What was I gonna say? I don't know.
I'm old.
Something real important.
So, old.
You leaned in.
I did, like I was really into it and then...
The anticipation is killing me.
It was while you were talking about your diamond shoes that I was like, yeah, I'm really gonna say something about that.
Good story, grandma.
Oh my gosh.
Losing it.
Anyway.
Welcome to episode 81 of Delete This History, podcast by two besties of a certain age searching for answers.
We're your hosts, Brea Brown.
And Cara Burch.
What's new, bestie? Oh, you know.
Not a lot.
Things are great.
Things are grand.
My diamond shoes are too tight.
Can't close my wallet because of all my 50s.
Oh man, me too.
Actually, went grocery shopping yesterday so I have no money.
Oh, that'll do it.
I mean, I am cleaned out.
My youngest just got glasses, new glasses.
Like he had glasses.
when he got glasses for the first time.
He did not listen to the person who's worn glasses for 40 years.
Now not quite that long, but 30 something years.
And he had in mind what he wanted, and he got those, even though I said those don't look good on your face.
And he was like, well, these are what I want.
And so, he wore them one day at school and he got made fun of.
and he never wore them again.
Oh no, you're kidding.
Could not get, I mean, I would have had to have like tied him down and put the glasses on his face and tape them to his face.
Oh my gosh.
He was not going to wear those glasses.
so, since school started, he has had these terrible headaches.
So, I mean, that was, that was a few years ago.
Okay.
It was like two, three years ago and It's just caught up with him.
Like he just can't do it anymore.
So, I took him Naked Glasses and when he picked out his frames, he had an idea of what he wanted.
But this time he tried several pairs on, and he listened to me when I told him, yay or nay.
And then he had three to choose from.
And he got clear frames, just kind of like yours.
But they have like wire stems on side.
And they're so cute.
He looks adorable in them.
Of course.
Excellent.
stylish.
um he's farsighted.
Oh, okay.
So, he needs those to see up close.
Yes.
So, since he's gotten his glasses, he's realized the gymnastics that his eyes and brain were having to do every time he read.
He said he would lose his place after every single line of text.
and he'd have to then find where he was again.
Oh my gosh.
Can you imagine how frustrating that is? That sounds awful.
And so, he would use his finger to trace under the line to help him keep his place.
But if he didn't do that or if his hand moved or whatever, then he'd have to like search around again and find where he was supposed to be.
Oh my gosh.
I can't even.
So, the glasses have helped with that? Yes.
That's excellent.
Yeah.
Good grief.
It's a miracle his grades are so good.
And yes, I am bragging.
Anyway, we have them all squared away now, and I just know there won't be any more complications this school year.
em anyway, cue the hysterical laughter from God.
When did you first get glasses? I was in the fourth grade.
Mrs.
Spurlock's class.
were a little one.
I know.
I was in the back row because I was a good girl.
And so, I could sit in the back and not get in trouble.
That's right.
But I couldn't see the board.
Oh, no.
Like I just couldn't see anything.
And so, I don't know what happened.
I don't know if Mrs.
Spurlock said something to mom and dad, but all I know is next thing I know, I'm at the eye doctor.
Somebody said something to someone.
I said nothing.
but I was doing this, the old squinty.
And so, she probably said something.
I bet Ms.
Spurlock, she'd seen enough of the squints to know.
By the time I got now, now I was a fourth grader and so all the teachers were old, but Ms.
Spurlock, I mean, she had to be in her maybe early sixties at that point.
She had to, had snow white hair and just She was an old gal.
So, she really was old, not just...
No, I think she was.
Everyone's old.
I had to go back and look at a picture of her.
She was probably in her 40s.
She's probably the age I am right now.
Yeah.
Oh, what an old person.
But I love Mrs.
Spurlock.
She was awesome.
Oh, I think I was 12.
Okay.
Or 13 when I got glasses.
I was in middle school.
What did your first pair look like? They were circles.
Yep.
They were exact perfect circles.
Yeah, they were like Harry Potter.
Oh, yeah.
I was going to say, or like Dwayne Wayne on Different World.
Oh, not quite.
They were bigger than that.
Yeah, I look back at them now.
I look at pictures now and I'm like, what in the hell? But they were wireframed.
So, they weren't like the clunky.
Oh, my gosh.
