…like a generic card from like 23andMe.
No, that's the DNA.
What? 23andMe? What? Ah! What is the name of that company? That they make the bags and they've got all- 31.
Is it called 31? It might be.
I know it's a number and I don't have a brain for numbers.
I think it's 31.
Twenty-three? Welcome to episode 38 of Delete This History, a podcast by two besties of a certain age searching for answers.
We are your host, Cara Burch.
I'm Brea Brown.
Hi! Hello.
I had to take off all my jewelry.
I know, yeah.
So, I dressed real sassy today.
You did.
You really got all jazzed up.
I know.
It's one of my bookmarks today, actually, as a matter of fact.
Is wearing more jewelry? Well, you know, I got some new clothing from Bloom Chic.
And today I'm wearing another one.
It is beautiful.
So, I've been wigging people out at work.
So, one of my bookmarks is buy a bunch of new clothes and wear them at work.
Wear them at work and everybody will think you're interviewing for jobs.
Oh yes.
All week people have been like, what, you're really dressed up.
Cause I've been adding jewelry to it.
One day I even wore heels like.
wedge sandal heels that are super cute.
I really messed with someone's head that day.
They're like, where are you interviewing? Like they just flat out said, “Where are you interviewing?” Only one person has said, “Your outfit is so cute!”
You look so cute today.
And it was Hopper.
She didn't accuse me of looking for other jobs or leaving.
But you've got, I mean, you've got rings on? I have rings on.
Nail polish? I painted my nails.
That also wigged someone out because they've never seen me with painted nails.
And I was like, I just, I said I just felt like dressing up.
It's springtime.
But most people, they've said, “What are you, are you going to an interview today?” 
Oh my gosh.
I'll, I've been cocking my head to the side and going, hmm.
I love it.
So, that's my first bookmark for the day.
Do you want to do yours next? Do we want to go back and forth or you want me to keep going? Cause I have two more.
Just keep going.
Okay.
There is a podcast called All Songs Considered.
Yes.
You love it.
I do love it.
I love it too.
I haven't listened to it in a long time.
I hadn't either.
And so I was looking for something different.
I was like, oh, I'll listen to that.
Well, they aired a repeat episode from December of 2023 and it's called Songs That Hit You Hard.
And it's so good, but it is such a tearjerker.
Oh no.
And they even asked people to write in and tell them what are songs that hit you hard and why did they hit you hard.
Now it's a really good episode, but please be strategic about when you listen to it.
Please do not be driving to work with a full face of makeup.
Or be at work even, like at your desk.
That's a good point.
Cause it is a tearjerker, but it is so good.
So.
That's a bookmark of mine.
Listen to that episode.
Okay.
And my last bookmark for today is the Furiosa movie that is currently in theaters.
Furioso?
No.
What'd you say? Furiosa.
Is it a Fast and Furious movie? It's not.
It's a Mad Max movie.
Oh.
See, this is where Brea and I diverge.
Nope.
I love action movies.
Brea does not typically love action movies.
I am okay with action movies.
I don't like...
post-apocalyptic crap.
Oh, yes.
And I typically don't either.
I don't have a problem with it.
It stresses me out.
But I am okay with it.
But I'm really okay with the Mad Max, the new one, like the revamped ones.
The first one I went and saw because my boyfriend is in it, Tom Hardy.
Correct.
And then once I got there and I was like, I'm all here to see Tom Hardy, it turned out Charlize Theron is a badass in that movie.
Yes, she is.
And she is Furiosa in that movie.
And the movie that's in theaters right now is the prequel to let us all know how Furiosa got to be the way she is.
Oh, I see.
It is so good.
It's starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Queen's Gambit gal.
That's how I would describe it to Sean.
He's like, who is she? Queen's Gambit gal.
Chris Hemsworth is the crazy guy in this movie.
It is so good.
We went and saw it last night at the theater.
Nice.
I didn't look at the trailer.
I didn't read the plot line.
I just saw it, bought tickets, boom.
Clint will be all over that movie.
It did not disappoint.
We're so juiced up about it.
In fact, still, we're gonna watch Fury Road tonight.
Oh, I see.
Cause we were just like, so good.
So, now we wanna watch.
I see.
Which was from 2015.
What? I cannot believe it's that old.
I can't either.
It's unbelievable.
Time is ticking, y'all.
Those are all my bookmarks.
What do you got? Cosmic crisp apples.
It's hard to say.
I'm usually a golden, nope.
That's me.
That's you, you're golden delicious.
I'm usually a- I am golden delicious.
You are golden delicious.
Don't you forget it.
I'm usually a honey crisp girl.
Yes.
But.
They had to make a substitution.
And so they gave me Cosmic Crisp apples.
Had you ever heard of these before? I had never heard of this before.
And I was like, oh no, they're big.
Oh.
You know how Honeycrisps are kind of little? Yeah.
These are big old boys.
Okay.
They are so sweet and so juicy.
They about blew my mind.
Nice.
You don't need.
Debbie cakes when you've got cosmic crisp.
Excellent.
So, loved them.
Try them.
It's like eating candy.
I will.
This show, Gentlemen, on Netflix, starring Theo James from, what is that series that I've never watched because it's kind of…
It's kind of like Hunger Games, but it's like Dollar Store Hunger Games.
What was the other one that was popular at the same time and it was kind of the same thing? Divergent.
Yes.
He was the lead in Divergent.
Oh.
Him.
He's handsome.
He is super handsome.
And he plays a guy whose dad dies and he inherits this Huge estate in England.
So, he becomes like this Tweety suit wearing guy.
Anyway, it also has Daniel inks in it.
He's been in a lot of things that you would probably recognize him Jolie Richardson who I love She's beautiful.
She's one of the Richardson.
She's Natasha sister.
Thank you younger sister.
Yes.
