Dude, I just saw the sticker on your water bottle that says, feel gross.
I'm going to need about 15 of those to put on everything I  Cause when we're together,  it feels like we're in heaven.
If it will get dark, you'll be my million stars.
I know I can lean on you.
Welcome to episode 82 of Delete This History, podcast by two besties of a certain age searching for answers.
We are your hosts, Burch.
And Brea Brown.
Hi.
Hello.
What's new bestie? Oh, I'm enjoying this drink.
Oh, let me see.
Diet green tea mixed berries.
Looks like a headache in a bottle.
It's pretty refreshing.
I know it probably wouldn't go with you.
wouldn't.
That damn diet shit.
It's yummers.
I noticed your monochrome coloring over here.
Oh, yes, yes, yes.
So, I was coloring last night during the game,  we won.
Thank  the Lord.
I'm telling you what, it was uh rough in the first quarter.
Well, I kind of went into it thinking that the Lions would just beat us.
Yeah.
I am still a little surprised that we won.
Yeah, I had to I had to kind of have that same mindset so that I wouldn't just be like, I'm turning this off.
Clint did not have that mindset.
Sean didn't either.
And so at eight o'clock when it was time for him to go to bed, I was super glad.
was like looking at my watch like.
time for bed yet? Because you're making me nervous.
He was so mad at the defense.
Anyway, go ahead.
So, you're coloring.
was I colored one uh page during a game last night and I was like  in the fourth quarter I was falling asleep.
Like my eyeballs felt fat and I was having trouble staying awake and I was like I gotta go to that.
I'm going to bed as soon as this is over.
And then the fight broke out.
 And it got me so amped up.
You were invested? I was  like, what happened?  What happened?  And so then, you know, once we figured out what happened, then I was like, so like, let's go!  I colored a whole nother page before I got sleepy again.
The adrenaline rush.
I just pumped.
You were ready to drive to Kansas City and take that guy out.
What a sore loser.
What an asshole.
I couldn't believe it.
I know.
I mean, I know it's upsetting to lose a game, blah, blah.
Guess what? You get paid the same.
You get paid the same.
And now you look even worse.
Yeah, you look you're such an idiot.
Did you hear  Mike say, oh, the NFL is going to take action on that? Mike.
Torico.
Oh, geez, I forgot even who the commentator.come on, Brie, Mike, the guy that we talk to every week about football.
I'm so sorry, Mike.
We have a separate podcast with Mike Torico.
If you guys haven't listened to it.
Yes,  I did hear him say that.
But did you hear them also say the refs? just left.
left.
And I told Sean, I said, well, I don't blame him.
All you got to do is get one angry dude who just lost the game turn look at a zebra and it's all over.
Exactly.
Plus, you know, their part was over.
Right.
They're like,  once the clock runs  out, about it.
Anyway, it was a good game.
It was.
It really was.
I was glad to see my boyfriend Pacheco.
He was looking really good again.
They were actually using him some more.
Yes.
Very nice.
Yeah, it was good.
And then we get Rishi Rice back next week,  which by the time this airs is going to be like forever.
O-L-D.
O-L-D.
W.
W.
N-E-W-S.
www.
old.com.
uh  That is my website.
If you guys ever want know anything about my life www.
old.com.
And I'm just waiting for her to forget to pay  for that domain name so that I can get it.
Which will absolutely happen.
Right.
So, by the time people hear this, this will be old news too, but I will have no uterus or ovaries.
I know.
I just want to say that to underscore how fucking exciting I am to be rid of these parts of my body.
I am excited for you.
I know it's weird to say that to a person, but I know what you've been going through.
I mean, bye-bye bitches.
And I am so excited for you.
It's been real, real annoying.
um I would use a different word from annoying, that's fine if that's what the word you want to go with.
They've overstayed their welcome by about 15 years.
So,  bye.
Um,  and I have the best bestie in the world who made me food.
Oh, yes.
Actually made my family food.
I don't know what I'll be able to eat or whatever, but who knows? It's up for grabs.
might just be sitting in bed with the casserole dish.
I made I put everything into single serving.
Oh my gosh, so you can just pull one out and heat it up and go You don't have to dish it even crazier.
So, so nice You're welcome.
I'm gonna cry cuz I still have hormones Well, we don't know what this is gonna be like or how long it's gonna take for you to recover Yeah, I just I just don't know cuz I'm kind of a wimp and I'm planning on milking it to be honest.
You should I made my dinner for the week last night because I usually do it on Tuesday.
This is going to be real great story.
Everybody hang on.
So, I usually make dinner on Tuesday, but I have to be on a liquid diet.
