Which of my searches came about? Hang on.
What? Did you send me your searches? Oh fudge.
I didn't send you mine, though.
Oh, my word.
That's why.
30 weeks we've been doing this.
I know, it's so sad.
Okay.
All right.
I'm ready for you now.
Cat fur.
With you the sun is shining 24/7 because 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 30 of Delete This History, a podcast by two besties of a certain age, searching for answers We are your hosts Cara Burch and Brea Brown.
I found a way to make my chair make noise.
Good job.
I did.
It was so silent.
I found a way.
Things are blooming.
Yes, they are.
And it's very pretty but that means I now have cat fur in the back of my throat.
Yes.
It is settled in, and it will be there probably until June, July.
And they're in for an unpleasant surprise because we still got lots of cold weather ahead of us.
Yeah, we're still gonna have some cold.
These plants are gonna be super sad.
Yes, they are.
Hang on, plants.
Hang on, dogwoods.
I'll tell you what, the tree in our front yard, it has bloomed and it's, you know, like it's going through its whole spring process.
What kind of tree is it? It's a maple of some kind, but it's not the pretty kind of maple.
Of course not.
It's the annoying kind of maple that loses sticks every time there's a gentle breeze.
Oh.
Sean loves it, and I hate it.
It's a super old, I mean it's a very established, mature tree.
So, Sean doesn't want to cut it.
Well, no.
It's probably best to leave it.
You're gonna leave it.
But it is a messy tree.
Yeah.
That's all I gotta say about that.
Yeah.
What are you, what's going on with you? Um, I started a new book club this week.
So, I heard.
And it is fun.
Some ladies from work, some other admin assistants from work.
We all got together and started this book club.
I didn't start it.
Somebody else with much more motivation, you know, organized it, got it all together, blah, blah.
But we're meeting every other Monday night.
And so, we don't read a whole book at a time.
We break the book up into pieces.
Oh, to make it easier for people.
Now we're reading The Frozen River by somebody.
Remember the author's name? Of course.
But it's very good.
It is dark though.
It's like Colonial times.
Oh, okay.
How did you choose the book? By committee.
We all.
By committee? Like by poll, you know, like an online poll.
Fun.
I haven't done a book club in like 20 years.
I know.
It was that one when we were at KOLR-10.
Did you go to that one? Yeah, were you in that book club? Yes, for about two or three times, but I was working the morning shift, and I couldn't maintain it.
I was too tired.
I couldn't even read the book.
I was so tired.
So, I gave up.
I stopped going.
But I enjoyed it.
It was a fun book club.
Yeah, it was.
There were a lot of fun personalities in that book club.
That's the last one I've been into.
So, that's been a long time.
So, I was very excited about this.
And it's not like workbooks.
Yeah.
Because there's another book club at my company and they read stuff like, it's like nonfiction and like organizational stuff and like leadership.
Yeah.
How to be good at this and how to do this and how to, I'm like, what? That sounds like work.
Yeah, why would I do that outside of my work time? I don't really want to improve myself career-wise.
You're happy where you're at? I'm where I'm going to be.
OK.
So, I really, I don't know.
That sounds terrible.
Well, it is kind of, it's kind of like when my annual eval comes around.
I'm like, what are we really going to talk about here? Like, exactly.
I don't really know where you want me to go.
I'm pretty much there.
Yes.
You know.
I could drink more coffee.
I could arrange my pens a different way.
I had to do my self-eval this past week to prepare for my semi-annual evaluation and I hate it.
We don't have to do self-evals, thank goodness.
I finally just started saying, in previous evaluations, my peers have said blah blah.
Then I don't have to say it about myself.
Ah ha.
That's clever.
You know, anything to get around doing what I'm supposed to do.
that on your evaluation.
Yeah I'm really good at skirting responsibility and not following the directions.
Oh shoot.
Yeah.
Oh. Well, congratulations on your book club.
Yeah it's fun.
It is fun and I babysat Quinn last weekend.
Yeah yeah yeah.
And this is kind of related to books.
Okay.
That's why I'm rushing ahead.
Okay let's hear it.
She said why do you always give me books? When I was at her house babysitting I got tired of playing amazing digital circus.
And so, I said, oh, let's read a book.
You want to look at one of these books? And she said, why do you always give me books? I don't like books.
And it stabbed me through the heart.
And then I remembered, she's five.
And I said, well, you'll like them someday.
It's hard right now because you can't read them by yourself, but when you can read along, and you can read them yourself, you'll like them a lot more.
Please, God.
Yes.
Oh, no.
Quinny.
She used to love being read to and looking at books and she's just kind of grown out of it and she gets real mad that that's what I get her for gifts because her mom tells me she doesn't need toys.
She's got all the toys she wants.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So.
That's why I get her books and now she's like, why do you always do that? Ah.
Just get her like a can of corn next time.
Here you go.
I think I'll get her a sticker book next time cause it's a book.
Man, sticker books are awesome.
But she loves stickers.
Yeah, who doesn't? So, if I can find her an amazing digital circus sticker book, I would be.
Top BiBi.
Yes, thank you.
Anyway, that's all my chat.
That's all I got.
The only thing I've got is, this weekend is daylight saving time.
It begins.
Yes.
I'm gonna lose an hour of sleep.
Not for people listening.
Be careful.
Right! You've already done this, listeners.
It's already over with and...
You're probably still feeling the effects, though.
I'm exhausted.
I can just tell you right now, I'm exhausted.
I'm tired for six months, but I really love the extra daylight in the evening.
I just...
I'm looking forward to that part of it, but oh man, losing that hour hurts! Yeah.
I love sleep.
I, also, love sleep.
I do too.
We are here to talk about our internet search histories for the week.
We are.
And how are we going to kick that off, Brea? With The Reading of the Lists.
That's right.
It is Even Steven Week.
Yep.
So, I'm going to read my list first.
Yep.
Are you ready? I don't think I am.
I don't think I can be ready.
Let's, you know, wait a minute.
I'm ready.
Okay.
Number one, was Chuck E. Cheese originally intended for adults? Number two, why are paper cuts so painful? Number three, how are coffee beans decaffeinated? Number four, who coined the phrase Murphy's Law? And number five, origin of the QWERTY keyboard.
Oh, here's mine.
One, opprobrium definition.
Okay.
Two, outs in free.
Three, badger sett.
Four, left-coiling snail UK.
Five, gamine definition.
All right.
It's a very eclectic list.
I think today's episode, it's gonna, we're gonna learn a lot.
Mm, maybe.
Okay.
Well, now that we've read our lists, and we're excited about what we're gonna talk about, it's time to play a game that we like to call Search Me! Where we each pose one question to each other and see if she can answer based only on the reading of the list.
Today, Brea, you are playing for this set of mustaches.
Get out.
Yes.
It brings me back to my Freddie Mercury days.
I wish they were all a little bit different, but they're the same.
And this guy is...
