He blew through the four-way stop and almost hit someone and so then they honked at him.
Well that's not your fault.
I thought you said people were honking at you.
No, no.
You were.
I'm si- Brie is not listening to me.
I'm trying.
It's okay.
I was asking you as my best friend, please stop me from driving before I reach that point.
As your best friend who doesn't listen while you're telling stories.
Hey, you're busy, it's okay.
I can't- I shouldn't be talking.
I cannot multitask anymore.
I just can't.
With you the sun is shining 24-7.
Cause when we're together it feels like we're in heaven.
If it will get dark you'll be my million stars.
I know I can lean on you.
Welcome to episode 55 of Delete This History, a podcast by two besties of a certain age
searching for answers where your host, Bria Brown-
And I'm Carrie Burch.
Yes, yes you are.
The one, the only.
There's only one of me.
Yes.
Faux show.
In a good way.
Yeah.
Duh.
What I meant.
Uh.
Speaking of good things.
Yeah.
I watched something, I don't even think it's new, but anyway, whatever.
I found it, I liked it.
I watched it on Freevy, but I believe it was a History Channel documentary originally about
Theodore Roosevelt.
Yeah.
Or TR to those of us in the know.
All of the historians kept calling him TR.
I see.
But it's a two part docu-series about the man that met the legend.
And I learned a lot.
Nice.
And I already kind of knew quite a bit about him cause I had watched the Ken Burns documentary,
The Roosevelts.
Yes.
Excellent.
I do want to see that.
It's very long.
Mark out.
Which is why I have not watched it yet.
Mark off an eon on your calendar to watch it.
But if you're interested at all in history and or the Roosevelts or Teddy Roosevelt or
TR or whatever, I recommend it.
It's kind of like that Wyatt Earp thing that we watched.
Oh yes.
Where.
Did you watch it?
Oh yes.
Oh good.
Oh yes.
I didn't realize you had.
I didn't.
The Teddy Roosevelt thing is kind of like that where it has actors.
It's dramatized, blah, blah, blah.
But then it has historians who kind of cut in and explain things and talk about things
and analyze and give the context, the historical context.
There's no Ed Harris explaining things for us.
Let me explain.
Which is kind of sad.
But they are good actors.
So nice.
And the one, the guy who played TR, he was so good that I kept forgetting that he wasn't
really Teddy Rose.
Like he became Teddy Roosevelt to me.
And then they would show pictures of Teddy Roosevelt, like the real one.
And I'd be like, oh, oh my gosh, that's right.
He did look like that.
He does look different than this actor.
But it was just one of those things where you're like, I don't know, he just really
embodied that role and he did a really good job.
And so I was just like, bully.
He didn't really say bully that often in his lines, but he did a couple of times and he
did a good job at it.
He didn't have the big teeth.
I'm sorry.
Like Teddy Roosevelt.
He looks kind of like Steven Root a little bit.
The actor did.
So that kept kind of throwing me off a little bit.
Where's my stapler?
But it was good.
That's the only thing I have.
Oh, okay.
Because I just, I'm not going to say it.
Don't say it.
You're going to make Caleb mad.
I'm just so VVB.
You know me.
I'm down with the VVB.
All right.
Okay.
So I have a correction to make first.
I've had a lot of corrections lately.
Oh no.
I'm misspeaking.
Misspeaking.
Yeah, that's right.
In episode 53, I said that my search does left handed mean sinister came from watching
an episode of The Repair Shop.
I'm old and that's wrong.
Oh my gosh.
I know that it's wrong.
It was on the Great British Baking Show.
I'm conflating my cozy British shows.
Yes.
Because when I watched that episode of the Great British Baking Show and they started
talking about it, I was like, oh my gosh, they're talking about it on this show too.
And then it was like exactly the conversation that you relayed.
And I was like, wait a second.
It's because Kara's a dumb dumb.
And I'm like, I watched so much Repair Shop.
It had to have been The Repair Shop.
No, it was Noel Fielding and Dylan.
Yes.
The very, very young, very young, uh, Jason Moma thing.
He's got going on eyebrows.
He's a superior Jason Moma.
Momoa.
Thank you.
Sorry.
Come on Kara.
I mean, that tells you how much I step up your attention to Jason Momoa.
Moma Momoa.
Jason, Jason Momoa is an inferior Dylan.
Correct.
So we're going to move on here.
Okay.
So make sure we get that on record.
Uh, by the way, that could have been one of my bookmarks is Great British Baking Show
because I am enjoying it so much this season and I'm keeping up with it.
Good job.
Right?
I did not get to watch it last Friday and I don't remember why.
Cause Sean was out of town.
Sean was out of town.
You can't watch it with that one.
We can't.
It's a rule.
You can't watch it separately.
No.
So we're doing a double feature tonight.
Yep.
How fun.
And supposedly Sean put out, um, cinnamon rolls to rise so that we can bake them and
eat them while we watched the Great British Baking Show.
What's the over under on that actually have happening, have happened?
Well, I texted him and he said, it's a date.
Right now he is out with friends.
So I don't know if they are currently rising, but if they are, it'd be nice surprise if
they're not, that just helps my waistline.
Man, I always want to eat so, so hard when I watch that show.
That's why we're making cinnamon rolls.
Gosh.
All right.
So that was my correction.
I felt so dumb.
I was like, Oh my gosh, you are so dumb.
I mean, really, but my recommendations.
When this airs, it will be election day.
It will be.
So recommendation bookmark y'all go vote.
Yep.
No excuses.
Do it.
Excuses.
Do you know, I saw today as of today, which is not election day.
No, not yet.
In our world, in our world, 34 million people have already voted early.
34 million, because they are people like me who do not want to deal with that.
Ain't nobody got time for that on election day.
I am going on election day and I think I'll go about 10 o'clock because usually at 10
o'clock it's dead.
Anyway, so Jackie and I are going this weekend to the library center to do it.
Fun.
Very good.
I thought that would be a nice kind of, it's our first election.
I thought that would be kind of low key, low pressure.
Not as kind of crazy.
Yeah.
Hopefully.
I don't know.
I've driven by the green County clerk's office and the line, like every, every day the line
is long.
