Our rivalry is about temperature wars.
I believe my body temperature is 10 degrees above what Brea sits at.
At least.
Last week when we were in the sun, you had glitter face kind of like Edward in Twilight.
Well, don't tell anybody cause I may be a dinosaur.
A dinosaur? What was Edward? He was a vampire.
He was a vampire dinosaur.
You're editing this one, right? Just cut all this out.
No, ma'am.
Wow, what a catastrophe.
Welcome to episode 21 of Delete This History, a podcast by two besties of a certain age searching for answers.
We're your hosts, Brea Brown.
And I am Cara Burch.
You are.
Yes.
Can I have your autograph? For $5.
I want it.
All right, I'll give it to you for free.
Okay, cool.
I like your face.
Oh, thanks.
We are so close together.
I know.
It's almost a little uncomfortable.
I'm like, can you stop looking at me? We're coming to you from Roy Burch Studios.
Yes.
It's been an interesting morning so far.
Our brains are working hard today.
Super hard.
We didn't just come in and land and our normal routine is off.
Yeah.
Cause we're trying different place.
We're trying something new.
You know what? I just realized I did not cancel our reservation at our other studio.
That's rude.
That's super rude.
I thought about asking you about that, but then I was like, Brea.
Stay in your lane.
And you know what? I don't have Wi-Fi here.
To do it.
I was just gonna pop on and do it.
You know what? It's okay.
They will see that we're not there and...
We will forfeit our...
Sorry everybody.
Hey, for all they know, we died.
That's right.
In a car accident on the way there.
Maybe they might even be worried about us because we don't show up.
Maybe we should call them.
And Cara forgot her phone.
Yep.
So that's another thing that's a little bit...
Like how I don't even know how you're breathing.
Discombobulating.
Yeah, cause I was driving here and I was like, Hey Siri, cause I was going to text Sean something real quick that I remembered and Siri did not say, mm hmm.
Oh, that's how she answers you? Uh huh.
In the, in the car.
She'll go, mm hmm.
That's, I don't know if I like that.
Or sometimes she'd go, uh huh.
I don't know if I like that.
And then I'll say, text Sean, and she'll go, what do you want to say to Sean? Oh, you just have like little conversations.
Yeah, so yeah, I kind of miss her.
Let's get this done then so that you can get back to Siri.
And reunite myself with her.
Can we talk about something really exciting? in my life that I can finally talk about because I put a signature on it.
I was just wondering this morning when that was going to happen, so please proceed.
I signed a new book contract.
So that means I have to finish that book.
I mean it's finished but I have to edit and like...
That chicken has come home to roost.
Yeah, yeah.
It's roosting hard.
I'm gonna have to reread the whole thing because I don't remember it even.
Oh man! Oh, you know.
That's what happens.
So what does this contract entail? It is a book a year.
for the next four years.
Holy cow.
And this book is due in July.
Okay.
Back to the publisher to publish before the end of the year.
Nice.
Waze Goose Publishing.
They're awesome.
I love them.
That's great.
Congratulations.
Thanks.
Very exciting news.
I'm very excited.
So tell us, can you tell us about your, the series you're starting? Yeah.
So the series is called the sugar sands series.
The first book has no title yet because titles are hard, but it is about a, like a touristy kind of vacationy town down on the Gulf of Mexico in Alabama.
It's just about the people who live there and make it work.
Like, do you ever think about that when you go places like Orlando? Like, it's not a vacation town for the people who live in right there.
I do think about the people that live there and how they must hate it.
But at the same time, they have to love it because that's where their money comes from.
Well, and maybe they do love it because it, you know, you do have a down some downtime.
Yeah.
So you're off season or shoulder season.
Shoulder season.
That's right.
We learned about that.
So I don't know, maybe it would be good, especially if you enjoy that kind of thing.
Well, Heather, you know, she lives in a tourist town in Charleston.
True.
And she was very supportive of the tourists.
Oh, she she's always preaching.
Preach.
She preaches to the people.
They're paying your salary.
They pay for everything you have.
The first book centers on a woman who is kind of in the midst of rebuilding her life.
And fittingly.
she has inherited a sandcastle building, like school, sort of.
They call it a school.
But people can come in, tourists can come in, and they pay.
And then the employees of the sandcastle place take them out and teach them how to sculpt in the sand.
Fun.
And so it was really fun to research.
You know one of the questions I had about that? What is it? So if you're in the sand all day long as your job, do you get sand fleas? Do you get bitten by it? Probably.
I don't know.
I mean, I've been to the beach, you know, several times.
Yeah.
I don't know that I've ever seen or been bitten by a sand flea, but I've heard about sand fleas.
Maybe I should search that.
I've never been bitten by a sand flea at the golf.
Okay.
Oh, maybe that's in a different location.
But I have, we did have to worry about sand fleas when we would go to Florida on the Pacific side.
Okay.
So that, I guess that answers my question.
It doesn't really answer your question.
I think I may search that for next week.
You might have to.
Okay.
What do you want to talk about? There is one thing that just popped in my mind that I do want to talk about.
I'm ready.
So I, I know that you enjoy ASMR.
Oh my gosh.
I love it.
Well, certain types.
And I, I'm not big on it.
Like I don't seek it out, but.
Something has happened.
Oh no.
I ran across on Instagram shocking.
I was on Instagram I don't even know how to explain it crunching soap Crunching soap.
Yeah, it's so it's like brittle bars of soap and so inside Inside our variety of things some have like cornstarch inside of them so it explodes some of them have like It's almost like shaving cream with glitter mixed in with it.
And so, oh my gosh.
But it's bars of soap.
Well, and they're super brittle.
Like they're hollow, but it's called like soap crunching or soap.
I don't know.
I'll squeezing, squeezing.
I'll send you one.
Okay.
I can't believe you haven't seen this since you're into ASMR.
I am not that into it.
I mean, I, I know what I like.
Yes.
And I already have a source for that.
Right, right, right.
Well, I'll send you this, but now I liked it and then I started following someone who does it, who actually has a YouTube channel, which I've not checked out the YouTube channel.
I'm not to that level.
Okay, okay.
But so it's popping up more frequently on my Instagram.
Of course.
And oh, I just watch it over and over.
Does it give you the head tingles? No, I don't get the head tingles, but I, it's real satisfying.
Like I want to go It just looks super satisfying.