Heather, please don't.
don't hate me, like my sister Heather, some of her first glasses, because it was like, you know, in the 80s when it was those plastic frame glasses and they were they were all the same.
They were all like brown frames and they made everybody look like an owl.
They were humongous.
like they were like, OK, up here.
And then they went way down on your cheek.
Yes.
My sister.
had a pair in fact we've got a picture I'll see if I can find it.
We were laughing so hard out ridiculous.
Oh man.
I just wow yeah so you know the eye doctor was saying that it used to be that kids would hate to get glasses mm-hmm like When he first started in practice, he said it was like in the 90s.
telling a kid that they had to have glasses was like, oh, like the worst thing ever.
And he said, no, kids just, they love picking out the frames and it's part of their style.
And he said, and everybody has them, everybody else has them.
You know why it's not such a big deal now? Nobody is outside running around riding their bike.
That's right.
Climbing trees.
I mean, that was a death knell to me.
I was going to have these stupid glasses on my face while I was trying to go outside and have fun.
I was like, no.
Yeah.
I was so mad.
I just knew that I would get picked on even more.
Oh.
Because when you're the smart girl, it's bad enough.
And then you're the smart girl with the glasses and then you know, your four eyes and you're a nerd.
was too stupid to even think about being picked on.
That didn't even occur to me.
I just didn't want them on my face.
I still don't want them on my face.
They cramp your style.
They, I hate wearing them, but now that I have to have bifocals, it's just so much more convenient.
I just have to have them.
I prefer contacts though.
oh, But I couldn't do the contacts.
the reading context that my brain was like, no, the one that was one eye and the one that the other eye that was for distance and one that was for close up.
Oh, that was the worst.
I thought I was going to drive off the highway.
Yeah, I couldn't do it.
No, not cool.
Anyway, so um yeah, that's what we've been doing.
Good times.
Yeah.
Let's see.
I don't really have.
It's just a bathroom, bathroom, bathroom, bathroom, bathroom, every weekend.
And then any weeknight we could do with the bathroom remodel.
That's all we did.
But this weekend, we did cleanup.
We cleaned the house.
I was able to get my car back in the garage.
Poor Sean, he hasn't been able to get his rocket van back in the garage yet, but we're working on it.
But it's going to be so great to have the house just put back together and not.
Did you get to watch football this weekend? Yeah.
We did get to watch football.
What thrilling games.
Oh my gosh, that Packers Cowboys game.
What in the world? I fell asleep.
What? I know.
How? I was so tired, and the end of that game just kept going and going and I knew it was exciting, and I wanted to see what happened.
And you know, obviously Clint was invested.
Sure, sure.
And I was invested because it's my husband's team versus my best friend's team.
Like I didn't know who I wanted to win.
So, it was amazing how it ended because it was a tie.
Everybody was mad.
Like Dak Prescott was not happy about the tie.
Jordan Love not happy about that.
They both mentioned how disappointing it was.
It a tie.
All that work.
You know what they say in England? A tie.
Cause you know, football matches.
Sure.
soccer.
Right.
They end in ties all the time.
They do.
But they say it's like kissing your sister.
Gosh, that's hilarious.
Anyway, so.
Well, I stayed up for that entire thing.
I did.
Well, I mean, I was you were in the room.
was in the room, but I just kept dozing off.
But then I would be like, oh, my gosh, like pretending like I was because I'd hear him react and then I'd be like, oh, and then I'd wake up for a little while and like see what was happening.
I was like, oh, I was I was beat.
Oh my gosh.
And then it was like 11 o'clock.
Yeah, it was past.
Oh.
I forgot that when they went into overtime, like I was like, oh, we're going into double overtime.
I forgot it just stopped there.
Yeah, in the regular season.
Yeah.
Yeah.
No.
It's just like all that work that they did.
Do you know that's the second game this season that's a tie already? It's only the fourth game.
Really? Who was the other? I don't know.
Huh.
I can't remember who it was but yeah they've already had one.
Wow.
So, that's crazy.
But yeah it was it was an exciting game and then the Chiefs had really played they looked like the old Chiefs yesterday.
did.
And that was a relief because man I was starting to get worried.
Well and if we can just get everybody back where they're supposed to be.
Yes.
I think they're gonna be okay.
Yeah.
I think although the Ravens.