Oh no.
The day before my surgery, which is Wednesday.
I was like, I don't want to make dinner and then I can't eat it.
Right.
That sucks.
So, I made it yesterday and it did not come out great.
I hate when that happens.
When you have a plan and you're like, oh, stuffed pork chops  with gravy and mashed potatoes, that sounds pretty damn good.
What happened? um Yeah, there were no vegetables.
You're right.
There were no vegetables in this meal.
For those who clocked I didn't even notice.
I was just like, what happened to the pork chops? So,  I bought the pork chops pre-stuffed,  like the pre-stuffed pork chops at the grocery store.
and they looked really great and everything.
I pinned them together with some Q-tips.
Gross.
I'm gonna throw up on my mouth a little bit.
uh Toothpicks, not Q-tips.
That's better.
Toothpicks.
And then I was like, oh, since I didn't make these, I don't have a recipe.
So, I was gonna make them in the slow cooker.
Like cook them in the slow cooker.
So, all I needed from the interwebs, all I needed, the internet had one job.
Tell me,  how long do I cook these bitches in a slow cooker?  And I, like a smart person,  I went to one source  and  this lady was like, oh, I make these all the time.
Just put a little bit of like gravy in the bottom of the slow cooker and cook them on high for six hours.
was like, oh, on high for six hours.
is, I even thought to myself, that is a long time on high.
Usually high is four hours,  low is eight hours,  or six to eight hours.
Okay, but this lady says she makes these all the time.
Right? Good to go.
Here we go.
Do it.
They were in there for five and a half hours  and I took them out and they were like sawdust.
They were so dry.
Oh, uh not quite sawdust.
It was more like it was more like wood pulp.
It was more like mulch.
That was the consistency of these pork chops.
They were like mulch.
Oh,  no.
I was pissed.
But then I was like, well, you're a dumb dumb.
I do find it interesting that someone who does a podcast  on Internet searches.
I was in a hurry.
All right.
I was in a hurry.
The game was about to start.
Not the Chiefs game, but the Cowboys game.
And I had other things to do.
And I was just like, I just looked at one thing and I was like, okay, good, good, good, good, good.
So, did you guys attempt to eat them?  We did.
Peyton spit his out his first  bite out because you know, he's  very understated.
He's  he just goes with the flow like that.
He made a big deal about it.
Uh, Jackie didn't like the stuffing, but she, she ate most of hers.
Clinton and I ate it cause I'm like, I bought it.
I'm eating it.
I was like, just don't get in your mashed potatoes.
It'll be fine.
Absolutely.
Was it stuffed with like cheese and spinach? It was stuffed with like stuffing.
Oh,  it  smelled amazing while I was cooking.
It smelled like Thanksgiving in our house.
It tasted like,  I  don't know.
mulch.
Yeah, a sawmill.
Tastes like a sawmill.
No.
So, anyway,  that's my story.
I'm sorry.
Well, how would you like to move to  a little game that we like to call? What?  Search me!  Where we each ask  one trivia question from our week's internet searches.
Yes.
Okay, Brea.
um Here's your question for the week.
Okay.
Which is kind of funny that I'm drinking this.
Oh.
It was completely unplanned 100 % and I'm about to laugh at myself.
Okay.
Because it's about green tea.
Oh, that's hilarious.
Shizoka Japan produces nearly 40 % of Japan's tea.
Unlike typical tea leaves, the leaves used to make this popular beverage must be grown entirely in the shade.
What is this special form of tea? uh You're looking for the name of it? Yes.
When  you said it was a green tea.
I did say it was a green tea.
I kind of was talking about the leaves,  like the leaves that they grow in general.
The name of the tea.
Is this a name I would know?  For sure.
It's a beverage.
Which tea is a beverage? But I'm trying to help you out a little bit here.
I was gonna say...
Yes it is a D.
Oh my lord.
Okay, I'm  gonna say chai.
No, I'm gonna give you another guess because I'm kind of misleading you a little bit.
I'm gonna say oolong  su sheng.
What's it called?  Lap su...
Oolong lap  sang.
Just keep saying words.
I'm just gonna keep talking and...
showing everybody how ignorant I am.
Oh, those are all T-words.
I don't know.
It's matcha.
Oh, matcha.
So,  green.
Oh, my gosh.
What a dumb dumb.
The so my desktop wallpaper that Microsoft provides on the hour.
Yes.
I when I opened it up um last week sometime, this is beautiful.
Feel like rows and rows of these green plants.
And then what I believe to be  Fuji.
Mount Fuji in the background.
