Oh, I go first. Okay. Okay, here we go. How now, Brown cow? How now, Brown cow. Delete This History is created, written, hosted, produced, and edited by Brea Birch. Oh my gosh! Unbelievable. Oh my gosh. Here we go again. Mm-hmm. I told you, I'm not accepting your proposal. I understand. I just, I really want us to be together. Welcome to episode 18 of Delete This History, a podcast by two besties of a certain age searching for answers. We are your host, Cara Burch. I'm Brea Brown. Hey. Hi. How are you? I'm delightful, how are you? I'm also delightful. Man, I'm so delightful, I'm just a delight. Constantly. I could light up a room, I'm so delightful. You're lightin' it up right now. I mean, I'm not being sarcastic. I know you're not. I'm, I typically am, but I'm actually okay. I had a good week. I'm glad to hear it. Decent week, I only wanted to throw my mouse at a few people, but other than that, it was a pretty good week, pretty good. week. A really good thing happened but I can't talk about it on mic yet because it ain't official. Oh oh. But when it is. I know what she's talking about. I can't wait to say it. It's really cool. It is very good news but it I also get tired when I think about it. because that's just how I am. That's just how I roll. It's all right. I had a good morning. Yeah. I got a free drink at Taco Bell. Taco Bell, please sponsor us. Sponsor us. Yeah, just because. It was very nice and unexpected. What else? Oh, it's Boxing Day. Happy Boxing Day. Happy Boxing Day, everyone. Yes, to all of you out there. There's the plant lady. Plant lady's here. Plant lady, hi, plant lady. And you know who else is here? Who? Your drug dealer guy. I saw him. He's parked in an actual parking spot today. Yes, yes he is. And I tried to see if he was sitting in his car, but I couldn't tell. And there's a car next to his. I think he legitimately works there. I think he would have to, but he's sketchy about it. Yeah. It's really weird. He is sketchy about it. Anyway, so let's pretend we know how Christmas went. It was wonderful. It was fabulous. I got the best stuff. Me too, and nothing went wrong, and the Chiefs won. and doodly doodly doo. Yes, the horn. The clarinet, the clarinet. I've had that song in my head all effing week. Yep, me too. Thank you. You are so welcome. Thank you, Cara Burch. Yep, yep. So, hey, I have a joke for you. Oh, I'm ready for it. Knock, knock. Who's there? Yoda lady. Yoda lady who? Cara. Did you get that book out from the elementary school library? No, I saw this on Instagram. Sorry, I had to. I'm sorry. Yoda lady? That's like the oldest one in the book. She's looking at me like, ‘you are such a moron.’ It's hilarious. Oh, shoot. I was crying. I was laughing so hard when I saw it on Instagram. Have you never heard that one? No. Oh my. No, I haven't. See, I have children who, they all went through a phase where they would get knock joke library books from the school library. Hey, hey, hey. So we've heard all the dad knock jokes. See, I don't have kids, so I didn't go through that. I guess not, but you never heard that one when you were a kid? No, no, if I did, I mean, come on, we know my memory. Oh yeah, maybe. If I did, I didn't remember, but. Oh yeah. Well, way to go. You got me. You got me. Um, I have an update about my boobs. Oh! Everybody heard I got them smashed last week. Oh yes, you did. All good. Okay, great. I got some healthy boobs. Excellente. Everybody else, get your mammograms. Yeah, mammograms. They're important. We got some email this week. It's so exciting. It is exciting. From Dori. Hey, Dori! We used to work with Dori at the TV station. Sweet face. Oh my goodness, I miss her. Me too. I miss a lot of people there, but I don't miss that job. Well, sometimes I miss that job. I don't ever. Okay, Dori emailed us and she said, well, she had lots of questions, but they were all good questions. Yes, they were. We are going to address a couple of the things today on the podcast. One here, one in shout outs. Yes. Okay, so, Dolly Parton Halftime Show. Dolly Parton halftime show. She pointed out something that neither one of us caught. And it was? Something had gone wrong with how the performance was supposed to be. Yes, something malfunctioned. Dori sent us a link to a video of someone pointing out all the things that seemed odd. Yes. And one of the things was that, if you'll notice from up above, there was a hole in the middle of the star. which Dolly was not standing on. She was below the star or the main stage, if you will. The person in this video in Doria Grease thinks that Dolly was supposed to rise up out of the middle of this star rather than being walked onto the field. Correct. The elevator must not have been rising. Yeah. And I guess in the video, the guy said that there was also something for her to hold on to. like a bar or something like that would have given her more stability. And so that's why she kept pacing back and forth and then turning around and holding on to the giant star. She was trying to see her fans from all sides. Right. But she couldn't because she was down in front of the giant star. Instead of right. On top. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And the woman was wearing super high heels. Correct. And that stage looked like it was probably so slippery. Oh. And so narrow. Yeah. I looked up her age. This woman is 77 and those heels. Oh my gosh. Her feet must be a train wreck. I just had to say that just for you, Cara. I just had to make you imagine Dolly Parton's heels. And I totally did. I imagined her feet like all smushed into these shoes. She's got bunions. Stop. She... What's wrong with me? Oh my. I don't think so. I think she has Barbie doll feet. Nope. They're just permanently like this. Nope, because nobody does. So anybody who wears shoes like that on the regular, their feet are jacked. When you're 77 and you've been wearing heels your whole life performing... I don't know how she does it. Your feet are gonna be jacked. That's what I tell myself because I didn't even look as good as she looked in that in that outfit. I didn't look that great even when I was in high school. You had an outfit like that in high school? Yes, I did. And I wore it all the time. That's awesome. And I didn't look that good. I don't believe you. I'm serious. So I'm jealous. So I have to tell myself that her feet are just, her feet are a hot mess. That's how I... Her shoes are just full of blood. But anyway, thank you. Thank you, Dori, for pointing out that because that was very interesting. And... Yeah, what a nightmare to be in front of an audience that large. Well, and Dolly is the consummate professional. Right. And she practices. Oh, that was the other thing. Yeah. She had built like a replica in Nashville so that she could practice. And had practiced for like five days ahead of time. Oh my gosh. I bet Dolly Parton was mad. I bet she was pissed and she might've said, oh golly, gee, this is not the way this is supposed to go. Okay, so I also wanted to talk about one more thing before