It's funny that you bring up ASMR.
Oh, of course.
Because I discovered a new podcast this week called, and it's so new to me.
Yes.
But it's so old that it no longer exists.
Okay.
He has stopped doing it.
Okay.
But I've got quite a backlog of episodes that I can listen to.
It's called mysteries abound.
Okay.
How is that ASMR? Because he is an Australian man, and his voice is amazing.
And he talks like this the whole time.
And he basically just reads articles that he finds.
What? Or, yeah, he's not creating like original content, but he finds articles and researches things and just basically reads the research that he has found.
So it's very soothing.
See, that kind of ASMR, like someone talking or whispering with the plosives and the esses.
I can't freaking stand that.
That's my jam.
I want you to reach through the device and punch that person and make them stop.
First of all, I hate whispering.
I know you do.
It makes me...
He just...
I heard it! It's one of the ways that we very much diverge.
I know, it totally is.
Because I love it so much.
I hate it because it happens so often in the workplace.
That's different.
over here, so there.
If you have something you don't want me to hear, go somewhere else.
Take your buddy and leave the freaking room.
Yeah.
It, I don't know why, I don't know why that goes all through me, but it does.
It's probably A, a control thing.
Well.
And B, a manners thing.
I, It probably is both of those things.
Yes.
I will admit, I am a control freak.
You're not a control freak.
And it's not a thing like, what are they saying? Are they talking about me? I do not care.
Right.
feel free to talk about me.
Hell, you could talk about me in full volume.
I don't care.
Right.
But if you feel like you can't talk in front of me, right, just leave the freaking room.
This isn't the venue.
No, leave.
Yeah.
You obviously can't talk on in your normal speaking voice because it's sensitive.
Go somewhere else.
There are offices everywhere.
By the way, just now when you were whispering like that, I was very...
I was getting very hypnotized and my head was tingling.
My eyeballs felt real heavy.
Maybe I should start my own ASMR channel.
Oh my gosh, you totally could.
I'd have to punch myself in the face because I hate it so much.
You'd record an episode and then afterwards punch yourself.
I love it.
Okay.
Mm-hmm.
We're not here to...
talk about ASMR.
Aren't we? Nope, it's not an ASMR podcast.
No, we are here to talk about our search histories for the week.
Correct, with our listener besties.
Yes.
And for that, we move on to the reading of the list.
It's an odd week, and I'm an odd duck.
What a weirdo.
I am.
So I get to go first.
This segment is where we tell you our top five most interesting, funniest, most successful searches of the week in list form.
My list for this week is Bluetooth Cane, Creepypasta slash Black Eyed Kids, Kufi Hat, Juggalo, Birdie Carvel, Tony Blair Teeth.
What were you drinking this week? Is the eggnog all gone? Like, it's just destroyed.
No, I still got a bunch of it in my fridge.
Don't believe you.
Alright, my list for this week is, in no particular order, bicycle monarchy, ruritania, hypsobema missouriensis, purple martin capital of the state of Missouri, city of adrian, state UFO capitals, Piedmont and Wayne County, both in Missouri.
Okay.
I feel like a lot of your list came from stuff from last week.
It did because I wanted to know more.
I know, that's good, that's good.
That's a follow-up.
We love it.
So now that we've read our list, it's time for a little game we like to call Search Me! Where we each pose one question to each other and see if she can answer based only on The Reading of the Lists.
you get to play first.
Today you're playing for this adorable panda stapler.
I got one of these from bestie listener, Pennsylvania Aaron a long time ago.
Oh, that's some ASMR right there So Pennsylvania Erin gave me one of those a long time ago and I love it.
And so when I saw this at Dollar Tree the other day, I had to snatch it up for you.
It's adorable.
Isn't it? So cute.
Okay.
What is my question? Your question is which search this week earned me the clueless whitey of the year award.
Oh.
Clueless whitey of the year.
All right.
Here's the list since you don't have your phone.
Yeah, Brea had to share her phone Okay, I'm gonna go with Clueless whitey Do you want a hint Yeah, I'll take a hint it is It has to do with fashion what you love Oh, the Kufi hat! Yeah.
Ooh, I almost said Juggalo.
You know what? That would have been a good guess.
Okay.
But, um, sort of.
But we'll come to that later.
Kufi hat! Tell me all about it! Well, first of all, you win that panda stapler.
So cute.
It is adorable.
He's gonna brighten your life.
Totes adorbs.
It's a cap, not a hat.
Okay.
Also, it's normally just called a Kufi.
Okay.
So I got all these things wrong as I was searching.
But kufis are those brimless kind of short caps that many people in Islamic and African cultures wear.
Yeah.
So for Muslims, they're typically more rounded.
For Africans, the caps can be a little bit more square.
OK.
And they're often multicolored and embroidered and all kinds of stuff.
So within the United States, it's become identified primarily with persons of West African heritage who wear it to show pride in their culture, history, and religion.
I looked this up because I was listening to a podcast.
No.
And a true crime podcast.
Shut up.
I can't believe it.
Yeah.
I can't remember if it was 48 hours or Dateline or My Favorite Murder.
Dateline has a podcast? Yes, they do.
Of course they do.
It's a very good one.
That would be stupid of them not to at this point.
Yeah, it's good too.
Okay.
Keith Morrison, call me.
Keith Morrison, is that the same guy that Bill Hader always...
Yes.
He is still doing that? Oh, yeah.
He's amazing.
That is one of the funniest SNL...
Yes, it is.
Oh, man.
But I love Keith Morrison.
I won't make fun of him, but...
Well, I laugh when I listen to him sometimes because some of the things that he says, they are really funny in the way he says it, but he's a very good journalist.
Anyway.
Sorry, continue.
In one of these podcast episodes...
It was mentioned that the suspect was described as wearing a kufi.
Of course, this was from a white person trying to misdirect attention away from herself to a minority.
Yeah.
People.
Wow.
Stop doing this.
Wow.
It's so shitty.
That is shitty.
I just get so mad.
I just, I'm just staring at you like, sorry.
Yeah.
Okay.
But anyway, I heard the word, and I was like I have no idea what that is and they just kind of mentioned it and went on like Everybody knows what that is. Not Brea in Missouri. Not Cara in Missouri. Me not know. So, I obviously googled it now.
We know and now we know Knowing's half the battle That's right pork chop sandwiches Anyway, Koofy.
