Here we go.
Welcome to episode, no, I gotta say the name of the podcast.
I don't even say welcome to Delete This History.
No, it's Welcome to Episode 64 of Delete This History, a podcast by.
Oh yeah.
This is gonna go well.
With you the sun is shining 24 7 because when we're together It feels like we're in heaven if it will get dark you'll be my million stars.
I know I can lean on you Welcome to episode 64 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.
Hi.
Hi I've been off work so much.
Yeah That's beautiful.
That's a beautiful thing.
No, thank you.
You know that episode of Friends where Joey and Chandler try to stay in their Barca loungers all weekend, and they order food and have it delivered to the girls' apartment, and the girls bring the food across the hall? Yes.
They cancel all their drink orders so they don't have to get up and pee? Yes.
That's been me for the past three days.
It's been amazing.
So, I have.
a couple of bookmarks.
I'm ready.
But they're food related.
I'm so ready.
I'm so hungry.
So, much food over Christmas and treats in particular.
So, Hopper made me a plate of treats because she is an excellent baker.
And one of the things that was on this plate of treats were Oreo balls.
I love Oreo balls.
Now, they were perfect.
They looked like they should be in a patisserie.
window.
Yeah.
They were perfect.
I don't know how she did it, but they tasted so f-ing good.
Not only did she make Oreo balls, she made mint Oreo balls.
Oh yes.
She got the freaking mint Oreos, which I love.
Me too.
So, folks, if you haven't made or eaten Oreo balls and you like an Oreo, yeah, these will blow your mind.
Yeah.
They're basically truffles made out of Oreos.
Yeah.
Good Lord, they're good.
And then homemade caramel.
Mm-hmm.
It was so, so good.
Man, you know what? It's time for me to cut the sugar out again.
I know, me too.
Like, we're at the point that my body's like, can we just like a salad? Like.
Can you just rip open a bag of lettuce and just overrated.
It's just try it.
Sean was taking out the trash last night and he said, now do we have salad that we need to throw out today or are we going to wait and throw it out next week.
Exactly.
I said it's still good.
Leave it in the fridge.
It's still good for another three hours.
That's exactly right.
Oh man.
But yeah, we had the best, we made our own Christmas dinner and it was amazing.
Just all the things, I know we're way past Christmas and New Year's at this point, but I'm still living on that dream of never going back to work and just eating whatever I want and binging the West Wing over and over.
Yep, that's about to end.
Yes, it's coming to an end very quickly and it's gonna be a very rude awakening for me.
I'm living in a fantasy world as we speak.
We only have about, what, 48 hours? Oh, man, that's depressing.
I know, why did you do that? I don't know, I really, like, I had a, I had an actual reaction to that.
My stomach actually changed its position in my body.
I had that same feeling last Friday.
So, I was like, oh, what the hell, how'd that go by so fast? Cause I spent most of it in bed being sick.
Yes, and that is the.
Oh, I was so mad.
Of course.
There's nothing worse than being sick on your vacation time.
But then I was like, well, it's better than being sick when we were moving the office.
That would have been.
Well, I think that's why you got sick.
Probably.
You were so overworked and worn out.
Your immune system was like, oh my god.
Good times.
Very worse.
I need to be in a bubble for a while.
Anyway, those are the ends of my bookmarks.
Oh, okay.
So, last episode I talked a lot about Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
You know why? Because it's one of my bookmarks this week.
Oh.
Because I've been binging that.
Like you've been binging West Wing.
I'm binging Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
And I love it.
I just love that show.
It makes me so happy.
It makes me laugh.
I mean, just, I just want Andy Samberg to come live with me.
You know, I actually really kind of hated Andy Samberg before I watched this show.
He just always seemed kind of annoying to me on SNL.
Yeah, he was like the annoying little brother.
I just didn't care for him.
Always, yeah.
But now he has become so endearing.
He's a comic genius.
He kills me.
And Andre Brauer is just amazing.
He is one of the best comedic, or was, one of the best comedic actors ever.
And every time I think...
About how he's no longer with us on this planet.
It makes me so sad I know but that show is just I mean what a legacy for him He was nominated for so many Emmys for that show But one of my favorite parts with him is when he he's standing there so calmly and then he goes vindication The first time I saw that I was crying like tears He's just so good at all of that stuff.
He's just amazing.
But anyway, I've been binging it, really enjoying it.
If you like Andy Samberg, there's a show.
Now I don't know if you can get it.
You'd have to have a corner Brit box, I think.
But it's called Cuckoo.
Oh yeah.
And it is a British show and he's on there with Greg Davies, one of my very favorite.
British comedians that show is so wild and so weird but also so freaking hilarious I that's the hardest I've ever seen Clint laugh at anything I tried to watch that I could not get through it it's so weird I think we watched maybe one or two episodes and we both were like I don't think we can keep watching just have to yeah it's one of those shows that you have to be very You have to suspend all of your everythings.
You just have to go in.
It'd be a great show to watch, hi.
Because then you wouldn't be judging it and you wouldn't be like, now what? Now wait a minute.
That show was crazy.
I don't think it's on anymore.
I think that.
I was gonna say.
I think there were like two seasons and then that was it.
And it's been a little while ago.
Yeah.
Okay.
But there's a lot of the 50 great British actors in it, you know, make appearances.
It was so weird.
I think part of why it was so weird is you do have all these British actors and then Andy Samberg in the middle of it.
It's just such a strange juxtaposition.
Yeah, you're right.
I think it was one of my pandemic shows.
I think I watched that during the pandemic, which explains a lot.
After a while, you're just like, whatever.
Whatever.
Let's watch Andy Samberg be this weird ass Bohemian dude.
