This is really hard for me.
My brain is thinking the right words, but they're not coming out.
Yeah.
I'm going to try this whole paragraph again.
Okay.
Welcome to episode 62 of Delete This History, a podcast by two besties.
of a certain age searching for answers.
We are your hosts, Cara Burch.
And Brea Brown.
Hey.
Hi.
It's New Year's Eve to the people listening.
I know.
Happy New Year, everybody.
So, for us, Christmas hasn't happened yet.
We actually are excited about Christmas because it hasn't happened yet.
Yeah, we're living in the past.
You're looking forward to the new year and stopping eating all your sugar.
and we're still like in the middle of it.
I'm ramping up.
Yeah, me too.
Last night I made Rice Krispie Treats and oatmeal raisin cookies for my bosses.
So, I got Sean and I, we had to assure that the quality was high.
They were delicious.
Great.
So, I'm also going to make Oreo balls.
Oh man, I love Oreo balls.
Oreo balls are the best.
And then I'm gonna make Buckeyes.
Oh, those are my favorite.
Puppy chow.
I mean, I eat it, of course.
Oh my gosh, Puppy Chow is like my favorite.
It's like crack.
It is.
Yeah.
And then I was gonna make a fourth, oh, I'm making deviled eggs, of course.
Yes.
To go to my parents' house.
And then dad requested pigs and blankets.
So, I have to make pigs and blankets for my dad.
Didn't he request that? Yes, he requests those every holiday possible.
Okay, I was gonna say.
Anyway, would you like to talk about boot marks? Yeah, I do.
Okay, I only have one.
this week.
Okay.
I've been VVB.
Yes.
Um, I don't know if you noticed, and maybe I'm just crazy, but I feel like people this year decorated their houses more so than years past.
Yeah.
Like Christmas lights are everywhere.
I feel the same way that there has been an uptick.
Like people have woken up from some kind of grinchy coma.
and have said, hey, you know what, I think I'll decorate this year.
Yes.
So, Sean and I were doing some last minute shopping one day this week after work.
I can't remember what day because it's all a blur.
And after we finished, I was like, you know what? You never leave the house.
I'm going to take you to show you some Christmas lights that I am driving by on the way home.
And it was on the complete opposite side of town.
And so I said, let's just, along the way, we're just going to stop and look.
So, we just impromptu.
started searching for Christmas lights and we drove around and we had the best time.
It was so fun.
Have you been by Bass Pro? No, we did not go by Bass Pro.
It is crazy.
Well, that's why we don't go by Bass Pro.
No, but I mean like not crazy as far as people.
The lights on Bass Pro, the Christmas light display.
I mean, isn't it always, they always go all out, right? I guess.
Maybe I've...
Maybe I just have never had to drive by Bass Pro at Christmas time, but I did multiple times this week.
And every time I would, I was like a little kid.
I was like causing traffic backups.
That's kind of how prime trucking is.
Oh, yes.
They go all out.
Yes, they do.
Whoever puts those lights up, they should get a big old Christmas bonus.
Yeah.
And you get to see that every day.
There is.
Yeah, I drive that.
Well, almost every day.
I try to avoid the highway as much as possible.
I see.
It's VVD.
Very, very dangerous.
Are you that many years old now that you don't drive on the highway? I, you do not.
Right there at 65 and I-44 at 5 o'clock traffic, it seriously is dangerous.
I just try to avoid it if at all possible.
That's probably a good idea.
I don't want to die in a fiery crash.
That's probably VVS.
Very, very smart.
Thank you.
So, anyway, that's my bookmark recommendation.
Just go out, don't have a plan, and just drive around, find some neighborhoods.
I mean, there are some serious light displays out there.
I think because it's getting easier and easier with technology every year to light your house and make it look good because they have all these different devices now.
to make it like nice and straight.
You can put nets over your bushes so that they all look, you know, uniform.
Someone had taken a crap ton of those net lightings and they had put them all over their entire roof.
Yeah.
Oh my, we were just like, whoa! I mean, it was like a Griswold house.
It was the funniest thing.
It looked awesome.
I was impressed.
I was like, that is smart.
I also found out that it's VVI, very illegal, to decorate your car in Christmas lights.
Gosh, I have seen that everywhere.
And there are so many people this year who have their cars just covered in Christmas lights.
Stupid social media.
I guess, but...
It has to be.
It's real redneck, I think.
Now, I did not know that was illegal.
It's illegal.
But that makes sense.
Because it's...
it's not...
um, street legal.
Yeah.
And they're not safety lights.
Correct.
So, it's a distraction.
It totally is a distraction.
You'll get pulled over.
Okay.
If, if the cops have nothing better to do, maybe.
I have two bookmarks.
Let's hear it.
Okay.
Um, Dr.
Scholl's foot masks are lifesavers.
It was Wednesday that you were out doing last minute Christmas stuff because I, that was the one night I did not go out this week.
Okay.
And I already had my feet up in my second pair of Dr.
Scholl's foot masks.
And I was falling asleep watching a British crime procedural.
And you were texting me and you said that you were slightly tipsy.
Well, that's when Martha and I met.
Martha and I met up at Holdfast, but Sean and I went Christmas shopping.
I think it was Tuesday night.
Oh, okay.
I've been VVB.
You have been.
I've got things to do.
I know I'm a little butterfly.
