I wish my words were as loud as my mouth sounds. When I edit I just notice all it just sounds like I'm like eating potato salad over here or something it's like Here, I took a spoonful of your potato salad just now. Mm. Mwah. It's so disgusting. So gross. Welcome to Episode 12 of Delete This History, a podcast by two besties of a certain age searching for answers. We are your hosts, Cara Burch and Brea Brown. Hey girl. Hi. Still besties. Yeah. After a week together, 24-7. So much time together. Yep. It was fun. I'm glad we're back together. I actually really missed podcasting. I did too. And I had the equipment. Well, you didn't have your equipment with you, Nirp. But I had my equipment with me, just in cases. But we were just having such a good time relaxing and not doing anything. It was nice. Wearing our soft clothes. So much soft clothes. We hope everybody enjoyed the bonus episodes, special episodes, special episodes, very special. Super, super special. Oh, I saw Martha D this week and she knows what a cassowary is. She knew she was like, and she couldn't believe we were talking about it in our bonus episode. Oh, there's they're just so interesting. Yeah. This month is flying by. By the time this episode airs, we're gonna be two weeks away from Thanksgiving. Yes. Two weeks. And daylight saving time will have taken effect. Yes. In the places where you celebrate that. Oh, yeah. Celebrate. I do not celebrate that. I don't either. I wish we would get rid of it. Just stay on one time. Please. Whatever this month is. October. October goes by fast every year, though. I agree. It. is a very fast month. Used to be because I dreaded Halloween. And I'd be like, oh gosh, I got to buy candy. Oh gosh, I've got to buy costumes. Oh gosh. And now it's just because school's humming along. The days are shorter. It just seems to just go by so fast. No, and you're old. Yeah, and I'm old. Oh, and football is going on. So that makes it go by fast because I'm enjoying it. I can't believe we're like halfway through football season now, which is. Well, yeah, this is when I start to get sad about football season. We're halfway through. I don't even enjoy the second half because I'm like, oh, it's almost over. That is silly. You shouldn't do that. Tell yourself not to do that. It's not true. OK, but it is that is kind of how I am on Sundays. It's in the back of your mind. You're like Sunday nights. I'm like, oh, I can't even. this Sunday night. We're gonna start making February plans. Anyway I'll just watch XFL again. Oh yeah there you go see. I got it covered. Silver lining. Also the Olympics are next year. Yeah flag football. I'm really excited about flag football. I am too and you know they're gonna air the crap out of that. Oh yeah. I feel like with the Olympics I enjoy the Olympics but I feel like they never air the stuff Hello. Yeah. But I think flag football will be super interesting. I think they'll air it. I really hope that a bunch of NFL players and XFL players and whoever else don't horn in on it. Me too. Because they were talking about that last week on some of the football games, the NFL games. And I was like, no. There are people who already play this sport and who do it well. And this is the sport that they've chosen to play. Right. No. You get to... You know, you get to maybe support and be a spectator, but don't horn in on it. Yeah, help spread the word about it and be a support for this. I hope it doesn't just turn into an NFL thing because I don't want to watch that. Yeah. And it's not the same sport. I wish it was co-ed. That would be so fun. Maybe they'll do that someday. That would be fun to watch. Pulling flags. That's it. Fun. Thanks so much for your support everyone for the podcast lately. I've gotten so much support, especially from people at my work. Yes. Hannah. Hannah is a new listener and just people just constantly saying, Hey, I'm on episode, blah, or, Hey, I just listened to this episode and answering questions that we had on the episode that we've since figured out, but they don't know yet because they haven't gotten to the later episodes. One of my coworkers asked if we drink while we podcast. That made me laugh so hard. I do drink while we're podcasting, but it's not alcoholic. No. And yeah, I think she was insinuating something and I'm going to put the best construction on it and just say that she was insinuating that we're silly and we have a good time. Yeah. We're high on life. We really are. And each other. Yeah. I drink coffee, not Irish coffee. Me too. And also Alex. Did you get your Costco pumpkin cookie mix? They're out. Of course they are. I went to Costco that same day. In fact, I went to, I thought I told you this. Maybe I told you mentally and forgot to put it in words. You did tell me mentally, because I have not heard this. I went to Costco that same day on my lunch break. Because, you know, I had to get there. And I couldn't find it. I couldn't find it anywhere. So I did what old ladies do. And I went and asked someone, I was like, Hey, I can't find this one product on the shelf. And she goes, Oh, we've been out of that for a long time. I said, Oh, so you don't have any more coming in? There's not any in the back. And she goes, no, I'm really sorry. Why don't they restock it? I just say there's each store just gets a certain amount. And once it's gone, it's gone. I'm just going to come out and say it. I mean, to shoot the messenger, but it's stupid. But I do appreciate the heads up and I will watch for that next year. Yeah, and Alex also went to Costco after talking to me about it and telling me about this pumpkin mix. She makes pancakes with it, she makes scones with it, she makes all kinds of things with it. And she also went to Costco that next day. And I got a text from her and she said, it's a no good, horrible, very bad day and I said, Oh no, what what's happened? And she said, I'm at Costco and they're out of that pumpkin mix. I thought it was seriously about something at work. And I was gonna have to like jump online when I got home like, you know, help out or something. No, it was just a pumpkin mix. Well, speaking of pumpkin, have you tried the pumpkin spice Oreos that I sent you a pic? I don't know if I can. Dude, they are delicious. Okay. They're delicious. If they still have them, then I will get them this week in my grocery order. I think that if you get them and you don't like them, I will pay you for them and I'll eat them all myself. Okay. They are so good. That's a