we move on. Okay, let's hear it. Did you see that beige flag was nominated for word of the year? By the Oxford English Dictionary. No! No, but I love it. Well, it's annoying to me because it's not a word. So is it hashtag beige flag or? Beige flag. Is it one word? No, it's not. Okay. That's why it's annoying. I see, I see. And some of the other nominees were not one word either. Oh, interesting. So I wish they'd rename that distinction. The word that won was Riz. Okay. Short for charisma. Like, he's got Riz. Oh, come on. I rolled my eyes so hard just now, I heard them. I know. You rolled them harder than I did at Yoda Lady. He, he, he. So other contenders were Beige Flag, which they said was a character trait that indicates that a partner or a potential partner is boring or lacks originality. Wooo! Yeah, which is a little bit different from the definition that we discussed. Yes, it is. Okay, de-influencing, which is a noun that means the practice of discouraging consumers from buying specific products or encouraging them to reduce their consumption of material goods. Okay. Heat dome, a noun that is a persistent high-pressure weather system over a particular geographic area which traps a massive hot air below it. I was going to say I created a heat dome last night in bed. Had Mexican for dinner? I had it was so cold when I went to bed, I put on all the things and then I put a dog on the bed too. And I woke up around four in the morning and I thought I was going to die. Yeah. That's anytime Peyton cuddles with me in bed. It's a heat dome. Parasocial adjective, designating a relationship characterized by the one sided relationship between a fan and a celebrity. in which the fan feels like they know the celebrity as a friend. So use that in a sentence. So like, you and I and Laura and Sonia have a parasocial relationship with Colin Firth. Okay. We feel like we know him. Brea, we do know him. Shout out, hey Colin, what's up buddy? 20 years we've been watching your movies, some good, some really not good. Bacon explosion. Yeah. Mean streets. That's a word I had not heard. And that's a one word parasocial is just one word? Parasocial is one word. Heat dome, two words. De-influencing, it's one word, but it's hyphenated. And of course, Riz one. And there were other words, but those were... Now does the winning word go into the Oxford English Dictionary? Or is that just a little fun thing that they do? I think it's just a little fun thing like, hey, this is... They just follow trends? Correct. Okay. Yeah. And it probably goes into the dictionary too. That's what I just asked you. Right. But I mean, in addition to, I think all these words are in the Oxford English Dictionary. Yeah, yeah, yeah. This isn't like a I'm incredulous. What word should we put in the dictionary? This is a what words like really. Summarizes 2023 or really embodies 2023. But they're already in the dictionary. Yeah. Okay. Anything can be in the dictionary nowadays, Cara. Apparently so. If people use it, it's in there. If I look up whatever, I'm not, I'm not going there. I'm not going there. Yeah, you can. If you look up Riz, it'll be there. Good vibes only. That's right. So we're not here to riff about our lexicographical pet peeves. That's right. That's a hard word. That's right, Bi Bi. What are we here for? We're here to share our internet search histories with the world. Yes we are. And we're going to do that with the reading of the lists. All right. It's Even Steven Week, so I'm going to go first. Yes ma'am. Number one. What is Clam's Casino? Number two, cashew chicken, official dish of the state of Missouri. Number three, Fort Jefferson in Dry Tortugas National Park. Number four, can camel smell water? Number five, Kansas City, City of Fountains. Okay. That's my list. Okay, here's my list for this week. Okay. Celebrity Deaths, 2023. Oh snap. Agnes Varda, Arrondissement, narrator of World War II from the front lines, MFM YouTube videos. Okay, sorry, I'm mulling over those. Cara's rebooting. Yes, I am. I went into a fugue state. Now we're gonna play a little game that we like to call Search Me. This is where we each pose one question to each other and see if she can answer based only on the reading of the lists. And there are amazing prizes involved. What am I playing for today? All right, you are playing for. this fancy and unopened jar of blueberry jam from Maine. Dang. It's that time of year when you get a bunch of weird food gifts because these people don't know you very well. Well, let me tell you, blueberry jam is one of my favorites. Are you serious? I'm not kidding. I didn't know that about you. I freaking love it. Brea likes the bloobs. Yes, but they're expensive. Blueberry jam is expensive. Okay. Well this it is not opened. I know I see that the top has not been popped No, no, which of my searches resulted from a Saturday Night Live YouTube rabbit hole This one's a little bit vague So I'll give you a couple guesses Can camels smell water? That's incorrect. Oh poop What is clams casino? That is correct. Okay I was watching Saturday Night Live Christmas skits, as one does at this time of year. And then YouTube of course said, well, if you like that one, you'll like this one. And I went down the rabbit hole and I ended up with the one called 1920s party or something like that, Kristen Wiig, Jon Hamm. And she kept saying, don't make me sing. Don't make me sing. And they were all like, we're not making you sing. And she couldn't say, it was... Oh my gosh, it's a classic and it's one of my favorites. But at the very beginning of the skit, Kristen Wiig's character says, welcome to my party everyone, enjoy the clams casino. And I've heard that before. Oh yeah, so it's a dish. It's a dish. The first fact about clams casino is that it's gross. Correct. The dish consists of little neck clams on the half shell, turtle power. with a mixture of peppers, bacon, breadcrumbs, and butter, and then they're broiled until each stuffed shell browns on the top. Blech. Clams just look like boogers to begin with, or phlegm. I just can't hack it. Yeah. I can't hack it. I don't like the taste of them. Blech. Anyway. The beginnings of this dish aren't super clear, but Julius Keller claimed to have invented it while he was an employee at the Rhode Island. I don't think I can pronounce this. Never a. Narragansett. Yes. We have an office in Rhode Island. Oh my gosh. I'm so glad you're here. Yeah. I've done ports and harbors reports and things like that. Narragansett. OK. He was an employee at the Rhode Island Narragansett Pier Casino, which actually was not a casino. It was an upscale resort. There's no gambling going on there. Why was it called a casino? I don't know. I don't care. A senior food critic at Eater.com, Robert Stiemsma, says that clams casino is a derivative of Italian stuffed clams, which have a filling of breadcrumbs, garlic, and sometimes oregano. So he says that clams casino are mainly about the bacon, as all foods should be. That's about the only thing that kind of saves that