Oh, Diet Pepsi is the worst.
Don't sponsor us.
Yes, please don't.
Actually, if you do want to, we'll take whatever we can get.
But don't make me drink it.
And don't make me tell everybody how great it is.
They just sponsor us.
And we'll just go Pepsi every now and then.
Hey, Brea.
What? Pepsi.
Sexy.
Sexy talk.
Sexy Pepsi.
[Theme Song]
Welcome to episode 25 of Delete This History, a podcast by two besties of a certain age searching for answers.
We're your hosts, Brea Brown and Cara Burch.
Hello.
Hi.
I got the giggles right.
I know because I breathe out that I breathe in.
You're like that.
Your friend is, she's talking on her own all the time.
I can't do it.
I don't know how she did that.
She just did not want to pause to take a breath.
I know people like that.
Um, I think the one thing that we really do need to talk about is I know.
Kansas City.
We're going back to the Super Bowl.
We're excited.
Oh my gosh.
I'm so excited that I watched that video that I sent to you this morning.
It was a great video.
I mean, everybody should watch it.
It was seven minutes of nothing but Patrick Mahomes' mic from the Ravens game.
It was awesome and it got me super pumped.
I was running behind.
I was running late.
Oh, and you stopped to watch it.
And I still watch that thing.
I didn't stop to watch it.
I held it up while I was brushing my teeth.
I'm brushing my teeth watching it.
And then I put it on, you know, I've got my little stand on my phone case and I put it up on a stand so I could watch it.
But I didn't have my glasses on because I'm putting my makeup on.
But it was fine just to be able to hear it.
Whatever.
Yeah, it's just audio.
But he- It gave me the chills.
I know, me too.
It was fun to rewatch that.
I'm just gonna start saying to you all the time.
Give me the ball.
No.
Oh, what attitude attitude.
Composure composure composure.
Give me the ball.
Give me the ball.
That's my favorite one.
Give me the ball.
He really likes to repeat things.
Yes, he's a repeater.
He just he was going all the way down the sideline on the bench.
Just going attitude, attitude.
That's gonna be my morning mantra from now on and I'm gonna listen to Patrick.
He's gonna be yeah the voice in my head Attitude attitude Kermit the Frog telling you attitude Hey listen everybody We know that Patrick's voice is funny and we know he walks a little bit funny Like he's holding in a fart and we know he runs a little bit funny kind of like a grandma power walking at the mall But we don't care because there's magic in that weirdness There is, I mean, he's just amazing.
And he's a nice guy.
He's a nice guy.
So lay off and stop being such haters.
Yeah, people are like, all of a sudden he's...
This is how it was for Patriots.
Well, it was.
And you know what? It's okay, I'm gonna just soak it up.
It's fine, be haters.
You know what I'm gonna do? What? I'm gonna shake it off.
Shake it off.
Oh no, please.
Please please.
Oh crap.
Oh my gosh.
So I did have something in the chat time about football games.
I don't want to go on and on and be obnoxious about the Super Bowl.
I also have something in my chat about football games.
Okay.
Hit me.
So I found the picture that I was trying to find of Gronk's IFB during the NFC Championship halftime.
Did you find it? No, but when they talked.
after the game was over.
Oh, I didn't watch the post game stuff.
We watched post game and I saw it then and Sean and I were dying.
He said, what is happening? I have a picture on my computer right now because I thought, well, maybe you forgot about it or didn't get to see it.
Show me.
What? It is so funny.
Now we've worked.
television.
Yes.
So we know people who wear IFBs and they're supposed to be inside your ear.
Yes.
Usually.
These look like old-fashioned hearing aids like he's got on.
The very first hearing aids ever made.
They're sticking so far out of his ears.
Like who would they have been made for? Because he's a giant so I can't imagine they're too big for him.
I think someone was playing a prank on him.
They're like, hey, you need to use these this week because your normal ones are messed up.
I need Gronk to go away anyway.
I don't like him.
Oh you don't? He is probably the most annoying person to me in that whole group.
Oh see I really like Gronk.
I didn't like him when he played football because the commercials and everything he always plays a stupid person like a bimbo.
No no and I think he's a lot smarter than he makes out to be and that annoys me when people play dumb.
I okay I mean I'll now I've seen him on New Heights and I've seen him do other interviews and I think he does a pretty good job okay I you know as an analyst maybe you are just biased I have never liked him yeah so I just already automatically have like a visceral reaction like not this guy he just annoys me I want to just tell him I don't have What do you want to tell them? Shut up.
Oh, OK.
Speaking of Patrick Holmes.
Yeah.
So the thing that I ran across this morning, I was checking Instagram real quick to make sure we hadn't had any stuff.
And I was invited by the Kansas City Chiefs account to join.
Oh, yes.
So I joined.
And so now I'm getting little things from them.
One of the things they sent me was the now streaming episode.
of the franchise.
Oh yeah.
Have you been watching this? Uh uh.
How do I not know about this? I don't know.
I'm just on YouTube all the time.
Oh.
So I know about it because YouTube is like hey do you want to watch this and I'm like mmm.
I think I'm gonna I think I'm gonna watch some of them.
Yeah I mean.
The one that they sent me today is covering the Ravens game.
Mm-hmm.
It's like the whole Ravens game and so I'm kind of interested to see.
what that's about.
Yeah.
Okay, I figured you had to have known about that, especially like you said, since it was on YouTube.
Yeah.
But you've just never talked about it and I was like, what? See, I don't go on YouTube for that stuff.
Why? I don't know, I'm just very compartmentalized on YouTube.
That's where I go to get my history fix.
Isn't that weird? That is weird.
Because I subscribe to a lot of history channels.
I mean, it's not weird that you subscribe, but it's weird that you think YouTube is where I need to go for my history stuff.
Yeah.
That's where I have all my subscriptions to all my history accounts and I mean there's other things I watch out there obviously but Most of the time it's history stuff.
All right, that's where Peyton and I chill together In a mother-son way. Clint's last day is today as a soda man He has been schlepping soda his entire adult career almost and now switching to bread. Bimbo Bread.
It's a lot lighter.
A lot lighter.
On his old man body.
Congratulations Clint.
He's a bimbo now.
It's the name of the company.
I know.
So weird.
I know.
Anyway, I've never heard of them, but apparently they're like the biggest bread distributor in town.
I know.
I had never heard of them either.
In fact, I did a little research as I think a couple weeks ago.
Yeah, it was on your They have a lot of brands.
Uh huh.
The cool thing is I don't think we have to be brand loyal.
Yes.
We have to be so brand loyal.
You can start drinking Dr.
Pepper now.
Yeah.
Or buying it at least.
I mean we still drink it.
Oh.
But Clint can be seen buying it.
Are you serious? Yes.
Technically speaking.
He wasn't allowed to have his uniform on and buy a Coke product.
Because, you know.
It's the man getting you down.
Screw be do.
So now we can buy any effing soda we want.
So what's the first one you're gonna buy? I really like actually all the sodas that we were forced to buy before.