Oh, crap.
OK.
And then the second bookmark, this might be kind of lengthy, but it's called the Telepathy Tapes.
OK.
And it is a podcast.
And it's about the extraordinary abilities of non-speaking autistic people when they're given the opportunity and technology to communicate.
I don't know how to even do this podcast justice.
Like you just have to listen to it.
Okay.
I cried pretty much every episode.
It's just so touching.
The things that people can do who have never been given a voice and have never been given a chance, they're not even educated most of the time because they're just treated like they're just a shell, but they're just trapped inside these bodies.
And they are more intuitive and more spiritual and more everything than we can even imagine.
And then some of them were finally given boards where they could spell out what they're thinking so that they could communicate.
And it's kind of controversial because somebody has to be there to kind of interpret for them and sometimes they have to be touched while they're doing it because they don't have, you know, fine motor skills.
And so there have been some controversies about maybe the people who are facilitating them with their spelling are giving them answers.
Kind of like you would do with a Ouija board, you know? Yeah, yeah.
But it's not a Ouija board, it's a person.
Anyway.
But when they're given the opportunity and the tools to communicate...
It will blow your mind what they can do.
This is going to sound crazy and you're going to be like, whatever, but this is why you just have to listen to the podcast from start to finish the first season because I, when I say it, it sounds, it sounds just insane, but they can read people's minds.
They have done scientific studies with people who are non-speaking autistic people.
and they are 100% accurate.
Whoa.
At knowing what somebody is thinking when they are connected to them.
Hmm.
It's just crazy.
And they don't have to be in the same room with the person.
There was one dude who was communicating with an author who he didn't even know, hadn't even met.
And somehow they're, I don't even know what.
vocabulary to use their conscience consciousness is met on the same astral plane or what? I mean, I don't even know how it works, but they were able to communicate that way.
And this, this autistic guy knew what was going on in this guy's life.
What? Okay.
So, anyway, it's called the telepathy tapes.
You can get it on any podcast platform.
I highly recommend it.
I really want to learn how to be a spelling facilitator so that I can help people with autism who can't speak, share their gifts, share their thoughts.
And, you know, I just think this is the next big step in human evolution.
It's so touching and so inspirational.
It's like, wow.
And to think that a lot of these people have been shut away in homes and just left to sit.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, can you imagine? That's the tragedy of it.
I agree.
But I think that, you know, just getting the word out about this, like this is possible, not only possible, but like it's happening and Harvard educated scientists and researchers are studying these people.
So, it.
I don't know.
It's crazy.
Wow.
Crazy.
Okay.
I love that you want to become a system.
I mean, the whole time I'm listening, I'm like, how can I help this continue? Have you researched that, how you get into that, or how you become? No, I mean, do I think that that's even a possibility here in this place? Probably not.
I don't know.
Because if spelling is considered controversial, I don't think that...
I don't think anybody's doing anything controversial in this area.
No, but we have gotten more and more autistic support in this area.
Oh my gosh.
It's just like blowing up.
Blowing up.
Exactly.
So, I'd check into it.
Yeah.
I mean, I'm gonna, I am going to research it and if nothing else, I'm going to put a bug in the ear of the people who work at these autism services.
Like, Hey, why don't you listen to this podcast and tell me what you think about this? That's awesome.
The best thing about this podcast, and then I'll shut up, is that it's so honest and genuine.
You don't feel like there's an agenda.
You don't feel like they're trying to sell you something like snake oil.
It's not like that at all.
It's just a matter of, it's very matter of fact, and it's very like, let's watch what this person can do.
And you have, the people who produce this podcast, and then there's gonna be a documentary that, that follows from this, so that'll be cool too.
But they went into it very skeptical.
These are not people who are like woo woo, you know, and spiritual and all kinds of like, oh, let's show the world about psychics.
It wasn't like that at all.
These people were very skeptical and they were just kind of like, let's see what these people have to say.
And a lot of these families of these autistic people they're afraid to even say anything because people think they're nuts.
Teachers have witnessed this and have had encounters with these students and have experienced it and they don't want to say anything because they don't want to lose their teaching license or get fired.
Wow.
It's like to that point.
So, it's like, okay, well we just got to normalize it so that it's not like.
the crazy lady on Maury Povich reading people's minds.
It's more like, hey, this is just something that they have tapped into because that's what they have available to them.
And they can't communicate any other way.
It's like they've kind of, it's like when you're blind and your sense of smell gets better, or your hearing is better because you can't see, or whatever.
It's like that.
It's like an extra sense.
Huh.
Anyway.
Check it out.
Telepathy tapes.
Okay.
Man.
You'll be blown away from the very first episode.
You'll be like.
You'll be like I was.
Like what? And then you'll be like what? Alright.
We'll check it out.
That was really long.
I'm sorry.
It's alright.
Okay.
We're not here to talk about all my crazy woo ideas.
We are here though to tell our DTH besties about our internet search histories for the week.
And for that we go to The Reading of the Lists.
Yes ma'am.
Okay what do we do here, Brea? We tell you our top three most interesting funniest most successful searches of the week in list form Yes, and that is right and it is even Steven Week.
So, here's my list.
Mm-hmm.
My first one is presidential censure Number two a Variety of words I had to look up from watching the West Wing.
Okay number three spatch cocking Okay, my list this week is number one Barack Obama Cabbage Patch Doll Shut your face! Number 2, King Charles Cancer Oh! And number 3, Eye Floaters It's such...
An eclectic list! That last search is just such an old lady search! Yeah it is! I feel like we've talked about that before Of course we have! We totally...
back around.
Oh shoot, that's okay.
All right.
We have to look at multiple things.