He looks like a dude I went to high school with.
Maybe it is.
He looks like Chris Anderson.
Maybe this is what Chris is doing these days.
Maybe.
So, anyway, this is what's up for grabs.
I like how it has it in French on the back.
It says, six morceaux.
Auto adhesive.
And I'm upset that it didn't come with the plastic lei that Chris is wearing.
But.
It didn't.
It's only the mustaches.
And Cinco de Mayo is in our near future.
So, maybe...
So, that won't be offensive at all for me to go around pretending like I'm a Mexican person.
Okay, I'll edit that part out.
I don't think you should.
I am going to have fun putting those mustaches on things that should not have mustaches.
Like me? No, not people.
Like Peyton? He's getting a little one.
Oh no.
That makes me feel so old.
I know, every once in a while when I look to the side and I look over there, the light hits a certain way and I'm like, what is happening? Okay.
But you're right, it doesn't belong on him.
No, I'm thinking like the microwave.
Oh, or like a coffee can or.
Yeah.
Something in the refrigerator.
Oh, yes Yeah, Clint's coffee cup that he takes with him in the morning the milk carton.
Yeah.
Oh! Clint's coffee cup Yeah, it's like his travel mug.
Yeah, just put it on there.
Oh, No! I know I know put it on the bathroom mirror where he would look at himself And see he would see himself with a mustache in the morning!
Okay, that would be…
Okay, I got it.
Okay.
Anyway.
Perfect idea.
All right, here we go.
So, your question to win these mustaches and do all the fun things we just discussed.
Which of my searches came about after eating crumbly crackers with one of my work lunches? Crumbly work crackers.
Yeah.
Would you like a hint? Yes.
I normally eat at my desk.
I typically don't take a lunch break.
Oh, who coined the phrase Murphy's Law? Oh.
Mm-mm.
Try again.
Origin of the QWERTY keyboard? Yes.
Okay.
So, I got a whole bunch of cracker crumbs in my keyboard.
Oh no.
It went everywhere.
They were Ritz crackers.
Delicious, but messy.
So, I had to go get my air can.
And as I was cleaning out my keyboard, I was, you know.
What, why are these letters all over the place? You know, it doesn't make sense, So, I looked it up.
I've got a real short answer.
And it's not what I was expecting.
It originated with the typewriter.
So, the earliest typewriters that were invented had the keys in alphabetical order.
But people were typing so fast that the mechanical arms were getting jammed and tangled.
And so, to solve that problem, the keys were placed randomly across the keyboard to slow down typing speeds and prevent key jamming.
Oh.
Interesting.
But that is no longer an issue.
Oh, right.
And so, it's interesting to me that we haven't changed that.
I guess it's just so ingrained.
Yeah, they're like, this is just how it is now.
This is how people learned how to do it.
Maybe.
I don't know, because the kids are learning how to do it too now.
They're learning how to type on QWERTY keyboards.
And phones have QWERTY keyboards.
Yeah, they do.
Now, I can change mine to be an alphabetical.
Oh, can you? Maybe they're just waiting for us dinosaurs to die off.
I don't know.
Can you imagine trying to relearn how to type on an alphabetical keyboard? I wouldn't be able to do it.
I'd be like, I'll keep my old one.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Did you know that you can also select different keyboards? on your computer.
There's one called the Dvorak keyboard.
Yeah.
And then there's also, because English is not the only language that people type with, DER, and other languages have different characters.
Yes.
There are other languages keyboards.
So, maybe the QWERTY keyboard will just always be available.
That would be nice.
For people who want it.
Until...
It gets to the point where not enough people want it and then they're just like...
Maybe so.
Maybe we'll get to the point someday where we just think, and it types for us.
Oh, I think we're close.
I mean, obviously voice to text is a thing.
And it's getting better.
All right, those mustaches are yours.
Even though I didn't understand, and I got it wrong at first.
It's all right.
Okay.
I hope that you are smarter than me.
and don't have trouble with my question because I have something really cool for you.
You have a lot of pressure now.
How cute is that? It is adorable.
It's like a, it looks like a Barbie recycling can.
Yes it does.
Cart.
And I work in environmental services so.
It's going to be popular.
It's going to be so popular.
People are going to be like, whoa, where do I get that? Uh huh.
It's called Dollar Tree.
It's so cute.
It says it's a pencil holder, but that wouldn't work because the pencils will be sticking out the lid Would it would be open perpetually? Oh and that bothers me.
It bothers me, too.
Gotta close that lid Absolutely you do your trash a fly away.
All right Okay I'm excited.
What's my question? Which search was performed while doing an across stick that stumped me with a tiny four-letter word related to a not so tiny creature Badger said? Yep.
Mine.
Yep.
All of your searches, all the words, it's kind of like, was that last week? It was just like a bunch of words.
Yeah.
Okay.
Those are words, but put together, I don't know what they mean.
They make a no sense.
Tell me all about badger sett.
The word was set.
So, these are acrostics where you have picture and then you fill in the words in a cross word like frame related to the picture.
And there was one four letter word I could not get.
It gives you some letters to choose from and you have to like unscramble the letters, put them in the right order.
I'm like these letters don't make any words.
I finally just started picking letters at random.
Even though I didn't think they were words, I just started putting things up there just to like solve it.
Yeah.
I didn't want to use a hint because I'm like that.
And set (S-E-T-T) was finally the one that worked.
I was like, what in the heck? So, I had to look it up.
Of course.
A sett is a Badger's den.
It usually consists of a network of tunnels and numerous entrances.
The largest setts are spacious enough to accommodate 15 or more animals with up to 300 meters of tunnels.
Whoa! Which is a thousand feet and as many as 40 openings.
Oh my gosh.
Jeez.
It takes many years for these badgers to complete these elaborate setts.
Now one sett in southern England spreads over an estimated area in excess of 2,000 square meters.
Oh my gosh.
Which would be a lot of feet.
That's all I'm willing to say.
And then another sett in northeastern Germany has been shown to have been in use for over 10,000 years.
Whoa! Those are some old badgers.
That white stripe is just gray hair Yeah, I don't know how they'd prove that but how do you date a badger sett? I don't know Hmm, that sounds like another Google search.
I think maybe so. My sources were all Wikipedia all the time.
Oh, you know what? I didn't tell you what mine was.
What was it? It was the Guardian.
Oh, They always have such good information.
I love the Guardian.
You know what your search is making me think of? What? Badger, badger, badger, badger, snake, mushroom, badger, badger.
These are the things that stay in my brain, but I can't remember, you know, what Sean and I did last night.
Right, exactly.
Like, hey, did I pay the personal property taxes? Things like that.
Right, but I can remember this stupid video from the internet from like, what, 25 years ago? Those were very formative years.
I think that's why we remember things from that time because those neural pathways are very deep.
Yes.
So, I at least listened to this Badger video enough times.
that, you know, that neural pathway is just, it is solidified and it's not going anywhere.
