00:02 negative 40 degrees. Oh, come on, library. Really? Well, the sun's gone down, so we've got to raise the shade so everyone can see outside. Look at, oh, come on. They heard you. 00:24 They're like, if you're gonna be a smartass about it, we'll just keep raising, lowering, raising, lowering. What was I saying? Okay. With you the sun is shining 24-7 Cause when we're together it feels like we're in heaven If it will get dark you'll be my million stars I know I can lean on you Welcome to episode 29 of Delete This History, a podcast by two besties of a certain age searching for answers. We're your hosts, Brea Brown. 00:53 And Cara Burch. Hiii. Brea is doing me a solid tonight. Yeah, we're recording on a Friday. Friday night. Which is rare. We're having a date. Date night. It is a date night. And you're all dressed up. Um, kind of. I like you look adorable. I'm wearing my, oh thanks. I just didn't want to be cold. Wearing a little, uh, what is this, a poncho? Sure. 01:20 But it's very fashionable. And my little scarfie. Yeah, it's cute. I look like a bag lady. You don't? I'm fine. As a matter of fact, when I walked in, I was like, oh my gosh, I love the color of that shirt. Oh, yes, I do like the color of the shirt. But everything else, meh. It's like the color of my car. It is. You're right. It's very much like that. And. 01:45 The guy at Burger King drive-thru yesterday at lunchtime, because I was eating healthy, he was very excited about the color of my car. What did he say? He just said, that thing is gorgeous. I've never seen that color before. Oh, that's funny. And I was like, well, it was new this model year, but I see it a lot now. And he was like, oh, I've never seen that. 02:14 Love it! Alright, thanks. Nice. You rule. That's what they always tell you. Yeah. You can drive through now. Oh, when you...When you order, yeah. Aww. Thanks, your total is blah blah blah. You rule. Yeah, I do. Oh man, the things that some people have to do for minimum wage. 02:40 I have a little something that we need to talk about. Oh, tell me. Well, I wanted to put some of our listeners minds at ease because it occurred to me while having an interaction with the listener this week. Yes. That some people don't realize that we live in a state where marijuana recreational marijuana is legal. And so when we talk about gummies, we are totally. 03:09 Not breaking the law, breaking the law. The rule followers that we are, do you think that we would be this loosey goosey? No. We wouldn't talk about it for damn sure. In fact, oh no, and to be honest, every time I talk about it, I'm kind of like, should I say anything? It's funny because I can honestly say, even though it is legal, I've never had a gummy. Well, we should change that. I've never had. 03:37 recreational marijuana while it's been legal. Well, well, I had never had anything until it became legal. See? And, and now, I mean, it's so far and few between, like it's probably, I do like a half of a gummy every three months. Yeah. I just, It's like when I am so wound up, like I am just stressed. 04:02 to the max. It just takes the edge off. And the best part about it, I'm just sitting here talking about it. Like I know what I'm talking about is you don't feel like crap the next day. Like if you drink. Oh, yeah. 04:15 You don't, you're not hungover. No, it's just, you get some really good, or I get some really good sleep. I don't know about everybody else, but yeah. Um, I wouldn't know, but anyway, someone asked me, where do you even get decent gummies in Missouri? And I said, holy cow, um, everywhere. Yeah. Cause it's legal. The 19 stores around Springfield. And they were like, what? They were very upset that it's not legal where they live. That's hilarious. It's legal where we live. Yep. 04:44 Saz! That is life. Yeah, it's legal. Don't turn me in. And we will rectify the fact that you have not had a gummy yet. Oh, I would have to be like spending the night at your place or something. Well, I'll just give you one and you can take it to your house. Gummies travel? Yes! Have gummies, we'll travel. What else do you want to talk about? I... 05:09 Under my chit chat time, I said nothing to chit chat about. Okay, well, there we go. I really don't, I just don't have anything big on the radar to chat about. Well, I covered, you know, how we're not stoner outlaws. Yes, that is important. We're not here though, to advocate for recreational pot smoking slash gummy eating. 05:38 What are we here for? We are here to share our internet search histories with our DTH besties. Correct. And how we do that is with The Reading of the Lists. 05:53 Oh yeah, it's odd week. Yes, it's weirdo week. It is, so I get to go. Okay. First, I'm going to tell you my top five most interesting, funniest, most successful searches of the week in list form in no particular order, here we go. Hit me. Number one, infinity pool design. Oh. Number two, heterochromia eyes. Number three. 06:21 Violet eyes natural? Number four GMO definition. Oh Number five thatched roof maintenance. Oh Okay, okay What's interesting is one of mine also has to do with eyes. Oh My gosh, let me talk about eyes so much eyeballs because I've got two 06:46 about eyes. You've got one about eyes. My goodness. You guys get ready. All right. Here are my five. Number one, twisters the movie. Number two, the I'm curious button on Google search. Number three, geographic atrophy. Number four, is Antarctica considered a desert? Full question. Number five, horse stall mat. 07:16 Okay. 07:20 Guess I didn't hear the one that was about eyes. Nevermind, moving on. All right. I don't wanna steal no one's thunder. So here we go. Okay. Now it's time to play a little game we like to call Hmm! Search Me! Where we each pose one question to each other and see if we can answer based only on The Reading of the Lists. That is right. Cara, today you're playing for, this is gonna be so anti-climactic. Oh. 07:46 These. Oh! Super snazzy St. Patrick's Day socks. Uh, I love those. A lot. And. They're super cute. This iron-on transfer that says girl power. 08:03 What can I put that on? Oh wait, I haven't won it yet. A shirt, a towel, anything. Why is this anti-climactic? Well the socks, I've had those socks for forever. Yeah? And I was saving them until we got close to when this episode would be airing near St. Patrick's Day. Yes? And then you gave me those amazing Mukluk socks last week and they are so... 08:33 They're so awesome. I used them this week. You have to take them off after a while because your feet just get so hot. They get too hot. Yeah. Well, don't worry about that. I love these because first of all, they're hooped socks. They are hooped. Or are these hooped or are these striped? They're hooped because it goes around. And I love iron on things. I'm sitting here thinking about what I could put that on. And you're part Irish, right? 