Yep.
Over and over again.
All right.
Those are our lists.
So, now it's time to move on to a little game that we like to call...
Search Me! Where we each pose one question to each other to see if she can answer based only on the reading of the list.
All right, Brea.
This week, your question comes from a show that I've been binging.
I guess.
Actually, all of these searches come from a show that I'm binging.
Oh, okay.
And I had to look it up after watching an episode, a Thanksgiving episode of this particular show that I'm watching.
Okay.
Which is The West Wing.
Yes.
All right, so for those of you playing along, Brea's options are presidential censure.
Okay.
A variety of words I had to look up.
while watching the West Wing and spatchcocking.
Oh, I'm gonna say spatchcocking.
That's right.
Okay.
Spatchcocking.
Essentially, and I knew when I heard this word, they actually didn't use it when talking about a Thanksgiving turkey.
They were talking about the Republicans spatchcocking the Democrats.
it Sean and I was like wait a second.
Is that a cooking term? Now you're you know more than I do because I mean I've heard that term before.
Yes exactly.
But I could not use it in a sentence and I couldn't even tell you that it was a cooking term.
So, essentially it's butterflying flip it over and you remove the backbone and then that will allow you to open it up and lay it flat so that it can be cooked more evenly I suppose.
So, that's spatch cocking.
Okay.
Let me look.
You can spatch cock a chicken by petting the chicken down with a cloth to dry it.
Okay.
Use a sharp boning knife or kitchen shears to cut along either side of the backbone.
Place the chicken breast side down, pushing down in between the breast to crack it.
So, you have to crack the breast bone of it, I guess, to finalize the spatch cocking.
And then you just roast that thing.
Oh, I wonder if that makes it better.
So, I don't know.
That's a great question.
I should have asked the Googleena about that.
There has to be something good about it, because why would it, A, have been given a name, and B, why do people do it? Right.
Maybe it's just a more even cook? Yeah, and we don't do it more often because it's a pain in the ass.
I don't know.
Because that sounds like a pain in the ass.
Yeah, it sounds like something that Julia Child would have done.
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
You're a dispatch cocker bird.
Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.
Anyway.
Exactly.
You get...
A point.
OK.
We're both, well, I'm now two for.
You're a two.
OK.
Wait, I just automatically assumed I'm going to get yours right.
Sorry.
OK.
All right.
What's my question? Maybe you will, though.
Cara, today your question is, what update search led me to discover that a scandal from my childhood was grossly misreported in the media? For those playing at home.
Here are your choices, Barack Obama Cabbage Patch Doll, King Charles Cancer, or Eye Floaters.
My gut is telling me to go with Barack Obama cabbage patch doll.
BWAAAAAAH I didn't get my point.
You don't.
That's what happens when you count your spatchcocked chickens before they hatch.
100%.
What's the answer? The answer is King Charles cancer.
What? I'll get there.
For those not following King Charles of England's battle with cancer, he announced his illness back in February of last year, but his treatment and the type of cancer he has have not been made public.
Right.
All very hush hush.
Did they not? I thought it.
They've never said what kind he has or what he's doing.
Now, Princess Kate, Princess of Wales, she has also undergone treatment for cancer in 2024.
And she had chemotherapy, but they have not disclosed what kind of cancer she had either weird Very secretive now on Christmas Day the King's address highlighted Healthcare workers and he thanked the nurses and doctors who have gotten him and his daughter-in-law through their illnesses He also former formally bestowed honors upon his personal medical staff for their service somehow This led to us giggling at the dinner table about Camillagate.
Do you remember Camillagate? I mean.
You were pretty sheltered.
You mean back in the day when he was married? Or when he and Princess Diana were still married? Yeah.
Back in the 90s, recordings of phone calls between Charles and Camilla were leaked to the press.
Do you remember this? Well.
I do not remember it, but I saw it on the crown.
Oh, correct.
They talked about it on the crown.
Yes, OK.
The tabloids had a field day with a particular portion of a call where they claimed that Charles said he wanted to be Camilla's tampon so that he could be with her all the time.
Well, guess what? What? That is not what he said.
Oh, good.
Admittedly, the conversation is still very cringe, but it's not that awful.
In fact, it was kind of funny.
They were talking about being reincarnated as certain things that would allow them to be with each other, because this is when they were separated, you know, like they couldn't be with each other.
Right, right, right.
And even after he divorced Diana, there was still a question of whether they would ever be able to be together.
Because public sentiment was against it and all that stuff.
Right, right.
It took a long time.
So, Charles said in this conversation, something to the effect of knowing my luck, I'd come back as a Tampax and end up circling around the toilet.
That is what he said.
He didn't say he wanted to be a tampon or a tampax.
He kept calling it the actual brand name.
He's brand loyal.
That's good.
Chuck.
He didn't actually say that.
He just said, self-deprecatingly, knowing my luck, this is what would happen to me.
Excellent.
So, it was kind of funny, I thought.
It's better than what was reported.
Right.
But I've gone my entire life thinking that he thought it would be sexy to tell a woman that he wanted to be her tampon.
And every time I've looked at him, I've thought of that conversation.
Is that right? Yes, I've thought, oh my gosh, that guy told his lover that he wanted to be her tampon.
Oh my gosh.
Now I'm trying to think of how it was portrayed on The Crown, or if that even was part of it.
I don't remember.
They did not.
they didn't because I think by then the transcript of that call came out.
Oh.
And I've read the transcript of the call, which is where I got the exact quote, which I didn't exactly quote it here because I didn't want to go look it back up again.
But that's where I found out that he didn't really say what they kept saying in the media back then.
Why would they do that? Because they're the worst.