I was like, I probably don't know that that's Mount Fuji.
It was Mount Fuji.
Because I clicked on the little thing that says learn more about this picture.
So, it was Shizawa, Jizaka Japan was the picture.
And those were rows and rows of their tea leaves that they grow.
But I learned that growing matcha tea leaves in the shade gives them increased chlorophyll and more amino acids.
Okay.
And it decreases the production of bitter antioxidants.
Okay.
So, it gives them, um, a more vibrant green color and a sweeter, sweeter, sweeter, richer umami flavor.
Umami.
I learned that word from friends.
You did? Uh huh.
The first time I ever heard that word was friends because Ross was like umami You don't remember that episode? think it was unagi.
Oh shit  It was unagi.
It was a type of sushi oh Eel Yeah, I think that's right actually that I don't know.
Oh my gosh  Just put me under just put me under Hey, you know what? You don't have to know everything! I know, but...
was just...
I don't have to know everything.
I know that, but I don't want the whole rest of the world to know that I know nothing.
I know just enough to sound stupid.
Nut is not true.
Not true.
When I open my mouth.
That's my job, so back off.
Ooh mommy.
Ooh mommy.
Ooh daddy.
I am a big old baddie.
Good Lord.
Okay.
Well,  on that note, let's  go to your question for today.
Let's do.
We're going back to the NFL.
We're talking about football.
Okay.
What is the significance  of the different country flags on the back of some NFL  moments?  I didn't even know there were.
I noticed this a couple of weeks ago that um all of the players have a USA flag.
Yeah.
Because got to put a flag on everything.
Everything.
Every single thing has to have the United States flag on it.
And  but some players have another flag next to their United States flag.
And the person I was looking at at the time had a German flag.
All right.
Here's my guess.
OK.
I'm guessing  that is the country that they played.
a game in like you know how the NFL is doing like over the seas games.
That is a great guess.
Oh, but wrong.
ah Not right.
Oh, it's that is a great guess.
Thanks.
It is part of an initiative called the NFL Heritage Program.
It lets players and coaches rep their international roots.
Well, starting in 2022, the league began allowing players to wear a second flag decal.
So, it's been going on for a while and I just noticed it.
I've never noticed it.
So, if they've lived in another country for at least two years,  or if they have a parent or a grandparent born there.
Oh, so in other words, like if they're a first generation American  and their grandparents or parents were born in, well, I guess they could never mind.
Boopy doopy do.
um You know what I mean.
Now over 330 players and coaches have participated showcasing flags from over 50 countries and territories.
Kyler Murray sports the, what flag do you think is on the back of his helmet? Oh my gosh, Kyler Murray? Yeah.
I don't even know who that is.
He's the quarterback for the Cardinals, the Arizona Cardinals.
Scotland? No.
I don't know.
South Korea.
Oh, South Korea.
No kidding.
No kidding.
That's  due to his mom's heritage and Tua Tagovaioa.
Oh man, that's a hard one.
I don't even know if I said it right.
Cause cause Clint calls him Tua turn the ball over.
Oh no.
Anyway, um, he reps Samoa.
Okay.
Okay.
And Amon Ra St.
Brown.
Now we just played them last night.
Yes we did.
What does he have on the back of his helmet? I'm in raw St.
Brown.
I'll give you a hint.
Okay.
I've already mentioned it.
Germany? Oh, okay.
That's also thanks to his mother.
Okay.
Very cool.
There you go.
That's kind of fun.
Yes.
I like it.
I like that we, you know, are okay with that.
Yeah.
Be proud of your heritage.
That's right.
I wish I could have a whole bunch of flags on them.
Like if I had an NFL helmet,  the helmet that I wear around the house, I've got a bunch of flags.
She falls a lot.
uh There's an Irish flag.
A Finnish flag.
Those are the ones I would like claim.
Ours would be Scotland, but I mean my my  well  so my dad was born overseas but that's because his dad was in the army.
Oh right.
So, he was born on an army base but  Panama.
Oh.
That's where my dad was born.
Oh my gosh.
Oh I would have a German flag too.
Duh.
The boldas came over from Germany.
Okay.
Um, not that long ago, actually.
think it was my mom's grandparents.
Okay.
So, yeah.
I don't, um, know much about my family history.
My sister does.
She's really into it.
Like she does all the family trees and the genealogy and all that.
My dad did.
He, he, he traced us way back.
His family.
Um,  and Holly really gets into that stuff and it is interesting to me, but I,  I just.
don't really care that much.
I know it sounds horrible, but it's just, doesn't interest me.
It's  a ton of work.