09:01 Callaway? We're Scottish. Oh, we might have some Irish. I don't know. I'm really not into lineage and genealogy, but my dad could tell you. I mean Callaway, that's Scottish. That is Scottish. Yeah, but there's probably some Irish in there too. It's very golfy. It's very golfy. We invented golf. 09:23 I was thinking Calloway was Irish, but you're yeah, that makes more sense. And your dad's personality, Scottish totally makes more sense. Oh yes. All right. Well poop. It's all right. Well, you're going to be Irish when you wear those socks. So which search was spawned by an ad in one of my games apps that made me think of Elizabeth Taylor. 09:51 Oh, I know this. Violet eyes natural. Yes. So Elizabeth Taylor did not have purple or violet eyes. No, she did not. They were deep blue and in certain light, they appeared purple or violet. 10:15 But true violet colored eyes only occur due to albinism. Oh, no kidding. Eyes that appear red or violet under certain conditions due to albinism are less than 1% of the world's population. Dang. And she was very pale. But she was not. I don't think she had albinism. 10:35 Interesting. And I believe that was a Wikipedia source. Oh, okay. I didn't write it down. I took a screenshot. Excellent. And then it said, that's all. Yeah. So that's, I was just playing a game. 10:50 And I have some games where you have to wait between rounds and they play these stupid ads. Yes. And the ads are always so annoying. They're awful. And a lot of times it's animated stuff and this was an animation where a guy was cheating on his... 11:06 Well, you're supposed to be the significant other and he's your boyfriend and he's cheating on you basically with the nurse after you've had a baby. Yes. Have you seen that one? Yes, I have. It's always these terrible scenarios that are so depressing. Yes. And then you have to help the person and then you watch the ad and the person who's like doing the game and the ad is an idiot and never does anything right. 11:32 Seriously, I most of the time I just put the thing down and I look away Or I go do something else. Yeah when those ads play because I get so frustrated and so annoyed by them But I was I was actually paying attention this time. I was like, oh his eyes are so purple Anyway, that's that was it 11:58 That's it. Love it. They are not natural. Okay. Um, unless you have, uh, albinism. Okay. Um, okay. Today you are playing for this squishy cat. Oh my gosh. So cute. This is a regift from Christmas. My brother drew my name. 12:25 and he gave me a box of fun random things that included this squishy cat. And I've played with this cat a lot, especially around Christmas and like the week of I just squish and squish and squish and I pulled his tail and all the things. And now it's time that he moves on and let someone else have fun with him. Yeah. I mean, I'm sharing the love. When I opened this thing up, I was sitting in the floor and 12:50 The box was kind of tilted and it rolled out and it kind of brushed my hand and it was kind of dark in there. We didn't have the lights on. And so it looked like this giant hairy rat or something. And then it's got, you know, it's got, yeah, it's nubby. Yeah. It's got some texture to it. Yeah. And so the texture was freaking me out at first. 13:16 You should have seen it was a whole thing. It scared the crap out of me on Christmas. Did you scream? Of course I did. You're Aunt Loudie. I'm Aunt Loudie. Alright, the question is...Okay. Which of my searches both excites me and annoys me at the same time? Mmm... 13:36 excites you and annoys you. 13:40 Twister's the movie. That is right. So last week you were talking about me being a pride and prejudice purist. And as it turns out, I've discovered I'm also a Twister purist. Twister is my favorite bad movie of all time. I love that movie and it's so horrible and it always makes me laugh and I've watched it a crap ton of times. And you love The Flying Cow and all those things. Well, The Flying Cow, Philip Seymour Hoffman, the whole thing. It's so funny. 14:10 And it's so bad. And Sean and I like to watch it when it's stormy outside. Well, they've remade this movie and it's called Twisters. Oh no, I hate when they do that. Okay. Well here's what IMDB says about it. It's just a short synopsis. An update to the 1996 film Twister, which centered on a pair of storm chasers who risk their lives in an attempt to test an experimental weather alert system. I watched the trailer for this. 14:40 It looks equally horrible and maybe more so. Who stars in this? I didn't know a single person. Oh no. Now there is one famous person that I know. Now I'm out of touch guys. I'm not in the loop. So there may be people in this that, right? Right, right. I looked at a couple of them and they've been in stuff, but not like, yeah, like they were like movies that maybe went straight to, you know, that kind of a thing. But 15:08 Moira Tierney is in this and I was like, Oh, Oh girl, are you just needing to pay some bills? But I don't know what role she plays, but I think it's not like one of the main characters. She may be a grizzled veteran who's gone down this path before and thinks they can't do it or something, you know, because it's so fresh to the world that 15:35 There are no character names listed. It's just a synopsis that I just read and a trailer. But it looks really bad. Oh no. So we're going to see. So you're excited. Yeah, because I like that movie. Because you like the movie. But you're annoyed that they remade it. Yeah, because I think it's just going to be so bad. Well. 15:58 I just keep, why do they keep remaking these movies? I don't know, use creativity and write your own movie. How about Call Me? There you go. I've got 16 books, you wanna make some movies? Yes, how many kajillion books are there in the world? Just pick a book and make a screenplay. Yeah, adapt it. Yeah, anyway. Call me. And why are we remaking, like I get remaking classics. 16:25 because they do kind of start to look outdated or seem outdated or sure and people want to see new stars in classic you know adaptations great i get that but remake twister yeah i'd like to know who made that choice and then who else said yeah that's a great idea we should definitely do that 16:54 Yeah, I'm annoyed by that. It comes out in July, just in the heart of twister season here in the Midwest. So I will not be giving any money to the theaters to see this. I will wait until it's free, which probably will be like August. That squishy cat is yours. I am really excited about this because he is adorable. I'll tell you, I played with that thing like you would not believe. Did you name it? Its name is Eric. 17:22 After my brother. That's perfect. I'm keeping it. Eric the cat. All right. I think I might be babysitting Quinn tomorrow night. So I'll let her play with Eric the cat. She will love it. Yeah, she'll like that. You know what it's time for? What? 17:42 Shared history. Oh, yes. It's time for us to share our internet search history with our DTH besties. Yes, just like our shared history of friendship. Only just slightly shorter. Slightly, yes. A little bit, but every week we talk too long. Every week. Every damn week. I'm tired of saying we're not going to talk long. I'm just not going to say it anymore. 