I do like Coke better than Pepsi.
Oh me too.
Yeah, for sure.
So, I'll be switching back.
Anyway, he's pretty excited to be switching jobs.
It's always exciting and a little scary.
That'll be a good move though, I think.
I think so too.
Anyway, what else do you want to talk about? I am ready to move on.
Okay, good, because we're not here to talk about our husband's professional development.
We're here to share our internet search histories.
How are we going to do that? With The Reading of the Lists.
Yes, ma'am.
Okay.
I get to go first today.
You know why? Because it's weirdo week.
It is weirdo week.
It's...
an odd week it's episode 25.
It's 25.
It's our silver anniversary.
It is our silver anniversary.
This has been the best 25 episodes of my life.
I thought you were gonna say years.
Okay, here's my list.
Give me the ball, give me the ball.
Gosh.
Number one, Wilma Plaster.
Number two, Grey Man South Carolina Legend.
Oh no, are you gonna do another one of these scary ass? Sorry, go ahead.
Maybe.
Number three, Sushi Origins.
Number four.
Lucid car number five sweet pickles bus.
Sorry.
I didn't mean to interrupt you, but I had a flash of the creepy posse.
No, the black eyed kids.
No, keep going.
Name all the weird things you bring up.
The guy on the boat with no face in the, Oh yeah, that guy, the ghost.
Yeah.
He wasn't a guy.
He was a ghost.
Yeah.
Like that flash is like almost like, I, it almost like made my body move when I felt it.
It is creepy.
Sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt.
That was my fault.
You can yell at me while I read my five.
Okay, I'm ready.
Okay, here it goes.
But don't scare me cause I might pee a little bit.
Number one, has Chief's success created more KC tourism? Number two, Masters of the Air, Spielberg, Hank's World War II movie.
Number three, Brood 19 and Brood 13 emergence.
Number four.
Alabama first state to carry out execution by nitrogen gas.
Number five, trifecta meaning and etymology.
Oh, excellent.
I didn't yell at any of those.
You didn't.
I was going to, but I was too enraptured.
Or something like that.
And I was really waiting with bated breath to play a little game we like to call Search Me! Where we each pose one question to each other and see if we can answer based only on the reading of the list.
That's right.
One question, one question.
Just one.
Cara, today you're playing for this super cool tablet stylus.
Oh shit.
I actually need one of these.
Do you? Well, there you have it.
No more tapping away like a heathen on your tablet with your dirty fingers.
Yes.
Now you have this beautiful stylus.
Ooh, ooh, I like.
Mm-hmm has a little the end of this it's a different than others that I've seen Yeah, it doesn't have that silicone bowl and ink so it doesn't stick On your screen it slides It slides and glide.
Oh, I'm gonna test this out on my phone to see if I how hard I want to see how slidey-glidey it is Okay, and then take the cap off the end of it that comes off And it has another side.
It's bigger.
Yes, it has another side that is wider.
Yes, oh.
So when you do your electronic.
Crossword puzzles.
Crossword puzzles, logic puzzles.
Oh.
Nice.
You can be precise.
Oh my gosh.
No more fat fingering.
I love it.
And I love a clean screen.
Yeah, see, no germs.
Pretty cool.
Hit me.
Your question is.
What did I immediately have to search after hearing something on a YouTube video that made me flashback ridiculing one of your coworkers for being uncultured? Sushi origins.
Correct.
Oh, interesting.
Picture it.
Roy Burch Studios.
Last week, we were discussing the top 10 favorite foods of certain countries based on some questionable lists that you'd found.
Yes, very.
That we doubted quite highly in a couple of places.
Now, one of your coworkers thought sushi would be number one for both Japan and China.
And we scoffed and we rolled our eyes and I might've called them a clueless whitey because it takes one to know one.
Now it's time for us to eat something that was on none of those lists.
Crow.
Okay.
Here's why.
It's true that favorite foods in China and Japan are going to be different because they have vastly different cultures.
Right.
Okay.
But your clueless coworker.
inadvertently fell on something to associate sushi with China.
Oh, okay.
I'm all ears.
I was watching Weird History Food on YouTube because that's my history place.
History source.
And it's a great YouTube channel that delves into the history of different foods, as the title suggests.
And you would love it.
Miss History of Wafeles lady.
I do love food shows and I do love history.
It's the perfect blend.
Okay.
Excited.
So anyway, they were talking about all kinds of currently popular foods and how they originally came about like pizza, tacos.
I don't think Wafeles were on there.
And one of them was sushi.
Okay.
And they said it originated in China.
Oh my gosh.
And I almost fell off my bed.
And then I immediately got to tap it on my phone.
That is very, I am surprised by that.
I am too.
It originated in China between the 5th and 3rd centuries BCE.
Dang! As a matter of fact.
It was a means of preserving fish and salt.
Mm-hmm.
The original form of sushi was called narazushi.
Generally speaking, it's made of rice and fish pickled together mixed with rice vinegar and sake, laid under a large stone to prevent decay, and left to ferment.
Mmm.
However...
The rice was used primarily to encourage the fermentation and was discarded so that only the fish was eaten.
Oh.
Then, in later years, much, much later years, when they had to be a little bit more economical, that's when people started eating the rice along with the fish.
Okay.
Okay, so this type of sushi is still enjoyed today, particularly in Japan's ancient capital, Kyoto.
But...
The bite-sized fish on rice we would recognize more is actually called nigiri sushi.
And it first became popular in Japan in the late 1800s.
And then rolled sushi, my fave, is called mecha sushi.
Okay.
Now were those developed in Japan or were those developed in China? Japan.
Okay.
So China was the kickoff.
Well, okay.
If that coworker ever starts listening, I apologize.
I think it was an accident.
Based on what I know about this person.
Yeah, I think so too.
But, all right, I stand corrected.
I will be the first to say I was wrong.
I could not believe it.
I can't believe it either.
I never heard about that.
Mm-mm.
So there you go.
Oh man, I love some sushi.
Me too.
Get in my belly.
Man, and I always make myself sick eating sushi because I eat so much.
It's because it's okay, it's okay, it's okay, and then the rice goes, brrr and expands in your stomach and you're like, oh no.
It's not okay.
It's like wine drunk.
I'm good, I'm good, I'm good.
Blah.
I'm on the floor.
Is Brea okay? I'm puking in a pan.
Wearing a shell necklace.
Exactly.
Oh Lord.
That was a really good search and I'm glad that you looked it up and shared it with us.
Now, I mean, obviously I boiled it way, way down.
Oh sure.
And I might've gotten some things wrong, so, cause that's just my brand.
But I got my information from Weird History Food and Eat Japan Magazine.
Ooh, all right.
Yeah, very cool.
Okay.
What am I playing for? So, because it is our silver anniversary.
Oh my gosh, you really? Yes, it's amazing.
The stylus has a little bit of silver in it.
It does, yes.
Oh yeah, this is mine now.
Yeah.
World.
