazon Prime Show?
Yes.
Do you know? I have to tell on myself.
You're thinking of Travis Kelce, no?
Oh no, I was thinking of Kelsey Kramer.
Oh, my lord.
I was like surely she doesn't love him that much.
Or at all.
Okay wait.
Wait a second. So, what Kelce? Oh, it's the brother. I can't think of his name.
Jason.
Jason, yes. He's gonna have a show on Amazon Prime?
They did a documentary where they followed him last season.
Oh.
Because I think everybody thought it was gonna be his last season.
Interesting.
I think he was persuaded heavily not to retire, but I think he really wanted to after last season.
I wonder why.
Well, he's not a young guy anymore by football standards.
What position does he play?
And he plays center, which is rough.
He's a center? I don't think I knew that.
I like centers. I think they have super important jobs.
It's so important.
It's a rough job. It's almost as important as the quarterback.
I completely agree. I really have a lot of respect for centers.
I didn't, I don't think I knew he was a center.
And if you have a bad one.
Oh yeah.
Forget it.
It's awful.
Yeah. Like if your center is hurt and you've got your backup in there, it can be disastrous. So anyway, he's awesome. I love him.
Awesome.
But you know which Kelce I love even more than him.
I do.
I love Travis Kelce. When I searched for this, it told me when the prime show was going to be airing the first week of September.
Okay.
I'll be watching that first show because I love me some Jason Beardy Kelce.
Your Beardy part also threw me off because Kelsey Grammer's Beardy.
Oh yeah.
That would be tricky.
So, the reason I thought it was Kelsey Grammer is because they're trying to reboot Frasier.
But he doesn't spell his name that way.
I know he doesn't, but I'm an idiot. That's why I was confused. I was really staring at it hard.
So, I have a picture to show you of what came up when I searched for this show. I'm not going to show this to you up close because I don't want you to be able to read what it says on the label because I'm going to read it to you.
Hit me.
You can read the big part.
It says, smells like Travis Kelsey.
Yes.
And it's a candle.
It's a candle. So, what's the small print say?
This is a candle called smells like Travis Kelsey by CE Candles. And on the label it says a unique blend of knowing your role, having a tight end, and calling people jabroni.
I know exactly what that smells like.
Yeah.
So, this is a candle I can totally get behind. Pun. Dunefully intended.
That is hilarious.
I don't care what Gwyneth Paltrow's hoo-ha smells like. She's got a candle.
No.
It smells like my vagina or whatever.
I do not care for that.
And I really don't want my house to smell like that. But a clean Killa Trav? Oh yeah. You know he smells good.
So, have you alerted Clint to this item that's been added to your gift list?
No.
You better tell him.
But I will. I will check the list when he has to buy something for me next time.
I love that you guys have a list.
Because I've trained him well.
So that was what was on the label.
Here's what the product description on Amazon says.
Smells like Travis Kelce candle is the perfect way to capture your favorite football player's clean fresh scent. Whether it's straight off the field. Ew. He wouldn't smell clean then. Or after a locker room shower, this candle is sure to fill your home with that fresh and musky manly smell reminding you of a great game. The actual scent is vanilla oak.
Oh.
I know. I need this candle.
I would also like that candle.
I've got a birthday coming up in November and it's the only thing so far on my list.
Just add it to the list like five times.
Yeah. Make it super obvious.
I love that. That's hilarious.
I did the K-Lib laugh when that popped up. I went HA!
Our next segment is called Shared History. Brea and I have a long shared history and now we're going to share our search histories with you. All right. So, the next one I'm going to talk about is author Robin McKinley. So, this kind of is floating down the Nostalgia River here. Your search of Prue Leith got me to kind of thinking about people that I admire and then that like kind of mixed in with my nostalgia and it made me think of my favorite author, Robin McKinley. And she’s 70 now, and she hasn’t written any books since 2013, but what I did find out is that she started writing a blog back in November of 2022. So, I'm a little under a year behind and I am so excited to start reading her blog.
And how old is she?
She’s 70 now. I read her first book which was it's called Beauty, the retelling of Beauty and the Beast. She's a fantasy writer.
I was going to say tell us what genre.