That's it.
I love it.
Oh, my sources.
Yes.
Wikipedia and the sun.
Brea, today you are playing for two things.
Okay.
Well, one of them, if you don't get this right, I'll just give this to you because I'm not gonna make you play for it because your Kansas City shirt is fixed.
Oh, thank you.
The hole where all of the luck was running out has been sewn shut.
Thank you.
So now you can keep the luck inside.
Now I...
It's perfect.
Well, I don't have a serger, so that edge is not serged.
So on the inside.
So it's the edge ain't super pretty.
And you can see where the hole was if you turn it wrong side out.
I guess I just won’t wear the shirt inside out.
That would be my suggestion.
Okay.
So anyway, your good luck shirt is fixed.
Thank you.
So you're actually playing for this unused bottle of soap with a Christmas theme.
I need soap.
This is called Holly Berry Hand Soap and the flavor is Holiday Wishes.
I'm out of soap.
It's like you always know when I'm out of soap.
I just have a feeling.
Like, she's starting to smell a little bit.
I'm just starting to think, do you have cameras in my bathroom? No, not at all.
I hope you don't.
I didn't see you cut that tag out of your shirt.
You weren't sitting there on the other side going, no, that's inside.
The it's like the Truman show only it's the Brea show.
Oh, that would be the most boring show ever.
I would totally watch it.
Five hours later, she's still in bed watching TV.
She got up and cut a hole in her shirt for two minutes.
Then went back to bed.
Watch some true crime.
Your question is, which of my searches almost put me to sleep because I lost interest early in my research? Oh, it was that boring.
So boring.
I think you'll get this just knowing me.
I think, I hope.
I need a hint.
Okay, your hint is, this doesn't exist anymore.
Okay, and I think this topic is so boring and One of our friend’s relatives thinks these things don't exist.
Oh, I was leaning towards something But that one then made me think state UFO capitals.
Oh shoot.
No.
Because they don't think that space exists.
Oh, I know what it is.
Shoot.
It's okay.
Now I remember. I remember from last week. This is Hypsobema missouriensis.
Because it's a dinosaur.
Dinosaurs are so boring.
She didn't think dinosaurs existed.
Well, you get this giant bottle of soap.
It feels a little hollow, this victory, because I really I needed a hint and then I didn't even get it right the first guess.
Well to be fair I should have written Hypsobema missouriensis dinosaur.
Cause that's, that probably would have clicked it for you.
I thought that was, um, I couldn't remember if that was the rock, the Missouri state.
Mozarkite.
I knew it had like a Missouri kind of sound.
Yes, I apologize.
I should have put dinosaur.
Well, it's all right.
I still think you're a winner.
Thanks.
Um, so.
I'm so excited about my shirt.
So why is hipsabema missiouri anus such a boring dinosaur?
It's just because it's a dinosaur.
But is it a big dinosaur?
It, well I'm glad that you asked.
It's 49 feet long and weighs 14 tons.
That's big.
It was a hadrosaur. Does that mean anything to you? Nope.
Well, hadrosaurs were duck-billed.
Oh, see that is interesting.
It lived in the late cre- cretaceous? Yes, cretaceous.
I just don't even care.
You fell asleep in the middle of that word. It's not that you didn't know how to pronounce it.
Okay it lived in the late Cretaceous period in what is now North Carolina and Missouri.
Those are not even close together.
It was an herbivore and estimated to have about a thousand little teeth and it probably ate tough vegetation.
Yeah, there's a lot more information about this dinosaur.
Remember, maybe was that two weeks ago that you were telling me about these dudes who were fighting about, no, it's a Brontosaurus.
No, it's a Brachiosaurus.
That was last week when we talked about this also happened with this dinosaur.
And that's when I went, yeah.
So I'm not going into all of that because they fought about it.
And if you guys want to see the rest of this, go to the Missouri state, no, the state of Missouri website.
They talk about how it was named this and then renamed this and then it was named back to this because all these dudes kept coming along and correct.
No, it was this.
It has a duck bill so it should be this.
Yeah, it's the same dinosaur as blah blah.
So, you know, you guys besties out there listening if you want to read more about this, go for it.
But I'm done.
You're boring.
You know...
That story about those two scientists who were competing to name the most dinosaurs, that got cut from that episode.
Oh, shh.
Do you know why? Because it was boring.
So anyway, but we did talk about it.
We did talk about that.
There were two scientists competing to see who could name the most dinosaurs.
And so, then it got to the point where they were naming dinosaurs that had already been discovered and it got to be a big fat mess.
Yeah.
That's the end of the story.
That's all there needs to be.
Just because they were having some kind of dick-measuring contest.
Yes.
About naming dinosaurs.
People.
That's right.
Go out and touch grass. That's what my kids would say.
Those two had a shared history of naming dinosaurs.
They did.
And a shared rivalry.
We don't have a shared rivalry.
No, no.
If we did, what would our rivalry be? It would be about whether whispering is cool.
Yeah, I know my side on that.
No shared rivalry.
No.
Just a shared history.
Of 20 years.
Plus.
But in this next segment, we're not going to talk about that.
No, we're going to talk about our internet shared histories for this past week.
And we call this segment Shared History.
My first search we're going to talk about is Juggalo.
Excellent.
This search made me realize I'm both out of touch with modern youth and somehow missed out on a ton of my own youth.
Because these people have been around for a long time.
Also, I searched this with trepidation because it seriously sounds like an epithet.
Okay, you know what I mean? Yes, I do.
It sounds like something that people back in the day would call minorities.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, it does not sound good.
Yeah, juggalo.
So I was like, Oh, no, what does that mean? A Juggalo is a fan of the hip-hop group the Insane Clown Posse.
Oh my gosh.
Or ICP.
I, yes.
ICP's fans coined the name from their song, The Juggla.
That is hilarious.
I'm having flashbacks right now.
Okay.
Yeah, it all started to come back to me a little bit as I read about it a little more.
I was like, oh yes, I remember.
A little bit.
But here's the thing.
I was being a mom when all this was going on.
When they first became really, really popular.
Yes.
I mean, I was more into like JoJo's Circus.
That was the kind of insane clown posse that I was hanging with.
Those kids’ shows are insane.
“Wired” in 2010 described the ICP's juggalos like this.
Despite a sizable population of female fans dubbed the juggalettes.