Yeah.
Wow.
The clerk was quoted in something I read about the library center offering absentee voting
for people, which is where I'm going to go.
And the clerk said that they've had 30 to one hour waits for their absentee voting.
That's why I said, I think I shall try the library center.
Cause at least while you're waiting, you can read a book or something.
Well, that's very true.
I mean, you can do that at the clerk's office as well, but, and you can do it on the weekend.
Yes.
At the library center.
That's true.
You're not beholden to one day.
Correct.
So that's what we're doing.
We're doing it tomorrow.
But those of you who haven't voted yet, if you're not part of the 34 million, that's
insane.
It's insane.
And counting then get out there and do it.
Yep.
Do it.
Vote, vote, vote.
You have until seven o'clock.
Yes.
When the polls close.
That's correct.
If you're in line by seven o'clock, they can't turn you away.
That's right.
All right.
My next bookmark is a song that I've discovered by Sheryl Crow called alarm clock.
It's from her album evolution, which is a year old, but it came out about the time Roy
was very, very sick.
Oh, and I usually follow Sheryl Crow and I'm like, I know.
Well, I was not paying attention to music space.
So I just found this album and this song I am in love with because I hate my alarm clock.
I hate alarm clocks with a passion.
I know I'm not alone.
So she's going through all these fantastical situations.
There's like three verses of amazing dreams.
Yes.
And then her alarm clock wakes her up.
And my last one, take a pal with you shoe shopping.
Oh yes.
Yes.
Oh my gosh.
I made Brea go shoe shopping with me and it was so much easier than doing it alone.
Hell yeah.
You need somebody to throw boxes at you and then to put shoes back in boxes and put them
back on the shelf.
Yes.
And to say, oh, here's some, oh, here's some.
You got four, four eyeballs.
Yeah.
Looking for shoes.
Yes.
And I did take home three pairs.
Yeah.
And I was hoping for five, but that is not Brea's fault.
That is the stores fault.
Three out of five ain't bad.
That's what Meatloaf said.
Did we, did we go to four stores?
We went to Dillard's.
Oh yeah.
Dillard's, JCPenney.
Rack room.
Shoe Carnival.
That was it.
And?
Oh, the shoe department.
Shoe department.
Five.
Oh my gosh.
And?
Oh, I forgot about JCPenney.
That's right.
Yeah.
And we went to Spirit Halloween.
Spirit Halloween.
Which Brea went there, she helped me pick out my Where's Waldo costume.
I took one for the team going into that store.
It wasn't too bad though.
No, no.
It was just like, it was a weekday and mid morning.
It was fine.
Yes.
It was afternoon.
And I got a Where's Waldo costume for a thing I had to volunteer at work.
I didn't have to volunteer.
I did volunteer.
I wanted to volunteer.
Correct.
It was last night.
Here's the sad news.
None of today's children know who Waldo is.
It's really sad.
None of them.
We had approximately 300 people come through.
None of those children knew who I was.
Did they ask you who are you?
Yes, they did.
All of the parents were like, Waldo!
Well at least the parents still knew.
They all knew.
It's really sad when the grown up parents, when they start to not know your references
to things.
Because I've got some coworkers who do not get my references to some things.
That's how young they are.
Yes.
They're like, oh my gosh.
But Turnabout was fair play because I didn't know hardly any of the kids' costumes.
They're all dressed up as specific, I don't know, I don't even know.
Cartoons that I've never heard of.
Yeah, yeah.
Cartoons nowadays are crazy.
They are crazy.
And you got yelled at by a parent.
I did get yelled at.
I got yelled at because I called this little kid.
He was so cute.
And he was in a onesie penguin costume.
And it was really cute.
And I was like, look at this penguin.
And she's like, blah, blah, blah, blah.
She started screaming at me about him being a very specific type of penguin from a specific
show.
I would assume that every person along the way was calling him the wrong thing.
They were all just calling him a basic penguin.
Yeah, basic.
Is that why she was so upset?
I don't know.
That's my guess.
Did she make this costume with her own hands?
No, you could tell.
I mean, it had, it was a store bought costume, but she added things to it.
Like there was a sailor cap and then he had something around his neck.
She kept screaming something about a doctor or something.
But penguin in a sailor hat with something around his neck and I got, man, I got chewed
out.
I can't believe that.
Where's Waldo hid?
I mean, it was a life.
It was the only, it was the only bad moment of the night.
And it wasn't even bad.
I was just like, Oh, okay.
Good luck kid.
Right.
Your mom is crazy.
Oh my gosh.
But a woman about my age showed up dressed as Carmen San Diego and I lost my night.
I mean, I was like a fan girl.
Yeah.
That picture was amazing.
I loved Carmen San Diego.
The host was Lynn Thigpen.
Yes.
I loved that show.
I still love that show.
I'd watch it now if I could.
I probably would too.
It's a good anyway, but that woman's husband showed up.
He was a Waldo too.
Lynn Thigpen's husband.
No, no, not Lynn.
Carmen San Diego's husband.
When I screamed Carmen San Diego, then where's Waldo turned around and he was like, honey,
you were worried.
No one would know who you are.
And I was like, Oh, I said, trust me.
I'm sure none of the kids.
Oh, of course not.
No, no.
Which is also sad.
Yeah.
If they didn't know who Waldo was, there's no way they knew who Carmen San Diego was.
Absolutely not.
Sad.
So sad.
Those are all of my bookmarks for today.
Sorry, that went on a little too long.
Well, you know, we're not here to talk about crazy parents.
Thank goodness.
Please no.
I don't think that's in any of my, no, that's not any of my searches.
Okay, good.
What we are here to talk about is our internet search history for the week.
Yes.
And we do that how?
With the reading of the lists.
Yes, ma'am.
Here we go.
This is our top three most interesting, funniest, most successful searches of the week in list
form.
My list for this week is Springfield Moe building height limit.
My voice is still not right.
Whirly ball.
Master bedroom etymology.
Oh, interesting.
All right.
Here's mine.
Navy ship discover.
We're not doing full sentences anymore.
Finally after a year.
Yeah, but we got, we just can't let go.
My third one is a full question.