Yeah Anyway, it's created by Guy Ritchie.
Oh.
So, if you like Guy Ritchie, this is a show for you.
If you don't like Guy Ritchie, you might want to skip it, because it is very Guy Ritchie.
It's Guy Ritchie.
You said this is on Netflix? Yes.
Excellent.
It's brutal and gory and hilarious.
You really go for those.
I love that kind of stuff.
Is it anything akin to...
Key blinders.
Sort of, but it's modern day.
Oh.
Mm-hmm.
Oh.
It's modern day and it's about how this guy who's inherited this estate finds out about what his dad has been doing in order to fund the running of the estate.
Uh-oh.
It's hilarious.
It's very funny.
It's a very funny show.
Okay.
But again, it is very Guy Ritchie.
Okay.
And then my last thing is vacation, Bookmark.
Because as this airs, it'll be your birthday.
And I'll be on a beach, or taking a ghost tour, or visiting Fort Sumter, or strolling through City Market.
You're gonna go to Fort Sumter? Yeah.
Fun! We will not be taking the shuttle.
That's just for you and me.
Aw.
That's...
So, it's just gonna be our thing.
It's just gonna be our thing.
That's sweet.
Because if I got lost on the shuttle with my kids, it would not be funny.
They would be so obnoxious about it and so put out.
It wouldn't be a funny thing.
It would ruin the day.
Oh, okay.
Whereas with you and me, it was just kinda like, ha ha, we're such morons.
We drove all the way around Charleston, yay! Anyway, those are my bookmarks for today.
We each did three.
I know.
All right.
We've gone through a bookmarks, y'all get on it.
Eat those apples, watch that show, listen to my podcast.
For now, we're gonna go on to The Reading of the Lists.
This is where we tell you our top three most interesting, funniest, most successful internet searches of the week in list form.
Here's my list, because it's even Steven Week.
Yes it is.
Number one, vulture bees.
Number two, restroom etymology slash John etymology.
Circling back here.
Yes, we are.
Number three, old hat etymology.
Now I realized that last episode was called the etymology episode.
No, the episode before last.
Oh, you're right.
So, sorry, y'all.
I'm still on the etymology train.
I can't help myself.
She is.
I can't help myself.
It's just so interesting.
It is interesting.
But also frustrating because a lot of these have no, they're like, we don't know where it came from.
Because it's all from oral history.
Yeah.
What is your list for this week? My list for this week is boring.
But anyway, here we go.
These are the most interesting things of a very boring list.
Sugar in Domino's medium pepperoni with mushroom pan pizza slash condensed tomato soup slash Kona big wave golden ale.
I combined several searches into one there.
Oh, I gotcha.
Sugar content.
Gotcha.
Number two, removing Asus laptop battery slash laptop battery replacement near me.
(giggling)
And number three, how to reattach a garage door.
All of those are very utilitarian.
They are, and it shows you kind of what a frustrating week I've had.
So, vacation coming up will be very helpful.
Oh my gosh, I'm so ready.
I am so burnt out.
It's unbelievable.
I'm so sorry.
We're going to get you there.
The next thing we would like to do here is play a little game that Brea and I like to call.
Search me! Where we each pose one question to each other to see if she can answer based only on the reading of the list, which we just did! Today, you are playing for...
This! little package.
Look how colorful and cute this is.
That is a very cute little colorful package.
It looks like it might contain like a panty liner or something.
Oh.
because it's so cute and colorful.
That would probably be the most disappointing prize to play for.
It really would.
But it's not a panty liner.
It is this little sparkly pin that says, doing my best.
Oh my gosh, it's so cute.
A few weeks ago, you were a little bit depleted and defeated.
Yes.
And so I went and found this pin on Etsy for you.
And it's just a reminder, because it can also be real.
Yeah.
Like it can be like, you know what? I'm having a bad day.
And I’m doing my best, dang it.
Or it can also be funny and you're just like, you know what? Doing my best.
I'm doing my best.
So, anyway, there is that little pin.
I love it.
And look what, I thought this was kinda neat.
They sent a suicide crisis hotline sticker.
Whoever buys this pin must be very...
Always free to call, text, or chat.
988 suicide hotline if...
You need that sticker.
It came with the pin.
Anybody, if you were having suicide ideation or thoughts of suicide, please call 988.
I think they are must support it because the back of it, yeah, the back of it also is suicide and crisis.
Proceeds to suicide prevention.
So, anyway, how nice.
Well, that is wonderful.
Opinionatedpins.com.
Yes.
Your money went toward a great cause.
Absolutely.
All right.
I'm ready for my question.
Anyway, I hope I win this.
The question is, which of my searches caused me to accidentally delete my history ahead of schedule, causing me to lose some of my searches to report on this week? Oh, crap.
That is a, ooh.
Vulturebees? I thought maybe Vulturebees attacked you.
And you went, ah, and you hit the button.
No, you got to try again.
Oh, shit.
66% chance.
Oh, I'm gonna say restroom etymology.
John etymology.
Really? Because I thought maybe you saw that on your list and thought, oh that's old, and you went and deleted it.
Damn it! Old hat etymology.
It's old hat etymology.
You know what? You are doing your best, so you get that pin.
Wow, I really, I really bonked out.
That's like the first time you haven't gotten something right in a long time.
Yeah, we've been really good.
I will tell you why.
Okay.
I ended up deleting it.
So, the current and common meaning of old hat came about in the early 20th century and it means something that is old fashioned common, hackneyed or out of date.
It's a good word.
Hackneyed.
I love it.
Now, that is not the original date.
of the phrase or the original meaning, which is why I end up having to delete my history because I searched this on my work computer.
Oh no.
In the late 1700s, old hat meant the vulva or sexual intercourse.
And it remained so until it became old hat.
Oh my gosh, those dirty birds.
