Team taco is, I don't understand.
Every time I take a bite of the globe trotter, I always think, I always think, why is this so good? I don't know.
It's the most freaking delicious thing ever.
I like the pork one, the slaughterhouse.
Is that what it's called? The globe trotter's the pork belly.
Oh, maybe that is it.
You have the trotter, they call it the trotter.
I would never eat anything called the slaughterhouse.
I can't remember.
I think I just made that up.
I'm actually 100% sure I just made it up because you just told me.
(theme song)
Welcome to episode 60 of Delete This History, a podcast by two tired besties.
Oh yeah.
Of a certain age, searching for answers.
We are your hosts, Cara Burch.
I'm Brea Brown.
Brea Brown, VVB.
We are VVB.
So, VVB.
I could go to sleep right now.
And then I have kids, a kid in particular who's like, can you take me to the mall tomorrow so I can shop for my boyfriend? Like, can I guess the answer? Oh, I was so glad I had an excuse.
I'm so glad I could just say, oh, I'm so sorry.
I'm already doing something tomorrow.
I'm going to be out of town, but your dad is off tomorrow.
You can ask him to take you.
I wonder what that answer is going to be.
Anyway, actually, I, I kind of gave Clint the heads up.
I say, but you have to ask him.
Yeah.
But I kind of gave him a heads up and said, listen, this is what somebody wants to do.
Maybe you can persuade him to go somewhere else to find a gift.
Yes, there you go.
And then Clint said, oh, actually I need new work pants.
I think I'm gonna go to Penny's.
Oh.
So, I'll just take him with me.
There you go.
Good job.
And I was like, is this how easy it could have been my whole life? No, no.
I think they just know that I'm on the edge.
I think they just know.
Just say yes to everything she says.
That's right.
Yes.
We can make this happen.
She's about to lose it.
Excellent.
I mean, not excellent that you're about to lose it, but excellent that we got a shopping situation all worked out.
You know, I might also feel like shit because I ate one of those big bags of Twizzlers this week, an entire big bag.
I mean it took me all week.
Yeah.
But it's still a lot of twisters.
That's a lot of red dye number whatever.
Oh my gosh.
Probably not the best for me.
You know what? I think I'm gonna have to put a cough drop in my mouth.
Okay do it.
I don't know if I have any.
Let's hear some clacking.
I've got a mint.
Oh that'll help.
We'll go with a mint and I won't get poisoned.
You're right.
Your brain will work.
That'll be great.
I'll try not to clack.
Don't worry about it.
What are your bookmarks this week? I've been VVB.
Yeah, yeah.
I have zero bookmarks.
Okay.
Zero.
Well, I'll make up for it.
Okay.
Okay, I have three.
Whoa.
My first one is The Lincoln Lawyer on Netflix.
I thought you were gonna say Lincoln Logs.
Lincoln Logs on Netflix.
You just watch people put together log cabins with Lincoln Logs.
That sounds like, right up your alley if it was like time lapse.
Yes, that would be really relaxing.
That would be good gummies viewing.
What are you doing this weekend? I'm gonna take a gummy and watch some Lincoln Logs.
Why not? I bet it's out there.
Of course it is.
Everything's on the internet.
Oh my gosh.
I'm going to have to look it up now.
Anyway, no, The Lincoln Lawyer.
It's on Netflix.
It's a whatever, courtroom drama type deal.
It's about this guy who, like his dad, tries to run a law firm out of the back of his Lincoln.
So, he has multiple Lincolns.
In his kind of fleet and one is his dad's old like original but most of them are brand new.
It's basically a commercial for Lincoln SUVs.
Is Matthew McConaughey in the show? No, he isn't but it sounds like something that Tom Clancy would have come up with and that Matthew McConaughey would be in but no it's actually based on a series of books by Michael Connolly Okay Another one of those lawyer writing guys, but it's very good.
It's very good.
He's a defense lawyer named Mickey and he's an interesting fellow. That’s all I'm gonna say about that. It's good. Is that older?
There are several seasons, but I think it's a current show, okay, I'm getting caught up.
All right, basically.
Okay, then the next thing I have is palm and paddle grill in Springfield.
Oh, have you been there? I went there with Jacki, I bribed her with that this week so that she would. I Don't know why I did cuz she was she was my captive.
We had a hair appointment and then we had to go to my office on my day off.
Lame.
And do some things associated with the move. And so, I was like, if you help me, I will buy you lunch. I don't know why she was going to have to come in and help me anyway, because I mean, oh, I guess she could have stayed out in the car. Anyway, I took her there and it was very good. It's Caribbean food. in a wonderful setting, you go in there and you feel like you're at the gulf.
Yes.
Or you feel like you're in Key West or in the Caribbean.
Okay, yes, yes.
And then you look outside and you're like, oh fuck, I'm still in this dump.
Oh, sorry Missouri.
Anyway, I recommend for anyone, now this is very Springfield specific because this is a local place that's locally owned, but I recommend for anyone find a locally owned place in wherever you live and something that's not regional to you that is a little bit different and it takes you to a different place just for an hour, takes you out of your life, until you look out the windows I have been wanting to go there.
I've seen pictures of it and I've heard good things.
It's really delicious.
I had the Cubano sandwich.
It's a Cuban.
[Cara makes approval sounds]
And, um, here's what's cool.
There were two tables occupied there when Jacki and I were there.
Yeah.
Jacki and me and a group of like, I don't know, they looked like sorority sisters or something.
Young, you know, girls with Greek letters on their sweatshirts.
And they were doing a photo shoot for, not the girls, but the restaurant, was doing a photo shoot of their desserts.
Oh.
And so, when they were finished with the photo shoot, they had these desserts and they gave us a free key lime pie slice, which was ginormous.
It was a huge slice of key lime pie.
Which I love key lime pie, it's one of my favorite things.
It's so refreshing and so delicious and it was good.
And they make it there in house, it's really good.
And then the girls got some kind of chocolate cake thing that also looked really good.
Right place at the right time.
Yeah, yeah.
Nice, I thought you were gonna say that you were in the background of these photos.
I would have left.
Oh.
If I had walked in and they were doing like a photo shoot and it was set up in the dining room and they were taking pictures of patrons, I would have been like, you know what, we'll try this some other time.
Chicken!
Because I was we were going to hair appointment straight from there, and then we were going to the office so I was not looking amazing, like I do now, of course.
Okay, and then my final one is a podcast episode of 99% Invisible that I listened to today.
It wasn't their most current episode, I don't think, but it was called The 15 Minute City.
Okay.
And it is about how there are certain city planners or urban planners who have tried to adopt this, it's not a new concept at all, but they're trying to adopt this concept now of people living in certain sectors of cities and you can walk to whatever you need within 15 minutes.
So, everything is a 15 minute walk from you if you need it.
And they were talking about how sometimes some.
A good idea like that, like hey that's a great idea that would cut down on greenhouse gases and all kinds of things.
Global warming.