18:08 So the first thing I want to talk about is GMO definition. Okay. Because I want to clear some stuff up. Okay. Because last week we talked about GMO. We went back and forth quite a bit. I just listened to the episode again. We went back and forth, back and forth. What is GMO? What constitutes GMO? Is it GMO if you breed them that way? Are you going to set us straight? I'm going to try to set things straight. 18:32 and not really rehash what I was wrong about or right about. Okay. Instead, let's just pretend like that never happened. Okay. Clean slate. Correct. Okay. So GMO stands for genetically modified organisms. They're living beings, living things that have had their DNA changed in some way by inserting a gene. 18:58 into a single cell. So this is not breeding. This is actually taking a gene and inserting a gene into a single cell to change it. And then as that cell divides, that gene replicates in every cell in that thing. And then the DNA actually changes. Gotcha. It's also called gene editing. 19:25 It's mostly used in crops. That's what we think most of it about. But they do use it with like animals. 19:32 There's been no gene editing with humans in the United States. That's very controversial. People still talking about that, trying to figure out what the ethics would be of that. Now there's also gene editing and things like microorganisms, like bacteria, and they do that to develop things like vaccines and medicines like insulin. Okay. So here are some relatively recent examples of gene editing and foods in order to improve them. All right. 20:02 Apples, 2017. Oh. They edited the genes in apples to make them non-browning. That's interesting. Uh-huh. Potato, 2016. Also non-browning, reduced bruising, and blight resistance. Ah. So here are some myths about GMOs. Okay. Myth, you can genetically modify anything. No. 20:30 If you see non-GMO labels on things like water and salt and things like that, you're being conned because you can't genetically modify water. It's not a living organism. Salt is not a living organism. You can't modify its genes. It doesn't have genes to modify. Makes sense. Okay. Another myth, GMOs cause health problems like cancer, autism, allergies, or gluten intolerance. 21:00 In fact, GMOs have not contributed to a single illness or death. GMO safety has been validated by numerous independent scientists and organizations around the world, including the World Health Organization and the European Food Safety Authority, two agencies who have much stricter guidelines about food safety than the US Food and Drug Administration. Another myth, GMOs harm bees, butterflies, and other pollinators. In fact, 21:28 They help crops grow stronger and more resistant to blight without the use of pesticides, so they help pollinators because pesticides are the true killers of these insects. Myth, GMOs make food more expensive. No. 21:45 because they make for heartier plants and larger yields, meaning there's more supply to meet demand. Okay. Myth, GMOs fed to livestock can result in genetically modified livestock. No, it doesn't work that way. No. That would mean like, if we ate something that was genetically modified, like an apple, that we would become genetically modified. I'm part apple. 22:14 It's so science doesn't work that way. GMOs have never been detected in milk, meat or eggs derived from animals fed genetically modified feed. So it doesn't go into their biology that way. Myth GMOs hurt the environment. Again, they don't because they help preserve biodiversity with less need for the use of pesticides and over-cultivation. So they actually help the environment. 22:44 I don't know if I would go so far as to say they help the environment. They don't harm the environment. Okay. Myth. There have been no long-term health studies to help us determine the safety or lack thereof of GMOs. But actually GMO crops are repeatedly and extensively tested. Nice. And myth. The non-GMO label means a food is healthier and cleaner and doesn't contain any GMOs. No. 23:13 It's just another way for companies to sell products and get you to think that it's healthier because it's non-GMO. But actually, non-GMO labeled food can contain up to 1% GMO ingredients. Meat and supplements can contain up to 5% GMO ingredients. And non-edible products like lotions, cleaning supplies, etc. can include up to 1. 5% GMO ingredients. 23:42 That's an FDA standard. Correct. My sources were Purdue University and GMOanswers. com. Excellent. I thought those were some interesting things. And all those myths I'd heard as reasons why people say, oh, I will only buy non-GMO products and blah, blah, blah. Mm-hmm. 24:02 That was a good one. I'm glad you did that. So we cleared that up a little bit. It's not really about breeding. It's about actually editing the gene in the DNA. And that's a good way to remember it is it's also known as gene editing. And it sounds scary. It does. It sounds like something like, Oh my gosh, don't mess with my genes. Right. I like Levi and like Jordache and not guess. 24:28 I want to talk about is Antarctica a desert? The definition of a desert is the amount of precipitation, an area. 24:38 or region receives. So if it's very little, it's classified as a desert. Now, scientists will go back and forth about what a little amount of precipitation is. So, you know, there's not like an exact science about the amount of precipitation. It's like, boop, that's a desert. So there are lots of types of deserts, but what they all have in common is a barren, windswept landscape, which makes it difficult for plants and animals to survive. 25:09 So not only do you have lack of precipitation, plants and animals really can't make it there so much. It's barren. I mean, we all know what a desert is. Right. The average yearly rainfall at the South Pole over the past 30 years was four tenths of an inch. Average yearly rainfall is four tenths of an inch at the South Pole, which is why it's called a desert. Yeah. 25:35 There are only two flowering plants that can survive in the harsh conditions, and most of the animals that are found there rely ONLY on seafood. It snows and rains on the coastal Antarctic Peninsula, but in the Murdo dry valleys in East Antarctica, it never rains. Ever. How weird is that? That seems so weird. And it never gets any snow either? I mean it's in Antarctica, so there's probably an ice pack. 26:05 but it doesn't receive rain. Gotcha. So just because of the temperature, there's ice there. Yes. So it's surrounded by water, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But there's nothing falling from the sky. I would assume, and I didn't dive deep into this, but I'm wondering if it's because it's so dry. Is the air just so dry that any precipitation just dries up immediately before it can even hit the ground? Probably. That would be my guess. I'm a scientist. 