I know.
So, I couldn't find a whole lot about this other than it was just a slang that was used.
Is it like when people would, you know how, have you heard people, especially around here, good old boys, when we first moved to Missouri, this was in the early 90s, a bunch of people that my dad worked with would call their wives the old hide.
Ugh, the old hide.
I'll have to check with the old hide.
I have never heard that.
Well, we hadn't either.
And my mom was horrified.
And she told my dad that if he ever referred to her as the old hide, he would be the old husband.
Yeah, as she should.
As in ex-husband.
The old hide.
Anyway, so would it be something like that? Like, I got to go home to the old hat? Well, I don't know.
So, I was searching this on my work computer thinking it would be an innocuous search.
And the reason it prompted me to search it was I sent an email to someone with the phrase old hat in it.
And then I was like, oh, that's an interesting phrase that I haven't used in a long time.
I wonder what that means.
So, I sent my email and I looked it up and I was like, ah! So, then I panicked and I closed the internet down and I deleted it out my history.
And then later when my vision returned, I was like, oh.
Crap.
Because your history is synced on multiple devices? No, no.
I normally don't have many searches on my work computer, but I knew that week, I had a handful of them, that I was going to at least add to, But What About This One? But there was one I was going to use as one of my main topics.
I cannot for life remember what it was.
Oh crap.
It is El gono.
That's a bummer.
So, I deleted it and I was like, wow, oh well.
That's how we ended up with VultureBees.
Well, I'm sure that's going to be very edifying.
You're gonna regret it.
My sources were Edymonline, Oxford Languages, Merrium Webster and Wiktionary, Wikichinary.
Your turn.
Thanks, old hide. Here we go.
You're welcome, old hat.
Cara, today you're playing for these Thistle Farms products.
Grapefruit Jasmine? Grapefruit Jasmine hand soap and lotion.
I bet that smells so summery.
I hope so.
You haven't smelled it? Uh-uh.
I would have busted that open smell of it.
I have not.
Okay.
Squee.
Squee, squee indeed.
Your question is, which search resulted from a nearly disastrous and utter failure of a techie DIY attempt? Well, techie is the key phrase.
I'm going to go with removing the Asus laptop battery.
Yes, ma'am.
My second guess was going to be condensed tomato soup because you got to open that with a can opener.
Nothing techie about the tomato soup search.
So, now you get those delightful.
I can't smell it.
I know you just have to open them.
I really want to open it.
Can I open it? Yeah.
I want to smell it so bad.
It's the lotion.
She puts the lotion.
Oh, yeah.
It's so it's just like, yeah, you smell it.
Clean summer.
Yeah, exactly.
It's like it's summer morning before it gets scorching hot.
It's so citrusy.
I love it.
Thank you.
That's so nice of you.
You're welcome.
That's a hell of a gift.
That's your prize this week.
You earned it.
So, nothing is ever easy.
Am I right? You are right.
Am I right or am I right? You're right.
So, last week we talked about how I figured out my laptop battery is about kaput.
Yes ma'am.
So, I ordered a new one.
It was sitting on my.
dining table because I just didn't have the motivation to replace it.
And I was right to wait because it is quite an involved thing.
And you have to take all the screws out of the back of the laptop.
Not all of them actually.
Cause why would you? Some of them.
Um, which I didn't know until I watched a YouTube video.
after I had taken all the screws out.
I had taken all the screws out and I was like, well now how do I get to where the battery, like how do I get to the battery? I couldn't figure out how to open it.
And it turns out you have to go through the keyboard.
So, you take the screws out of the back or the base and then you turn it back over and you have to disconnect the keyboard.
Okay, and then he was like going in there and he's like, oh and there's these ribbons here.
and you'll have to detach those, be careful with that.
And that's when I was like, I'm out.
I'm not messing with that.
I'm gonna break it.
Yes.
Well, then he was like, now make sure that you make a diagram of where each screw came from because they're different sizes.
And I was like, oh no.
So, I looked over and sure enough, the screws, there were three different sizes of screws.
Gosh.
They all look the same, like the head is all the same size, but the lengths were different.
And I was like, oh no.
So, I paused where he made his diagram, even though he had a slightly different model of laptop.
Oh no.
I paused his diagram and I could barely make it out because it was just in pen, you know, and he just held it up for a second.
And I'm like, so I ordered my screws from Littlest to Biggest.
and just tried to put them back the way he had them marked out on his.
I was like, oh, but then I had the screws that I wasn't supposed to take out.
And I was like, well, I guess whichever ones are left over, those are the ones that go in the places that I wasn't supposed to take the screws.
Now, your laptop is here today.
Yes.
Welcome laptop.
You're looking well.
So, 45 minutes later, I had figured out where all the screws went, I think.
Oh gosh.
And it's still, it's working.
And I plugged it back in and I was like, screw this, and I went on with writing.
And it's been fine, as long as I keep it plugged in.
So, the battery is still in its box, and now I'm going to have to pay somebody to replace it, to install it, basically.
And that means putting on a bra on my day off.
It does.
Going somewhere and telling them I can't do this, I need help.
None of those activities are my favorite things to do.
I like doing things myself.
And I don't like putting on a bra on my day off.
Yes, I understand.
But I do it, just so people know.
Like Phil, who does my hair on my day off, he's probably really.
wondering.
He's a lucky man.
Oh my gosh.
You put your bra on for him.
Yes, he is very lucky.
As are all the people who see me out and about on my day off when I put my bra on.
Anyway, so that was that.
So, have you found a place? Batteries Plus does it.
Yes, I was gonna, that's who I was gonna suggest because Sean took his Apple phone there.
Yeah.
And they replaced it and he said they are awesome.
I'm gonna go there.
Did he have to make an appointment? Oh, I don't remember.
Cause they had appointment things online and I didn't wanna commit.