I'm really interested in it now that you can like do DNA testing  and figure it out that way.
That makes it lot easier.
It does.
Sort of.
true.
But I like all those shows like Finding Your Roots.
Oh my gosh.
Those are fun to Who You Think You Are and all that stuff.
Those are fun to watch.
But those are typically interesting people and I just am not very interesting.
my, I mean, we invented golf, but that was it.
Your family did? Yeah.
Oh, the Calloways.
Of course.
Oh, of course.
Calloway.
Scotland.
Scotland.
Hello.
My sources were nfl.com, ESPN, and NBC Sports.
Excellent.
Because I I looked that up and I went  deep dive.
A deep dive.
I really did for a trivia question.
I  was like, I'm not wasting this.
This is not going in, But What About This One?  Oh gosh.
All right, you took a deep dive.
Yeah.
We're going take a deep breath  and we're going to move into shared history.
All right,  it's interesting that you uh pointed out umami slash unagi in my last, in my trivia question.
Because when I read the word umami, I could not remember for the life of me what that meant.
Could  not.
I knew I had heard it.
oh So, I looked it up and that is what I'll be sharing with you today.
So, we all know that the four basic tastes  that we have.
are sweet, salty, bitter,  and sour.
But there's actually a fifth, and it is called umami.
Umami.
It's the deep savory taste that you get from foods like mushrooms, tomatoes, aged cheeses,  and soy sauce.
Oh my gosh.
All of those things are like, those are like my four food groups.
I know.
Those are some of my favorite foods.
those are foods that Peyton will not touch.
Oh really?  think he's okay with soy sauce a little bit but he hates tomatoes, ah hates mushrooms.
Oh I love both of those so much.
uh The deep savory taste that you get from those foods that flavor comes from glutamate.
Oh.
It's an amino acid found naturally in many foods and it's also produced by the human body.
Is it now? In 2002, scientists confirmed umami as a fifth basic taste that is shared universally by all humans.
They discovered that our tongues actually have specific receptors just for umami.
And so that's why you, when you get something like, um, that has a really rich flavor  and it has like a mouth filling  quality.
Oh, like  it  lingers longer than other flavors because your umami taste is  on almost your entire tongue, like almost the entire front part of your tongue.
Oh, really?  Umami enhances flavors of other foods so well that you actually can use less salt if you use  umami foods, foods that have umami, you know, that umami taste in them.
Insert  MSG.
Oh, boy.
MSG is used to boost flavor when trying to cut sodium because MSG is monosodium glutamate.
Oh yes it is.
So, we'll come back to that.
Yeah.
But that's why they flavor foods with MSG.
It is the manufactured form of glutamate.
So, it's to make food, so you can actually make food taste more savory without using more salt.
Right.
I'll come back to that here in a little bit.
So, there are some unique traits that make umami stand out.
it's like I said, it spreads across the whole tongue.
It lasts longer and it gives you the satisfying yum sensation.
Those are like your hearty delicious foods, like a potato soup you might have in the fall when you're watching your favorite football team.
Umami has been around for a really long time though.
It was first identified in Japan in the early 1900s by Dr.
Okikune Ikeda.
He figured out that the savory taste of seaweed came from glutamate.
He's the one who coined the term umami, which in Japan roughly means essence of deliciousness.
uh when you combine, so when you've got foods like the tomatoes and the mushrooms and you combine those with other foods, uh you can really deepen the flavor.
So, that's something to think about for all you people that like to just throw meals together.
something more savory, find some foods with umami in it.
Okay, back to the MSG here.
Okay.
And we're gonna, so I wanted to know the difference between just straight up glutamate that we produce in our bodies or that, you know, I just had a mini stroke, sorry, that occurs naturally in foods.
Wow.
Thank goodness for editing.
I wanted to know the difference because we all know someone who suffers from MSG headaches or even migraines.
Yep.
She's right down the other end of this table.
do.
So, it is a food, like I said, it's a food additive, we all know, and it is the sodium salt of glutamate.
And it's produced industrially through a fermentation process using starches, sugar beets or sugar cane.
similar to how vinegar or yogurt are made.
Oh, isn't that interesting? Yeah.
So, glutamate is found naturally in foods and again, it's produced by the human body.
It's essential for normal functioning and is the  most abundant amino acid in the body.
And it plays a vital role as a neurotransmitter in the brain.
Glutamate and MSG are metabolized by our bodies in the exact same way.
But the main difference is that MSG is a  I'm using scare quotes here, free isolated form that is absorbed quickly by our bodies.
