Then I tried to get him to explain to me what 6-7 is,  and he couldn't either.
And  he's a Boy Scout, like, troop leader.
So, yesterday,  I talked to some more youngins about this at my brother's house, and I asked them, what the hell is 6-7?  And they said, the whole point of it is that it doesn't mean anything.
We just  say it  so that the old people get mad about it.
And they ask us what it means, and then we  don't  have an answer, and it really annoys people.
That's  really stupid.
And Brean said today, we just need to start using it and they'll stop doing it.
You're right.
Oh my gosh.
Yes.
That is so 6 7.
Six, seven, Brean.
So,, doing it now.
great advice, Brean.
Welcome to episode 6-7.
Just kidding! Welcome to episode 88.
Is that right? 88.
of Delete This History, a podcast by two besties of a certain age searching for answers.
We are your host, Cara Burch.
And Brea Brown.
I'm a little unsure of myself today.
Well, you know, we're recording this on Christmas Eve, Eve, Eve.
Yeah, that's definitely my problem.
That's the thing.
And I'm off for the next three days.
Well, two and a half.
And then I'm back to work on what Britt's called Boxing Day.
Not the Boxing Day, just Boxing Day.
I have zero extra days off during the holidays.
Yes.
You'll have New Year's Day off, right? Yeah.
Okay, that's good.
But I don't get to take any like, you know, extra time off.
Yeah, yeah, I understand.
That's the pits.
Because of my body shenanigans.
Yes.
So, anyway, my body is truly the gift I keep on giving.
It truly is.
I don't know what day it is because my brain is already in holiday mode.
It does not want to work at all.
Anyway, I have some follow ups.
In episode 87, you mentioned you would be very happy to be a forensic something or other.
Oh yeah.
Like a pathologist.
Yes.  But we discussed whether or not you had to be a sworn officer.
and pay your dues before moving up the ranks to something forensic wise.
I have good news for you.
You do not have to be a sworn officer.
Here's what I found.
Jobs like forensic scientists, crime scene technicians, lab analysts, and digital forensic experts can be civilians.
You can work in police departments, government labs, or in the private sector.
You need a science degree in either chemistry, biology, forensic science, and they typically like for you to have a master's degree, but that's not required all the time.
And maybe some certain certifications that you have to get associated with.
trainings and stuff.
But you can do all of that while avoiding sworn duties.
I just don't want, I mean, I would not pass the physical exam.
And that's okay.
I have something also.
Oh, okay.
About the police, because we were talking about the Northern Ireland police.
Right?  Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
Those ones.
And they have their guns on the little zz cord thing.
And we were like, I wonder how often that even happens.
Like, is that even a risk? And so I looked that up  and it is rare in the United States, but it does happen.
OK.
OK.
I'm glad you looked it up.
That people will grab cops guns.
It doesn't surprise me that some idiots are trying that.
Well, I mean, just all you have to do is be drunk  and try it and think this will be funny.
This'll be funny.
Or hold my beer, watch this.
around and find out.
will find yourself on the ground in a hurry.
Yes, very fast.
Yeah.
I had one more follow up to you.
Oh, okay.
Follow up city.
You and I were trying to  debate what a group of firefighters was called.
Oh yeah.
A flock of firefighters.
 It was driving me crazy.
I had to look it up.
They're usually called a company.
Oh, a company, of course.
was like, duh.
But then, like examples would be like an engine company or a ladder company.
And then larger groups of firefighters are called battalions and then specialized groups are called squads.
There you go.
So, for everyone out there going, hey, dummies.
Yeah, if you were yelling at your um phone, radio, whatever you listen to.
Yeah,  as I was editing,  I was like, oh my Lord, Cara, I work for a city.
But you don't work for a fire department.
No, but you know,  I know that stuff.
Like, I know that stuff.
It's in my brain.
It just couldn't be recalled.
There's too much up there now.
Oh, yeah, definitely.
All right.
um Is that everything? That's all I had.
I think that's all I have for.
or little chit chat section.
All right, well, uh how do you feel about playing a game? I would love it.
Oh, let's play.
Search me.
This is where  we ask each other one trivia question from our week's Internet searches.
Maria.
Martha D and I.
Met up this past week to do something.
that she and I both agreed afterward that we would not have done just on our own.
uh It was fun because it's always fun with Martha.