I think he walked in and asked them if they could do it and they said, give us an hour.
Oh.
And so he left and they came back.
I think that's how it happened.
But he was very happy with them, totally impressed with their professionalism and their customer service.
He said, “That's where I'm going from now on, even if I just need to buy a plain old battery.”
Nice.
Yeah.
That is a great testimonial.
So, my sources were YouTube and Google Maps.
Because I had to find battery replacement near me.
That's where I'll go.
Are you going to try and get that battery replaced before you go on vacation? 
Uh.
I don’t know if I'm gonna take my laptop on vacation, because the goal is to have my book edits done.
Oh, that's awesome!
and shipped back to my editors so I can not think about it.
That's a great idea.
While I'm on vacation.
That's a great goal and then I can leave this door stopper I love you laptop please don't die on me Well we're gonna share some history right now because we've already shared 20 years.
Something like that.
The first one I'm going to talk about is restroom etymology slash John etymology.
All right.
You had mentioned you didn't know why we call John a John.
Correct.
And so as I was researching restroom etymology, because I didn't know why we called restrooms Restrooms, I ran across John etymology.
This is great.
Is it true? Here we go.
This is great because we promised people we'd circle back to this.
Yes.
We still need to circle back to telegrams as well.
Yes, see I'd already forgotten.
So, there wasn't much on this.
Again, sometimes when you search etymology, you just kind of crap shoot.
Ah, I see what I did there.
It originated apparently the restroom etymology around 1887 as a room set aside for rest and quiet in the workplace or a public building.
Now why can't I get a rest room without a toilet in my workplace? I would dearly love that.
Do you have any nursing stations? We do, one down the hall, but you like- You have to whip a boob out to use that one.
You do, they check.
You got boobs out in there? I don't hear any pumping.
Hear a lot of snoring.
Anyway, so later on these rest rooms, they were required to have toilets in them.
Like it became a workplace requirement that you have to have a bathroom at work.
Yeah.
And so by the 1930s, the word just had become a euphemism for lavatory or the toilet.
I see.
So, they just were like, well, we've got these rooms down the hall where people go to, you know, get away from their coworkers.
Let's just throw the toilets in there.
It'll be fine.
Now, the bathroom expression, the John, could have come from a man by the name of Sir John Harrington.
Oh.
Much like Mr.Crapper.
lived in the late 16th, early 17th centuries, and he apparently wrote risque poetry and controversial papers.
Oh my, he sounds like my kind of guy.
People sometimes referred to him as the saucy godson of Elizabeth the first.
Oh, oh, fast fact.
Elizabeth the first had 102 godchildren.
I believe it.
And they know that number for a fact because all of the gifts that were given to the children at baptism are recorded.
Yes.
Isn't that interesting? That is very interesting.
I bet she got so sick of that.
She probably did.
Yes.
I'll be a godmother.
If I wanted kids, I would have had them.
Along with Sir John's notable writings, he also devised Britain's first flushing toilet.
He called it, hold on to your socks, Brea Brown, the Ajax.
Oh my gosh.
The Jax.
Many believe the name was derived from the name Jakes or Jax, which was slang used for the toilet.
Yes.
Yeah.
It's all connected.
Her mind is blown.
Why didn't I see any of that? I don't know.
When I searched for Jax.
I don't know.
It was probably there and I was just like, oh yeah, yeah.
Sometimes I get like that.
Now he wasn't the inventor of the flushing toilet.
So, that had already been invented in other places, but he had an innovation and brought it to Britain.
And so then everyone thought he actually had invented it because they didn't know it had been invented in other places.
And so- If it didn't happen in Britain, it didn't happen at all, right? So, because they thought he was the inventor of the flushing toilet, they...
People think that they started calling it the John in his honor.
Wow.
Now I did find another source that he gave Elizabeth I a flushing toilet and she called it my John, which is a little creepy.
My sources for this were floodsroyalflush.com and our old friend Edem Online.
Oh my gosh.
Oh crap.
Those sources.
Oh! God! I didn't even.
We used so much toilet.
I didn't mean that.
Terminology throughout the day.
I know.
I told you this was a weird one.
Yeah.
I've got some weird searches this week.
Okay, so let's get this one out of the way.
Sugar content in.
Yes.
Blah, blah, blah.
these different things.
I'm on a kick, I'm sorry.
It don't, don't apologize.
But it's working.
Yeah.
So, I have to search everything until I figure out what's what.
Yeah, yeah.
And I start to remember, okay, that's an okay thing and that's not an okay thing and blah, blah.
Some things are pretty obvious.
Fancy cakes, about double my sugar allowance for the day.
I don't doubt that.
And one package of fancy cakes.
And one time when I was really sad, I ate two packages.
Oh no.
At one time.
It's a miracle I haven't already fallen into a diabetic coma.
Cause some of the things that I've looked at, the ingredients on, I'm like, holy crap.
So, I've just been looking at labels, looking at labels, or if there's not a label, like there's not a label on Domino's Pizza.
So, I will just look it up.
And the marvel of the internet is that all that information is out there.
I don't know how, but it has been aggregated and all you gotta do is search and it'll tell you.
So, I thought about searching something much more interesting as I was doing my rundown, just to have something interesting to report.
But that's not how this podcast works.
It's organic.
It has to be.
What we search.
Absolutely.
So, here we go.
I'd like to take back something I said about Americans putting sugar in everything.
Okay.
Because I have actually been pleasantly surprised on some things.
Oh good.
The things that I've already known, okay, like soda or fancy cakes or whatever, I already know those are no-nos.
Right.
But there have been some things where I have looked it up thinking this is going to go on the no-no list.
And I have been pleasantly surprised that there's no sugar.
Nice.
Or very little added sugar, which is what I'm really looking at is the added sugar.
Uh huh.