Dang.
Seeing all the things and the people.
Yeah.
We went to Holdfast cause we were going to do music bingo.
Yes.
But then we got there and we're like, we only see each other once a month.
We're going to talk instead of doing music bingo.
But.
It's really fun.
That night was hilarious.
You were like, I'm at Brom's drive-thru picking up a bag of burgers.
I got a bag of burgers! Yeah.
Those bag of burgers weren't very good, by the way.
Oh, that's a bummer.
It was like the burgers, it was like the lowest level of burger that they made.
Yeah.
The quality was.
Right.
You should have gone home, atein'.
Atein'.
Oh my gosh, y'all.
It's happening.
Aten.
It's happening.
I have finally gone native.
Oh my gosh, you should have eaten a couple of gummies.
When you got home, then waited maybe 15 minutes, reheated your bag of burgers.
And they would have tasted amazing.
I can't do gummies right now because I'm doing muscle relaxers because of my jaw.
Oh, that's right.
And your body.
Well, the body is better.
Right, how's the jaw? The jaw is, I can almost yawn normally.
Okay.
But not yet.
And you were able to eat a bag of burgers.
I was able to eat a burger.
I'm back on solid foods.
So, that's good.
Well, it's so good.
I was really worried Christmas was going to be canceled.
By this-mas.
Because.
Christmas canceled by this-mas.
Trismas.
Sorry.
I was going to have to replace Christmas with Trismas.
Damn it.
I'm not going to do it.
OK, second bookmark.
So, the first bookmark, Dr.
Shoal's foot masks.
If you ever have achy feet, do yourself a favor.
Grab some on Amazon.
You cannot find them anywhere in the stores, at least not here.
I've tried this week.
Get some, because they're good.
Number two, finishing a massive job and having no plans for almost two weeks.
That is the best feeling.
It's like you took a big dump on the last day of school.
You are native.
I did that for my granny.
She always used to say I was so classy.
I just needed a year of finishing school.
Oh my gosh.
I mean that is seriously how relieved I am.
That's great.
I didn't know what to do with myself today.
I mean I had stuff to do.
I had to do my rundown because I hadn't had time to do that.
I have to edit the episode that people are going to be listening to on Christmas Eve.
Yeah, Christmas Eve.
Sorry peeps.
I haven't edited it yet, so if you've already listened to it, then see, it all worked out.
But I've been procrastinating on that this week.
And then, you know, so I've got a couple of those things, but for the most part, it was just kind of like, what am I gonna do today? Then my husband said, can you go pick up my glasses? So, I had to put on a bra.
Jerk.
Put on clothes.
And when I got there, they were like, oh, but we tried to like.
readjust them but without him here it's kind of hard to know.
Oh yeah.
And I was like yeah he'll just have to come back.
I was pretty impatient about it.
Oh gosh.
That's it.
Well we're not here to talk about your number twos.
No.
What are we here to do? We're here to tell our DTH besties about our internet search histories for the week.
And we do that with...
The reading of the lists.
Here we go.
Number one for me.
Oh wait, I have to describe what this is.
For those people who might be first time listeners.
We're sorry.
Apologies.
This is when we tell you our top three most interesting, funniest, most successful internet searches of the week in list form.
Here we go, here's my list.
Number one, Google's 2024 trending searches.
Number two, 240 for his speed.
Number three, what is a blini? Okay, my search this week, my list, is number one, main character energy meaning.
Oh.
Number two, pickles for muscle recovery.
Oh.
Number three, Tokyo four day work week.
We've read our list.
Yeah.
It's time to move on.
Yep.
To a little game that we like to call, Search Me! This is where we each pose one question to each other to see if she can answer based only on the reading of the list.
Brea.
Mm-hmm.
I have failed you.
Why? Well, I forgot your prize.
Yes, yes.
So,, I had to scramble.
Okay.
I even knew what I was gonna bring, and I left it at home.
But instead, you're playing for this KitKat.
Oh, that's good enough.
Right now, I'm a sugar hound.
I'm sorry to add to it, but.
Kit Kats are delicious.
Kit Kats are the best.
I love it.
Give me a break.
All right, are you ready for your question? Which of my searches came from reading a Nora Roberts book? For those of you playing along, here's my list again.
Number one, Google's 2024 trending searches.
Number two, 240 for his speed.
And number three, what is a blini? I'm going to guess.
What is a blini? That's right.
Yes.
When I looked this up, and the Nora Roberts main character confirmed this information.
It is a type of Russian pancake that is similar to a crepe.
They are thin, round, and made from batter of buckwheat flour, milk, and eggs.
Oh, okay.
They can be served sweet or savory.
And in the book that I'm reading, The main character added, so she had a little pancake, and they're real small.
They're like the palm of your hand size.
And so she had her little pancake, and she put creme fraiche on it, and then she topped it with beluga caviar.
That's what the man she was with said.
He's like, too salty, no thanks.
Bellinis are versatile.
They can be eaten hot or cold.
Oh.
In a variety of ways.
So, I looked up some ways that people fix bellinis.
And really it pretty much boils down to whatever you wanna put on top of it.
But most of the recipes I found, they used fish.
Almost all of them.
Well, they really love their fish out there in Russia.
I guess so.
It was usually salmon, like smoked salmon, which I don't care for.
I don't like the smoked taste of salmon.