I love it.
I can't wait to use it.
All right.
It goes with everything too.
It's a little black stylus.
This is your, you just have to see it first and then I'll tell you.
I'll explain a little bit.
You ready? Yeah.
It's a festive tin can.
All right.
A couple of weeks ago, in my grocery order, Yeah.
I had just a can with no label in it.
The label wasn't in the bag.
I think someone punked me.
So I don't know what's in it.
It's just a silver can.
Mystery can.
It's a mystery can.
So I had just happened to have this silver ribbon.
Have you shaken it? Yeah.
I predict it's either corn or green beans.
So it's liquidy.
It's liquidy.
Here, we'll do a little ASMR.
Oh my gosh, the ribbon on top is so cool.
Can't really hear the liquid, sorry.
But this is your silver and your question is? Okay, I'm ready.
Oh my gosh.
What? Did you not write a question? I wrote a question for a different prize.
Oh, and the question related to the prize.
Yes.
Oh, no.
It totally did.
All right.
So but the answer is still the same.
I'm going to shift.
I'm going to pivot.
Oh, my gosh.
You're going to have to ad lib.
Yeah, here we go.
Well, I mean, I ad lib.
I mean, listen to all of our podcasts.
I ad lib all the time.
Oh, it hurts.
All right.
So the previous prize I was going to give you was in a multiple of three.
OK, there were three little items.
OK.
All right.
Yeah.
Which of my searches would have been associated with multiples of three? Trifecta.
Tri-fecta.
I don't even have to look because that's one of my favorite words.
Well, I thought I knew what trifecta meant.
Maybe I don't know either.
Well, I think you probably do.
Maybe I'm using it wrong.
I thought it just meant a group of three things together that accomplished something amazing.
That's a very good summary definition.
Oh, thank you.
And that is pretty close.
Here's what Merriam-Webster says.
It refers to a group of three usually desirable things such as this is their example, which is whatever the trifecta of curing cancer, ending hunger and putting to end a war.
That would be an amazing trifecta that is never going to happen.
Here is an example of it's a little more down to earth.
I mean, that's like, come on, Merriam-Webster.
And this is more in our wheelhouse anyway.
Yeah.
Okay.
From the Dolphins 21 yard line late in the third quarter, Christian Wilkins hit the trifecta, a quarterback sack, forced fumble and fumble recovery.
Yes.
To me, that's the trifecta.
That tracks more than curing cancer, ending hunger and ending world war.
Cause A, they're all related and they happen at the same time.
I thought it was the same time type of thing.
Yeah.
But these days the word trifecta as with many words these days can be used just however the hell you want to use it That's right.
Cuz you know, you're you and don't tell me how to use words.
That's exactly right However, the origin of this word appeared in the 1970s as a term for a horse racing bet in which the first, second, and third place finishers are chosen in the correct order.
Oh, like you hit the trifecta.
Yep.
Yes.
The word trifecta combines the prefix try, meaning.
Try, try.
You wanna try that again? Try.
You know how some people say three and they roll their r's? Have you ever heard that? Three, three.
Are you hanging out in other countries again? Three.
I know nobody who does that.
Okay, three is what it means.
I'm trying.
That's the first part of the word.
The last part of the word comes from the word perfecta, which is a word of American Spanish origin that refers to horse racing bet.
in which the first and second place finishers are chosen correctly.
So they just took perfecta and slapped a try on the front of it to make horse racing more exciting.
It's kind of a portmanteau.
Yes, it is.
One of my favorite words.
That's a good word.
My source was Merriam-Webster.
Excellent.
Well, yes, I did learn something.
Hey, that's what we're here for.
That's right.
What else are we here for? Um, to share some history.
Yeah.
More history than we already do.
Right.
Because we are oversharers.
Ha ha ha.
My kids tell me anyway.
What? I overshare a lot when I go pick up my groceries.
The people that load the groceries.
You do? Oh, that's when I really button up.
Really? Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
I'm so, well, I started this thing where I get out of my car.
You get out of your car.
And I stand back there and I even help them sometimes.
You are one of those people.
Oh my gosh.
I know.
And now that I've done it.
And I usually have the same person every week.
So now it'd be weird if I didn't get out of, they would be like, no, they probably wouldn't care.
No, I don't think so.
But I always help load.
See, I feel like I would be getting in their way because they've got a method.
I, when I pull in.
I get out and I set up all of my bags in the trunk and I get my trunk open.
Then I go sit in my car.
And then they come up and then blah and I say yeah and I say if you need to put stuff in the back seat it's cool thanks.
And that's it.
I'm going to try that this week.
See I'm over sharing.
I'm over sharing about over sharing.
Well, we're not here for your oversharing.
No, we're not.
We're here for shared history.
Correct.
Where we talk about our internet search histories with our DTH besties.
Yes.
Okay.
So my first one is kind of depressing.
I have some depressing ones today.
It's, it's a little dark.
Okay.
Wilma Plastered Willard, Missouri.
Oh.
This is a local true crime story from the late eighties that I researched after or while listening to an episode of the podcast, Small Town Murder.
I'm gonna skip a lot of the gorier details because they did a great job covering this.
It was like a two and a half hour episode.
They really do deep dives and they do a great job.
Wow.
So if you wanna know more about this story, I suggest you check out Small Town Murder.
Anyway, here's a quick recap.
I'll try not to be too gory.
In 1988, a teacher on her way home from work found body parts in a black duffel bag.
Whoa.
On the side of like a farm road.
Holy crap.
Near Willard.
One of those body parts was a head.
with a gunshot wound.
And all of the body parts belong to Wilma Plaster.
Wilma Plaster was a lively woman in her 60s who lived in Willard.
She was the widow of a World War II veteran and a Baptist minister.
And after her husband died, she started to hang out with her church girlfriends more, traveling, having fun.
She still went to church every Sunday.
It sounds so much like my mom.
I mean, that's how my mom was.
They used to go to the casino or they would go to the beach or whatever.
But she was also a fan of the Cody brothers, a pair of Branson performers.
Oh.
And she joined their fan club, or a fan club of theirs.
Not the official fan club we find out later.
Okay.
And that's where she met Shirley Jo Phillips.
Long story short, Shirley Jo Phillips, befriended Wilma, forged some of her checks.
Oh shit.
And when she got caught, she killed her and dismembered her.
to dispose of her body.
Whoa! Oh my gosh! And it wasn't the first time she had killed and dismembered somebody when they crossed her, mostly for money.
She did it to her own mother.
But she was never charged or tried for that.
Whoa! Anyway, Phillips was found guilty, sentenced to death, and then she had her death sentence overturned.
and now she's incarcerated for life at Chillicothe Correctional Center.
Okay.
So this caught my eye because I was thinking Willard, nothing happens in Willard.
Yeah.
It is so low key in a good way.
It's kind of an extension of Springfield.
Oh, don't let them hear you say that.
I know they wouldn't like that, but in my brain, it is, it's just kind of like blurred.