dish. I have a picture of this that I wanted to show you. And I'll post this on our accounts. Why you gotta ruin my day with the knock joke and then this. It's what I do. This picture of this disgusting bacon. Clams Casino, look at the nasty bacon on the top. I mean it doesn't look great. No. There are so many other things in the world that I would eat ahead of this. Sources argue. About the year Clamps Casino debuted, some sources say 1917, some sources say 1897. Some sources say who the F cares. Regardless, it is still a very popular dish in New England and along the eastern seaboard to this day. Of course. My sources were YouTube, Saturday Night Live channel, and eater.com. Oh, eater.com. I get my blueberry jam. You get this blueberry jam, it's all yours. From Maine. You enjoy that. It's from Maine. Where they probably eat a lot of clams casino. Entirely possible. Excellent, thank you so much. You're welcome, happy holidays. Thanks, you, my love, are playing for some stickers that you may or may not have given me. I love stickers. Or I'm. may have had these up for a prize for you once and then never gave you a second chance because I’m a bitch like that Anyway. What do we got here? Oh my gosh, yes. They're the flamingo stickers. Yes. Because you love flamingos, because you're a swinger. I totally gave these to you. Did you? Yeah, I did. It was a prize. I gave, these were given to you as a prize. Oh, well see, you're the one who likes flamingos. But I didn't like these stickers. Oh shit. But I love them now. You will love them. That I'm looking at them again. I have a feeling I'm gonna see these stickers again Your question is, which search gave me an incredible craving to get a real passport and do some international traveling specifically to France? Oh, we're going to talk about France again. Agnes Varda? No. Oh, no. But you're super close. Because she is, well, you'll find out she has a connection to France. Um, do I get to guess again? Of course. MFM YouTube videos. Which one did I? A narrator of World War II. Which one did I say wee ha after I said it in my list? My brother. I thought this was such a softball. Remember a little while back when I said my brain is shot? Cara's so tired. I'm so overwhelmed and tired. Okay. A-r-r-o-n-d-i-s-s-e-m-e-n-t. Yeah. Aarr…. I'm just gonna apologize to everyone ahead of time. The next few months are gonna be rough. Rough. It'll make for a good comedy. That's what's going on in my brain. And then you just kept shouting things before I could give you. Stop. So that you literally guessed everything but the right thing. I really worked up about trivia. Okay. Tell me all about this. Okay. And Arrondissement is an administrative district of certain large French cities, in particular Paris. Its origin is obviously French from the word Arrondissement, which means make round. Oh, which is interesting. The current division of 20 Arrondissement in Paris took place during the time of the reconstruction in the mid-19th century, 1860 to be precise. when new territory was brought within the city borders. The most famous, I mean, debatably, who knows why this is the most famous, but is the first Arrondissement, where the center of the old city of Paris is located. It includes historic places such as the Louvre and the Place de la Concorde. Mm-hmm. The Pantheon is in the fifth Arrondissement. The Eiffel Tower is in the seventh. Okay. And that district boasts residents of the highest average income in the city. So. Oui, oui, hon, hon. The richest. And the Moulin Rouge is in the 18th, Arrondissement. Oh. I just knew you would wanna know where the Moulin Rouge was. I can't do. Yeah. My sources were Oxford Languages, Miriam Webster, 56Paris.com. TravelLetters.net, TripAdvisor, HotelMini.com, sorry, ParisRental.com. Wow. Lots of sources. So you've got the travel bug. Yeah, my sister Heather and I, we talked about going to Paris all the time. We both took French in high school because we didn't wanna have any second language that was actually useful in this country. Good job. And anyway, she like took it in college and she went really far with it. But we were like, oh, we need to go to Paris. We need to go to Paris. And then I got older and I forgot all my French. And then I was like, oh, I kind of don't want to go there anymore because I don't know how to speak the language anymore. And then England's always kind of in my jam anyway. I was like, they speak English there. Yes, they do. Sometimes a form I don't understand. I'm still reading All the Light. we cannot see and it takes place in France mostly, France and Germany. And so I've been looking up a lot of French phrases and things, French words that they have in here that I don't know what they mean. And I'm too stupid to figure out what they mean by context. Don't harsh on yourself, you're learning. Anyway, that author has a much bigger vocabulary and way more languages than I do. But anyway, I'm like, man, that is a really cool city, Paris. And that is a really cool country. I wouldn't mind to go there. I would like to go to there. And Italy, I would love to go to Italy. Oh my gosh, yes. And Greece. I would love to, oh yes. I would love to see Florence. And I would like to go to Barcelona. Barcelona, Ibiza. And Ibiza. French listeners. We do? We do, supposedly. Somebody in France has downloaded our podcast at least once. Bonjour. Yeah, bonjour. And that was very good. That R was amazing. Merci. Traveling would be nice. You have to have money to do that. Yes, you do, and I have zero. So Paris is a city chock full of history. Do you know who else has a lot of history? Who? Us! Yes, we do. You're right. Our shared history goes back more than 20 years. How the hell did that happen? Budge if I know. So let's share another kind of history now. Yes. Our internet search histories. What's this segment called? This is called Shared History. Oh wow. We are... Brill. We are so clever. What's the first thing you want to talk about? I this one is going to make you so mad, so I just want to get it out of the way. Cashew chicken, official dish of the state of Missouri. I should have waited till you were done drinking. I'm ready for this nonsense. I'm so wheezy when I laugh because I've inhaled so many mold spores and dust. Okay. State Representative, Missouri State Representative, Jamie Gragg, has pre-filed a bill with the Missouri House of Representatives that would make cashew chicken the official dish of the state of Missouri. For those of you that are super interested, it's House Bill 1624. Here's the pre-filed. bill language. Cashew chicken is selected for and shall be known as the official dish of the state of Missouri. You guys should see Brea's face right now. It is priceless. Deep fried cashew chicken was invented in 1963 in Springfield, Missouri by Chef David Leong. An immigrant from China, Liang sought to make his native dishes more appealing to locals. Deep fried cashew chicken is now served in more than 70 restaurants in the Springfield area. That's the bill