26:35 Dr. Burch. Let's just let's just say that that is the truth. That's true. Okay. Yeah Some scientists believe that in some parts of the dry valleys, it hasn't snowed or rained for 14 million years. I Can't wrap my head around that me neither. I'll go to my next fact Okay, although the coast sees some precipitation the average across the continent is low enough to classify all of Antarctica as a polar desert tundra 27:03 Desert biomes share some features, but they are also different. Deserts can be either hot or cold. Tundra is characterized by cold temperatures only between 64 degrees Fahrenheit and negative 40 degrees Fahrenheit. Okay. Yeah. Tundra is often found in cool subarctic and subantarctic regions and alpine areas. The defining feature of tundra is permafrost, 27:31 a thick layer of soil that stays frozen all year. In tundra biomes, a thick surface layer of soil thaws in the summer, allowing lichens, mosses, and small shrubs to grow, while the soil beneath never thaws. Right. It's colder. Like Siberia. Yes. 27:51 While Antarctica is classified as a desert, many of the nearby islands are considered tundra, including the South Shetland Islands, South Georgia, and the Falklands. My source for that was auro Excellent. I think Antarctica is very interesting. I completely agree. I would love to see it. And also scary as fuck. Yeah. I don't know how anyone... 28:16 travels there, does documentaries there. I don't get it. I really want to read the book about Shackleton. I want to read that book so, so bad. I've heard it's excellent. Very like, like it's a nail lighter. Yeah. Shit went down. Heck yeah it did. It got real. It got real. Shackleton. All right. My next search is 28:45 heterochromia eyes. Okay. Sticking with genes and I'm not talking about Jordache. I'm talking about G-E-N-E and I'm not talking about Levi. I'm talking about DNA. Are these emode? Um, no. Okay. I was watching Death in Paradise with Jackie. 29:12 And there was an actor on there and we kept calling him dollar store Jude Law Because he looked like a young Jude Law who was just not quite As pretty as Jude Law and then they did a close-up on his face and he had two slightly different colored eyes Like one of his eyes was very like turquoisey blue and the other one was like more of a like a normal blue 29:39 Okay. Normal blue. I don't know. You know what I mean. Like a more standard color blue eye. Jackie right away said, oh, he has heterochromia. And I was like, what the hell? 29:55 Because I was about to say, oh, he's a chimera. Oh. But not necessarily. The condition is heterochromia iridium. It's a condition in which the iris is multicolored, or one eye is a different color than the other eye. There are three types of heterochromia iridium. OK. There's complete, which means one eye is one color, and the other eye is another color. OK. 30:24 Central means that the middle of the iris is a different color than the outside of the iris. Oh. So a lot of times you'll see, especially with blue eyes, you'll see somebody has darker blue around the outside of their iris. And then there's sectoral. And that's when you have like different patches of color inside an eye. 30:52 So you have, or both eyes even. This can be caused by genetics, DNA, or trauma to the eye, or it can be a symptom of other disorders, but that's rare. Wait, the color can be different because of trauma to your eye? That's weird. Especially the kind where, um, sectoral, where there's just a part of the iris that's a different color than the rest of the iris. A lot of times that's because of a puncture or a... 31:22 Like a rubber band to the eye? Oh yeah. Or a penny or. Wow. A penny. This sounds like an experience that happened. When I was in high school, you've been through something. When I was in high school, we were at a football game and some dude threw a penny at the cheerleaders and it hit one of them in the eye and it effed up her eye bad. Like she had blindness in her eye from that. He threw it hard. 31:51 I hope he got in trouble. I mean, he probably got ISS or something, but unless her parents sued him. Oh my gosh. Which I doubt. Can you imagine? You're just minding your own business at a football game. It's just a normal night. All of a sudden a penny comes out of the crowd and hits you in the friggin' eye. No. It was a big deal. I bet. 32:15 I don't know if it caused heterochromia iridium in her eye. Can you follow up on that? Let us know. I can't remember her name. It's more common in animals than in humans. Oh, interesting. Yes. Fewer than 200,000 people in the US have it. Oh, that's rare. Yes. Which is interesting because I looked at a list of celebrities who have it. Yes. And it went on and on and on. 32:43 So maybe only celebrities have it. One of them is your girlfriend. Angelina. Yes. Angelina has it. I didn't know that about her. We're not as close as we used to be. So how is this related to chimerism? Yes. 33:02 Well, if you remember, chimera is a person who is made up of two sets of cells with two completely different sets of DNA. So heterochromia iridium would be a symptom, or not a symptom, but it would be a sign that they have chimeraism. It would just be one of the outward manifestations of chimeraism. Whereas not everybody who has chimeraism has heterochromia. 33:32 And not everybody who has heterochromia iridium is a chimera. Okay. So if you have heterochromia, I think it's a rhizome, you not necessarily a chimera. Correct. Because you could just have one set of DNA. Or you could have been hit in the face with a penny. Or you were hit in the face with a penny or whatever. Okay. Yeah. Okay. But if you have heterochromia iridium, 33:57 because you have two different sets of DNA. And that's why one of your eyes is this way, because it goes with this set of DNA, and one of your eyes is brown, because it's that set of DNA. Then that's chimerism. Got it. Related. My sources were WebMD, the Mayo Clinic, and the Cleveland Clinic. Okay. 34:20 Well, let's stay in the gene vein. Okay. Eyeball vein. Oh, okay. Eyeball vein. Ooh. Eyeball veins. Eyeball veins? Oh shoot. That got gross real fast. Sorry everyone. Geographic atrophy. Geographic atrophy is a late state case of dry age-related macular degeneration, which is an eye condition that affects the macula and the retina. 