You'll have to start your story over because that guy that walked by just. 
Yeah? 
About three inches of his butt crack. 
Oh gross.
He doesn't even care.
No, he really is.
Sean and I have a new phrase that we've adopted in the last few months.
That's people.
So, that was people is what you just saw.
That is way too much people.
Three inches of people.
That I did not need to see.
Okay, I'm sorry.
Gross.
Restart your story, please.
(theme song)
Welcome to episode 45 of Delete This History, a podcast by two besties of a certain age searching for answers.
We're your host, Brea Brown.
Cara Burch? Sorry, I got distracted by your shirt because I think I have that same shirt.
Do you? Yeah, I think so.
I'm pretty sure.
That would not shock me.
If I don't have that shirt, I have one that's the exact color of that.
And like the sleeves, like everything.
I believe it.
I'm probably sure…
Is that my shirt? Yeah, I stole it.
Okay.
So, I'd like to bookmark stealing your friend's clothes.
Actually.
Actually, I do have some bookmarks this week.
What are they? And I wrote them down even.
Good job.
I know before I came here, I was like, Oh, no, so proud of you.
July 26 2024 episode of the criminal podcast.
It's called Millions of Pills is fantastic.
It talks about the College of Charleston.
Fraternity bros in the mid 2010s who got into a heap of trouble and it's really good.
Oh okay.
And plus I love Phoebe Judge.
Yes, I know you do.
And I have another one.
Okay.
Actually, following through on my own advice and rearranging my living room instead of just talking about it and dreaming about it.
I actually did it.
You did it.
And I totally ignored the naysayers in my house who said, that's not gonna work.
You have to.
That's not gonna work.
And I was like, yes, it will.
If you'll let me move your precious TV, it will work.
It doesn't have to go in the same place.
Yeah, and it worked.
It worked.
It looks good, I like it.
I love it.
And it makes it seem so much bigger.
I was gonna ask you.
What are you going to put on the bookshelf that's going to be turned around? Books.
Oh, what? Books on a bookshelf? Books.
You big weirdo.
And some pictures probably.
Yeah.
Stuff like that.
Excellent.
Because I did have to put like all of our pictures away.
I don't have any, you know, table space for pictures.
Mm-hmm.
So…
You should get a digital picture frame.
I have one.
You should get out your digital picture frame.
I have it.
Good job.
It's out there.
Good job.
It doesn't have like my kids' school pictures in it.
Oh, you can make that happen pretty quick.
I could, but I don't want to.
So, I have those in frames.
And I need a place to put them.
They will come back out again.
OK.
I'll just put them on the shelf.
in front of Clint's gaming books that he wants to put on the shelf.
Oh.
He wants to use the shelf, does he? Yes, he does.
This is what prompted this whole thing almost.
Oh.
Kind of.
Because he was like, we need to get a bookshelf so I can put my books on the shelf.
And so I said, well, we have a bookshelf.
We just use it in the kitchen.
And he was like, oh, well, can we get one for the living room? And I was like, well, I feel stupid buying another bookshelf when we already have one.
I'm becoming that person, Cara.
No, that's all right.
And so, I said, you know what I would really like is I would like to have a sideboard in the kitchen that's actually built for a kitchen.
Yeah.
And that has like a top on it where we could put all the coffee stuff and then the storage would go underneath and it's all put away.
Coffee station.
Mm-hmm.
Oh yes.
So, I said, let's get that instead.
So, we did.
Nice.
And it's sitting in a box.
Uh-huh.
Has to be assembled.
Yes.
It's sitting in a flat pack in the middle of my brand new newly rearranged living room.
Put those kids on that.
Hey, put that thing together.
It's not very Higa right now.
With a flat pack in the middle of the room.
Actually, we are at that stage in our lives where I'm willing to pay a hundred extra dollars for somebody to come and put it together.
So, they're coming on Sunday.
Oh my gosh.
To put it together.
Who? Angie.
You know, like it used to be Angie's List.
Somebody from Angie, like a local.
Oh, my word.
That's amazing.
Contractor is going to do it.
I love that.
I just said, I just, I don't want to get a divorce.
And I feel like if Clint and I have to put one more flat pack thing together, it'll probably end in divorce.
Jacki's bed, I think was the last thing that we're ever going to put together.
That is hilarious.
All right.
Cause man, I get so, I get so mad.
Why? I just, I'm like, I know what needs to be done, but I don't have the physical strength to do it.
And he has the physical strength to do it, but he's not as good at following directions and doing what needs to be done.
Yes.
And so then I'm like always, you gotta do this and you gotta turn around this way.
And then even then we still get it wrong.
It's a nightmare.
I'm so sorry.
It's just the way it is.
Okay.
Anyway, so yeah, those are my bookmarks.
So, that was a marriage saving tip as well.
Bookmark, Angie's List.
Correct.
Good idea.
And it's like they changed it to Angi.
It's just Angi now, A-N-G-I.
Okay, but yes, and I'll let you know next week.
I'm excited how that worked out.
Yeah, cuz you know It could be a complete shit show.
Yeah, what keep us filled in you gotta have somebody come into your house like a stranger has to come to your house and Work in your house for a couple hours.
It's kind of weird.
Yeah.
So, what are you gonna? You just gonna sit and watch? Yeah, hey Angi.
What are you doing now? I'm just gonna sit on the couch.
What's that tool? Yeah, I'm gonna call him Angi whoever shows up. 
Hi Angie! Thank you for coming.
Oh my gosh, that would be so great.
I will give you $10 if you just sit and watch.
Oh my gosh, no way.
$20? Too awkward.
I'll pay for Angi's.
You'll pay the $100? I'll pay it if you just sit and watch the entire time.
Oh, if I could get away with it, I would just leave the house.
Yeah.
