Trimethyl...Trimethyl...Trimethylamine. Jeez Louise.
Good job.
Welcome to episode 84 of Delete This History, a podcast by two besties of a certain age searching for answers.
We are your hosts, Cara Burch.
I'm Brea Brown.
Hi.
Hello.
It's been a long time.
So long.
But we're back.
Yeah.
We're alive.
We are.
I'm feeling much refreshed.
So much better.
Like, yeah, I'm OK with life right now.
Yeah.
And I wasn't a few weeks ago.
Really wasn't.
I go through phases.
Yeah, this is probably I'm just on an upswing right now.
I'm sure I'm  crashing down.
Well, something will happen.
It'll just put me in a complete tailspin and it'll be something really stupid.
I think around  March…I think that's when my downswing will come through because I'm going to have a ton of time off.
I'm off today.
I'll have a ton of time off in December.
Yeah.
I'll have  at least a day off in January.
Yeah.
A day off in February, but then March, April.
I know it's a drought.
It's like, how will I make it?  And for those of us who don't work in government, we don't get anything.
Yes.
From January until  May.
Until May.
It's nothing.
Yeah.
It's the most awful stretch of the year because it's dark.
It's cold.
Yes.
and you don't get any days off.
Yes.
And it's like, it's hard.
It's like, man,  what am I doing? What am I doing with my life? I told Sean, I'm going to try because he has Fridays like Fridays are his flex day.
Right.
So, he doesn't work Fridays sometimes.
Right.
Sometimes he has to like today.
He's working today.
em I told him I was going to try and take one Friday a month off.
Oh, nice.
So, that I've always got a day to look forward to.
I'm just I'm just getting some time off away from work.
That's not a weekend.
Yeah.
But it makes the weekend longer.
It makes the weekend longer.
He'll have that day off to  we can like, you know, go do stuff during business hours that needs to be done.
And so that's a goal of mine for twenty twenty six.
OK, well, I've been living up to my gynecologist nickname for me.
Yes.
What is that trouble? Okay.
came into my hospital room when I had to be re-hospitalized um with some kind of, it wasn't really an infection, just a complication anyway.
I had to stand to pee up.
Or, what? What? One more time.
I had to  stand up to pee.
That's not good.
It's never a good thing.
Not for ladies.
So,,  and it hurt real bad.
And so he was like.
Yeah, so he called me trouble when he would come to see me on his rounds and he kept asking me if I was a natural redhead.
And I said no and he goes, oh, because they're the ones who usually give us the most trouble.
And then and then he repeated that again a couple more times to me, like at visits.
And I thought, is that just a standard joke or is that a real thing? I wonder if people who have red hair are really more susceptible to complications or something.
Maybe it has something to do with, I don't know, but then I started to think, is he being serious? Cause he would always say it like real like deadpan.
Anyway, so yeah, I was, I was a bunch of trouble for him, but still  worth it.
Yay.
Plus I got six weeks off of work.
Yes.
By the time this airs, I'll be back at work.
for first time since mid-October.
Oh my gosh, I don't know how you're gonna do that.
Would you like to move on to our little game oh that we call Search Me?  All right,  this is the game where we each ask  one another  one trivia question from our week's internet searches.
All right, bring it up.
Today.
How did the Pittsburgh Steelers' famous terrible towel come into being?  Oh, gosh.
I don't know.
um It was probably just one fan or maybe one player on the bench had their sweat towel and like as a rally during a game just lifted it up and started swinging it.
And everybody was like, that looks really cool.
uh That is an excellent guess.
Oh.
But that's not correct.
Oh, poop.
So, it came about by, it was created by the late  Myron Cope.
He was a Steelers broadcaster, famous apparently, who was looking for a way to excite the team's fans during the 1975 playoff against the Colts.
So, he had a radio show too,  where he talked about the Steelers.
On his radio show, leading up to the playoff game, he urged fans to take a yellow dishcloth to the game and wave them throughout the game.
um there's a lot of more information in between here and there if you really want to look it up.
But  what it boils down to is the Steelers won 28 to 10 that game.
They moved through the playoffs to appear in the Superbowl, which they won.