deal. Okay. Finally, you know what we're here for. Oh, I know what we're here for. For slurring our words because we sound drunk when we podcast. That's what I sound like. Really dangable. Do you know our hair hauls? Who is it? Ha! Who's? I got a good one for you! Tell me your list. There's reading of the lists. Okay. It's even, Stephen. It is even. All right, here we go. Top five, number one, seal discography slash the Macarena dance slash what is Montel Jordan up to these days? Number two, why is it called Scotland Yard? Number three, EB White. Number four, saponification definition. Number five, upping sticks meaning and bag of pants meaning. Okay. Those are my five searches. Your searches are way more intriguing than mine. Okay. Let's hear yours. My list for this week is number one, Android Auto App Fix. Number two, Old British Song, Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire. Number three, Blister In The Sun, meaning. Number four, Ford models ranked by total sales. Number five, Nick Bolton injury. Big news in this part of the world, country. Side note, we got Hardman back. I know. Exciting. I'm very excited about Mecole Hardman. And I thought we were gonna get Frank Clark back, but we didn't. That is a freaking bummer. I was like. He went somewhere else. I was freaking stoked about that. I love Frank Clark. But, Mecole Hardman, we got him back and he was in good form. Oh my gosh, did he not help us out? Yeah, he did a great job. He did. Anyway, so we'll talk about Nick. Yeah, sorry. We'll talk about Nick Bolton. I got really excited. Here in a minute. All right, so now I'm wondering if you would like to play a game with me. I do wanna play a game with you. Well, I'd like to call this game Search Me! where we each pose one question to each other and see if we can answer based only on the reading of the lists. Yes. So I figured you're getting close to needing a new bottle of soap. I am. Did it go plop plop plop? Not yet. Okay. This one is what you're playing for today. It's called Autumn Foliage. Oh my gosh. It's a foaming hand soap from, of course, Bath & Body Works. Sponsor us. It smells like today looks. Oh, beautiful. It's a good one. Beautiful. It is cloudy today. It's not a bright, sunny fall day with the brilliant blue sky, but it's my second favorite kind of fall day. That cloudy, looks kind of cold, but not too cold outside. It has rained, and so you just have that crisp. kind of rainy smell. So that is what this bottle smells like. Excellent. But you have to answer this question correctly. I'm not gonna get ahead of myself. Which of my searches happened while Sean and I were running errands and tooling around town in the rocket van? I'm gonna say the first one, the Seal discography. You're right. Yes. It was a beautiful day. And I was like, let's listen to some music. You sounded drunk. I did. Let me explain. That may be where that's coming from. She may think we're drunk because of how I talk. I do slur like. There's something about the way I talk that I didn't realize I talk that way until I started editing us. I do slur my words. I talk too fast. It's like my brain. I'm trying to talk as quickly as my brain is thinking it. You don't do that as often as you think you do. I'm glad because it's all I can hear now when I edit. I'm like, I'm sorry. I shouldn't have pointed it out, but it just made me laugh because oh, no. Okay, go. So you were going to listen to some music. We were going to listen to some music because it was a beautiful day and we were, you know, just together and tooling around and having fun. And I was like, how about my 90s playlist? And he was on board. The first song, the first song, I had it on shuffle was Kiss From A Rose. Now is this something that you've added to your 90s playlist? Yes, and I'll tell you why. Because you're insane. Well, no. No, okay. Well, a little bit. I'm judging you a little bit about this. I judge myself. I hate that song. I hate it too. But it invokes a lot of memories and that's why I've added it. Because the 90s, you know, that was my jam. That's the music. That's when I was growing up. And so that's the music I hearkened back to. We didn't have a lot of choice either. It was whatever was on the radio. You're right. You didn't have on demand. Exactly. And that's why I have Kiss from a Rose on there because it's just, it's a part of my growing up and we both groaned, but then we laughed. So then we talk, we were talking during that whole song about, you know, that's the same things you and I are saying. Yeah. overplayed. And then I said, what other songs does Seal even sing? Like I can't even think of another song. So I started looking up. He has 10 albums, four of those are studio albums, four live albums and 28 music videos. 28 music videos. That's a lot. Yeah, that is a lot. So I looked up his discography, and I sampled some music. There are so many Seal songs that I had forgotten about because Kiss From A Rose has been shoved in my face so much. He has some great songs. Are we ever gonna survive? Yes. Fly like an eagle. Oh yeah, yeah. There are so many. Like I could sit here and just sample the first few words of each chorus and you'd be like, oh yeah, oh yeah. But the one on your playlist is? Kiss From A Rose. The worst one. The one you hate. It totally makes sense. Oh my gosh. Anyway, I'm going to add some more Seal to my 90s playlist. So that was a good search for me. So now I'll have more than just Kiss from a Rose. So then the next song that came on was the Macarena. Also on my playlist because come on. Yeah. Well that was it was a huge movement, right? Literally, and so we were at a stoplight when that came on and Sean was driving and so I tried to start dancing the Macarena In the passenger seat. I couldn't remember it. I could not remember the like I knew the you know I can do this and then but then once I moved from here. I couldn't remember what I was supposed to do with my hands I had to look it up I'm happy to say it is clearly solidified in my mind again. So for the next 10 years, I can dance some Macarena on demand whenever you would like. Okay, let's do it. So you want to do it right now? No. Okay. There's too many windows here. People will see us and I'll be like, oh my God. I had the rocket van moving. It was rocking, rocketing. If the rocket van is a rockin, don't come a knockin’. You could tell Sean was a little uncomfortable. His eyes were kind of shifty and I was like, come on. He was like, mm-mm. Well. At least he didn't