Yeah, when you're in the nursing home, you're gonna be sitting in your wheelchair singing that.
Yeah, I totally will.
And all the people are gonna be like, oh, that's the Badger lady.
She pees her pants and sings the Badger song.
Badger, Snake, snake, I won't.
I won't.
I won't do this good.
Okay, do it, not good.
I'm gonna talk about our shared history.
Okay.
And the segment that we can't ever segue to.
No, we can't.
We can't introduce it.
Nope.
Worth a darn.
At all.
So, I'm just gonna read you my first search.
Okay.
It is.
Was Chuck E. Cheese originally intended for adults? A friend of mine at work said, did you know that Chuck E. Cheese was originally intended for adults? And I said, no, there's no way that's true.
So, I looked at it and he's wrong.
I was going to say, no, I don't think it was.
But so Chuck E. Cheese was founded by Nolan Bushnell, who was one of the co-founders of Atari.
Yes.
I didn't know that.
I had no idea.
I know all of this from Weird History Food.
Oh no.
So, this is going to be super boring.
No, because I probably have forgotten it.
You want to take a nap? No.
And I'll just talk to the besties out there.
Okay.
So, he had a dream of starting a family-friendly business with Amusement Park Midway Games.
He wanted to do this really bad, but he didn't have any money.
But then Atari took off and he had the money.
So, he decided to build this restaurant the way he wanted to.
Plus it was going to give him a built-in distribution model for Atari's new game releases.
Correct.
It's a no brainer.
Yeah.
Okay.
So, he originally intended this to be called Coyote pizza, but when the first animatronic show was being assembled, He discovered that the costume he bought for the main character, the coyote was actually a rat.
He had accidentally ordered a rat costume.
Yep.
So, he decided to change the name of the restaurant to Rick Rats Pizza.
Oh, that's hard to say.
Rick Rats Pizza.
The marketing team said, rat in the name of a restaurant.
So, the marketing team suggested Chuck E. Cheese instead.
And so, then everybody was like, yeah, that works.
So, they adopted the rat as their mascot because they didn't want to spend any more money.
Yes.
The first one opened in 1977 and the original animatronics were actually busts of the characters in framed portraits on the wall.
Yeah.
Chuck E. Cheese was originally a wisecracking rat with a New Jersey accent and a cigar.
That's probably where this was for adults came in.
Yeah, probably so.
And then other characters in the original show included Krusty The Cat, which also, at a restaurant I understand like pizza crust.
I get that.
Yeah, but the word Krusty. Guh-Rose.
Yeah, and then someone else must have said that because Krusty was later replaced by Mr.
Munch, which ain't a whole lot better.
And then you got Pascali, the singing chef, Jasper T. Jowls, the Warblets, and then of course Chuck E. Cheese.
And they were known as the pizza time players.
Did you ever go to a Chuck E. Cheese? Oh yes.
I went one time.
with my family and it freaked me out.
It was really, this is what I remember.
It was really dark in there.
And the animatronics were not to my liking.
They just scared me.
I was not entertained and I burned my mouth like.
It's probably just now recovering from how hot that pizza was.
I burned it so bad and I, all I remember was thinking, I hope we never come back here.
I think that's the only time they ever served hot pizza at Chuck E. Cheese's.
No, we didn't do a buffet because my parents, you don't do buffets.
That's gross.
You don't know.
You don't know.
Right.
So, we had our own, we ordered a pizza just for us.
So, it was hot.
It was so hot.
It was liquid magma on the roof of my mouth.
Oh, anyway, moving on.
The games.
Did you enjoy the games? I don't remember playing any games.
I just remember going there, being freaked out by the animatronics, eating pizza, burning my mouth and leaving.
Yeah.
And how dark it was.
Yeah, that is a terrible experience.
It was awful.
In 1979, many of the restaurants had added a cabaret show in separate rooms of each of the restaurants.
One of the early cabaret characters was Dolly Dimples, a hippopotamus who played the piano and sang.
In July of 2012, the rat mascot was rebranded, changing it to a slimmer, rockstar mouse who plays electric guitar.
In 2017, the chain announced that animatronic shows would be completely removed and replaced with other attractions, such as dance floors and trampoline areas.
The company selected one location in Northridge, California to be the only location that kept the animatronic stage.
So, you can have the classic experience in that one place.
Yep.
Now who wants to jump on a trampoline after stuffing themselves with pizza? Kids.
You know how much puke those workers have to clean up? Yeah, probably so.
Oh my gosh.
Oh, incidentally, fun fact, the original Chuck E. Cheese had a tail.
Like, so they had animatronics, but then they also, had people, humans in costumes walking around.
And the original costume had a tail and they had to remove it because kids kept yanking on it.
And kids are the worst.
That's what Sean said.
They're just the worst.
You can never have a good idea or nice things.
Kids will always find a way to f it up.
You're right.
My source was Wikipedia and I also, went to the Chuck E. Cheese website.
Oh, yeah.
Very good.
And the pandemic has not been kind to Chuck E. Cheese, but they're still hanging in there.
Do we, we still have one in town.
Yeah.
Cause that's how my conversation started.
Yeah.
My friend was like, I took my kid to Chuck E. Cheese.
I was like, well, how was that? Not good.
He said it was fine.
He likes his kids.
He likes taking, they go do crap all the time.
I don't mind my kids.
I don't mind doing things with my kids, but you go to a place like Chuck E. Cheese and you're dealing with other people's kids.
And that's a whole other animal.
They do all kinds of stuff.
I don't know how they do it.
They go to Silver Dollar City all the time.
They go to Whitewater.
They go, when he was younger, they would go to the Itty Bitty City.
Oh yeah.
All the time.
We took Peyton to Itty Bitty City.
He grew up.
He doesn't do that anymore.
Like, they're always taking their kids doing stuff.
Yeah.
I'm like, wow, you do things.
Yeah.
We're not those kind of parents, but...
Especially not places where you have to deal with other people's kids.
Cause other people's kids suck.
No offense, DTH Besties, but, and I'm sure you would feel that way about my kids.
So, I'm not, you know, it's nothing personal, but other people's kids, especially lately, it's like, are you letting wolves raise your children? What is happening? Don't, don't even get me started.
Okay.
What's your search? My first search is left-coiling snail UK.
Okay.
This is my longest.
one.
That's why I'm doing it first.
I have an imagined idea about where you're going with this.
I can't wait to hear what it actually is.
Okay, So, I was listening to a rerun of one of my favorite episodes of This is Love with Phoebe Judge and I was reminded of this delightful snail love story, sort of.
Snail romance.
There's a researcher at the University of Nottingham. He's going to remain nameless in this.
I'm just going to keep calling him the researcher.
OK.
He has dedicated his life to studying snails.
And he became a bit obsessed with the very rare, especially in the UK, left-coiling snail.
So, most snails, their coil from the center out goes to the right.
Yes.