But sometimes it was just goat cheese and some jam on top.
Doesn't that sound good? Yes.
One recipe topped their blinis with chili crab salad and green onions.
I would try that because it kind of sounds like a crab rangoon.
A little bit.
One recipe, they just put a homemade salsa on top of it.
Yeah.
Avocado cream and crab.
I would eat that.
You can also make the blinis with potatoes or corn rather than buckwheat flour.
Just lots of ways to eat those little pancakes.
Okay.
I guess I've been reading that word all these years and not, and picturing something completely different.
You read that word a lot.
Well, I mean, I've read it in books where people eat things or.
Now, isn't there, if you use either Prosecco or champagne or some kind of sparkling wine and put peach juice in it, isn't that like a bilini? Oh yeah, I think so.
Or something like that.
A bilini, yeah.
That's what I thought this was and then she started putting caviar on it.
I was like, yeah, like what what's this lady doing? That's not right.
You're gonna suck that up with a straw like boba tea.
So, you were reading a Nora Roberts book It was you really just needed to like not think very well much After whatever I just needed a fast read bed or whatever My mom loved Nora Roberts loved her She's not a terrible writer, but I mean, she just uses the same formula over and over and over.
Yeah, that's what my mom complained about sometimes.
And she'd be like, they're so racy.
Well, there are some sexy times.
Yes.
And then when she writes as she's got another she has a pseudonym that she writes under.
Oh, like and I believe she writes crime novels.
under that pseudonym, but they're like romance crime novels.
Those are real racy.
Oh.
They're like spicy.
Oh my goodness.
Yeah.
Okay.
Hey, my sources for that were Wikipedia, the book Tribute by Nora Roberts, wome and Google Gemini.
All right.
Cara, you're gonna be laughing.
Oh, by the way, I'm taking this Kit Kat.
Yeah, get that in your gob.
You're gonna laugh, cause...
Your prize for today is a broken candy cane.
I just realized it was broken.
I didn't mean for it to be broken.
Do you know what? I haven't had a single candy cane this year.
Not one.
I bought so many this year and I've just been eating them like, like they're, I don't know, therapeutic or something.
And I don't just suck on them.
I like bite them.
I do too.
Like with my little bottom teeth, like you just, I cut off little tiny pieces.
Oh do you? I don't.
They're like big old pieces and I'm like, they're stuck in my teeth.
I'm sure I'm going to have, when I go to the dentist, I think in January, I go to the dentist, they're going to be like, what have you been doing? Eating candy canes? I ate in some candy canes.
Okay.
Your question is, which search occurred after I nearly spit out my coffee laughing at what I thought was a crazy misconception by my youngest child? for those playing at home.
Your choices are number one, main character energy meaning, number two, pickles for muscle recovery, and number three, Tokyo four day work week.
All right, I'm gonna go with Pickles for Muscle Recovery.
Yes, that is correct.
Excellent.
He's been working out.
Really? With like hand weights, quote, because he's bored.
Because I'm bored.
Beefing up.
Yeah, and this morning he said he was really sore, which I felt like saying, bitch please.
I don't even wanna hear it.
Ha, ha, ha.
Is your boob purple? I fell down this week.
My boob is purple.
My knee is purple.
My legs are like purple polka dotted.
I opened a cabinet door into my shin like the point of the cabinet door.
So, there's a mark there.
I've been lifting and squatting and crawling under things.
Her hands are trashed.
Yeah.
My hands.
I've been opening and like breaking down cardboard boxes.
My hands look like I don't even know what they're disgusting.
And then he says, I'm sore this morning.
I'm real sore this morning.
And I didn't even know he was working out because I haven't been home.
Right.
So, I'm like, I have no idea what's happening.
I said, why are you sore? And he said, because I've been working out.
And I said, oh, OK.
Why are you doing that? And he goes, because I'm bored.
And I was like, well, that's a healthy response to boredom.
That's better than.
what I do, which is eat.
And then he said he was particularly sore today because after he worked out last night, he forgot to eat a pickle.
That's when I almost spit out my coffee As one does because I was stumped I could not find the connection I was like what are you Talking about you crazy person Is this a thing And then he told me that the sodium and pickles is good for muscle recovery Okay, and he's partly right It's not that simple.
Okay Now according to research, drinking pickle juice may help with muscle recovery by potentially reducing the occurrence of muscle cramps, particularly during exercise, that would be weird, crunch crunch, due to its high electrolyte content, specifically sodium and potassium, which can help restore electrolyte balance in the body.
However, the exact mechanism is not fully understood.
And some experts believe the effect might be related to a neuromuscular reflex triggered by the taste of pickle juice.
Oh, that's interesting.
Rather than the direct electrolyte replenishment.
That is so interesting.
Yeah.
And then it went on to say things like you have to be careful.
Don't drink too much because it is very salty.
Oh, yes.
And it'll make you sick.
Oh, yes.
As a child, I cannot even tell you how many times I got sick drinking pickle juice.
Because I love it.
Oh my gosh.
And I had no control because I was a little kid.
I still have no control.
What am I saying? But I don't drink pickle juice because I've learned that it will make you very sick.
Oh my goodness.
And all that sodium is not that good for you.
Blah, blah, blah.
So, they recommend you just take tiny sips.