completely shut you down like you did to me when we were leaving the hotel to come home from South Carolina. I shut you down. And I was kind of sore. Yeah. Cause I had slept like diagonal in the bed all night. Neither of us got any sleep that night. It was awful. Which is why I slept for like most of the trip. Sorry. And I said, Oh, my neck, my back. And I went, my neck, my back. And you went, no. 4 15 in the morning! Of course I shut you down! The way you did it though, you were like, nope. And I respected it. I did not finish. You want to do it right now? Nope. Okay. But like if my kids or my husband had tried to shut me down, I would have sang that whole damn song. Oh, well, I appreciate the fact that you respected my wish because me not a morning person. Dude, I knew that you weren't playing. No, 4:15 in the morning is not funny to me at all. No, you had no sleep. We were coming home from vacation, which is always a downer. And I was about to drive for 15 hours. I was trying to be as pleasant as humanly possible. There would be no my neck, my back. But as soon as I said it, like, oh, my neck, my back, I mean, it just, I was like, this will be funny. No, no, it's not funny. You will not finish. You shall not pass. You know what, I even, it's a vague memory of mine. Like I don't super duper, I sort of remember. It's one of my favorite memories of the whole trip. I apologize. Oh my gosh. Okay, and then what is Montel Jordan up to? All right, so the next song that came on was, this is how we do it. Jasper's song on the stairs. Yes, this is how we act like a stair basket. This is how. That one, Sean and I really got into that one. We were almost to the recycling center and we were jamming out. We were both singing. And then I was like, what is Montel Jordan up to? Did he have like this one song? And he's like, I'm out. I made my millions. So Montel is married. He has kids. Oh, great. Congratulations. He and his wife run an organization called Masterpiece Church. It's a virtual church based in Dacula, Georgia. They co-founded it and they are the lead pastors. Then in 2017, they co-authored their first book called... Pfft. This is gonna be good. I'm sorry, it just is, they're capitalizing on this song so much. The book is called, This Is How We Do It! Exclamation point. Making Your Marriage a Masterpiece. And when I say masterpiece, I mean M-A-S-T-E-R-P-E-A-C-E. And finally, Montel Jordan this year was on the TV show, Special Forces, World's Toughest Test. So for all of you that were dying to know what Montel Jordan is up to, that's what he's doing these days. I have a confession. The whole time before you mentioned that song, this is how we do it, I was picturing Montel Williams. Oh, that could be my search for next week: What is Montel Williams up to? Cause that was 90s too. It totally was. Montel Williams. Oh my gosh. That is hilarious. Wrong Montel. So even after you said, this is how we do it, I was like, it's not what he did. He was, he was a talk show host. Montel, oh Williams. Oh lord, I'm that old lady. Oh my gosh. I get all the names wrong. Okay, well. Alright, hey, congratulations. I'm gonna smell it. It's, um, all yours. I'm gonna smell it and I'm going to spill it. Tell us all about. Oh my gosh, it's so totally this day. Yes. It is fresh fallen leaves, misty air, and autumn cedarwood. It's good. It's gonna be amazing on my hands. And you know, it's almost, Spooky Season's almost over. And my soap is almost over too. Did you enjoy Ghoulfriend? I did enjoy Ghoulfriend. The only thing I don't like about Ghoulfriend is every time I use it, I read the label and I think of that song, Girlfriend. Every time? Every time. You're welcome. And I sing it as Ghoulfriend. Was that New Kids on the Block? No, it was a woman. How could you let her treat you so bad? Paula Abdul? It might have been Paula Abdul. Let's search for next week. Okay. Um, my turn, my turn, my turn. Yes. Today you're playing for. Yes. Oh my gosh. I cannot wait to give this to you. I hope you win it. Oh! The Smokin' Brew. Oh my gosh. James Island, South Carolina sticker. Why is there... We forgot to talk about Smoke ‘n’ Brew in our special we did and so you know what though It's fine because we can talk about it right now. Okay, just real quick There's this place. It's a smoke shop and they sell CBD products CBD because they can't sell Marijuana or THC products in South Carolina not legal. They also sell locally brewed beers Yes. So there's a beer in Smoke ‘n’ Brew with Heather and Mike on it. Yes. I love it. Because it is a Low Tide beer and they are such patrons of Low Tide that the person who did the artwork for the can of this beer put them on the beer. It's called Side Porch. Side Porch. And you know what? That is a regret of mine. I did not try Side Porch. How could I have not tried that? Lame. Yeah, that was kind of lame of us. Super lame. Anyway. And they also have a lot of paraphernalia and merchandise related to pot smoking. Bongs and pipes. Yes. T-shirts, like pothead, but with the coffee pot on it, which I thought was hilarious. I really wish that was in Clint's size. But they also have other things like they've got jewelry there and it's just kind of a mishmash of things. And I freaking love that store. And I have gotten a lot of heat for loving that store. She did. Heather and Mike locals of Charleston think that I am ridiculous because I love that store and I've gone there twice now. When I was in there this time, I got judgment from the clerk that I was in there to try to find a souvenir for my 13 year old. Tell us what he said! He said, uh, I think you're in the wrong store. Whippersnapper! I know exactly where I am and what I'm doing. I wasn't wanting to buy him a bong or anything, but they have other stuff and I did. I bought him a bracelet from in there and it was like a bead bracelet. It had nothing to do with smoking pot or drinking beer or anything like that. And I got the best pair of sunglasses I've ever owned in that store because they fit my pinhead. There you go. So... I stand behind my love of Smoke ‘n’ Brew. And even though I got grief from one of the clerks for being in there, apparently I don't fit the demographic. And Heather gave you a hard time. Oh, Heather was just merciless about my Smoke ‘n’ Brew love. but that's what big sisters are for. I stand behind it. Well, so are you sure that you don't wanna keep this sticker? I feel bad about taking it. It's all for you. Why do you think there is a Native American on it? I don't