They were just falling to pieces out there.
oh, They played terrible.
The injuries, I don't know how they're going to go on.
They're going to not do well, I don't think.
And their defense is terrible.
oh, It's not like we were playing superstar, but it looked like we were because they weren't doing so great.
You know what? What? We've changed things up.
Yes.
In this show.
talked about that last week.
But you know what has not changed at all? What's that? A little game that we like to call Search Me! Where we ask each other one trivia question from our week's internet travels.
Yes.
Cara? Yep.
Your question for today is, approximately how many restaurants do we have here in our humble city of Springfield, Missouri? Oh, that's a great question.
This is an approximation.
OK.
your answer will be a round number.
Okay.
So, it'll just be, you know, and it will be like a more than round number.
I'm gonna say more than 300.
even close? More than 1,000.
Too many.
Oh, more than 150.
More than 800.
That does not surprise me.
There's a friggin ton.
You can't swing a dead cat without hitting a restaurant this time.
And there's just more every day? Yes! I'm like, who is going to these places? Everybody.
Not me, I don't do anything or go anywhere anymore.
Oh man.
While we were doing the bathroom remodel, we frequented several restaurants.
Oh yeah, I bet.
I have to say.
Just to get out of the house.
Well, just like, we got to run to Lowe's, you want to grab lunch while we're out or blah, blah, blah.
Lowe's, you've got to go to Menards, there's a Domino's right there.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah, got it.
What was the last restaurant you went to? Can you remember? I mean, I do frequent like Starbucks.
I'll go through the drive-through and get like a London Fog tea because I love that.
The iced tea.
What was the last restaurant you went in and sat down and had a dinner? down and ate like with another person.
I bet it was with me.
Because we had lunch.
We went to Early Bird Pub.
I can't, I can't even tell you.
Oh man.
The last place I went in and sat down and ate.
It's not that I've like shunned fast food.
I have not.
Yes.
But I just don't go out to places.
I understand.
um What's my question for this week? your question for this week.
What country was among the first to cultivate coffee outside of Arabia on the island of Java? Don't.
tree.
Java is in Indonesia.
But that's not going to help you at all.
I was shocked by this.
Really? Okay.
Let's see.
England.
No.
The Netherlands.
Oh, I knew it had to be some kind of colonial bullshit.
They started the East India Trading Company.
Oh, yes.
And so, they had set up shop.
And so, then once they, you know, had their trade routes all going, they're like, we're going to start playing some coffee downhill.
um I learned that from the New York Times flashback quiz.
Oh, did It's one of my favorite, favorite things.
Every week, I always look forward to the flashback quiz.
It's so fun.
I always learn so much from those.
Yeah, it does sound like fun and almost makes me want to get a New York Times subscription, but nah.
uh Let me tell you.
It's kind of stressful because they come at you with headlines, headlines.
I it's like I had to knock it down and be like, just give me the headlines once a day.
Yeah, I will scroll through it.
Cry a little bit.
Choose maybe one or two to read.
Cuss.
Wait for the flashback quiz.
Nesh my teeth.
Well, we're not here to, you know, talk about how stressful current events are.
Good.
But I do love coffee.
Uh huh.
We share that.
Yes we do.
What else do want to share? Some history.
Okay.
It's time for shared history where we tell you our DTH besties, the most interesting thing we learned this week.
Yes.
It is episode 81, which means it's an odd week, which means I get to go.
That's right.
And if you missed our gross medical searches.
Y'all, I've got a doozy for you.
Here we go.
I was listening to a podcast called, um, history's heroes.
And it used to be hosted by Helena Bonham Carter, or at least she did the narration on it.
But now it has, they've got a new, um, host and she is like a historian, but she does a really great job.
Anyway, they were talking about World War I vets.
who came back from the war with disfigurements on their faces.
they were talking about some of the advancements in plastic surgery of that time to try to give these people just as normal a life as they could have.
em And some of this was actually bringing back some function to what, like their mouth and their nose and you know things like that in their eyes and stuff like that but a lot of it was cosmetic but you know it was terrible people would gasp at them and they didn't ever want to go out in public and it was it was really rough.
sad.
So, there was a surgical technique called the tubed pedicle flap.
Just by the name of it, you can tell this is gonna be great.
I don't like the word flap.
It's right up there with moist and nugget.