It would be great for people to have access to stores and shops and local places and blah blah.
And then it gets kind of, I don't know, twisted into something else by some paranoid people.
Sometimes it's bad actors.
People who are legitimately trying to like...just turn people against a city or just trying to cause trouble.
And other times it's just ignorance.
But in this case with the 15-minute city, what had happened was that people were starting to spread rumors, whether they were doing it intentionally or maliciously or not, that this was a way for the government to keep people in different districts in their cities, and control people and make it so that they can't leave certain parts of their cities and that they're tracked by the government.
And I mean, it became a big QAnon effing conspiracy.
Word.
By right wingers.
I'm just gonna say it.
And I mean, we're talking about extremists.
Right.
I'm not talking about people who are just, you know, a little right of center or whatever.
We're talking about extreme people who just like to stir up shit.
Anyway, a bunch of cities, like Paris, big cities, Montreal, I think was another one.
No, no, I'm sorry, Edmonton was another one in Canada.
And…Oxford in England, they've decided to adopt this kind of strategy.
And it turned into a shit show in Oxford.
Oh my gosh because people were just misinformed.
And so, some cities were like, okay, we're not gonna call it the 15-minute city anymore.
We're just gonna call it something else.
But the person in Edmonton, the city planner there, was like, F you, I'm not changing what we're calling it.
You guys are just uninformed.
And so, they put like a codicil or an amendment or an addendum to whatever that says, the government shall not restrict movement of people, blah, which is already part of the damn constitution anyway.
And she was like, and I didn't wanna put that in there because it's redundant, but it's a great episode.
It's really interesting.
The whole concept is interesting.
And the people who are dumbasses, that's just kind of a side note.
Interesting.
But I thought that you would really like it, particularly because you work for a city.
Yes.
And we're currently going through a code rewrite.
Oh.
So, that kind of stuff is kind of up here on the surface right now and very, very heightened awareness of changes that are coming.
Quite timely.
City plans, you know.
They’re redone every once in a while and need to be.
They need to be updated with the evolution of the city.
Correct.
I mean with what the needs are of the people and…
Absolutely.
…the needs are of the economy and the needs of the environment and all those things.
So, so many things change and I know it's rough to reread regulations, but you have to.
Yes.
You have to.
And it just, hopefully, those changes will make things easier for developers and citizens and all business owners and that's the hope.
Yeah and if you work for a city and you work in a city government that's your job so if you don't like that kind of thing and it's real rough for you and you just want to kill yourself every time it comes time to do that you might want to think about a career change, but yeah it's uh It was a really interesting episode.
Cool.
I love 99% Invisible anyway, because it is like how things work.
It's about the nuts and bolts of things and the behind the scenes stuff that you don't even really think about.
And so.
You don't know how many times I said that today in interviews about Public Works.
How you're the nuts and bolts in the behind the scenes people.
Yeah, and you have no idea that things are going on.
Correct.
That's what Public Works is.
We're the ninjas of the city.
And when you do know that things are going on, that's when you're cursing, cause there's, you know, construction or.
Something has either gone wrong, horribly, horribly wrong, or we got a big fat project.
Right.
And it's unavoidable and that's just the way it goes.
But it's gonna get better.
It's gotta get worse before it gets better.
That's right.
Speaking of podcasts, I wanted to let you know, you probably already know, Mo Rocca is back.
Oh, thank God.
With new episodes.
He came back.
And I'm so relieved.
Mo is fine.
He's fine, everybody.
It's like he heard you.
I know.
He heard your concern and was like, I better get back out there.
Cara's really on the ledge.
Yes, I'm already an episode behind.
Oh, good.
Yeah, he released a new one the week of Thanksgiving.
So, that's Mobituaries.
Mobituaries, yes.
It's a good one.
Great podcast.
Almost always makes me cry, but not every time.
I mean, it is about the death of things.
Yeah.
But it's heartwarming.
It is heartwarming.
It's good.
And he does such a good job.
He's a great journalist.
All right.
I guess that does it for bookmarks.
We're not here to just talk about your bookmarks, Brea.
I'm sorry.
We're not here to trash your right wing extremists.
No, no.
Oh my gosh.
I thought you were getting ready to hit the record button just now.
Sorry.
I was trying to be the ninja of the podcast.
I saw it out of the corner of my eye.
And then I started to panic.
My heart rate literally went up when you did that.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Just press some buttons, y'all.
Everything's OK.
We are here, though, to share with our D Teach besties.
Our D Teach? D Teach.
Just the Dandelion.
Our Dandelion.
It's just the last one of the season.
We're here to share.
Uh-huh.
What? Um, The Reading of the Lists.
The reading of the lists.
This is where we tell you our top three most interesting, funniest, most successful internet searches of this week in list form.
It's even Steven week.
Yeah.
Here's my list.
Go.
Number one, Albert Schweitzer.
Number two, pelvic kidney.
Number three.
What do you call a female lobster? It sounds like a joke.
All right.
Here's my list.
All right.
Number one, junk journal.
Number two, Voynich manuscript.
Number three, scintilla meaning in etymology.
Okay.
I've heard that word.
Wait.
I can't wait.
Now it's time to play a game.
Yeah.
If you want to.
Yeah.
Okay.
And it's called.
Search me! This is where we pose one question to each other to see if she can answer based only on The Reading of the Lists.
Brea.
Today we have entered that season.
Oh, yeah.
Where we might have some dry skin.
Oh, absolutely.
Especially our little paws.
Oh, yes.
So, these, look at these.
Aveeno skin relief repairing hand mask.
Interesting.
So, these are like.
Little gloves.
They're little gloves.
There's one pair in each packet and so I got you two packets.
I love Aveeno.
Step one, wash your hands.
Step two, insert one hand into each glove and fasten the strap for comfort.
Wear as you would as any other glove and enjoy some well-deserved me time.
Step three, remove after 10 minutes, no need to rinse.
Step four, massage remaining product into skin until fully absorbed.
Oh, this is gonna be good.
I think so too.
Now I bought some of these for myself but I haven't used them yet.
Okay.
But here you go.
Okay.
This is what's up for grabs.
Your question is.
Yeah.
Which of my searches came about while I was daydreaming? All right.
For those of you playing along, here's my list again.
Number one is Albert Schweitzer.
I daydream about Elmer Schweizer.
I'm worried.
Number two, pelvic kidney.
Number three, what do you call a female lobster? I'm gonna go with number three, I'm hoping.
That is correct, that is correct.
Yay, female lobsters.
We have neighbors across the street that have a rooster.
Oh my gosh, I thought you were gonna say that I have a lobster.
They might as well, they have about the menagerie of animals.
Yes.
This family has.
But the rooster, for those of you who don't know anything about roosters or don't live near roosters, they don't just crow in the morning.
Oh, hell no.
They crow all day long.
Yep.
Constantly.
Yep.
It doesn't stop because a rooster has nothing else to do.
Yes.
He just go, oh, oh what do you, got a hen as the female and then? Yeah, yeah.