language. Now, according to the newsletter, this has sparked outrage from other legislators throughout the state. They argued their own regional dishes should be named as the state dish. Mr. Gragg is surprised at the attention this bill is receiving. He clarified, they didn't get that put in quite right because a lot of people don't know there's a difference. But yes, the bill does say Springfield style cashew chicken. This is what I'm referring to as our state meal because it is about as Missouri as it gets. It's about as American as you can get." He goes on to say, Mr. Leong knew the taste buds of Missouri. So he created something from his heritage and made it fit our taste buds. Breaded chicken and brown colored gravy. End quote. Mr. Gragg feels that it represents the best of Missouri. quote, Springfield style cashew chicken just shows the American dream. The immigrant story, something fantastic out of adversity. The bill is meant to say, we're proud of where we're from, we're proud of where we live. And I'm not talking about Springfield, I'm talking about the state of Missouri. If passed, this bill would go into effect August 28, 2024. It has not been placed on the House calendar as of yet. Here we go. You know who should be outraged by this? David Leong. Well, I don't know how he would feel about this, but. The citizens of Missouri who voted in these ass hats. They've taken away a woman's right to decide what to do with her own body in this state. We have so many problems with our education system in this state, with our infrastructure, and this is what they're debating? Don't read through the list of pre-filed bills. My blood pressure was so high as I was reading through these pre-filed bills. Some of them are beyond. ridiculous. Every person of voting age should read through this list. I could not believe how... Now, because this is so... I knew that this one would make you mad. I wanted to add one to the end that I did find that I think is really good. Okay. Representative Jamie Johnson is proposing that election day in November should be a state holiday. Thank you. So that everyone has the opportunity It won't get passed. And even if it is a state holiday, not everyone will get it off because employers get to choose what holidays they get to let their employees have off. But at least we're trying. I'm going to bring it down so I don't stroke out. But I'm just saying everybody of voting age needs to read this list and see what your money is paying for. the waste of time because your tax dollars pay these people's salaries. So read this. Let it be motivation to you. If you are not already registered to vote, get registered to vote. If you are registered to vote, you show up every time there's an election and you vote against anybody who's currently in and I don't care what letter they have behind their name. Anybody who's currently in the Missouri legislature who is wasting our time and money on this bullshit. Anyway, cashew chicken is delicious. which your search you'd like to share. The first search I would like to share is celebrity deaths 2023. Oh yes. I wanted to get this one out of the way because it's a little bit depressing. Let's hear it. Peyton and I were perusing this. And yes, that is mom goals for the rest of you to look through celebrity deaths with your 13-year-old. Okay, so there were lots of soap opera stars. and young people, 50 and younger, who died this year. And then a lot of really, really old people, like over the age of 90. Here are the ones that hit me the hardest this year. Michael Gambon, Alan Arkin, Matthew Perry. Alan Arkin was this year? Yeah. Oh gosh. I think back in January. This has been a long year. Yeah. Matthew Perry, Tina Turner. Matthew Perry, oh, Matthew Perry. Oh, my Lord. I want you to just sit back. Okay, I need to just, yeah. I need you to sit back. I'm literally gonna sit back. Drink some water. Just listen, I'm just gonna listen. Drink some water. Here, I'm sitting back. Okay. Okay, I'm listening, I'm listening. Andre Brauer. Richard Moll, who was Bull on Night Court. Yeah. Jimmy Buffett. Bob Barker. Paul Rubens. Sinead O'Connor. Richard Belzer, my boyfriend. I forgot he died. That Cooper Trooper always used to call my boyfriend, but he wasn't. I was in love with Sam Waterston, not Richard Belzer. Charles Kimbrough, who was Jim Dial on Murphy Brown, and Norman Lear. Other really well-known names I saw on the list were, but they didn't like, you know, hit me in the feels. It's still sad that they died. I don't want anyone getting mad. And this is not a, this is a cherry-picked list from Entertainment Weekly. So it's not a definitive list. I'm sorry if I left off somebody who's really important to you, but here's some more. Raquel Welch, Cindy Williams, Shirley on Laverne & Shirley. Suzanne Summers, Dick Butkus, Steve Harwell, smash mouth lead singer. Julian Sands, he was an English character actor that If you saw him, you'd know him. He was in everything. Jerry Springer, Harry Belafonte, Barry Humphreys slash Dame Edna. Oh my gosh, I didn't know that. Lance Reddick, Tom Sizemore, David Crosby, and Lisa Marie Presley. Now also, two big time celebs lost kids this year, which is sad. Dana Carvey's son, Dex, was 32. He died of a drug overdose. Oh, crap. Fairly recently. And Andrew Lloyd Webber's son, Nick Lloyd Webber, was 43. And he died of cancer. This list also does not include notable people who weren't celebrities. So, like Henry Kissinger, people like that. People like that. You know. This was just Entertainment Weekly's list that I picked from. Gotcha. And I'm sure there were people that I didn't recognize or didn't know who they were, that other people would. Whose death gave you the biggest gut punch of the year? So, I'm really upset about Andrew Brower. Andre Brower. Andrew. Yes. Andre Brower. Yes. I... I know. I just... love him. My first exposure to him was City of Angels. Did you ever watch that with Nicolas Cage and Meg Ryan? Yes, I forgot he was in that though. He is an angel in that and I love that movie and you guys can just suck it. People always give me crap about loving that movie and it's so, I love it. Yeah, it didn't get a lot of, you know. No, it didn't. And the soundtrack is fantastic. I love that movie all around. I'm upset about that. I'm also upset about, of course, Michael Gambon. And there was another one in there in the very beginning that you said, but I can't remember who. Matthew Perry. Oh, yes. I'm still trying to get over that one. That is just, that was gut wrenching to me. I'm such a huge Friends fan. I parasocialize with them. Yeah. I think that's about right. Yeah, I feel like this year, a lot of people who were part of my childhood or early adulthood are starting to die now. And that's really sad. Yeah, it's upsetting. So people like obviously Matthew Perry, Jimmy Buffett. I mean, he has been the soundtrack of my family, really. For good or for bad. Paul Rubens, I mean, Pee Wee's Playhouse. I know, Paul Rubens. Richard Moll, Night Court. I mean, we watched so much