Whereas glutamate is usually scare quotes bound to other amino acids and is absorbed more slowly as the body breaks down protein.
There have been studies about MSG and its effects on humans, but there have been no consistent definitive results found linking MSG to headaches.
So, they aren't saying that MSG doesn't cause headaches, they just can't get consistent results with the people they test on it.
Which I thought was super interesting.
So, I'm wondering, I'm not a scientist, you guys didn't know this, but I don't practice science professionally.
But you did stay at a Holiday Inn Express  once.
Don't you remember those commercials  where they say...
No.
We needed a doctor and somebody would run up  and they would do a bunch of like things and they'd say, oh, thank you.
And they'd be like, I'm not a doctor, but I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express.
What?  Like you're smart.
Okay.
I've never seen those.
Oh, wow.
They're old.
Okay.
They should be on OLD.com.
They should.
I will post one tonight.
Perfect.
Here is a little more information about glutamate.
Oh, wait, I didn't finish my scientific discovery.
Oh, I'm so sorry.
I interrupted you with the Al and N Express.
OK,  you're not a scientist, but you play one on TV.
maybe the MSG being absorbed so quickly is part of the problem because you have glutamate in your system and it is a  supportive amino acid.
for your brain and that's where it basically lives.
there is glutamate in your muscles, but it's mainly used in your brain.
And your brain is used to  metabolizing it or using it or whatever.
But then maybe when you have the artificial type.
It doesn't act the same way as the naturally occurring.
So, yeah, it'd be like brain freeze.
Yeah.
Or some kind of, yeah.
I don't know, scientists check it out.
It gives you brain cramp.
Brain cramp.
That's what I'm just going to say from now on.
Here's a little more interesting information from the Cleveland Clinic.
Our pals.
Glutamate needs to be present in the right concentration in the right places at the right time.
Too much glutamate is associated with diseases such as Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, and Huntington's to name a few.
Oh shit.
And can even cause mental health issues such as anxiety disorders, depressions, schizophrenia, and OCD.
Now don't want to freak anybody out.
The way that happens is your cells are malfunctioning.
It's not eating too much  MSG.
or  too much umami foods,  your  cells are actually sending out too much glutamate.
Gotcha.
It's the naturally occurring kind of glutamate.
Exactly.
That's exactly right.
And so don't, don't want you to freak out, but I did think that was a super interesting em tidbit of information about glutamate.
All things in your body can just malfunction and Screw everything up.
really just ticking time bombs.
We really are.
My sources were anginimoto.com, Science History Institute, NIH, Disease Versus Diet, and the good old Cleveland Clinic.
Cleveland Clinic.
So, remember when I was doing those logic puzzles that kept talking about cryptozoology?  And we were laughing about the mythical creatures and I kept looking them up because I was like, I have no idea what this is.
Well, at the time.
My oldest son, Caleb, who is a DTH bestie, by the way.
yes.
Very unsung.
He doesn't get very many shout outs, but he kept encouraging me to research the when to  go for the podcast.
OK.
And I was like, it's not really my thing.
And the podcast topics have to be organic and blah, blah, blah.
Yes.
But it's spooky season.
he's a bestie.
And it came up again recently.
Okay.
So, I actually did organically look it up just to see what it looked like because he's talked about it so often.
So, here we go.
Okay.
I hope I get it right.
Cause that's the thing.
He knows this stuff  and now he wants others to be freaked out too.
And that's great.
But if I get it wrong, he'll be like, he wants others to be freaked out.
It's freaky.
Caleb.
Yeah.
Well, that's how he is.
He's kind of like me.
He's a shit stirrer.
It's all good.
um So, here we go.
You're about to find out what the Wendigo is.
Okay.
If you don't already know.
I do not.
intrigued.
Here we go.
It comes from Algonquin speaking indigenous tribes, the Ojibwe, the Cree, Innu and others.
It's rooted in regions in the northern US and Canada.
And it serves as a cautionary tale about greed, cannibalism and survival during harsh winters.
Here's the core mythology.
It's a malevolent spirit associated with winter starvation and isolation.
It's said to possess humans, driving them to commit cannibalism.
And it represents the dangers of unchecked hunger, both literal and metaphorical,  which already I'm safe.
Because I never let myself go hungry for long.
I'm hungry.
Put something in my face.
Now, physically, this thing  is freaky.
It's often depicted as gaunt,  skeletal, with grayish skin and glowing eyes.
And some versions include deer-like antlers.
That's  some of the pictures I saw, which they really freaked me out.
Claws  and a heart of ice.
Oh, okay.
Which is sounding more and more like me, actually.