I don't know why, but I thought, what, I wonder what you call female lobster.
Huh.
I'd like to take a lobster, its little claws and go cut off that rooster's head so it'll stop cawing.
Wow, that's violent.
That got dark in a hurry.
It is the loudest rooster.
So, what is a female lobster? A female lobster is called a hen or a chicken.
That's so weird.
When the lobster weighs a pound, they have to make it to one pound to be referred to as a hen or chicken.
Do you wanna know what the male lobster's called? Uh-huh.
A cock.
Really? And a one-clawed lobster is called a cull.
Interesting.
So, before they get to a pound, what are they called? Lobster.
Just a lobster.
I guess so, I don't know.
Just a baby? It's just a...
A baby lobster.
Lobby.
Lobby.
I don't know what they're called.
I didn't look that up.
Oh, but yeah, you got your hen, your chicken, your cock and your coal.
Why? Oh, never mind.
I mean, I guess that's fine.
We don't have to have a bajillion names for a bajillion things.
I just thought that was really interesting.
It's not what I was expecting.
I wasn't expecting that either.
And then I realized I was just realizing I'm kind of disappointed.
I kind of am, too.
I really wanted something more seaworthy.
What do you think? What would be a good name for a female lobster? What would be a good name? Maybe a...
I don't know.
I have to think about that for a while.
Maybe a...
A Shelly? Ha ha ha! A Shelly! That would be good! I love it! Let's see, what can we call a male lobster? Um...
Um, a Sheldon.
Oh, yes.
A Sheldon is a male lobster.
You're right.
We can leave the one clawed lobster as a cull.
I like that one.
I think that works.
Yeah.
I think that works well.
Yeah.
But until that other claw grows back and then he's not a cull anymore.
Oh, cause they, they'll grow back.
They regenerate.
That's right.
Weirdo lobsters, big old bugs on the sea floor.
Oh, they really are.
I know.
But they're delicious.
They are so good.
Especially if you mix lobster meat like with macaroni and cheese.
Have you ever had lobster mac and cheese? Lobster mac and cheese.
It's pretty good.
Oh, my goodness.
I might be a little hungry right now.
Yeah, I was gonna say, let's not talk about food.
Okay, sounds like a plan.
These are yours.
Put your lobster claws inside of them and moisten them up.
You know what would be hilarious? Is if I just wore these for the rest of the podcast.
You could.
And then they would be super, because you only wear them for 10 minutes.
But if I wore them for the next hour, think of how.
You'd probably lose control of your car on the drive home.
That's my hand sliding off my steering wheel.
That's what they would sound like.
Makes perfect sense.
Thank you so much.
You're welcome.
All right, Cara, today you are playing for.
This bag sealer.
Oh.
It's a little mini bag sealer It has little instructions on the back and I think there's a thing inside too, and I believe this one might have some warm tips.
Yeah.
As well on its instructions.
Okay, perfect.
If I remember correctly.
I'm always ready for a warm tip.
I thought that maybe you might do like little Christmas like gift bags or grab baggy things and you could use that to seal up the top. 
Yeah, that is a great idea.
Or you could use this in paper crafts.
Like if you have like a little baggie that has like confetti in it, that you attach to a card.
Have you seen people make cards like that? Yes.
You would need a bag, see? I would.
You're right.
Hmm.
I'm going to hire you as my idea person.
That's a great idea.
Um, I own one of these.
Yeah.
I've never used it.
Okay.
So.
But I bought it because I had all these grand ideas about how I could use it.
Haven't used it once yet.
You know how I was immediately thought I could use it? How? My Doritos.
Yeah, you could reseal your, yeah, all your chip bags.
Yeah.
Hell yeah.
Your question is, which search led me to the answer to a question I've had ever since I started paper crafting? Oh.
Now, here are your choices.
for those playing along.
Number one, junk journal.
Number two, Voynich manuscript.
Or number three, centilla meaning in etymology.
It has to be junk journal.
It is junk journal.
You're correct.
I am wondering what your question was.
Okay.
So, we'll get to that in a second.
Okay.
But, oh actually, we'll get to it right now.
Okay.
Are you ready? I'm ready.
We'll get to what a junk journal is in a second.
Okay.
Here's what my question was.
I love ephemera collections.
But when I first started paper crafting, I was like, what the heck is all this stuff? And who decided to start making it for sale? Like who decided, you know what, I'm going to put all these bits of like nonsense things all together in a package or a booklet or whatever.
And I'm going to sell this.
And people are dumb people like Brea Brown, they're gonna buy it.
And Cara Burch! And they're gonna think it's so amazing.
And they're gonna attach it to cards and blah blah.
Yeah.
But then, I came across the term junk journal and it all started to make sense.
Because ephemera is what you put into junk journals.
Yes.
And that is kind of the purpose for it.
Although, the ephemera that you and I buy, like on Amazon or Etsy, tends to be somebody else's ephemera and junk.
And we're just using it like, for example, I wanted to make a travel-themed card.
And so I got a bunch of train ticket stubs that had been punched so that I could glue them onto the card and it looked, you know, had all these train stubs on it.
And that was really cool.
But I don't travel on trains, so I had to buy them from somebody else on Etsy.
Now if I were making a junk journal, I would be using stuff that I had collected myself.
Because that's the whole point is, you write about your memories in your journal and then you have something associated with that memory that you put in the journal.
It's called junk, but part of the stuff that you might throw away, like a movie ticket stub, you would put in your junk journal instead of throwing it away.
And you would say, hey, so and so and I went to see whatever today.
And we went to the family stone and we square mouth cried in the middle of it and blah, blah.
And here's the ticket stub.
So, anyway, for those of you who aren't familiar with the term ephemera when it comes to paper crafting, like I just said, it's random pieces of litter.
Basically, that are sold in like themed collections for scrapbookers and paper crafters is that yeah about sum it up? Yeah.
Now what kind of? Collections have you? Purchased okay, so I have some that were for writing because I was gonna make you a bunch of cards Oh you did so they were like a little typewriters and little like hands with holding pins.
Oh, yeah, and like just writing.
Yeah author stuff And then I also have, well, I cut out, okay, I'm just gonna tell on myself.
My mother gets conservation magazine, like the Missouri Department.
So, she gives those to me.
We do a magazine exchange.
So, any magazines I get or catalogs, when we meet up on Sundays for church, we exchange magazines.
So, I get her magazines and I look through them and I cut out things to add to my own ephemera.
And it's a lot of animals because I like animals.
Yeah.
And or there might be some plants.
I have a lot of plants.
So, I haven't bought a lot, but I also cut up calendars at the end of the year and I cut out if the picture because we have Greyhound calendars.
So, I cut all the Greyhounds out and I use those for cards.
So, a lot of my ephemera is stuff that you've actually collected.
Cut out of magazines.
Yes, that's right.
I'm 46 years old.
Handle it.
And but I do have some that I've purchased but I've used them and I can't and now I can't remember what I've purchased in the past. Well I've done a lot of things like I said the travel stuff.