And a left-coiling snail, obviously, coils to the left.
Okay.
And they have trouble mating with right-coiling snails because right-coiling snails have their genitalia and reproductive things on the right side and left-coiling snails have them on the left side.
And so, it's kind of like two cars passing.
If you're in a British car and an American car, you're not gonna your driver's sides are not going to line up.
But if you're in an American car and an American car, Yes.
You would be able to make an exchange between drivers.
It would be like the left-coiling snail is a British car and the right-coiling snail is an American car or vice versa.
Anyway, he was given this rare left-coiling snail and he was super excited about this, about studying it.
And he named it Jeremy after Jeremy Corbyn, the left leaning labor politician.
This was back in 2016, by the way.
so this was very timely for that time.
He wanted to see if he could breed a left-coiling snail, but again, he couldn't find any of the right-coiling snails that would mate with Jeremy.
And he couldn't find any more left-coiling snails cause they're so rare.
Oh my gosh.
So, what do you think he did? In vitro fertilization? Nope.
He went to the internet and he asked snail enthusiasts because they're out there.
Well, why not? He asked them if they had any left-coiling snails that he could try to mate with Jeremy because he was sad that Jeremy could not find love.
And also, he wanted to see if he could breed left-coiling snails.
Okay.
A woman in the UK answered him and said, here, you can try it with my left-coiling snail, Lefty.
She had one.
and she has hundreds of snails.
Oh my.
Cause she really loves snails.
I guess so.
But she only has one lefty named Lefty.
Okay.
They met.
Yes.
And they tried it.
And Jeremy and Lefty didn't want anything to do with each other.
Oh, all right.
They had no chemistry.
Okay.
Now, snails are hermaphroditic.
Okay.
That was my next question.
So, they're not male or female.
Right.
They, they have both organs.
Okay.
That's what I was going to ask.
How did she know that she had a female snail? How did he know that Jeremy was? Okay.
So, really you can name them whatever.
Correct.
Got it.
Yeah.
They are non-binary.
Got it.
So, he was pretty disappointed, but there was a guy in Mallorca who had a left coiler called Tomeiu.
And they thought, well, maybe they'll be a match.
And so, they met those two snails, Jeremy and Tomeiu.
No, no chemistry.
But Lefty and Tomeiu.
Uh-oh.
They really liked each other.
Interesting.
And so, Jeremy got left out.
Oh no.
Jeremy.
So,  Lefty and Tomeiu went off to get it on and they had thousands of snail babies together.
Literally thousands? Yes.
Snails have lots of babies.
Oh my gosh.
But Jeremy still didn't have anybody.
Hmm.
And nobody else was offering up any left-coiling snails.
So, the researcher put Jeremy, he had an idea.
He was like, you know what Jeremy, you're not looking so hot buddy.
So, he put him into like a simulated hibernation because snails hibernate.
So, he put them in a simulated hibernation in his refrigerator.
This guy would be an interesting guy to live with.
Yes.
I hope he did it in like the laboratory refrigerator, not his refrigerator at home, but I'm picturing at home.
Yeah.
It's good.
Jeremy snoozing on the top shelf.
And when that was over.
I can't remember how long it was.
He took Jeremy out and Jeremy looked better.
And he seemed to have a little pep in his...
whatever they do.
Slide.
And he put them in with Lefty and Tomeiu again.
And Jeremy and Tomeiu got it on.
Oh, interesting.
Tomeiu was a popular.
I see.
Tomeiu had Jeremy's babies.
Okay.
Jeremy never had any babies, never gave birth, but Tomeiu did.
None of the babies that Lefty and Tomeiu and Tomeiu and Jeremy had were left-coiling snails, not a single one.
Get out.
So, the researcher hypothesized from that, that left-coiling is not a genetic thing.
it is a developmental thing.
Like something happens during gestation that causes this rather than it's a part of DNA or something.
I'm letting you ponder.
But what if it's a recess of trait in snails? Well, then he said, So, I was thinking, we're probably going to have to study this for multiple generations, to be sure.
I would think so.
But that was his hypothesis.
OK.
That they have enough, they produce enough babies that he was pretty confident that it was probably not a genetic thing and that it was more of a developmental thing.
That's interesting.
I don't know.
I'm not a snail researcher.
What? I'm not.
Ugh.
So, skip ahead a few years.
Okay.
Jeremy dies.
Oh.
Well, he dies the next year in 2017.
But hey, his legacy got to live on because this researcher was such a good friend to him.
A good wingman.
Yeah.
Got him hooked up.
His babies are out there.
That's right.
So, in 2023, the researcher decided to travel to Hawaii.
to study snails because there are more left-coiling snails in Hawaii than there are in the UK.
Oh, okay.
Also in France.
Oh! They have more than in the UK.
But for some reason, the French people did not want to share their left coilers with this researcher.
Well, that's because they love escargots.
That's right.
They do.
You can't have these.
We like to eat them for dinner.
Yes, the left ones are tastier.
The left ones are my breakfast snails.
Oh, okay.
Remember, this researcher has never found a left-coiling snail in the wild.
He's always been...
Oh, okay...
had them donated and he's been on the lookout his whole career for 20 something years.
He's been looking for left-coiling snails.
Can't find them.
He's like, I'm just going to go to Hawaii.
The day before he left for Hawaii, he was taking a walk.
What do you think he found? A left-coiling snail? Yes.
Oh my gosh.
On the wall, he found a left-coiling snail and he was like, oh my gosh.
I think he still went to Hawaii.
I would.
But it was just incredible.
Right? Right.
So, he's like, okay, well now I need to find a mate for this snail and we need a name.
So, he went to the internet for both things.
Now this was in October 2023.
He's like, We're going to have a contest to name the snail November 2023.
Okay.
Just a few months ago.
Dang it.
What do you think the name was? I'm not actually asking you to guess what they named it, but you're really good at naming things.
I really am.
I mean, we, we established that last week with the cat name, Sir Earl Gray Meows A Lot.
Yes.
Okay.
That's an excellent name.
What would you name a lefty snail? Probably...
I feel a lot of pressure.
I know.
Probably like, Shell Silverstein.
Nice.
I don't have any better.
Okay.
Okay, here's what they named the lefty.
Okay.
That he found.
Quailie Minogue.
Oh god, that's amazing! Oh my gosh.
Coily Minogue.
I will make sure to put a picture during social media during the week.
Oh my gosh that's a great name.
Of Coily Minogue.
My sources were University of Nottingham, I effing love science, IFL science, Instagram, and this is love podcast.
Oh my goodness that was a good one.
Um, So, we don't know if Coily Minogue has...
I could not find any updates saying that, whether she has found love.
Okay.
Okay, okay.
I would like an update on that.
I will try to remember, but I won't.
Okay.
I understand.
You know how that goes.
I do.
All right.
My next search is who coined Murphy's Law? This phrase dates back to the Cold War era in the Air Force, the US Air Force.