But because of some choices I made that night, I was an hour late to work the next day.
One hour  late.
What are these choices? Here's my favorite part, hang on,  is I didn't wake up on my own.
I either slept through my alarm or turned it off.
Sean woke me up and said, I didn't know you were even still here.
Oh my gosh.
And I was like, what time is it?  You know, I exploding out of the bed and that's the worst feeling.
I was so confused, confused.
I could not figure out what day it was, what's going on.
Why am I still at the house? Where am I supposed to be? I was confused for quite a while.
Oh gosh, that's a terrible feeling.
It was awful.
You must've been sleeping a hoard.
Hoard!  Here are your choices for what Martha and I did together that night that made me late for work the next day.
Okay.
A.
Did I, did we attend the adult night at Gardens Aglow Christmas Light walking tour?  B.
the J.
O.
B.
Public House Christmas pop-up, or C,  the Bass Pro Shops parking lot Christmas ice skating rink.
Oh my.
I'm gonna say...
The second one.
The J.
O.
B.
Public House Christmas pop-up? Yes.
That is correct.
Because there had to have been alcohol involved.
There was.
But that is not what happened.
Oh.
Now, the Christmas pop-up was amazing.
That, if y'all haven't done that, wow.
Wow.
What did it entail? So,  basically, they decorated the place like Christmas threw up.
OK.
Every surface possible.
Uh-huh.
was covered in something Christmas.
The tables were wrapped in gift wrap.
It was wild.
Sensory overload, but it was really nice.
And everybody that showed up, Martha and I did not dress properly.
We wore normal clothes.
Everybody that showed up had Christmas crap on it.
I mean, to the nines.
Some people made their own Christmas hats and they put them on when they got there.
It was...
We were way underdressed.
So, it was really like for the Christmas obsessed.
Yes, exactly.
All right.
So, we ordered drinks.
I got something called a fleece, like fleece shirt,  fleece Navidad.
uh And it was delicious.
And it was so good.
I got two of them.
Okay.
I led Martha dry, try the second drink I got, I let her try it.
to see it, because it was so freaking good.
I just wouldn't shut up about how good it was.
So, she finally tried it and she was like, oh my gosh, that is good.
What is in that? So, I pulled the menu and I started reading off the ingredients and I was like, uh oh  no.
And it dawned on me.
It was made with cold brew from Mudhouse.
So, I had basically two cups of coffee at seven o'clock at night.
Oh crap.
And I was freaking out because I I knew what was ahead of me.
a sleepless night and Martha was like, no, the alcohol will offset it.
I was like, is not going, no, it's not.
I said, I'll text you at two in the morning when I'm still awake.
And she said, yeah, do it.
Cause I'm out, my phone will be on silent.
So, I did at 2 23, I texted Martha and I was like, just finished my book, starting another one.
And the last time I looked at the clock, was like 3 20.
And I was falling asleep around 3 20.
But when that alarm went off at six, Oh my gosh, no.
I either slept through it or just turned it off.
Cause two hours and 40 minutes ain't enough.
Oh, not for me.
I mean, I need a solid eight.
Oh, I really want nine, but I never get nine.
So, yeah, I was an hour late to work.
was the worst day ever.
I get so tired.
There's no telling how many mistakes I made that day.
Oh gosh.
But my sweet, sweet boss.
just was so nice about me being late and didn't give me too hard of a time.
Oh, good.
In fact, when I texted him and I was like, I just woke up, I would be there ASAP.
His response was just be safe.
Oh,  can you just yell at me? That would make me feel better.
Right.
He knows that being nice is worse.
Ha ha ha ha.
OK, good job.
You did it.
Yay.
All right.
Your question for today is  what is the meaning of the term Dubcon in the context of the romance genre of literature.
I will tell you it is kind of like a portmanteau.
Okay.
Any opportunity to say that word? I know.
I love it.
Oh gosh, dubcon.
What's the genre? Romance.
Actually, if it was a true portmanteau, it would be DoobCon.
I don't even have a guess.
Okay.
ah It means there's something flying around in here and it's distracting me.
means  dubious consent.
Oh, wow.
I would had never have gotten there.
Obviously this is a relatively newish term  since very few people seemed to care about consent until recently.