know. Maybe because it's still okay to be racist about Native Americans? I'm trying to decide where do I put this sticker. Well, you know, we have the Chiefs. He's a Chief. Okay. James Island, South Carolina. I love it. So anyway, so that's a sweet, sweet sticker that you can put. You could just put it on your pin board. Oh, I could. Yeah. Or, you know, I could put it on one of my water bottles. You could do that. Absolutely. Okay, so. Okay, what's my question? Which of my searches led to the most rewarding and empowering experience of the week for me? Oh, let's see. Oh, I bet I know. I'm going with Android Auto App Fix. You're correct. You get the sticker. Yes! We talked about this just briefly at the end of the South Carolina episode, how the Android Auto in my Honda CR-V, which you pay for. Like, it's not a subscription, but it's a feature. Yeah. You know. It's worked into the price. Correct. You want all the features of your car to work. And for some reason, some update that Android Auto did to its app back in July has effed over people with multiple makes and models of cars. It's not just Honda, it's Toyota. It's, I mean, when I searched this, it was amazing to me. Nissan, mostly Japanese cars actually. Oh, that's interesting. But I think that's just a coincidence. But anyway, just. it just hasn't worked right ever since they did the last update. And Android is owned by Google. And... they are just kind of shrugging their shoulders about what's wrong with this. They haven't come up with a patch, they haven't come up with a new update, they haven't rolled back the old, like just take back the old update. Yeah. I don't understand what the problem is, but I'm not an IT person. Or am I? Because I searched this and some smart people on the internet had some great advice. I was told to delete and reinstall the app. then clear out the app's cache and file histories, then plug it into your car, and voila. That works for most people. And I was thinking, well, I won't be one of those most people because that's just my luck, but it actually worked. Hooray! The only time it glitches is when Google Maps is up. If you have Google Maps up, it will keep shutting off, crashing and coming back, crashing and coming back. So there's something with Google Maps that's effing it up. Interesting. Which explains why it kept messing up with us because we needed the maps. Yes, oh my gosh. And because it's Android Auto, the map app, the navigational app for that and because I have a Google phone is Google Maps. Yes. So you don't get like a choice. Right. Of what to use. Do better, Google. Yeah, maybe they'll get it figured out. Although it's been a really long time. You know what Google's fix was? What? Make sure that you use a Google approved cord. How much do you want to guess that Google approved cord costs compared to the? I don't know, $6.99 cord that I got at Dollar General when we were trying to change the South? I would guess four to five times more expensive. Yes, it's $20 for a three-foot cord, USB-C cord. And I was like. Come on, Google. They just went to Dollar General and got those. Eff you. It makes me so mad. It makes me so mad, but that's my rant. Anyway. I'm glad that you got that figured out. I am too, because I use the heck out of that. Yeah. Well, I'm glad that you shared that with me. Thank you. Would you like to share some history searches that we have? Yes. Okay, let's do it. The first thing I'm going to share with you is why is the location of the London police called Scotland Yard? I am very interested to know the answer to this because I have wondered this a lot. Too lazy to look it up. Sean and I were watching Unforgotten with Nicola Walker. Yes. Love that show. I've really enjoyed it. And of course they mentioned Scotland Yard. So Scotland Yard is the headquarters of the London Metropolitan Police, and by association, a name often used to denote the force. So they're often called Scotland Yard. And that's what was confusing to me. I was like, why are they called Scotland Yard? Well, that's because that's the name of their headquarters. So just a little bit of background. The London police force was created in 1829 by an act introduced in parliament by the home secretary, Sir Robert Peele, which is why they are often called a Bobbies or Peelers. I never heard that before. The original headquarters of the new London police force was at Whitehall and it has an entrance in Great Scotland Yard from which the name originates. So Scotland Yard was named, was so named because it stood on the site of a medieval palace that housed Scottish royalty. Very interesting. Yes, that's all there is to it. Ock. So Scotland Yard. All I can say in Scottish. So the Great Scotland Yard was the entrance, was the original entrance of when the police force was created. So that's how it got its name, Scotland Yard. Isn't it interesting how things stick? Yeah. Something so... Random. Just random and tiny, but that becomes ubiquitous. Iconic. Within a certain group of people. Yeah. And it just becomes so just part of the everyday parlance that they are like, this is just what we call it. Right. Okay. And then the rest of us just go along with it, even though we're like, I have no idea why we're doing this. Why are we calling it this? Right. What? Yeah. So there you go. That is very interesting. I love it. Do you want to know about Nick Bolton's injury? Definitely. I'm so into football right now. And the Chiefs just got Nick Bolton back. Yep. From an injury. Yeah. At the beginning of the season, he was still out because he was recovering from an injury. Because I don't know if people know this, people who don't follow NFL, but it is a really rough sport and people get hurt. That's weird. And Clint and I call people who are often hurt, like always hurt. You know, the players, they're always hurt. Yes. Which would be me. We call them China dolls and Nick Bolton's a little bit of a China doll. He's hurt often. Not that I blame him because it's a rough game and he plays hard. and he's a very good defensive player, very good. But he was such a force when he came back. There's been a huge difference, so without him and with him. So it was great to have him back. In last Sunday's game against the Chargers, which would be multiple Sundays by the time this airs, but he got hurt again and it looked bad. It looked bad. Because he was down for a while. Then when he finally got up and walked off, he was just like letting his arm hang. And I