That recently? Yeah, I was surprised too.
Okay.
So, the late 40s was the age of the test pilot in the Air Force.
In 1948, one of the Air Force's research projects was to discover the effects of G-forces on fighter pilots.
One of the tests during the project involved a rocket sled, which I'm sure everybody has heard about this.
It was attached to a 1.9-mile rail track capable of supersonic speeds.
If you have watched Mythbusters, you've probably seen one. They talked about this and they built one of these.
The Air Force wanted to propel the sled at least 200 miles per hour and then hit the brakes to stop the sled in less than a second.
This would help test the effects of intense flights and crashes on humans.
They nicknamed the rocket G-Wiz.
Oh goodness.
Not as good as Coily Minogue.
On one of the experiments, the team of data collectors was led by Captain Edward Murphy.
Murphy was a West Point graduate and a World War II veteran who served in the China, India, Burma theaters before becoming the research and development officer at the Wright Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio.
Murphy assigned an assistant to wire four electronic gauges called transducers to the shoulder straps to measure the g-forces on various parts of the body.
The transducers had been constructed at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base for this specific purpose.
When the experiment was run, all of the sensors came back with zero readings.
No data.
So, the team started.
pulling out the transducers and looking at what happened, why was there a failure? And they discovered that each one of the gauges had been wired backward.
Captain Murphy was disgusted at the lack of attention to detail.
He said, if there's any way these guys can do it wrong, they will.
Lieutenant Colonel John Stapp, who was over all of the test pilot projects, was asked by a reporter how they managed to avoid so many injuries and fatalities with projects like these.
Stapp told the reporter that his crew operated under Murphy's law.
If anything can go wrong, it will.
He further explained that the Air Force anticipated possible failures and by assuming a worst-case scenario they attempted to address all the possibilities before anybody was injured.
Now while Stapp didn't technically coin Murphy's Law, he was instrumental in making it a popular expression and Murphy's Law was eventually engraved on a plaque at the US Military Academy at West Point and soon eclipsed the entire test pilot project.
End of search.
My sources were military.
com, Blake Stillwell, the book Sonic Wind, the story of John Paul Stapp and how a renegade doctor became the fastest man on earth.
Damn.
It was super interesting.
I had to cut that down.
There was so much information.
Yeah, we operate under Murphy's Law in my house as well.
If we can do it wrong, we will.
Especially like if we're putting stuff together or assembling, you know, assembling anything or doing any kind of DIY.
If there's a wrong way to do it, we will do it the wrong way.
Man, that is frustrating.
Even reading the instructions, because I'm an instructions reader.
Yes.
Because instructions are written so terribly and the diagrams are drawn so terribly that if there's any kind of ambiguity at all as to what they mean or whatever, and you can take it more than one way, we will do it all the ways wrong before we figure out, I guess they mean it this way.
Oh shoot.
Yeah, it's very frustrating.
It's interesting to find out that it came from really, really smart people like rocket science.
Yes.
Scientists.
Yeah.
I had no clue.
Now I don't feel so bad.
Yeah.
Outs in free.
Yes please.
What does that mean? Did you ever say olly olly oxen free when you were playing like hide and seek or...
Any kind of game like that.
Capture the flag.
I did too.
I had no idea what it meant.
Well no, I don't either.
Because it's nonsense.
I just thought it was a silly term.
Olly olly oxen free.
It's just, it's nonsense, right? Okay.
I was reading a book this past week where the baddie is trying to find the protagonist in like this barn.
She's hiding from him.
And he says, and it takes place in the UK.
And he says...
no outs in free this time.
And I was like, what the heck? And then it suddenly all made sense.
Oxen free, outs in free.
And I looked it up.
The common phrase in the UK where the book is based is all outs in free or calling all the outs in free.
Meaning if you're still out there, you're free to come out because...
This round is over.
You won't be penalized, you won't be captured, you won't be whatever.
It's a way of giving up or telling the others playing that someone's been caught and it's time to start over.
Oh my goodness.
And it's called a truce term.
But they say, calling all outs in free.
Or all outs in free.
Okay.
olly oxen free.
So, I'm like, of course in America we eff that up.
In some parts of America, the phrase really has morphed into olly olly oxen free.
Okay.
Because someone way before us misunderstood it.
The Dictionary of American Regional English says the phrase may be derived from all ye, all ye, outs and free.
or all the outs and free or possibly calling all the outs and free.
Others speculate it may be a corruption of the German phrase.
I get to speak German.
I'm so excited.
Okay.
Ali Ali, auks and fray.
Oh, okay.
Which means all, all also, are free.
Oh, okay.
My German's so bad.
Well, I mean.
All all oxs send free.
My sources were Wikipedia, Dictionary of American Regional English, Rime of the Magpie by Marty Wingate.
So, we were saying it when I was a kid to say, I'm done counting, here I come.
Oh, really? Yeah.
Instead of ready or not, here I come? Yeah, that's what we would count, everyone would go hide, and then we would yell, olly olly, oxen free.
I'm coming to get you.
Oh, you had it all wrong all kinds of wrong When did you So, when would you use it? We would use it when? You gave around was over if you gave up and said I give up I can't find anyone you would say olly oxen free or you if you found somebody That was your way of signaling to the rest of the players.
Hey, I found somebody you guys can all come out now That is not how we played hide-and-seek you had to find everybody you had to find everybody.
Yeah No, it was just the first one found.
Oh, that's not how we played.
And did you also, play that there was a base and that you could run? You could run to the base.
You could get out of your hiding place and run to the base? 100%.
Yeah.
But you had to find everyone.
Whoa.
Now have you ever played Dark, Hide and Seek? No, are you kidding me? No.
Can I tell you a really funny story? I don't know if we were drunk or what, but there was a family gathering.
at my mom and dad's house and most of us were ding dang grownups.
Okay.
I think Andrew and I were the only minors there So, we weren't drunk.
But somehow we convinced all of my other siblings and their spouses and my mom and dad and my granny to go down into the basement turn off all the lights and play dark hide and seek.
Oh my word.
How many people got hurt? Nobody got physically hurt but...
The thing is you can just hide out in plain, like you can hide just where you're not really hiding.
You're just standing somewhere and it's dark and it was pitch black down there for the most part.
But when you found somebody or ran into somebody, you had to guess who it was.
Oh no.
That's how you were not in anymore.
You had to correctly guess the person.
So, I was it.
And my dad had stood right.
in front of the basement window.
You know how basement windows are up high? Yeah.
Okay, So, he was standing right in front of the window.
So, there was light coming in from the window.
And all I could see was the light coming through his ears.
My dad had big ears.
So, I knew it was him.
And because I was a dick and I was a teenager, when I tagged him, I said, and I know it's you dad, because I can see the light coming through your ears.
probably hurt his feelings.
No, it probably didn't hurt his feelings.
He didn't give it to him.
It would have hurt my feelings.