Of course.
I'm not loving that.
But anyway, that's not what Wired said.
ICP's following is made up mostly of young white men from working class backgrounds.
They tend to feel that they've been misunderstood outsiders their whole lives, whether for being overweight, looking weird, being poor, or even for just liking insane clown posse.
Okay.
They're not homogenous.
Let's just put it that way.
I gotcha.
But people who identify as Juggalos tend to be… all the pictures that I saw were white men with face paint and shirts that say Juggalo.
They're very proud of it and that's fine.
We all have our thing.
Have you ever listened to ICP? No, I have not.
Have you? Well I had to because some of Sean's friends probably would have designated themselves as Juggalos.
Oh my gosh.
This nickname or this name of this group following them, I've never heard of that, but I've heard the music, I've heard of the group and I was subjected.
Are you not a Juggalette? No.
It's not my type of music.
As I was looking up this information, it said that they have extremely violent songs and violent lyrics and it's like hip-hop but also kind of screamo.
It totally is.
Ish.
It stresses me out to listen to it.
Yeah.
Now, although they're not a political group, Juggalos staged a march on Washington back in 2017.
Oh, no kidding.
The march on Washington was because the FBI had called them a gang back in 2011.
They had classified Juggalos as a gang.
No kidding.
Yes.
That's interesting.
Pretty unfairly, by the way.
Well, I would think so.
Because they're not.
And so- Juggalos and ICP have been fighting against that ever since.
Hmm.
Okay.
And in 2017 they're like, you know what, we're gonna march on Washington about this.
So they did.
Why did you look this up? They mentioned them on My Favorite Murder.
Did you already say that? No.
Okay.
But I don't remember what the context was.
I understand.
They just said it like, is this kind of like the Juggalos? Oh.
So they were talking about something else and they were equating them to Juggalos.
At first I was like, Oh, I can't believe she said that.
And then I was like, wait, is that a bad thing? But see, that's the thing.
I immediately, even not knowing completely who they were, there was a bad connotation in my mind about them.
So that tells me that I have taken in something over the past, I don't know, 30 years that they've been popular, that I've just kind of been like, Oh yeah, they're bad.
I've never, I couldn't tell you anything about them.
All I know is that I steered clear because it's so screamy.
Yes, I don't like screaming music.
I don't either.
I like music a lot and I just can't.
I just, it's just not my thing.
My sources were Wikipedia, Wired, NPR, and Vox.
Alright.
What's your first search? It is Bicycle Monarchy.
This was mentioned in The Crown.
Oh.
It was just an offhanded comment.
This isn't a bicycle monarchy.
Anyway, I didn't know what that was.
I had never heard that before, but it's a British term and it refers to more informal royal families, specifically more in Scandinavia and the Netherlands.
Yes.
It's sometimes used as a pejorative term, but not always.
But typically when it is used, you know, in that pejorative way, it's the British newspapers.
Especially the ones who are monarchists.
Correct.
We must uphold the pomp and circumstance.
Correct.
But then sometimes Brits will use it in a more loving way where they, they want to keep the monarchy in place, but maybe it doesn't have to be so like staunch, formal.
Like it should be more of a bicycle monarchy.
Yeah.
What is this bicycle monarchy? You ask.
I am asking.
I'll tell you.
Okay.
There are a couple of conflicts out there on the origin of this term.
One version involves the Netherlands, and it has its roots with Queen Juliana's love of riding bicycles even during her reign.
And she was famous in the UK for her frequent unscheduled appearances with members of the public.
Her daughter, Queen Beatrix, has also been sighted on the bicycle, but less often than her mother.
But it kept that bicycle monarchy image continuing.
as under her reign.
Another possible source of this term is stems from the Nazi occupation of Denmark during World War II, which you and I have talked about a couple of times on this podcast.
The non-hostile relationship between those two governments created a lot of animosity and accusations of collaboration between the two.
And so to show solidarity with the Danish people, the future King Frederick the Ninth and his wife Ingrid, began taking bicycle rides around Copenhagen.
Oh.
Just like, look, we're normal people.
We ride bicycles.
Just like you.
We're not in carriages pulled by horses and pushed by Nazis.
I mean.
Oh my.
That's not funny.
Wherever the term originated, it doesn't mean poverty or a lack of authority.
It just simply means a more informal way of ruling.
or running a monarchy.
Right.
They're more like the people's princess, like they called Princess Diana.
Exactly.
They're more of a celebrity type classification instead of a government classification.
And it seems like they don't hold themselves to a higher standard.
Right.
Like we're above you.
Or just a higher standard, meaning we have codes of conduct.
And We don't ride bicycles out in the street with common people.
We would never do that.
Right.
Yes.
My sources were Irish Daily Mail, The Crown, the TV show, and WeLoveCycling.com.
Oh, excellent.
Because we do.
Of course we do.
It's so fitting that your first search was about The Crown, because my second one is about Bertie Carville, Tony Blair teeth.
OK, let's hear it.
We were just talking about The Crown.
I finished it this week.
And I was so excited to see my buddy, Bertie Carvel, or Carvel.
I'm not sure how he pronounces his name because we're that close.
I just call him Bertie.
Back as Tony Blair this season.
He is one of my favorite actors.
He's not really one of the 50 British actors.
He's not that common.
I was going to say, I don't know what else he's been in.
I love him in Dalgliesh.
I don't know what that is.
It's D-A-L-G-L-I-E-S-H.
It's a British detective show.
Of course, it is.
And it's a reboot of like a 70s show, but what they've done is they've kept it in the 70s.
Oh, interesting.
This season on The Crown, though, I noticed something I hadn't before, his teeth.
Do you notice teeth on people a lot? Like, is that the first thing you notice? I do notice teeth.
Do you notice teeth? So I notice hands first.
Oh no.
I do.
I'm in trouble.
That's actually what- attracted me to Sean the first time.
Sean has really nice hands.
Okay.
And got really cute eyes too.
I notice eyes next.
Okay.
Hands then eyes.
Then teeth.
I am a teeth person.
Okay.
I understand.
I'm getting less judgy about teeth.
Are you? Cause I'm getting older.
Did you read that article in the magazine on how to keep your teeth all your life? I haven't read that yet, but you noticed that was the one that jumped out at me.
Absolutely.
I did notice that.
I'm sorry.