Her genre is fantasy, and she always focuses on a female protagonist, strong. She's never a damsel in distress. She takes care of herself. Beauty is such a good book. She just writes so smart, and she doesn't dumb things down for her audience because she's technically a young adult author. But I don't really feel like there's a young adult voice there. It's elevated. So, my high school librarian gave me that book when I was a sophomore in high school, and I was like I'm hooked. So, I read all of her books like as soon as they came out I just gobbled them up. That first book, Beauty, was written in 1978.
But it's fantasy so it doesn't matter.
Yes. It's, you guys read this book. It's so good. Her blog is called The Flying Piano.
I love that name.
I think she's living in Scotland. Based on like her second entry. I may put this in the show notes so I can tell everybody about her. She's so funny and clever and I love her. Oh, here's the other thing. While I was poking around on her blog site you can ask her a question. I know. So, I gotta be real smart about it. I'm gonna wait and I'm gonna come up with a really good question and maybe she and I become BFFs and we just talk and chat and text each other because she's amazing.
Excellent.
That's it.
I might have to check that out because I do like a little fantasy every once in a while.
That was my search for author Robin McKinley.
Did it make you feel, I mean obviously it made you feel nostalgic, but did it just take you back to the high school library?
Absolutely. I could see Mrs. Young's face. Hi Mrs. Young. She was the best librarian. She knew the kids and she would always suggest books for you. She nailed it with Robin McKinley for me.
Yeah.
If you're still out there you know your books and I appreciate it.
Yes, you definitely need to put a link to that blog in the show notes.
I'll do it. Tell me about your searches.
Okay. Denmark Stance and World War II.
Is this because you're still watching Seaside Hotel?
I am still watching Seaside Hotel and now I'm on season three.
How many are there?
Nine.
Oh commitment.
I know. It’s 1930 at this point, so this is before WWII, but they’re already referencing problems with Germany and in Germany especially because there are a couple gay characters and so they talk about that about how they're not welcome in Germany anymore and there was a conversation between some of the hotel guests about eugenics and for those of you who don't know eugenics was actually unfortunately still is a despicable theory that you can and should breed out certain undesirable characteristics from the population usually by forcibly sterilizing the type of people you don't want reproducing. It was a big basis of Nazi Germany. Long story short though Denmark was neutral to begin with in World War II, then they were invaded and occupied by Germany and had to be liberated by the Allies so how did that work out for you? Not so great. But you're welcome.
Can I tell you something that's giving me the shivers?
What?
Last night Sean and I took your advice and we've been watching The Toys That Made Us.
Oh yeah.
We watched the Lego episode last night and they talked about how Denmark was neutral, and they refused to make their bricks gray because they were afraid children would make tanks out of them.
But they didn't want any association with the war, and they didn't want kids thinking about the war or playing war or anything like that.
Nope.
They even had an advertising campaign and the word at the top was peace. How is this serendipity continuing?
It just does.
We literally watched that last night.
It just does.
Continue.
That's the whole thing.
Oh okay.
That's my whole story about Denmark's stance in World War II. Before I started watching this show I never even really thought about Denmark. This has really made me think about, especially because it's a historical show, just Denmark throughout the years. What were their beliefs and their stances on things and how were things there compared to how things were here? Was it a fairly similar society or not? And not really. So, I just thought about that when they were talking about eugenics. I was like, oh were they? They weren't allies with Germany, were they? And I knew that they weren’t, but I don't remember anybody talking about Danish soldiers or anything like that.
Right. Absolutely.
So, it wasn't surprising that they were neutral.
So, in your show that you're watching, do they have authentic Danish accents?
They speak.
Like they sound Scandinavian?
They speak in...
Oh, that's right. Oh, I forgot. It's a subtitled show.
Yeah it's not dubbed.
That's right. I love to hear them. I love that accent.
It's very Øykeflugenflugenflugenflugen.
Exactly. I love it. That's why I was getting a kick out of watching the Lego episode. I was getting a kick out of their accents. I just...
Øykeflugenflugenflugen.
It's funny.
Yeah.
It's... It's not funny. I don't mean that. I mean I just enjoy listening to it.
Yeah. And it's kind of mellifluous. And I catch myself doing other things and not even...
Oh no.
Not even watching the show. And then I realize, duh, you can't just listen to these people talk. You have to read. 