It's very blurred between Springfield and Willard.
Cause like, well it kind of is.
Somebody...
I know who lives fairly close to where I do.
His kids go to Willard schools, and my kids go to Springfield schools.
So geographically, it's super duper tight.
Yeah.
I even said, don't come after me Willard folks.
When I said, I feel like it's an extension of Springfield.
So I knew I was gonna get that reaction.
Okay, I'm sure your town's lovely.
And I know that anything can happen anywhere.
And that's the whole point of this podcast, Small Town Murders is crazy things happen in small towns.
Man, and I never heard of this.
This was before I moved here.
So this is not familiar to you either.
This was in 1988.
When you said her name, I thought it sounded familiar.
Well, there are plasters.
Plaster is a huge name around here.
Yes, it is.
So that's exactly what I thought, is I'm just referring to that plaster.
But yeah.
So sad.
That is awful.
She had a very tight-knit family and her kids, you know.
very successful.
One of her kids is kind of a Brad Bradshaw type of guy.
He's a doctor and a lawyer.
Anyway, Small Town Murder is a comedy podcast people.
So how it just is.
It's amazing.
I think I could be funny with all that.
They don't make fun of the victims or their family.
Right.
I'm sure.
But they do have a little bit of fun at the expense of the towns sometimes.
Okay.
And the murderers sometimes because sometimes Criminals are idiots.
Well, yes.
And jerks.
That's true.
And they deserve to be made fun of, but they find a way.
My sources were small town murder and Ozarksfirst.
com.
Oh my gosh.
Is that a flashback? It is.
Because of the search you just talked about, I'm gonna skip the first one I was gonna talk about and go straight to the one that's kind of in that same vein so I can just get it over with.
Okay, cool.
And it is Alabama first state to carry out execution by nitrogen gas.
Oh.
Maybe Shirley Jo Phillips should go get some nitrogen gas.
Actually, I don't know.
I'm anti-death penalty.
Well, that was gonna be one of my questions because this kind of touches on how it may be we shouldn't be doing this.
I think not.
That's all I'm gonna say.
Okay.
I know.
I, yes.
I have strong feelings about this.
I do too.
But then something will happen and I'll be like, ooh, but.
Okay, you...
Should that person still be on the planet? Hahaha! Once again, you and I are on the same page.
Yeah.
So I feel the same way.
OK, so Kenneth Smith, a death row prisoner, was executed by the state of Alabama on Thursday, January 25th, 2024, by way of nitrogen gas, despite concerns about the untested method.
He was 58.
I'm going to kind of go through what happened as he was being put to death.
Wait, what? Can you tell us what he did first? I'll get there.
Oh, you want to get there afterwards.
Yes.
I want you to tell your story the way you want to tell it.
OK.
My initial search was about the nitrogen gas.
OK.
And then it unfolded the more I did some searching.
OK, gotcha.
OK.
The nitrogen gas flowed for about 15 minutes, and it was administered through a mask.
Witnesses say that he appeared conscious for about 10 minutes.
Then he shook and writhed.
for about two minutes on the gurney, followed by five minutes of heavy breathing.
So essentially from what I can understand, I mean, we have a lot of nitrogen in the air anyway.
I mean, isn't our air like 80% nitrogen or something like that, that we breathe? Don't ask me.
So essentially what the nitrogen is doing is overpowering the oxygen in your system.
You're basically suffocating.
That's the way I understand it.
I may be 100% wrong about that.
So please don't quote me.
This is the second time Alabama has attempted to put Smith to death.
In 2022, workers tried and failed to place the intravenous lines necessary to kill him for the intravenous, or intravenous, like lethal injection drugs.
They couldn't get it done.
Oh, you know what? A smart death row inmate would be like, I'm just not going to drink water.
Just like totally dehydrate yourself.
And then they can't find a vein.
What happens is what happened with Smith and you lay on a gurney for four hours waiting for them to kill you.
Yeah, that's terrible.
I'm joking, I'm joking like small town murders, podcast people and I'm doing a terrible job of it because I'm so uncomfortable with this.
So this guy, he like had PTSD from laying on the gurney for four hours waiting for them to kill him.
And I'm not saying, I mean like, some people out there are probably like, you know what, he's getting a taste of his own medicine because he did murder someone.
But anyway, the Alabama attorney general's office says that nitrogen hypoxia, is the most painless that I'm quoting here, the most painless and humane method of execution known to man.
Still, although researchers have used gas to kill animals, in 2020, the American Veterinary Medical Association says it's unacceptable to euthanize any animal with this method because it could be distressing.
And that's kind of where I found the information about you're basically suffocating them and they feel like they're drowning.
So.
After Smith's first execution failed, his lawyers requested that Alabama not attempt another fatal lethal injection, but requested the nitrogen gas, which is the secondary method approved by the state of Alabama.
But before Smith's second execution date was scheduled, the lawyers then started to argue against the gas saying that it's untested, we shouldn't do it, you know, this is this is crazy, we shouldn't kill people this way.
But all of those peels obviously were denied because he was put to death last week.
Mmm.
Nitrogen gas as an execution method is so unusual that no one really knows the true risks of the people that are helping with the execution.
Oh my lord.
So inside the death chamber, they could have their oxygen levels drop and their nitrogen levels rise.
Smith's spiritual advisor had to sign a form acknowledging that although...
there would be oxygen gas monitors in the room, he could be at risk for harmful exposure.
And he was required to stay three feet away from Smith because the nitrogen gas could leak out around the mask or it could just like hover right in the pool around his head.
Alabama has repeatedly struggled to carry out executions without mistakes over the years.
And in July of 2022, the execution team took hours to set intravenous lines for prisoner Joe Nathan James.
and he was ultimately executed, but his family ended up suing the state for what they believe to be one of the longest executions in US history.
He was supposed to be put to death at 6 p.m., but wasn't pronounced dead until 9 p.m.
Just two months after that, the state was forced to halt execution of prisoner Alan Miller for the exact same reason.
So going back to the Smith story.
He was one of three men convicted for his role in a 1988 murder for hire, Killing of Elizabeth Sennett who was found with multiple stab wounds in her home in Colbert County, Alabama The victim's husband Reverend Charles Sennett claimed he found his wife dead in their home on Coon Dogg Cemetery Road I know I see it's funny as soon as it came out of my mouth.
I it I connected the dots She had been stabbed and beaten with a fireplace implement.
In what investigators would soon conclude was a murder for hire paid for by her husband to collect insurance money.
God bless America.
When authorities started to investigate Reverend Sennett link to the hitman, each of whom he paid $1,000, he killed himself.
Well, thanks for saving us some money.
Smith's path to the death chamber has not been straightforward.
After he was brought to trial in 1989, 10 of 12 jury members voted that he should receive the death penalty.
But that conviction was later reversed when it was revealed that prosecutors had unconstitutionally struck black jurors from the pool.
When Smith was retried in 1996, all but one juror voted against the death penalty and recommended he spend life in prison instead.