Talk about Bertie’s teeth.
So, they did something to his teeth in this show.
And I'm not sure if it's like an insert or some kind of prosthetic or something.
But to make him look more Blair-like, because Tony Blair had some interesting teeth.
Okay.
Some people say he had British teeth.
But I would not say that because I know that not all British people have bad teeth.
That's right.
And that's a terrible stereotype.
That is right.
And they really take offense to that.
Well, they should.
And they should.
But it's kind of like not all Americans are fat, but there's enough of us who are fat.
That's how they knew me and Sean were tourists in New York.
They're like, hey, you're from the Midwest.
You look corn fed.
You want to ride this bus around town? We munching on our corn dogs.
No, thanks.
No, you said yes, please.
We already have tickets for a different bus, but thank you.
Yeah.
So, you know, there's truth behind stereotypes, but anyway, Tony Blair was kind of one of the people who fed the stereotypes about teeth.
He did not have awesome teeth.
And he would do this awful thing where he would pull his lips back from his teeth, kind of grimace, where he would like tuck his upper lip under and like up against his gums and...
What? Did he really? That's just how he smiled, I guess, but it looked terrible.
It looked like...
Like this? Am I doing it right? Yeah.
But you got to pull it way up.
Was it like a um a nervous tick or something? I think it was just the way his mouth worked.
Yeah.
Like that? Yeah.
So Bertie was doing that.
Oh, wow.
Mannerism.
That's interesting.
And there.
And then I couldn't stop staring at his teeth.
And I was like, those are not his real teeth, because I've seen him in a lot of other things.
It's not just Dalgliesh, but he's like he's kind of a character actor.
He plays villains a lot in like police procedurals and stuff like that, like British TV shows he'll play.
He usually does not play a very nice person.
Oh, OK.
but I think he's trying to break out of that mold.
He's a really good actor.
Yeah, he did a good job in The Crown.
Yeah, he was Tony Blair.
By the time it was over to me.
Okay.
Like I was like, that's Tony Blair.
Just like Imelda Staunton, that was Queen Elizabeth.
Oh my gosh.
By the end of this, I was like, that's just what the queen looked like.
Right.
She did such a good job.
Yeah, they just completely embody that person and you're like, oh, that's just.
I know that's her.
Imelda did a good job.
That was her.
But I could not for the life of me find anything online other than on Reddit.
Of course.
Where the teeth were mentioned.
Of course.
Of course people on Reddit were like, what's the deal with his mouth? But he's a method actor.
Okay.
I did see something about that, but I don't remember where I saw it.
And so was Imelda Staunton.
And so he said, we weren't like, you know, when the cameras weren't rolling, we didn't stay in character.
He said, because that would be weird.
She and I are both very serious.
Like we, we try not to be snobby or unfriendly on set, but we do like to try to kind of stay with it.
Because that's just how we work best.
Okay.
He studied hours of video of Blair to get his mannerisms and his speech down.
Yeah.
And you could tell.
I mean, he just, he did a great job.
But his teeth! That is, so did you look up pictures to compare? Yes! Okay.
I looked up pictures of him just like, just casual pictures and just kinda, you know, like on his IMDB profile and things like that.
Yeah.
Like his teeth don't look like that.
It had to be some kind of just like, not a denture, but you know, just the, it clips over.
Yeah.
That's interesting.
They were very protruding.
and very distracting.
Now I feel like I need to go back because I didn't notice it.
But I don't know that guy.
This is the first time I've ever seen him.
This is my first exposure to Bertie.
So I didn't have a comparison.
That you know of.
Well, true.
That's true.
Did you notice Dominic West kept doing the whole like biting, you know how Prince Charles will bite his lip? It got not as bite his lip.
It's almost like a, I don't know, he bites his mouth.
Mm hmm.
He started doing that so much.
It's all I could look at.
I was like, stop doing that, stop doing it.
Prince Charles doesn't do it that much.
Stop doing it, stop it.
Yeah, it's like they kind of grasp onto one thing and they're like, okay, that's their tick.
I'm gonna keep doing that because that's what'll make me Prince Charles.
But the first time he did it, I was like, Prince Charles did that.
But then it was like, that's all I could see then.
I was like, mm.
Like dude, you're overdoing it.
Oh my gosh.
What's the name of the actress that played Margaret? Oh, that was Leslie Manville.
She is so good.
I'll watch her in anything.
Mrs.
Ferris Goes to Paris.
No, what is that? It was something like that though.
Mrs.
Harris.
Yeah, that's it.
That was a funny movie.
The book is good.
Can we talk a minute about The Crown though, even though we've already talked like 15 minutes? No, let's talk about it because I was going to bring it up anyway.
I don't know why that last episode so underwhelmed me.
I don't either.
Maybe it's because the episode where Princess Margaret died.
Yeah.
This is not a spoiler people.
It's history.
She died.
That episode blew me away.
Yeah.
So, you feel like the next one, which was the last one, was just.
Yeah, I was just kind of like, huh.
I thought it was a little gimmicky.
Well, I really liked it.
And I'll tell you why.
It tied everything up in a nice little bow.
It did without speeding it along.
Like there had, you know, with all the foreshadowing and everything, I don't know.
I just felt, I don't know.
I really just liked it.
I enjoyed it without them going through the actual motions of the Queen's death and the whole thing, you know, I was like, how are they going to do this? Yeah, I'm glad that they didn't take it all the way up until her death, and Prince Philip's death and all that.
I think that would have been really depressing.
But I don't know.
I was just like, kind of like, first of all, I did feel like it was rushed.
I felt like they kind of rushed it.
And then I was like, hmm.
Yeah, they did have to.
I mean, But I think part of it might be that I was so sad that series is over.
Be part of it.
That maybe nothing would have pleased me because I would just, I'm just bummed that it's over.
Yeah.
I'm right there with you, but guess what? It's going to be so good to watch all over again.
Give it a few years.
Start from the beginning.
Watch the whole thing straight through.
Oh my gosh.
My next search is really short.
Okay.
And it also comes from The Crown.
Wow.
Ruritania.
Oh, this is the name of episode one of the last season.
And I had never heard of this before.
So I looked it up.
It means relating to or having the characteristics of an imaginary place of high romance.
If you'll remember and no spoilers here.
They were all thinking about how they could improve the image of the monarchy with the public.
because you know this was after Diana had died and people were real down on the monarchy and real up on Tony Blair.