Yep.
Yep.
So, this is a plastic surgery technique commonly used to correct injuries, most commonly facial ones caused by war injuries and diseases like syphilis.
Okay.
Cause you know, people's noses would fall off when they had syphilis.
Holy hell.
And that's how you knew that somebody had syphilis is suddenly they had no nose.
Oh gosh.
Yeah, if you ever watch that show, The Nick with Clive Owen, it's about Victorian surgeon.
Okay.
he, know, those surgical theaters where people would watch and everything.
yeah, it's about a hospital where they do that.
Okay.
Anyway, there's a storyline about syphilis and people's noses falling off their faces.
And he does this procedure on a friend.
Oh my gosh.
A friend of his.
a lady friend.
Anyway, the basic concept is that a surgeon would raise a tubed flap from a healthy donor site, often like the chest or the abdomen where you've got a little bit of extra skin.
He cut a strip of skin, but leave one or both ends attached to the body.
And then you would then roll it up like into a tube or a cylindrical shape.
Yeah.
Okay.
You're never gonna look at a Swiss cake roll the same again.
Why? I know, I just had to.
The strip was then tubed or sewn into a cylindrical shape and once the new blood supply was established the other end of the tube called the pedicle, the part that was still attached, was severed and then the flap was unrolled and shaped to reconstruct the missing facial features.
man.
I can't feel my hands.
So, here you go.
This concept is not new at all.
As early as 800 BC, the Indian physician Shashruta described using a flap from the cheek to reconstruct a nose.
Whoa.
Which you know, in that way, that kind of makes sense.
It's the same kind of tissue.
It's close.
to the site.
you can, you I can't imagine being connected to your chest or your whatever by your face.
But that's what happened in the neck.
oh The Italian surgeon Gaspari Tagliacosi.
I'm sure that's how you say it.
refined this Italian method in the 16th century using a patient's arm to create a new nose, a procedure that could take several weeks.
oh Now the First World War provided a brutal proving ground for plastic surgery.
High-velocity shrapnel and machine gun fire caused facial injuries on a scale never before seen.
Traditional methods were ineffective, leaving soldiers with severe disfigurements that made social integration nearly impossible.
Early attempts of skin grafting often failed due to infection and a lack of blood supply.
A flat graft of skin transferred from one area to another was highly susceptible to both, leading to tissue death and further complications.
The medical community needed a new solution.
Enter the tubed pedicle.
It solved the problem of infection and poor blood supply.
It also protected the raw open wound.
and minimize the risk of infection.
A pioneer of this at that time, who was often called the father of modern plastic surgery, Harold Gillies, Gillies, was a New Zealand surgeon who served in the British army during World War I.
He recognized the desperate need for a specialized unit for facial injuries and established the Queen Mary's Hospital in Sidcup, England.
It was here that he perfected the tubed pedicle flap, performing thousands of operations on disfigured soldiers.
Around the same time, Vladimir Petrovich Filatov, a Russian ophthalmologist, was credited with being the first to publish a description of the tube pedicle flap technique in 1917.
Though he and Gillies worked independently and were unaware of each other's research, they both came to the same conclusion about the best way to keep a skin graft viable.
Well, modern microsurgery has largely replaced the tube pedicle flap for its speed and precision.
The technique remains a vital part of surgical history.
So, you don't really have to do this anymore.
Thank goodness.
Because we got other ways.
But it laid the foundation for modern reconstructive surgery.
and prove that complex multi-stage procedures could successfully restore not just a patient's appearance, but their dignity and identity.
That's cool.
Yeah.
Some pretty horrific pictures.
Oh, I can only imagine.
And I'm OK with sticking with imagining and not looking.
If you want to see, here are some sources.
Plasticsfella.com.
H-E-K-I-N-T dot org, Saddlenose dot com.
PMC dot NCBI dot NIM dot NIH dot gov, basically.
NIH.
Gotcha.
NAM dot AC dot UK, Vice and Wikipedia.
Wow.
OK.
oh Sean's doctor for his nose was named Dr.
Gilly.
Get out of here.
I'm not even kidding.
Gilly! He was great too.
You should ask him, are you related? Are you the singular version of the plural Gillies? Might be.
All right, are you ready to hear about my topic? Yes.
Okay.
Is this something that people can listen and hear about while eating? Yes, it is.