But the trial judge Pride Tompkins overruled the jury and imposed a death sentence.
The Alabama statute that allows judges to override jury recommendations has since been replaced.
Yeah, what the F is the point? What is the whole point of that whole thing? Otherwise, just say, I just want a bench trial.
Because if the judge is just going to make all the decisions anyway.
Absolutely.
And I just like, oh my gosh, I got so mad at that.
Whatever.
That judge knows better than those.
Right.
I'm smarter than you.
That was the retrial.
So we've been through one trial that was rigged, essentially.
And then the second trial, the judge was like, meh, I liked the first judgment better.
So I'm just gonna pick that one.
Anyway, the two other hit men were John Forrest Parker and Billy Gray Williams.
Parker was executed in 2010.
Williams, who was sentenced to life in prison, died in 2020.
My sources were NPR and 
What a story.
Why don't we just go back to firing squad? Exactly, I was thinking the same thing when I was reading this.
If we're really okay with the government killing people, then just do a firing squad.
Just do a firing squad, I don't understand.
I mean, whatever.
I could talk about this for a really long time, but I'm not gonna.
That's probably.
for the best.
That is the end of that search.
All right, what were your sources? I already said NPR and the Alabama Reflector.
com.
I'm sorry.
It's okay.
I was probably so high up on my soap box.
Your very tall horse.
That the air was really thin up there and I didn't hear that.
It's all right.
Okay.
Did you want to talk about something lighter? Please.
How about the gray man South Carolina legend? Okay, yes.
Okay, you're gonna like this.
Okay, okay.
This is not a scary legend.
This was a search prompted by Jackie.
Okay.
Who while we were watching football, she's got great timing.
She said, I've got a good search for your podcast.
People.
It's not how it works.
I would like to take a minute here.
Her public service announcement.
By BiBi.
The concept of the podcast is us searching for things.
that we need to search for because we don't know about them for whatever reason, throughout the week, organically.
It's an organic process.
And some of them are funny because we're clueless and some of them are serious because we are interested in a death penalty case or whatever.
But it's not being told what to search by people.
In fact, I probably won't search something you tell me I should search.
Yeah, usually I don't.
Okay, because I'm like, that's not how this works.
And you can't tell me what to do.
Suck it.
Anyway, however, I looked this up to humor her.
Okay.
And it was actually pretty interesting.
Damn it.
So here we go.
What is the legend of the gray man? The gray man is a South Carolina ghost said to warn locals before hurricanes.
He's been described as a man wearing gray clothing, a long coat, dressed kind of quote, like a pirate, and sometimes having no legs.
So he's kind of like floating.
In the past 200 years, locals say the gray man has appeared before each of the five major hurricanes to make landfall on Pauli's Island, among them Hurricane Hugo in 1989.
Remember that bad boy? Heck yeah, I do.
That was a big one.
That's the first one I really remember.
Me too.
Legend holds that the gray man is the ghost of a young man traveling from Charleston.
Hey, hey, Charleston.
Shout out to Charleston.
To see his fiance in 1822.
On the way, he and his horse were caught in the quicksand-like pluff mud.
Shut up.
Uh-huh.
In the marshes of the Lowcountry before Pawleys Island and died.
What a horrible way to go.
Dying in pluff mud? Yeah, for those who don't know, pluff mud is generated mostly from decaying Spartina grasses, fish, crabs, shrimp, et cetera, and the smell from the anaerobic bacteria devouring it.
It smells like rotten eggs.
It smells like death.
Yeah.
It's basically the bacteria farting.
It is.
That is why it's a really good insult.
You are a bacteria fart.
It stinks real bad.
It is so awful, but it's only during certain times of year, correct? It's the times of the year where it's going from Fall to winter whoo, it's bad and it has a very mighty sucking power.
Oh Because it's a very thick viscous Mud okay back to the gray man Since his death by pluff mud, his spirit has haunted the shore nearby looking for the girl he loved.
In the meantime, he also likes to warn people about hurricanes.
He's your neighborhood friendly meteorological ghost.
When people in the area see him, they know a hurricane means business and it's time to go.
I actually saw some social media posts where somebody had said they saw the gray man like on a pier and there was a picture that they included and you can kind of just see like a I don't know I don't I couldn't really see it but anyway and she was like she was like oh lordy it's time to go lardy and here's an even crazier detail okay people who have allegedly encountered the spirit have credited him with saving them or their homes there was a couple who said they saw the gray man on a walk and there had been an evacuation order that they were going to ignore.
And they saw the gray man while they were on the walk.
And they said, you know, on second thought, I think we should probably leave.
And they left and their house was the only one left standing in their neighborhood.
So they could have stayed.
That's what I said to Jackie.
I said, so they might as well stayed.
If you see the gray man, you're immune.
Right.
It's like a lucky charm.
You tell everybody else, you better get on out of here.
But I saw the Grey Man, so I get to stay.
Exactly.
Wow.
My sources were Wikipedia, Southern Living, and Charleston Magazine.
Oh.
Oh, Charleston.
I want to go back.
I'm reading a Chicklet book right now that takes place in Charleston.
That was so delightful.
It is.
All right.
My next search is light as well.
Good.
The search was, does the chief success mean more tourism for Missouri? I was curious because you know, with success, you know, people get curious.
Like, Hey, what's going on there in Kansas city? You've got a really good team.
Maybe I should go check that out.
Yeah.
Like the aerials from the game look nice.
Yeah.
So I found an article.
as I searched this, that said, certain publications such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Essence Magazine, and Lonely Planet have all named Kansas City as a top travel destination for 2024.
But none of them talked about football.
What they did mention was the airport's sweet new terminal.
Are you kidding me? If you travel someplace just to see their airport, you're a loser.
No, no, they're saying it's a nice airport to come into.
Okay.
I believe.
Like, and while you're here, it's an unpleasant travel experience as well.
Right.
Okay.
They also mentioned the sleek downtown streetcar that opened in 2016.
Have you seen that thing? Like if you picture a monorail train, the body is kind of shaped like a monorail, but it's on like trolley tracks on the ground.
Oh no, I guess I haven't.
I had never seen it either.
I kinda wanna go write it.
I love trains.
These magazines also mentioned the American Jazz Museum, the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, and of course the famous Kansas City Barbecue.
Oh yeah.
And I'm sure it doesn't hurt that Tay-Tay is spending a lot of time there now too.
These next highlights were interesting to me, and so I searched them a little bit further.
On March 16th of this year, the Kansas City Current Soccer Team, which is a women's soccer team, will open its $117 million stadium for the first time and it is the first stadium built by a National Women's Soccer League for a female sport.
It's one of the few in the world constructed specifically.
And who's one of the owners? Patrick Mahomes.
But more importantly, Brittany Mahomes.
She's one of the founders.
She's one of the founders of the soccer team.
Yes.
She was a co-owner with the Longs.
And then Patrick was like, you know what? I want in on this.
I will also invest.
Because Brittany was a soccer player.