The British tabloids are the worst.
And then the American media just repeated them because, you know, why not? Why try to get it right? It sells more papers and it, you know, gets more viewers if you say the worst thing.
Anyway, my sources were this was a dinner time conversation, by the way.
Of course it was.
My sources were CBS News, GB News, and Textfiles.com.
Right.
Well, that was super awkward.
It was really awkward, wasn't it? It was, it's super awkward, and it just leads us into our awkward transition to the next segment, which is shared history.
That's right.
All right.
So, this is where we tell you our DTH besties, the rest of our searches for this week, why we searched it, and what we learned, if anything at all.
All right, so the first one I'm gonna talk about is presidential censure.
Okay.
Do you know what this is? I didn't know what this is.
No.
So, this came up in the West Wing.
This is where I live now, the West Wing.
You live in the West Wing.
I do, with Jed Bartlett.
and Leo.
1990s White House.
Yes.
And I don't...
I hate to ruin this.
I'm going to try not to do a spoiler in case there's any of you sad people who have not seen this.
This show is 30 years old.
Alright.
The president, you discover, has an illness that he has not disclosed.
before he was elected.
Right.
During his first term, they decide to get ahead of it in the media and just tell everybody what has happened.
Congress was really mad that he had not disclosed this illness.
Right.
So, they were trying to figure out what to do.
Do I resign? What do I do? So, they finally reached an agreement where Congress said, allow us to censure you, and then we'll move on.
So, a censure is a public reprimanding of a public official or political party representative for inappropriate conduct or voting behavior.
When the president is censured, it serves only as a condemnation and has no direct effect.
on the validity of presidency, nor are there any particular legal consequences.
So, it's a step down from impeachment.
Yeah, it is because there's no.
So, what was happening is they were going through hearings and they were subpoenaing everyone.
So, everyone was having to go through these horrible grueling questioning sessions.
And the committee finally got to the point where they cut a deal.
And they said, rather than going through all of this investigation and dragging everyone through this horrible, because the president had not told his staff.
There was like one person on his staff that knew.
And so everybody felt very betrayed.
So, not only are they betrayed by the person they work for, they're being questioned for something they didn't even know was going on.
Right.
It's kind of hard to watch.
Anyway, so the committee that was doing the hearings cut a deal, we will just censure you, and the president agreed to it.
And it does go down in history, like that's gonna be, you know, this president was censured, but nothing happened beyond that because You know, did he break a rule? Yeah, he probably should have disclosed his illness, but it wasn't a law.
He didn't ask anyone to lie.
Right.
This is a TV show.
It's basically him just being told off.
Yeah.
Publicly.
We as Congress are, we're censoring you and we're going on the record as saying we're slapping your wrist.
Right.
You shouldn't have done that.
Yeah.
Moving on.
And as long as you have a legacy that's you know, halfway decent, nobody's gonna care.
Right, that's what in the points they made in one of the episodes is that there was a past president that was a real president.
Yeah, I'm not gonna try and say who it was.
It was when our country was very young.
I almost wanna say it was Andrew Jackson, but I can't remember.
Probably was, cause he was wild.
There was a president that was censured, and the person, I think Leo said it to someone and they're like, oh, I didn't know that.
And he said, exactly.
Exactly.
So, they were like, we need to just do this and get back to our everyday work.
So, there you go.
Presidential censure.
I'm going to look that up.
Which president was censured? She's going to look it up y'all.
I haven't talked this much in like 15 days.
Yeah, I believe it.
My throat is starting to get sore.
Andrew Jackson, you're right.
He was a Democrat back then, when being a Democrat was a totally different thing.
Yeah.
And that's the only time the US Senate has sent you to president.
Yep, that's what they said in the show.
They said you'll be the second president, fake.
Jed Bartlett on this TV show written by Aaron Sorkin.
With the best theme song ever.
It's a very good theme song.
It makes Brea tear up.
It does.
It makes her feel very patriotic.
It actually makes me feel patriotic, which is difficult.
That's a difficult thing to do.
Oh gosh, sorry.
That was like a nerd laugh.
Why don't you go next? This is getting weird.
Do you have any sources? Oh, oh, yeah, that is a great question because I am still Sans computer folks All right, uh, yeah, I used Wikipedia and I also used dictionary dot Cambridge org and that was it.
Okay My first search is I floaters.
Yes, please.
Let's talk about these again.
Yes, let's do it My eye floaters were so bad this week that anytime I was in a brightly lit room.
They were extremely distracting Like it felt like my glasses were dirty.
Oh my god, you know that feeling Yes, or well, you know how that is when your glasses are so dirty and you look into the light and you're like, oh my gosh How am I even looking through these things and you know clean them? Whatever? Well, my glasses were not dirty.
It's the floaters in my eyes and I've looked up what these annoying things are about a million times because I've had these since I was a kid.
Yeah Everybody does.
But I always forget what they are.
And I always forget why they're there.
Why are you here? Well, here's the answer out loud.
Maybe it will help me remember it if we talk about it.
Oh, good idea.
Here, no it won't.
Eye floaters happen when the vitreous humor or fluid in your eye changes its thickness and causes you to see squiggly lines or threads.
And it's actually like.
material that starts to kind of break off because that viscous fluid changes shape.
That's what keeps your eyes round.
And then it starts to change shape and you start to lose some of that fluid as you get older.
And then little pieces break off and they just start floating around in there.
Sexy.
That is terrifying.
It's disgusting.
They usually happen as you get older.
Can you believe that? And they don't require treatment most of the time.
They're just annoying.
However, if you have a sudden onset of a lot of floaters when you haven't had them before, you should see your eye doctor.