It grows larger the more it consumes,  symbolizing insatiable greed, which don't we all grow larger the more we consume? Well, yes.
I was wondering if it grew...
It grows up.
Okay.
It does.
I was just being a smart ass.
Monster.
So, here's the psychological tie-in.
Wendigo psychosis is a culture-bound syndrome involving cravings for human flesh.
fear of becoming a cannibal.
Now, I do not have this fear, but I don't have cravings for human flesh either.
em I wonder if this is like when you're pregnant and you crave weird things.
Like  laundry sheets, like dryer sheets.come  on.
I'm serious.
I have seen it.
I've seen shows about it where people eat like dryer sheets and stuff.
Oh my gosh.
Um, now pica is when  pregnant women eat things that are not  food, but they're eating them because they're craving a certain nutrient that they're not getting from their diet.
Yeah.
So, like dirt.
But why not just eat the thing? m that has the nutrient because your because your brain tells you that the only thing that's going to satisfy that craving  is the dirt.
Wow.
Your brain is not like, hey, you might need some iron or whatever you would find in the dirt.
Your brain is like, I could really go for a bowl of dirt right now.
How does your brain know there's iron in the dirt or whatever? mean, why does, why does dirt, for example, just using dirt as the example, why? I don't know.
I don't understand that.
I don't know.
Ugh.
It's reason 99 not to ever get pregnant.
Yep.
Don't do it.
I don't want to eat dryer sheets in dirt.
Nope.
Dryer sheet salad, please.
A little dirt on the side.
Soap detergent, those kind of things.
My word.
It's interesting, isn't it? Do you think Caleb is craving human flesh and he's just putting it out there as a search just like  innocently to see how people will react? Maybe.
I mean, he does eat a lot.
Oh my gosh.
He's he's one of those people who can eat and eat and eat and he's still uh That's how my brother is.
like, ugh,  ugh.
It'll catch up to him someday.
Now,  this Wendigo psychosis is rare and controversial, but historically documented in some indigenous communities.
Okay.
The Wendigo also reinforces communal values.
um like sharing resources, protecting others, resisting selfishness.
So, it's kind of like a moral, like a  morality tale  in that way.
It warns against isolation and the breakdown of social bonds during times of crisis.
Maybe we could have, maybe more people need to learn about when to go right now.
Yeah, it's like the woman who had stone soup.
Oh my gosh.
Yes, it is like Stone soup.
You're the second person who's mentioned Stone soup lately.
That book.
Really? Isn't that That is a little weird.
And now I can't.
It was a podcast I was listening to.
that's even weirder.
Oh, it was Bananas, which is Bananas.
Anyway.
Yeah, crazy.
But yes, for those of you who have not read the story, Or I guess it's kind of like a...
It's kind of a moral...
Yeah, moral tale or  what's the right word for that? Is it a moral tale? Yeah,  a fable.
Yeah, guess.
Yeah, like Aesop's fables.
Yeah.
Yeah.
It's an old...
I think it's like Eastern European origin type of  story.
Yeah, the book we always read, it kind of looked a little like German.
Uh-huh.
Like the pictures looked German.
So,  how do we, how do we summarize this?  Basically, everyone pitches in just a little bit of what you have  and you can serve everyone.
Yes.
But didn't she...
 We're have to edit this out because now we don't remember what the actual story was.
Well, the story is she had stones and she was trying to make some soup.
And she said something like, oh man, if I just had some carrots, this would be so much better.
And like other people were paying attention.
That's right.
And someone was like, well, I have a couple of carrots.
And so then eventually they had like carrots and potatoes and beets and like all these things that just everyone threw in just a tiny bit.
Right.
And they ended up with this  amazing soup that fed everyone.
Right.
That's right.
And what started out was she didn't have any food to put in the soup.
She had stones.
She only had stones.
That's right.
And so they made stone soup, blah, blah.
But yes,  so  it might feel right now like  society is kind of cannibalizing itself.
Like we're just attacking each other all the time,  every day, metaphorically and physically and  just literally.
um So, maybe we need to think about the Wendigo, eh? Maybe so.
Stop it.
uh In pop culture,  the Wendigo appears in horror films, video games,  and Marvel comics.
Oh, interesting.
And it's often portrayed as a monster, but the original legend is more symbolic and psychological.
So, over the years, it has turned into something that people have put  an image to.
originally, it was more of a kind of  nebulous  idea.
You just let your imagination run wild.
Right.
And then people started putting that imagination down on paper.
Like, this is what it looks like.
Yeah.
And it's terrifying.
em The symbolism, it embodies themes of greed, loss of humanity, and the consequences of desperation.