The origin of this word Ruritania, which is hard to say it's almost like rural juror.
Yeah it's like rural I hate that word.
Rural juror.
Do you remember that from 30 Rock? No.
Okay.
The origin of this word comes from the fictional kingdom in a novel called Prisoner of Zinda written by Anthony Hope in 1894.
Literally, that's the end of my search.
Oh.
My sources were The Crown, Wikipedia, and Merriam-Webster.
I just wanted, I'd never heard that word before.
I had not either.
My next search is creepypasta slash black-eyed kids.
Sounds dark.
First of all, do you know what creepypasta is? No.
Okay, good.
So I'm going to define that for you and others out there like me.
Okay, the term is a derivation of copypasta.
Haven't heard of that either.
Okay, which is a modern way of describing something that's been copied and pasted and shared over and over again via the internet usually electronically.
Creepypasta has become a catch all term for anything horror related, shared over and over again on the internet.
Popular examples are the slender man.
Oh, yeah.
You know him.
I do.
Smile dog and black-eyed kids.
All right.
Black-eyed children or black-eyed kids, B-E-K.
In American contemporary legend, are paranormal creatures that resemble children between the ages of six and 16.
They have pale skin and black eyes with like no whites of their eyes.
Their eyes are just completely black, like aliens.
Right, like if you were looking with like a night vision.
Yes, yes.
But these kids are reportedly seen hitchhiking or begging or are encountered on doorsteps of residential homes.
Okay.
Most sources indicate that the legend originated from 1996 postings written by Texas reporter Brian Bethel who related two alleged encounters with black-eyed kids.
Bethel describes encountering two such children in Abilene, Texas.
The original story is briefly this.
He's sitting outside a movie theater in his car.
Some kids approach him.
They say, we want to see Mortal Kombat, but we left our money at home.
Can you take us home to get our money and then bring us back here to see the movie? He was going to do it.
Okay.
Which...
To me, it's just mind boggling.
But anyway, he was gonna do it, but he kept getting this creeped out feeling.
And he couldn't put his finger on it.
Then he told the kids, so he was trying to come up with excuses why not to.
Yeah.
How about just saying no? Yeah.
Anyway.
So he's like, he noticed this is the last showing of that movie for the night.
Okay.
And it's already started.
So by the time I take you home to get your money.
And you come back, it's going to be like almost over.
Yeah.
And they were like, we don't care.
And they just kept pressuring him.
And he was like getting more and more creeped out.
And they were saying things like, we don't have a gun or anything.
Like they were volunteering information like that.
That makes you think, yes, you do have a gun.
Oh my gosh.
Then he noticed the kid's eyes.
which would be one of the first things I noticed.
I mean, how do you have this whole conversation with these kids and not notice they have completely black eyes with no whites, but whatever.
As he tells it, he noticed their eyes and he got really scared.
And so, he made his excuses and drove off really quickly, like peeled out.
As he's peeling out of the parking lot, he looks in his rear-view mirror to look at the kids and they're gone.
Ew.
There's nothing around there where they could be hiding, and there's no way they could have run away that fast.
They're just, they've just vanished.
So he went home and wrote down his experience because he was a journalist and he needed to get it out.
And then he sent it to some friends, and they sent it to other people, and they sent it to other people.
And it just became this viral thing.
Oh, I see.
And it became one of the very first creepypastas.
Okay.
Anyway, how have I never heard of this term before? I only recently heard about it, but I've heard about it a lot lately Oh, that's interesting.
Hmm.
It must be the stuff I'm listening to or watching or whatever. It all starts to you know, like you watched this so then you start to get recommendations for other things and you keep watching things and just kind of builds.
I'm so unplugged.
I Am I am just And I'm okay with that.
I could be more plugged in if I wanted to, but I just don't want to.
No.
I'm okay.
It's overwhelming.
It is overwhelming.
And I just don't care.
There's too much information.
I just don't care.
I like what I like and I'm interested in what I'm interested in.
Right.
And then I don't want to think about other things.
I've just got too much to do.
I have lots of sources for this.
Okay, let's hear it.
Wikipedia, Buzzfeed, Abilene Reporter News, Mysteries Abound Podcast.
Well, I guess that's only four.
That's only four.
I was ready to use all 10 of my- It seemed like a lot.
Fingers.
Okay.
That's good.
Good sources.
Yeah, yeah.
That was a creepy story.
I kind of got- Yeah.
I mean, I told it kind of rushed and I didn't tell it like with a fact or whatever.
Well, you know what's funny though is- The sun, it had gotten more overcast outside.
Yeah.
And as you were starting your story, it got darker in here, but then your face was lit up by your laptop.
And I wanted to interrupt and go, you look so creepy right now telling this story, but I didn't want to interrupt your story, but it did.
Like it got a little darker.
This is the modern version of the campfire or the flashlight that you put under your face.
And then it...
You could hear the dragging its leg.
Where's my leg? I guess if it's dragging its leg, it knows where its leg is.
Where's my leg? I don't know what those- They got home and there was a hook on the door of the car.
It's like all that kind of stuff.
It's the Scary Stories To Tell In the Dark book that we used to check out from the library 50,000 times.
Over and over and over.
It's your turn.
This is so boring.
Boring searches from Cara Burch this week.
Purple Martin capital of the state of Missouri.
Yeah.
All right.
So Adrian, Missouri prides itself on its annual destination for thousands of purple Martins.
I congratulated them last week.
You did.
I refuse to congratulate them again.
I mean, this just seems like they're just fishing for compliments.
Purple Martins are a type of swallow.
And at this point in history, they are almost entirely dependent on their survival by humans.
Oh.
Like humans are keeping them alive.
Apparently, I don't know that that's really true.
How? By providing nesting places for them.
And food? So what happened was back in the late 1800s, there was another invasive species of bird from Europe that almost took over the nesting places of purple martins in the US.
OK? And it almost wiped them out because they had no place to live.
I know.
So people started building purple Martin houses.
Yes.
And I didn't know this.
My dad had a purple Martin house.
My grandma probably had 10,000.
All the old people have Martin houses.
Yes.
So they're a communal bird.
And so they you put these houses away from trees and Typically purple martin houses have holes on all sides so they can all come in.
These are not individual apartments.
They all just run in there.