I see.
And even now it's still considered like a woke concept.
Which is fucking bananas.
anyway.
It includes a wide range of things, the kind of things that don't age well in older books and movies.
So, if you're watching something and you're like, oh, whoa, uh it's usually dub con.
Oh, OK.
So, dub con refers to fictional sexual scenarios where consent isn't clearly given, often involving gray areas like power imbalances, intoxication, coercion or manipulation like dishonesty or lies by omission, et cetera.
Okay.
So, pretty much every trope that romance has ever been centered around.
No, I'm kidding.
Lots of tropes though.
Like, you know, you get drunk and you sleep with somebody.
Right.
Or you um fall in love with your boss.
Yes.
Or you  don't tell somebody something about yourself.
That's a big one.
The secrets,  you know, that would influence their decision to sleep with you.
Yes.
Yes.
Right.
Okay.
um This makes  consent questionable despite a potential yes.
So, someone might say yes, like you said, they might not have all the information or they might  not have the power to say no  or something like that.
um It's popular in romance sub-genres like erotica and dark romance.
Also fan fiction where you know things get a little complicated.
sometimes and fall into  gray  areas.
I'm talking about a certain fan fiction that made bajillions of dollars.
And it's a plot device where, you know, readers engage with these themes in fiction for catharsis  or to explore intense power dynamics  or, you know, not to endorse real world non-consent.
It's not to be taken  very seriously.
Like in the real world, you'd be like,  that's not okay, or that's inappropriate.
But in fiction, you're kind of like, okay, it's a plot device.
um Now, this is not to be confused with full on non-consent, obviously, which we know better as rape, although that's a word that for some reason is really, really hard for people to say.
They like to use very euphemistic terms for rape.
Like, oh, it's a sexual assault, or oh, it was a non-consensual sexual  encounter.
Yes.
It's freaking rape.
Just say it.
It's one syllable.
um Also, not to be confused with consensual non-consent.
Are you ready for this? Consensual non-consent.
OK.
 Briefly, this is a pre-planned role play where both parties consent to a scenario pretending to be non-consensual.
Oh, yeah, okay.
With clear boundaries established beforehand.
I see, um No kink shaming, just saying.
Let's see.
I'm sweating a little bit now just talking about this.
uh I'm  questioning my decision to use this for Search Me! because it gets a little bit heavy.
Anyway.
But we need to talk about these things and define the boundaries so everybody understands what's what.
I  found this term,  dubcon, in Second Chance Romance by Olivia Dade.
And I had to look it up on my Kindle.
Do you think that Olivia invented this term? No, she did not.
Okay.
This was something that had a lot of information.
This is something that people talk a lot about apparently in book clubs and fan sites and  forums and all this stuff.
Also Google Gemini helped me,  know,  with a, with quick little definitions of things.
Um, yeah.
When you said book club, my stomach turned over.
Why? Because I always get stressed out about a book club because I have to read a book in a certain timeframe and then I have to go talk about it.
No.
Book clubs are kind of stressful.
They're stressful.
I can't handle it.
Sean and I talked about doing our own book club, just the two of us reading and I still, I still couldn't do it.
I was like, I'm not going to be able to meet the time, the deadline, the timeframe.
No, I like to read at leisurely pace or read a lot.
You know, when I've had two cups of coffee at seven o'clock at night.
Right, right.
But I just can't do it.
I won't ask you.
So, don't invite me.
Okay.
That was all.
Okay.
All right.
It was an interesting search.
Thank you.
You're welcome.
But  how about a little shared history?  This is where we tell you our DTH besties, the most interesting thing we learned this week.
All right.
Now, by the time this episode drops, it will be after Christmas.
Yes, yes.
But I don't care because I want to talk about festive foods.
OK.
All right.
Well, it'll still be before New Year.
It will.
So, we're still in the kind of food holiday.
but specifically traditional holiday foods, not like, oh, I found a new recipe or I wanna talk about things that people do every year.
Like it's Christmas, we have to make this.
Do you have anything like from childhood that it was like always? We always had ham on Christmas.
Always.
It was Turkey on Thanksgiving, ham on Christmas.
um So, along with ham, you have to have cheesy potatoes.
Oh, yes.
So, that was part of it as well.