34:49 It greatly impairs your central vision, but you'll still have your peripheral vision. How weird. So you walk around like this. You walk around like this. Don't drive, please. If you see someone driving and their head is turned completely to the side, just looking at you. Get away. Drive away. No, it's just a sign that that's what they have. And they're just looking out the side of their eye. They're side eyeing the road. 35:17 this condition affects both eyes. So you're seeing the back of your car and the front of your car. That would be crazy. No, don't drive. More than 8 million people in the world have this. And that figure represents about 20% of all people who have age-related macular degeneration. So you can have macular degeneration, but not necessarily have geographic atrophy. Correct. Okay. So 20% of 35:46 those people have this condition. Symptoms and causes. Oh my. Loss of visual acuity, sharpness of vision. Difficulty reading, driving, doing crafts, or any other kind of activity that basically relies on looking forward. Yeah, okay. You start to see a dark spot or a blind spot in your central vision like something all of a sudden you just can't see right there. Difficulty seeing in dim light and colors become drab. Researches don't. 36:15 actually know what causes the condition, but they think it might have to do with the person's immune system. Oh, I know. Isn't that interesting? However, genetic and environmental factors are likely what's playing into it the most. Risk factors include being 60 or older, being Caucasian, having eyes that are light in color. 36:39 Having biological family members who already have macular degeneration or other genetic conditions that affect the eyes. Being a smoker, a former smoker. A history of unhealthy eating. A history of spending a lot of time in the sun. And having eyesight of 2200 or worse. Do you know what your eyesight is? I don't know what mine is. It's bad. 37:01 Mine's really bad, but I don't know the actual number. I don't either. Other risk factors include obesity, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and coronary heart disease. I'm in trouble. It's inevitable, I'm gonna have this. Yeah, I'm in trouble. So if I start seeing a dark spot, I'm like, well, here it is. ClevelandClinic. com, thank you very much. What? They are so into eyes. They know eyes. Okay, do you wanna talk about something more fun? 37:30 Yes, please. How about infinity pool design? Yes. Now, when you watch a show like death in paradise, you see lots of pools. I mean, they're on an island so you see the ocean, right? But all the rich people and all the houses up in the hills. 37:48 pools and they're usually infinity pools because it's like on the edge of a hill they want it to look like you're gonna fall out that pool. Yes. So my first question was can you fall out of an infinity pool? And the answer is no because the wall really does go all the way up to where that water is. Okay. The water couldn't be higher than the wall. Right. Right. 38:12 That's just not how water works. So the wall would stop you. Yes, that's good. Yes. Okay. But I was really wondering more, how the hell does that work? How does the water always go up to the very edge of that wall and stay there? How are you not losing water all the time? Every time you move in that pool, how are you not displacing enough water that it overflows? 38:37 Okay. Over the side and then it would be lower than the wall. Then it wouldn't look like an infinity pool anymore. 38:44 I'm with you. Okay. Yeah. I'm interested. I'm waiting for the answer. Here's how. Okay. It involves careful water level management, which allows for the vanishing edge effect. To achieve this, a special overflow system is employed that collects and returns the water back into the pool from a hidden reservoir located just below it. Aha. So usually the reservoir is along the edges. Okay. And it like funnels it underneath it and then it comes back out. 39:14 Interesting. So it is kind of like a piece of tech. It's an illusion. Yeah, it's not just, hey, let's dig a pool and we'll call it an infinity pool because we won't have, you know, an edge to it. You actually have to have mechanical stuff built into it that keeps it looking that way. So when you were saying infinity pool, I was picturing the pool that you literally used for swimming. No. 39:42 I know what you're talking about, like a lap pool. Michael Phelps, it's not very big either. It's real small. It's not recreational. It is to work out. Yeah. So that's what I was imagining. Because the water pushes back on you. Yes. And you swim. There's a current. Correct. Yes. And also sometimes you're tethered to something as well. Yes, yes, yes. So that you're just basically swimming in place like a treadmill. Right. It's like a. 40:09 Treadpool I thought that was called an infinity pool. No, the infinity pool is the one where it has that vanishing edge effect I absolutely know what I'm talking about. Okay. I was not with you for a while But then it clicked with me what you were talking about and I was this really cool one Yes, the rich people in the hills have correct. Yeah, I know you make it look like they're gonna swim off the side of a cliff 40:37 Now a lot of times what they'll do is they'll build a feature, like a water feature into it, to make it look even better. So like you'll have a waterfall off the side of the infinity pool. So you've got that rock sound. Or rocks or whatever so that when the water... 40:53 displaces and flows over and goes into that reservoir system, there's actually like something there that's decorative. Lovely. Yeah, but I was just like, how does that work? How does the water stay in? I never would have even thought about it. I just am always like, I'll never afford that. And I have often thought, how do they not fall out? 41:19 Because you know, physics was never my thing. Well, but if you think about it, you know, you're going to float up to the surface. Right. And then why aren't you just like a fish in a fish bowl that's overflowing? Correct. Just falling out. What if you're floating on your back or you're floating on a float on the water surface? Why wouldn't you float out? I think that you and I just need to go to an island and find an infinity pool and try it out. I'm right. I think my ass is heavy enough that if I was on a float. 41:49 There's no way I would be far enough down in the water that I would hit the wall the edge of the wall No matter what me too. So I don't think I need to worry about it My problem is gonna be more of an anchor situation where I need something to keep me afloat Just keep your lungs full So I try to 42:10 Tell my kids when we were on vacation, I'm like, just float on your back. They can't do it. What? You know what? My brother never could too. Can not float on, on their backs. I'm like, just keep your lungs full. Those are your, those are your fun bags. Just keep breathing. But I think the problem is they hold their breath because they're worried that they're going to sink. Oh, I don't know. And so they're not breathing. And so they're not keeping their lungs. 