And Peyton said, that's why I eat a pickle, because I know I'm getting the exact right amount of juice just from eating the pickle.
OK.
I'm like, wow.
I mean.
I had to really eat some crow with my pickle juice because I thought that he was being ridiculous.
But he said his boyfriend told him that.
About the pickles? Yeah.
Okay.
And Kelly does, he runs track and field and he is, what's that called? In the color guard.
Oh yeah.
So,, you know, he's got some experience with.
physical activity and athletics.
So,, okay.
That's good.
I guess I shouldn't have questioned.
Get that kid moving.
That's right.
So,, and I guess Peyton doesn't wanna be scrawny for his whole life.
So, here he goes.
All right.
He's gonna beef up.
Muscles.
We're gonna beefy Peyton.
Beefy.
BP.
My sources were ABC News, Healthline, PubMed Central.
My candy cane.
It's broken at the end.
Hang it from my hand.
It's so cute hanging from your glasses.
Is it like good? Yeah, you're like a little, you're like a walking Christmas tree.
Or sitting Christmas tree, I guess.
Okay.
Yeah, you win that candy cane.
I will enjoy that later tonight, thank you.
I mean, I have a real Christmas present for you sitting right here.
Yes.
I also have a real Christmas present sitting for you.
Right.
So, I mean, it's all good.
Yeah.
These are more prize-like anyway.
Yeah.
I agree.
When did we get away from that? When we just started? Hey, I don't know.
Remember when I just gave you a post it that I drew on it? Yeah.
I mean, super doodle.
I'm fine with going back to super doodles.
I'm cool with it, too.
We kind of got carried away.
Speaking of carried away.
Yeah.
I don't know what that means.
I have no segue.
It is time for our next segment, though.
Yes.
And that next segment is called Shared History.
So, now we're gonna share with our DTH besties what we searched this week, why we searched it, and what we learned, if anything at all.
My first one is 240 for his speed.
Now we've all been listening to Christmas carols, of course.
Yeah.
And the song Jingle Bells, there's a line that says, "'Get a bobtail bay, 240 for his speed, "'hitch him to an open sleigh and crack, "'you'll take the lead.
'" Oh my gosh.
I don't think I've ever registered those lyrics.
Oh.
Well, tell me what it means.
240 for his speed is a horse's ability to trot a mile in two minutes and 40 seconds.
That was really fast back in the day.
Yeah.
Um, that's not so fast now.
Isn't the Kentucky Derby a mile? Oh, a mile and a quarter.
I am gonna have my Kentucky card revoked, because I don't know.
I think it's a mile and a quarter.
And I mean, how fast does that go by? It's like a minute or something.
I mean, super fast.
I don't even know.
Anyway.
Because they are all out.
They are.
They're like, shh.
You know, because they're racing.
They're racing.
Wouldn't that be the most boring horse race ever if they were all just trotting? It'd be like speed walking.
So,, um.
Two minutes later, they're still not done with the mile.
Right.
Like, here they come.
I'm gonna get a hot dog.
They're coming down the stretch.
Anybody need a bathroom break? You guys wanna play a game of gin? So, as I was researching this, I learned a little bit more about the song Jingle Bell.
Then I thought it was pretty interesting.
It was not written for Christmas.
It's not a Christmas song.
And if you read through all the lyrics, it doesn't mention Christmas at all.
It was written for people that were riding in sleighs to go along with the cadence of the horses trod.
So, it kind of goes along, you know, if you're in a sleigh.
And we're talking, this wasn't like...
fun this was the transportation correct this was back in the day this is your commute it was your commute so people would make up songs and sing on the bubble the song was written by James Pierpont who is JP Morgan's uncle oh yeah um Pierpont was inspired to write the song while watching sleigh races held on the snow-packed streets of Salem Massachusetts I mean think of all the things they did before the internet, before TV, for all that stuff.
They did sleigh races on the streets of Massachusetts.
Sleigh racing was so popular during the winter months in New England, it was covered by the local papers and they would report on the winters, the horses lineage and racing conditions.
The jingle bells were not merely cheerful and fun, they were functional.
since snow muffles the click-clop of the horses and the sleigh rails make very little noise, the bells alerted others on the road of your presence for safety reasons so you didn't get run over essentially.
Because people were walking, we didn't have cars, there were other people in sleighs, so I mean it was a safety reason, but it inspired him to write the song Jingle Bells.
It's great.
Isn't that good? I really like the song.
the song Jingle Bells.
That's one of my favorite secular Christmas songs, even though it's not a Christmas song.
Winter songs.
It's a winter song.
I enjoy it a lot.
That's how I know that it's really Christmas.
Oh, okay.
When I hear Jingle Bells.
That's interesting.
Jingle Bell Rock, on the other hand, can go bite a big donkey and beepity beep beep.
I hate that song.
Oh my gosh.
I don't have a problem with that song, but I like the original version.
I don't like the remakes.
What was that lady's name? Jingle bells, jingle bells, jingle bells.
Oh, I actually like that.
We were in Walmart one year.
That wasn't Jingle Bell Rockers.
No, that was- That's Babs.
Was it Babs? I know Babs sings a version of that.
I think originally it was Liza Minnelli.
That is not surprising to me.
The version I heard with my dad in Walmart when I was a teenager one year was Liza.
And we were walking through, you know, my dad was taking me Christmas shopping for my friends.