Yeah.
And then I look up... Because I'll search something like Denmark and World War II.
Yes.
And then I'll be like, what am I doing? I don't know anything that has happened. Because you can't listen.
It's gonna take you forever. You should watch that while you're riding your bike.
I do.
Okay. Okay.
It's a little bit distracting. Kind of makes the time go by a little bit faster. Not really. It's better than just sitting there.
Absolutely.
Cycling.
All right. What's your next one?
Okay. I was thinking about how time is just going by so quickly and how, you know, things that actually did happen a really long time ago, to me, it seems like it's not been that long ago. So...
Yeah. When you said that, you know what I thought of?
What?
The 1970s.
Oh my gosh.
Yes.
Nope.
It’s weird to me to see people who have a birthdate 1998, 2000…  It's super like my brain doesn't like that at all. Nobody was born after 1980.
I mean, nobody who's actually in the workforce, for sure.
Anyway.
Yeah. So, I, it just kind of got to me to thinking about time and how it's so weird, especially the pandemic really messed up my whole concept of time. So, I'm just going to read through a list of these in...
Okay. 2003.
2003. The space shuttle Columbia disaster. It was the first thing that popped up.
So that was the one that blew up on reentry because of the foam tile that hit the wing on takeoff.
Can you believe that was 20 years ago?
No.
I know. I can't believe that.
No.
The final Concorde flight, the supersonic high speed passenger jet, flew twice the speed of sound. And there was a tragic Concorde crash in 2000, and then coupled with the 9/11 attacks, the stock just tanked. And so that whole program got shuttered. Next, the do not call list.
I loved that dang list. Man, I signed up for that right away.
Yeah. Immediately.  The price of gas was... You want to guess what it is?
Oh my gosh. 2003. I’m gonna say, $1.20
Oh, you're close. The average price was $1.83.
How much was it when you started driving? Do you remember?
It was less than a dollar. It was like, 89 cents a gallon.
I remember paying 84 cents a gallon. Can you believe that?
Ridiculous.
Okay. So, in pop culture, 20/20 aired the controversial documentary called, “Living with Michael Jackson.” Do you remember that? I was trying to remember it and is that when he hung his little baby over the balcony and had the blanket on his head?
I can't remember.
I should have searched that a little further, but I didn't.
His kid, Blanket.
His kid, Blanket. The orca from Free Willy died. This is kind of a downer of a search. Apple launched iTunes.
Oh my gosh.
Made Cara super happy. I remember the first iPod that I got. iPod Nano. Girl, you would have thought that someone handed me a gold brick on a platter.
Yeah.
I used the crap out of that thing. I still have it. I still use it.
Didn't you have a fake iPod before that though? I never have had any Apple products ever. I showed a picture of my first one, the red one, but I've had several.
I remember the very first song I downloaded from iTunes though.
What was it?
“2000 miles.”
Oh, I want to sing it so bad.
I know.
It's such a catchy song.
It really is.
All right. So Apple launches iTunes in 2003. And then the record industry association of America starts filing copyright lawsuits against internet users for trading songs online.
Oh, like Napster and all that.
Uh-huh.
I remember that.
A white tiger attacks Roy Horn of the duo Siegfried and Roy, leaving him partially paralyzed.
Okay. Shivers moment.
Oh, what?
Tell me.
Peyton and I talked about this this past week.
Of course, you did.
Because I think I saw something on Instagram with somebody playing with like a baby tiger. And I said that thing will eat your face off when it gets big enough. And he said, not if you raise it for when it's a baby. And I said, yes.
Yes, it will.
Even if you raise it from when they're a baby, they're wild animals and their instinct is to eat your face off.
So, I told him about Roy Horn and how they've raised all their tigers from when they were cubs, and that thing ate his face off.
You're right, mom.
And he looked it up because, you know, why believe me? Nobody ever believes me, but that's fine. I believe you.
I don't mind that they take the time and effort to look things up that I tell them because I love that feeling.
Absolutely.
When they go, oh.
Sadly, Roy Horn died during the pandemic of COVID.
He died of COVID and Peyton found that out too and said that while he was looking up to make sure that I knew what the hell I was talking about tigers eating your face off.