Okay, so Domino's medium pepperoni with mushroom pan pizza.
Very specific.
Pepperoni mushroom, that's my jam.
Oh.
I love it.
I love that combo on a pizza.
Okay.
And you get a little brain food with your junk food.
Yeah.
One gram of added sugar.
Oh.
Per slice.
Okay.
Not bad.
That's actually really good.
Now, hand tossed Domino's pizza, their crust, hand tossed crust, four grams per slice.
Oh, that's interesting.
So, they add more sugar to that.
Hmm.
Isn't it? What about thin and crusty? I don't know, probably zero.
I would imagine if that thick pan pizza crust only has one gram per slice, I bet that thin crust is nothing.
But come on now.
I mean, I do get that sometimes.
But last night, I needed more than that.
Kona Big Wave, Golden Ale, my favorite beer currently.
Oh, okay.
Love it.
Zero grams of sugar.
Nice.
Now how? I don't know.
Magic maybe.
Okay.
Because most beer has sugar in it.
But I'm not going to question it.
I'm just so glad that I will get to have a beer now and then.
I don't have to worry about it.
Absolutely.
Okay, tomato soup.
That's a totally different story.
I love progressive tomato and basil soup, especially with like with a grilled cheese sandwich.
I'm super hungry right now.
It is loaded with added sugar.
A ton.
That does not surprise me.
And so I thought, “Okay, I mean, it's not like fancy cakes.”
Right.
But it's got a lot.
And I was like, all right, there's gotta be some out there that don't have that.
Can't find anything.
So, what is the sugar content? Like, what did you, do you remember what you? The added sugar and tomato soup, I think it was four grams per serving.
but a can of Progresso.
So, like three servings? Is two servings.
So, it'd be eight for one meal is kind of, I mean, that's okay for one meal because my allotment is 24 grams.
So, I could have eight grams per meal if I wanted, but I'm trying to get way under that.
I don't wanna get up to the limit.
Yeah.
And that's just a lot for soup.
You know what I'm saying? I'd rather.
You know what else has eight grams? What? Those muffin bars.
They're like raspberry and blueberry.
Eight grams of sugar.
I'd rather have one of those.
In just one bar? Yeah.
Man, you know what? You're reminding me.
I haven't, we haven't had those in the house in ages.
I love those muffin bars.
We used to get, we had a, we were on a kick for a while where we had those like, we're out of those, get some more.
Clint loves them.
They're good.
They're portable.
Yes.
So, he likes to take those with him in the morning.
And I like them for a snack every once in a while now because they're not 40 grams of sugar, they're 8.
Right.
Much better.
But, I'd seriously, I'd rather eat one of those...
Than a...
Than the soup.
Than a cup of soup.
Mm-hmm.
Okay.
Hahaha.
That's terrible.
See, my diet has not gotten any better.
Hahaha.
I've just had to cut things out.
But I'm, I'm still eating...
.
.
food that people are like, huh? But, oh my gosh, Cara.
I have put so many more vegetables on my plate.
I eat salad every day.
I had dinner the other night and half of my plate was green beans.
Alex J, I would like you to be proud of me and send me a present because she told me when I was in Green Bay that half your plate should be vegetables at each meal and I told her, you are insane.
Yes.
Half, half is vegetables.
A quarter is protein and a quarter is your carbs.
Yeah, and I've been doing it.
It's good.
And it does make you feel better because when you've got a balanced plate like that, you just feel like a better human.
Correct.
You're just like, oh, this is, I feel satiated.
This is how you're supposed to eat.
I don't want to fall over in the morning when I wake up.
Foods I simply cannot eat anymore.
Uh oh, well this is a sad list.
This is a sad list.
Why are you doing this to yourself? Um, cause I would like to share with you my misery.
Fancy cakes or any snack cake? Of course.
I just can't.
I know.
There's just too much.
Um, pretty much any cereal that I like.
Oh yeah.
Can't do it.
Pre-made sweet tea.
Any soda that's not diet or zero.
Right, yes.
Sorry.
I had like a brain lapse there for a second.
And those things give me headaches, so soda is just kind of like, no.
Candy, obviously.
Yes.
I love candy.
But that's really it.
I mean, those were a big part of my diet.
I will say that.
I mean, it was not unusual for me to sit and watch TV and just not eat a whole bag, but like just eat jelly beans.
like they were potato chips out of a bag.
Okay, so.
You're not the only one.
So, yeah.
Now, I will tell you, if you, you probably know this.
I'm ready.
If you ever decide to purchase sugar-free candy.
Oh boy.
Now, I don't personally care for sugar-free candy.
I would rather go without.
Because if you get the wrong kind, some is okay.
There are.
There are some brands that it doesn't taste too bad.
But if you find that brand and you're like, wow, this is pretty good, and you eat a lot of it, the chemical.
Will give you the poopoos.
It will give you the poopoos.
We're circling back to toilet humor.
Yes, yes.
I thought you probably already knew that.
I know this from the Haribo gummy bears.
Haribo gummy bears? Yep, the Haribo sugar-free gummy bears.
Reviews on Amazon.
Oh.
They went viral many years ago.
Oh, oh no.
Because people were writing these hilarious reviews about these awful predicaments that they got into eating these gummy bears.
Oh no.
And then desperately needing a toilet.
Was it like their friend had to drive them home in a minivan with the windows down? Kind of.
There were a few like I was on a first date.
Oh no.
That kind of thing.
Oh no, no.
Yep.
But they were written hilariously.
Look it up sometime.
I will do that.
So, hearing about someone's health kick is more boring than listening to them talk about their dreams, so I'm really sorry.
But until I get the hang of things, it will just have to consume my search history.
You just search away.
There's nothing wrong with improving your diet or your health.
You're right.
It's just nobody wants to hear you talk about it.
It's boring.