I was buying things for my friends.
And the song, it just keeps going and going and it keeps getting faster and faster.
And dad and I finally looked at each other and he said, are you about done? Because I've got to get out of here.
And I said, what is wrong with this lady? I mean, we were both just capping on Liza.
Anyway.
I actually like that one.
I've heard the Barbara Streisand version.
It is just so manic.
It is manic.
You know how I don't like manic.
I understand.
Oh, I just don't like it.
I understand.
My sources for that were horsenetwork.
com.
Horses, horses, horses.
Wikipedia and Google Gemini.
He was my pal this week.
Google Gemini is such a pal, especially when you're VVB.
OK.
My first search is main character energy meaning.
Yes, what is this all about? I was listening to Bananas for a good laugh, and they were describing a woman who sued her former employer for emotional distress because they didn't give her a goodbye card when she left her job.
Okay.
And this is the story that came out in court.
This is an aside, which is so hilarious.
And this person deserves it.
And the Banana Boys are so positive.
They are such positive, nice guys.
But even they were like, this lady's a turd.
And in court it came out that they did get her a card, but only two people signed it.
And so they thought it was more insulting to give her the card with only two people signing it.
And so they didn't give it to her.
Anyway, her case was thrown out, thank God.
Good.
This was over in England.
Oh.
By the way, this sounds very American.
It does.
But it's not an American person.
And they said that she had major main character energy.
As well as calling her a turd.
And I kind of understood what that meant based on the context, but I wanted to know more.
So, I looked it up, like we do.
And main character energy means acting or feeling like you are the central protagonist in your own life story.
Essentially exuding confidence, charisma, and a sense of self assuredness as if you are the main character in a movie or book, taking control of your own narrative and embracing your unique identity.
It's a slang term popularized on social media, often used to describe someone who stands out and draws attention to themselves.
Now, that sounds all kind of positive.
Like, you're just living your life and you've got main character energy like you are, like, you're in control.
Yeah, you've got your own theme song.
Exactly.
You're walking down the street and you're hearing a song in your head and yeah, like there's a montage happening.
Nobody else knows about it.
But it can also obviously have negative connotations.
And I think the more it's been in use, the more it's been turned upside down to mean something negative.
Okay.
Like obnoxious people have main character energy.
Like what are you doing? Who are you performing for? Right.
It's like the people who sneeze loudly, they have main character energy.
In my book I'm making that's not an example that I found online or anything But that's my idea of someone with main character energy It's the person who thinks that they're the only person in the world when they're standing in the grocery store in the middle of the aisle on their phone and People are trying to get past them to actually shop not be on their phone.
Yes.
It's that person.
Yes Throwing their hat up in the air in the middle of Minneapolis.
I'm gonna make it on my own? Yeah.
Okay.
Although she was endearing.
But you know what I mean.
You know what they mean.
I'm a great...
Yeah.
When we all know those people.
They're flying through my head right now.
Yeah, I mean, we are surrounded by people with main character energy.
I feel like one of my children, possibly two, have it most days, but that's cause they're young.
Yeah.
they are the center of the universe.
I mean, that's what my dad would have said, is that person is acting like they're the center of the universe.
And it was never a good thing for my dad to say that about somebody.
That and mental giant.
Mental giant was not a compliment.
It did not mean that you were real, real smart.
I learned all my sarcasm from my dad.
My sources were Greenlight, dictionary.
com, and later.
Hmm.
Okay.
Um, so my next one is Google's 2024 trending searches.
Oh, yes.
This search is so meta because I'm searching about searches.
Oh, right.
I was searching a topic today.
I actually changed one of my topics to this one because I thought it was kind of more interesting and Google's doodle that I saw today was it's 2024 top trending searches.
Okay.
Right up our alley.
Now, they've compiled a video reflecting its top trending searches for 2024, which was really fun to watch.
So, they've just like, Oh, I'll have to watch that.
Bringed this montage of all their top searches, but it's fast.
Like there's so much going on.
So, you can actually see the top 10 lists of the trends broken down into categories.
So, they've, you know, broken these out for you to just, look at them, read them, do some more research.
One of them that I found the most interesting was the top songs that people hummed to Google so that they could learn the name of the song or the artist.
Okay.
So, I thought we'd do a little, not necessarily quiz, but I'd like to know if you've heard of these songs.
Oh my goodness.
And I'm gonna read through all 10 of them.
Probably not.
And I might have some comments of my own to share.
The number one hummed song this year was Beautiful Things by Benson Boone.
So, I actually had heard this song, but I don't really care for it that much.
You would know it if you heard it.
I know that you would.
So, the reason I actually like the song, but I don't like his voice.
To me, how can I describe his voice? To me, to my ear balls, it's like a knife on stainless steel.
Oh gosh.
just icky icky.
The second most hummed song was bling bang born by creepy nuts.
Nope.
Creepy nuts.
I love it though.
Now I'm going to read you a description of this song that I found on Apple Music because just the description of the song is going to stress you out.
Here's what Apple Music says.
It's a daffy confection that combines Latin rhythms Japanese hip-hop and a big Jersey club energy.
Oh my, that does sound manic.
It is manic.
It, I had to, I couldn't.
Too busy.
These people are talented, what they're spittin' out of their mouths.
Of course.
But lord have mercy.
Yeah.