They're one of the few communal birds out there.
They love to all be together.
And the houses are like really big usually, and they've got a bajillion holes.
So that's how they reestablished the species.
People across the Eastern half of the U.S., they started erecting purple martin houses.
hotels, condos, and even enormous purple Martin complexes.
Nice.
So supposedly because of these houses that were built up, you know, to bring the species back is the reason that they are thriving today.
And they return to their same home every year.
So after they migrate away to warmer weather, they always come back to which hotel they like the best.
Oh, their little home bodies.
Yes, and the oldest...
Purple Martins come back first because they get first choice.
It's kind of like when we worked at the TV station.
Oh my gosh.
And it was time to pick out vacation time.
It was time to pick vacation times.
The old Purple Martins got to pick the best vacation.
and we got to pick up the scraps.
Terrible.
I'll take, I don't know, I'll take Lincoln Day.
I'll take March 2nd.
Sounds great.
Oh shoot.
The oldest Purple Martin on record was at least 13 years and 9 months old.
It was banded in 1933 and found in 1947 where it was originally banded.
So it was still living in the same area where the person over...
How cool is that? I think that's pretty cool.
I think things like that are neat.
He liked it.
This is where I live.
This is my house.
I come back every year to this condo.
The management isn't what it used to be.
This place has really run down.
Could they put a fresh coat of paint on it? The small Bates County community of Adrian became Missouri's official Purple Martin Capitol in 2003.
This was debated and passed as legislation.
Uh, of course.
My sources were State of Missouri website and allaboutbirds.com.
Oh, all about birds.
My last search.
Yeah.
Bluetooth cane.
I'm excited about this because I need a cane.
Is it that kind of cane? Yes.
This is the search for you then.
Perfect.
So, I mentioned before I have much, much older siblings.
So much older.
Yes, because I'm very young.
And one of my siblings turned 60 this week.
Oh, really? So, she's having a big birthday bash on Friday.
Not that 60 is old.
I just didn't realize you guys were that far apart.
And she's not my first sibling who's turned 60.
What? So, she's not my oldest sibling.
It's my second-oldest sibling.
Cori is turning 60.
Cori is? Yeah.
I know.
She doesn't look it.
Cori does not look 60.
And she doesn't act it either.
By any stretch of the imagination.
Let's just keep saying that.
over and over again.
No, yeah.
Cori, if you're listening, you don't look 60.
Well, you don't look 45.
Not that well.
Well, thank you.
You're welcome.
60 is the new 40.
Absolutely.
You know, that's what I'm going to tell myself when I turn 60.
So, is 40 the new 20? Because I do not feel 20.
No, I don't either.
I feel 80.
Okay.
Sorry.
So, she's having a big birthday bash on Friday.
Fun.
And I was actually in the office talking to someone I didn't give birth to or marry this week, I know it was a mind-blowing experience.
And I was marveling at how it's possible that I will now have two siblings who are in their 60s.
Crazy, since I'm so young.
Very.
So, my coworker started suggesting some funny gift ideas that I do not think would be appreciated.
And one of them was a Bluetooth cane.
And we laughed so hard we were laughing so hard at Bluetooth cane, but then after we stopped laughing I was like I bet there is one.
I bet that's totally a thing and he was like why what would you what would it be? Bluetooth for and I said well, I don't know.
So so I searched it.
Of course, it does exist and I'm so glad I asked what the heck could you even use Bluetooth on a cane for here you go.
Lay it on me… Wait a second. What is it Bluetoothing to?
Your phone probably.
So what, the cane just goes off? Or what? I don't understand.
So it's like if you have like a smart watch, you have a smart cane.
So your cane just starts to buzz like, take your drugs, take your drugs, take your drugs.
Yeah.
All right, continue.
All right.
It has alarms for like medications and such and you know, like probably things like appointments for the podiatrist.
You shouldn't laugh about that.
Oh, I know.
We're so close.
It's not even funny.
We're laughing because it's like gallows humor.
It's like ha ha.
But I totally need this cane.
A pedometer.
Oh, now that is smart.
Yeah.
But I would just sit there and do this.
I would just sit there and like...
But nobody cares but you.
Pound the cane.
The cane doesn't care.
And then be like, hey, Peyton, I had 8,000 steps today.
Peyton and Clint, they compete with how many steps they have every day.
And Peyton beats him most of the time.
That's hilarious.
And Clint has a lot of steps.
And then I chime in and I'm like, I broke a thousand.
Because I see it's so sad.
Okay, and GPS.
Yes.
Now, the GPS comes on a model that's way out of my price range.
Like I'm not gonna spend $400 on her birthday present.
Oh my.
But that's pretty darn ingenious.
I love it.
There are some pretty badass-looking canes out there too.
I know.
There was one that was like had a pearl handle and like rhinestones on it.
And like this cool like black and white floral design.
I was kind of into it.
But then there are some really ugly ones too.
Yes, there are.
Ooh.
For whatever reason, my dad used to have a cane, and I don't know why, maybe he hurt his knee or something at some point, but I was a kid and didn't pay attention.
But it was wooden and the head of it was a carved ivory Labrador head.
Oh.
The handle of it.
Fancy.
It was fancy.
Okay, so here are some other ideas we came up with for gifts.
Yes.
Now this would like go like in a like a gift basket.
Okay.
Prunes, a gigantic pill sorter, adult incontinence pads or diapers, poop emoji themed things.
Cause my sister, Cory hates the word poop first of all.
And my family loves toilet humor.
We're obsessed.
Anything like hearing amplifiers.
like those TV ears, my mom had some of those glasses chains.
Oh, yes.
Hell yeah.
Some chattering teeth, just to remind you.
How are your dentures? Denture cleaners, et cetera.
Are you going to do that? No, because knowing my sister, this is gonna be a pretty classy affair.
Oh, I see.
Like I got a real invitation from one of her children.
Okay.
And there's gonna be like live music and- Oh my gosh.
Yeah, it's a big, kind of a big deal.
So, it's at a venue? Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah, so I'm gonna have to save the gag gifts for another time.
All right.
But I don't know, part of me still wants to do it.
Part of me still wants to get her a fancy cane.
I mean, the fancy cane would be really funny.
She's had knee replacement.
There you go.
So.
The Bluetooth cane.
Mullin’ that one over.
It's pretty sweet.