thought, well, that's, that's him. Bye. It was great to have you for six games or whatever it was, but it turns out he dislocated his wrist. So when I found that out, I kind of wanted to throw up and I couldn't make a fist cause I'm imagining like that means your wrist popped out of where it attaches to your arm, your hand. Um, but it's actually good news. because you just pop that sucker back in and wrap it and you're good to go. So he can go back out and play again and be hurt again. Thanks, Nick. So is he on the injury list for this week? Are they gonna make him sit out? I hadn't looked. I haven't even looked at the injury list for this week because it's not Sunday. I usually wait till Sunday. Oh yeah, that's probably. Because everything is such. So much can happen. I mean, they just make those game time decisions. Well, somebody could trip on Kelce’s pants on the way there. And hurt themselves. His big gameday pants. His big floppy linen pants. I love your pants, Kelce. I'm not making fun of you. Well, I am, but just keep dressing how you want to dress. Travis, we love you. We're a little bit tired of you. I have a little bit of Kelce fatigue, I have to admit. Never thought that would happen, but I'm having some Kelce fatigue. A little bit. There's just a lot of Kelce going on right now. All facets of Kelce. It is a little bit. That other girl that he's dating. who I really like a lot. I think she's a sweet, sweet person, but I'm really sick of seeing her, especially at games. Cause I don't give a crap who's at the game. I did tell you that she's heading overseas for her tour. So I think once we get into November, first, second week, she will not be at the games as much or at all. We'll see. Is this a new trend now that we have to look at whoever's in the box playing or watching the games? I don't think so. She is a special force of nature. Okay. I don't think this is going to become a trend because I think there are a lot of NFL people who don't care about her at all that are getting pretty mad. Yeah, but I don't think that any of the networks care. But... Or the NFL cares. They're just like, we don't care. Well, I mean, listen. If you're about making money... ride this wave while you've got it because it's, it will end and they are raking in the money. I don't mean they'll break up. They're going to get married and have babies and live happily ever after. I just mean she's a busy girl. She's on a break right now. Right. I was on a break. We were on a break. What's your next search? My next search is E.B. White. So I was searching the US Customs House in Charleston, South Carolina. And it said that the architect was E.B. White. I was like, what? And I actually think after doing some more research, that was a mistake. I think I found whoever entered that information, it was a mistake, because I couldn't find that name anywhere else in terms of architecture or design or whatever. Maybe it's the same person who did the trolley map online. So anyway, it got me thinking about E.B. White, you know, the guy who wrote Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little. Oh, and he had, I mean, because the only architecture I can think of is the shed that he had in his backyard that he used to write in. I don't think it was an architectural masterpiece. His first name was Elwyn, and he hated that name. So he went by E.B. White. I feel you. And he said his mom, he was the sixth child born in that family. His mom just ran out of names and slapped Elwin on him. Really? He blamed her. He didn't like it. His older brother Stanley was a professor of landscape architecture and is the inventor of the vertical garden. Interesting. I thought that was very interesting. So anyway, just a little overview of E.B. White, some things I didn't know about him. So he was a journalist. He worked for the United Press and the Seattle Times before he eventually landed a position with the New Yorker Magazine shortly after it was founded. 1927 is when he started working at the New Yorker Magazine and he stayed there his entire career. That was amazing to me, I didn't know that. That's also where he met his wife. She was a copy editor and a writer for the New Yorker and they got married in 1929. Um, so while he was also working at the New Yorker, he did stuff on the side, obviously, because he wrote these amazing children's books. And then something else I found he and James Thurber wrote a humorous book called Is Sex Necessary Or Why You Feel The Way You Do. It was a humorous book. It's a humorous book. I'm going to have to look that up. Okay. I didn't search it. So again, he wrote the children's books Stuart Little in 1945, Charlotte's Web in 1952, and The Trumpet of the Swan in 1970. Oh yes, I forgot about that one. In 1959, he revised The Elements of Style by the late William Strunk Jr., which became a standard style manual for writers. Called Strunk and White. And in 1978, he earned a Pulitzer Prize special citation. I still have a copy of the Strunk and White. I was gonna ask if you did, if you used it. Style manual, mm-hmm. That's awesome. So, although he was known for his children's books, he continued to write for adults as well, but they're not as well known. His literary classic, Here is New York, was published as an essay in 1948 before it was reprinted in book form. And many say it's the quintessential experience of being in the Big Apple. How does something go from an essay to a book? I don't know. I don't know, I thought the same thing. So I don't know. Maybe it was serialized? Maybe it was a serialized, or maybe a teeny tiny book. Or both. Yeah. He received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963, and in 1971, he was awarded the National Medal for Literature. I didn't know this is so like yeah super recognized author I didn't know this um when his wife passed away in 1977 it really hit him very hard and then I didn't know that he died from Alzheimer's oh I didn't know that either 1985 that's sad that's that search yeah he was a he was pretty rad dude oh my gosh I love Charlotte's Web Me too. I was just one of the... I remember as a kid reading and re-reading that book. Me too. I wanted a pet pig. And then we did get a pet pig. Later on in life, it was like a dream come true. Did you name it Wilbur? No, his name was... Um... What was the name of that pig? Um... Oh my gosh. This is sad. It is sad. Speaking of dementia... Hahaha. Reuben. Your pig's name was Reuben? Uh-huh. That's a great name. And he had problems. He had health