Fact check, mom. All right. Moving along. The fifth Harry Potter book, Order of the Phoenix was released. And then here are some popular films for you. Kind of goes along with your conqueror challenge. Return of the King was released. Finding Nemo.
Oh my gosh.
The Matrix Reloaded, which is number two. Bad Boys 2, Lost in Translation with Bill Murray and Scarlett Johanson.
Oh my gosh. That was 20 years ago?! That was such a good movie.
Popular musicians include Amanda Perez, Christina Aguilera, Limp Bizkit, Evanescence.
Oh my gosh.
YELL SINGING.
Talk about YELL SINGING.
Oh my gosh.
That one, I'd forgotten about them completely.
Yeah.
That one made me laugh.
Coldplay. Still relevant.
Uh, yeah.
Brea and I kind of like Coldplay. Just a little bit.
Sheryl Crow, Hilary Duff, and then Nora Jones. Could you turn on a freaking radio station anywhere and not hear a Nora Jones song?
Nope.
The radio industry killed her career because they played her so much. People got sick of her and stopped listening.
Yep. The same with Evanescence.
Oh my gosh. I didn't really ever care for Evanescence though.
Well, I didn't either, but...
It was overplayed.
If you didn't like them, radio was hell for you because every other song was one of their songs and all of their songs sound the same.
Yes they do.
So, it was just yelling in your ear.
Pink?  She's still kicking it.
Heck yeah she is.
Shania Twain. She's coming back with a vengeance. Avril Lavigne.
Oh yeah, skater boy. That was another one that was overplayed.
Clay Aiken.
Oh, my lord.
Stupid American Idol.
Kylie Minogue.
I remember looking her up at one point many, many, many years ago and I was like, dang, she's not a spring chicken.
No no.
Other stuff, about to wrap it up here. Voters recalled Governor Gray Davis and elected Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Oh.
To succeed him.
California.
US interest rates reached a 45-year low of 1%. The highly infectious disease SARS.
Oh SARS.
Spread from China, Singapore, and Vietnam worldwide, and nearly 9000 people were affected in 15 countries, and over 800 people died from it. The precursor to COVID-19. So special thanks to thepeoplehistory.com for providing this search information for me.
Excellent.
A little bit more serendipity here.
Bring it on.
I'm going to talk about Occamy. I came across it while doing a logic puzzle. Featuring Harry Potter characters. It's a creature I don't remember reading about in the series of books or seeing it in the movies. So, I had to look it up. But it turns out it was in the Fantastic Beasts series. Which explains why I'm not familiar with it because I just could not get into that series.
Yeah.
Could not.
It's okay.
I love Eddie Redmayne.
I love everybody in it, but I just was like ugh. Anyway. The Occamy is, according to the Harry Potter wiki, harrypotter.fandom.com, a plumed two-legged serpentine magical beast with wings, native to the Far East in India. It's commonly mistaken for a dragon but it's more like a snake bird.
So, like in Spirited Away. Did you ever see that?
I did a long time ago. Didn't enjoy it.
Aww.
Soz.
I love that movie.
The Occamy is extremely aggressive to anyone who approaches it, and it lives off rats, birds and occasionally, you're gonna like this Cara. Monkeys.
Eat em all.
It's extremely protective of its eggs, which are made of the most pure and soft silver. As a Patronus, the creature that is conjured by a protective spell in the Harry Potter series, somewhat similar to spirit animal, it's an extremely rare Patronus. Albatross is the rarest, according to wizardingworld.com. The Occamy Patronus is conjured by those who embrace openness and change.
Hmm.
So, I could have gone way down a nerdy nerdy rabbit hole on the search but I just kind of left it at that. I was like, okay.
I'm kind of wishing you had.
Good enough.
This is like the character on Spirited Away.
Yeah.
Speaking of nerdy, if you're interested in grid logic puzzles and you don't want to do the paper kind and you want to do it electronically, which is sometimes helpful, you know, you don't want to carry a book around with you and it also will give you hints if you get stuck.
Oh.
And when you finish one, you know if you did it right or wrong without looking it up in the back, you know, because it'll tell you you effed this up or yeah, you did it. I play logic puzzles or do logic puzzles on an app called Logic Riddle.
Okay.
They range from super-duper easy to kind of challenging.
You do that every day.