And she actually played in Iceland professionally for a while.
She's a fitness guru.
She has her own fitness business.
Did you know that? No.
It's called Brittany Lynn Fitness.
I know.
Check it out, she's got a website.
You know, it's really shocking that I wouldn't know about a fitness business.
I was also surprised I didn't know about it.
Cause I am just so into that.
So the stadium, it's super cool.
You guys should look up pictures of it.
My brother was talking about it.
He travels often to Omaha and he has to go right past it.
Oh! When he travels there and he said, it is super cool.
Does he cross the Christopher J or the Christopher S bond bridge? He must.
Because that's where it's located.
The Kitt Bond.
It's by the Kitt Bond bridge.
I guess, yeah.
Construction began in 2022.
The capacity is currently at eleven thousand five hundred.
So it's got that's how many people can fit in there.
However, the stadium design allows for expansion to twenty thousand in the future.
The name of the stadium is really hard to say.
when I was researching this, I saw multiple reporters mispronouncing.
Awesome.
And they're like, I'm so sorry.
We're going to get used to this name.
We're going to be able to say it.
It's brand new to us.
It's the CP KC stadium, CP KC stadium.
People will probably just end up calling it the KC stadium, but CP is apparently like their transit line.
CP bought the naming rights for the stadium for 10 years.
So it is the CP KC stadium.
for at least 10 years.
For at least 10 years.
And then it will probably change.
Up to this point, the Kansas City Current has been renting baseball stadiums, MLS facilities, but now they won't have to share space or schedule around other teams' games.
That's right, they got their own home.
It's all about them.
Oh, like I said, it sits in Berkeley Riverfront Park next to the Kipbomb Bridge.
That bridge carries traffic in and out of downtown Kansas City.
A street car stop is scheduled to be open near the stadium by next year.
Okay.
Stadium is privately financed except for a $5.
5 million tax credit from the state of Missouri and with excitement of the new stadium season tickets are already sold out.
Oh my.
The stadium will also host lacrosse, rugby, college and high school sports, community events and concerts.
However, the priority will always remain women's soccer.
Correct.
Excellent.
That was one of the interesting highlights that I searched.
The second one is I didn't realize that Lamar Hunt is one of the founders Basically of professional soccer in the US.
Oh really? I had I am so glad that you didn't know this because I after reading all of this I kind of felt like I was like the last human on earth.
No Lamar Hunt and his wife had seen a soccer match in Ireland before they were married, like they were very, very young.
And he loved it so much, he went back in 1966 to watch the World Cup in England.
And he was like, I gotta get soccer in the US, this is awesome.
And so in 1967, he helped along with a lot of other wealthy people.
He helped to found the North American Soccer League.
Then he founded the Dallas Tornado.
which was one of the first soccer teams in the US.
Great name.
And most of the team members were from Europe.
And then when they couldn't play anymore because injuries or they just retired or whatever, they stayed in the US and they became trainers and coaches and began spreading soccer throughout Texas.
After the North American Soccer League folded, which if I understood right, it was like in the early 80s and it wasn't gaining any traction really.
It's just, it's not been a super popular sport in the US.
But Lamar stayed committed and he played a key role in the US winning the bid to host the 1994 World Cup tournament.
However, one condition that FIFA imposed was the creation of a professional soccer league and thus the major league soccer, MLS, was born in 1993.
Despite soccer's lack of popularity in the US at that time, the 1994 World Cup was the most financially successful in World Cup history.
and broke tournament attendance records that have stood unsurpassed as of 2022.
Whoa.
Lamar's presence was so important to the MLS that he was permitted to purchase two franchises.
La dee da.
The Kansas City Wiz.
Oh, I remember the Wiz.
Which was later renamed the Wizards.
Yes.
And the Columbia Crew.
To honor Hunt's various efforts, the US Open Cup was renamed the Lamar Hunt Cup.
by the U.
S.
soccer franchise in 1999.
The same year, Lamar was awarded the National Soccer Hall of Fame Medal of Honor for extraordinary individuals whose positive contributions to soccer and the national level affected the course of soccer history in the United States.
Whoa.
Strap in, here's the list of my sources.
Oh my gosh, okay.
KCTV, KY3, Wikipedia, Kansas City Star.
KCcurrent.
com, Washington Post.
com, NPR.
com, Railsystem.
net, CPKCstadium.
com, FCDallas.
com, US SoccerHistory.
org, and finally FootballHistory.
org.
I had no idea he was even tied to soccer whatsoever.
I guess I always thought that championship.
Lamar Hunt, US Open.
I guess I always thought it was named after him.
just because he was such a big Kansas City person, philanthropist, all around great guy.
I didn't realize it was because he was so integral in the MLS.
I also found out he was heavily involved in tennis.
Oh.
But I'm not a huge tennis fan, so I didn't go through and search all that, so.
All right.
So another day.
Tennis is impressive to me.
Yeah.
But I just don't.
I don't know.
I just never gotten into it.
I was driving past some tennis courts on my way here and I thought, you know, Karen, I should take up tennis.
And I started laughing and I thought, if we want to die.
And pee in our pants.
You're right.
I totally would.
If we want to die.
Are you ready to talk about the Sweet Pickles bus? Absolutely.
Good.
We talked about Sweet Pickles last week and I even sang the song.
It was wonderful.
incorrectly as it turns out.
Oh no! I know that's not shocking, but at least I have the excuse that I have not heard that song since I was like little.
I was impressed that you knew it.
Like maybe eight.
Yeah okay.
Are you going to sing the correct version this week? I'm going to play the correct version.
Oh okay.
This week.
Fun.
Okay.
Isn't it funny how when you're a little kid you don't understand anything? Like to me, it was a show, number one, on Nickelodeon, not true.
It was a program where they would come around in the Sweet Pickles bus and come to schools, not true.
I got all this from a commercial.
It was a book club, kind of like Weekly Reader or I Can Read or one of those things where you could order books in the mail.
Okay.
Let me play the commercial.
Okay.
It's a minute long.
Oh, okay.
But- We've got time.
I'm gonna play it.
And then that way, everybody can hear from their own lips what it is.
Okay.
Maybe.
Hear from their own lips? I don't know.
Hear from the commercial what it is.
Here comes the Sweet Pickles bus.
Smart phones know how kids minds grow upon Sweet Pickles.
Your child's head start for school starts with this free Sweet Pickles preschool bus.
There are stickers, games, puzzles, and hours of fun inside.
They all make learning basic skills like numbers and letters seem like child's play to your 2-6 year old.
So they'll love to learn, honestly.
I think it's excellent! Sweet Pickles! Call this number today and we'll send you this Sweet Pickles bus filled with dozens of learning activities free.
We'll also send your first activity pack on approval for only $3.
49 plus delivery.
If you like it, you'll get two new packs about every four weeks at the same low price.
There's never any obligation to buy.
Call now and we'll send the Sweet Pickles bus to your door.
Oooh! You pretty much sang that correctly.