Okay, the next one, Die With a Smile by Lady Gaga featuring Bruno Mars.
I know those two people.
I know, that's exactly what I wrote.
I know these two artists.
I'm really excited about that.
but I hadn't heard this song before I looked it up.
Me either.
It's a nice song and these two sound good together.
I bet they do.
They both have such strong, smooth voices.
Yeah, yeah.
I recommend looking this song up.
Die With a Smile.
I think it must be from the Joker movie that she's in.
Oh yes.
But I'm so out of the loop and out of touch.
I can't confirm that.
The next one is Past Lives by Sapient Dream and Slushee.
This appears to have come from an anime TV show, I think.
Oh boy.
Did not care for it.
The next one is Wellerman by Santiano and Nathan Evans.
So, I was like, Wellerman, I don't know any of these songs.
I don't know any of these songs or people except.
So, I looked up Wellerman.
It's that sea shanty that everyone went nuts over, but it's a remix and it's got some techno laid under it.
These are all words that you're saying that I understand but together they make no sense.
I Don't know about any sea shanty that everyone went crazy for No, okay, the next one is lovely by Billie Eilish This is a really good song.
I knew this one.
I know her.
Yeah, I probably know the song.
I've heard it.
Yeah.
Yeah The next one is Doobie Doo by Kristelle.
Now this is one that I'm confused about.
This song is from 2003.
Okay.
And it got popular in the US in 2023.
Okay.
And then it went viral in 2024 because in Japan, it got laid over some cat memes and cat videos.
Okay.
And so it blew up and it became, let's see, I forgot to number these.
So, what is that? It became one, two, three, four, five, six, the seventh most hummed song into Google in the year 2024.
What the? You know, I think a lot of songs become popular again because you hear them in commercials.
So, many commercials are using songs from the 90s now.
I mean, they know us.
They know we're the ones spending the most money right now.
And not just that, but they're cheap because they're getting to the point where they're falling off the royalties.
Um, the next one is Until I Found You by Stephen Sanchez.
This is a really sweet song.
I had not heard it before.
I looked it up and it has like a 50s love ballad vibe.
It's really nice song.
The ninth most popular song hummed to Google was Nadania.
I'm really sorry.
It's sung by a person named Akshav.
He is a Mumbai singer-songwriter, and he falls into the Hindi pop genre.
Oh.
All right? Yes.
He is incredibly popular among India's Utes.
I hadn't heard this song, but I actually really enjoyed it.
I listened to the whole thing a couple of times.
Yeah, I actually like that genre of music.
I wish I could say that word.
I had it in my head earlier, the song.
I think you probably had it right the first time.
N-A-D-A-A-N-I-Y-A.
Nidania.
Yeah, I think that's right.
It's a nice song.
He has a very smooth and enjoyable voice.
And he ain't hard on the eyes.
Oh really? Just saying.
All right, number 10, Masha, Ultra Funk by Histed.
Or His, Histed? Histed, I don't know.
This song.
I did not care for her.
It sounds like a mistake.
Oh no.
From what I can tell, it's a theme song from a Russian children's cartoon, and it's been remixed with tons of distortion.
Oh no.
Like if you wanted to break me and get information out of me.
Just play this over and over again.
Tie me up to a chair.
Maybe two loops would be all that would take for me to tell you everything you want to know.
Oh wow.
It is terrible.
Sorry, Histed.
My sources for this were Google Doodle, Apple Music, Wikipedia, and thehindu.
com.
Oh, nice.
Nice, nice.
That was a delightful little diversion.
Oh, thanks.
My second and last search of the year for y'all is Tokyo Four-Day Workweek.
Oh, yeah.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government set to implement a four-day work week for its employees starting in April of 2025.
Do you have any guesses as to why they're doing this? Now, you said this was the Metro? What was it? The Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
Oh, it's the government? Mm-hmm.
I don't, I mean, there's lots of reasons.
Why would, let's say they did this in Springfield.
The Springfield City Government decided we're doing a four-day work week.
What would their reasons be for it? Save on power.
That's a very American reason.
This is the reason.
in Tokyo.
Does it have to do with cats? No.
Oh, okay.
Maybe.
Now I think about it.
They're aiming to address Japan's declining fertility rates and promote work-life balance.
The governor of Tokyo unveiled a plan which also includes new policies to support working parents.
Japan is currently facing a fertility crisis with its birth rate dropping to a record low of 1.
2 children per woman, far below the replacement rate of 2.
1.
Oh.
So, they die in way faster.
They're dying almost twice as fast as they are being born.
Wow.
In Tokyo.
In 2023, the nation saw only, ugh, numbers.
727,277 births.
730,000 births, basically.
Wow.
The nation.
That is really low number.
Oh, yeah.
With Tokyo's birth rate sinking even further to 0.
99 births per woman.
This demographic decline has caused significant concern.
as it is expected to lead to a population reduction from 128 million in 2008 to an estimated 86.
7 million by 2060.
Whoa.
So,, 60%, 70%-ish? 75? I don't know, I can't do math.
I told somebody, I was counting this week, and I was like, we need one there, one there, one there, one there, so we need three.
It was four.
Good times.
Now, something else that while we were, while I was reading that made me think of, it's like they're having the opposite problem of what we in the United States are having.
Like we, people be populating.
Yeah, but- People be reproducing.