I mean, I guess I could.
I could say to Clint, it's all yours.
Yeah.
You guys hang out here.
I'm leaving.
Clint, this is Angi.
Angi, this is Clint.
He's gonna put together the show for you.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
Well, I also have some recommendations.
Okay.
My first one is remember your cell phone.
Oh, yes.
When you leave the house.
I've been fine.
Like it hasn't been like this nerve wracking.
It's been more frustrating than anything all day.
Like all the little things that you don't realize that you just quickly do like, oh, I just need to hop on and get that done.
Oh, I need to add that to my calendar real quick.
All day long, there's been this list of things that I'm gonna just gonna have to do this weekend because I didn't have my ding phone with me.
Oh no.
Derp.
Anyway, recommendation number one.
No, when was the last time you forgot your phone at home? Oh my gosh, I don't even remember.
I know, I just don't forget it.
There is a routine that happens in the morning.
Yes.
And it just, it got disrupted this morning.
Yep.
I am so routine based.
That's a killer.
It is so silly.
Because Sean is usually still in bed when I leave.
But he was up.
That, that'll throw everything off.
I know.
So, we started talking.
I made him put my necklace on because I couldn't make it work.
And then.
After he put my necklace on me, I did not go back and get my phone.
Yeah, you were just like, all right, see you later, bye bye.
I just grabbed my stuff and left.
Derp.
And so then I yelled at Siri in the car.
I was like, mother scratcher, why isn't that phone? I was like, oh.
Oh no.
I was already too far away.
I was like 15 minutes into my drive.
I was like, Oh no, that's not going to happen.
Can't go back.
So, it's all right.
I survived.
It was just a little bit frustrating.
Every time I went to pick up my phone to, you know, do a thing, it was not there.
I did email Sean and I said, hey, I don't have my phone with me.
Just FYI, his response was you'll be very entertained once you get it back in your possession.
I don't know what that means.
But he did go to the DMV this morning.
Oh goodness.
We'll see.
My second recommendation is lostspringfield.com.
This is a website where a dude has t-shirts for sale with logos or sayings from old businesses that have closed down.
Okay.
That were in Springfield.
Okay.
For example, Aladdin's Castle at the Battlefield Mall.
Oh my gosh.
Anton's Coffee House.
Aunt Martha's.
Yeah.
Bombay Bicycle Club.
Do you remember that? Oh my gosh, yes.
Bread dough pizza.
Oh my gosh.
Cartoons.
Yeah.
Ebeneezers.
Do you remember Ebeneezers? Oh my gosh, yes.
Get and Go.
Hambies.
Hoover Music.
National Art Shop.
North Town Mall.
Yes.
That one is hilarious.
The logo on it.
The Rasta Grill.
Oh my gosh.
I loved.
The Rasta Grill.
We loved the Rasta Grill too.
It was so good.
The repair shop.
Oh yes.
On Kearney Street.
Uh huh.
I saw Jeff Cotner play a little music.
Yep.
The sign is still there, but the building has been demolished.
Uh, Rock 99.
Do you remember that radio station? No.
You probably weren't living in Springfield when Rock 99 was around because I was little bitty.
I don't think I was.
I wanted to listen to Rock 99 so bad and my parents were like, you're not going to.
Oh, yeah.
It's rock and roll.
It's hair bands.
It's devil's music.
Yeah, yeah.
Um, Shady Inn, which is where I had, Sean and I had our engagement dinner there.
The Shady Inn.
Now, where was that? So, that is now Jim's Steakhouse.
Oh, so then it was Steak and Ale.
Oh.
for a while.
I'm confusing.
You're right.
Steak and Ales where we had Shady Inn.
What the hell was on? I don't know what Shady Inn is.
Sounds like a no tell moto.
I remember that name but I can't remember what.
Cat in the Fiddle? Oh yes.
Ew.
Tokyo Sana.
Skateport and Skate Corral.
The Juke Joint.
Do you remember that? Wait, Skateport is still there.
And some of these are still here.
I was gonna say, cause.
The Outland Ballroom.
Yes.
Taylor's, which Taylor's is still around.
Just, so I could go on and on.
There's tons of them.
That's crazy.
And it just is.
Just outdated stuff, in other words.
Yes, it's just a throwback that made me laugh.
Zenith.
Mr.Gaddies.
Oh my gosh.
Mr.Gaddies.
So, anyway, I'm gonna stop reading them.
But there's tons and I Loved it.
It's such a throwback.
So, for all you DTH besties that Live in Springfield or around Springfield or maybe just moved away check it out lostspringfield.com.
If you went to college here-
Yes fun! 
-back in the day. All right.
Well, we're not here to be all you know, nostalgic about days gone by. 
We're not? No, not...
Well, sometimes.
What are we here for? Well, we're here to talk about our internet search histories.
Oh yeah! Right.
Yeah.
And we do it with...
The reading of the lists! That's right.
This is where we tell you our top three most interesting, funniest, most successful searches of the week in list form.
My list for this week is...
Cakewalk Stagger, Wonder Bar Tool, and Daedalian.
Okay.
Are you mispronouncing Dandelion? Nope.
Okay.
Da-da-lion.
Okay.
My list is brain trust definition.
Uh-huh.
What does the British exclamation core mean? And why is baize always green? Oh, good question.
All right.
So, now that we have our lists out of the way, it's time to play a little game we like to call, Search Me! Where we each pose one question to each other and see if we can answer based only on The Reading of the Lists.
Cara.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Today you're playing for.
Yes? This rad notebook.
Oh! Oh my gosh, I freaking love that.
To help you remember, all your bookmarks for the week, what you watched.
You could put it next to your chair.
Yes.
Oh my gosh.
I need this. In the living room. 
And I just need it because I love the cover.
Yes.
It is the color pattern of a TV.