I do.
I'm impressed with that.
I usually do paper ones in the morning though.
I should probably do those things for my Alzheimer's.
And it helps with mental acuity.
My acuity is dull. Yeah, it is. It's terrifying. I'm just masking it.
You're up.
Good search.
I like that one.
All right. Popular recurring dreams.
Oh, yes.
I knew Brea and I share some recurring dreams. So, I knew you'd be into this one. I had a recurring dream this week that I haven't had in a really long time. Then I just got to thinking about recurring dreams and how you and I have the same recurring dreams.
And very vivid dreams.
Yes.
We both have very vivid dreams.
So, the one we share, am I allowed to talk about this?
Yeah.
I know the one we share is the mouth full of bubble gum.
Oh, I hate that.
And we're trying to dig it out.
I hate that.
It's the worst.
What's the other one? We have a couple.
You have teeth falling out dreams.
Yes. So, they never fall out. They're always so loose. They're like on the brink of falling out. And I'm just walking around with my hand underneath my mouth, getting ready to catch them.
Yes.
Oh, I hate that one.
I have snakes falling from the sky dreams or falling from trees.
I don't have that one.
Onto me. Or I look up into the trees that are above me and all I see is snakes.
Have you ever looked at that?
All up on the branches.
Have you ever looked at that one?
I'm sure it's Freudian.
It has something to do with penises, but I don't know.
Okay.
Oh, I also have one. I don't know if you have this one or not where I'm trying to run, and I just can't get up speed.
When I have a dream like that, when I'm trying to get away from somebody or I'm just trying to run or walk or whatever, I'm on like my hands and knees and I have to use my hands like an ape to get myself moving forward.
That's interesting.
Some popular recurring dreams. There's nothing surprising here. Teeth falling out. Being chased. Naked in public.
Oh my gosh.
I have one too where I am on the toilet.
Yes. I have that one all the time.
And all of a sudden, and this toilet's not in a bathroom. It's like in the public square or in my office.
Yes. Or in the lobby of the office.
The lobby.
Yes.
What are you doing, brain? Are you trying to freak me out?
Do you remember the dream I had? I told you at Food & Firth. Where I couldn’t find a toilet, and I finally found one, and it was in the lobby of my office, and I had to go number two and I'm sitting on the toilet and all these miniature donkeys were coming through the front door. I was supposed to be stopping these miniature donkeys and evicting them from the building because that was my job as the receptionist. But I was too busy taking a crap where everybody could see me. I don't know why they were miniature.
Why were there donkeys?
I don't know.
Oh crap.
Do you remember the one I was needing to walk across this field? I was in a barn.
Yes, I remember this.
And the field was writhing. And the closer I got it was nothing but black kittens.
Yeah, cats.
And my hands.
Yes.
My hands were... At the time I had a Droid.
Remember droids?
Oh yes.
The cell phone.
Yes.
And so, I had a droid and my hands turned into... They were droids.
Yes.
And all I could think was these cats need sweaters because they're cold. And I was dressed like a ninja and I started knitting sweaters for these cats. And I just started shooting with my android hands. Just little cat sweaters started shooting out of my androids.
I mean it's not a recurring dream.
No, it's not a recurring dream but it was so real.
But we cannot talk about dreams and not mention the number one dream that Clint and I still laugh about every time we bring it up.
I know what you're gonna say.
Am I allowed to say it?
Oh wait. Oh about mine?
Yeah.
What is it? I thought you were gonna talk about yours.
It's about a sack of baloney.
Oh.
You tell it.
Okay.
Oh man.
Because it was your dream.
So, I had a dream that there was… I had a sack of baloney. God I haven't thought about this in so long. And I just kept smelling this sack of baloney. Like opening it. Yeah I would open the bag and just inhale like a big inhale and go oh this smells so bad. Oh my gosh. And then I just kept doing it over and over and over in my dream. And I woke up and my cat Olive was sitting on my face. Like my nose was like plugged into her butt.
So, every time you breathed in.
Yes.
You were breathing in cat butthole and in your dream that equated to sniffing a bag of baloney.
Old baloney.
Oh.
So, in case you guys didn't know cat butts smell like bags of baloney.
You know I think most people would imagine that it does.