Now, how the hell did we get everybody to do this? Who knows? It's, you just never know.
We must have been so effing bored.
And for my parents to be like, sure, let's do this.
This sounds like a good time.
We didn't say Olly Oxen Free when we played that one.
Okay.
One time I hid under the bed and my...
belt loop got stuck on one of the spring coils like under there.
I couldn't get out and I started crying.
It was terrifying.
It sounds like you and I were very similar children.
I always ended up, ended up crying every game we played.
I got frustrated or mad or hurt.
I would get hurt cause Holly was mean.
Holly liked to.
sit on top of me and tickle me and make me scream, but she put a pillow over my face so we wouldn't get in trouble.
And So, she was muffling my scream.
And also, suffocating you.
It was awful.
She was mean.
Oh my gosh.
And she will admit to that now.
I'm telling you, those gingers.
I know, they are so mean.
You really have to watch out.
I know.
They're evil.
Ugh.
Alright, what's your next one? Now Holly, my sister loves coffee.
Oh.
And So, this next one, maybe she will like or find interesting.
What a segue.
I need to work on my segues.
Color me impressed.
I'm over here fanning myself.
I mean, you know, I came up with that off the top of my little brain.
I wasn't even rehearsed.
How are coffee beans decaffeinated? This was fascinating.
I have always said decaf coffee tastes bad.
I don't like the way it tastes.
Yeah? And I was right.
It changes it.
Here we go.
Okay.
So, obviously coffee naturally contains caffeine, but it can be removed by several different methods, all of which are done while the beans are still green.
All right? Decaffeination is often associated with less flavorful coffee because it is a bit tricky to remove only the caffeine.
and not any of the flavor chemicals that are associated with caffeine, or the coffee bean, excuse me, and they are notoriously difficult to roast correctly after they're decaffeinated.
So, the roasting process is even kind of messing up how it tastes too.
The most common methods of decaffeination include chemical solvents, usually ethyl acetate or methylene chloride.
In the direct method, the coffee beans are steamed and then rinsed repeatedly with the chemical solvents to wash away the caffeine.
Sounds super healthy, doesn't it? Just...
just drink the caffeinated kind? Yeah, or just don't drink.
Or water it down, or...
? Yeah.
Half and half.
Oh my gosh...
Anyway, it...
everything I read says that it's safe to...
to drink, but...
Sure...
I mean...
I don't know.
Anyway...
Another method known as the Swiss Water Method is based solely on water and carbon filtration.
This is when they torture the coffee beans.
That's right.
The coffee bean is first immersed in hot water to extract the caffeine and the flavorful components.
The initial beans are then discarded and the resulting flavor-rich water, which is called is passed through a carbon filter that is sized to capture only the caffeine molecules.
The decaffeinated green coffee extract is then used to wash and filter the next batch of beans.
Now that sounds a lot better.
Caffeine is thereby filtered from the beans without recourse to chemical agents and without the beans losing much of their flavorful components.
They are still altered though.
This is the primary method used to decaffeinate organic coffee beans.
Another method is called supercritical carbon dioxide method, which uses carbon dioxide under high pressures and high temperatures to act like both a gas and a liquid at the same time.
The supercritical carbon dioxide reaches into the crevices of the coffee beans like a gas but dissolves the caffeine like a liquid.
Like a wicked, like a wicked, wicked.
After the beans have been soaked in water, which expands the cell structures to make it easier to extract the caffeine molecules, they're exposed to supercritical carbon dioxide for several hours.
The caffeinated carbon dioxide liquefies and evaporates and the beans are then processed.
So, the person who came up with that, they passed P-Chem.
Yep.
Fo sho.
They totally did that.
They have that bumper sticker.
They can honk.
Because, that's right, they can't honk.
Because this method leaves the carbohydrates and the proteins intact, there is less change in the taste.
Although both direct and indirect solvent processes are supposedly not harmful, they do strip the coffee of its natural flavors and aromas, which is why decaf many, many times does not taste as good.
Now...
Here's another thing that I discovered.
Apparently, about 10% of the coffee traded worldwide is naturally decaffeinated.
So, naturally non-caffeinated coffee beans do grow in the wild, but they're pretty rare, like the left-coiling snail.
Oh my goodness.
Brazilian researchers have discovered a naturally caffeine-free coffee plant in Ethiopia as early as 17 years ago.
However, it's not been profitable enough for trading.
Attempts are being made through genetic engineering to cross this coffee plant with other commercially used arabica varieties.
Fascinating.
Wouldn't that be cool to have a farm of non-caffeinated coffee beans? What would that taste like? Well, it would taste like tiredness.
You're right.
I mean, it would taste better, but man.
I can have a cup of coffee after dinner, which lots of times I would love to have, but I just don't do it because I'm not gonna go to sleep.
How do you find coffee out in the stores that has made the best way to make it taste the best? How can you tell the difference? I would say you just need to do your research and find out what their methods are.
So, to me, the method that...
is using the solvents, to me, I think that's probably the most popular because it's going to be cheaper than all of these other methods.
They're going to take so much extra time, So, they're gonna have to charge more.
So, I'd say look for a super expensive decaf coffee and that might be the one that's not using the chemicals to decaffeinate it.
Oh, maybe.
If you want to go the lazy way.
Yes.
My next one is opprobrium definition.
Yes.
I watched last night.
Agatha Christie's Murder is Easy on Brit Box.
It was excellent.
Ah! It's a two-part series with a bunch of familiar faces and even some whose names I know, like one of our favorites of all time, Penelope Wilton.
Yes, I love her.
And another one of my favorites of all time, Mark Bonner.
Oh yes! Sexy Scottish man.
I haven't seen him in anything for a long time.
But he was in Home Fries.
Oh that's right! He was.
Oh that's right! He was the pastor in Home Fries.
Yes, yes, yes.
And he plays a pastor in Murder is Easy.
Sexy pastor.
Can you believe it? Sexy pastor! I got a thing for sexy pastors.
Anyway, if you get a chance to watch it.
Like if it comes out on other platforms or whatever, or you get Brit Box, do it, cause it's good.
All right.
Um, the guy who plays the protagonist, Luke is called David Johnson and he is fantastic and a cutie patootie.
Okay.
But probably a little too young for me.
Mark Bonner more, more my speed these days.
Almost right out of the gate, like in the first five minutes of the first episode, Penelope Wilton's character, Miss Pinkerton, or Auntie.
Miss Pinkerton.
Or Pinky.
That's great.
She uses the word, aprobrium, in a sentence.
And I'm like, huh? I had no idea.
She says something like, it's ridiculous that a woman of my age is still met with aprobrium for placing a bet on Derby Day.
I love how they say derby.
Derby.
And she asks our hero, Luke, to place her bet for her.
Okay.
Now from the context, I can tell it's not a positive thing.
Yes.
Okay.
But I've never heard that word before.
A same.
Which just goes to show you that even popular culture and fiction back in Agatha Christie's time was smarter.