Did it have a speaker in the cane? Oh my gosh, I don't know.
I don't remember.
Cause then I could listen to music wherever I go.
You could.
And everybody else around you would have to hear it too.
Well, I mean, when you get to a certain age, You don't give a shit.
You do whatever you want.
That's right.
That's the rule, apparently.
You are gonna listen to Ace of Base.
That, ugh.
You better believe it.
Well, I walk down the street and it counts every step I take.
Oh, hey, you're going to listen to some Police.
Oh, yes.
Every step I take, every move I make.
Amazon and Best Buy were my sources.
That's hilarious.
For the Bluetooth cane.
I love it.
Go get yours today.
My last search is state UFO capitals, Piedmont and Wayne County.
In Missouri.
To mark the 50th anniversary of the alleged UFO sightings in Piedmont, Missouri, the Missouri General Assembly passed Senate Bill 139, designating Piedmont and Wayne County as the UFO capitals of Missouri.
This was debated and passed as legislation.
With our tax dollars.
The purpose of codifying the designation in state statute was, according to the original bill sponsor, Representative Chris Dinkins.
maybe Dinkins, was to increase tourism.
So they're like, you know what, if we do this, okay, because you know, a lot of people, they like that kind of stuff.
So I, I sort of, you know, I get this and you know, all right, I'm, I understand.
Between February and April in 1973, residents of Piedmont and the surrounding area witnessed unexplained activity in the sky.
Several hundred calls were made to local police sheriffs and newspapers.
The incidents made local headlines and eventually national news outlets began reporting on the sightings.
There was no official government investigation on the sightings.
However, Southeast Missouri State University physics professor Dr. Harley Rutledge investigated the sightings with his own team.
He issued a public paper in 1973 which he later turned into a book called Project identification, colon, the first scientific field study of UFO phenomena.
1981 is when it was published.
If anybody would like to go look that up, because I'm sure there are copies out there available.
Oh yeah.
Today, unexplained aerial phenomena reports, as they are now called, are handled by the All Domain Anomaly Resolution Office under the U.S. Secretary of Defense.
Listen though.
I mean, it came out last year, year before.
I don't know.
Time is a construct.
The US government said there are aliens.
No, but well, actually, I don't know.
I don't know.
I just they admitted that the stuff that went down in.
Yeah, Area 51.
Yeah, was like legit.
Do you remember the big sightings in Marshfield like at the Northview area? I was a kid. Which means you were also a kid. But there were lights over there that kept, I mean, they were just like this, unexplained sightings, things going on in the air.
And we actually ended up driving up there to check it out.
We didn't see anything, but t-shirts were made.
Oh yeah.
It seems like your dad would be into that.
Oh, we all were.
We were so excited to go up there and see all the UFOs.
It was a hot topic there for a while.
People were camping out because it was right at the highway.
Like there was an overpass, it was an exit, so you could get off there in Northview.
Yeah.
But it's just a podunk exit, there's nothing there.
Right, well maybe back then, the gas station was up and running, but I think.
There was no, there's nothing there.
There's nothing there now.
There's a tiny, teeny tiny gas station that one time I was having car trouble.
Yes.
And I stopped in there.
And I was like, this place is not going to help me.
In fact, I might be killed here.
Yes.
I think that was called a skelly.
Yeah, something like that.
It burned down and it has been gone for ever.
Yeah, it's been a long time.
That's funny.
State of Missouri website was again, my source for that search.
OK, well, check them out if you're into UFOs.
Head to Piedmont, you might see something.
Yeah.
Isn't it interesting how there were so many sightings, like in the 50s, 60s, 70s.
Not so many anymore.
Do you think it's cause the aliens came and they checked things out? And then since then they've been like, there's nothing there.
It's like the Northview exit of the solar system.
Earth is the Northview exit of the solar system.
They're like, eh.
No reason to develop that.
Yeah, no reason to go back there and risk being seen by these beings.
Maybe so.
Those people be dumb.
All right.
What about this one? What about it? I have a quick listing of my other searches from the past week that we didn't have time to discuss.
Here we go.
Clickfie selfie stick.
Ablution definition.
Will Cowan historian.
&C or etc, etc.
Epstein list.
Jessica Tandy husband.
Oh.
Hume Cronin.
Hume Cronin! 
PBS shows.
Temu
Mysteries Abound podcast.
That's it.
Why did you look up Temu? Because you had looked at, no, I'm just kidding.
Because there was something on Instagram.
It was a product that I saw and it was on Temu.
I see.
I don't trust Temu.
And I didn't trust it either.
Yeah, I don't.
It's not that great of a deal.
So it was kind of like click bait.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No doubt.
Forget it.
All right.
My list is location of the Viking stadium.
Is shrimp a good source for Omega threes, 
big bang theory quotes.
Rick Grimes actor real name, 
high fiber crackers, 
rage rooms near me.
Oh, Cara.
There are several.
Really? We need to go.
Squid Game Season 2.
Rings of Power Season 2.
That's it.
Oh, Rings of Power.
I know.
I feel like it was so disappointing.
I want to love you, but I don't.
Same.
I really, I just can't muster the excitement.
I was so excited for that show.
Me too.
And it was such a nothingburger.
It really was.
Ugh.
Do you have any listener shout outs? No, I don't.
I don't either this week.
Oh my gosh.
Nothing.
So what do we want people to do? Oh my gosh.
We would like for them to email us.
at any time, day or night.
Send it our way.
Rate and review us.
Ooh, rating and reviewing us.
Yes.
That would be good.
Tell all your friends about us.
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And you already gave the email address.
Oh, I didn't say the address.
Oh, Delete This History podcast at gmail.com.
Yes, I got so excited at the possibility of an email.
Yeah, and that's our favorite.
Emails are funny.
Emails are the best.
It's like getting a real letter in the mail nowadays.
It kind of is.
So special.
Wow, somebody sat down and took the time to write this out.
Yeah.
I'll just be sitting around waiting for some emails.
Me too.
And while I'm doing that, sitting around waiting for emails, I'm just gonna go ahead and delete my history.
I definitely need to do that as well.
All right, bye.
Bye.
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Theme music is “So Good” by Orkas.
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Is that me walking and typing? That's me squeezing into them every day.
Eek, eek, eek.
No, it's more like eek, eek. Pbbbbb! That fits better. Now I can button them.
Shoot!