I’ve done some things that are like not goth but a little bit darker kind of stuff.
Some Victorian themed things, some music theme things, like with music notes and things like that.
If you go onto Etsy or Amazon and you search ephemera, you will fall down a rabbit hole a thousand miles deep.
Just hold on.
And if you're a hoarder, just don't do it.
Don't do it.
Cause you will go bankrupt.
Cause you will, you'll think you need it all.
Cause you're like, oh, that's so cool.
Oh, that's so cool.
Now what do I have? I have all this ephemera now in like, I mean, I have it organized, of course.
Of course.
But have I touched it in the past six months? No.
I like to cut out famous people from magazines.
Oh, you made me a gift bag with famous people on it.
And it was great.
It was Viola Davis.
And Helen Mirren.
Yes.
because they're best friends, obviously.
Duh.
I made a card for someone just a couple of weeks ago, and I used the Jolly Green Giant and Dolly Parton on the same page.
Because the card was about how awesome this person is, and they just had done a really good job at work.
And so the Jolly Green Giant, of course, his top half is cut off.
And he says, I can see from way up here how awesome you are.
And then I had to cut off.
Dolly Parton down at his feet and she said I'd like to write a song about your awesome ways.
That's amazing.
I love using famous people.
Who wouldn't want to work with you? I don't know.
I don't know either.
I was gonna say that this wouldn't be work appropriate, but the jolly green giant was probably looking down Dolly Parton's shirt.
I would look down her shirt.
Yeah, I would too.
You can't help it sometimes.
My goodness.
Hey, I was gonna say did in the in junior high, I had a junk journal.
Oh, did you? Now we didn't I didn't call it a junk journal.
What did you call it? Just a scrapbook or a memory book.
Yeah, like that.
Yeah.
And like, we would go to volleyball games.
And, you know, I thought that was the coolest thing because my parents never ate out.
And we always got to eat out at a wave volleyball game.
Yeah, I kept packets of ketchup and stuck them in here this was our game and we won and blah, blah.
Disgusting.
Ketchup packets.
Yes.
Okay.
And not empty ones.
No, of course not.
I kept- Well, it's actually better that it wasn't empty.
Maybe so.
It's better that it was still sealed.
It's sealed.
Yeah.
I kept everything.
Well, here is another part of this search.
Okay.
There's a difference between scrapbook, scrapbooks and junk journals.
Yes, let's hear it.
Here we go.
Junk journals are typically less structured than scrapbooks.
You're journaling, and for people who are journalers, and if you're a serious journaler, like you should be, then you do it on a regular basis.
And so, you're adding to that junk journal on a regular basis.
So, you're putting things in there like ketchup packets and things like that, that are really just everyday things.
Whereas scrapbooking is a little bit more structured and, yeah, mm-hmm, more polished, more planned, and more organized.
So, it's more purposeful.
Yes, it's more purposeful.
It usually has a theme, like this was our vacation.
Okay, yes, right.
And it's more like a photo album than it is just like junk journals.
I was looking at some online and they were awesome, but at the same time they were making me a little bit stressed out because they're so untidy.
And it's just like pages that have pockets in them so that you can put things in and like they're just like a book shaped thing that's just crammed full of stuff that's glued on there or what it's not as pretty.
It's not a show piece that you would show people like, hey, look at this beautiful scrapbook I made.
So, it's like for yourself versus showing others.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yes.
I find that kind of appealing.
I do too.
Because to me, that's real.
And I mean, life's messy and it's not a right angle.
You know what I mean? Yeah.
I find that kind of more appealing than a scrapbook.
However, I have seen some amazing scrapbook pages.
I have too but then I'm like I could never make something like that.
Me neither.
And like I can't live up to that and it's just like hmm.
It's like wah-wah.
I see what you were trying to do but maybe next time.
Mine would be like the cake wrecks.
The cake wrecks of scrapbooks.
They'd be like oh yeah you saw that didn't you somewhere.
You saw that on Pinterest.
And you tried to duplicate it.
It didn't quite work.
But we all know that there's no wrong way to create.
Of course not.
So, if you have a junk journal that's more like a scrapbook and it's more polished and whatever, who cares? Go for it.
And I bought a thing to make a scrapbook for our Orlando vacation.
But our Orlando vacation was so terrible, I didn't want to make a scrapbook.
Oh, no.
I was like, really? Do I want to commemorate that? No.
Anyway, why did I even look this up? Yes, why? I'll get to that in shared history.
Oh, okay.
How's that for a tease? I can't wait.
Mm-hmm, my sources were junk artjournalist.com, style meets story, and compassandink.com.
Okay.
I did not talk about my lobster source.
Oh, you did not.
It was only gilmorelobster.com.
That's what a male lobster should be called.
A Gilmore.
A Shelly and a Gilmore.
Yeah, I like it.
Right.
Well, it's time to get a little awkward.
Oh, we already have been.
I mean.
Okay.
So, we don't need to really talk about it.
No, who are we kidding? And I just spit on my microphone, so how much more awkward can it be? Not much.
All right, well, let's talk about something.
I don't know.
What do we want to talk about? Oh, I just made it awkward.
Mm, this is a shared history document.
Yeah, it is.
Uh-oh, I'm gonna take a drink of this caffeinated drink.
Yep.
I'm gonna drink it down.
You can't even blame the cough drops this time.
I'm just straight up tired.
This segment is called Shared History, and it's where we tell you our TTH.
Just dandelion.
Or TTH besties.
It's the last ones of the season.
What we searched this week, why we searched it, and what we learned, if anything at all.
Well, I'll tell ya, I learned this next thing.
And I learned it at work.
I was talking to a coworker who has a new baby who is four months old.
Oh my goodness, that's the best age ever.
The baby has a pelvic kidney.
Oh no.
This is not necessarily a bad thing.
Oh.
It is a condition in which one or both kidneys do not move into their proper position while a baby is developing during pregnancy.
So, apparently, as babies grow and develop, their kidneys start out in their pelvis.
Okay.
And then over time, the kidneys move up into their proper position right behind the rib cage.
When they get some more room.
When they have more room.
Yeah.
So, pelvic kidneys are typically unilateral, but sometimes bilateral, meaning typically there's just one.
So, you got one kidney up here and the other one just stayed down here.
And it's not because it's just like hanging out down there, it's because the tube from the kidney to the bladder did not grow.
It's short, so it's tethered down there.
Okay, it didn't grow long enough for the kidney to move.
Exactly.
About one in every 2,500 babies are born with a pelvic kidney.
Doctors do not know what causes it, but it's usually an isolated event that can occur as an interruption of normal field development.
They can occasionally be part of a larger genetic syndrome.
if other associated conditions are noted on an ultrasound.
It's usually an asymptomatic condition and people live completely normal lives with a pelvic kidney.
So, you could have one and not even know it.
That's absolutely right.