problems. Oh no. Yeah, it was pot belly pigs were a big pet craze back then in the 90s. And I think that this dude was, it's hard to believe that anyone in Lebanon selling pot belly pigs as pets would be kind of shady or not ethical. But there was something wrong with him. Like he had, he had some kind of bladder. problems because he peed blood and oh Reuben yeah he had blood in his pee-pee sometimes and if you picked him up he squealed like it hurt oh maybe a bladder cancer or something I don't know but he didn't last long in our house and I think probably somebody ate him not us we didn't my mom rehomed him but I think that the people she rehomed him to probably oh my gosh needed Christmas dinner oh my lord That was a great story, Brea. What's your next search? Great story, Bibi. Speaking of great stories that are super depressing, are you ready? I'm ready. The old British song, Hanging on the Old Barbed Wire. Yes. Do you know this song? No, no, I've never heard of it. Okay. It's an old World War One song, I think, World War One. Where they talk about where you can find different ranks of soldiers starting at the top. So it's like Where can you find the Major General? You can find the Major General pinning ribbons, blah, blah. Where can you find your General? Smoking cigars. Where can you find the Sergeant? Sergeant's drinking whiskey. I've seen him, I've seen him, da, da. And it's like this jaunty tune, okay? Then it gets all the way down to, where can you find your Corporal? He's hanging on the old barbed wire. Like you know dead Like in trench warfare. There's barbed wire. Yeah. Yeah That is Yeah, Wow. So the song was mentioned in a Dollop episode about the history of barbed wire. Okay, which is surprisingly fascinating. All right, and it really makes you rethink fences in general and farming and big corporate farming. I would play the song, but you can find it on YouTube. Everybody just search it and you'll find it on YouTube to listen to it because it's not a long song, but it's very repetitive. It's like a song that you would hear soldiers kind of singing on a march or something like that because it's very rhythmic, very repetitive, very chanty and cheerful. Yeah, it sounds like it. I mean, the words aren't, but the tune is. The tune is. Do do do. Oh my gosh. Oh. So look that up if you're interested in gallows humor. And that episode of the Dollop about barbed wire, I don't remember what number it was. I'm up to an obscene number at this point, going through not just history with them, but the history of this country during that time. So they're up to 2019 now, I think. They're about to hit the pandemic. Oh my gosh. They've hit the, you know, they've gone past the 2016 election. and they're still dealing with all of that. This is really interesting to listen to after the fact. Oh, it is. You know, it's coming and you're trying to anticipate how they're going to react and what they're going to do. What's your third search? So my third one is saponification. I was watching Unforgotten again, and they mentioned that a body that they found sealed in a suitcase that had been underwater. for a long time had saponification. And I was like, what is that? I never heard that word. So I looked it up. Obviously, that's why we're here. The act, process or result of making soap or conversion into soap. So then another definition, that was the first definition that came up according to Merriam-Webster. The next definition is, During the saponification process, the body's fatty acids turn into a waxy, soap-like compound that covers the corpse and prevents putrification. Fight Club? Where they make soap out of the fat. Oh my gosh! I totally, oh my god it's been so many years since I've seen that! Saponification! Yep. It really stuck with me as you can see. That's it. That's my short one, which is good because we're running out of time. Yeah, we are. Okay. Next. What's your next one? My next one is Blister in the Sun meaning. Yes, yes, yes. Okay. In one of our practice episodes that aired, our very special, Delete This History episodes while we were gallivanting around the South. We mentioned Blister in the Sun, or you did. You and Sean were dancing to it at a baseball game. Yes. After the episode went live, I got a text from Heather, and she was cracking up at that song being played at a ball game, quote, given its meaning. And she was surprised we didn't mention it in the episode, the practice episode, the meaning of the song, Blister in the Sun, or the meaning behind it. It's adorable that she thinks that I even know what that means. I know, that's what I said. She's so cute. And I said, I had to admit, I never thought about the meaning of the song Blister in the Sun. It was just a song with weird lyrics. And it's catchy as hell. And it's just catchy to dance to. Yeah. Which is why it became popular. So then I was like, well crap. Now I got to look this up. Of course. Because I've been dancing along to something obscene apparently my whole life. It depends on who you believe. All right. Urban Legend has it that it's about masturbation. Big Hands, I know you're the one. Blister in the sun. Come on. Is it popping? Oh, I don't know. There's some lyrics about dirty sheets. The lead singer of the Violent Femmes, though, claims that it never crossed his mind. Okay. While writing it. What does he say it's about? That it's about drug addiction and the euphoria that comes along with drug addiction. See to me that tracks more with the group. I agree. Either way though, is it really a good song to be playing at a family friendly event like a baseball game? Well I would go so far as to say they also do not know. They have no clue. No, it's a catchy song. But if you do listen to the lyrics, I mean the very first it opens up. high as a kite and I just might stop to check you out. You know what? I know all the words to that song. Right. And I just never, I never really thought about the words, which is dumb because I usually pay attention to lyrics very, very closely. But they're also, the lyrics of that song are also kind of random and jumbly. It just sounds. Kind of like jibber jabber. Yeah, it just sounds like somebody who's on drugs. On drugs. Writing a song. And that was kind of. I guess that was kind of my thought is they're just nuts. They're just nuts and they hit on some gold with the tune and the beat. Well in 80s, lordy, 90s grunge and garbage bands. I mean, you know, garbage bands? Garbage? Garage bands. Yes. Garbage bands. It