Oh no.
Okay, sorry.
Shoot.
Okay.
Number two, sports car with GTR emblem slash how to pronounce canards.
Number three, are parts of Gray's anatomy shot in a real hospital?
Full question.
Well, you know, what are you going to do?
Just got to be me.
Nobody else is going to do it.
Nope.
So now 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 list.
Kara.
Yeah.
Okay, you're playing for something that goes with your prize from last week.
What to partner.
Oh, oh my gosh.
Some fine tip markers.
There are even F's on the top.
Yep.
How did you see that?
I lost the freaking table.
That's crazy.
To color your Christmas cards slash tags.
You said you needed some new fine tip markers.
There you go.
I did.
And I haven't bought them yet.
Yes.
You know, because you're VVB.
I'm VVB.
I was counting on that.
They're just primary colored markers.
And I think they're actually for like back in the day when you'd have like overhead projector.
Oh.
You know, like transparencies.
But I'm sure they'll be amazing.
I think they'll be just fine.
Here we go.
Which search was prompted by an obsessive viewing of a show I discussed in my bookmarks
last week and also by a little bit of nudging from Jackie when I almost forgot to follow
through and look it up.
Okay, so here are the choices.
Springfield Mo building height limit, Whirly Ball or Master Bedroom Etymology.
A show that you're watching.
Bookmarks from last week.
I'm thinking.
I talked about the show with Reda.
That's your hint.
Oh.
Okay.
I guess I'm going to go with Master Bedroom Etymology.
Yes.
You nailed it.
I almost went with building height because that could play into that as well.
Yes, correct.
One of my bookmarks last week was the show, the ugliest house in America.
Also the scariest house in America, the spinoff with Reda.
And they tour the houses and then they figure out which house is ugliest in that region.
And then it gets down to the semifinal and then they pick up a winner for the whole country,
blah, blah, blah.
And they redo the house.
Now they always when they're touring the houses call the master bedroom the main bedroom.
Oh.
And because I know from other things that the word master has fallen out of fashion
in a lot of different contexts.
Like if the word master is in something, forget it.
They call it something else now.
Because it has negative connotations due to slavery.
OK.
So I was like, I bet that's what it is.
But I have, you know, etch a sketch brain.
And so I didn't look it up.
But then Jackie looked it up and she kind of nudged me.
I said, don't tell me.
Don't tell me what it says, because I'm going to look it up from the podcast.
So I did.
Here's what I learned, the term master bedroom has indeed been criticized for its racist,
sexist and hierarchical connotations.
Some members of the real estate industry have called to retire the term and replace it with
primary bedroom.
Although like I said, they were using the term main bedroom on the show I was watching.
Fast fact.
The Houston Association of Realtors was the first organization to stop using the term
master bedroom in June 2020.
The term master bedroom isn't that old, though.
It originated less than 100 years ago, first appearing in a 1926 Sears catalog, which described
the large second floor bedroom with its own private bathroom in a Dutch colonial home
that was in the Sears catalog.
You know how back in the day, I don't know if you know this, but you could buy homes
like home kits in the Sears catalog.
Yes.
Have it delivered.
Yes.
And it was like a prefab house that you would just erect on a site.
They called it the master bedroom in this catalog, 1926.
It was a marketing ploy, obviously, used to attract aspirational suburban home buyers
who wanted to be seen as part of the middle class after World War I.
Okay.
And it was also used to attract parents who longed for their own private space, something
only for them.
And they were the masters of the house.
Yes.
But really, the term master is typically only used to describe a man.
So it comes from the Latin word magister, probably not the way it's said in Latin, which
means chief, head, or director.
Historically, the term master has been used to describe a man in an authoritative position,
such as a schoolmaster or the other kind that we don't like to talk about here in the United
States, because it's our shameful little secret that there were slaves, enslaved people in
the United States with masters.
Oh, I was like, what are you getting at?
Master.
Okay.
Incidentally, and anecdotally, my sister Colleen used to address all male to young male relatives
with master before their first and last name.
So say, you know, Master Caleb Brown, she would send him a card in the mail for his
birthday or whatever.
And Caleb used to really get a kick out of it.
He thought that was hilarious.
But how quickly things change.
Yes.
My sources were CBS News, New York Times, Alicia Taylor Interiors, Shout Out UK, Property
Specialists Inc, and Federal Employment Law Training Group.
You get those.
I do.
Beautiful markers.
And I'm going to come with them.
Okay.
Cool.
Okay.
Today, you are playing for this air in my hands because I left your prize at home.
Oh, no.
Yeah.
So if you win, I'll throw this air at you.
Okay.
And maybe it'll help you breathe better and get some of the dust worked out of your lungs.
Good Lord.
I'm really sorry.
I was so proud of myself this morning.
I was like, I got all this pulled together and I'm not even going to be late for work.
Wrong prize sitting on my desk.
But you weren't late for work.
I was not late for work.
That's all that matters.
Well, that's your prize is that I made it in time for work.
Yes, you know what my real prize is that you found three pairs of shoes to fit on your
very non-standard feet.
Brea is amazed at how non-standard my feet are.
I didn't believe it was possible to have feet that non-standard.
Yep.
It's so frustrating.
They're between half sizes.
They're like quarters or three quarters.
Yeah, it's crazy.
And your feet don't look particularly wide.
They is.
But they're the same width all the way down.
They're rectangles.
Yeah.
I have rectangle feet.
I know.
You have rectangle school pizza feet.
Yeah.
I have brick feet.
School pizza feet.
Yes.
All the things that are rectangle.
Yep.
Maybe I should just carve out some bricks.
Oh, those would be super comfy.
Oh, geez.
All right.
So you don't have a prize today.
All right.
I'll have to double prize you next week.
Oh, excellent.
Which of my searches occurred while Sean and I were at the car wash?
For those of you playing at home, here's my list.
Navy ship discovered.
Sports car with GTR emblem slash how to pronounce canards.
Number three, are parts of Grey's Anatomy shot in a real hospital?
I'm going to go with number two about the car.
That's right.
I'm not going to say the whole thing.
You don't have to.
Okay.
That's right.