Because it could signal that you have a retinal disease or some kind of injury to your retina.
Like I said, I've had these since I was a kid.
I used to close my eyes and look up at the sun so that I could watch them float down.
Well, I wonder why you have a bunch of floaters.
Well, my eyes were closed.
It was just a good time for a weird kid like me.
Absolutely.
And I'm not as amused by them nowadays.
Now I want to just stab my eyes out.
And there's no prevention, no treatment.
You just have to keep an eye on them, so to speak.
And have your eye doctor monitor them to make sure that it's not a sign of something worse.
But it's really annoying.
Yes.
It is annoying.
I'll see one out of the corner of my eye and I swear it's a spider.
Right.
I, yeah.
That makes me insane.
Mine look like, you know how sometimes they'll show like, um, what bacteria looks like under a, in a Petri dish or like under a microscope.
Yeah.
Mine are like, yeah, they're like, like little like stringy looking bacteria things.
Yeah.
That's how mine looked.
And they float down, they're like, they're all like different shapes.
They're not all the same.
Oh, my.
Grr.
You are not alone.
That's exactly how mine sound.
I am sorry you're suffering with that.
It's just, my new office has two beautiful windows in it.
Big windows, and they can open, and you know, we had a very dreary Christmas.
Yes.
It rained, and it rained, and it was just.
It's just been so overcast.
Overcast, and.
ugly and the sun came out today and I opened up those blinds and I couldn't even like it was hard to even concentrate on my computer screen because every time I move my eyes a floater would go down my eyeball.
Freaking annoying.
That is crazy.
Gosh.
So, you think you're just noticing them more because it was so bright in there? I think that's part of it.
And you know, I am getting older and I've had bad eyesight.
Yeah, I was a teenager.
When did you get your first pair of glasses? I think I was 13.
I got mine in the fourth grade.
Yeah.
I couldn't see they had me in the back of the class because I was a good kid.
So, you could put me in the back and I wouldn't get in trouble, right? But then it started getting bad grades.
And they were like, that's not like Cara.
What's going on? So, I had to go to the eye doctor.
Oh.
Stupid glasses.
My brother Andrew, he got glasses before I did.
Now, he's younger than I am.
But he got glasses before me.
I think he was like in fifth grade.
OK.
And I was so jealous that I went to Claire's in the mall and got a pair of fake glasses.
And I wore fake glasses when I didn't need them, because I thought that I would just look.
really rad in glasses.
And I mean, I looked OK, you know, I guess.
But then I needed them for real.
And I was like, oh, this is not just like a fashion choice.
This is something I have to wear all the time.
Didn't like them as much.
Yeah, it's funny how that happens.
And then I wore contacts for many, many years.
But contacts and I just don't get along.
No.
I went back to.
It's been a long time since you've worn contacts.
Yeah.
There were just too many eye infections, and I was constantly...
It's a lot of stuff to do.
Like, you gotta clean them and put them in, and then you get stuff under your...
You get eyelashes underneath the contacts, and you think your eyeball's gonna pop out.
I do prefer contacts over glasses, but the older I'm getting, the more often I'm wearing contacts.
You mean glasses.
I mean glasses, yeah.
Old lady.
Anyway, my sources were Cleveland Clinic and Mayo Clinic.
Okay.
All the clinics.
All right, this one's gonna be a little weird.
I'm ready.
I've been writing down, well, not writing down, I've gone back to my search history because I've been looking up a lot of words from the West Wing.
Yeah.
Which is part of why I like this show so much, is the president is really, really smart and he doesn't shy away from it.
Right.
So, everybody's using some big words.
Yes.
So, I've been looking up words.
that I have heard before and just can't remember what they mean and words that I have never heard before.
Okay.
So, the first one is antipodes.
In geography, the antipode of any spot on earth is the point on earth's surface diametrically opposite to it.
Okay.
So, a pair of points antipodal to each other.
Antipodal? Yeah.
Antipodal.
I don't know.
They're situated such that a straight line connecting the two would pass through the earth's center.
Uh-huh.
Antipodal points are as far away from each other as possible.
Examples would be the north and the south poles.
Okay, right.
So, antipodal.
There you go.
I had to look that one up.
I didn't know what that meant.
Okay.
The next one is recidivist.
Okay.
I think I've got this one locked away now, because they used this one multiple times on the west wing.
So, recidivist...
A convicted criminal who offends, especially repeatedly, or relating to recidivists.
I had never heard that before.
I've heard of recidivism.
Yeah.
They use, they were trying to pardon people.
I've never heard it used as like that, to describe an actual person, like you're a recidivist.
Yeah, a recidivist is one who relapses into a previous behavior or condition.
That's...
Not a nice thing to call somebody.
Habitual criminal.
So, the president wanted a list of people to pardon during his presidency.
And he said, please stay away from recidivism.
Yes.
So,.
Got it.
There you go.
There's one down.
OK, my next one is insouciance.
OK.
Casual lack of concern or indifference.
An impression of boyish insouciance.
Mm.
is an example of how to use that in a sentence or a phrase.
A relaxed and happy way of behaving without feeling worried or guilty.
I had some insouciance this week.
Oh man.
It was deep and thick.
Ha ha.
What did you say? You always use the word heaving.
I had heaving insouciance.
That's just means busy.
tracks.
Busy and sucien.
It was all over me.
It was like running up and down.
Okay, Polecat.
Oh yeah.
The president was being silly, and one of his military folks came in and he said, Hey Fitz, you old so-and-so, you old polecat.
It's a common name.
Well, an actual polecat is like a mink-like animal.
Oh.
But what's weird is it's more related to...
Like a skunk or a ferret? I've heard, I've heard pole...