42:36 I don't know. My brother is built exactly like your kids. Yes. And he never could float. And my mom always just said, you don't have enough body fat to float. Oh, maybe that's it. That's what my mom said. We, she just, I think was trying to make him not feel so bad because he just could not do it. And I would get so mad at him. I'm like, Eric, just relax. And he's like, I'm relaxing. Yeah, that sounds relaxed. He could. Sounds like it. He just never could do it. Yeah, they can't. 43:06 That's funny. Moreheadpools and poolicons. com were my sources. Excellent. All right, my next one is the I'm curious button on Google search. I'm so curious. I've never pressed that button before and I pressed it by accident this week. 43:24 I was searching something. It took me, like it took me to a fun fact, like a very short fun fact, random fact. And so then I pressed it again and I just kept getting short fun facts over and over and over. So I wrote them all down. Oh good, okay. So here we go. It's a list of random fun facts from the curious button on google. com. Excellent. Bananas are seedless berries that develop without pollination and fertilization. 43:54 We are currently living in the Holocene epoch of the Quaternary period. Mountain Dew was invented in 1940 and a revised formula was released in 1958. Mountain Dew be old! Yes. And it was originally made, listen to me. Let me tell you a little about my Mountain Dew. Dr. Bert. 44:20 Nope. Doctor, you're not Dr. Burch. You keep trying to marry me. I love you. I know. It was originally an alcoholic mixer. Oh. A mixer for alcohol. So you wouldn't drink it just straight. You would mix it with something else. Was it originally bubbly? Yeah, it must have been carbonated. But anyway, it was designed to be drunk with alcohol. Okay. 44:45 to get you drunk. Interesting. Sumo wrestlers throw salt into the ring to purify it before they begin their match because it is considered a sacred place. The hashtag symbol is technically called an octothorp. Octo referring to the eight points on the symbol and thorp, well, we're not really sure. One theory is that it comes from the Old English word for village based on the idea that the 45:15 looks like a village surrounded by eight fields. Let that one percolate. The 100 folds in a chef's hat or toque. It's 100 folds. Yes. Okay. Used to signify a chef's level of experience. Oh. Now one, I read a little bit more about this one. One place said that 45:41 A chef used to know how to prepare eggs 100 ways, which is what the 100 folds in the hat represented. I think I'm going to call that bunk. I don't necessarily believe that. Can you really fix eggs 100 ways? I don't know. Maybe if you could, why would they put folds in a hat to signify that? I don't know. Are eggs like a basic thing in the? 46:01 cooking world? I don't know. Was somebody bored? I don't know. If somebody out there knows, like do the folds in the hat represent the ways to cook eggs? Let us know. The most streamed Spotify single is Harry Styles girl crush. Although rare, some cats are allergic to people. The unicorn is the national animal of Scotland. We talked about Scotland twice. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. 46:31 I forget it doesn't like this. Scotland. I love you unconditionally, but a unicorn is not a real thing. It said it represented innocence and something else. Like imagination? I mean, that's great if you want it to be your country's mythical creature. Mmm. They didn't believe that way. I'm gonna get mad Scottish people. 47:00 And they're good at being mad. Yeah, we are. But I'm gonna have to call foul on that one. The crown jewels contain the two biggest cut diamonds on earth. They both came from the Cullian diamond, which is a 3,106 carat gem that was found in South Africa in 1905. The largest of the two is called the Great Star of Africa, and it is in the sovereign's scepter. Oh. 47:29 The second largest stone is mounted in the Imperial State Crown. Oh. They're beautiful. I would imagine. B-T-W. The M&M on the candies stands for Mars and Murray. Oh. Hmm. A blue whale's heart weighs 400 pounds, and its heartbeat can be heard with underwater equipment from two miles away. Oh, whoa. 48:00 A baby puffin is called a puffling. Oh my gosh. It's so cute. Look up a baby puffin you guys. It may be the cutest freaking thing you'll see all day. Unless you looked at my face. The speed of a computer mouse is measured in Mickey's. I don't know what that means. Frank Lloyd Wright's son invented Lincoln logs. Uh huh. 48:27 And last but not least, $1 bills only have about six years before it needs to be replaced. Oh, yeah. They can beat up. My source was google. com, the curious button. That is cool. It was fun. I'm gonna have to try that out. Yeah, it was fun. Someday when I'm super bored and have lots of time to kill, which probably tomorrow. My last one. Yes. Thatched roof maintenance. 48:56 Yes. I'm really concerned about the damage to my sister's house. Okay. So you're, you're finding some solutions for her? Not really. I mean, I'm, they've gotten under control. I'm sure. Okay. Like they've, they've contacted the Thatchers and they're supposed to come out and fix it, but there's already been so much damage done. Do we know if it was a rat or a mouse? I'm assuming it was rats. Okay. We still don't know though. I don't know for sure. Okay. But 49:25 Colleen sent us some pictures. Oh, of the turds? Oh, not of the turds, of the damage. Okay. Oh my gosh, it's heartbreaking because they just replaced that entire roof and it is a large house and they spent a fortune replacing that roof. Oh my gosh. And it's already been damaged by these vermin. Poor brambles, that's the name of their cottage. Aww. My love language is solutions. 49:54 I know she doesn't need me to give her solutions. She's already figured it out. She's very Competent go-getter kind of person. She's already I mean she's type a she's she's the type of type a that makes me look Type B. Oh Okay, so she's got under control got it. She's already contacted who she needs to contact It's just a matter of when can they get out there to fix it. I'm gonna stress me out So I did my own research 50:26 Like how do you even prevent this from happening? You did your own research because this is going to make you less stressed to know how they're going to get this fixed. I know. Oh my gosh. Okay. Okay. So thatched roof maintenance and pest prevention. Are you ready? Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The easiest lowest tech way to keep the rodents away is to get a cat. Okay. Seriously. Just get a cat. That's awesome. Do they have a cat? No. 50:54 Colleen. I don't think that that is a possibility. Why, why? Because I don't know if someone there is allergic to cats or they just don't like cats or I don't know what the deal is. The solution to that is a sphinx. Correct. I don't know if a sphinx would do very well in England. The most terrifying cat in the world. Just give a little sweater. 