Sports car of GTR emblem slash how to pronounce canards.
Okay.
This discussion actually started in the parking lot of Jose Locos.
Okay.
We had dinner out Monday night and we saw this very sexy car in the parking lot.
And Sean's like, we need to go figure out what that thing is.
So we drove around and there were no markings on it other than on the like the trunk.
It just said a little GT and then it was underscored with a large R.
Okay.
I was like, I have never even seen that emblem before.
Yeah.
It was the hottest car.
Really?
I'm telling you what.
White.
It was nice.
So on the way to car wash, I started looking up car emblems and blah, blah, and we figured
out it was a Nissan GTR.
It's a GTR.
Okay.
But it's a Nissan.
Nissan and they didn't have the little logo.
There was no, there was nothing.
It had been stripped or just wasn't on there so that it would look even more hot.
Yeah.
That's a lot of crap on it.
So I read the specs out loud to Sean, which included quote, a redesigned front bumper,
front lip and canards.
And I looked at him and he's like, no, and so we both looked at each other and started
laughing because that was funny.
Are those the things that you put on the back of your hitch that hang down like balls?
They're not.
Canards?
They're not.
Oh, okay.
So the next thing I looked at was how to pronounce canards and I found people pronouncing it
both ways.
It's canards or canards.
Oh.
So I'm not really sure which is the correct, I'm going to keep saying canards because it
makes me giggle.
So what are canards?
I don't know.
They are small forward mounted wings on aircrafts that provide stability and control.
They can be used for lift, pitch control or both.
Canards are commonly found on high performance aircrafts like fighter jets and experimental
aircrafts.
On sports cars, they're positioned on the front bumpers to redirect oncoming airflow
upward, which creates a downward force on the canard itself, pushing the front end of
the car toward the ground and that improves traction and stability, particularly at high
speeds and during cornering.
That makes sense.
Corner, corner, corner.
Drift.
I'm having flashbacks to the bear.
Corner, corner, corner.
Canards are intended to reduce drag and improve aerodynamic efficiency.
They're most effective at high speeds.
So think high performance sports cars that are designed to operate at high speeds.
Right.
These are not going to work on your Honda.
They're not going to work on my woke mobile?
No, they're actually going to cause drag because on your average car, you're not going at
high speeds.
These are like think fighter jet.
Right, right.
But you can go high speeds.
I mean, but you're not doing that on a continual basis.
Okay.
These are like racing cars.
Gotcha.
So, I mean, you can add them to your car, but all you're going to do is kill your gas mileage.
Right.
Yeah.
But what about these sports cars that have these on them when they're just driving around
town?
Well, I don't think they give a crap.
I think this car is like $121,000 parked in a Springfield parking lot.
I was like, whoa, a Mexican restaurant.
I was like, what is that thing doing here?
Just, you know, rich people got to eat Mexican food too.
I guess so.
Anyway.
Yeah.
I mean, they're not getting good gas mileage in that thing with or without canards.
Probably not.
Or canards.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
But then the more I looked, there's another definition of canard, and that is a false
or unfounded report or story in that.
Here's an example.
The report about a conspiracy proved to be a canard.
Okay.
Spelled the same way in every?
Yeah.
Okay.
The line sources were Nissan.com, Wikipedia, and AeroClass.org.
Awesome.
You win this handful of air.
That was refreshing.
Good.
I'm so glad.
Glad I could help you out.
Yes, you did.
Now I'm going to be awkward.
I can be awkward too.
Okay.
Let's be awkward together.
I don't know.
I don't know where to look.
I don't know where to do my hands.
I'll do some whispering like ASMR.
Oh, that's going to make me feel uncomfortable.
We can be awkward together.
It's time for shared history.
Okay.
It's time for shared history where we tell you, our DTH besties, what we searched this
week, why we searched it, and what we learned.
Because I learned some things.
I learned about canards.
Yeah.
I learned about racist master bedrooms.
I learned about that.
My first search this week that I'm going to talk about is Springfield Mo building height.
Sorry.
That's not how it is.
Springfield Mo building height limit.
That's what the search was.
Okay.
Remember when we learned about the building height restrictions in Charleston, South Carolina,
and how they want to keep their skyline looking quaint and old timey?
And so there are no buildings taller than one of the church steeples.
Do you remember which?
Wasn't it the Lutheran church?
It was a very tall steeple, so that wouldn't surprise me.
I can't remember.
Heather, correct us or whatever.
Tell us what we're saying.
Over a year.
It has been.
I know.
That doesn't seem like that's possible.
Anyway, for some reason, my children were discussing why our hometown, Springberg Mo,
which for those of you who are new here is actually Springfield, Missouri, USA, doesn't
have any skyscrapers.
And if there's in fact a similar height restriction per city ordinance, you probably know this.
You don't.
No.
I thought you knew everything about the city.
No, I don't care how tall buildings are.
I thought you knew everything.
Like why are they starting construction on the only road to my house on election day?
I need you to answer that for me because the signs are just stressing me out.
They shouldn't start any construction on election day.
No, they really shouldn't.
Oh, man.
I'm very upset about it.
I'm hoping they're just going to be putting the cones out.
I saw the press release for that.
I'm bothered.
I'm sorry.
I'm bothered.
Moving on.
I got impatient with my kids inefficient searching because guess what?
What?
I've become a better searcher than they are.
No.
I'm faster.
Yes.
And I find information that actually is the truth and makes sense.
That's excellent.
Because I consistently look at sources that are reputable.
Yes.
And my kids unfortunately do not.
And so their searches result in all these crazy ass things.
They get so much junk back from their searches.
And I'm like, listen, if you would just stop clicking on the crappy links and only click
on something if it says like Merriam Webster or Reuters or AP or stop clicking on shit
like Vice News, which I think is actually one of my sources this week.
Which is why it came to mind.
But anyway, so here's what I found out from the ever helpful Jeff Pickle, digital editor
of SBJ, formerly known as the Springfield Business Journal.
Jeff with a G.
G off.
He too was wondering why Springfield doesn't have a more impressive skyline when he returned
from a trip from Columbus, Ohio, which is not that different from Springfield in size
and population.
And they have skyscrapers and all kinds of interesting things.