just, I don't know, I just kind of took it at face value and I was like, hmm. Is Blister in the Sun 90s? Oh yeah. Okay, I thought maybe it was 80s. Like late 80s. Oh no, no. No? Nerp. Okay. Cause it's on my 90s playlist. Oh, well, you know. And I'm never wrong. I believe you. Anyway, she's right that it's probably inappropriate at a baseball game. Okay, so listen to this real quick. Blister in the Sun is a song that was originally released on the 1983 self-titled debut album. But. It was later released as a promo single in 1997. See? We were both right. I think that, I mean, not to sound like a hipster, but I think that my siblings listened to it before it was re-released. You may, you're probably right. I feel like that song has been in my life longer than since 1997. I bet you're right. It was, when it was re-released, it was on the Grosse Point Blank soundtrack because I was a damn adult by 1997. I mean I had a kid. Yeah. Yeah That's interesting. I that's I didn't know that and I seem to remember skating around the basement in the Garfield skates to that song So I have to add it to my eighties playlist in addition to my nineties playlist. It supersedes double the fun. I can't believe that. I really learned something. Time was classic. All right, Heather. Hey, we appreciate that. Yeah, thanks. Thanks for keeping us searching. All right. Last one. Last one. Okay. Up sticks meaning and bag of pants meeting. So up sticks again came from Unforgotten someone just said, you know, I can't just up sticks and leave or whatever And I mean, you know from that context you pretty much know what that means But I'd never heard that before and it's a British term that means to pack up and move away. Yep Okay, that's all there is to that last night Sean and I were watching the next episode of the Great British Bake Off and someone was having a bad week. No spoilers. No spoilers here not gonna say who But you know when they do their asides and they're talking to the camera outside after a bake? Yes. She came out and I think she must be Irish or Scottish. I can't, maybe Welsh. I can't pinpoint her accent, but it's got the lilt. Uh-huh. And she said, what an absolute bag of pants. That's so British. Sean and I started, we busted. Because pants. just means crap. Well, yeah. That's pants. It's not, they say trousers for pants. Right, but they say, that means underwear. Pants are underwear. Pants means underwear, exactly. So when they discuss something, they'll say, oh, that's so pants. It's so pants. That's pants, but I've never heard a bag of pants. She said, an absolute bag of pants. So I looked up that phrase and it said, blah, underwear, la, la. So a bag of pants is like saying that something or a situation is completely useless, just like a bag of pants would be, not fulfilling their function. What? That's, now that wasn't like an official, it was just some dude on the internet. And he said he was British. But... I would just think it would be compounding, like pants, pants is bad. If you got a whole bag of pants. That's real bad. Yeah, because they're probably dirty in there. Oh, gross. I didn't even think about the laundry bag of pants. Absolute bag of pants. It's a bag of pants. See, that's where my mind went. It was a laundry bag of pants. Yeah. Ew. That was my last, but where are you at with British Baking Show? Absolute bag of pants. Have you started the new season? I haven't started the new season. It's really good. Because I want to binge it. Oh, I understand. I understand. We can't stand it. We just have to watch it. Every Friday night, we're on it. I just don't like. waiting. It's a good it's a good season though. I'm enjoying it so much. It's good crew. Like for example, I just binged the first half, the first four episodes of Harry Wilde, which I posted about on Instagram. There was only four episodes out. How can you stand Jane Seymour? I don't like her. She's hilarious. And really funny in this show. Yes, because it is hilarious listening to Dr. Quinn, medicine woman, say fuck. And she does sometimes. And it's Irish. Like she's an English person in Ireland. But everybody else is Irish in the show. And I love their accents. Well, maybe I'll check it out. I'm not a huge Jane Seymour fan. You think Jane Seymour is pants. I think she's an absolute bag of pants. No, thanks. Jane, I love you. Okay. So my last search is Ford models ranked by total sales. I was fact-checking something for this because I was watching a New Zealand murder mystery series Yeah called the The Brokenwood Mysteries. It is a great show by the way Started in 2014. There's nine seasons. Whoa, uh-huh. Uh-huh Like five episodes a season maybe. Okay. One and a half hour episodes. Oh my lordy. Yeah. So you get a movie each episode. Pretty much. So in an episode a character cracks a code by remembering that Edsel and Taurus were two of Ford's worst selling car models. And that was part of a code. Okay. Or a password or something. Okay. And I was shocked by that because. Given the ubiquity of the Taurus in the 90s and early 2000s, I would imagine it was one of their best-selling cars. I would have thought the same. So my search confirmed that the Edsel, named after Henry Ford's son, was indeed a very poor-selling model. That whole series. There was a series of Edsels and they were terrible. But with the exception of the 1996 and 2019 models, the Taurus was always a big seller. Now, a lot of people may have regretted, being a buyer of the Taurus, but they bought them. And they bought a lot of them. And maybe it was different in New Zealand though. And that's all I could think of. Or maybe they were thinking of the 2019 model. Or you know when they brought it back? Yes. It was gone for a while. And the Ford 500, I think, took over for it, which did not sell well. And then they revamped the Ford 500 and called it the Taurus. And it didn't do well. It was just kind of boring. Give it up, Ford. It was just kind of vanilla and it had the same transmission problems that the later Ford Taurus had and yeah, so they discontinued it. I learned all this in my search. I know more about Ford Taurus than I ever wanted to. And it led me to a lot of sites about the worst Fords ever made. Oh. And it is a sweet, sweet list of nostalgia. Nice. You ready to hear some of these names that you haven't heard in a really long time? I'm so ready. Each of the lists I saw included these cars that I'm about to say. Okay. So there were a lot of different lists with a lot of different cars