Our numbers are down too though.
Yeah, they are, but I mean- Not to that extent.
No.
But some of y'all, I just gotta say, some of y'all with your 14 kids and whatever, I mean, no offenses, if you're a DTH bestie who has a very big family, God bless you.
But for the love of God.
Whew.
Calm it down.
Like Gary said, it's a vagina not a clown car.
Now, experts argue that Japan's demanding work culture is a major factor driving down birth rates.
Long hours and high workplace pressure often force workers, especially women, to choose between their careers and family life.
I mean, we all feel that.
Well, yeah.
I mean, that's just how it goes.
We were so blessed to have the equipment and the plumbing that makes it all happen.
known for long hours and karoshi, which is death by overwork.
Whoa.
They have a single word for this concept.
That's messed up.
Death by overwork.
Has long been a barrier to balancing career and family.
Women in particular are under pressure to choose between career advancement and motherhood, with many finding the cost of raising children coupled with their unequal share of domestic duties too high a price.
The International Monetary Fund, IMF, reports that women in Japan perform five times more unpaid domestic work than men.
And many women who had fewer children than they wanted cited the increased burden of housework as a deterrent.
So, the men in Japan, they ain't doing shit at home.
It sounds like it.
They're not cleaning toilets.
They're not washing the dishes.
They probably ain't changing diapers.
Jeez.
Dudes.
Help a sister out or a wife, sister wife.
Help a sister wife out.
My source, my source, one source was the economic times.
What do you think about that, Cara? I think that makes me really sad and a little bit stressed to think about the fact that they're working so hard and so much that one, they're not having kids because they can't take them on.
they can't handle the extra workload.
Right.
And two, they've come up with a word specifically to explain dying from working too much.
Yes.
Those are two major problems.
Oh yeah.
I don't know, I'd be super interested to hear if having an extra day off of work will make any difference.
Right.
Because are they just moving to four tens? I believe so.
So, they're gonna be doing the same amount of work.
It's not like they're lightening the load.
No, no.
In fact, they're cramming it and they're probably already working longer than eight hours a day anyway.
Correct.
So,.
So, maybe it is four tens and it is gonna be less work.
Man, I don't know.
I don't know either, but.
It's stressing me out.
I don't think you're ever gonna, I don't think I'm.
in danger of karoshi or whatever that was called.
No, I usually know when it's time to just stop.
Now I used to be very, like, I would go in on Saturdays to get caught up.
That's what young people do.
I would work till 5.
30, six o'clock at night.
Like I just, I didn't like having stuff undone.
Right.
That ended.
Probably when I turned, it was in my late 30s.
I would say 38, 39, 40, right in there.
And I was like, what am I doing? You do that long enough until you realize this is ridiculous.
Well, and it's all gonna be there the next day.
Yeah.
I mean, yeah, I was getting a little bit of overtime, but at what cost? And you ain't getting any awards for it.
Nobody's noticing.
No.
Nobody's like, man, Cara's always here after blah, blah.
In fact, sometimes when I see people doing that, like if I see emails that come in to me from people at weird ass times, like super duper early in the morning or late at night, I think, get a life.
I just, I just, it's not worth it.
It's not worth it.
So, I know that sometimes it is better to try and go through email when you're not at work, you're not distracted and it's quiet.
I get that.
And I do that once in a while.
But that's not a habit of mine.
No.
But, oh man, I understand the overwhelm of email.
It is just out of control.
Yeah.
Well, it's just so easy to do, do send.
Yeah.
People send emails without even thinking about what they're sending ahead of time.
Like, does this really need to be, A, does this really need to be an email? B.
Do I even need to convey this information or ask this question? Can I figure out the answer by myself without? I get a lot of those kind of emails.
And questions.
And is the email even work related? Oh yeah, that too.
Those make me insane.
Anyway, it is very sad though that people are dying in Japan.
And they have a word for it.
Karoshi.
I mean, I feel like I worked pretty hard this week and I wasn't even close to Karoshi.
On my feet.
Yeah your feet crocheted They fell off last night She came in on nubs today, I don't know if you noticed but when I walked in I was just kind of like It was like clothes pins Like boo used to do down the stairs at Heather's house And her little clothespin paws Anyway...
But, Brea...
What? What about this one? What about it? This is a quick listing of our other searches from the past week that we didn't have time to discuss.
Or were simply too boring to share.
Oh, so, so boring.
Ya boring! Here's my list.
Right.
Target of 9-11 plane that crashed in Pennsylvania.
Huh? You were correct.
It was the Capitol building.
Yeah! Supposedly.
That's what they finally determined.
We'll never know for sure.
Suck it, kids.
Epinephrine, Snoop Dogg gin company, Pete Carroll age, Mike McDonald age, Quaker Oats.
Uh oh.
Like Michael McDonald, like the singer? No, Mike McDonald, the new Seattle coach.
Apparently he's the youngest coach in the NFL right now.
And I was like, what the hell happened to Pete Carroll? I thought he was still the coach.
He's not, he's old, he's out.
Mike McDonald, he's young, he's in.
Right, got it.
Not Michael- Roar, roar, roar! That's my Michael McDonald impression.
Oh my gosh.
I really like Michael McDonald.
I can't help it.
It's all right.
There's no judging in this room.
That's right.
You like freaking lines of Manelli's Jingle Bells.