Then a lot of the other foods were similar to Thanksgiving.
OK.
But no cranberries molded like a can.
No.
There's some things that obviously don't make the Christmas menu that were on the Thanksgiving menu, but a lot of the same things.
The Venn diagram  overlaps  quite a bit.
That's how ours used to be as well.
Yeah.
And then a few years ago, we scaled it back uh because at Christmas, everybody's very busy.
My mom was she's getting older and is like, it's hard  to do all that stuff.
And we're like, let's make Christmas more of a kind of finger foods.
Oh, yeah.
Like not a big, huge ham and all the things.
So, we've been doing that for several years.
And it's really nice.
So, now one of those traditions for that finger food thing is Holly always brings the cheese ball.
Which she didn't do this year.
And I'm sad.
It's really good.
Oh no.
So, I may have to make my own cheese ball because I haven't gotten my cheese ball fix.
Yeah.
Anyway,  I always bring deviled eggs.
Always.
And then  a few years ago, just to shake things up, I brought pigs in a blanket.
Oh.
My family lost their dang mind and those became a tradition immediately.
Okay.
And if I don't show up with pigs in blankets now, there's sadness.
Okay.
So, those are, and my mom always makes sugar cookies, these strange sugar cookies that aren't like any other sugar cookies I've ever had.
Okay.
And so, and they're delicious.
And she makes those every year too.
Yum.
Yes.
But then I thought,  what do other countries do? Oh yeah.
traditional festive holiday foods.
And so I found a few.
Okay.
There are a lot.
Oh yes.
But I narrowed it down.
So, in Greenland, Kiviak.
Okay.
This is a traditional wintertime Inuit food made by stuffing a seal skin with several hundred small Arctic birds.
closing it up with seal fat and allowing the birds to ferment for several months.
When the seal is opened, the aroma is famously potent or as some would say, commanding.
Yeah, I've got another word for it.
People who grew up with it describe a deep  gamey oh richness and a long savory finish or umami on overdrive.
It's often compared to an I made sure that this information was in there just for you.
It's often compared to  an extra mature blue cheese.
Oh, no.
To eat it, the birds are removed and the feathers are plucked and discarded so you don't eat the feathers.
The long fermentation softens the bones so that they can be chewed and swallowed.
The Kiviak is deeply local and tied to longstanding traditions that developed from a way of life before store-bought foods and freezers.
Wow.
Wow.
How can anything top that? Where's Phil Rosenthal when you need him? Right?  I need him to try this.
This is right up there with century eggs.
All right.
Another one from Norway, the Smøllehov.
This dish contains a sheep's head that has been salted, dried, and then steamed or boiled.
The ears and the eyes are often eaten first as a delicacy.
It was historically a meal for the poor, but has become a rare traditional specialty served for the weeks leading up to the Christmas in Western Norway.
In the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia, Christmas carp.
OK, this is actually like of food that I've heard of people eating? Christmas carp.
Carp, know, fish.
fish.
In several  Central European countries, families purchase a live carp a few days before Christmas and keep it swimming in their bathtub.
What?  Why do you need to meet it  and become friends?  Just before the holiday is prepared.
often breaded and fried and served for Christmas Eve dinner.
I'll pass on all of these so far.
Okay, I'm going to butcher this one.
Okay.
No pun intended there.
Seljodka podshiboy.
Oh.
Translated in Russian to herring under a fur coat.
Ew, I don't want to eat anything with fur.
This is a vibrant layered salad featuring diced pickled herring covered with layers of boiled and grated potatoes, carrots, beetroot, and onions.
It's all held together with a generous amount of mayonnaise.
Oh.
They had me up until the generous amount of mayonnaise.
No, I don't like any like beetroot.
No, I'll even you know, that'd be fine.
I mean, you've got potatoes.
You got some pickled fish.
I'm sure it's not terrible.
Anyway, that's a staple at Russian holiday feast.
Now one you've heard of for sure is lutefisk.
Lutefisk.
This is a dish made from dried and salted whitefish.
It's soaked in lye.
Why not? and water for several days, giving it a peculiar gelatinous texture  and pungent smell.
It's a Christmas staple in some Nordic households,  though it can be an acquired taste.
Right.
What? Sounds delicious.
All right.
Feast of the seven fishes.