And it's a supernatural metaphor for what happens when survival instincts override moral boundaries.
Oh Lord.
So,  there are times in life when  everything you've learned, everything you've been taught, everything you believe in goes out the window because it's like kill or be killed.
That type of deal.
That's what it symbolizes.
Yikes.
Look it up peeps.
Wendigo.
And, uh, no.
I'm spelling like you were.
For your website.
It's hard.
W-E-N-D-I-G-O.
The Wendigo.
Very interesting.
It was kind of reminded me of, um, K-pop Demon Hunters.
which I might've watched.
you? I know.
You and I talked about having a gummy laced paper crafting watch party.
Yes.
But I couldn't help myself.
Sean and I watched it.
Did you enjoy it? Yeah, I'm currently listening to the album in my car.
Excellent.
You're so trendy.
I know I'm so trendy.
You're so with it.
It came out in April and I'm  just not watching it.
Well, mean,  I will say.
Music's very catchy.
Yeah.
And there are some very funny parts to the movie, like Laugh Out Loud.
Oh, really? Yeah.
So, they  they made it so that parents didn't hate having to watch it with their kids.
think so.
Yes.
I like when they do that, because let me tell you,  there are some  some shows and movies where you're like,  Oh my gosh, put a gun through my eye.
Like, I don't know, like frozen.
Oh, frozen.
What's something that your kids watch? Titanic was one of them, right? Oh, both Jackie and Peyton were obsessed with the Titanic.
Bye bye, Rose.
They love Titanic.
Peyton was more into the history of the Titanic.
Like the documentaries and all the shipbuilding and the all that stuff.
And Jackie liked the movie Titanic, the James Cameron movie.
She really liked that.
um And let's  see.
When they were really little, they watched things like  SpongeBob.
I was going to say it wasn't SpongeBob in there somewhere.
Blue's Clues.
OK.
uh Caleb was really little.
Any Disney movies? Peyton liked Frozen.
Frozen isn't my favorite.
I just never got into it.
You know what my favorite one is?  it might not be Disney.
It might be Dreamworks.
But it was um Tangled.
oh Tangled is so good.
That's one of my favorites.
And  Jackie liked Pocahontas.
Yeah, Pocahontas was okay.
Which was kind of old by the time.
But we had a big collection.
Disney movies.
Yeah,  because we belong to that Disney movie club thing.
Oh, yeah while mm-hmm and we've we've still got all those Are they VHS or they we've got a few VHS, but they're mostly DVD.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah, but oh my gosh We have so many does Quinn watch those no.
Oh,  okay, and anything she would want to watch we could just get yeah, you're moving you don't have to like You know put it into a machine or anything.
em Anyway Yeah.
Oh,  my Wendigo sources were...
Oh shoot, I'm sorry.
Britannica, Wikipedia, and Mythology Worldwide.
Oh, Mythology Worldwide.
That's nice.
I I'm there pretty much every day.
I would think so.
But...
Very cool.
But  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.
Yes, so boring.
 I like when you're kind of New Jersey and...
 And loud.
Oh gosh.
All right.
Okay.
Here's my list.
Turn off live mode on iPhone.
Raven's record.
Jaguar's record.
Nevo Bugtrap.
Zevo Bugtrap.
Is Charo still alive?  Yes, she is.
And I listened to a couple of her albums.
Thank you very much.
Oh, did you?  She is an  excellent uh Spanish guitar player.
Oh, yeah.
Flamenco guitar.
Yes.
Yes, so good.
I kind of forgot that she did that.
Spooning leads to forking.
That's all you need to know.
Former Trump press secretary, Sean Spicer.
I could only think of Sean.
And we were talking about SNL skits and I remembered that Melissa McCarthy.
my gosh.
Oh my gosh, y'all, if you haven't seen that look it up.
Busy town stickers, Loretta Switt death.
I forgot Loretta Switt died earlier this year and so I got sad all over again.
Oh yeah.
It was very sad.
I'm still sad.
getting through it.
What brought that up was Dolly Parton.
I thought Dolly Parton was on the edge of death thanks to her sister hosting things online.
Don't be messing with Dolly's health.
Attention horde.
Sis.
Dolly is 79, by the way.
Yeah.
Is Dolly okay?  You guys, it's going to be a very sad day for me  when Dolly passes away.
Man, that's going to be rough.
um I've told this story before, I think,  that when I was a kid, I wanted to change my name to Dolly Parton.
I wanted it to be Dolly Parton.
And my mom said, no, there's already a Dolly Parton.
You can't change your name.
And I said, how about Polly Darten? Right.