Oh my gosh. That’s probably been 20 years ago. That probably goes into my category of Top Stories from 20 years ago. Olive the cat.
Back to recurring dreams.
Oh yes.
I have dreams that we are back at the TV station.
Oh yes.
I have recurring dreams about that all the time.
Yes when I'm particularly stressed about work I always have TV dreams.
Yeah.
Everything has gone digital.
Yeah it's all different from what we used to have.
Oh, do you remember the one I had when the board was on wheels.
Yes.
And the monitors were way down at the bottom of a hill. And I had to keep pushing the board down the hill to get so because I couldn't see the monitors and the monitors just kept getting further and further away.
So frustrating.
So awful.
And so stressful because you're in the middle of a show.
We talked about naked in public. Oh that's when the toilet.
Oh yeah.
Flying. Do you have flying dreams?
I have more flying dreams than I used to. I used to never have flying dreams and I do now sometimes.
That's interesting.
But it's always terrifying. It's not freeing, or you know how some people have flying dreams and they're like oh it's so great and I can fly everywhere. With me I'm like terrified because there's nothing around me. It's just me flying and I'm not in control. I also have a recurring nightmare about runaway elevators. Not just falling elevators but elevators where you're going up.
Oh, my goodness.
And it won't stop. So, it's like in the Willy Wonka movie. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory where it busts through the roof. It's like that but it's not designed to do that.
I wonder what that means.
And I've got people that I love with me.
You're out of control.
Yeah.
I'm in an elevator with me and I'm like we're going to just fall to the ground.
Okay flying, falling, cheating, back to school, missed a test, unprepared for a test, forgot to do homework. Those are kind of all lumped together.
Don't know my schedule.
Don't know my locker combination.
Oh, the combination of the locker.
The combination of the locker and the school schedule. Those get me every time. But then I hate the one that's like they ask okay everybody pass your homework forward and I'm like I forgot.
Or you haven't gone to class all semester. This is a college.
Oh, I've not had that.
Or I haven't gone to class all semester and I have to and I show up for the final and I'm like shit I don't know any of this.
Losing control of a car. Car accident.
Yeah like the brakes don't work.
Unable to speak. That goes along with our bubble gum in the mouth. Arriving late. Being pregnant.
Uh, nightmare.
Um, dying. Have you ever had a dying dream?
Where I've died?
Mmhmm.
I haven't. That I remember anyway.
No.
Looking for a toilet. 
And then you wake up and your bladder is like bursting. Like oh okay I get it.
That's usually when the cat was laying on my bladder rather than my face.
Trapped. Being attacked. That was the total list.
My next search is agate.
Yes.
Here's the context.
It's another logic puzzle thing.
That's alright.
There was a logic puzzle clue.
Yes.
And someone was wearing an agate ring and I wanted to know what it looked like.
Yes.
It's a common type of crystallization or quartz found in rock. That's the scientific geologic definition. It comes in many colors and varieties but it's kind of layered in rings like the rings of a tree on the inside of the rock. And then there's a crystal center.
Eww.
Is it pretty?
It can be. The ones that, the examples I saw it was a lot of black and brown. When I searched for this though I got way more than scientific answers about what agate is because it's a type of crystal. So, some of my search results went into some real woo woo territory. Which was fascinating. Well, my kids think star signs, they love anything having to do with star signs.
Oh, my goodness. Okay.
And the only thing I know about star signs is that Virgos are type A.
Okay.
I've known a lot of Virgos in my life and they're real proud about being type A.
Okay.
My mom was a Virgo, Jackie's a Virgo, my friend Jen B, she's a Virgo. And the only other thing I really know about star signs is I'm a Scorpio and everybody hates Scorpios.
I'm a Gemini.
What does that mean?
The twins, literally that's all I know about it.
Oh, okay.
Well, you are going to want to listen to this about agate.
Okay.
Because it's especially beneficial to Geminis.
Okay.
And it's an alternative Gemini birthstone.
I didn't know that.
That's right.
Alright I'm listening. I'm all ears.
Some less than strictly scientific info about agate. I got most of my information here from the Navitas Center in the UK and injewels.net. It removes blockages from chakras, and I have no idea what that means. It also has a cleansing effect on the lymphatic system in the pancreas.
My pancreas could use some cleaning.