We have dumbed things down so much.
Anyway, here's what it means.
It means harsh criticism or censure, a public disgrace arising from someone's shameful conduct, scandalous, placing a bet, ladies place and bets.
Can't do it out of control.
Nope.
Put them in the asylum, the trans Allegheny trans Allegheny.
Oh man.
Lunatic asylum.
Yes.
Lock them up.
Place and bets.
Probably reading novels too.
I know.
I get the Christie novels.
Its origin is Latin, obviously, from the mid-17th century.
Ob meaning against.
Probrum meaning disgraceful act.
Oh.
Disgraceful act.
Disgraceful.
My sources were dictionary.
com, Google definitions, and IMDB.
OK.
Why are paper cuts so painful? Oh my gosh.
I cleaned out a filing cabinet this week, and my hands were trashed by the end.
They hurt.
So.
I looked this up and after I read through it, I was like, well, yeah, okay.
That makes sense.
So, I'm going to share it with all of you.
There's not been a lot of studies done on paper cuts because nobody's really willing to volunteer.
So, this is all conjecture.
It's all hypothesis, but based on the study of human anatomy, scientists feel like this is pretty much why paper cuts are so painful.
All right.
Well, we've all got a lot of nerve endings in our fingertips because you know, that's how we explore the world and it's like a safety mechanism.
You have to be able to feel things well.
Exactly.
Yeah.
So, if you had a paper cut on your arm or your leg, it might be annoying, but it's not going to be as fiery and painful.
And um, that's because you have far fewer nerve endings as you go away from your fingertips.
So, not only are they not clumped and very close together, they spread out and there are fewer ones.
Now, they gave you a little test you could do on yourself to prove this method, or to prove this.
It's called the two-point discrimination.
So, I've brought, and I'm showing Brea right now, a paperclip that has been unfolded and it's got two points on the end.
Okay, So, take this.
And just gently, don't hurt yourself, just on your fingertips, just poke both ends and you can tell, you can close your eyes and feel both of the points of the paperclip.
Now go further up your arm, like right below your elbow and do the same thing.
It only feels like maybe one point.
You don't discriminate and feel the two points.
You're right.
Do it on the back of your hand.
I can only feel one.
Yes.
It's because your nerve endings are not bundles, but you've got so many more nerve endings in your fingertips, you can discern.
You can definitely feel both of them on your fingertip.
Yeah.
But then the back of your hand, it only feels like one.
It feels like one.
And then your elbow, yeah, it totally just feels like one.
Isn't that wild? That's crazy.
That is called two point discrimination.
Now, same thing works on your legs or your back.
And So, most likely the two points, you would have to be really far apart in order for you to tell that you've got two things touching you.
Like imagine your back.
So, if they're close together, your nerves are so far apart, it only feels like only one nerve is catching.
So, if you had two points that are really far apart, you could feel the two points.
So, like at the top of your back and the lower back, you would know, Hey, I'm being touched in two different places.
Exactly.
Let's talk about paper cut.
The paper that's causing those cuts to the naked eye.
The edge of a piece of paper is smooth.
If you put it under a microscope, it looks like a, like a saw.
It has jagged edges.
You've got this paper essentially destroying your skin.
It's not just a smooth cut, like a filet knife.
It's a jagged, it's cutting, it's tearing.
Yeah, and it's like serrated.
It's tearing your skin, yes.
When the paper cut opens up your skin, it's leaving behind this jagged edge rather than a smooth cut.
And paper cuts are typically deep enough that it cuts through that top layer of skin.
Now your top layer of skin doesn't have the nerves.
It doesn't have nerves there.
But if it cuts through that top layer down to the next layer where your nerves are, it's exposing the nerves, but you typically don't bleed.
When you bleed and then you clot, it creates a scab.
And So, then the scab is protecting the nerve endings from the outside world.
Oh, yes.
Paper cuts don't bleed typically.
And So, your nerve endings are just exposed to air being hit by other things, touching other things.
And So, if you'll just put a bandaid on it, you're protecting those exposed nerve endings.
Oh yeah.
and it will be less painful.
But until that begins to heal, it's just gonna hurt.
That is why paper cuts.
And does the paper also deposit like bacteria? Well, not just bacteria, but like little fibers.
It didn't mention anything about that in my search, but I don't know why it wouldn't.
Cause you know how paper is dusty? Yes.
Like where it's been cut.
Yes.
It's dusty.
So, I wonder if it deposits like those fibers into your skin too.
Very well could.
It's very important to clean a paper cut.
Even if it's like, you know, just like, ah, yeah, you've exposed your nerves and you need to take care of your nerves.
So, if you make it bleed, would that make it hurt less? I think so.
So, is that why sucking on a paper cut sometimes feels better because then you're bringing the blood up to the surface.
the paper cut? I don't suck on my paper cuts.
I do not know.
I can't stand...
I can't stand...
oh thinking of it's making me nauseous.
If anyone cuts their finger and they immediately go to suck it, I don't like...
I want to pass out.
Really? It grosses me out to the max.
You're like an anti-vampire.
100%.
What if you then instead of sucking it you just squeezed to make the blood come up to the tip.
Yeah, if you've cut it enough, maybe so.
Yeah, because I can always make a paper cut bleed.
I think you need to volunteer for a research project because I think you've got some ideas here that would be interesting to them.
I'm willing to take one for the team.
My source was the BBC.
Ooh.
Those Brits.
The Biebs.
Okay, my next and final one is gamine definition.
Yes.
Okay.
We're just all about the vocabulary today.
Started a new book.
So, now I'm having some new vocabulary challenges because I have an eighth grade vocabulary, apparently.
I finished the Rime of the Magpie, which had the Alton Free, Olly Olly, Alton Free, I finished that book.
And yes, I'm still reading the frozen river for book club.
And I started another book.
And it is the next book in my beloved country club series by Julie Mulhern.
Yes.
Shadow Dancing is the name of it.
This is the series set amongst the country club set of Kansas city in the 1970s.
Such a good cozy mystery series.
Anyway, she describes a girl she hits with her car accidentally, obviously, as, and this is like in the first chapter as gamine.
Okay.
I couldn't even figure out what it meant in context.
So,  it is an adjective meaning boyish or attractively boyish, always referring to young women.
Oh.
An attractively boyish young woman.
That is really all.
I got that from Google definitions.
Oh, okay.
I was reading before bed and I just needed to know what the word meant so that I can continue reading.
They know what the heck was going on.
I understand.
So, I didn't like go into etymology or anything like that.
I didn't go deep.
Yeah.
It wasn't a deep dive.
It was just a highlight the word in my Kindle.
What the F is this? That's okay.
We needed a short search because we're over time.
Yes.
So, that was a good search.
I've heard that word somewhere, but I can't remember where I've heard it.
But it wouldn't have been that definition.
Um, there was also an archaic definition.
Oh, I'm sure that's what it is.