Now there can be complications and in some cases, those could be urinary tract infections, kidney stones, swelling of the kidneys or obstruction of urine flow.
So, some people might have these symptoms and finally be like, forget it, I'm going to a urologist.
And they could find out they have a pelvic kidney.
Wow.
Interesting, huh? Yeah.
They cannot be prevented before or during pregnancy.
It just happens.
It's nobody's fault.
It's just a thing.
My sources for that were Mass General for Children, lurichildrens.org and facts.org.
Oh, that is really fascinating.
My first search that we're going to talk about is the Voynich manuscript.
Okay.
I'm Phoebe Judge and this is love.
We talked about the Voynich manuscript in a recent episode November 20th, 2024 called The Manuscript.
Okay.
It was so fascinating that I had to share it with you and our DTH besties. Have you listened to this episode.
I know you're a fan of the podcast.
I have not listened to this one.
So, the Voynich manuscript, often dubbed the world's most mysterious book, is a medieval manuscript that dates back to the early 15th century.
Named after Wilfrid Voynich, a Polish book dealer, like you are, who acquired it in 1912.
The manuscript is written in an unknown script that has puzzled scholars, cryptographers, and linguists for over a century.
The manuscript is composed of about 240 pages.
However, it was once longer than that because you can see where obviously some pages have been torn out.
But these pages that are left are filled with strange, unidentifiable characters.
Despite numerous attempts, no one has successfully deciphered the script, making it an enduring enigma.
It features bizarre illustrations of plants that don't correspond to any known species, astronomical diagrams, and intricate drawings of tiny human figures engaged in various activities.
Now these surreal images just kind of add to its mystique.
But I've seen pictures of it and it is very odd.
It's like someone be tripping balls when they did these illustrations.
Maybe they got into the poppy seeds or the poppy plants or whatever.
What if it's just someone's junk journal? Exactly.
This is why I looked up junk journal.
Oh, I'm sorry.
That's okay.
Because they talked about it and somebody had actually said that.
Oh, okay.
That it reminds them of a junk journal.
Oh my gosh.
But Phoebe Judge, my hero, she...
interviewed somebody who has been studying this Voynich manuscript for decades.
Can you imagine devoting your life to something for that long? Nope.
Like I just don't, I can't sustain interest in something that long.
The only thing I've sustained interest in for decades is Sean.
And even that's waning.
No, it is not! I'm kidding.
Um, yeah.
I just don't have anything outside of people that I love that I'm like that into.
Really? Not even like Colin Firth.
Yeah.
I love him a lot.
I'd say…
But I don't like, I haven't devoted my life to it.
Well, no.
No, I haven't done that either.
Especially one particular object.
Like the closest I would get would be choral music.
Yes.
Like that started in the sixth grade.
That's been a constant.
And I'm still there.
I mean, my writing, I guess.
Yeah, but it's but it's not.
The same piece of writing for well, now that is that is a serious devotion.
I mean, man, and you want to figure out.
This is love and they are in love with that manuscript.
OK, here's why the Voynich manuscript is so mysterious, though.
Countless experts have tried to decode it using various methods, including cryptography and linguistic analysis, but none have succeeded.
They've even used like, I don't know if you would call them famous, but well-known or renowned World War II cryptographers have tried to decode this thing and have not been able to.
Interesting.
Okay, the script does not match any known language and some speculate it might be a complex code or a hoax.
Is it just a big old joke? Yeah, someone's just messing with someone else.
Somebody was just, you know, whatever.
Yeah.
There is no, it's not a code or it's not, there is no pattern because it's not a pattern.
It's just somebody wrote a bunch of weird shit.
Yeah.
It's like when you, it's like when you type on your keyboard or your cat walks across your keyboard or something and then it's a blah, blah.
Which is that.
Maybe they were rich.
and they left this crazy book for their relatives to decipher.
And they're like, the money is at the end.
If you figure out this book, it's yours.
Yeah, this is the truth.
It's just crazy.
Because they hated their relatives.
Jibber jabber.
Yeah, maybe.
Its exact origins, authorship, and purpose are unknown.
Oh my gosh.
It has been suggested to be a pharmacopoeia, a medical text or even in alchemical guide, but without deciphering the text, these remain theories.
A pharmacopeia? Yeah.
I like that word.
Never heard of that before.
Pharmacopeia.
P-H-A-R.
No, yeah, P-H-A-R.
Yeah, like an encyclopedia.
Pharmacopedia? It's not Clopidia, it's Copia.
Oh, oh, oh.
But the end of the word is P-O-E-I-A.
Oh, okay.
It's all crazy Latin, you know.
The illustrations and content are unlike any other manuscript from the same period.
The combination of the unknown script and peculiar images fuels endless speculation and theories ranging from the plausible to the outlandish.
And there are some like I've...
Like I've said, I've looked it up online to look at the pictures, some of the pictures.
And there are some that make you feel distinctly weird when you look at them because they're just so bizarre.
That's interesting.
So, you look at them and you're like, oh, I don't know how I feel about that picture.
Isn't that weird? Oh, I'm gonna have to look this up now.
It's really, it's very interesting, very interesting.
It continues to captivate the imagination of many standing as a testament to humanity's enduring curiosity and the quest for knowledge.
Now, whether it's a genuine code waiting to be cracked or an elaborate medieval prank, which I'm leaning toward, its secrets remain well guarded and fighting both wonder and frustration.
Is this thing on display somewhere? I believe that it is.
Okay.
But I can't remember where.
I understand.
It might be at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, which was one of my sources.
Okay.
Wikipedia was another source, Encyclopedia Britannica, and Pharmacopoeia Britannica.
I'm just kidding.
I just wanted to make up a new word.
Johns Hopkins University Press, The Voynich Manuscript, and Ars Technica, and of course, This is Love Podcast.
Of course.
That was an interesting search, girl.
It is an interesting topic.
I'll have to listen to that podcast episode.
Yeah, listen to the episode and then look at the pictures that make you feel real funny in your tummy.
I know.
And tell me what you think.
All right.
Okay, listen, I've started rewatching sort of.
This is a background show, if I'm doing stuff.
Mash from the beginning.
Oh my gosh.
I have not watched Mash.
Now, I used to watch Mash a lot.
Like, that was my house cleaning show.
Put Mash on, clean the house.
I haven't watched it for a really, really long time.
Now, when you watch it now, does it make you want to Swiffer? It does have a motivating factor.
Like, I know I shouldn't just be sitting here watching it.
I should be doing something else.
You've always associated cleaning with Mash.
I know it.
It's because I know the show so well.
Yeah.
that I can just listen to it and know exactly what's happening on the screen.
So, yeah, cause I just- Is it weird to just sit and watch it? It a little bit is and I've missed things because I'm always cleaning.
So, when I have the visual along with it, I was telling Sean, I'm laughing so hard at this show because I normally listen to it like a podcast instead of watching it and just the visuals.
Oh man, Alan Alda.
Like just, so I've been enjoying that.
Yeah.