Does it bring back good memories? Lots.
I thought that you could now have a notebook for your bookmarks.
Yes.
To help you remember.
This is great.
Now you have to remember to write them down.
Yes.
Can you get me a person to remind me to write down my bookmarks? No.
Sorry.
Here's your question.
What search resulted in something much less wonderful than I was expecting? Now, as a reminder, here are the choices.
Cakewalk Stagger, Wonderbar Tool, or Daedalian.
This was much less wonderful.
Oh! I was going to pick something else. 
Uh-huh.
Ah, yes! Okay.
I was gonna pick Cakewalk! Oh no, cause cake is wonderful.
Well, and I'm really hungry right now, so.
Me too.
Do you know what a Wonder Bar tool is? I don't think so.
Okay.
I was listening to Small Town Dicks this week, the podcast.
Okay.
About small town detectives.
And one of the visiting detectives was talking about a case of hers in which the murder weapon was described as a Wonder Bar tool.
And she kept saying it.
And then finally, Yardley Smith was like, hang on a minute, what's a Wonder Bar tool? And I love it, because she always asks the questions that I'm wondering as well.
Well, sometimes she asks questions.
I'm like, they've already answered that a million times.
But I know she's doing it because people might be new to the podcast, blah, blah.
But she's very good at thinking about what might listeners not know what they're talking about, like lingo and stuff like that.
And I was thinking the same thing.
I'm like, what the heck's a Wonderbar tool? It's basically a name brand of what I've always called a crowbar.
Oh.
Or a pry bar.
Yes.
It's flat.
Oh.
So, when I think of a crowbar, it has a hooked end and a flat end.
Correct.
Okay.
So, this is flatter.
and it doesn't have the hook.
Yes.
But it's like a pry bar.
It's like a foot long or maybe.
It's maybe about 18 inches long.
And it has like a forked end, kind of.
And then it has a flat end.
Yeah.
But I've always called that just a pry bar or.
Yes, I think I have too.
Anyway, it's called a Wonder Bar, and that's the name brand of this thing.
Okay.
Boring.
Yikes, that would be quite a weapon.
But yes, if you're bludgeoned with that.
You ain't feeling very good.
And it would make a distinctive mark if you used that end that had the two little prongs.
I got hit by a Wonder Bar! They weren't talking after they got hit by the Wonder Bar.
These people were dead.
I was! What just hit me? I mean this person it wasn't more than one person, but this person was ded dead. 
Oh my gosh.
But that was B O R I N G boring.
Well, I don't know.
I mean it was just a quick answer.
Yeah, sure and I found it on Amazon.
Nice.
When I you know typed it into my phone immediately, of course Amazon's like, what, you want to buy something? You haven't bought anything in two days.
Would you like to buy this Wonder Bar? No, I don't, Amazon.
So, that notebook is yours.
I love it.
It's so cute.
I love that it's like a dot grid inside.
I love those.
Yeah, me too.
You can do so many things with it.
I know.
All right, Brea.
Yes.
Today.
To support.
Your champagne wishes and caviar dreams.
This lovely champagne toast candle.
Do you feel like you want to smell it? So, I can entice you? Yeah.
Oh, that's good.
Isn't it good? All right.
I had some champagne toast, like body spray and I did not like it.
Oh, it didn't smell good on me.
But that smells good as a candle.
I thought, gosh, it's just filling the whole room.
Yeah.
Oh my gosh.
It smells delightful.
All right.
Now, which of my searches came from me watching way too many episodes of The Repair Shop? Oh.
I have a serious addiction to this show.
It is such a good show.
So, just as a reminder, here's my list.
Okay.
Brain trust definition.
Why is baize always green? And what does the British exclamation, core, mean? Oh no, I've got two.
I'm going to say core.
That's right.
Oh, good.
That delicious smelling candle is yours.
Have me some champagne toast right now.
Yeah, because that sounds like something someone on there would say.
Someone on there said it.
Yeah, core blimey.
Yes.
The silversmith handed off a beautiful silver purse to the leather worker because the inside of it had like an accordion pockets.
So, it had a little snap, it was a snap purse, little tiny, so you unsnap it and then when you open it, the leather is supposed to accordion open to have little pockets.
They were disintegrated.
Correct.
So, when she brought it back to him, he opened it up and goes, core! That's fantastic.
I was like, and so of course I had on the closed captioning because I have to.
We're women of a certain age.
We have to have the closed captioning on.
And they're British and sometimes I just don't understand what they're saying.
I have probably heard that said before, but I've never seen it.
Oh, right.
You've never seen it written out.
Right, so it struck with me.
So, when I typed this into the...
Googleena, I was like, I'm gonna have to search the crap out of this.
No one.
It popped up immediately.
So, core, which you probably know all this, but some of our besties might not.
Well, I don't really, I don't know the official.
All right.
Well, the word core is British slang for expressing surprise, amazement, or admiration.
Yes.
It started as a deliberate avoidance of taking the Lord's name in vain.
You say core instead of God or Lord.
Okay.
A variation is core blimey.
Yes.
As you just shouted.
I love core blimey.
Which is a deliberate distortion of the phrase God blind me.
Get out.
Did your mind just freaking explode? Cause mine did.
Yes.
Blimey.
I had no idea.
I never put that together.
Me neither.
There's also gore.
Blimey so gore with a G which will tell you like gore circle, you know or God.
Yes, exactly.
So, the phrase God blind me originated with people stating the truth about something that they had witnessed.
Ah, in other words God strike me dead if this is not Correct or God blind me.
Yes, or if I'm lying. God strike me pink. 
Sorry, Australia.
The earliest evidence of core or core blimey or gore blimey show up in writings published between 1885 and 1890.
This phrase is also widely used in New Zealand and Australia.