51:19 That'll be fine. But anyway, just the smell of a cat will keep rodents away. Wow. OK. That's the lowest tech way to do it. OK. You can also put cotton balls soaked in peppermint oil, or citronella oil, or ammonia, or lavender oil, rosemary, sage. Not time. It was just about to come out of my mouth. I knew you were going to do it. 51:47 Anything with a strong botanical scent. Okay. You could put like little cotton balls soaked in that up in your roof in the places where the rats are trying to get in or where you think they might. So like up in the eaves. Do you have to keep treating the cotton balls? Probably. I would imagine you would have to replenish them occasionally, but not, I wouldn't think it would be like all the time, maybe once every three months. Okay. Maybe. That's not bad. 52:16 Um, honey, I gotta go squirt the cotton balls. Got to replenish the cotton balls. Hmm. Let's see. Hang on. I need a piece of cheese before I came here. Why am I so burpy? A piece of cheese. One. 52:33 Lord was it carbonated cheese? Yes, so Ridiculous. Okay, you can also dilute those oils and water and put it in a spray bottle and spray up there that probably be the easiest thing to do agreed and then You create your own like repellent What if you sprayed a cat with the? botanicals Pissed off cat 53:03 but no rats. Another option is trapping. So you can use humane traps. I think my sister is to the point that she's so mad. I don't think she cares about being humane about it. You can also try to drive them away with those devices that make noise at a certain frequency that drives vermin away. Vermin don't like it. I've seen these things. I tried this when we 53:31 had the mouse problem in our other house. Yes. Just all of a sudden. Yes. We had mice. What the hell? And, um, it was disturbing. I did not like it. No mice. It's, it's not a good feeling. I don't like it. It's gross. Yeah. They poop and pee on everything. And I was just like, why are they in my house? How do they get in my house? Yeah. How do I get rid of them? But I didn't want to kill them. 53:57 I just wanted them to go away. So I bought these things that you'd like plug them into an outlet and it, you could hear that clicking, but you as a human could not hear this, but it was making a noise. Oh, huh. That was supposed to drive them away. I have never heard of anyone being successful using these, but if that's what you wanna try, go for it. And finally you can poison them. 54:24 but they strongly suggest that you use an exterminator to do that. Okay. Cause it can be dangerous. Okay. Mostly though an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. When you're having a thatched roof replaced, a good thatcher will make sure that there are no friends already arriving in the stock that you're 54:45 using. Oh yes. Yeah, because that can be a problem. Uh yeah, I could see where that would be a problem. They will also use a good tight wire netting that rats can't chew through that goes, it's like kind of the foundation of the thatching. It helps it hold its shape as well. Oh okay. I didn't know that was even part of it. No, I didn't either. And they'll sometimes even pre-bait your roof with those things that will 55:15 bunch of lavender soaked cats up in your attic and then you don't have to worry about it. Well worth the extra cost. You can get peppermint cats or lavender cats. Peppermint, I love a peppermint cat. Oh man, they're the best. 55:35 Colleen, if you get a cat, I'm excellent at naming cats. Just let me know, I will get you a cat name. I think Cheeto. Cheeto? She wouldn't like that. Fuzzy fun gray cat. No. Boots. Earl Grey. That'd be great for like. Sir Earl Grey. Oh yes. Holy hell, that's it. Colleen. Sir Earl Grey meows a lot. 56:05 And you'll have to make sure it's, what are those called? The Russian Blue. It'll have to be a Russian Blue. For sure. Sir Earl Grey Meows a Lot. Yes. He'll catch all the rats for you. All of them. You'll never have this problem again. Oh, man. You'll have to look at the pictures. I will. It's sickening. I'm bummed that I didn't know about those before now. It is sickening. OK. Oh my gosh. OK. My sources were Thatch Advice Centra. 56:34 UK. Thatch advice. Only in the UK. Pinnacle pest and here's this is gonna be your favorite one. BobVila. com. Dick. He is a rat. Yeah he is. That was my last one. How about you? I have one more. 56:54 And this one came about this afternoon, as a matter of fact. My boss loved work a little bit early and he said, well, I'm about to go buy something I've never bought before. And I said, what's that? And he said, a horse stall mat. Now my boss does not own horses or a barn or any type of land that any large giant animal could live on. And he says, why are you buying a horse stall mat? 57:20 First of all, second of all, what is a horse stall mat? So he recently bought a treadmill because he and his wife are healthy people. And the person that put it together for him told him to go to a local farm store and get a horse stall mat to put the treadmill on rather than spending money on a gym equipment mat. This person said that. 57:47 gym equipment mats are way more expensive and this horse stall mat will do the exact same thing for a lot less money. Ha ha. Well. So I had to look up what a horse stall mat is. And I mean it's pretty much what you think it is. Yeah. It is designed to hold excessive weight so that they don't wear and tear quickly. They help prevent slips and falls by humans and horses. You can get them in rolls or mats or tiles. 58:16 and they're different thicknesses depending on where you're going to put this mat. And I mean, it's, it's a pretty good idea. Horses weigh like a thousand pounds. You don't want a horse slipping and falling. That'd be bad. But I looked at a bunch of pictures and like these fancy horse barns, they've got them. 58:36 out in the middle so you know you've got all the stalls down the sides yeah yeah and so they had a mat all the way down the middle like a red carpet kind of yes only a black and then they had them in oh my throat no more cheese for brea that was my cheese throat that was that was sir earl grey meat he ate a rat 59:07 All right. Sorry. And then they have the mats in all of the horse stalls. And so it's just a padding for safety, basically. Right. Everyone involved. What is it made out of? It's rubber. Oh, it's rubberized. Okay. Yep. Excellent. Yeah. So that's a shorty. But my source was Amer 59:33 It sounds like something you could pick up at the MFA or Oh yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Or the store that your sister owns. Yep. Oh, they wouldn't have horse stall. You don't think they would have horse stall mats? I don't think so. They're more a lawn and garden and not a farm supply store. I gotta go in there someday. It's well, I'll tell you now, they have partnered up with ACE and so now they are an official ACE 01:00:01 Hampton lawn and garden store. Oh, that is fancy. They had to move to a different location to make it bigger I bet that that was an undertaking. I think it about killed Holly. Oh my gosh. She was stressed I would not want to move a whole store. Oh 01:00:17 You would not even believe since they've been there forever. Yeah, you don't believe what I don't even know the half of what they went Through but they're big time Well, well, well, they're moving on up My boss said I can walk into this farm store and they're not gonna question why I'm there Right, and I said just just tell them that your horse stall mat wore out and you need a new one, right? 