But look at it this way, you might be inspiring someone else to do the same.
Hey, that's right.
If I can do it.
Yeah.
I know people say that all the time.
“Hey, if I can do it, anyone can do it.”
But seriously, like I have been a sugar junk food junkie for a long, long time.
And it really has not been that hard.
And once you get through that first week or two, when you're like going through withdrawals after that, you don't, I know it's such a cliche to say you don't even want it anymore, but I took a sip of Peyton, he got one of those dragon fruit freezes at Taco Bell yesterday after his eighth grade promotion ceremony thing.
I took him to Taco Bell because you know, I'm a queen like that.
And he got one of those and I said, let's let me have a sip and see what it tastes like.
Cara, just in a sip.
It was so sweet.
I can't imagine drinking a whole one like that, but I would have done that no problem a month ago.
That's awesome.
So, your tastes do change.
Of course.
You start to not crave it as much anymore.
And it's just like any addiction.
You just have to get through that.
Yeah, the initial.
Through that hump.
Yeah.
That is that.
Oh, what did I do? I didn't write down my sources.
Oh, my sources were so varied.
Google I guess.
Okay so my last search for today is vulture bees.
Now I wish I could tell you why I searched this.
I don't remember.
I was just going through my history and I was like vulture bee? I don't even remember reading about it.
So, I read about it again and I was like oh my gosh.
Was this like a sleep thing like you were doing this to fall asleep? I think it has something to do with going up to Roy's property and cleaning it up.
We've been hanging out with Gary a lot and Gary likes to look up weird things and talk about interesting stuff.
I know he had looked up honey vultures.
I'm assuming that somehow I got to vulture bee.
I don't know.
Who knows? If y'all are eating right now.
Oh, you might want to stop.
Excellent.
Vulture bees, also known as carrion bees, are a small group of three closely related South American stingless species that feed on rotting meat.
See, they don't sting you, though.
They don't sting you.
This unusual behavior of eating rotten meat was only discovered in 1982.
Oh my god.
nearly two centuries after the bees were first classified.
What? But were they always called vulture bees then? I don't know.
I don't know, maybe not.
Well, I would assume they were going by their Latin names.
Oh.
So, they have strong, powerful mandibles which are used to tear off the flesh, and they have been recorded as foraging for more than 75 different species of animals.
So, they ain't picky about their roadkill.
What about...
Humans.
There was no mention of humans, but if you're dead and they hungry.
Yeah, I mean why not yeah? 
Similar to how honey bees process nectar with the aim of eventual regurgitation and storage as honey the decaying flesh a forager vulture bee eats is regurgitated into a storage pot inside the hive Where it is then consumed again by a worker bee and processed by its highly acidic gut, specialized to help break down the meat.
Oh my gosh, the worker bees have to get sloppy seconds of sloppy seconds? Yes.
What would that be? That would be sloppy seconds to the second power.
Sloppy fourths? This is Vulture Bee math, people.
Moving on.
The Vulture Bee is sometimes said to produce so-called m- Oh gosh! So, gross! I love it.
Tell me more.
The Vulture Bee is sometimes said to produce a so-called meat honey.
Oh.
But this is a misnomer.
Oh.
Thank sweet Jesus.
The resulting- resulting from scientific uncertainty- due to historic confusion of multiple species, each with a slightly different method of processing.
All right.
So, in one study, I'm gonna say a little Latin here, y'all.
I'm ready for it.
Trigona hypogea, I'm not sure, in Brazil, the vulture bees mixed sugary plant products with a proteinaceous paste.
from regurgitated meat, and then they let it mature to form a sweet substance that was used as food.
However, the two resources, the plants and the proteinaceous stuff, they were initially kept in separate pots inside the colony.
Like kosher, kosher bees.
So, neither of those items were true honey, but they were eventually mixed together to mature for about two weeks.
And during that two week maturation, the carrion derived material, degraded into a simple compound used by the bees.
The stored substance is initially paste-like, but it becomes a viscous fluid, and eventually a sweet.
a honey-like homogenous yellowish substance.
Can this be harvested by, do people harvest this and actually use it? Once I got through all of this and was like rereading it and make sure I understood it, I searched that to see.
And some of the searches I found did say that it could be eaten by humans.
And it still has a sweet flavor, but.
Ugh, both of the sources I found said it has more of a tang to it.
Oh, not tang.
Uh-uh.
No, no.
They said it wouldn't be like the honey that you would find in your cabinet.
You don't think.
So, you mean proteinaceous paste has a wang? It does.
And it's a yellow viscous.
Oh.
I wonder how these bees…
I'm not done.
Oh, I'm sorry.
Go ahead.
There's more.
Oh man.
So, in a different study of a different species, the trigononecrophagia.
Oh, I like that name.
This is in Panama.
The bees gathered nectar and produced honey.
What? But they also produced a glandular secretion derived from the rotting meat, partially metabolized, used as a protein source to feed immature bees.
Oh.
and it was kept completely separate from the honey.
So, I see.
So, these secretions from their glands replaced the role of pollen in their diet because vulture bees lack adaptations for carrying pollen.
Oh.
So, in neither case, the bees were mixing meat-based substances.
With the floral derived substances.
So, the bees are like, “Hey, don't call it meat honey, okay? Cause that ain't what it is.”
The meat and the plants are kept separate and we like secrete shit.
And then we yak it up and then that guy eats it again.
And then he yaks it up.
Or we give it to the babies.
Don't forget giving it to the babies.
(gagging)
Oh, vulture bees, stay in South America, please.
Wow.
That is the end.
Okay.
So.
What I was going to say was, how did these bees evolve to start doing this? Was there just such a dearth of, oh that's a good word, of vegetation from which to...
Maybe there weren't enough carry-on eating predators in the area, and maybe there were too many honey bees.
Okay.