And one source that I found said that core and core blimey are more commonly used in southern parts of the UK.
Now, I don't know if that's true or not.
That was just someone piping up, giving their opinion.
So, any of you northerners, if you would like to chime in on that and give your opinion, Delete This History at podcast at gmail.com.
Yeah, I mean, are you from Yorkshire? Yes, or another city in...
Northumbria? Shoot.
We're sorry.
Apologies.
Liverpool? Yeah.
Very good.
My sources for that were Quora, PerfectlySpoken.com, and this one is awesome.
Collins Dictionary!
Mr.Collins.
Mr.Collins! I have something from Collins Dictionary.
When you saw it, did you go, Collins? Yes.
Of course you did.
Mr.Collins.
That candle's yours, girl.
Yeah.
Which I think I already said, sorry I'm old lady.
Well, that's fine.
It's okay to say it more than once.
It's time for this really awkward.
I can only see out of one eye and it's very distracting.
You were just like, what was, what's that word? Like you- It's like I had a stroke.
Yeah, but you, well, shoot, I can't think of the word.
It's time for that really awkward transition.
We're doing a good job.
Very good, very good today.
Where we tell you, our DTH besties, what we searched this week, why we searched it, and what we learned, if anything, in this segment that we like to call Shared History.
Yeah, there we go.
We almost did it.
I didn't know if I was supposed to say it with you.
You looked at me like I kind of should have.
We should share it.
We should share the responsibility of saying this segment because this is the weightiest segment of the show.
It's very serious.
Yeah.
I'll do better next time.
It's fine.
You know, whatever.
We're not here to be professional.
Goodness.
Oh my gosh.
Thank goodness.
When they start paying us.
Maybe we'll care more.
Okay my first search is Dadalian.
Okay.
All right This is another term.
I had no concept of as I was reading James by Percival Everett, which I'm almost finished with. 
Nice.
And it's just been amazing, when I looked it up, it was immediately apparent why I wasn't familiar with this term because it's an adjective stemming from Greek mythology, specifically a Greek mythological figure named Daedalus.
Oh! Mythology makes me want to rip out my hair.
Me too! I freaking hate it.
Me too! I hate, I don't like Greek, Roman, I don't care what kind of mythology it is, I hate it.
I think it's stupid.
I don't care about made up gods and goddesses and their dumb powers and their foibles and why they are this way.
And I just think it's dumb.
And it's probably why I don't like superhero movies and Marvel movies because they're most of them are based in mythology.
Yes.
And I don't give a shit.
That makes so much sense now.
I just I hate it all.
The minute somebody starts saying, oh, this is from Greek mythology, I immediately just shut down.
Like, done.
But, I'm going to tell you all about this because I found this actually a little bit interesting.
Why a word would become a word that we use.
I mean, nobody's saying Daedalian in everyday life, but why it would become a word, like an adjective, after it had been just a myth to begin with.
Here we go.
Oh, I have here hot take.
Oh, shit.
What? I forgot.
I put on here hot take.
Gods and goddesses are dumber than space.
Because at least space has a purpose.
And it's real.
Oh my gosh.
That, that's a bold statement.
So, that's, that's how much I hate it.
That's how you know.
I absolutely understand.
Anyway, Daedalus, according to the myth, is known for building the labyrinth for King Minos on Crete and for making wings of feathers and wax to escape the island with his son Icarus.
Yes.
So, he's Icarus's dad.
Okay.
And he made those terrible wings.
Yes.
That melted.
But listen, that was kind of Icarus's fault.
That's true.
He flew too close to the sun, which we've all done it.
All we've all done it.
I mean, we've all been there.
Yeah.
You get cocky.
You do things but wax and feathers.
I don't know.
I don't know.
Daedalus. Come on, Daedalus.
I think you're setting him up to fail.
The adjective Dedalian means skillfully wrought or made.
Oh, that's the opposite of what you were just saying.
I know, I know.
Or ingenious or cunning by design, artistic, intricate, difficult to comprehend due to its complexity, deceitful or duplicitous.
I think that describes the labyrinth that he designed because he was he's known for building a labyrinth for King Minos on Crete as well.
Okay, so the way that it was used in the book was kind of like, wow, that's so Dedalian, like, like cunning, or a little bit roundabout.
So, I think they were talking more about like the labyrinth part of the myth, not the wings of feathers and wax.
Okay.
I think it means more maze-like.
So…
Because it's not direct.
You had kind of a Dedalian week.
It's uh...
No.
I'm not using that right.
It would be more like if you're talking about someone who's deceitful or duplicitous or setting traps.
Oh.
Like you would have in a labyrinth.
OK.
There are many Daedalian characters in the book James.
OK.
And I'm still enjoying it immensely.
So, my sources were Collins Dictionary.
Google Gemini and Merriam-Webster.
What's Google Gemini? It's AI.
Oh, it has a name now.
Gemini.
Yep.
I have been exploring AI a lot this week.
And putting things in there and automating a lot of things that I do.
It's been amazing.
Yes.
This rundown.
I used it so much.
Really? Yes ma'am, I did.
You'll have to tell me how.
It was fantastic.
I use it at work sometimes when I am short on time and I need help writing something.
Yeah.
If I can just get it going, then I can just go in and edit.
Yeah.
And it's so much faster.
Yeah, yeah.
It got to a point today where I was like, holy crap, I don't have time to mess with this anymore.
Plus, I wanted to throw my computer.
So, when you get to that point, it's kind of like, hmm, maybe I should just do it the old-fashioned way.
What is your first search, Cara? All right, it's why is baize always green? Why? Do you know what baize is? Yes, I do.
But tell our DTH besties who might not watch as many.
British shows as we do.
Baize is a coarse woolen cloth, similar in texture to felt, but it's more durable.
It's a little more thick.