I wanted to be Polly Darten.
And my mom just walked away.
God bless all the mothers out there.
I just think of all the things.
I mean, my kids did this stuff too, but like, I just think of all the things that mothers everywhere have had to put up with the questions that they had to do.
mean, I just love that your mom's answer was, it was so logical.
You can't be that because there's already a Dolly Parton and she was thinking, who? dodge that bullet and then you throw  the polydarton at her uh oh That's when she should have said my favorite answer.
Yeah, which was we'll think about it.
Maybe and then you walk away.
See that's loaded.
That is a loaded answer because I wouldn't have let that go.
So, I've been like, there is hope.
So, you're saying there's a chance.
I'm going to change my name.
All right.
Honda Accord update code.
Joe Biden health  river flows through you song from Twilight.
There's this thing that the song River Flows Through You is from the Twilight soundtrack simply because it's a piano.
It's just a  song on the piano that someone has written.
And so a whole bunch of people think it's from Twilight.
That's really weird.
Just look it up dummies.
Ugh.
K-pop Demon Hunter's tiger and bird name.
oh There's a tiger and there's a bird.
oh And they're the best parts of the movie.
oh And they didn't have names, they were just called Tiger and Bird.
But their nicknames are Derpy and Sussy.
Oh my gosh.
Now I say Derp all the time.
Yes.
So, Derpy is my new favorite little character.
Derpy and Sussy.
The Tiger and the Bird in the K-pop Demon Hunters are the best part.
OK, gosh, I'm going to have to watch this.
They need a spinoff of their own.
Just saying.
And.
Last but not least, popular Halloween costumes for the year because I thought it's so gonna be K-pop Demon Hunters and I was right.
Boom.
What's your list, Brea? Okay, here we go.
I've got a fairly long list for me.
Good job.
Okay.
Sheep Pan Dinners.
Chad Allen.
I can't stand that guy.
Did I say that? Did you hear that? I didn't hear anything.
Okay, good.
Zach Baggins.
Jason? Is he related to Bilbo?  He's not.
He's a ghost hunter.
uh Okay, sorry.
Jason Taylor's son.
Six-seven meaning.
Oh  my gosh! I looked that up for care.
Do spiders eat mice?  Full question.
I do not want to know the answer to that.
Fast casual chain.
Bimbo meaning Spanish.
No, I can't find it.
I can't find the original answer that I've...
Get this I looked it up again.
Yeah, I found a different answer instead of Bambi and Dumbo it said  Bingo the song bingo and Bambi I Was like are you freaking kidding me someone's just messing with me now So, I think bimbo meaning a stupid woman.
Yeah Was a combination of Dumbo and Bambi but it was  on the Bimbo website is where I found this.
I am not a bread company.
Yes.
I'm not kidding.
This, I think somebody has grown with this.
I think so too.
Their webmaster is having a good time.
they are.
Anthony Delaney, Jordan McDonald,  Harry Wilde character.
Why did Amy Huberman leave Harry Wilde? These are all acorn shows, just so you know.
Or Britbox, I can't remember which one.
uh College football rule, helmet comes off.
Oh.
Such word salad  Josh Margolin Harry Kakasakis  I looked that one up too.
Oh, yeah everybody is  June Squibb and Jake Gyllenhaal movies Are you gonna do a Jake Gyllenhaal watch? No.
Oh sometimes I'll do that right now Sean and I are getting ready to do a Spielberg watch.
Are you? We're gonna watch as many Spielberg movies as we can.
I think this was one of those What's What's oh We are so dumb.
I was laughing so Didn't even pick up on it.
While I was editing, was cracking up.
was like, people are going to think we did this on purpose.
But guess what? I laughing so hard.
was like, what? Are you kidding me right now? Guess what, everybody? We didn't do it on purpose.
We really just are that clueless.
were that old.
Wow.
All right.
Do you have any shout outs today? I do not.
Okay.
I don't either.
Okay.
Well, let's tell people how they can get in touch with us.
Great.
Why don't you email us at Delete This History podcast at gmail.com.
love email.
We might occasionally post some things on Instagram.
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Yes.
And please, if you think of it, rate and review us.
oh Please, please, please, please, please, please, please, please.
That's how other people find us.
That's right.
And we want as many besties as possible.
Yes.
We are all about quantity, not quality.
Obviously.
which explains my diet  and  tell your friends, act, act, act.
All the things.
But for now,  what are you gonna do? I think I'm gonna go delete my history.
Me too.
All right, we'll stay fresh cheese bags.
Buh-Lai.
Buh-Lai.
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