One in the first season, especially season one and two, they make jokes or puns or references to Albert Schweitzer constantly.
Do they now? And I've never bothered to look him up.
I figured from context, he's a doctor, a physician, cause Hawkeye's always giving, he's always calling Frank Burns.
Albert Schweitzer.
Is he now? Because he, you know, Frank thinks he's the greatest doctor.
He's a gift to medicine.
Oh my gosh.
And so he'll say something like, well, how was your day Dr.
Schweitzer or something like that.
We all know of Frank Burns.
We all do.
Oh gosh.
So, I looked up Albert Schweitzer.
Okay.
Here we go.
He was born in France in January of 1875.
He came from a family deeply rooted in religion, music and education.
And his father was a Lutheran pastor.
Get out of here.
Not even kidding.
Schweitzer studied theology and philosophy at the University of Strasbourg, earning a doctorate in philosophy in 1899.
His academic career was distinguished by his contributions to theology and philosophy.
He published influential works in the philosophy of religion.
Additionally, he was a renowned organist and musicologist.
He wrote significant works on Bach, and how to build organs.
Who is this guy? He's like a Renaissance man.
His musical talent earned him international recognition.
At the age of 30, he made a life-changing decision to become a medical missionary in Africa.
This decision stemmed from a deep sense of compassion and a desire to alleviate suffering.
He studied medicine and earned a medical degree in 1913.
With his wife, Helene, he founded the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Africa in 1913.
His life in Africa was marked by unwavering dedication to serving the people of the region.
He faced many challenges, including disease, war, and isolation.
But despite the hardships, he remained steadfast in his mission to provide medical care and education.
He became a symbol of humanitarianism and a champion for the rights of Africans.
His philosophy of reverence for life emphasized the interconnectedness of all living things and the importance of compassion and respect.
In 1952, Schweitzer was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his humanitarian work.
The prize money was used to expand his hospital and build a leper colony.
Oh my goodness.
Did we not just talk about lepers last week or two weeks ago? It was a couple weeks ago with leprosy and...
Oh, well Hanson's disease and the armadillos.
Armadillos.
Right.
Yeah.
How? We talked about leprosy.
Pennsylvania, Aaron, things are adorable.
We'll have to agree to disagree on that.
It's all right, Aaron, to each his own.
You know, someone's got to love the armadillos.
It takes all kinds.
That's right.
OK.
Albert Schweitzer's hospital continues to operate today, providing health care to thousands of people each year.
His legacy extends far beyond his medical work.
His philosophy of reverence for life continues to inspire people around the world to embrace compassion, respect, and a commitment to social justice.
Schweitzer wrote many books on theology, philosophy, music, and his experiences in Africa, including an autobiography called Out of My Life and Thought.
Out of my life and thought, okay.
This article or one of the articles I read called him a polymath.
Okay.
So, when you were saying a Renaissance man, I was thinking the same thing, but they called him a polymath, which I guess is a heightened, like it's far beyond a Renaissance man.
Right, cause a Renaissance man would just be kind of like a jack of all trades.
Right, and this article was saying, think of a jack of all trades, but an expert in every trade.
Exactly.
And everything he does or everything he tries to do, he just becomes top.
He excels.
Yeah.
I just can't imagine, I mean.
Can't imagine being like that.
No, what would that be like? I just don't even know.
Well, I don't know either.
I feel like I'm jack of all trades, master of none.
I really do feel that way.
Yeah.
There's not one thing that I really excel at.
And I have a real problem with that.
My whole life I've had a problem with that.
What about music? I don't, I'm terrible at music theory, horrible at it.
And singing.
I mean, yeah, but I mean, but like I have not mastered music.
I would like to have one thing that I've mastered.
I think most people go their whole lives having not mastered a single thing.
I know, it's just a hang up of my own.
I mean.
That's those are extraordinary people who master anything.
It's like, oh my gosh, it's like that quote from Pride and Prejudice.
What? When...when Mr.
Darcy says that he would not consider a woman accomplished or whatever if she hasn't done certain things, blah, blah.
And then Lizzie says, I'm astonished you've met a single accomplished woman or something like that.
I'm totally butchering it, but you know what I'm saying is that she says to him, your standards are so high for accomplishment that I'm astounded you've met any accomplished people.
I mean I haven't mastered anything.
I mean I haven't either.
I really haven't.
Oh, wait a second Oh, I was gonna say I just thought of something.
I thought of something to what you go first napping.
I was going to say sleep, I was going to say sleep! You are correct.
I mean, I am a boss when it comes to sleep.
I've got the earplugs, I've got the eye mask, I've got the melatonin, I've got the sheets.
I can nap like nobody's business.
Nobody's business.
I mean, just ask my kids.
I hear them all the time.
I can actually even hear what's going on while I'm napping.
Like I'm getting a nap and I kind of know what's happening.
I can't do that.
I can I'll be on the couch and I'll hear someone come down the stairs and I'm napping like I've been asleep and I'll hear snickering. Because they're laughing at me asleep on the couch. Now I don't nap that I'm if I'm napping I'm sick something has gone wrong and I am sick. But you're just a good night sleeper.
Oh boy boy, when I'm ready, oh yeah.
I'm like, hello, bed.
And I get inside and me in the bed, we catch up on the day.
And I'm like, see, what's going on? And are you ready to cuddle me all night? You've mastered it.
I am perfect at that.
Yeah, so there you go.
You're right, thank you.
Thank you for walking me through that.
I feel a lot better about myself.
You're welcome.
What's your next search? Oh, wait, I have sources to tell you about.
I was gonna say.
Standby, NobelPrize.org, the NIH.
Britannica.com and good ol' PBS.org.
Okay, so I have a question for you that you may or may not be able to answer.
But lots of churches are named Schweitzer.
We have one here in town.
You're right.
I wonder if it's named after him or if it's named after a different Schweitzer.
This library that we're sitting in is called the Schweitzer Library.
That's why the look is on my face.
I'm sitting here going, isn't this place called Schweitzer? It is.
I'm guessing since there are multiple places in this town, I'm guessing that's a rich person.
That's a local rich person with that name.
I'm guessing so.
It's a great question.
Something to think about.
Yes it is.
What an interesting person.
Alright.
So, Frank Burns is Dr.
Schweitzer.
Yes.
Got it.
That is quite sarcastic and snarky.
It's dripping in sarcasm.
There's not a scintilla of sincerity in that burn of Frank Burns.
Wow.
Okay.
That leads us to our next thing.
Scintilla meaning an etymology.
Yes.
Scintilla is a noun meaning a tiny trace or a spark of a specified quality or feeling.
I look this up because I've been watching the Lincoln Lawyer, which I mentioned in Bookmarks.
And not a scintilla of evidence is a phrase that comes up often in legal dramas.
Oh! There's not a scintilla of evidence to support that.
That's interesting.
Um, I've heard it also on Matlock and Boston Legal.
They, for some reason, legal dramas, they love the word scintilla.