I had the words wrong, which is not what did you say? I said smart moms know so kids might grow.
And this is smart moms know how kids minds grow.
Yes.
Anyway, I was little.
Okay.
I was little.
I was like that kid who was like, I think it's excellent.
When I watched that whole commercial again.
floods of memories.
I remembered those kids.
I remembered exactly what they said.
It was crazy.
Anyway, allegedly the Sweet Pickles bus would come and bring you your first delivery and it was like this tackle box type thing that was like a bus but it would open up at the top.
It was like a VW bus.
Yeah.
It would open up at the top and you could put all your books in your activity packs that you would get in your Sweet Pickles bus.
The books are set in the fictional town of Sweet Pickles and are about anthropomorphic animals with different personalities and behavior.
There are 26 animals, one for each letter of the alphabet, half are male, half are female, and they were published in 1977 and went out of print in the mid-90s.
The series name is a pun.
This is what you were looking for, Cara.
In each book, the main character gets into a pickle, a different situation, because of an all too human personality trait, like the curious cow.
Okay.
And he would get into a pickle because of his curiosity.
Okay.
Like that.
I got it.
Okay.
So did you get those books? No.
We were members of the I Can Read Club.
I mean, we did have a book club.
OK.
And we would get books in the mail.
But the Sweet Pickles bus never came to my house.
I really wanted Sweet Pickles.
Bad.
Yeah.
Anyway.
I mean, you wanted your mind to grow.
Did your school do the scholastic? Oh, yeah.
Who's the book fair's best? We're my jam.
No, we didn't have book fairs.
Why not? But like once a month.
you got that little, it was like newspaper.
Yes.
You looked through it for your books.
And my parents actually did buy me some stuff out of those books.
And that was the best.
We were always allowed to get something from the Scholastic monthly thing.
But then they never had a book fair at your school? Not that I remember.
If they did, my parents were like, you can't go.
They still do it.
Oh my gosh.
And I'll tell you what, the first time I went to A scholastic book fair as a grownup, as a parent.
I really thought I was going to pee my pants.
I was so excited.
I don't doubt it.
It made me feel like a kid all over again, but they, they roll in like these shelves that are on wheels and they open them up and there's bookshelves and they set them up in the library and all the books that are in the metal shelves you can buy and they're books that you can find in the scholastic flyer.
But they're actually there and you don't have to wait for them to come to you.
We did not have that at our school.
And they also had like posters, pencils, erasers.
Did you ever get any posters from the scholastic? I wasn't allowed.
I did get some posters.
Like I got the one with the cat that's like hang in there.
It was strictly if you want books, you can have books.
Well sometimes.
Didn't you get like a free poster if you bought so many dollars worth of books or something? Maybe we never did buy that many.
Oh man, I loved the day we got that Scholastic thing.
Like I'm getting chills thinking about it because it was so exciting.
I just love books.
I do too.
I love them so much.
I'm so glad you searched that.
I had to because first of all I was like I know I didn't get that song right.
You know what though, you sounded just like those little kids.
I mean like.
Identical.
I know.
It was a blast from the past.
That was awesome.
Okay, I'm going to talk about Masters of the Air, which I thought was a movie and it's being produced by Spielberg and Hanks.
Okay.
Oh, yes, yes.
So I saw this advertise somewhere, but I don't need to be convinced to watch this.
You say Masters of the Air Spielberg Hanks? Yeah.
To paraphrase Joey Tribbiani.
Spielberg, good.
Hanks, good.
World War II, good.
I'm there.
I know.
Here's the synopsis from IMDB.
It's going to be chills, isn't it? I'm ready.
During World War II, five miles above the ground and behind enemy lines, 10 men inside a bomber known as a Flying Fortress battle unrelenting flocks of German fighters.
In Band of Brothers fashion, this is a...
multi-episode mini-series essentially.
About dog fights.
And freaking, it's on freaking Apple TV.
Oh.
That is the appropriate response.
I thought it was gonna be a movie in the theater, but no, when I searched it, it became available on January 24th.
And I think they're releasing like one episode a week, so I think maybe three episodes are available now.
Here is one review that I found that I wanted to read to you because it made me giggle.
Okay.
My husband and I are very impressed with this show.
Two episodes in, it's one of the most visually stunning things I have ever seen.
It makes me so grateful that I spent way too much money on the best TV I could find over Christmas.
Hey, silver linings.
So, but I mean, all of the reviews, there were some bad reviews, but you know, haters are gonna hate.
But it looks so good.
I watched so many trailers for the show.
It just looks so good.
And you know who is one of the main characters? Austin Butler, who you criticized as a non-Elvis Elvis.
Well, he's probably good at being a dog fighter.
Just doesn't look like Elvis.
There are so many people in this.
I mean, the list.
Yeah.
I think it's gonna be like Band of Brothers.
So in 10 years, we're gonna watch this again and be like, that person's famous.
Oh, look, he was in that.
It's gonna be it's so fun to watch Band of Brothers and go, oh my gosh.
I know there's Ron Livingston.
Or it's fun to be listening to a podcast about Spartans.
And they mentioned the name of a character and you picture him in your head from 300.
Yes.
You picture him in your head and you're like, that's the same guy who played Prince Charles in the crowd.
Only 15 years ago.
And then you look him up.
No, I didn't.
Oh, you didn't.
No, because I was, I was too busy picking myself up off the floor.
I couldn't believe it was the same guy.
And then right after I made the connection, they said the actor's name, Dominic West.
Yeah.
in the podcast and I was like, I was so right.
Good job.
My brain does still work sometimes.
Sometimes.
But I could see him so clearly in my head from 300 and then side by side in the crown.
And it was like, mm mm.
I was so amazed by that connection.
I seriously, I had to take a moment.
Oh my gosh.
So we have to subscribe to Apple TV to get this series.
Yes, we do.
My sources for that search were IMDB and Apple TV.
Okay, my last search is Lucid Car.
Yes.
I pulled up to a stoplight next to a pretty sweet looking futuristic car this week.
And on the back, like across the trunk, it said Lucid.
And I couldn't read the part that was the name of the car.
Come on, designers.
Can you use some fonts that old people can read? I just like, make it readable.
Otherwise, how am I gonna know what kind of car to buy? Right.
Probably not this one anyway, because they're $75,000.
Ay, ay, ay.
The Lucid Air is what it's called.
Okay.
It's a long range electric sedan with many different body trims.
Lucid also makes another model called the Gravity.
It's a mid-sized SUV.
It's pretty cool looking.
Uh-huh.
And it's a nice alternative to the Tesla.
Uh-huh.
Just saying.
These cars have won awards recently.
Okay.
Many awards.
And they are luxury cars.
Like I said, about $75,000 is where they start.
So I won't be getting one.
But they're designed in California and they're built in the USA.
So how about that? Wow.
That's pretty rare.
Yeah.
This one still had the temporary tags.
Temp tags.
Though it was brand new to these people.
Wow.
And it was pretty sweet looking.
Never heard of it.