on them, but these were the ones that they all kind of had in common. The Pinto. Yes. The Mustang II. Oh, never heard of that. Look it up and you'll know what we're talking about. Okay. It's not the sexy muscle car Mustang. It was like a sedan. Not yours. I was going to say like mine. Not the one you had. No, no, no. It was before that one. Okay. The Bronco 2, the smaller one, the Escape. Escobie. Yeah. The Tempo. Oh my gosh. You remember the Tempo. I totally do. Never see him on the road anymore, do you? No, no, no. You know why. Yeah. The Escort. Yes. God, there were a lot of those around. Oh gosh, but never, you don't see him anywhere. Nope. The Probe. First of all, what a name. Come on. The Gran Torino Elite. Oh. If you look that up, you'll remember it from your childhood, but you don't see those anymore and they’re ugly AF. Um, I put the Probe in here twice, so it must have really just grabbed my attention. And the Aspire. Oh, yes. Do you remember that little Aspire? Those did not hang around long either. They were little Rudy poop cars. Anyway, that's what I learned. Oh my goodness, that's hilarious. About worst-selling Fords. That's hilarious. Do you have any searches that didn't make the cut this week? Like maybe what about this one? Yeah. Yes, I do. Okay. Tap and Pour Craft Beverage Tour 2023-2024. Location of the Jet Stadium. Hydrogen peroxide recommendation. AT&T High Speed Internet Availability. Glass Paint Jergen Industries. Walton Goggins slash The Shield slash The Unicorn slash... Why was the unicorn canceled? It's such a good show. I love that show. And guess what? Is it coming back? It's coming back via Netflix. Yes! So sometime in 2024, season three will come back on Netflix of The Unicorn. It'll be so much better on Netflix. It's one of my favorite shows. It is so good. It was such a sleeper. It was! I just loved that show. The whole cast is amazing. Okay, I'm so excited. Next one, Linda Belcher's outfit. What show is the character Bob blah on? Do you remember that Bob blah blah? Caribou coffee, vanilla hazelnut, K cups. Kenny Amusement NPR coffee club. Is Jack Stacks a chain? Green Bay slash Broncos game recap. Nick Bolton dislocated wrist. Receipt etymology. Dublin's Pass menu, LG 25 cubic foot refrigerator, and Hisense 17 cubic foot counter depth refrigerator. Damn! That is the end of my list. Okay. My What About This One list is short. One, meditation apps. Two, sheet pan dinner, smoked sausage, frozen veggies. It was amazing. Yeah. didn't need a recipe, but I just wanted to make sure I was cooking it for the right amount of time. The Lightbox. Oh, Martha D searched that once and I searched it. Yeah. Again, it's over by GLO. Yeah. It's also where the buses drive over the roundabout. Yes, they do. I watched one do it the other night. And it made me laugh. Antibiotic types. Marc Anthony. Yeah, okay. That's hilarious. Okay. If anybody doesn't know who inferior Marc Anthony is, just watch a Dolphins game. You'll see him on the sideline. It's the coach of the Dolphins. He can be your hero, baby. He can take away your pain. If you're a Dolphins fan. Okay. Um, we already shouted out Hannah D. Yeah. Listener. We already shouted out Alex. Yep. Okay. Do you have any shout outs? Okay. I have another one. Okay. I found out the name of Steve's better half. Oh, yes. It's Debbie. Hey, Debbie. So I wanted to say hello to Debbie who has her own name. Yes. Sorry about that. Debbie. Sorry. Debbie. Does Debbie listen? She was listening when Steve was laughing about the gerbil beds. So I hope they still listen together. I think they carpool to work. Oh yes. So shout out to Debbie. Debbie, Debbie. Hey, Debbie. Oh, go ahead. I was going to say you're a saint. You're so mean to him. Debbie, if you'd like to get in touch with us. You could email us. Wait, wait, wait. I have another shout out. What? You've got so many shout outs this week. I actually got a list from somebody. Oh. Somebody very important. And I'm going to do it real fast. Let's hear it. I'm excited. Peyton Brown himself gave us a Google search list. Lil P. Let's hear it. He wanted me to do a search. Yeah? He said, here's a stat. or a fact for your podcast. So I had to say, well, if you listen to our podcast, you would know that's not how it works. Right. You either send us your search list or whatever, but you don't get to dictate what we search for. Right. Because it has to be organic. Right. Okay. We're not just sitting around thinking about things to search. My kids don't understand. Anyway, he laughed when I said, if you listen to our podcast, you would know this. Anyway, so I said, so send me your search list. He sent me screenshots, three screenshots. The search list was huge, and he had blacked out a bunch of the searches. What? I looked at the original list because I was like, what is this about? A redacted search list. That is... I looked at the original one just to make sure there was nothing like red flaggy. But he had just blacked those out because he didn't want us mentioning those on the podcast I see and I did tell him we curate our own searches because you know, nobody wants to know about That stuff. Yeah Here we go. Okay. Number of sun glare accidents per year. He was worried about us driving. Stop. There's 9,000 a year. That's so precious. Can warts make you sick? percentage of people who speak English in Cameroon. That's such a Peyton search. Oh my gosh. Is it Cancer Awareness Week? Every week is Cancer Awareness Week. Right. How does a city girl dress? That was one of their spirit days this week, was dress like a city girl or city boy. All right. That's a term I wasn't aware of. Yeah, me neither. It's basically just a prep. OK. So there's lots of questions on that list, Cara. Like full questions. There are. Old man. So it's, well, he was born an old man. Okay. Hey, Debbie. Debbie gets like 17 shout outs. Hey, Debbie. If you want to email us, you can contact us at delete this history podcast at gmail.com. Yeah. If you want to tell us to stop using your name and that's fine. Leave me out of it, girls. Stop disparaging your husband. And if you want to check us out on socials, we're at dthgals on Instagram and Twitter. Delete this history. Yeah, on Facebook. So anyway, um, Cara. Yes, brah. We really have to get out of this meeting room because other people are going to be in here soon. Yep. And that means we have to what? We need to go delete our history. You are correct. Bye. Bye bye. 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