Oh good.
Cause mine wasn't.
You may commence snacking.
I was tooling around on IMDb as one does.
Oh yeah.
Every day.
some stuff about Buster Keaton.
Oh yeah.
Not on purpose.
Like I just came across some stuff.
And the movie, The General.
Do you remember that one? Uh, the locomotive.
black and white.
So, reading about that is where I learned that it would that movie was loosely based on real events that happened during the Civil War.
I did not learn about this part of the Civil War in school.
Full stop.
I didn't know this had happened.
Oh, I can't wait to hear.
Now, have you ever watched Ken Burns, the Civil War? Yes.
And I know.
No, no, no, no, no, I haven't.
I haven't watched the Civil War, dude.
I've seen the Vietnam War.
Dude.
I have to say, I'm just going to put this out there.
I don't have much interest in the Civil War.
I don't know what it is about that particular war.
You're from a border state.
I just don't, it's just never interested me.
You're conflicted.
World War II was interesting.
World War I is interesting.
Korea, Vietnam, those are all super interesting to me.
I just have never gotten interested in the Civil War.
Really? My interest in war history started with like the Revolutionary War and the Civil War because those are the only two wars we ever got to in history class.
Yes.
And after that it was like, oops, too bad, so sad.
Sometimes we got to World War I.
But then it was like, ran out of time.
Next year, time to start over again.
like what the hell but anyway I fortunately I found it interesting but I've always really liked the Civil War okay I think it started with that North and South a mini series with Patrick Swayze.
Swayze.
Wouldn't be surprised by that.
He's dishy.
Oh my gosh.
brother against brother.
Well maybe oh yeah you're right I could really work on my antebellum accent too.
That's a good point.
Maybe I'll watch the Ken Burns.
It's multi, many, many, many hours.
It's very many hours, but you know how he is.
I know.
And the Vietnam War that he did was worth every minute.
Yeah.
I mean, his documentaries are always so good.
Yeah, they are.
Nerd.
One of my favorite lines from uh MASH is they're all being stupid.
uh one time, but they were talking about, were just, started using Hawkeye and Trapper started using an antebellum accent.
And so it's quoted often in our house that something was handed down from coal pepper to coal pepper.
Constantly.
course.
Coal pepper is fun to say.
Did you ever see the SNL skit where they were talking about here comes Colonel Angus? He's coming down the drive.
Oh, it's awful.
I mean, is funny, but it is awful.
So, offensive.
Amy Poehler.
Oh crap.
Anyway, moving on.
I'll have to look that up on YouTube.
Yeah, Colonel Angus.
I'm laughing just thinking about it.
All right.
This is what I did not learn about the Civil War.
The great locomotive chase.
Oh, did you? Did you learn about this? This is kind of ringing a bell, but then I just picture two trains chasing each other and it's kind of funny.
It is the funniest thing.
As I was reading through this, could not stop laughing.
Now, I know this was not funny at the time.
Oh, probably not.
But all I'm picturing.
Well, let me just set the scene for you here.
You're on a damn track.
You're on a track.
The great locomotive chase.
All right, I'm ready.
It was a Union military raid led by James Andrews.
A group of Union soldiers disguised as civilians stole a Confederate train, the General, in northern Georgia with the goal of disrupting the Western and Atlantic railroad and severing supply lines to Chattanooga.
The raid was intended to cripple the South's vital railway system and was a key part of the Union's plan to take Chattanooga.
The plan was to steal the General, chug north, destroy track bridges and telegraph lines along the way to cut off the Confederate communication and supply lines to Chattanooga.
Uh-huh.
Yes.
Great plan.
Yeah.
Sounds amazing.
However, you on a train.
Yeah.
As the Raiders moved North, they were pursued by Confederate.
Confederate forces first on foot and then later by a series of other locomotive.
Follow that train! Most notably the Texan.
Oh, the Texas, excuse me.
The Texas locomotive.
Oh my gosh.
I'm just picturing these people running and chasing this locomotive.
We're gonna get you.
Get that train.
Chase them down.
I got a train to catch.
Now hold on to your butt.
The raid was ultimately unsuccessful.
Really? It's like I'm always behind it and I can't catch up.
Get up, come up on the side.
I can't, there's not a track.
Oh my gosh.
After an 87 mile chase at 15 miles an hour.