So, it was really lucky.
Yes.
They decided this is it.
Yes.
And so then uh it just like from then on it was a thing, the terrible towel.
And then   In 1996, Mr.
Cope gave the rights to Myron Cope's terrible towel to the Allegheny Valley School, which is now called the Marrakei Allegheny Valley.
It's a private nonprofit organization that supports adults with intellectual and  developmental disabilities throughout Pennsylvania.
And the proceeds from the towel have raised millions of dollars for that organization.
Well, how lovely.
that nice of him? We need to figure something out for the Chiefs.
So, I was thinking about that.
Because we have to win out.
We are F'd.
I know.
We got to win the rest of them.
I mean, we really needed to win yesterday's game against  the dreaded Cowboys.
Let me tell you.
I was thinking of you and Clint during that game.
I've some pictures for you  that Delba took.
We staged some fight pictures between him and me  in front of the TV.
with the game on behind us.
So, what do you think our equivalent of the terrible towel should be? have...
Nothing racist.
We have something already that probably shouldn't be used.
The tomahawk chop.
But what's something that could really rally? We use the tomahawk chop though.
I guess we do like at home games on third down.
do it.
And to start the game.
And to start the game.
But we don't really use it like when we're down.
That's like a...
Yeah,  we just scream when we're down.
We use our voices to get loud.
Yeah, because we're super loud.
So,  maybe we could have vuvuzelas and get even louder.
What is that? Don't you remember that World Cup  and the Olympics that one year? I think it was the olymp...
Which Olympics was it? Maybe Rio.
It was the Rio Olympics and then the World Cup.
They had those horn things in the crowds.
Oh my gosh.
That were so annoying.
Those are terrible.
I told Sean.
Maybe we could do that.
Those, I would have gotten a seat right in front of someone with one of those and.
Killed them.
I would have gone to jail.
Yeah, yeah, I don't know.
I don't know either.
We would need a magic talisman or something.
Yeah, we.
We need Harry Potter is what we need at this point.
uh Oh gosh, my sources for that were Steelers.com and Wikipedia.
Thank you very much.
cool.
All right.
So,, Cara, your question for today for me is, what is the American name for the article of clothing they call a kagool in the UK? A kagool?  A cagoule!   You  know, a sweater is a jumper.
Kind of a cagoule.
It's one piece of clothing?  It is an article of clothing, yep.
So, when I say a pair of pants, I wouldn't say like a pair of cagoule? No, no.
Okay.
Is it a very wooly cap with a pom-pom on the top?  Oh, that  sounds really good.
Honey, can you grab my kagool? No, that's a tam.
What is it? um This is  a windbreaker  or an anorak.
Oh, okay.
Have you ever called a windbreaker an anorak? No, I've heard that word, but I've never used.
Yeah, I've read that word in places and I'm always like, who? calls it that? That's fancy.
It looks like something you'd see in L.
L.
Bean  catalog or something.
I don't even say the word windbreaker anymore.
Really? No, I don't.
What do call it, a pullover? It's so  80s.
Go get your windbreaker.
I usually call it like a pullover because it's a lightweight waterproof pullover with a hood.
So, I usually call it a hoodie ah or a pullover, but It has to be waterproof in order for to be a windbreaker or kagool.
Okay, so I always, what I thought a windbreaker was, was a water resistant jacket that you zip up.
I've never  heard of it being a pullover before.
I guess it could be a zip up thing, but it's got to have a hood.
That makes sense.
You want to protect your head from the wind.
And the rain.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Anyway, a kagool.
Colleen, what do you call them? Do you call them kagools?  She probably calls it the American version.
Kagool is such a ridiculous word.
No offense.
No offense, UK listeners.
um Anyway, my source was Wikipedia.
Okay.
And it was something I had to look up while watching hours and hours and hours of British television.
All right.
Well, would you like to move on to our next segment?  Sure.
It's called search.
Nope.
No, it's not.
It's been so long.
We've already done that.
It's been so long  since we've done a podcast.
It's not called Search Me!.
Nope.
It's called shared history.
Yes.
Here we go.
This is where we tell you our DTH besties the most interesting thing we searched all week.