All of us probably could. It can make blood vessels stronger and is also helpful in dealing with skin disorders and is beneficial for the digestive system, stomach, and eyes.
How do I just take this crystal and just rub it on the places that I need help?
I'm getting here.
Oh, I apologize.
Because I thought the same thing. I was like what the hell? How?
Yeah.
Do you eat it? No. You're not supposed to eat.
You lick it?
Do you lick it?
Do you rub it on yourself?
Stick it in your ear?
Okay.
It also enhances mental function, improves concentration, and enhances perception and analytical abilities.
I'm listening.
It's a soothing and calming gemstone that heals inner anger and anxiety and helps in the strengthening of relationships.
Where can I buy nine?
It instills safety and security. From what I gather, you would wear this in jewelry like the agate ring in the logic puzzle.
Okay.
Or have it on your person somewhere. Like in your pocket? I don't know. I mean I would imagine jewelry is the only way. Maybe you could have it around your house.
I don't understand. How is that supposed to work? If I have a banana in the bowl.
Right. How does it seep into your being somehow? It doesn't.
I don't understand.
That's why I don't understand this. Like I said, it's a little woo woo for me. I'm not really into this. Listeners, if you are crystal people and you are into this kind of thing and you are knowledgeable, please enlighten us.
So, I just need to wear it around my neck?
Yeah like a necklace or a ring or something like that.
Well, I mean I need all those things that you said.
Heck if you tried everything else, why not?
I haven't tried everything else.
Like I would probably start with drinking more water and eating correctly.
Getting some exercise?
Maybe. Yeah.
Walking once in a while.
This is your last one, right?
It's my last one. And it's the one everyone's been waiting for. Elegant feminine names. I'm looking to name my car.
Yep.
Walter White's off the list.
Oh, thank god.
Antoinette Aurelia.
Oh, you sneered at that one.
Sorry.
I'm going to watch your face while I save these.
I would be the worst poker player ever.
Blanca, Cordelia, Eleanor. I don't like that one. Fiona, Genevieve, Guinevere, Lily or Liliana, Margot inspired by Barbie. Odette, Ophelia, Viola. Going a little Shakespeare here. Vivian, Georgiana, Opal, and Panda Bear.
You said you wanted to give your car an elegant name and you got fluffy and panda bear.
I like animals.
I know you do but.
I know.
Your car is not fluffy and it's not a panda bear.
No but the panda bear kind of works.
Well yeah because it has the black accents but.
Panda.
Here are my votes.
Okay let's, I'm going to mark them.
Blanca.
Yeah I like Blanca too.
Because it's white.
Yes.
Lily.
I also really like Lily.
Because it's white.
Yes.
I mean if you want to be literal.
Like on the nose.
If you want to be literal about it. Those are the ones. You're only going to vote for two out of all that list?
You didn't like Georgiana.
No.
Ophelia. Odette.
Oh, I kind of like Odette. I kind of did like Ophelia and Vivian.
Oh, you know what Vivian just reminded me of Pretty Woman. Do you work on commission? Big mistake. Huge. I just cracked myself up.
Those are my votes.
Thank you for your input. I am leaning towards Lily.
I have one left. Shoulder season.
Oh yes, what was this about?
Here's my context.
Okay.
I'm reading the book Maui Murder.
Oh Maui. Hope you guys are okay.
I know.
I'm so worried about them.
It's book two in a darling funny cozy mystery series by Jasmine Webb. I love these books. They're funny.
You read so much. I don't know how you read so much.
I sit on my ass. Actually I only read at bedtime.
How is that possible?
But I go through a lot of books. I read a lot.
Yeah you really do.
At bedtime when I don't fall asleep, and the Kindle hits me in the face. If I can actually stay awake and read I read quite a bit.
That's what happens to me. I get through about a page or two and then I've just got a bruise on my forehead.
Yep.
Alright continue.
One of the business owners in this book mentioned that business was slow due to it being shoulder season and I've never heard that before. So, I highlighted it in my handy Kindle. Can't do that in a paper book. Just saying all these people. So anti e-book. I do love paper books. I love the way they smell but it really annoys me when people are like I only read paper books. What is that? Like this elitist. Like we have to be elitist about books now? I have like a hundred books that I can carry around with me in my purse.