15 miles an hour.
This is like, this is like the OJ, the OJ low speed chase.
This is like.
The Austin Powers movie where the guy is standing in front of the steamroller going, And he stands there the whole time, the steamroller's just creeping up to him and he gets killed.
That's what it reminded me of.
Well, you can't, you know, sometimes something is just inevitable.
This was the technology they had.
Oh my gosh.
The Raiders.
OK, so yeah.
So, after an 87 mile chase at 15 miles per hour, the Raiders ran out of fuel.
What? They were forced to abandon the locomotive.
They scattered into the woods where they were captured within days and tried by the Confederate military court and charged with unlawful belligerency.
Eight of the Raiders were executed by hanging while the others were held as POWs.
The remaining Raiders were eventually released as part of a prisoner exchange.
In 1863, 19 of the 24 members of Andrew's Raiders were awarded the Medal of Honor, making them the first to receive the nation's highest military honor.
uh Today, the hijacked locomotive, the General, is on display at the Southern Museum in Kennesaw, Georgia, and the Texas locomotive is that was used to give chase to the General.
Oh my gosh.
It's on display at the Atlanta History Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
Oh my goodness.
I could not stop laughing.
I know I should not be laughing at this.
Well.
But I couldn't stop giggling because the plan was great.
It was a great plan.
We're going to go through.
We're going to take this chain.
We're going to steal it.
We're going to tear up the tracks.
We're going to pull down the telegraph wires.
We're gonna, what was the other thing? They were gonna do something They sabotaged bridges.
Yes, bridges.
It's a great plan.
Yeah, then they can't get their supplies.
Cut them off.
But there were other locomotives.
And people chasing you on foot.
And, I mean, there was telegraph by then, right? Yeah.
Yes.
So, they could telegraph ahead and be like, hey.
But they stole the general in a town that did not have telegraph.
That was part of the story.
oh So, they chose that town wherever it was specifically because they did not have a telegraph office.
Okay.
So, that was a good thing that you picked up on.
Smart cookie.
See, you would be an excellent, excellent raider chaser.
You had been like, let's go get this Texas locomotive.
That's right.
And chase these fools.
Yeah.
We can shovel coal faster than those damn Yankees.
That's exactly right.
Oh my gosh.
That's pretty funny.
Anyway, I didn't realize that.
Like I'd never heard of that, uh you know, event.
And I didn't know that that's where the medals of honor.
Oh yeah.
I didn't know those came about during the Civil War.
I didn't realize that.
They were originally created to honor Navy sailors.
Then they created more to honor army soldiers.
And then it just kind of expanded.
Now anybody, everybody gets a medal.
Everybody gets a medal.
I want one.
I really don't want a medal of honor.
No, I don't either.
Because you got to do some pretty.
You got to go through some stuff.
Yeah.
Yeah, exactly.
My sources were IMDB, my good friend.
uh NormalStudios.
org, CMOHS.
org and Parade.com.
Excellent.
Well, that was good.
That was very entertaining.
Wow.
But Cara.
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 in this episode or were just too damn boring.
Yeah, boring! Yeah.
Do you have more this week than you had A little bit more.
Okay.
um But they're still real boring.
have got a ton.
Here we go.
Firefly.
Still end slow coloring books.
Disable incognito mode.
It's disturbingly difficult.
I know.
Same.
If you have kids and you don't want them to be able to use incognito mode because why should they be? It's really difficult.
to prevent that.
It's bizarre.
uh Lumina nails.
EMDR.
Then I looked it up and I was like, wait a minute, Cara told us all about this.
That's right, she did.
A lot of therapists in Springfield, they practice this.
Ah, yeah.
It's very interesting.
It is interesting.
Springfield Eye Specialists, poutine near me.
There's like only one place in this town that serves poutine now.
Who is it? Lindbergh's.
Oh, I gotta get me down to Lindbergh's.
And it's like cashew chicken poutine.
Oh, know.
What? Everything has I don't even know how that would work.
F in cashew.
Like they use like the cashew chicken sauce as the gravy.
Oh, right.
I mean, it's delicious.
Don't get me wrong.
I've had it.
Doc cider shoes.
Sinking Scrivener projects to the cloud.
Camisole.
uh Sauce for lobster ravioli? Autism and Trans Support Group.