So, I don't.
You're right.
You don't get to judge me.
No, I'm not judging you.
In Michael McDonald.
No, I'm not judging you.
Okay.
All right.
Quaker Oats Oatmeal Raisin Cookie Recipe, Antimony, Atomic Weight of Antimony, and Atomic Weight of Lead.
We have some riveting conversations in our household.
Okay.
It, you won't be surprised to learn that all three of those last searches came from watching the repair shop.
Okay.
Is that it? That's it.
Oh, okay.
I forgot how VVB you were this week.
I was VVB.
Okay, I was too, but man, I had to do some searching.
Okay.
Escape rooms near me.
I mean, the time has come, I have to plan that holiday party that everybody else wants but me at the escape room.
Oh.
I just don't like them.
No, I don't either.
Trivial Pursuit Editions.
Hallmark, just Hallmark, City Butcher and Barbecue.
Oh.
Nimbot Replacement Labels.
My little cute labeler.
Fresh Gallery, Springfield Moe Artwork, Dollar Tree, The Container Store, Hampton Inn, why, Holdfast Brewing, Breweries Near Me, Brocade Janitorial, vellaments.
Do you remember vellaments? That word is familiar.
Square mints that came in like a lifesaver looking to, but it was rectangle.
And the mints inside were square and then they had like a center.
It was indented? Yes.
Yes I do.
My granny always had vellaments and I was, I needed to show my kids a picture of vellaments.
Okay.
Because I was like my granny always gave us vellaments when we went to the bank.
It was like that priest or monk or whoever who gave kids candy canes to be quiet during church She would give us velliments in the bank while we stood in line I can still smell what the bank lobby smelled like my goodness and Feel those pointy velliments like sticking on the roof of my tongue Anyway, they don't make them like that anymore, of course, okay They have like rounded edges I guess people got sick of getting stabbed by their vellaments.
Okay, DeAndre Hopkins status.
Oh.
I thought he was injured or something or not playing last week because he was not have, he wasn't targeted at all.
Oh, okay.
I was like, where's DeAndre Hopkins? And then as soon as I said that and looked it up, he got a pass.
Scott Burkett Beverly Hills, nasty, nasty man.
Silent count in football.
I looked it up.
It was what I said.
Good job.
I didn't doubt you.
Well, I was doubting myself.
One person on the offensive line becomes the person who starts the process.
So, they look around, decide everybody's ready, and they signal the center with a pat to the tush, or back, or however their signal is.
And then it starts.
So, it's not that somebody starts the process and then everybody gets ready.
It's everybody set.
Everybody has to get set.
They already know what the play is gonna be.
So, they know it's gonna be a silent call.
Correct.
They know it's a silent call.
Is that what it's called? Silent count, yeah.
Oh, sorry.
And everybody's set.
The dude who's in charge of letting the center know that everybody's set notices that everybody's set.
He touches him.
And then everybody knows when the center gets touched that it's gonna be three, two, one, hike.
Or five, four, you know, however many.
Whatever they've decided, yeah.
Sounds like a risky, risky move.
Do you have any shout outs? I do have one shout out.
Yes! Okay, so Alicia reached out to tell us that she went down a rabbit hole.
after she saw a mole video.
So, she went down a mole hole.
A mole hole, excellent.
So, she saw this mole video and then she started asking Google more questions about it.
Like, do moles have eyes? And she got tickled at herself about all of her mole searching and then it made her think of our podcast.
And so she asked it to us.
She was laughing at herself at all these weird random searches about moles.
I fell into a mole hole once, or like a tunnel.
Those, they're dangerous.
Those are ankle breakers.
Oh yeah.
So,, so bad.
I was pregnant with Jackie.
Oh my gosh.
I was pregnant and I was walking back from taking Peyton, nope, he wasn't alive.
That's weird.
He wasn't even thought of.
I was walking home from taking Caleb to school and I walked through our grass in our front yard.
and my foot went right into a mole tunnel or hole or whatever and I went down and my neighbor across the street was an older lady and I thought she was gonna have a heart attack oh are you okay oh my gosh is baby okay because I was big I was pregnant I was getting ready to ask how far along you were yeah because it was you know school had started and Jackie was born in September okay so I mean I was like eight nine months pregnant anyway So, yes, I was like weeks away from giving birth to Jackie.
Geez.
Yeah.
It all turned out okay, maybe.
I don't know.
Maybe I just discovered something.
Oh shit.
Oh my gosh.
Kidding Jackie, I love you.
Do you have any shadows? I don't.
Okay.
Well.
Yeah.
I would like for our listeners to rate and review us.
I sure would too.
Tell your friends.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Engage with us on social media.
How do they email us? Oh, you can email us at Delete This History podcast at gmail.
com.
And then on Instagram and threads, what do they look for? At DTH girls.
And Facebook? Delete this history.
Nailed it.
All right.
Anyway, I'm going to go delete my history.
I'm also going to delete my history and eat some din din.
Oh, din din.
What's on the menu? I don't even know yet because I've been VVB.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I've had so much restaurant food this week.
Oh, I'm sure.
I'm like, I think maybe I'll just go home and eat some pickles.
Ha ha ha.
Okay, that's a choice.
Well, stay fresh, cheese bags.
Bye bye.
Wait, I sounded like an idiot when I did that.
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