I've always thought polecat was just like a hillbilly word for skunk.
I had never heard this before.
Now I looked up polecat slang because I didn't think that really fit.
And you're right, a colloquial name for the skunk.
But then there's another term I found is a sneaky nasty person.
Well, I mean, a skunk, if you call somebody a skunk, you basically are like, that's not a compliment.
You old polecat.
But if he said it in a joking, ha funny way, it's, you know, like, like you all so and so he's that's what he called him.
He said, oh, Fitz, you old so and so you old polecat and Fitz, who I love in this show, he goes, hello, Mr.
President, are you trying to be one of the guys and the president said yes.
And he said, good job.
I love this show.
All right, the next one I had to look up was broasted.
Again, it was used in a term, or in a sentence saying the Republicans, I think have broasted the Democrats.
Broasted? That sounds like something like bro's when they insult each other.
I think you just made up a new slang word.
You have been broasted.
You've been broasted.
That sounds like something that Jake Peralta would say on Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
Broasted! You've been broasted.
No, roasting is a cooking term.
Okay.
It's a special process that combines pressure frying and traditional shallow frying to produce junky, no.
Juicy chunks of fried chicken with a very crispy outer layer.
Did I just blow open KFC's secret way of cooking chicken? So, you cook it shallowly and then you put it in a pressure cooker full of oil? I can't think of anything more dangerous.
So, that's broasting.
Broasting.
It's a two phase frying of chicken that I'm sure comes out freaking delicious.
Oh my gosh, I'm so hungry.
I'm so sorry.
All right, that's broasted.
Here is the last word I had to look up so far from watching the West Wing.
And it's erudite.
Yes.
Do you know this one? Oh yes, that's a good word.
It's super, it made me laugh so hard when I looked it up.
I was like, well that tracks.
uh, having or knowing great knowledge or learning.
I had to look it up! Like, oh, want want! It put me in my place.
It's the epitome of not being erudite.
What do that word mean? What that word mean? I don't get it.
What? Saying it again? Erudite? What was that? Is that a person who lives in a cave? That is the end of the words.
I had to look up during my binging of the West Wing while I've been on vacation.
So, far, so far.
I'm sure there'll be more.
Of course there will.
Because that show is, and it's just so fast.
Like they talk so fast.
I have to turn on the closed captioning because I want to catch it all.
I want to understand exactly what's happening.
And it helped a lot to turn on the closed captioning.
I mean, Aaron Sorgin, he was on all kinds of drugs when he wrote that.
I don't think that's like a secret or anything.
Oh my gosh.
It is really good though.
I mean.
Oh my Lord.
And there's also some of the funniest jokes I've ever heard on that show.
And if you are not paying attention.
Oh yeah.
This is not a show that you can sit and do a crossword or scroll through your phone or crochet a blanket.
No.
You have to watch it and you have to pay attention.
Right.
Yeah.
Which I don't do typically with TV shows.
I need multiple things going on around me.
But this is really, I've been focused on it and I feel like they're all my family.
I'm really worried about CJ's dad.
Oh my gosh.
You might wanna take a break.
Maybe.
What is your final search? My final search is Barack Obama Cabbage Patch Kid.
Right, what in the world is this all about? And please tell me that it's real.
In the last episode in my, But What About This One list, I talked about Brean McKnight being in one of those shows where they ask celebrities about their memories of things or their experiences.
And it was a YouTube video I watched with my, it was actually a series of YouTube videos I watched with my kids on Christmas.
and they were discussing the hottest gifts throughout the decades.
Actually, it wasn't just gifts.
It was Christmas through the decades.
And they started in the 50s and went up to the 90s.
I bet that was fun.
And it was so interesting to see the different ways that people celebrated throughout the decades from the 50s, it was 50s, through the 90s.
That's when it stopped.
Because I mean.
After that, we all know.
Pretty much.
Unless you're super duper young.
You know how we celebrated in the 2000s because you were here.
You were here.
Or you've seen pictures of it.
But anyway, it was really interesting to watch all the different traditions and what people liked to do together, to get together.
I mean, it's just, it's changed a lot and you don't realize how much it's changed.
Even if you're a very traditional type of family and you have lots of traditions and you do the traditional things traditions change throughout the years because people get married people get divorced people have kids you know and then the traditions get kind of watered down or you make new traditions and so I just thought it was super cool to see all those different things and then be like oh yeah we did we used to do that oh yeah we used to do that before And a lot of it is like, oh yeah, before the pandemic, people did used to do that.
Oh my gosh, right.
It has been such a watershed.
Yep.
Anyway, we got to the 80s video.
And at the end of each one of those Christmas through the decades, they would say what the hottest gifts were that year.
OK.
For Christmas.
And in the 80s, of course, it was Cabbage Patch Dolls.
Yep.
Um, and we've talked about cabbage patch, uh, kids on the podcast before, so I'm not going to go into all that all over again.
And nauseam.
I'm not going to talk about birdie Emma or crying about not getting the cabbage patch that I wanted at Christmas.
Cause I was a brat.
Um, but when they were talking about the cabbage patch kids, they brought up that they're still being made.
Yeah.
that there have been limited edition versions made of some of these and that celebrities in particular have cabbage patch dolls or kids made to look like them.
And there was a Barack Obama doll that I thought would look great next to my Barack Obama lava lamp.
And I was like, I have to have that.
But when I searched for it, I couldn't find it for sale on any reputable site.
So, I mean, it really was like a limited thing.
Okay.
Anyway, it got me thinking about other limited edition Cabbage Patch Kids.
And here's some other celebrities who have had Cabbage Patch Kids made to look like them.
Yes.
It's random.