I don't know.
Or maybe real vultures have evolved from this bee.
Maybe the bee's always been around.
And they just got real big.
They just got bigger and bigger.
I don't know.
I just found this so A, disgusting and B, interesting.
That's fascinating.
I just was like, whoa, that's going to go well with toilet information.
It is.
That's fascinating.
Because everybody is now heading for their lavatory.
Yeah.
Okay, you ready for my last one? Hit me.
How to reattach a garage door.
I'm so interested in this.
Picture it.
It's Thursday morning, the last day of the school year, 2024, a half work day for me because I'm taking the morning off to go to Little Pee’s eighth grade promotion ceremony, which is ridiculous, but that is a whole other topic.
I should have searched when the hell did that start.
Anyway, I wake up to a text from my husband.
It doesn't say, good morning, beautiful.
It says, garage door wasn't working this morning.
Just dawned on me that something might be blocking the sensor.
If that's what it is, it'll need to be reattached.
Reattached. 
What will need to be reattached?
The door. 
Oh.
So, he had taken the door off of the, not off the track.
He had disconnected the door from the motor.
Yes.
Okay.
So, that he could manually open the garage and get the hell out of there for work.
Gotcha.
And then close it again so that we wouldn't be robbed blind by marauders or whoever's hanging around at three o'clock in the morning.
But we have had problems with this garage door constantly.
It's like once or twice a year, we had to have somebody to come out and mess with this garage door.
That's annoying.
I was like, what the hell does that even mean? Reattach.
I don't even know how to do that.
I've just never done it.
Like he's always been the one who's messed with it.
Of course that drives me crazy.
Not knowing how to do something and having to like be reliant on somebody else.
To get my frigging car out of the garage.
Yes, I got shit to do I mean on a normal day, I don't have to leave the house, right? But I need to leave the house on this day I got a lot going on.
It's an office day for me and I've got to get to the school to watch my kid promote graduate from eighth grade, so what did I do? What did you do? I looked it up.
Yeah there were tons of videos on YouTube.
And there are some things that I already knew to troubleshoot, like for example, the sensors.
Like Clint said, the sensors might be blocked and that's why it doesn't wanna do anything.
So, I cleaned around the sensors, it's spider season people.
So, you know, there were lots of cobwebs.
And so I cleaned around there and I made sure that, you know.
there wasn't anything actually like blocking the sensor, like physically blocking it.
And then I was like, oh crap.
maybe they're just out of alignment, because that happens.
Because I don't know why, this is probably standard operating procedure, but it's stupid.
But the sensor is attached to the track, like at the bottom of the track.
So, the vibrations from the track.
The garage door going up and down up and down up and down puts it out of alignment all the time and it's not easy to line those things back up so I watched a video where a guy tied a string around one end of the sensor and then he tied another string around the other side and then the string acts as kind of your line to show you where this the light should be hitting right so I was like I'm not gonna effing do that so what did I do? I got up and I went, I got up on a step stool in the garage.
Oh no.
I know.
And I'm dressed, like I am dressed for the day.
And I unplugged the garage door opener from the ceiling and plugged it back in again.
That's a good idea.
Now.
Realizing today, a whole day later, that there's a leak, leaking down on there.
I'm really lucky I didn't electrocute myself.
Oh my gosh.
Anyway, so I unplugged it, plugged it back in, went to the wall, hit the switch, it just clicks and does nothing.
Great.
So, I told Clint, I don't have time to deal with this.
I took it back off the track again, which I had figured out how to do watching YouTube.
Yeah.
with the little pole thing, the pole stringy thingy.
I took it off and I whipped that thing up.
just manually and pulled a muscle in my ribs.
Oh, geez.
By the way.
And then I went on with my day.
And I told Clint, I was like, you're just going to have to investigate this further tonight.
And if we can't figure it out, I'll put in a maintenance request.
Because that's why we rent so that we don't have to care about this.
Exactly.
So, they're coming on Tuesday.
So, we have to go the whole long holiday weekend with the.
garage door that we have to keep lifting and shutting manually.
I might just park outside.
Yeah, maybe so.
I don't like to because people come around neighborhoods all the time and check doors.
Oh yeah.
But I mean, we'll just keep it locked and I won't have anything out in the car so that they don't feel curious.
Good grief.
Isn't that crazy? So, we'll have a technician come out on.
Tuesday and he will do all the things and then he'll talk to me with implied dumbass at the end of every sentence because they've been out so many times to do this, but I'm like, “Build a better garage door opener.”
So, do you think it's leaking on it? Is that I think it is It's like right over it.
Just tell them that right away.
Look, there's a there's a leak Yeah, or there was a leak.
Yeah, if you get it fixed, I hope I do.
Oh gosh.
Oh my gosh I hope we don't have to wait for the leak to be fixed.
It's falling apart people Everything's falling apart.
Geez.
How was that? That one was good.
Was it? No.
But what about this one? What about this one, Cara? 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 or were simply too boring to share.
Why can't imagine if you thought your searches were boring, what's your what about this one list like? Oh, do you want me to go first? Yeah.
Okay.
Do it.
I hope you don't fall asleep.
Can you cook tilapia without thawing it first? Fall question.
Ferrous gluconate dosage guide.
I gotta take iron, you know.
Pork loin resting time.
Peri-pera lip tint.
How to clean a hairbrush.
Cook steaks in oven.
Theta Float Spa.
I looked it up myself.
That was not uninteresting, but you'd already done it.
Oh, yes.
Culture Flock.
Yes.
The Local Bevy.
Yes.
Sleepy Opossum Cafe.
Yes! You're living a good life.
Yeah, I guess so.
So, can you cook tilapia without? Yes.
Okay.
And actually, it's better to not thaw it.
Oh, it doesn't get flaky or fall apart? It does.