It's not made of the same stuff and it's used for a very wide variety of reasons, but many people will know it as the covering for billiards tables.
Yes.
The sport of billiards was originally played outdoors.
Did you know that? No.
So, the creation of the first billiards table is supposedly credited to Louis XI of France around 1469.
Oh.
He wanted to play billiards without aggravating his bad back.
So, someone built him a waist-high table on which to play billiards.
They put some stone on it and then they put a cloth over it.
Yeah.
And so then as billiards on a table caught on, baize started to be used on it as the covering and was dyed green to resemble the grass from the outdoors.
So, originally it was played on the ground? Yeah.
Like a lawn game? Yes.
So, billiards, what I discovered also, is not the same as pool.
So, billiards is played with three balls and no pockets on the table, pool has six pockets and either nine balls or you know, there's multiple ways you can play like snooker.
I think maybe uses nine or something like that.
Maybe.
So, anyway, billiards doesn't use pockets and I started to search this.
It went deep and I got bored real fast.
Then why don't they call it a billiard table? Well, so it's just morphed.
People have just interchanged the word pool and billiards.
We've all conflated it so many times that it's become synonymous.
That's right.
There literally is a history to billiards you would not even believe.
Oh.
But I was like, I'm getting off in a different tangent, different direction, and I had to pull it back to baize.
Yeah.
So, as I was doing more research on baize, I ran across a phase behind the green baize door.
Yes.
I never heard that before.
Uh-huh.
It's used to describe the dividing line essentially between upstairs and downstairs.
Correct.
So, then my little tiny pea brain started thinking about all the period movies and TV shows that I've watched and in the background I'm seeing the green swinging door with the baize on it.
Yes.
Ahhhhh.
Yes.
What? Downton Abby, Upstairs Downstairs.
Um, um, oh lord, I can hang on.
It's coming to me.
Okay.
Hang on.
It's, it's, it's going to be good.
This is going to be good.
Hang on.
It's coming.
Wait for it.
It's a movie.
Michael Gambon is in it and he's stabbed in the back.
Oh.
It's basically the predecessor to Downton Abbey.
What the crap is the name of that movie? Clive, Clive is Owen, Clive is in it.
Clive is Owen.
What is that? This is painful.
It hurts.
Does it hurt as bad as my eye? Gosford Park.
Yes, Gosford Park.
Oh my gosh.
2001.
Girl, I know.
Holy crap.
I think I have fallen asleep to Gosford Park so many, I don't think I've seen the whole movie.
Ever, all the way through.
Oh my gosh.
I cannot stay awake during that.
It is slow moving.
Yeah.
You know, it's a murder mystery.
Kelly McDonald.
I love her.
Love her.
I love her almost as much as Phoebe Judge, almost.
I understand.
Anyway, I could see the swinging door in the background.
Yeah, exactly.
Oh my gosh, that 15 minutes ago, I started talking about the green baize door.
Yeah, clue.
Clue.
Uh-huh.
So, many shows.
The expression referred to the spaces of the house where servants were cooking.
processing food, washing clothes, laundering clothes, I just said washing clothes, washing dishes, laundering clothes, linens, among other tasks.
And the doors to these spaces were covered with this green baize, it's very thick material to provide soundproofing, to block out the unpleasantness of the reality of work.
Like we don't wanna know what you're doing back there.
Things just happen magically, there aren't servants in this house.
Correct.
Now, not all houses had the literal green baize door, but that expression became a metaphor for the social divisions of the household.
Yeah.
I didn't know that.
Isn't that interesting? It's super interesting.
I put that together not very long ago when I was reading a book.
It was a cozy mystery and it was it was something kind of like that where it was at some kind of country estate in England and they kept talking about the green baize door and I was like what in the F and I looked it up and had the same epiphany. 
Yes, yeah. 
It's just something that here in the United States not a thing. 
Apparently not so anyway my not in our social circle well no we have no green baize doors you know what how I know about baize they're on the bottom of ceramic flower pots.
Yes, they are.
That's how I know about green baize.
Yeah.
And pool tables and yes, that kind of stuff.
Yes.
Correct.
But I always thought that what was on pool tables was felt.
I did too.
And maybe it is maybe they don't use baize anymore.
But I found many, many websites talking about baize on pool tables.
I had the same experience when I looked it up. I also found baize was used for nun habits and like they had to wear it.
To make them stiff? Well, it was, it was a yes, because it was a stiff material, but it was also really, really cheap.
Oh, and it also was kind of a, um, a humbling clothing, like it's uncomfortable.
Yeah.
And so you're just constantly reminded of the suffering of Christ, that kind of a thing.
So, I found that really interesting.
I found so many uses for baize, but I did not, again, want to go off on a tangent, so I had to pull myself back to the green baize.
I could have gone hog wild on baize this week, y'all.
Billiards and baize.
My sources were The Guardian, which I lurve, Wikipedia, Reddit.
It got wild on Reddit about baize.
Jadeaustinsworld.com Kudos.com as in cue.
Oh, cue like pull cue.
I see that's fascinating.
I thought it was too.
All right.
What's your next search? My next and last search is cakewalk stagger.
Now when you think of the word cakewalk, what do you think of? So, I think of school fair and they've used chalk to write, to basically draw a square on the ground and they've numbered.
Every square has a number, they turn on music and then you walk, kinda like musical chairs.
And then when the music stops, whatever number you're on, that's something to do with the cake that is available.
That you win.
Yes.
Cause all the cakes have also been numbered.
That's what I think of with Cakewalk.
Now when I hear the word cakewalk, I just think something that's easy.
Uh, yes.
My brain did not go there.
That's a cakewalk.
That's the only, I mean, I don't have experience with those kinds of cakewalks.
I've never done anything like that.