And so he got in touch with Melissa Haas, assistant director of the public information
and civic engagement with the city of Springfield, which is that's a great title.
But what a mouthful.
And she said, in general, there is no ban on skyscrapers in Springfield, but there can
be height limitations for buildings depending on how the property is zoned.
Yes.
So depending on what the zoning is, you might not be able to put a really tall building
out.
But in general, the city doesn't have anything against skyscrapers.
We just don't have them.
For those of you who want a really good laugh.
The tallest building in Springfield in our city is 22 stories tall.
And it's 270 feet tall.
Do you know what it is, Kara?
I would assume it's Hammond's Tower.
It is Hammond's Tower.
It's basically a phallus.
I mean, all skyscrapers are kind of but it is.
I'm just going to say it.
This is not a hot take.
It is ugly.
I can say that this is not a hot take.
It is ugly.
The generally accepted standard for a skyscraper is at least 492 feet tall.
Oh, we are.
Way short.
Very short.
Yeah.
I will say that was amazing to me in New York.
It was just like, whoa.
Building after building after building.
So tall.
Correct.
They block out the sun.
Yes.
Which is kind of nice for pale people like me in the summertime.
I'd be golden, but not golden, but pale.
Usually Springfield, like a lot of towns our size though, doesn't warrant the demand for
a building that big.
Tall or wide.
We just don't need it.
We don't have that volume of people in any one place ever.
They wouldn't be able to fill that building.
We're all spread out.
Correct.
And so if you do need something that big, like for example, the hospital.
You've got plenty of real estate to spread outward.
You don't have to go upward.
And building out is cheaper than building up.
So that's why we don't have them.
Yeah.
I can't even imagine how much it would cost to build on top of a building that's already
there.
You know what I mean?
Like add stories to a building.
No.
If you were going to build a skyscraper, you would just want to start from the ground
up.
Okay.
My sources for Springfield Mo building height limit are or were SBJ.
That's it.
Oh, thanks sir.
Pickle.
I love SBJ.
They're so informative.
It was a very informative article and I didn't need to go anywhere else.
Yeah.
Not surprising.
My first search is are parts of Grey's Anatomy shot in a real hospital?
Since I listened to the Nurse Bokeh episode, I've like kind of gotten rejuvenated because
I watch Grey's Anatomy.
It's a comfort show for me now.
Yes.
I've watched the whole thing and I've started over and so I'll revisit it and just restart.
I'll just pick up where I left off.
So since I listened to the Nurse Bokeh episode, This is Love, I've been rejuvenated in my
need to watch Grey's Anatomy.
So I've been watching it.
And I've always been curious.
There's a scene, sometimes they'll do like this wide establishing shot.
Yes.
Of them.
There's like a walkway over the open lobby of this hospital.
And I've always wondered that can't be a set.
That's got to be a real hospital because that thing is huge.
Of course it could always be superimposed or not superimposed like green screen.
Yeah, yeah.
But I don't think it is.
So I looked it up because I wanted to know.
And I didn't get my answer to the inside establishing shot of the walkway.
Okay.
I could not get that confirmed.
However, I have confirmed that the outside, the front of Graceland Morial is an actual
hospital in California.
It is the Veterans Administration Sepulveda.
Sepulveda.
Oh, thank you.
Ambulatory.
How do you know that?
I don't know.
Ambulatory Care Center.
I found this answer within a 2019 article that were outlining some facts about Grey's
Anatomy, which I also found interesting.
So while that was a short answer, I also found some things that I thought were pretty good.
If you're a Grey's Anatomy fan, which Bria doesn't watch this, it's probably pretty
boring for you.
Well, I know about it.
Okay.
To make the surgeries look real, they use cow organs and fake blood made up of chicken
fat and red gelatin.
The fictional characters Derek and Meredith had a real wedding registry on The Knot.
Oh my gosh.
TheKnot.com.
That's too much.
Oh, wait.
Hold on.
Oh, sorry.
I knew you'd say that, but wait for it.
It encouraged fans to donate to research organizations that these fictional characters would have
cared about, like the American Academy of Neurology Foundation and the Alzheimer's Association.
So rather than buying gifts or whatever, you went to TheKnot and you donated money.
That's pretty sweet.
Yeah.
Since the premiere in 2005, show's been a long time, every Grey's episode has shared
its title with a song, except for one, which was in episode, or excuse me, season 14, and
it was called 1-800-799-7233, which is the National Domestic Violence Hotline.
Ah, which that was a topic.
Yes, obviously.
And apparently our buddy Rob Lowe wrote in his memoir that he was offered the role of
Dr. Derek Shepherd, AKA McDreamy, and he turned it down for a CBS show called Dr. Vegas.
I remember that show.
Yeah.
Do you ever watch it?
No.
You know why?
It tanked.
Yeah, it did not last.
You missed the fairy, Rob Lowe.
But now he has 9-1-1 Lone Star or whatever it's called.
Lord have mercy.
Lone Star 9-1-1 or whatever.
How are those shows on television still?
Listen, if you want to see the Hollywood sign fall down into a bubbling pool because there's
a volcanic explosion.
Wait a minute.
Do you watch this show?
No, but because we watch football, we see all the promos for it and they are ridiculous.
They're so bad.
And we laugh and we laugh and we laugh.
Now that's just the regular 9-1-1 show.
I think it is just 9-1-1.
It may just be 9-1-1.
And then Rob Lowe is on the Lone Star Texas version.
Yes.
Oh, Rob.
My last search is even crazier.
He's probably raking it in.
Oh, of course he is.
He's Rob Lowe.
Yeah.
I like him a lot.
My only source for that was BarcoMade.com.
Okay.
My last search for the week is Whirly Ball.
As you will surmise for my what about this one list in a few minutes, I've been brainstorming
things to arrange for the company holiday get together because it's that time of year
and I get the lovely honor of organizing that.
My favorite part of my job.
Do you know what that makes me think of?
Can I interrupt you for a second?
Go.
You can edit this out if you want.
But it's making me think of Alan Rickman when he talks to Draftneck.
Yes.
Slag.
You get the unhappy task of planning.
Yes.