I was getting ready to ask, are you about to tell me why legal dramas use that word so often? I don't know why.
I think it's just because it's one of those words that sounds kind of, it's kind of non-standard.
It's a little bit fancier.
And it's an efficient way to say.
You've got nothing.
There's nothing to that.
Right.
There's no.
There there.
There's no there there.
So, the word comes from Latin where it literally means spark.
The etymology traces back to the Latin verb scintillare or scintillare maybe, which means to sparkle.
Which makes me think of Twilight vampires.
So, when people say not a scintilla of in arguments, they're emphasizing the absolute.
absence of something.
Using scintilla in this context is a powerful way to underscore their point.
It highlights that there's not even the smallest trace or hint of whatever they're discussing.
In debates or disagreements, this kind of phrasing can add weight to an argument by painting a vivid picture of a total lack.
It's a dramatic way of saying something.
It leaves no room for ambiguity and clearly conveys their stance.
Okay.
Which is why it's so popular in courtroom dramas.
I see.
Is what I'm, you know, positing.
It's like no, no evidence infinity.
Correct.
Yeah.
No takesey backsees.
I know you are, but what am I? Here are some other examples though of words that tend to be used negatively for dramatic purposes.
Because you don't hear people say, I have a scintilla of an idea.
True.
Or it's always there's no, there's not a scintilla of.
It's always not a scintilla.
Oh, okay.
Interesting.
All right.
You hardly ever hear somebody use the word scintilla.
Like there's a scintilla of vanilla in this perfume or whatever.
It's always negative.
So, I asked, Microsoft Copilot, I asked it to give me examples of other words that tend to be used negatively.
Okay.
Like not a blah, not a blank of blah.
Iota.
So, there isn't an iota of truth in that statement.
Whiff.
Oh.
Not a whiff of scandal was found.
Scrap, he didn't have a scrap of decency.
Modicum, there wasn't a modicum of doubt.
Hint, there wasn't a hint of remorse.
Fragment, not a fragment of hope was left.
Now fragment and hint, you use those in a positive sense too.
It's not always with not a.
I'm gonna have to disagree with whiff as well.
Yes, whiff, exactly.
there's a whiff of scandal to that or...
Whiff of a dog fart in the air.
Yes.
But not a shred of evidence.
That's usually negative.
Not a modicum of, that's usually negative.
Not an iota of, those tend to be always with not a.
I wonder why that is.
There are just some words that we constantly, or maybe because they're cliches, that we've just learned to use them as phrases instead of their own words.
Yeah.
But I found that scintillating.
My sources were Edam Online, of course, WordOrigins.org, Wiktionary, Oxford English Dictionary, and Microsoft Copilot.
Okay.
You mentioned Twilight.
And then that made me think of Victoria, who is on an old show that we're watching, called Under the Dome.
Oh yeah, the Stephen King thing.
Yeah.
She is like one of the main characters.
And I was like, how do I know this person? She's a journalist and she's always up in everyone's business.
Oh gosh.
And it finally, because she's got that red, that big red hair.
And finally, she like whipped it around or something and she had a facial, like some kind of look on her face.
And I was like, oh my lord, she's that vampire.
That's who that is.
And this was after, you know, Twilight.
Of course.
So, thinking she got a job.
I'm glad she got a job after Twilight.
Yeah.
Good for her.
Yeah.
Brea, but what about this one? What about it? This is a quick listing of our other searches from this past week that we didn't have time to discuss or were simply too boring to share.
Oh yeah, so damn boring.
YOU’RE BORING! Mm-hmm.
Here we go.
Mine's really short.
I only have ten.
I was VVB.
Grace United Methodist Church location.
Fastest way.
Oh my gosh.
I forgot I put this down I have to tell a story after I read this.
Okay.
Fastest way to get lidocaine out of your system.
Oh.
And so they had to numb some stuff.
And it didn't work.
They started working on my teeth.
And I was like, okay, that's starting to hurt a little bit.
She goes, oh, you should not be feeling a thing at all.
And I was like, okay, well, I said, it's not super painful, but I said, I can feel it.
And she's like, no, we need to stop.
Oh gosh.
So, she loaded me up with another kind, with lidocaine.
Cause she didn't use lidocaine.
And she's like, I'm putting in your file that we need to use lidocaine on you.
Cause she said this stuff didn't work for you.
I had to go back to work after this.
And so I had like three kinds of numbing agent that had been injected.
So, when I got in the car, I of course looked like I had a stroke.
Right, you had bell's palsy or whatever.
So, I looked up real quick how to get lidocaine out of your system quickly because I talked to people all day.
Yes.
And I was like, it's a dandelion.
It's the last one of the season.
I couldn't talk about dandelions all day.
Oh, my gosh.
So, it said basically, you need to get your heart rate up and just, you know, pump it out, work, basically just keep moving.
Yeah.
So, I went to the grocery store which is really close to the dentist office that I'm at.
And I just walked around the grocery store, just walk, until I became suspicious.
And someone stopped me and asked if they could help me find something.
I was like, oh no.
I'm just trying to work off my logic.
So, then I was like, I'm just looking for something for lunch and I just can't decide.
And so, then I had to buy something.
What's going on here? So, I bought something and I got the F out.
And I just went back to work and I just kind of like kept my head down.
And that was, uh, that appointment was at 10 in the morning.
That did not wear off until four o'clock that afternoon.
I hate that.
Anyway, sorry.
Kind of, kind of like when, um, when I had Peyton, when I gave birth to Peyton, and the first epidural that they gave me didn't work.
And then it started and then they gave me, so they gave me another one.
They gave me more and then it started to wear off like halfway through like, you know, right.
The part that you really need it for.
Right.
And so, they pumped me.
They gave me some more.
And so, by the time he was born, I could not feel my lower half at all.
Yes.
And they were going to transfer me from the birthing bed to a bed that rolled down the hallway to put me in a room.
And I was like, I can't feel anything.
And they're like, well, just, you know, like, you know, they were trying to show me like, just move with your, with your hands.
Can you help, you know, us move you to this bed? I was like, no, I cannot.
I am dead from here down and I don't have enough even like strength in my upper body to do this.
You're gonna have to like, whatever.
And they were like, okay.
And they were kind of put out about it.
And so, I was sitting up.
and they walked away from me and I was so numb.
Like I was numb, not just like from the hips down, I was numb like from below my chest down.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And they walked away from me while I was sitting up.
And so I just went, I just fell over in the bed and Clint was like, Oh my gosh, you know, he comes over and I'm like, I'm telling you, I cannot support myself right now.
And I was numb.
My legs were numb.
I was like punching myself in the legs.
My legs were numb for like, I don't know, 10 hours after that.
Oh my word.
And they were like, you really need to get up and go to the bathroom.
I'm like, well, I really need to not fall and break my head.
Oh my God.
And I had to wear a bracelet that said fall wrist.
Oh man, having babies.
Oh crap.
It's glamorous.
Oh jeez, yeah it is.
Oh gosh, okay.