I've never been at any event that had a cakewalk.
We need to set up a cakewalk.
It sounds delicious.
Oh, you and your sugar! I forgot! And like something that I would really enjoy.
Love to do like a prune walk.
Uhhhhhh.
A nut walk.
A kind bar walk.
It's just not the same.
No, it's not.
So, when I think of cakewalk, I think of something that's easy.
Yes.
And I was like, where did that even come from? But this is another term that I had to look up while I was reading the book James.
Oh, my goodness.
It was in there.
When I looked it up, it said that a cakewalk is like what you were saying.
It's a prize walk held on Southern plantations in the antebellum and post emancipation eras.
Really? That's where it got started.
That's interesting.
And then it became a dance form.
Oh.
So, the enslaved people would make fun of the formality of the white people at their dances and they had this exaggerated comical dancing that was terrible looking, right? Oh.
But, they did it on purpose because they were making fun of white people.
Like Elaine.
Yes.
It is very much like that.
I watched some videos of Cakewalk Stagger and I was like...
Oh, it's like Elaine.
Oh my gosh.
It's like Elaine's dancing.
Oh my gosh.
It's very like jerky, herky jerky and yeah.
So, it was a satirical response to the formal dances of white slave holders.
Oh, my goodness.
Then here's some irony.
I don't know which kind of irony, don't ask me.
Okay.
I've already forgotten.
The cakewalks meaning was distorted when it was appropriated by white minstrel shows.
White people would put on blackface.
Yes.
And they would do a cakewalk stagger thinking that they were making fun of...
Oh my gosh...
enslaved people.
But really, the enslaved people started it to make fun of them.
Oh my gosh.
So, they were so unaware.
Yes.
About themselves that they never dreamed that this whole thing started because they were being made fun of.
Oh, my goodness.
So, then they started imitating this in minstrel shows.
And they transformed the cakewalk into a grotesque caricature.
Of course they did.
They had to be mean about it.
So, the dance became a vehicle for reinforcing harmful stereotypes about black people.
Oh, stripping it of its original cultural and political significance.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
So, the term cakewalk eventually took on a metaphorical meaning.
The idea of winning a prize effortlessly by simply walking around transformed into a description of a task that is incredibly easy.
So, a cakewalk is it's so easy to win that cake because all you do is walk around and you stop when the music stops and you win the cake.
Right.
It's a cakewalk.
While the original cakewalk was a complex cultural and social phenomenon, the idiom that emerged from it captures a simplified and often superficial aspect of the dance.
It's a fascinating example of how language can both reflect and shape our understanding of the world.
So, it started as something pretty complex, enslaved people making fun of white slave holders, and then white people and minstrel shows thinking that they're making fun of the enslaved people.
So, it was all pretty complicated and pretty complex.
And then it turned into something, you know, really simple, like it's a cakewalk.
That is fascinating.
I know.
It still maintains a presence in certain musical circles.
Despite its painful history, the cakewalk has had a lasting impact on popular culture.
It's influenced the development of jazz and ragtime music and its rhythmic patterns can be found in many later dance forms.
Like Elaine's dancing.
My sources were Smithsonian National Museum of American History, Wikipedia, Birmingham Historical Society, and Library of Congress.
Nice.
We got some brain blowing.
I know.
Searches today.
I mean, it's just something like so simple as something that you might have seen at a school thing or a church thing.
Yes.
And then, you know, oh, that's a cakewalk or just a figure of speech has so much more historical significance than you realize.
Yeah.
All right.
My last search is brain trust.
I read this somewhere.
I don't know where, I can't remember.
It's probably one of the 10,000 articles that I've read this week because it's been a big week for news.
Yes.
And it pretty much got the gist of what they were talking about.
just by context, but I looked at brain trust anyway.
Yeah, like how did that even get started? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, according to grammarist.com, brain trust is a North American term for a committee of persons who are in charge of advising someone about planning and strategy.
It can be official or unofficial is usually tied to politics or government, okay? To get a little bit further, the noun for a person in a brain trust is called a brain trustor.
Oh.
You are brain trustor, number one.
I'm a brain trustor.
I mean.
Outside of the US, the term is brains trust.
Oh, that makes sense because it's more than one.
It signifies a group, usually experts in their occupations, who field questions in a forum, either on the radio or in person.
Okay.
So, a little bit different.
Okay.
The noun form for a person on a brain's trust is a brain's trustor.
All right.
Same.
Now that we've got that all squared away, this gets a little bit weird.
What? So, another source I found showed that the early use of the term brain trust in the US was pattern on the use of the term trust to depict economic consolidation within an industry.
Okay? So, you know, we've got a trust, blah, blah.
For example, in one instance, it was used to describe the consolidation of too many newspapers in one town.
Okay.
Here's a quote.
While sugar, coffee, lumber, whiskey, iron, coal, and other trusts are forming, we can see no reason why a brain trust can't be organized.
So, they took all of these newspapers and they consolidated them into one and they called it a brain trust because they've got all these people thinking together to write this newspaper.
All right? So...
That term was also used wryly by some journalists when writing about free trade in the US.
It was used in yet another way by journalists who were covering Henry Cabot Lodge.
During the Spanish-American War, 1898, a group of journalists would gather in the Senator's committee room and discuss with him the progress of the war.
Lodge called this group his Board of Strategy, but the Senate press corps called it The Brain Trust.
Ironically called it the brain trust like they were making fun of it.
I don't know. Kind of like my dad used to call people mental giants. Because why would the journalist? Why would the Senate press corps called these other journalists a brain trust? Like that's journalists making fun of journalists.
Yeah, I mean, I guess I'm not saying that can't happen, but I don't know maybe. Yeah, I mean maybe it was kind of One group of journalists looking down their noses at another one and saying, oh, nice brain trust you got there.