01:00:41 Say it in a really posh accent. Yeah, well, very confidently. Yeah, just, you know, I'm horsey people. Yeah. I'm horse people. Don't question me. People? I got horse. Mm-hmm. Anyway, who cares what you want to use it for? Two horses. Right? That's right. You could be using it in your infinity pool. I could be using it at your kitchen sink. Yeah. That's right. My business, what I'm gonna use my horse stall mat for. Exactly. 01:01:08 But Cara, what about this one? What about this one? This is a quick listing of our other searches from the past week that we didn't have time to discuss in this episode, or were just too damn boring. Guess what? I have a list. You didn't delete your list this week. I didn't. I did my rundown like I normally do. I stayed the course. Routine is everything. It's my love language. Yes. 01:01:37 So I have my list, but I want to hear yours first. Okay, mine is Chris Marshall. Why do I know that name? He's Colin Frisill. Oh yeah. Pride and Prejudice Officers. I could not remember the name of Mr. Wickham this past week. Oh. Mr. F-ing Wickham, Cara. How dare you. Anyway, the actor from the... 01:02:03 Superior Pride and Prejudice 1995 Colin Firth BBC version the actor who played mr. Wickham Was in a death in paradise episode This is where actors go and he was in the same episode that mr. Collins was in they were Reunited and it felt so good. Oh my gosh. Okay, um beefaroo. Oh Did you go? No giraffe flamingo Lego 01:02:33 Gordita song, 90s Taco Bell commercial. Gordita song? Do you remember the Gordita song? No. Look it up. Okay. St. Marie Caribbean Death in Paradise, Real Island. 01:02:48 The answer is no. Gun cleaning frequency. You cleaning some guns? No. Okay. And I never will probably have to clean a gun, I hope. Oh, that was my chair. That was not me. Whatever! I tried to recreate. See? Alright. Although I probably could fart on the mat. There's my chair. Alright. 01:03:18 Anyway, Cara, she knows how often to clean her gun. She's breezy as Max. I laughed at her fart. It was my chair fart. Oh shoot. Continue. That's it. Oh, okay. Oh Lord. I don't know if I can recover from that. 01:03:39 It's like, I kept picturing. I kept picturing people driving, looking out the side of their eyes. The whole time you were doing, you were talking about that search. I kept laughing. Oh, shoot! Oh my gosh, I'm crying. 01:04:03 Oh, shoot. This is why we don't record after work late at night. All right. It's such a mistake. We did not eat half a gummy before we did this. Yes, okay. Here's my list. I'm gonna pull it together. All right. 01:04:17 Lyrics to Prince's song 7 great song. How old is Barry Sanders? He's 55. I was gonna say am I gonna get to guess? He's only 55. Yeah. Upgraded mac and cheese packet. Appendiceal cancer. Willie Nelson's book roll me up and smoke me when I die. Kind of goes with the gummy thing. My we're cleaning out 01:04:47 Sean's parents house. Beverly has a book, has this book, and it is signed by Willie Nelson, and he drew a picture in the front of it. It is worth so much money. That is unexpected. Yes. Beverly was a huge music fan. And she, I mean, she listened to all kinds of music. I did not. 01:05:12 I mean, she grew up with Willie Nelson. I just didn't, I didn't, I don't mean like they live next door to each other. I know that she grew up with his music. Yeah. Um, anyway, yeah, we're, that was a surprise to find in the bookshelves. How can I tell if a book is a first edition? Lots of times it doesn't say it's a first edition. Can I get a tax break for purchasing a hybrid car, computer recycling hours? 01:05:37 Best way to rough up slick soles of shoes. I don't fell on my ass. Why was Home Fires canceled? Or as I like to call it, Home Fries. Wendy's Dynamic Pricing, Wendy's Dynamic Pricing Backup, and Belgravia, the next chapter. Did you watch Belgravia the first time? 01:06:00 I just watched it. Seriously? Recently. Wasn't it good? It is excellent. And I cannot watch Belgravia the next chapter because it is on a platform I don't have. Yes, I think it, it may be Apple. Oh. 01:06:18 I thought I was thinking it was on Apple. Oh, maybe it was. Maybe it is on Apple. I'll have to look anyway. I saw it pop up. Amazon was like, Oh, you got to watch this. I was like, Oh, I do want to watch that Amazon. But I thought that I couldn't watch it either. Yeah, I can't. Wendy's dynamic pricing. Yes. There was like a weird thing about the Wendy CEO said in this meeting that beginning in 2025, they were going to try all these new things. Like they were going to have a digital menu in a drive-through. 01:06:48 And as the busyness of their business fluctuated throughout the day, prices would rise and fall on all menu items. And so all the media outlets put out that story this week. And then like two days later, they walked that back and the CEO was like, no, I never said that. The media took that and ran with it. But I looked up the quote from the article I was reading and it clearly, if they're quoting him correctly, he said it very clearly. 01:07:16 that they were going to try dynamic pricing along with other things like the digital board and it would change. Like you would have different things throughout the day. And anyway, I was not happy about that. I don't think dynamic pricing would be very fair, but I haven't given it a lot of thought either, like five 30, all the prices go up. That's the end of my list. Do you have any shout outs? Um, 01:07:45 I don't have any shoutouts as a matter of fact. Me neither. We didn't last week either. I know. We're lame. How can people get in touch with us, Cara? They can do that a variety of ways. One of those ways is to email us. We love emails. Yes. Delete this history podcast at gmail. com. Or they can connect with us on Instagram and threads at DTHguiles. Correct. Or. 01:08:13 They can hit us up on Facebook, which is the coolest platform of all. Delete, Delete This History on Facebook. Correct. Those are all the ways the library is going to close soon. Yeah. We've got about 50 minutes. Yeah. So what do you think we should do next? Well, I think maybe we should. 01:08:37 delete our history. You know what? I'm gonna get something to eat first. I totally am too. And then I'm gonna go delete my history. Yep. For sure. So I can stop making weird noises with my throat. I hope you get better. Do better, Brea, next week. No cheese before recording. All right. Stay fresh, cheese bags. All right. See you later. Bye. 01:09:07 Delete This History is created, written, posted, produced, and edited by Brea Brown and Cara Burch. Theme music is so good by Orkas. Email us at Delete This History podcast at gmail. com. Find us on Instagram and threads at DTHGals and Facebook at Delete This History. Copyright 2024, all rights reserved. Seasonal confusion brought to you by Weird Missouri Weather.