That is the best part.
One device. Side rant over. But I highlighted it in my Kindle, and I did a web search and I found this on Etymologeek.
That's funny.
I love it. It's the time between high and low season in a travel market in the US. This is typically spring and fall. But why is it called that? I looked that up too because I had to know.
Thank you.
I thought Cara is going to ask me why. So, from a site called IGMS. It's a site that specializes in travel info. This period is supporting the peak and off-peak seasons on either side of it. Like shoulders to a head. So, then I learned that the peak season is often called head season. Which I don't love.
Who in the world came up with this terminology?
I prefer the following explanation. It refers to the concept of the shoulders on a bell curve. That makes more sense. So, the peak represents the peak of the bell curve represents peak season. And then you've got the shoulders of the bell curve that are at the bottom.
Yes. That makes far more sense than a body.
From a gardening forum. I also got this. That the term was coined for the travel and tourism industry. But it's also been adopted by the agriculture industry to refer to spring and fall and pasture management. So they'll call it shoulder season when it's not summer.
Yeah I have never heard that before.
Never heard it either.
Interesting.
But I might have to start using it because I'm writing a series of books that takes place in a tourism town. And they would know that. They would use it often like they do in Maui and Maui Murder.
Good search. Also helpful for your writing career.
Of course.
That's awesome.
I love learning new stuff.
This is why we read. To learn.
Yes.
I'm struggling with Gone Girl.
Are you really? I never read the book. I just watched the movie.
It's not holding my attention.
Maybe you should just watch the movie.
I'm about there.
I've done that before.
I wonder how close it is to the book though because I'm man I feel like I want to stick with the book. But god it's slow. It is so slow. I don't know. Anyway. I'm sure it'll get better.
Millions of people can't be wrong.
That's kind of what I'm thinking.
They loved it.
Okay. I'll stick with it.
But at the same time everybody's different. Just because millions of other people like it doesn't mean you have to. 
That's the danger of the Kindle. If I don't want to read this book and I'm bored with it I just close it and open another one. It's right there. It's just hiding right behind these pages.
Yes.
Lots and lots of other book options. Speaking of which. I purchased two of Prue Leith's novels this week.
A lot of her books are only available in the UK.
I bought them on Amazon.
The Kindle editions?
They were called The House at Chorlton an emotional post-war family saga. The other one is The Prodigal Daughter a gripping family saga.
I'll have to try again.
So, Brea What About This One?
I'm going to read the remainder of my searches that I had for this week.
Prue Leith novels.
Replay of the FIFA World Cup final.
The Get Along Gang.
Caribou vanilla hazelnut K cups.
Barbie soundtrack.
Warby Parker glasses.
Celebrities with underbites.
The trolley problem.
Gran Turismo movie.
Bath and Body Works soap sale.
Turtles and Salmonella.
Kansas City Chiefs backup quarterback Blaine Gabbard.
Chocolate covered bridge mix.
And Ozzy Osbourne death hoax.
Oh my.
Here's my What About This One list.
Crocs.
Of course.
How to make salmon patties slash cakes.
Healthy food cheap.
Prebiotics versus probiotics.
Pitaya or dragon fruit.
BMR calculator.
How to balance hormones.
Scarab.
Jennifer Lawrence comedy.
I have a couple shout outs this week.
Another Martha.
I saw that.
She's a fellow novelist. Martha Reynolds. She got a kick out of our picture of me writing on our whiteboard and it said Martha searches and she said oh no. And I told her we would welcome her searches.
Absolutely.
Just like we would welcome everybody's searches.
I know I want more people to send us their searches.
Send us your searches. We know you're doing it.
Yeah Myki. I know that you're listening.
Oh Myki.
I know that you search things.
Everybody does it.
Share them.
Share them.
All of them.
Just pick a few.
Make your top five.
The funny ones.
Yeah. The agates.
And then as usual Heather had some ego pumping words to share after the release of episode four. So I will share a screenshot of that text convo on social media at some point.
Okay.
All right. Well how can people get a hold of us and send us their searches?
First of all rate and review us.
Oh yes.
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That's right. Good job.
Thanks.
I think I'm going to go delete my history.
I am going to as well.
Bye.
Bye bye.
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