Night Court. I loved that show. Sinead O'Connor, oh my gosh. It's just kind of like, and then Andre Brauer. I think he was in the very first police procedural that I ever loved. Oh, really? And that kind of got me into that genre of show. I can't think of the name of it, of course, but it was, they were homicide cops in Baltimore. Sean and I, well, not really Sean so much, but because Sean's been spending a lot of time away from the house since his dad passed away. And so I've been kind of just watching some TV on my own. And I had restarted watching Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Oh, my goodness. That show. Probably, probably two weeks before. Andre died. And so I've been reliving the show and I so funny and he is just so good in this show. And so when he passed away, I think it hit me a little bit harder than if I hadn't been rewatching that show. Right. Cause you've seen it a lot. I mean, and you've been, you've seen him a lot on the show. Yeah, yeah. It was called Homicide Life on the Street. Pulled that out of my ass. Good job. It was on from 1993 to 1999 and he was in it and he was amazing. He is an excellent actor. And in fact, I always thought of him as a dramatic actor. So that's why I really liked him on Brooklyn Nine-Nine because he's funny. He's very funny. And that was such a switch for me to see him in a role like that. Yeah. And I loved it. I love it when he always, he always calls his dog Cheddar the dog. He never just says Cheddar, it's always Cheddar the dog. Just make sure you know he's not talking about the cheese. Cheddar the dog. Or his Monday. Oh my gosh, I love that show. Anyway, so those, that was sad, but those are some of the people we lost this year. Yes. Tell us on the socials. whose death made you the saddest, because we like to wallow in sadness and melancholy. What's your next search? Fort Jefferson in Dry Tortugas National Park. Alrighty. A coworker of mine just spent a little over a week in the Florida Keys. so she was talking to me about it. She and her husband booked an excursion to the Dry Tortugas, which is located 70 miles west of Key West, which is where Fort Jefferson is located. I had no idea that there was a fort in the Dry Tortugas. Named after Thomas Jefferson, it was built to protect the southern coastline of the US and the lifeline of commerce to and from the Mississippi River. It allowed the US to maintain an advanced for ships patrolling the Gulf of Mexico. In enemy hands, the Tortugas would have threatened the heavy ship traffic that passed between the Gulf Coast and the Eastern seaboard. It could have also served as a potential springboard for enemy forces enabling them to launch an attack anywhere along the Gulf Coast. Construction on Fort Jefferson began in 1845 and continued for 30 years and was never fully completed nor fully armed. Worth it. Though it was never attacked, the fort fulfilled its intended role to keep the peace. I guess it was, you know, ominous enough that if anyone saw it, they're like, hmm, there's some guns there. Yeah, okay. During the Civil War, Union warships used the harbor in their campaign to blockage Southern shipping. It was also used as a prison mainly for Union deserters. The most famous inmate was Dr. Samuel Mudd, the physician who set the broken leg of John Wilkes Booth. Oh, his name was Mudd. His name was Mudd. After that. The army abandoned the fort in 1874, but it was later used as a coaling station for warships. So, as I was researching this, it felt very like What's the right word? Like there should be more information here. So, this thing started to be built before the civil war. It was never completed. It's huge. This thing is massive. So, I'm going to do a little more digging on this. I feel like the information that's out there is a little whitewashed. So, I feel like there's something that I am not, that people don't necessarily want to talk about. I feel like they're, is probably some terrible slavery stories involved here. That's probably a pretty safe guess. And so, I'm gonna do some more digging on this. I think you're probably onto something there because especially because it's a tourist attraction now, they don't wanna discourage people from coming to see the fort. And when they're there, they don't wanna harsh people's mellow, their vacation mellow with, you know, let's talk about some serious shit. What's your next search? Agnes Varda. Okay, let's hear. Now, that was a good guess of yours the first time. Thank you. For search me because she was a filmmaker who was part of the French New Wave. Oh. She's often called the godmother or the grandmother or the mother of the French New Wave. Okay. I fell into this search because of a Google Doodle. Oh, yeah. Google doodles are sometimes the best ways to learn things because you go to search something and sometimes the Google doodles are so cool and or like what the heck. And so this was what happened to me. I went on Google on Wednesday to search for something boring, probably for work. And the doodle featured two women looking at each other. Yes. One with bobbed black hair. and then the other one with like this white mushroom top and you know at the top of her hair like at her roots and then the tips were red and these two people were looking at each other but their profiles were the same. So you could tell it was the same person looking at herself. Okay. Young and then older. And when I hovered over the doodle it said Agnes Varda, French New Wave filmmaker. So Agnes Varda was a Belgian born film director and screenwriter. I already said that she was the godmother of the French New Wave, but the fact is she was the only woman director of the movement. And her first films actually predated the French New Wave. Oh, okay. Which is why she's sometimes called the mother or the grandmother of. Okay. Because her first two films were before the French New Wave started. and she wasn't very welcomed by other directors in the French New Wave. That's shocking. Jerks. Shocking. She lived from 1928 to 2019. Oh, dang. So she was 90 when she died. She made 54 films and installation works over the seven decades of her prolific career from her first film in 1954, 55 called La Pointe Corte to Varda Paragnes in 2019. So the year that she died, she was still involved in filmmaking. Whoa. Whew. For several decades, she was the only French auteur to identify unequivocally as a feminist. The French New Wave filmmakers used many innovative techniques, including jump cuts and actors addressing the audience directly. So breaking that wall, you know. like they all do now, to remind viewers they were watching a film and they rejected script-based filmmaking in favor of heavy improvisation. Oh, interesting. So less scripting, more yes-anding. The films that put her on the map were Cleo from Five to Seven in 1962, in which a pop singer spends a fretful two hours awaiting the result of a cancer examination, which is really like a creepy piece of foreshadowing because she died of breast cancer at the age of 