That was a girl like Street Urchin.
Oh.
Okay.
Hmm.
Female Street Urchin.
All right.
So, maybe in Dickens.
Perhaps.
You are quite the classic literature gal.
I do love classics.
But what about this one? This is a quick listing of our other searches from this past week that we didn't have time to discuss or were just too boring.
Boring.
Ya boring.
Mm-hmm.
Who invented landfills? WheelPro.
com Freakin' Anteekin Kevin James' Wife PetSmart Dirk's Tavern Squatocracy Bimbo Spanish Translation How many ounces are in a shot of espresso? What do you call that lap pool with a current? Endless pool.
Oh.
Jason Kelsey retirement.
so sad.
Out of this darkness, a Normandy Cantata.
Made right locations.
And last but not least and super sad.
Iris Apfel passed away.
My car's namesake and the lady that has had my heart for so many years.
She was 102.
You didn't text me on Iris Apfel's death day? No, I didn't.
You were really upset? I was pretty broken up about it.
I was just like, wow, this sucks.
I know.
I'm really sad.
Okay.
Here are my seven boring ones.
Tom Riley.
Custard concrete name origin.
Oh.
Periodic table of elements.
Corvid.
Sleep bonnet.
Oh man, we have to circle back to that.
Agatha Christie, murder is easy.
Murder.
Anti-trans bills, sex offender status, Missouri house of reps.
Whoa.
Yeah.
So, I have LGBTQ children.
So, this was a very discouraging week.
Every week, it seems like.
Yeah.
Our state legislature decides, hey, let's just make it so that these people's lives are more difficult, because we don't think they should exist.
So, that sucks.
It's really serious.
And I don't want to go off on a rant.
And drop f-bombs like I did about guns because I don't want people to tune out or To not take it seriously or to say oh there.
She just goes again.
I just want you to know that politicizing human beings rights to exist and to just have basic rights Sucks.
Yep.
It really does.
So, I don't care if you don't understand it I don't care if you don't agree with their quote unquote lifestyle.
My kids don't have a lifestyle.
They're kids.
They are people.
And they, this is how they were created.
And they need the same healthcare that we all deserve.
And they need support from people in schools.
If Jackie hadn't had support from her counselors and her teachers at school, I don't think she would be alive.
Mm-hmm.
That's and that's the same for a lot of kids and so we're not just talking about which bathroom somebody goes to right We're talking about people's lives.
Yep, and these kids because they feel so alienated and Because it is so confusing trying to figure out who they are They kill themselves if they do not have people supporting them and it's not just enough to have people at home and a lot of them don't have people at home that will support them.
They need those people.
Yep.
They need their counselors at school and their teachers.
And their doctors.
And their doctors and their psychologists and all of that.
They need all of that.
They do.
And So, to say that teachers and counselors at public schools should be designated as Tier 1 sex offenders.
Yes.
if they support a trans child is sickening.
It's, there's not sickening is a great word.
I just can't, there are no, I have no words.
So, I'm trying to keep it calm.
I understand.
I understand.
And this kind of segues into something a little lighter.
Oh.
Because my youngest child is gay and so he wanted to sleep on it.
Now he didn't want to sleep on it because he's gay, but I don't know many 14 year old Heterocyst boys who want to sleep on it I don't even know what that is a lot of African American people who have dreadlocks or weaves or whatever or Specialized hair treatments.
They will wear a bonnet so that the friction from their pillowcase doesn't mess up their Yeah, hair style.
Absolutely.
I got it. And so, it's become popular now amongst even whitey whiter sense.
Okay.
I got it.
Like my children who have decided, and Jackie wanted one too, that their pillowcases are messing up their hair.
So, do they also want a silk pillowcase? That's what I said.
I said, why don't we just get you a satin or a silk pillowcase that you don't have to wear something on your head? Because that would be uncomfortable to me.
And hot.
And they were like, no, we want bonnets.
Now my grandmother wore a bonnet to bed.
My grandma would wear curlers, right? Well, she would go to the salon once a week and get her hair done.
Yes.
She would have it set in order to maintain that she would wear a bonnet to bed.
It was a little, just a little cap.
Yes, that's what it is.
And it would keep her hair from like, that's her pillow, messing it up.
It looks like a shower cap.
Yeah.
It looks like shower cap.
It's beautiful.
And Peyton wore his all day yesterday.
Just around the house.
Crap.
Okay.
So, anyway, do you have any listener shout outs? No.
I do.
Okay.
Quickly.
Yes.
Erin wants us to leave her crocs alone.
I did see that.
Did you see my response to her? Yes.
Erin loves her crocs.
She? loves them.
And she is not happy with us making fun of crocs.
No.
Okay.
And Aaron, I regret nothing.
Listen, you either love them or hate them.
Crocs suck.
I sent Cara a picture, Aaron, to try to get her to buy a pair of crocs.
She did.
Except they were toddler size, I noticed after I sent you the picture, but they probably would have worked.
You've got tiny feet.
My feet are super tiny.
Yeah, but they were rainbow.
They were like the Lisa Frank.
Yes.
They were like a beautiful purpley greeny, like, um, what is the word? An ombre.
Ombre.
Yes.
And, and they had that awesome like plush inside.
The inside looked, I mean, I won't say they, they were pretty, but still it's a hard no.
I told her that I found her forever shoe.
Yes, she did.
She did not appreciate that.
She said gross or I think I said puke.
Oh, you did say puke.
Okay.
And then Peyton has a search list.
Oh, let's hear it.
His list this week was Hacienda Heights, RuPaul's Drag Race.
Well, yeah.
Savannah Mansion Fire 1920s.
Okay.
Oh yeah.
A little Southern Gothic.
Yeah.
And the autopsy of Jane Doe 2016 film.
I think it's a scary movie that I want nothing to do with.
And the age of imperialism.
Oh, okay.
And also, we got an email from Colleen.
Yes.
That was really sweet and made me cry.
Yes.
But she said thanks for making me sound cool.
And she gave us a bunch of different information about all the stuff around her.
So, she's luring us there.
Yes.
Yeah, I want to go.
Yeah, we just have to figure it out.
We have to go.
We have to figure it out.
All we have to do is come up with airfare.
Uh, yeah.
Um, so Go Fund Me.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
Um, and that's, that's all my shout outs.
Okay.
That seemed like a lot.
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Yes.
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That's right.
And you can email us at Delete This History podcast at gmail.
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Just like Colleen did.
And it was so great.
It was awesome.
You can make us cry.
Yes.
It'll be wonderful.
All right.
What are you going to do this afternoon slash evening? Sean and I are going to learn how to play mahjong tonight.
Oh, yay.
But after we get that nailed down, I'm going to go delete my history.
Oh, fo sho.
My history needs to be deleted.
Okay.
Toot-sweet.
Get it done.
Yes, yes, yes.
Stay fresh, cheese bags.
All right.
See you next week.
Bye.
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