So, the sense of the term as depicting a collection of well informed experts was what seemed to finally catch on.
Okay.
So, and it wasn't long before that term just described a very knowledgeable group whose advice would most certainly be heeded.
Right.
All right.
So, people might be most familiar with the term brain trust, describing a group of advisors for Franklin Roosevelt.
Okay.
The core of Roosevelt's brain trust initially consisted of a group of Columbia Law School professors.
They played a key role in shaping the policies of the first New Deal, although they never met as a group.
They just each like advised the president on their own.
And he coalesced all the information himself.
Correct.
Like, oh, you're part of my brain trust.
Yes.
You're a brain trustor, but you never meet up with the other ones.
Exactly, it was kind of weird.
He had another brain trust later on that consisted of guys from Harvard Law School and they played a key role in shaping the policies of the second New Deal.
Okay.
All right, so most recently the term has been expanded beyond politics to encompass any specialized group of advisors aligned with a decision maker.
Okay.
Now you and I have always said that we would be great as a part of a think tank.
I don't know why people don't ask us more often.
We're brilliant.
So, I was curious what the difference was.
A think tank is a group of people, usually experts, like you and I.
Correct, on everything, every topic.
Who come together to brainstorm ideas for solutions to various problems.
They share their solutions with the public at large and usually not a specific organization or purpose.
Now think tanks are generally concerned with large political or economic issues.
So, the difference between that and a brain trust is essentially the audience and the process.
So, with a think tank, you're brainstorming with the brain trust.
You typically are an expert in your field offering advice.
You already know the answer.
Yes.
Got it.
Okay.
Now, how does that compare to hive mind? I don't know.
I didn't search that.
Because that's the new thing that people, well, new, not new, newer than the New Deal.
Let's just put it that way.
Newer than Franklin Roosevelt.
But that's a more modern term is hive mind.
I don't guess I've heard that.
I'm asking, you know, the people will go on social media and say.
Hey, asking the hive mind here, what should I do about blah, blah? It's when you solicit advice or an answer to something, even just the answers, a definite answer to a question, and you're kind of polling a bigger group, like bees working together in a hive.
Hive mind, and sometimes it is brainstorming, and sometimes it is just asking.
Hey, does anybody out there know the answer to this? Hmm.
I have not run across that term.
So, maybe that's like a mixture.
A mesh.
Yes, a mesh of the two.
My sources were grammarist.com, dictionary.cambridge.org and Wikipedia.
But what about this one? What about this one? Woo! Here's a quick listing of our other searches from the past week that we didn't have time to discuss in this episode, or were just too damn BORING.
YA BORING!
Yep.
Here we go.
Air tag.
Lumi AI.
That's another one.
Yes.
Pictures.
Lieutenant Dan cat meme.
I needed to use that for social media and I forgot that you had sent it to me.
This is what an old fart I am.
You sent it to me earlier this week.
It was right there on my phone and my texts and when I was doing social media I was like, ooh, I'm going to share.
Lieutenant Dan Cat meme with the besties on Instagram.
I looked it up and googled it.
I even sent it to you edited, like it was even formatted.
I know.
That's hilarious.
I am a moron.
You got new legs Lieutenant Dan.
Rizoles Camp4 Tablets 1940s Use.
Galloway Station Trivia Night.
Which had to be postponed because of my evil pirate eye.
Pete Buttigieg, Patreon, Kitchen Sideboard, Wood Bookshelf with Doors, International Scout Vehicle, Send DoorDash Gift Card, Springfield Cardinals Box Seat Prices, and complete Eleanor Roosevelt book series in order.
I have books two and three now.
How much are they? It depends.
Oh, OK.
Some of them are kind of expensive, kind of pricey.
Oh my gosh.
And you can't get most of them on Kindle.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
So, I'm having to purchase them.
But I can get them used.
I wonder, it might be worth something, that book I gave you.
It probably is.
I didn't even look.
I just saw it.
I was like, oh my gosh, I'm getting that for Brea.
Yeah.
But it's the third book in the series.
Okay, if you find out that it's worth a million dollars, will you give me some of that? Absolutely.
Just a little bit.
I don't want half.
Oh, we'll half it.
Oh, you wouldn't even have to do that.
Like, I'm just like, I'll take a couple hundred thousand.
I'll give you as much as you want.
How about that? All right.
It's your turn to do what about this one? Yes it is.
All right, here we go.
Remove scratches from Stirling Silver Medallion.
Do you know what I think of when I hear the word medallion? What do you think of? Medallion.
Food.
Food? Why? Because that's what they call like little steaks.
It's a steak.
I didn't even think about that.
But then I also think of the Olympics.
Oh, yeah.
That's about it.
What do you think of? I always think of Mrs.Frisbee and the Rats of Nym.
Oh, yes.
Every time I hear the word medallion.
Yeah.
because that was the whole thing.
I am so immature.
No, you're not.
I'm just a little child.
You're not, you just have very strong core memories.
Apparently.
That have to do with literature.
Oh, thank you.
I mean, come on.
Thank you, all right.
Next, Water of Airstone Repair Shop.
Bill Patterson Repair Shop.
Basically all of these are from the repair shop.
Robert Pugh.
Robert Pugh/Florence Pugh related? Online pet prescriptions.
Steve Fletcher clock shop.
I found his clock shop.
You did? It's in Whitney, which is near Oxford.
Anyway, the reason I found out was there was this very, very special clock that got brought in on the repair shop.
And he, it was so special.
Like he was like, this is a fantastic piece.
And he said, I don't feel comfortable working on that here.
I'm taking it back to my workshop.
So, we got to follow him to his own workshop.
I saw the front of it.
And so, then I Googled it.
And I found him, I started following him online.
Stalker.
And I found out his exact address.
I could go there if I wanted to.