90. And then Le Bonheur, 1965, about a young husband's blithely choreographed extramarital affair. Blithely choreographed? Yeah. I obviously totally just copied and pasted that, and I'm not quite sure what that means. That's all right. Interesting fact about her. She was one of the five mourners at Jim Morrison's funeral in Paris in 1971. Five? There were just five mourners at Jim Morrison's funeral. Do I know who Jim Morrison is? Is that the person I think it is? The lead singer of The Doors. Yeah! Why were there only five Mourners? It's a very private funeral. It was in a very private cemetery in Paris. Huh. But they were close friends. Interesting. So Agnes Varda, look her up, watch some of her films, be inspired. You sparked my interest in this. My sources were masterclass.com, New York Women in Film and Television, Wikipedia, Oxford Academic Society for French Studies, wee all. New York Times obituary of Agnes Varda and Turner Classic movies. You know what? Those are really good sources. And I realized I haven't been saying my sources. Yes, you have. No, I haven't. For Cashew Chicken, I didn't. I used the House of Representatives website. Oh, okay, go for it. Then the newsletter. Yeah. For my Fort Jefferson, I used the National Park System website and another one that I can't remember. I'm really sorry. I will use it again next week and name them then. Sorry. It's all good, it's all good, it's all good. Let's talk about how camels can smell water. I was doing another crossword puzzle because I'm currently obsessed with crossword puzzles. Oh, they're so relaxing. I love them. I've always done them on paper for years and years. And then I downloaded one on my Kindle. Oh no. And then that led to, I've got four different crossword puzzle games. I'm like kidding. Don't. You are just getting so technological lately. Ridiculous. I know. I am just, I'm hip and mod everybody. So I was doing this crossword and it had an animal theme. So that's one of the games is that every crossword puzzle has a theme. This one was animals. And when I solved it, a fun fact popped up and said, camels can smell water more than 45 miles away. I was like, woo- flavors and colors associated with various types of vegetation. Terpene was named, this terpene, excuse me, this terpene was named geosmin from the Greek words for earth and smell. Like camels, humans can also smell geosmin, but not as far away as camels can smell. The streptomycetes produce the earthy scent that follows a rain shower. Ah, yes. The impact of raindrops hitting the ground throws the spores of the streptomycetes into the air so that we breathe them in and enjoy that fresh, earthy smell after rain. The Irish Spring. Remember those commercials? Of course I do. So the same thing happens in the desert. Streptomycetes are carried over long distances by desert winds and the spores are detected by the camel's highly sensitive nose, allowing them to always know where to find water. Oh my goodness. They have such, oh my goodness. That's such a sensitive smeller. I know. Oh, those poor things. They smell all the feet. Oh. They smell all the smells. Oh, they smell all the smells. I really feel for camels. And they're smelling all the smells. I have such a sensitive smeller. Me too. Oh, I smell and see Sean can't. So if Sean is smelling something, he knows that it's probably about ready to knock me down. Oh, I have a really, really strong smeller. I really empathize with that. Um, maybe that's why camels spit all the time. Oh, they're trying to spit out all the smells like Patui. I like that theory. Oh, camels. I'm a camel expert. Now we know about scorpions in water and camels in water. Oh, I am on kind of a desert theme, aren't I? Yeah. We are. We are just pretty soon. We're just, we'll be able to call ourselves zoologists. You're welcome. All right. Well, what were your sources missing? Oh, my sources for that one were, um, standby. I didn't write them down because I was exhausted. I don't know. Oh, OK. I don't know. Animal websites. Animal things. They were science-y websites. Okay. If you can tell by the way I was saying words. Yeah, yeah. And then that crossword game I played. Oh yeah. Oh my gosh. Good source. Oh shoot. I am just so... You guys, I'm so sorry. It's awesome. Life is washing over my brain and it ain't working out for me. It's awesome. I mean, I'm sorry that you're struggling and that it's frustrating for you, but it sure is fun. You're gonna get weeks and weeks and weeks of it. I mean, who needs drugs? 2024, here comes Cara. Derpy, derpy, derpy. All right. Hit me with your next one. My next one is narrator of World War II from The Frontlines. Yes, yes, yes. This is a docu-series on Netflix. Oh. It's fairly new. Yay. And I watched it this week with Clint and Peyton. We only have one episode left. Okay. And because Clinton and Payton like wussed out on me last night, they were like, I'm too tired to watch another episode. I'm like, good, there's one left. Anyway, um, I didn't want to tire shame. So just let it go. The narrator has a great voice naturally, and it was so familiar to me, but I thought it was actor Patterson Joseph. I don't know who that is. I didn't know his name either. I could just picture his face, but he's a British actor who played in one of the most underrated and subsequently canceled network shows that I used to love, timeless. I think I hated that show. It was at the hospital show. No, it was a time travel show. Oh, I'm thinking of Breathless. Maybe. That was a terrible show. Oh, I liked that one. That was a PBS show. Yes, it was. Yeah. I don't know what Timeless is. Timeless was on NBC, I believe, from 2016 to 2019. Not for very long. But this guy's also been in a billion shows that I watch on Acorn and Britbox and things like that. Okay. Um, but I was wrong. The narrator of World War II from the front lines is John Boyega, whose filmography includes some of the new Star Wars stuff. Oh. He plays Finn in the sequel trilogy. Oh, I love Finn. So he's narrating the show? Uh-huh. Oh! And he was in The Woman King, which I really want to see. Me too. But I haven't yet. And it just kind of zoomed past me. Me too. It's like I just missed it. Laura S. says it's excellent. Yeah, I really, really want to watch it. So maybe I'll do that over the holiday. Good. Good plan. But he is BAFTA and Golden Globe award winning. Anyway, he has a great voice, obviously. And the series, World War II from the Frontlines, is amazing. It makes use of enhanced archival footage and contributions from voices of all sides of the war to tell the story of the global conflict and give insights into some of the war's defining moments. So, they talk to Germans, they talk to Japanese people, they talk to American veterans, they talk... to Italian, like civilians, people who were civilians during World War II. And it's incredible. It's pretty graphic because they have colorized this photography in this film. So you see things that, and obviously enhanced it, so it's more like, I mean, it's a lot clearer. than