I searched fat bear week.
Is that Thanksgiving week?  It is not.
It actually happened back at the end of September.
But I saw the results of Fat Bear Week and I was like, what in the world is that?  I have to know.
All right.
So,.
Like I said, it's in late September of each year at the Katmai National Park in Alaska.
Okay.
Some of the largest brown bears on earth make their home at the Brooks River in the Katmai National Park.
Brown bears eat like crazy all summer long, preparing for hibernation.
And this park tracks their bears as they put on weight.
and they'll have numbers.
um So, Fat Bear Week is a annual tournament and it celebrates the successful preparation in a single elimination tournament.
oh For each bear batch up, people vote for the bear that they best believe exemplifies fatness ahead of  hibernation.
oh So,  they've got all these bears and they'll put up two pictures and they'll say like, here's choice number one, here's choice number two, and you fill out your bracket on who you think.
And so then people vote.
If you're following the fat bear contest, people vote that day, they open voting and then they close it.
And then it's a single elimination.
Oh my gosh.
so then bear, whichever bear in the first, he moves on to the next one or she.
Yes.
Cause we've got some mama bears.
Oh, and they're going to get real preparing.
Yes.
They have to get super fat because they feed their babies during hibernation, but they're not eating or drinking.
Right.
So, it's double hard on mama.
Of course.
So, you meet the bears online, you fill out your bracket, you predict your fat bear winner and you campaign for your candidate.
So, you can go and ask people, like, I think this bear needs to be the next winner.
And you have people go and vote for your bear.
And  you vote by clicking on the picture of the bear  during  the designated voting time.
So, most bears, like I said, are identified by numbers, but this year's winner had  somewhat of a name.
And I think that gave him an edge.
Yeah, probably.
His name was Chunk32.
Especially with that name.
mean, come  on.
Chunk32.
Chunk32.
Oh my gosh.
Oh man.
So, anyway, that's Fat Bear Week.
I've put it on my calendar to watch for next year.
It's like, I think this year started like the 22nd of September or something like that.
So, start watching mid September, the Katmai National Park in Alaska.
have a website  if you're interested in following Fat Bear Week and putting some votes in.
What would be your fat bear nickname? For myself? Yeah.
If I was a fat bear? Yeah.
Hmm, let's see, what would it be? Salmon Chonk.
Mine would be um Speed Bump 78.
I noticed in all the Thanksgiving pictures um that my mother-in-law took that I have quite the speed bump around my middle.
Or I guess I could be like spare tire, spare tire 78.
I guess I've been hibernating for  six weeks.
I've been hibernating since COVID began.
Five  years.
Yeah, when do we, when is it that we have to stop blaming COVID for everything?  As soon as I'm not a lunatic anymore.
That's when I could say, oh, better now.
Things just aren't the same.
They just aren't.
There's BC  and there's  after COVID.
Okay.
What were your sources? Oh, the Katmai National Park  website.
That's easy.
Yeah.
One stop shop.
Yeah.
All right.
Here we go.
I just mentioned that  I watched a lot of British TV  and I listened to a lot of podcasts over the past six weeks.
And  one of the podcasts I did listen to was um No Such Thing As A Fish.
And  they're very British and they are the people who are the, they call them elves.
for some reason, I don't know why.
oh For QI, but they're the researchers, the QI researchers are called elves.
And so four of them have a podcast.
um they pick  their favorite um fact of the week  and they talk about it.
And then they also, then they riff off of each other and go off on tangents  about that fact.
Like, oh, you mentioned, blah, blah, in your fact,  I looked up, you know, oh, I know what it was.
You'll love this because it was about Free Solo and you watched that.
I did.
Documentary.
will not be able to ever watch it.
It's stressful.
Just every time somebody talks about it,  I want to come out of my skin  and I start  almost hyperventilating because I just get so stressed out.
But anyway, they were talking about that.
And they were talking about how his mom became  the  oldest person to climb El Capitan, El Capitan? three months after he did it.
Oh my God.
But she did it with ropes and stuff like that.
Not that that makes it any like, right, easier, but it makes it less insane.
A little less  dangerous, yes.