I hadn't either.
Interesting.
Till now.
So people are catching on.
Excellent.
I love it.
Yes.
We needed more options rather than Tesla.
Yes.
Also, the Lucidcar, one of the things that's the big draw is that they have smaller batteries.
So battery technology is getting better.
And that's what's important because to manufacture the batteries for these electric cars is what's making them not as environmentally friendly as they could be.
See smart people.
Smart moms know.
Those people had a sweet pickle box.
They did.
They got sweet pickles when they were little.
So they make these great cars and with a little more batteries.
That's exactly right.
My source was lucidmotors.
com.
Just a quick one.
This next one kind of is not quick, but I'm going to try to get through it.
All right.
Okay.
Come on girl.
Brood 19 and brood 20 emergence in 2024.
It's the simultaneous emergence of two cicada broods from Virginia to Illinois sometime in late April through June of this year.
Brood 19 and brood 13.
Much of the Eastern United States can prepare for what one entomologist is describing as quote, spectacular macabre Mardi Gras.
So a cicada hatching slash migration slash they're gonna be everywhere.
In Kentucky in 1987 there was a huge cicada something.
They were everywhere.
They were all over people's cars.
Periodical cicadas which have the longest known insect life cycle spend most of their life underground in an immature nymph form before surfacing every 13 or 17 years for a brief adult life.
A brood constitutes multiple species of cicadas that merge on the same cycle.
Okay.
So you have multiple species of cicadas and they all come out at the same time in one brood.
Right.
Although cicadas are a valuable food source for birds and small mammals, in large numbers, their deafening sound can be annoying and their carcasses a nuisance.
When the Northern Illinois brood emerged 17 years ago, they were out in such abundant numbers that Chicagoans were having to remove them with shovels to clear sidewalks and driveways.
Yes.
That's how it was in Kentucky.
Disgusting.
The last time these two broods, 19 and 13, emerged… simultaneously was in 1803.
Oh my lord.
Which makes this an extremely rare event.
Thank goodness.
Brood 19, also known as the Great Southern Brood, contains four species of cicadas and emerges every 13 years.
The Northern Illinois Brood is on a 17-year cycle and it contains three species of cicadas.
Brood 19 will appear across 15 states, mostly in the South running from Virginia to Alabama and Mississippi.
Brood 13 will be concentrated across Illinois, parts of Wisconsin, Indiana, and parts of Michigan.
Scientists are expecting people to see billions of cicadas during the dual emergence.
People may hear or see cicadas well into September, but those will be the sounds of the annual cicadas that come out every year, not the periodical cicadas that will be emerging because they will die off in June.
Right.
Okay.
Once the ground reaches 64 degrees, the insects find their way to a nearby tree and shed their skin.
Oh, yes.
It takes about four to five days for the adult males to start singing.
And once they do, their songs can be louder than a jet engine.
Yes.
The male cicadas produce a chorus that attracts the females to the tree, and then they pair up and they have courtship songs.
After mating, the female cicada lays her eggs in the tree and then they die.
Alright.
Not the eggs, the females.
Littering the base of the tree and leaving behind what one scientist calls, ugh, quote, delicate, rotten, Limburger cheese smells.
Mmm.
I don't remember them smelling bad.
How do we get pluff mud and rotten Limburger cheese in one podcast? We're just talented like that.
So the cycle begins all over again when the cicada eggs drop from the tree and they return to the ground for another 13 or 17 year cycle.
Although they spend years underground in an immature state, the adult lifespan of a cicada ranges only four to six weeks.
At one point, all of the species in both broods could overlap in one place, creating a rare opportunity for a genetic crossing between the 13 and 17 year cicadas, leading to the emergence of a new brood.
Holy crap.
If you are an entomologist, you are losing your mind right now.
They have got some cicada woodies.
This sounds like a horror movie to me.
Yeah.
Cicadas won't hurt people or pets and many pets even try to eat them and it's fine.
Cicadas won't hurt them.
People should not try to spray cicadas with poison because it will harm the birds and other animals that do feed on cicadas.
There's a cycle here people.
It's a circle of life.
Just let it go.
Let it go.
They will leave in June.
It's not going to last long.
What other Disney songs can we come up with? Bear Necessities.
Oh, Bear Necessities.
I was just getting ready to say the same thing.
Cicadas are the bare necessities of life.
My sources were NPR, University of Connecticut, and Wilmington Star News.
Fascinating.
And I'm not being sarcastic.
I really mean that.
I loved the description.
The macabre Mardi Gras.
It is really crazy when you're stuck in like a swarm like that.
Oh, I hope I never am.
That's the only time was 1987, Northern Kentucky.
We were inundated with cicadas.
They were everywhere.
And my dad bought a Mercury Sable station wagon that year.
Yeah.
And it was like a metallic brown kind of.
Shiny like cicada colored.
So we called it the cicada.
because he bought it the year of the cicada and it was shaped like a cicada.
And it was, we called it the cicada.
That's amazing.
But what about this one? Oh, what about this one? This segment.
Yeah.
It's just a quick listing of our other searches from the past week that we didn't have time to discuss or were too boring.
Thank you for explaining that.
Ooh, okay, here we go.
Historian Cara Robertson.
I am very tired in French.
English King Longshanks, Edward II, Reese Sheersmith, Morgana Robinson, Parkview Theater Box Office, Claire Holland, Rob Bryden, Gilda Horn, Satsuma, Gronk Earpieces, Remedies for Chronic Bloody Nose.
You're a good mom.
Thanks.
All right, do you want to hear my list? I do.
Here we go.
Callum Turner, how are pigs different from other mammals during euthanization? Dominic West in 300.
Get out.
I'm not.
After you texted me, I had to look him up.
He was pretty hot.
So young.
I know, he was so young and hot.
His hair was so fluffy.
I know.
Soy sauce eggs.
Chiefs fans that died from exposure.
What does SSR stand for? L King drunk at Grand Old Opry.
Taylor's hamburgers hours.
That's hard.
Super hard.
How to revert to previous version of Outlook.
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The boy in the heron movie, and my last one was dog star's new album, yay! Do you have any shout outs? No.
I would like to just send a big hug to all the Lions fans out there.
Aw, I would too.
Listener Matt and Alex J are two that spring to mind.
I'm sorry.
I did really feel bad for them.
I did too.
I feel bad when you have a coach who makes stupid decisions.
And a big hug to Ravens fans too.
Yeah, that was...
Just because we beat you doesn't mean we don't love you.
No.
I'm even wearing some Ravens purple today.
Yeah, you are.
just to show and congrats I suppose to Niners fans.
Oh yeah.
But it's on now.
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Before I get on with the rest of my day, which is busy.
You have a busy day? Not really.
We're gonna go hang out with our neighbors tonight Oh, yeah.
Okay.
That's all I got going on.
Well, before you do that, I hope you delete your history.
I definitely will.
Okay.
All right.
And that's all I gotta say.
Okay.
Stay fresh, cheese bags.
Bye.
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