It always makes me think of that.
It is an unhappy task.
I have support from people in the corporate office and we do have a nice budget so it's
not like...
Wow.
That's great.
It could be worse, but I just don't enjoy invent planning.
Neither do I.
I don't like doing anything.
I was going to say I don't like doing the same kinds of things that my coworkers like
doing, but then I realized I don't really like doing anything.
No, any of it.
It's just not fun.
It's like cooking the huge Thanksgiving meal and then sitting down and none of it tastes
good.
No, you don't even want to eat it.
Because you've been slaving over it.
Yes.
Yeah, yeah.
That's how invent planning is.
You have to slave over it and it's great that everyone is having a good time and that your
hard work has born fruit.
But it also feels like you're forcing people to have a good time.
Oh, I've never thought that.
I just have always thought it's so much work and people just expect it to be perfect.
I feel like the people I work with would be a-okay with not hanging out together and doing
it, but we're expected to do it, so we do.
See, that's silly.
They should ask.
They should say, hey, do you guys want to do this?
If it's a resounding no, great.
You guys save some money.
Take that money and give everyone a little bonus or a little tiny turkey or some government
cheese in a can.
Oh man, that stuff was so good.
Delicious.
Cougar cheese.
It was really good.
We all made fun of it so- Oh yeah.
Look at this cheese.
Cheese in a can.
It's so stupid.
It was the most delicious cheese I've ever had in my life.
It was amazing.
Sharp, like ultra sharp white cheddar.
Gosh.
Anyway, every admin in our company right now, that's what's top of mind is not government
cheese, but planning the party or planning the get together for their location.
We have a group, the admin leadership group, and we meet once a month.
We talk about admin things.
We also have in teams, we have a chat, like a group chat.
Now we're asking what is everybody doing for their holiday get together or what have you
done in the past that has worked really well, just trying to draw up some ideas for everybody.
We have a lot of new admins this year, which is great, but then they're kind of like-
I don't know where to start.
Right.
What is the expectation here?
Would have other people done, blah, blah, blah.
The amazing admin in the Minneapolis St. Paul office, Christina, who is a doll, she said
they're doing Whirly Ball this year.
I was like, what the hell is this?
Do you know what it is?
No.
Hang on, because it's wild.
I'm all ears.
And crazy.
It looks like so much fun.
Oh dear.
The basic premise is it's a sport that combines lacrosse, bumper cars, and some aspects of
basketball.
It features two teams of five players riding Whirly Bugs, which are these specialized bumper
cars that you crank to get them to go.
So you crank forwards and backwards, and you know how traditional bumper cars, you've got
the thing, the pole that goes to the ceiling, and that's how they move around and whatever.
Well, these Whirly Bugs don't have that.
It has a specialized floor so that you don't have to have the poles, but that's why you
got a crank and they move, but you have to steer them with the crank.
Oh no.
And you can go forwards and backwards, whatever.
And then you have a Wiffle Ball that's in one of those lacrosse flippy things.
And you score.
Am I making it?
I'm just, I'm picturing you.
Oh yeah.
In a Whirly Bug?
With your lacrosse flippy thing.
Okay, I'm sorry.
My Wiffle Ball?
So you've got your Wiffle Ball.
You've got your Wiffle Ball.
You've got your lacrosse.
Flippy thing.
What is that thing called?
I don't play lacrosse.
I don't know.
But you know what it is.
It's a stick with a thing on the end of it.
Well, it's kind of like that, but it's more maybe like high ally.
Where it's like a hook.
You know.
Okay, I'm going to look it up.
Hang on.
They have them where you could play with these like in your backyard and it's like on a track.
It's like a hooked track that the ball you flip and you can catch it.
You can throw and catch with the thing.
But it's not a net.
So it's a hook.
It's got a hook thing.
I know what you're talking about.
Yes, I do.
If you've ever seen high ally or like maybe Nerf makes the equipment where you can take
the Wiffle Ball and you fling it at each other with this hooked apparatus.
Yes.
Okay, that's what you use.
And then you score by hitting a target on a backboard.
Oh.
With the ball.
And there's very few rules except you're not allowed to leave your car or to touch the
ball with your hands.
And you're not allowed to ram a player from behind.
That's a four point penalty.
And you have to be at least four foot six or taller.
So you barely make it Kara.
So you can play.
The game was first invented in Utah in the 1960s by Stan Mangum.
1960s?
Yes.
A Whirlybug, like I said, is similar to an electric bumper car.
It's round with a bumper going all the way around.
And unlike most bumper cars, it is on a grid of conducting plates that make up the floor
of the court.
A Whirlybug is steered by a handle that looks like a crank.
And this handle allows steering not just side to side but also backwards.
Oh my goodness.
So and supposedly it's more agile than a bumper car.
Okay.
I don't know how.
As you're cranking.
I don't know how that's more agile.
How do you continue?
Okay.
So where can you play this fun game?
Not here.
I'm guessing in the Minneapolis area.
Yes.
It's currently available in Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Kansas, Texas, Washington,
Florida, Georgia, and Illinois.
What's wrong with Missouri?
Well, we suck.
It's misery.
However, this sport is played at an international level.
Oh my gosh.
So you're saying I could go online and watch people compete in this?
Yes.
I'm going to need to.
I have a lot of questions.
I did not.
But I just looked at the site that she, Christina put a link in the chat so that people could
go in like, if they're in the Minneapolis area, they could go and book their Whirly
Ball, their fun times.
Okay.
So here's some Whirly Ball terminology.
Are you ready?
Yes.
I love this because it reminds me a little bit of learning about Quidditch.
Oh.
I always loved the Quidditch scenes in the Harry Potter books.
I always thought they were so interesting.
And then I was always so disappointed that there wasn't more Quidditch in the movies.
I know.
Because there's a lot in the books.
Yes.
And it's fun.
And it's exciting.
Yes, I love it.
Okay.
So here's some Whirly Ball terminology.
Whirlick.
It's a score in Whirly Ball.
It's two points.
Okay.
Power shot is comparable to a layup in basketball.
Slashing is hitting an opponent's scoop while going for the ball.
In league play, it's a two point penalty.