old footage. So you see things that you're like, oh crap. And it's a lot of like never before seen footage. It's stuff that was shot by like just not filmmakers, like just average people. It's not sugarcoated. So you hear from people who witnessed and participated in traumatic events and they don't. They don't try to make apologies for it, but at the same time, they also don't make excuses for it. And like, for example, there was one pilot who his American pilot and his mission was after they burned Hamburg and bombed Hamburg, which was pretty much just all civilians to try to get Germany to bend and to give up. the survivors, which I don't know how anyone survived that, just the lack of oxygen that would be in that town because everything burned. Survivors, like tens of thousands of them went to this post office depot to just kind of shelter up because it hadn't burned. And he had the assignment. and some other pilots had the assignment to bomb the post office depot. And these were just civilians who were just sitting ducks. Oh, my gosh. So it's intense. You have watched a lot of World War Two stuff. Yeah. So you feel like this one is. different you from what you've watched? I mean, it's very similar to like World War II in color, which is another thing that they've taken archival footage and enhanced and blah, blah. I think it's a lot less apologetic. Okay. I feel like it's a lot more, well, that's apologetic is not the right word. I feel like it's a lot less sugar coated. It's just very raw. Okay. This is what we did. And he said, listen, it is not something to be proud of. It was a shameful, terrible thing. We were doing exactly what we were told to do. It's just that we were considered the good guys. But the soldiers on the other side, they were doing exactly what they were told to do too. And they were considered the bad guys. But he said, but you're not a hero when you bomb. someplace like that that's only civilians. That's giving me the chills to think about just being that person that has to do that. I mean... The mental torture. He said, all of us were just sick. Oh, yeah. We were just sick. That this is what we were told to do. I said, I would have been like, oops, I missed. Right? No, I mean, I don't fault any of them, but it was nice to see that some of these veterans that they were really understanding of the other side of things. Like, you know how, I don't know, I feel like in some of the World War II stuff that I've watched in the past, it's all been rah sis goombah, we were the Americans, we were there to liberate, we were... and it's all just about how it was justifiable and nothing we did was wrong. Nothing that the allies did was wrong. And I think that this is, it's really nice to see them not vilifying the people on the other side, and at the same time, not trying to be like, hey, we were heroes 100%. Right. It's just more honest. Anyone that thinks that anyway has no idea what war is all about. But that's what we've been taught. I know it's ridiculous though. Yeah. Sorry. Ooh, I started to get on my soapbox, but I'm not gonna, I'm gonna step back off. Come on now. I took a deep breath, but I'm, it's okay. I don't, good vibes only. I already ruined that with the cashew chicken thing. No, no, it's the theme for the day. We pulled it back. Okay. We pulled it back. That's right. I kind of want to eat some cashew chicken. I'm gonna watch that. But it's, like I said, it's very honest, it's very raw. So in other words, I've loved every second of it. It's been pretty amazing. But it also is like you need a palette cleanser after you watch a few episodes. It's like, okay, time to watch, I don't know, anything. Brooklyn Nine-Nine. Well, Nine-Nine. My next search, I'll tell you what's a good palette cleanser. I can't wait. Okay, what's your next search? All right, this is my last. My sources. Oh yes. I didn't write my sources down here. What's my excuse, Cara? Well, Netflix is one of them. IMDB was one. And I did, oh gosh. It was some Anyway, Saz. My last search for today is Kansas City, the city of fountains. I saw a commercial this week, this flashed up like 10 seconds long on television that said, visit Kansas City, the city of fountains. I was like, fountain, fountain. And I have heard that before. I have heard city of fountains, but I haven't spent enough time in Kansas City to be like, dang, look at all the fountains. Kansas City has more than 200 working fountains, especially on the Country Club Plaza. Oh. Designs range from French inspired traditional to modern. Talking a lot about French today. I know. Getting our French on. Highlights include the black marble fountain in front of Union Station, the nickels bronze horses at the entrance of Plaza Shopping District. Horses, horses, horses. and the fountain at the Hallmark Cards World Headquarters in Crown Center. Kansas City claims that only Rome has more fountains than they do. Oh, really? That's a big claim. It is a big claim. Now, I do know that my sources for this were like the Kansas City, like, you know, the city homepage, like Visit Kansas City, and a little bit of Wikipedia in there. Okay. My last search is MFM YouTube videos. Okay, yes. Finally something a little lighter, but we're still talking about murder because these are cartoon shorts that spawn off the podcast, My Favorite Murder. Okay. Oh yes. I sent you two this week. Yes you did. And they don't typically talk about the murder side. of My Favorite Murder or the murder cases. These are the funny things that the hosts say in between talking about the murder stories. Sometimes it's them reading listener emails that have funny things or interesting things or their reactions to the listener emails. The two I sent to you this week, one was about a toxic fart that shut down a postal center in California and another was about made up songs and musicals. that a subject of one of the episodes had been cast in. And there were a ton of them. And Karen Kilgareff is a comic and she is hilarious. And she just kept just on the fly making up these songs based on what the name of the musical was. And these musicals had these, the musicals had these ridiculous names. And so she was just going off the name of the musical and. They all the songs sounded the same. They were the same vein, but they just, you know, she just goes anyway, you just gotta listen to him people. Just go, but I was literally crying and looking crazier than ever in my runny eye makeup. I had to show them to Clint, some of them while we were waiting for dinner to finish in the oven. And he even said about the fart video, that video broke me. and stop thinking about it. It was funny. So he doesn't listen to the podcast. He's not familiar with these hosts. So it's not like you have to have some familiarity with this to find these videos funny. The way they're drawn is hilarious. The animator is Nick Terry. He is masterful. He catches every laugh that they do. These cartoon characters are It's exactly what you're hearing on the podcast, which I've heard some