But anyway, so then somebody took that fact and said, here are some other parent-child um records that have been broken.
so they did somebody who like won a marathon, you know, a mother and a daughter that won a marathon.
And then they just went all, and then somebody else will be like, oh yeah, well, here are  the results from the last blah, blah marathons.
So, they just kind of like build off of each other and they take tiny pieces of, you know, the original fact.
It's a great show.
Why am I telling you this? Because it has nothing to do with what I'm about to tell you.
Okay,  great.
So, far I'm making this so easy for you to edit.
um But I did watch a lot of British TV  and I think I heard this particular thing on Silent Witness, but I might have heard it  on No Such Thing As A Fish.
Okay.
oh But Silent Witness is a UK show that's been on for 28 seasons.
Oh my Lord.
And um it's roughly equivalent to the original CSI.
Okay.
Here.
basically it's a forensic pathology scientist kind of show.
Someone in something I watched or listened to mentioned the term bun fight.
Okay.
In the context of a dispute.
And I had to know what that meant.
specifically and how it got its name.
So, I could tell by the context that, know, bun fight meant something kind of like handbags at dawn or something, you know, like a squabble or something.
um most commonly nowadays, it does mean a petty or trivial brawl or squabble.
And it's most often used in Australia or New Zealand.
Which makes me think that probably I heard it on no such thing as a fish, because one of the four hosts He grew up all over the place, but he spent a lot of time in Australia as a kid.
So, maybe he said it.
But anyway, or any of the other Ozzy shows I watched because BritBorn and BritBorn? BritBox? BritBox and Acorn, which I just combined into a brand new amazing streaming.
So, the other one will be Acox.
We're born in Acox.
Anyway, in Victorian times is when this kind of first started.
In the late 1800s or early 1900s, it typically referred to a chaotic tea party or celebration.
What? Okay.
Often involving children.
Okay.
So, I'm thinking like a child's birthday party.
in today's parlance.
You know how it can get kind of crazy.
Kids hopped up on sugar, whatever.
I don't know how crazy Victorian children's tea parties got, but apparently they got pretty crazy.
um In a similar context in modern usage, it would be a disparaging way to refer to a formal event like uh an annual company gathering or a boondoggle.
Or a grand official function.
Okay, so let's say like a ribbon cutting ceremony  or a company picnic  or  yearly conference or something or Sometimes men would use this to describe a tea party or function that they've been dragged to by their wives.
Okay a bun fight A wake or post funeral reception is also called a bun fight.
What? Why? As a humorous and ironic nickname.
A way  to contrast the solemnity of a funeral with a lighter, more playful get together,  both of which would  serve food such as buns.
But,  okay.
The word fight's throwing me off.
I know.
I don't understand.
I kept stumbling over fight as well.
a bun fight.
I think it's it's an ironic thing like these are sedate events  that can go sideways that  maybe can go sideways or or you use the word fight in a sarcastic way like yeah like it's really boring but we'll call it a bun fight I don't I don't  Sometimes I don't understand the English language in other people's  cultures.
Yeah, I don't get that one.
I mean, I think I understand where they're coming from, but I can't.
Why would you hold a fight? Yeah, I don't get that word.
throwing buns at each other.
I just keep thinking of Lambert's.
Yes.
The home of the throat rolls.
That can turn into a literal bun fight.
Buns in our terminology, meaning rolls.
Rolls.
Not cinnamon buns or little cakes or whatever.
Or your butt cheeks.
Or hot cross buns.
Or your butt cheeks.
Move your buns.
Here's a bun fight.
You got the same  image that I got at  the same time, didn't you?  We could start a new sport.
I would win.
So, just back off.
uh be  the champion with the giant belt because my buns are the biggest buns of all the buns.
 Oh my gosh.
Oh man.
Oh man.
I was watching a TV show or something, something.
I'm in the same boat as you.
I don't know where I heard this or where I saw it, but someone called another person thunder buns.
So, we started calling our uh Indy,  our female Greyhound, Thunderbuns, because she is so  ripped.
Like she has no fat on her.
She's only muscle and her  thigh, I guess, like her thigh muscles, her upper leg muscles are massive.