Oh.
Pillow block.
Driving the Whirly Bug into an opponent's bumper and attempting to slow them down by
remaining there.
So like hitting them and then just...
So that's kind of like a screen.
Kind of.
An illegal screen.
But it's legal in this.
Oh, it is.
Okay.
A roll off.
While contacting an opponent's bumper, player does a 360 degree roll off turn and continues
momentum.
Whoa.
That's crazy.
That sounds like some skill.
Yeah.
Wall bouncing.
Running into the wall and spinning around to advance oneself or lose an opponent.
Bounce passing.
Passing the ball off the floor while passing it to a teammate.
Oh.
So you can do that with your hook or hoop or whatever they call it.
Scoop.
That's what they called it.
The back door.
The area to the side of the key where people frequently lurk to make a quick move to the
basket.
I don't know what all those words in that order together mean.
Side of the key.
Oh, it would help if they had put key first.
Key.
The area directly under the basket like basketball.
So you know the top of the key in basketball.
Well the key is like the right underneath the target.
So if you are lurking to the side of underneath the basket.
Yeah.
So that you can make a quick move to the basket once you get the ball then yeah.
Okay.
The whirly ball.
Okay.
Dirty whirly.
This is the last one.
Oh boy.
Bumping an opponent from behind causing them to do a 180 degree turn around and continue
backwards.
This will be so much fun.
I'm so jealous that they get to do this.
My sources were Wikipedia, ESPN.com, Chicago Tribune, Vice Sports, there it is, and Whirlyball.com.
Dirty whirly.
Oh man.
Oh gosh.
Oh that was good.
Well I hope you enjoy that up there.
Yeah Christina have fun with that.
Oh and then Kelly, one of our other admins, she said that they did that last year I think
at their party.
So I'm like damn it all you northerners get to have all the fun.
They know how to have fun.
Plus they have ice fishing.
Oh that would be fun.
I would go ice fishing.
Would you?
Not me.
Heck yeah.
I told you I don't like doing anything.
And it's cold.
You don't like to be cold.
No I don't.
I would really really really love it if for our holiday get together at work we would
just watch true crime shows together.
I don't think anyone else would enjoy it though.
I mean you can just give them some options.
Say I've got three options we could do.
We've got Keith Morrison.
Four hours of dinner and Keith Morrison.
Right.
I don't see a problem with that.
Sounds good to me.
Yeah.
Sweet baby angel.
Are you ready for my last search?
Of course.
It is US Navy destroyer discovered.
A team of investigators says they have found the wreck of the USS Stewart, a US Navy destroyer
or ship.
I think it was actually a destroyer escort.
It serves during World War II before it was deliberately sunk in a 1946 naval exercise.
The 314 foot long ship was found mostly intact and upright on the seafloor in the Cordell
Bank National Marine Sanctuary.
Now according to my calculations on a map.
I did not get this information from anywhere so it might be wrong.
But I used the scale on the map that said about 10 miles.
I calculate that this is about 25 miles off the coast of California a little bit north
of San Francisco.
Okay.
All right.
I trust you.
Thank you.
Apparently the level of preservation is exceptional.
It was built in Philadelphia in 1919.
It was part of a fleet of similar ships later dubbed the Four Stackers.
So think smoke stacks.
Yes.
Okay.
Most of these warships, including the Stewart, were completed too late to be used during
World War I, but were heavily used during World War II.
The Stewart was originally stationed in Manila as part of the Navy's Asiatic Fleet and was
damaged during combat in February of 1942.
While it was in dry dock for repairs in Java, the ship was abandoned as the Japanese forces
were approaching.
Oh shit.
Everybody was like, I'm out.
Bye bye, Stewart.
Leave the ship here and let's go.
The Japanese Navy captured it, repaired it, and recommissioned it as patrol boat number
102 for the Japanese Navy.
Oh, that's some sweet shade.
Oh my gosh.
Allied pilots reported seeing the ship serving under the Japanese flag deep behind enemy
lines earning it the nickname the Ghost Ship of the Pacific.
The Stewart was later found in Kure, Japan after the war and it was towed home to San
Francisco and it was used as a target for aircraft during a naval exercise and deliberately
sunk.
Despite the sinking of the ship, its location remained a mystery for decades, but it has
now been found thanks to a collaborative effort between the Air Sea Heritage Foundation, NOAA's
Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, the Naval History and Heritage Command, Marine
Technology Company Ocean Infinity, and Global Maritime Archaeology Organization, SEARCH.
SEARCH!
A lot of people helped find this.
So Ocean Infinity deployed three autonomous underwater vehicles off the coast of Northern
California August 1, 2024.
These vehicles spent 24 hours searching the area and when the data was reviewed, researchers
saw the quote, stunning and unmistakable image of a sunken ship 3,500 feet below the surface.
You should look up the scans.
It is cool.
It looks like a freaking ship just sitting there.
3,500 feet!
Yeah.
Scans show that the ship is largely intact and nearly upright.
After the ship was discovered, SEARCH teams conducted another survey and visual inspection
using live video feed transmitted from a remote operated submersible.
That SEARCH allowed the team to explore the wreck and learn more about the bombardment
that sank the steward.
Data collected will also be used by the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary to support
environmental assessments in the area and learn more about habitats and marine life
in this part of the ocean.
Excellent.
Yeah.
Oh man, I'm still just astounded by that move by the Japanese.
I know, ballsy, right?
I can't even be mad.
I'm just impressed.
Totally.
I completely agree.
They're like, well, there's a big old boat.
They're running away from it.
We could use that.
I mean, you guys got your tools?
We could just fix it.
You gonna eat that?
I mean, the thing was in dry dock and that had to be a US military base or at least like,
you know, a whatever you call it, a port.
Yeah.
I mean, an installment or whatever.
And they were just like, we out.
Yeah.
And the Japanese were like, well, we'll take that.
So we're going to fix your ship while it's in dry dock.
We're going to relaunch this bitch.
We're just going to use it as a patrol ship.
Amazing.
Does this thing look familiar to you?
Look at that pretty, pretty boat.
Do you miss it?
Oh, so I wanted to know specifically why they decided to deliberately sink it.