(annoying motorcycle)
Oh my God.
He's gotta get home.
He's gonna get struck by lightning.
Yeah, it's just like, I'm gonna get struck by lightning here.
It makes it more tender and less dried out.
So, there you go.
Okay.
What about yours? What about this one? Here we go.
Small venues to rent near me.
Private rooms at restaurants near me.
Date of Jake Paul and Mike Tyson fight.
Brew 21 Extra Chromosome Coffee Company.
Rebar Kitchen and Tap Room.
I'm gonna go to there.
Oh yes.
It looks good.
APWA National Public Works Week.
It was Public Works Week this week.
And I work in two departments that are Public Works and it was a big week with lots of events.
I see.
And I'm glad it's over now, cause everyone's exhausted.
How to get mildew smell out of clothes.
Did Bakhtiari retire? No.
Oh.
Nickelback current net worth.
Remember when we talked about those? You and I are right, they are so rich.
Of course they are.
They're combined net worth, just yes.
Oh my gosh, I don't know.
Are we talking Canadian dollars or US dollars? Well, dollars, it's gotta be American dollars.
300 million dollars.
Oh well, they're nickelback, come on.
How about? their combined net worth.
How many people are in the band? I think there's four.
I'm gonna say.
And it's not equal.
Front man gets more money.
Right, of course.
I'm gonna say 42 million.
It's 150 million.
Damn! Combined.
I can sing bad songs.
Right, I'm totally okay with being the butt of everybody's jokes.
What does ARFID stand for? A-R-F-I-D.
avoidant restrictive food intake disorder.
Oh.
Yeah.
Grilled Portobello mushroom burger recipe.
Yum, yum, yum.
Oh my gosh.
I've got the best recipe.
It's so good.
Belladonna drops poisonous?
What is Dream Whip? Where was The Last of the Mohicans movie filmed? And last but not least.
loincloth picture.
Oh, okay.
Sean and I were having an argument about what a loincloth was.
You know what? We were both right.
You were.
Yeah.
So, he was.
It could be more than one thing.
He was picturing like Mowgli on the Jungle Book.
Yes.
As a loincloth.
I was like, that's not a loincloth.
A loincloth is like flippy flappy in the wind.
Nothing holding you in.
Right.
It's not like a diaper.
Right.
Yeah.
But we looked it up and those both are considered loincloths.
Because they are across your loins.
I guess so.
Who knew? Do you have any Lister shout outs for this week? I do.
Oh, good.
We got a quick little love note from Heather about love and Tuesdays thanks to us.
Isn't that sweet? Yes, that was so nice.
And by the time this airs, she'll be a grandma again for the third time.
Lordy.
With a fourth arriving in December.
Oh my gosh.
So.
Her kids are popping them out like peas.
She's a hot grandma.
Yeah, and she loves babies, so she's in heaven.
So, are they close by? No.
Oh, no.
So, she has to keep going back and forth.
They live in like the St.
Louis area.
Oh, that's pretty close to us.
Yes, it is.
Heather.
I know, but she goes there, sees her grandbabies, comes back.
We could road trip.
You and I have things up north we got to see anyway.
We got to go to Prime 15.
whatever that that's in Kansas City.
So, what? It's North.
We're just going to hit the what is that? Highway 71? We have to go to that bar that Fern bar.
Yeah, that's in Kansas City.
And then yeah, so we'll just head north.
We'll go to St.Louis first.
Yeah.
And then we'll drive all the way across the state.
And we'll go to prime 1537 or whatever it is.
What is Kelsey's number? No, it wasn't their numbers.
Yeah, it is.
It's their numbers.
What's Kelsey's number? 87.
1587 yeah, it's prime and then start right yeah, and then we'll hit the firm bar and we'll come home, okay, sweet I also have another one Janet and Beth such sweeties are still listening.
Aww. 
And they talk about it all the time in our weekly admin meeting all the time. 
Oh, no, and it cracks me up and this week Janet reminded me.
She's a little bit behind okay, but she reminded me that I've been bad about wearing my mouth guard to bed.
Cause I mentioned my mouth guard and she goes, yeah, but you haven't been wearing it.
And I said, oh, wait a minute, you're behind.
Because I was proud to be able to tell her that I have been better about it and I've been wearing it.
Good job.
I know.
That's hilarious.
Don't want my gums to recede.
So, anyway, those are my shout outs.
Do you have any? No, I don't have any this week.
You caught Heather and that's the only one I had.
Sorry, we're rushing people and we're like, micro machines man, but it's about to storm here and Cara already fried her.
Yeah, I saw a lightning bolt over Brea's shoulder and my headset went.
(weird headset frying noises)
And it hurt my ear balls a little bit.
And it's gone, she can't get her headset back.
Yeah, I can't get my headset back.
So, we think it's fried and we were joking about it before we started this.
Yes, we were.
I think I cursed us, I said, “How do you feel about being attached to all this electrical equipment with the storm in the forecast?” 
And she was like, “Is it gonna storm?” I didn't even know it was supposed to storm and I wasn't concerned, but now I gotta buy a new headset, maybe.
Maybe.
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Yes, correct.
It's a lot of work.
Yep, and you do the social media.
Well, I think I am gonna go delete the history from the rest of my computers.
Oh, good idea.
What about you? I've got a whole history of boring ass shit that needs to go away.
Start fresh with the new week.
You're gonna have some good searches, I bet.
Well, you're not kicking your computer.
No, but I've got it on my phone.
All my searches are synced on all my devices.
vacation searches from you.
Oh, probably.
Which will be nice and exciting.
I think I probably have some already that I did after I did my rundown.
Nice.
Derr.
That was stupid.
Well, it's okay.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, stay fresh, you cheese bags.
Stay fresh.
Let me, hang on, let me put down my vodka.
Stay fresh, you cheese bags.
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