Oh really? And it kind of translates around to the backside.
 So, we started calling her Thunderbunz.
Thunderbunz, man, I'd love to know where you heard that.
Me too.
I'll have to ask Sean.
He'd probably remember.
Yeah.
Anyway, my sources were the Oxford English Dictionary and the Urban Dictionary, of course.
Of course.
The Urban Dictionary also had another um more American definition.
Oh, yes.
I don't remember what that was.
Oh, shoot.
But it wasn't a common thing.
And it was kind of like somebody hearing the term and guessing what it might be, you know? Yeah.
I was like, no, Mm Let's not.
Let's not go there.
And it was dirtier because it was the Urban Dictionary.
Of course.
Yeah.
All right.
But Brea.
Yes.
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 we're just too damn boring.
Yeah, boring.
Are you ready for this? Yeah, go for it.
Do you have a really long list? It's not too bad.
Okay.
It's quite a bit between this and IMDB though.
All right, here we go.
Up the duff meeting.
How did the terrible towel come about?  Got it.
Word cloud.
Prince of tides novel.
Powerball results.
We broke down and bought one a few weeks ago.
Man, it was big.
We thought we were going to win and then we didn't.
I always think I'm going to win.
I told Sean after we didn't win.
said, remember that time Peyton got mad at Brea because they didn't win the Powerball?  He was so cute.
He was so funny.
Okay.
Um, Hurricane Melissa, this is how long it's been since we've podcasted.
Yeah.
Um, what to expect from a jury summons.
KRBK schedule.
Looking for the Packers game.
Hold fast brewing schedule.
Jay Miller obituary.
One of my high school friends died.
Oh, that sucks.
If that's,  I,  had,  he had been really, really sick and I didn't know.
I'm really upset.
Oh, man.
I know it sucks.
He was a really great guy.
Dallas, Texas shopping, McKinney, Texas shopping,  Saints schedule.
We thought we might go to a Saints game while we were down south.
Yeah, yeah.
It was literally there by week.
Of course.
Can you believe that? I can believe it.
I that was so crazy.
uh Packed clothing.
If anyone's interested in that is PACT clothing.
Who sells Rimmel cosmetics? Couldn't find my makeup.
Diamond art  and  celebrity traders,  which is a game show in the UK.
oh I think it's normally the traders  and then they have a celebrity traders version.
All right, and then here are my IMDB searches.
1923, Taylor Sheridan, Amanda Walsh, Iris  Barr, Johnny English, Johnny English Reborn, Johnny English Strikes Again.
The Big Bang Theory, Zoe Perry, Anthony Rich, Our Flag Means Death.
Have you watched that? It is so funny.
Oh my gosh.
I've just seen a couple of clips online and I'm dying to see that show.
But it's weird.
Like I just want to warn you.
I gathered as much.
It's not like, I mean it's really funny but it's not, sometimes you're just like, huh? Kind of like that Dick Turpin show.
Oh, With Noel Fielding.
Oh my gosh.
Yes.
I mean, it's great to watch while you're high.
Oh, OK.
Let me just put it that way.
All right.
But if you're watching it sober, you're just kind of like, these people's brains work totally differently from anybody else's  in the whole world.
you can just tell that Noel Fielding's brain works differently.
Just watching him as himself on British Baking Show.
Just when he walks in the room and you look what he's wearing You look at his clothes and you're like you they broke the mold yes 100 % man All right.
What is your what is your list? Okay All my IMDB searches are mixed in that's all right Because that's how I roll Andrew Hunter Murray University of Sheffield James Harkin Guardian Bikes, Mackenzie Friend, how long to let fully cooked ham rest after baking? Full question.
No, no.
Oh, you're right.
It's not that question.
have a verb.
You're right.
You're right.
Man, I'm careful about that.
I apologize.
Slow cooker half ham, Lucy Arabella Fox, Amelia Fox, David Caves, Skyline Chili Delivery.
It's really expensive to have it delivered from Cincinnati to where we live.
No, I'm just kidding.