Okay.
In 2015, some celebrity inspired dolls were auctioned on eBay to benefit the Children's Action Network.
They were...
Steven Tyler Okay.
Al Roker.
Aw, I bet that was cute.
He was cute.
Katherine Heigl.
Oh, yeah.
Told you random.
Raven Simone.
Yeah.
And Kristin Chenoweth.
Oh my gosh, she is a cabbage patch.
I love her.
I don't know.
I go back and forth.
She's a lot.
She's a lot.
I know I go back and forth with her like I like her and then I see another video of her And like oh, I cannot write in that woman.
She's a lot I really liked her in that one show with Lee pace mr.
Eyebrows my boyfriend Where he was the pie man he worked at the pie.
What was that called pushing daisies? He I gotta look it up.
I can't cuz now you said eyebrows, and I need to see it remember I always tell you I need to trim my leap aces That's really thick eyebrows cuz he's manly Oh, yeah, okay, yeah, he's hot got it.
He's hot as can be but he has no interest in ladies unfortunately The Lord of the Rings stuff.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, oh.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah.
Played Legolas's dad.
Yeah, Thelandriel? I don't know, he's a dick.
Wow, nerd alert.
Nerd alert.
I don't know that name is right.
He was a real dick.
Ha ha ha.
I'm sorry.
It's all right.
All right.
Okay.
Other cabbage patch celebrity kids.
Celebrity cabbage patch kids.
Okay.
Ellen DeGeneres.
Oh yeah.
Donald Trump.
Really? What did the hair look like? You'll just have to look it up.
He actually looks normal.
Now are they all dressed in clothes that are like...
Okay.
So, there were, there was a whole series of of politicians and they were dressed like in suits.
You cannot, well, I'll get to that in a second.
Okay.
Katie Couric, Joe Biden, Sarah Palin, John McCain, Mickey Mantle, there's one that's totally.
That's weird.
Okay, and I'm sure there are lots of others, but some of the websites are so outdated that you can't access them.
Okay.
It's cause it's like Facebook stuff or it's like eBay.
And so you can see the pictures, but you can't go to see like, well, who is that supposed to be? And you cannot tell.
That's the whole point.
Like none of these look like the people.
I understand.
Steven Tyler, I mean that it looks like a woman.
It looks like, what's the name of the woman who Sophia Vergara, that's who it looks like.
It looks more like her than Steven Tyler.
That is hilarious.
I mean, it's just kind of like, OK, if you see the celebrity holding the doll, then you're like, all right, I see, you know, it's their Cabbage Patch Kid or whatever.
I'm gonna have to look these up.
Just separately, just looking at pictures, you're like, I have no idea who that is.
They had the Joe Biden, John McCain.
um, dolls, like in a line with Sarah Palin and Donald Trump, I think it was.
They had them all in a line and I couldn't tell which one was supposed to be Joe Biden and which one was supposed to be John McCain.
I guess whichever one he could lift its arms.
too soon.
Was that as bad as? It was as bad, yeah.
You can edit that out.
Virginia Woolf.
OK.
My sources were Yahoo, Google, Gemini, and YouTube.
Oh, man.
OK.
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.
You're boring.
That's right.
All right.
Here's my list.
Chewy tracking, I ordered some toys for the dogs.
Oh yeah.
Library room reservations.
Popular graphic novels.
Robert, California.
CIA wet team meeting.
That was also in the West Wing.
I should have included that with my terms I had to look up.
So, they called it a wet team and the president was like, why would we send in a wet team? This area is nowhere near water.
And they're like, well, we call it a wet team because it's gonna be real bloody.
Oh gross.
And that is an actual term they use in the CIA.
Oh.
Ay-ya-ya.
I like my desk job.
When was Google founded? Kong Reindeer Squeaky Toy.
Springfield Greenway Trails.
Why did Rob Lowe leave the West Wing? Spoiler alert, sorry.
Hesh Rabkin character on Sopranos.
Timothy Busfield.
Or that may be Boose Field.
I'm not sure how to pronounce his last name.
Uh, so Timothy Busfield spouse.
Do you remember Danny Ken Cannon on the West wing, the very cute redheaded reporter, White House reporter that he and CJ were on again, off again all the time.
Yeah.
I just learned that he is married to Melissa Gilbert.
Okay.
Yeah.
I didn't know that.
Uh-huh.
Wasn't he in on 30 something? He was on 30 something, he's been in so many things.
And if he doesn't have a beard, I don't recognize him.
He looks like a completely different person.
And also he is very prolific as a producer and a director.
He's doing all kinds of stuff behind the scenes too, on lots of shows.
Very, very busy guy in the industry.
Moving on.
I see.
Jack Henry job openings, trash pickup schedule for the holidays.
Convert won Korean won to US dollars.
We watched the squid game.
Oh gosh.
Squid game two, we watched it.
So, we had to know what the conversion was.
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Maids of Honor Cleaning Service, Springfield PC Pros, thank you for my computer, y'all.
And Shanghai Rummy Rules.
That's also something I had to look up.
from the West Wing.
They wanted to play Shanghai Rummy.
Never heard of it before.
And you guys are big card players.
We are card players.
In fact, I got a deck of cards for Christmas to add to my collection.
Oh my gosh.
Sean gave them to me, they had little kiddies on them.
Uh-huh.
That is the end of my list.
Okay, here's my list.
It's not very long.
Aura Stone hand warmer.
I got myself a hand warmer.
It's electric.
It's rechargeable.
And I couldn't figure out how to turn it on.
Did you get it figured out? I did.
A hand warmer, like...
It has a button on it.
I knew that much.
So, I press the button and a light comes on the end of it, but it never got warm.