Yeah.
So the information I found said that the Navy just decided they didn't need it anymore.
And that's really all I found.
So on the Garen scale of searches, that's like a one.
Oh man.
Yeah.
But if you think about it, by the time they got it back, the Japanese had had it for four
years.
So we have no idea what they might have done to modify it or what things they added to
it.
Would they be listening to us?
Oh, right.
Yeah.
So that'd be one reason to sink it.
Right.
Then also, so that thing was built in 1919.
By the time they got it back, it was like 30 years old or something like that.
And think of what, like at that point we already had aircraft carriers.
We had ships that were nuclear powered.
Right.
So it was probably like old news anyway.
Correct.
It wasn't going to be up to the standards.
So they're like, you know what, let's just use it for target practice for our jet fighter
pilots.
Correct.
So these are all assumptions I'm making.
Well the military does that all the time.
Yeah, exactly.
Yeah.
So anyway, now it's home to the fishes.
So anyway, sharks.
My sources were the New York Times, history.com, search, inc.com, history.navy.mil, national
world war two museum.org and CBS News.
Oh, CBS News really helping us out tonight.
Okay, Kara.
Yeah.
But what about this one?
What about it?
It's a quick listing of our other searches from the past week that we didn't have time
to discuss in this episode or we're just too damn boring.
You're boring.
Like Bria's Christmas parties.
What are you going to do?
I don't know.
Okay.
Don't ask me.
Okay, I was sorry.
No, I do have some ideas, but you know, I don't ever just say this is what we're doing.
First I have to say, hey everybody, what date works for you?
And then I have to send out a thing of all the dates that they can choose from.
And then whichever date gets the most, you know, response.
And then I say, okay, now does anyone have any ideas for activities?
And then I solicit the-
You ask?
Oh yeah.
And then whatever.
And then I also have my own ideas that I add to the mix.
And then I send out another poll.
And then the thing that gets the most votes is what we do.
All right.
Let's hear your, but what about this one list?
Here we go.
What's between etymology and epistemology?
There's a big difference.
We're not even the same.
McDonald's food poisoning.
That was a big deal this week.
Archery near me.
The war zone.
Oh.
Laser tag near me.
Fun office Christmas party ideas.
If I had just shut my mouth and listened to your list.
Perfect tilt pinball.
I am so going there.
That is at the top of my list.
Absolutely.
Can you invite me please?
Sure.
You want to be my plus one?
Yes.
If it's on a night that Clint has to go to bed early for work, then you can be.
Yes.
DMT drug.
Square toe box ballet flats wide width.
You were looking for me.
Couldn't get out of my head.
Audio 99.
Voting rights, Southern poverty law center.
Tim Ballard shifting seasons.
Amendment to sports betting initiative.
Samsung watch seven.
Or a ring.
Goulash recipe with paprika.
Chronic disorder involving lack of oxygen to the brain.
I think I have that.
And Gillian Jacobs.
Okay.
All right.
Here's mine.
Easy last minute Halloween costumes.
The almighty Sando shop menu.
Singer of heartbreaker.
Soul shaker.
Oh no.
Do you have to edit that one out?
No.
We started calling Indy, Indy the Greyhound, soul shaker because her bark is soul shaky.
It is.
I have no other way to describe it.
It is so sharp and loud coming from that barrel of a chest.
Yes.
So it's soul shaking.
So now we sing this song around the house.
Was that heart?
It was bad touch.
Oh, that's why I don't know.
Yeah, me neither.
Guitar with steel cone resonator.
Can't remember what that was called.
Clark shoes.com.
Cobbler's near me.
You want to get some bespoke shoes.
I was going to get some bespoke shoes.
Make rectangle shoes for me please.
Or just fix the ones that you keep blowing out.
Oh, if they could just fix my current shoes, that'd be amazing.
I don't think they're fixable at this point.
Pink martini biography.
Jerry Seinfeld live, Springfield, Missouri.
Jose Locos menu.
Sort of scary movies.
I don't like really scary movies.
Yeah, same.
Battlefield mall hours.
Rack room shoes.
Rack room shoes hours.
Dillard's hours.
Who composed Night on Bald Mountain?
Best fall drives in Southwest Missouri.
Double crochet how to.
Continental shelf.
Taylor Swift net worth.
Don't look that up anybody.
No one.
Clifton strengths.
Who are the Jets playing Sunday night?
That was a full question.
Oh yes, it was.
There was another one that was a full question.
But I didn't get a chance to whisper it.
Here's another one.
How to darn the heel of a sock.
Where's Waldo?
I need to make sure his costume looked just like mine.
Right.
Good side dishes for a fish fry.
Mo Bittuary's podcast new episodes.
Mo Bittuary's podcast season five.
Is Mo Rocca on a book tour?
Why are there no episodes?
Is Mo Rocca okay?
There are no new episodes.
He's not on his book tour anymore.
Mo, where are you?
What's wrong?
Are you okay?
Where's Mo?
I don't know.
Where's Waldo?
I am worried about Mo.
Where in the world is Mo Rocca?
Okay, that was the end of my list.
Okay.
Do you have any shout outs?
No I don't and I feel like I probably should.
Oh my gosh, that's what I have here.
I said I'm sure I'm forgetting someone.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure I saw some things come in from Erin.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Pennsylvania Erin.
Of course.
She's, she's our number one fan.
What can we say?
My brain is just full ride.
So I can't remember anything.
Well I won't make you talk much longer.
Okay.
Let's be bossy.
Okay.
Let's get people to rate, review us, tell their friends, engage with us on social media.
All the things that she just said.
Blah, blah, blah.
Do those things.
Okay.
Now, if they would like to email us.
It's delete this history podcast at gmail.com.
If they would like to connect on Insta or threads.
It's at DTH girls.
How about Facebook?
Delete this history.
You got all three of those correct.
Good job.
All right, now I've got to go delete my history and then go by team taco.
I'm going to delete my history and eat some cold steak and shake.
Oh, delicious.
Maybe a warm milkshake.
Some good Missouri food right there.
Oh shoot.
All right.
Stay fresh cheese bags.
Bye bye.
Bye.
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