Parkin.
Do you know what Parkin is? Did we talk about Parkin on the show once? Because as I was reading about it, I was like, this sounds like something Cara would look up and be really interested in.
It's like a molasses cake.
Oh no.
That they um make in the fall in England.
I had to look it up because they were talking about it on Call the Midwife.
Yum.
And the English Teacher TV show.
Oh yeah.
I saw that.
I think that Sean would like that.
It's kind of like too much.
Oh, okay.
In that I like it and there are some parts that are so funny.
you're just like, I'm going to pee my pants.
But then there are other parts where it's like, I feel like I'm too old to get this show.
Like I vacillate between being like super annoyed with the people in the show and then just cracking up because.
Some things are really absurd, but anyway.
That's all I got this week.
All right, well, a lot of mine is repeat because I've been trying to find granite countertops.
I'm trying to find the right ones.
Yes.
And the right company.
here we go.
uh Granite countertops, cultured marble countertops, Corian countertops, quartz countertops, rectangle sink examples, Wilgus IQ countertops.
Ozarks marble uh home outlet, stone land granite, Honda, had to that car payment.
Zappos.com, KS Wood Products, Taylor Marble, Ox and Fern Designs.
That's a little uh company here in Springfield that I saw an advertisement for him at Big Mama's.
I was waiting for my food to go and he had a little card sitting there.
Ox and Fern designs.
oh kind of some neat stuff.
Oh wait, that ox? Maybe fox.
That's supposed to be fox.
and Fern.
Sorry, sorry business owner.
Dublin's Pass menu.
Nom.
Azo products.
Epic.com Verona location.
Springfield Green County Library Room reservations.
Womp womp.
ADA seal of acceptance.
Ozarks Public Television wine and food celebration cancellation.
They're not going to do it anymore.
It's the end of an era.
They don't have the money to do it.
They don't.
The excuse, the reason that they gave was that the food vendors, they can't either come up with enough food vendors or the food vendors are like, we can't swing it.
We can't afford it.
We don't have the staff to do it.
Like they can't.
everything they talked about was it wasn't gonna be top-notch like it normally is.
they're just not gonna do it.
Isn't that sad? Anyway, Black Sheep Menyo, yum.
Trans Am Takeover, Branson, Missouri.
They had a like Smokey and the Bandit thing.
uh Springfield, Missouri population.
uh Republic of Missouri population.
Above Doorway decor ideas.
oh Hold on to your butts for this one.
Okay, I'm ready.
Character name of the person in the Pink Panther movies who Inspector Clouseau asked to attack him unexpectedly to keep his fighting skills honed.
I didn't know how else to search that.
By the way, it was Kato.
Oh.
Have you ever watched the old Pink Panther movies? Man.
If you haven't, you're missing out.
PNZ vote for Division East Gate.
Chief schedule, historic Fox Theater, Jimmy John's refrigerator pizza dough cheesy bread recipe.
oh It was pretty good.
um Storage units near me.
IMDB searches, we go, Karate Kid Legends.
We watched it.
It was exactly what you would expect.
oh We had Danielson oh and Jackie Chan.
oh That's the reason I watched, because of those two.
It was actually not too bad of a movie, but you can't beat the original.
The big door prize on Apple, don't waste your time.
Okay.
The change, Brit Box, I had to look that up because you texted me, you're like, new episodes of the change.
I was like, what the hell's the change? I didn't, I've never watched it.
I don't have Brit Box.
I thought that you found a way to watch it.
I haven't gotten to see it.
And we laughed about.
I've seen clips of it on Instagram.
Okay.
But I've never gotten to see.
Okay.
Like I've seen the clip where they're standing at this picnic table trying to remember things.
Yeah.
I was like, yeah, I was like, how did you know that about that scene? Okay.
I that one.
I see.
Just a clip.
Just a clip.
Argyle, which is a movie on Apple.
Don't waste your time.
It is horrible.
You know, I have that.
Yeah, I have that in my queue.
Just my watch list.
Just take it out.
But every time I think maybe I'll watch that, I'm like, nah.
It is so dumb.
uh, oh gosh, the name of the guy in it, I can't think of his name now.
He's excellent.
I love him.
What the hell's his name? Oh, isn't that, um, Henry Cavill? No, well, he's in it, but the guy that shows up later, he was in Three Billboards Outside Sam Rockwell.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Sam Rockwell's in it.