And I was like, is it just this? This light gets warm on the end of this thing and that's the warmest it gets? I was really not impressed.
So, I looked it up.
It didn't come with any instructions or anything.
And I looked it up and some dude was doing a review of them on YouTube and he said, you have to long hold.
You have to long press the button.
If you just press the button once, it's like a light that you can use as a flashlight.
Oh, okay.
Why? I don't know.
But then...
If you long press it, then that's when it gets hot.
Okay.
Is this thing flexible? Is it made of material? I wish I had brought it.
It's like, it's like, it's a squarish, like a rounded square.
It's about an inch and a half by an inch and a half.
Okay.
It's not very big.
Oh.
Or maybe two by two.
So, you're just holding it? And yeah, it fits in your hand.
There's a wrist strap.
and you put it on your wrist and you can either put it down in your pocket and put your hands in your pockets.
And it gets warm, it gets real warm.
That's cool.
And I got it for my office.
Yeah.
Because when I type my mouse hand gets cold.
Mine does too.
In fact my pinky goes to sleep.
My mouse hand gets so cold.
Yeah.
So, I got one for my mouse hand but now I'm thinking about getting another one for my other hand.
I can Hold it like I'm praying.
Anyway, Brooklyn 99 Emmys.
Yeah.
How to print pictures on Canon Ivy.
Oh.
I have like one of those teeny tiny printers, and I haven't used it in so long I forgot how to use it.
And I threw away the, uh.
She always throws away the instructions.
Because you can look it up online.
And so guess what I did.
I looked it up online and I found it.
Found the answer.
Nike Air Force 107 Near Me.
Shoes.
I got Peyton shoes for Christmas.
And I made the mistake of taking his word for it when he told me what his shoe size was.
Oh no.
Why would you know your own shoe size? And so we get these shoes and he opens them on Christmas and they cheap shoes.
Yeah.
And he goes to try them on and they are like a full size too big.
Oh no.
Like a huge gap in the back.
And I'm like, you've got to be kidding me.
That's why I had to do finish line near me.
I see.
Camilla gate transcript.
Say nothing on Hulu.
Good show by the way.
Okay.
McAlister's deli.
Breakfast casserole recipes.
Hy-Vee Chinese.
Cushion lab seat cushion.
Family taco pack near me.
It's all food.
Yeah.
Pretty much all it was.
We made sausage balls for Christmas morning.
And we, you know, of course that makes so many and there's only two of us.
We had those for like three days in a row.
They were so good that yesterday morning we got up and we made another batch of sausage balls.
Was that Thursday morning? And we've just been eating sausage balls for breakfast.
They're so good.
They're yummy.
It's ridiculous.
Yum, yum, yum.
Makes me wanna make sausage balls.
They're delicious.
My breakfast casserole was not great.
Oh.
It was kind of, it was too dry.
Oh dang.
I know, made me sad.
Made me real sad.
That was our Christmas day brunch.
Oh yeah, shoot.
Never make something that you've never made before.
Never make a new recipe.
For a holiday? Why? Why do I do this to myself? Well, I mean, I look stuff up and I'm like, oh, that looks good.
Oh, that's easier than what I do.
Yeah.
That's what happens.
Usually I'm like, oh, that's fewer ingredients or that's easier or I won't have to spend so much time in the kitchen.
Yeah.
And then it's, pfft, sucks.
Sean woke me up Christmas morning.
Coffee was ready.
The sausage balls were ready.
All I had to do was roll out of bed, put on my little house slippers, and go into the living room.
Breakfast was ready, and then we opened presents.
How nice for you.
It was amazing.
I was the last person awake on Christmas.
always the last person in our house.
With my sore throat.
Oh yeah, right.
I didn't want to get out of bed and I was like, well, it's only seven.
And I came out and they're all sitting there on the couch.
Like it reminded me of that scene in Love Actually where Emma Thompson's family is all sitting on the couch waiting for her and she's having a major breakdown in the bedroom.
Right.
And she comes out and they're all sitting there waiting.
That's what it kind of was.
They were all just sitting there waiting on the...
I was like, how long have you guys been up? And they were like two hours.
They'd been...
they'd all been up since five in the morning.
What? Why? I thought those days were behind us.
Right? Oh, my Lord.
And I was like, I'm sorry.
And Clint, I was like, OK, let me get...
And Clint was like, just take your time.
Get yourself a cup of coffee.
And I was like...
Thank you.
Really was.
I was, I was out of it.
Oh no.
My children were very excited.
Well good.
I guess.
That's fun that they're still excited about Christmas.
To open their two big shoes.
Do you have any listener shout outs? No, I do not have any listener shout outs, but thank you everyone who's been responding to social media.
Yeah, well, Cara's been.
kicking ass on the social needs.
I have the time to do it.
That's why there is so much social media.
I just have the time to do it.
Yeah, well, even when I have the time to do it, I'd rather be doing other things.
I'm such a slouch.
Oh, shoot.
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Tell your friends about us.
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Go on those social medias and talk to us.
Look at all the hard work we've done.
Cara has done, yeah.
Or you can email us at Delete This History podcast at gmail.com.
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That is exactly right.
Oh, my voice is going away.
I, my, I, my throat is so dry.
My mouth is so dry.
I literally have said more words tonight than I have said in the past, like 14 days.
We just did a double header.
Y'all.
This is.
Episode 2 of 2 that we're doing.
Yes.
So, that you don't miss a single episode over the holidays.
No reruns here! Everybody else? They're playing reruns, but guess what? We're not.
We're here for you.
That's right.
What else should they do? They should stay fresh, all you cheese bags.
Alright.
Yes.
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