I was just thinking  maybe maybe there's just a chance that somebody around here has finally decided to like Make Cincinnati chili in a restaurant and maybe I can get it delivered on uber eats Have you tried steak and shakes Cincinnati chili? They call it three-way chili.
Yeah, it's not the same.
It's not the same.
It doesn't have the cinnamon and the Curry, it doesn't have all those spices in there I'm really sorry.
You can get canned version of the Skyline Chili on Amazon.
Okay.
That's what my brother does because nobody else in his family likes it.
So, his wife gets him the canned.
She gets some cans of it and every once in a while he'll make it for himself.
I usually just try to fudge the recipe and make it myself until it tastes right.
But I was just like, hmm.
But your family likes it, right? Oh yeah.
But I didn't want to cook.
Springfield 11, temporary hair color, Die My Love, Jennifer Lawrence movies, College Station Theater,  Tropes and Trifles Minneapolis, Andrew Goldman, Dead Certain, Crab Kings, Springfield, Huey Magoo's, Springfield, Missouri, Cagool, Gareth Richards, comedian, Amy Gledhill, Liz Carr, disability, same day cake delivery near me.
That was my birthday.
She had to buy her own cake.
I had  many Bunt cakes delivered to my house.
They were like Bunt cupcakes.
They were the most amazing things I've ever eaten and they came from Nothing Bunt Cake.
Yes.
And I highly recommend.
David Rakoff.
Deviled kidneys.
James.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Deviled kidneys.
It's disgusting.
What?  So, like we're talking like deviled eggs, but you're talking about kidneys.
Yeah, it's British food and people eat it for breakfast.
OK, continue on, please.
Yeah, you don't want to.
Yeah, I don't.
I don't.
It's  it is as disgusting as it sounds.
You're still talking about it.
I know.
Stop it.
But I just kept thinking it must be something else.
And they just call it that.
But no.
James Craig dentist killer.
Bardstown, Kentucky.
Sophia Nygaard.
Ben Elton and Dave Thompson.
Of Wendy's?  What's  that Dave Thompson? That's Dave Thomas.
Thomas.
My apologies.
Yeah.
 He you were bored my word.
He said you don't have to apologize  to him.
Okay.
Um, shout outs.
Um, yeah, I just wanted to thank everyone who asked about my recovery  and sent good wishes and goodies like Janet, Gwen, Karen and Beth.
They, they sent me two goodie packages.
You guys know, um, and cooked for my family, Cara and Sonia.
Um,  and had  pizza delivered to my house,  la la.
I really felt the love and I appreciate it so, much.
And I hope to never need people that much again.
The end.
I hope so too.
And I hope that you are going to start feeling better moving forward.
I already do.
I'm glad.
I'm glad that you do.
I feel amazing.
Good.
Get that stuff out of here.
That's right.
Well, I have a couple of shout outs.
I wanted to shout out to Diana B.
Yeah.
Cause she left us a note saying that she was so glad to hear that we're back.
Yes.
So, thank you, Diana B.
We are glad to be back.
Also, I miss you, Diana B.
Just saying.
Also shout out to Martha R.
She sent some encouragement our way.
She did.
As we were plowing through rough waters over the past few weeks.
Yep.
So, thank you, Martha R.
Always.
She's solid.
Oh,  absolutely.
She's solid.
I don't know how they say that in Rhode Island.
I'm not even going to try the accent, but I bet it sounds.
Wicked awesome.
That's more Boston than Rhode Island, but you know what I mean.
Well, thank you to both of you.
That was really nice of you to reach out.
What would be great is if you haven't already, please rate and review us on your favorite listening platform.
Tell your friends.
Engage with us on social media that we're not on very often.
email us, Brea.
Where could they do that? Delete this history podcast at gmail.com.
you will get a guaranteed response 100%.
And we do get alerts when we  get stuff from social media.
Yep.
So,,  you know, at DTHGals Instagram, check us out.
If you leave us a comment or  anything like that, we will, we'll see it.
Yeah.
Hey Pennsylvania Erin,  we haven't heard from you in a while.
Step it up.
All right, Brea, um I've gotta go delete my history.
Oh, me too.
Okay, let's get it done.
Stay fresh, you cheese bags.
Bye-bye.
every time.
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