So, was like, oh, I'm watching this.
Oh, yeah.
It was terrible.
He was the best thing in it.
Yeah.
And then I want to see the pit on HBO.
I don't have HBO, but I want to see the pit really, really bad.
And I ain't talking arm people.
There's so many good shows right now.
Man, I tell you what, Apple has some quality stuff.
Yeah, it used to be that their stuff would get stale really fast.
Like they only had a few shows and now they are just cranking it out.
Yeah, we started watching Platonic.
Oh my God.
We were laughing so That's one of my favorite shows.
I told Sean, we needed a new one to start.
said, Brea said this one is great, so let's try it.
Give it a shot.
We were dying.
It's so stupid but so funny.
I love Rose Byrne.
Yeah.
And Seth Rogen.
Well, his laugh.
I can't even do it.
uh It's good people, okay, just trust me.
And I also enjoyed, and I wasn't expecting to, I also enjoyed Bad Monkey on Apple.
Oh, I still haven't watched that one.
But it has Vince Vaughn in it, and Clint would not watch it with me.
I'm kinda there with Clint.
He's like, just, can't stand that guy.
I'm not a Vince Vaughn But he is so good in that show.
He is a good actor, I will give him that.
And you actually like him.
Okay.
That's one of the very few things that you watch him in, and you're like, hmm, I don't hate you.
All right, well, I always steer clear of it just because it has the word monkey in it.
Oh, yes.
the monkey doesn't feature very heavily.
Good.
I wrote it down.
I'll try it.
I'll try it.
That so reminds me when we are finished here, I have some pictures of my brother that I need to show you.
Okay.
Weird.
scared.
My brother is a nursing home administrator.
for those of you who don't know.
And every once in a while they have these special programs where they have people come in and they'll bring like, you know, support dogs or whatever.
And he was at a St.
Louis facility, em one of the facilities that he oversees.
They had some monkeys.
Gross.
He said they were the sweetest things.
And one took a real shine.
So, I had him send me the pictures um so I could show you.
I was like, I cannot wait to show Carrie these pictures.
She loves monkeys.
If I was in a nursing home and they brought in a monkey to cheer me up.
I'm telling you right now, they'd have another thing coming.
I'm just picturing old Crabby Kera throwing a monkey across the activity room.
Better believe it.
That thing away from me.
Flea-picking varmint.
Oh goodness.
speaking of...
Flea-picking varmints? Old people.
uh The movie The Thursday Murder Club? Yes! It's really good.
I want to see it! It's really, good.
Colleen, I'm sorry we're talking so much about TV.
It's just who we are.
It's just who we are.
And that is a perfect segue into listener shout-outs because I was going to talk about how we met up with my sister Colleen over the summer.
Right! How? Could we have forgotten that? Around July 4th.
And then we got some really great feedback about the pod.
Yes, we did.
Not to mention all the laughs we had.
Oh my gosh, it was so fun to meet her.
And you know, we talked about a huge range of topics.
But if any of you are in Springfield or ever have plans to be in Springfield, like to travel here, our DTHBesties, hit us up.
Email us.
Maybe we can arrange a DTHBestie meetup.
Oh my gosh.
We could show all around this great town.
We could show you all the places we talk about that you have no idea what we're talking about.
All 300 and...
Oh no, was 800.
All 800 restaurants.
could hit them all.
I mean, just 300 of those are Chinese.
Like, Springfield Chinese.
And then we gotta go to Parlor Donuts, because that's in my life now.
Oh yeah, that's pretty good.
Those things are huge.
But anyway, our email address, if you want to get in touch with us, is deletethishistorypodcast.com That's right.
And we do still have a slight presence on Instagram.
Yes.
A little bit.
We might put some stuff on there.
We might put some stuff on there, just you know, like maybe pictures of my brother with monkeys.
I will have no part of that.
Anyway, rate and review us.
Yes, please.
Please.
Because it really helps people find us.
Tell your friends about us.
Gauge with us on social media if we're ever on there.
Yes.
Very rarely, because it's a hellscape.
It is.
um Anyway, other than that, I think it's just time to go delete my history.
Yes, I'm also going to delete my history.
You know it.
You stay fresh, cheese bags.
Buh-bye.
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