Okay, sorry.
It's all right.
Ammonia production, Otz Pasta, Sedona, Mary Widowmaker, a Scooters menu and the container store.
That's it.
I love the container store.
I know, it's fun.
All right, here's my very boring list.
Household hazardous waste disposal near me.
Mm-hmm UPS store near me, palm and paddle grill, Lincoln lawyer, Rachel Shenton, Mark Colleen, A Very British Christmas.
What's that? 
It's a very bad but wholesome Christmas movie.
Oh, okay, and it's very British, do you watch that show All Creatures Great and Small? Hell, yes.
Okay, so the main girl character, why can't I think of her name? I mean, it's Rachel Shenton is the actor.
But- Helen.
Yes, his wife Helen is played by Rachel Shenton and she's in this A Very British Christmas.
And she's so beautiful and she's so, I mean, it's, it just, mm, mm-mm.
Not good writing.
That's all I gotta say about that.
Okay, Soft Toy Binterong.
Can't find one.
Declaration of Independence Location.
Oh.
Josh Sagara.
Why did you look up the location? Are you gonna steal it? No, cause we were talking about 9-11 for some reason in my house at dinnertime, like you do.
And we had talked about why they targeted the buildings that they targeted.
Wow, you guys.
And- Dinner time is a real blast at the Brown House.
And I said, I think one of the buildings on the list was also the Capitol building and the White House.
Those were two other places that they had considered targeting.
But they decided to do the things that they did.
And I don't know where the one.
plane that crashed over Pennsylvania.
I'm not sure what it was pointed at.
I don't remember.
That might have been the one that was gonna be flown into the Capitol building.
Anyway, Peyton said something about, well, the Capitol building is where the Declaration of Independence is in the rotunda.
And I was like, I don't think you're right.
So, I had to look it up and he was not right, which is rare.
It is in a rotunda, but it is in the National Archives.
That makes sense because that thing lowers into the ground.
Yeah, yeah.
You know what? I wouldn't have, if someone had come up to me and asked me where that was, I don't think I would have known.
I didn't.
I knew that it lowered into the ground.
Yeah, I knew it wasn't in the Capitol building, but I didn't know where it was.
That makes sense, National Archives, got it.
I've got that stored away for the day I'm on Jeopardy.
The Museum of National Archives or whatever.
It's a museum building, but yeah.
And it has a rotunda in it.
Yeah.
Is that a part of the Smithsonian? I think it is part of the Smithsonian complex.
Okay.
Oh man, I want to go see that.
Me too.
They've got so many cool buildings.
I know.
So, many cool museums.
Anyway, do you have shout outs? I hope Erin liked my socks.
You showed her a picture.
I sent her...
Pennsylvania Erin was asking for pictures of my darned socks.
Your sole socks.
My sole socks.
And I sent pictures to her and she said she thought she knew what darning was but now she was wrong.
Now she does know what darning is.
I am wearing the opposite of sole socks today.
These are a pair of socks that need to go in the trash.
They're like devil socks.
They're not comfortable.
They're rubbing really weird on my little toe.
on the outside like you know.
The seam.
They keep falling down into my shoe.
Will you actually go home and throw them in the trash or will you forget and put them in the clothes hamper to wash? I will put them in the hamper to wash.
I will send you a reminder.
Do not put those socks in the hamper.
I'm terrible.
Throw them out.
Yeah, opposite of sole socks for sure.
I don't think I have any other shout outs.
I do.
So, Colleen sent us a message, my sister, she sent us an email about a docu-series that she really nerded out about, but I think I'm gonna watch it myself and use it as a bookmark.
Oh, okay.
But I really wanted to say thanks for the recommendation, and it always thrills me to witness people learning things and getting excited about it.
She was really excited about it.
I mean, she was nerding out about this.
And it really made her look up a bunch of stuff and research her own stuff, and yeah pretty cool.
Very good.
Yeah.
And also Steve G from way back.
I mean, he is an OG.
I remember Steve.
He's an OB.
He is an OB.
Yeah.
OB Steve G.
OB Steve G.
He took the time to message me to second my bookmark recommendation of AP bio.
Oh.
He said he and his wife watched it when it was actually airing originally.
Okay.
And then I said I love Pat Noswalt and he said...
He is, as you gals would say, a hoot.
And indeed, Pat Nolans-Vault is a hoot, as is Steve G.
Steve G is also a hoot.
That's all I got.
I'm so glad.
Steve.
I know, he's still hanging in there with us.
Thank you for reaching out.
That's fun.
Yeah.
Well, you and I are probably ready to wrap this one up.
Yeah.
I'm ready to go eat something and basically go to sleep as soon as possible.
We got to get up early, because we got some Christmas shopping to do tomorrow.
We're Christmas shopping now.
In Branson.
Tamara.
Gotta get your.
On Saturday.
Saturday in Missouri.
In Branson, Missouri.
We're going down south, we're gonna do some Christmas shopping, hearing in the hearing in the.
Here, nana, here, nana, nana.
And it's my fault that we're going to Branson because I have to be back.
Oh, yeah.
Saturday night, I got the symphony tickets.
La dee da.
That's when I put away my here, nana, and I listened to my whole song.
Aw, it's so beautiful.
But we're gonna shop it on.
Yep.
So, I gotta go home and get my 12 hours of sleep so I can get up early.
You're almost already screwed.
I know, I gotta go fast, eat fast.
Maybe I'll just do a liquid.
Liquid dinner.
I would.
Otherwise, you're going to have some major heartburn.
Yeah, you're right.
All right.
Because we're girls of a certain age.
That's right.
Got to think about that.
All right, well, I've already deleted my history because I needed to be ahead of the game.
Wow.
Are you going to do yours tonight? Maybe.
Probably not.
It's like my socks.
I tell myself I'm going to delete my history and throw away my socks, but I won't.
I will remind you of both when I get home.
Okay.
It'll be next week and I'll be like, oh shoot, that was all stuff from last week.
And then I'll delete it.
Oh shoot.
All right, well, we'll call this one in the books.
Okay, yeah, but we want people to rate and review us.
Oh crap, yes we absolutely do.
I was trying to get the- I know.
Gosh, we gotta, you know, pimp ourselves out here a little bit.
I'm so tired.
Okay, yes, please.
Tell your friends.
Rate and review us.
Engage with us on social media.
That's right.
Where are we on social media? Oh, we are at DTHGals on Instagram and threads.
And at Delete This History on Facebook.
Yes.
They could also email us.
Correct, like Colleen did.
Yeah.
How did Steve...
He teams messaged me at work.
OK, you know what? That's all right.
That's cool.
I mean, he's got the direct line.
Absolutely, he does.
Sorry, peeps.
That's all right.
If you work with me.
If you don't work with her, you can email at deletethishistorypodcast@gmail.com.
That's right.
There, I told the cheese bags what they needed to do.
What else do they need to do? They also need to stay fresh.
Exactly.
Yep.
Bye bye.
Bye.
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