Colleen, if you wanna go to Steve's shop.
It's in Oxford.
Steve's shop, it's in Whitney, just FYI.
All right, back to square one meaning, Albert Carbon Neutral Sustainable Productions Certification, the repair shop.
Missouri drivers license expiration consequences.
Not me.
15 inch white wall air registers, ceiling fans, Home Depot ceiling fans.
What is D.Menos? Oh man, this should have been a bookmark.
SNL etiquette lesson with Emma Thompson and Leslie Jones.
Have you seen that? No.
If anyone's seen it, this is for you.
Back and forth, 6 to 12.
You guys have to look this up.
This is an honorary bookmark.
SNL, etiquette lesson, Leslie Jones, Emma Thompson.
It is a riot.
It's Emma Thompson.
Yes.
Okay.
Missouri DMV hours.
When was Diet Dr.Pepper first available? 1962.
Downton Abbey music composer.
John Lund.
Oh yes.
And Grantchester.
And Grantchester.
And Little Dorrit.
And there were bunches of other ones.
So, many.
That's why all the British period pieces, the music sounds the same.
This guy has composed all of it.
Chang Pei Pei Death.
Did you watch Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon? No.
Okay, never mind.
Dutch Courage.
You know what that is? Oh yeah yeah.
Lou Dobbs Death.
Bob Newhart death, ectotherm definition, holeric realm, Blinded by The Light lyrics.
Oh my gosh.
And Pope cannot donate organs.
Oh.
The Pope is not allowed to donate his organs because he, then you're giving basically God's organs to people.
Nope.
You can't do that apparently.
It's not the same actually.
No.
Sorry.
It made me really mad when I read that.
Whatever.
God.
Core blimey.
Core blimey.
That is the end of my list.
Do you have any listener shout outs? No, I do not.
Well, Cooper Trooper, Heather and Dory G were very active on socials this week.
Holy crap.
You know what? That's right.
Cooper Trooper really wanted me to munch on those gummies.
I know I saw that one.
I was laughing so hard.
Or was that in a private message? I think that was in our DMs.
It may have been.
Maybe.
Anyway, sorry, Cooper Trooper.
And then Heather made a public recommendation of the podcast.
Yes.
So, that was nice.
Heather.
And Dory has some fun plans for us coming up, which we will talk about at a later date.
Yes.
I'm so excited.
I am really excited about that.
Uh, me too.
I'm also a little bit nervous.
I don't know why it's just me.
Yeah.
You'll find out soon enough.
You'll find out soon enough anyway, uh, when we explode.
Oh, and we were, you know, recognized today.
Oh my god, yes, you have to tell them.
Okay, so when we were coming into the library today, you can see the room that we record in.
You can see it from the parking lot.
You can see into it.
It's like a greenhouse.
Yeah, it's all just windows.
And there was somebody sitting in the room.
And I said, oh no, we're going to have to kick somebody out of the room because we have it reserved.
and it's really always awkward to have to do it.
So, awkward.
It's the worst.
But by the time we had walked in, he had already gotten up and packed up and he was moving out to a table.
And he said, oh, sorry about that.
And I was like, oh, no, no problem.
I said, you must have seen us coming or something.
And he said, oh yeah, I recognized you.
Yeah! We did it! He doesn't know why he recognizes us.
We're just here every Friday.
Right.
We don't know him at all.
But he has been here almost every Friday as well.
So, lately, yeah.
Yeah.
Cause I recognize him too.
Me too.
But the way he said it though, I recognized you and then I made a big deal about it.
Cause I'm a nerd.
And I said, Cara, we just got recognized.
I was so excited.
It's happening.
It's happening.
And then he, he looked like, that's not what I meant.
Oh geez.
He was, he didn't think it was very funny, but that's okay.
You know what? We think we're funny and that's all that matters.
All that matters.
We'll take what we can get.
How can people get in touch with us? Well, now that we're famous and you want to email us, go to Delete This History podcast at gmail.com.
Drop us a note.
Let us know if people say core blimey in Northern UK.
Yeah.
If you are in the North.
in the UK.
Yes.
Yeah.
And you use it too.
You can let us know.
Just be like, whatever that was.
They're full of shit.
That person on Reddit was crazy.
Yeah.
Which is not a far stretch.
No.
Also you should rate and review us because that's how we get more famous.
Yes.
Tell your friends.
More exposure.
Pop onto Apple.
Yeah.
I said Apple.
Get on Apple.
Anyway.
Because it matters.
You know, I have never reviewed or rated any podcasts I listen to.
Oh my gosh.
Isn't that terrible? You listen to so many podcasts.
So, I'm such a hypocrite, I'm asking you guys to rate and review us and I don't do it.
You didn't have to tell on yourself.
I pride myself on being honest and transparent.
And so one of my goals this week is to do a couple.
Yes.
Of my very favorite ones.
And just write a quick thing and a little rate.
Tell us how long it takes when you do it.
It'll take two seconds.
So, that you can pass it along.
Like we said, you could just say, hey, this is a podcast, five stars.
They have an episode every week.
Yep.
They think they're really funny.
Five stars.
One person knows them at the library.
Yep.
Do you think the library people know who we are? Probably because they're like, oh, with those lady sleeves so that we could lock up.
Hey, we've got a full hour.
You're right.
We do.
We've got plenty of time.
That's it.
That's all I got, Cara.
That's all I've got, too.
Me, too.
I think I am.
But do you think is that all you have? That's all I got.
OK.
I think I may go delete my history and then eat some supper.
Yeah, yeah.
I think I'm going to eat first, then delete my history.
That's probably a better plan.
Because one is much more urgent than the other.
Good point.
So, anyway.
Okay.
We'll stay fresh, you cheese bags.
Yeah.
See you next week.
Bye.
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