of these episodes before and I've heard some of these anecdotes in these episodes, just listening to the podcast. And then watching them as cartoons is just, it's like the Ricky Gervais thing with Carl Pilkington and what's his face. Yes, Stephen Merchant. Stephen Merchant. It reminded me too of the Seinfeld. Animations, Sein-amations. I never saw Sein-amations. So Sein-amations were on the DVDs, if you bought the series. There were so many extras on those DVDs. Yeah. And they would take a scene and animate it. And it was hilarious. Yeah. And that's what it reminded me of. Oh my goodness. And I don't listen to that podcast either. And I was dying laughing watching these. And some of the things that the animator I mean, just brilliant. Some of the things that he comes up with just based on what they're saying and how he imagines what they're saying or like, sometimes, like there was the one about the fart, you know, Georgia, he had her because she sounded so like, oh my gosh, I can't wait to hear the story. So he gave her like a thing of popcorn. Yes, throughout the whole cartoon short, she's just sitting there with this with this box of popcorn. I mean, just stupid things like that, that are just so clever. They are so fun. And there's about 50 of them. Oh my word. On YouTube that you can watch. They're anywhere from like 30 seconds to three minutes. So the one that got me the most and the one I laughed at the absolute hardest, and I've watched multiple times. I didn't even share this one with you because I had already told you, this is the last one. I didn't want to keep sending them to you after I told you I wouldn't send you anymore But it was called Karen's pen pal you guys look these up It's the exactly right YouTube channel and they are truly delightful Not just in my own sick twisted way. Like I think that they are universally delightful not just Hey, Bri is a weirdo. And so she likes these. Oh My goodness, anyway, if you like to laugh do it I do like to laugh as a matter of fact. Mm-hmm, I do too. But, what about this one? Do do do. In this segment, we're going to quickly list our other searches from the past week that we didn't have time to discuss. Here we go. Selling a car in Missouri. Gifting a car in Missouri. Andre Brower. Picture of pigs in blankets. Texas license plate. Rocco's Pizza. Panera Bread Menu. Boxing Day. Citizen Echo Drive Watch works only in direct light. British Bake Off Pass contestants. Hold Fast Brewing. Shout out to Hold Fast. How to Play King's Corner. It's a card game. What is Friend Japan? Hit me with your list. Oh, okay. That's all of yours. That's it. Yeah. Did you really look up Andre Brower this week? Yeah. Cause he died. Oh, he just died this past week. Yeah. Oh, my list of searches that did not make the cut. Eminem's candy, bulk, toasty vanilla. F'ing addicted. I knew you would like those. They're a limited edition flavor. So you can't get them like in the party size or the, you know, the size I need. I understand. Weren't they freaking delicious? Yes, and everyone in my family likes them too. You said you weren't gonna share those with anyone. I did not. I bought more. Oh, okay. And then I had them taste them. But we're going through them like. literal candy. Okay. Podcast conferences 2024. Shut the front door. I love it. Just dreaming. Askinose chocolate. Oh yeah. Exactly right. Media school district calendar, old Navy Alamo draft house, Plangent. That's it. All right. We don't really have any listener shout outs, except we are going to continue to discuss. to discuss a question that Dori asked us in her email. That's correct. And this is a fitting, wonderful week to discuss this. Totally perfect. Because we both did not so great a job with our sources at different times of this podcast. But Dori had asked us, just out of curiosity, why we suddenly decided to cite our sources. So I was telling Brea that After a few episodes of this, I started feeling like I should mention where I was finding this information, but I never had. And then one week, Brea just started citing her sources. And so then that was like my green light. It's like, all right, I'm going to start doing this too. Yeah. Because I listen to a lot of podcasts and a lot of informational podcasts and they cite their sources. And they've explained why they do it. is because, well, that's the ethical thing to do. And a lot of times I do, people, I just straight copy and paste information. I've got a life, I've got a job, Cara's got a full-time job, I'm supposed to write books, I've got kids, and copying and pasting is my friend. I'm not gonna reinvent the wheel on some of this information. But we also want you to be good consumers of information yourselves, and to hear us. say, hey, this is where we got our information, is another kind of, I don't know, nudge to other people that, hey, you should always be paying attention to where you're getting your information. Yeah, don't just trust one source always. Right. I check multiple sources, especially if something seems a little odd. If I can get three sources that are all saying the same thing, that makes me feel better about information I'm passing along anyway. And then if you get two that are kind of, not matching up, then you know that you need to keep looking and trying to find some consensus somewhere. So that you're not, I mean, I don't wanna pass on bad information. As silly as this is, and it's kind of just a hobby and a lark, and we don't make any money doing this, quite the opposite actually. We can't reach money doing this. I feel like I'm losing money somehow. We are. It's still kind of, I don't know. I just take that kind of thing seriously. I do too. Maybe it's the journalist in me from olden days. Well, I just want to thank Dori for her email and her feedback and her questions. It was great. It was awesome. And we're so glad that Garren, her son is listening to that makes me feel so good. Hi Garren. We're getting in touch with the youths. Yeah. So Garren, you got Riz? Maybe he's parasocializing with us. Oh my gosh, maybe, but we're not really celebrities. Speak for yourself. Oh, OK. That's all I have this week. So. Hey, everybody. I have a question. Could you please rate and review us? Yes. Just hop on real quick. Subscribe. Oh, you'll never miss a new episode. Email us like Dori did at delete this history podcast at gmail.com. and find us on social media at DTH Gals on the different socials. And delete this history on Facebook. Until next time, I need to go delete my history. I think I'm going to do that as well. I will see you next week, friend. Alright, bye! Delete This History is created, written, hosted, produced, and edited by Brea Brown and Cara Burch. Theme music is so good by Orcas. Email us at delete this history podcast at gmail.com. Find us on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook at DTH Gals. Copyright 2023, all rights reserved. Adult acne. And the need for stretchy pants. Provided by hormones. Holiday candy. And a complete lack of self-control.