This Italian-American tradition involves preparing and eating seven different seafood dishes on Christmas Eve to observe the tradition.
traditional Roman Catholic practice of abstaining from meat before Christmas day.
Dishes can range from simple fried calamari to salted cod.
All right, here's the last one I'll make you listen to.
I'm also gonna butcher this one.
Okay.
Babinka, babinka.
This is  from the Philippines.
Okay.
And it actually sounds kind of delicious.
Baked rice cake.
A sweet, spongy dessert often flavored with coconut milk, traditionally cooked in clay pots,  lined with banana leaves,  enjoyed during Christmas.
Made from ground, fermented rice, it's known for its soft texture, buttery richness, and distinctive earthy aroma from the banana leaves.
It's typically topped with butter, cheese, and  duck.
Duck eggs, sorry.
oh Dang it, I'm out.
I thought it was just duck.
I just saw duck eggs.
Yeah.
I might try it.
I never had a duck egg before.
How bad can it be?  Oh gosh,  don't ask that.
My sources for this were the Food Network, The Guardian, Catering by Michael's, Google Gemini, and I swear to God, this is what it's called, the Disgusting Food Museum.
And they did have an entry for century eggs  on disgusting food museum.
Of course.
Excellent.
That was an interesting website.
They had pictures.
Oh gosh.
I'm trying to think of something that I eat that people  not from the United States  might think,  oh gross, or who's never had it before might think that's disgusting.
What is something that we eat that other countries might find disgusting? Maybe just all the processed crap.
but like I made spinach artichoke dip  for my brother's get together last Last night, last night, yesterday.
um And it looks pretty gross.
And maybe if you're not so into cheese,  you'd be like, oh my gosh, that's disgusting.
What about...
it's  so good.
So, one of the things my mom always makes at Christmas  for our Christmas dinner is like that seven layer taco dip.
Oh yeah.
Because we all love that so much.
Do you think that would be disgusting to someone? I don't know.
I don't either.
None of those foods are like,  have to ponder that for a while.
I can't.
I don't know.
Maybe I'll ask AI what it thinks other countries might find repulsive.
yeah.
Yes, that Americans eat.
Yeah, because I think we're just too close to it and we just don't know what other countries think is gross.
Yeah.
Like, for example, probably anyone in India is going to be like, eww, to anything with beef.
Well, sure.
How can you eat? so much beef.
Yeah, that's true.
Because my husband's allergic to chicken.
But they'd be like, oh, burgers,  oh, steak.
Oh, oh.
That was very enlightening.
And it makes me so thankful for the Christmas food I will be eating.
OK, so uh my search  has something to do with.
the holidays as well.
Excellent.
But not just Christmas.
It's like winter holidays.
Okay.
It is the word  sledging.
uh Okay.
As a slang term.
No.
In the UK, they call sleds, sledges.
Oh, oh.
And so.
I didn't know that.
If you would say sledging, they might think that you're talking about sledding or being pulled on a sledge.
Okay.
Hanging by a horse or whatever.
That's not what this is.
Okay.
Although it is, it comes from that.
Like that's it's kind of um etymology.
I heard this term, both of its slang meanings, in two different shows  this past week.
they are two completely different meanings.
The first meaning is, I heard it in an episode of Midsummer Murders,  it's back baby,  new season.
Where some bowlers, lawn bowls, which can be deadly in Midsummer, just like anything else.
Um, some bowlers scolded a teammate for sledging members of the other team.
Okay.
In this context, it means verbally taunting your opponents to distract them.
Trash talking, basically.
Its origin is Australian though, particularly with cricket.
Oh.
And they chose the verb sledging because the trash talker is typically being as subtle as a sledge hammer.
Oh.
Yes.
That is that first meaning.
Okay.
Here's the second usage, which I find more interesting for reasons that will become obvious.
This was in one of the many, sometimes cheesy holiday productions that I watched recently.
In addition to the classics, like Last Christmas,  The Family Stone,  Elf,  Love Actually,  The Holiday.
em One of the ones that  I watched was called Love Hard.
Have you watched that one? em I know what you're talking about.
I have not watched it.
The two main characters debate in the movie, this is how gets its title, that love actually is the best movie, Christmas movie, that's what the guy says.
And the girl says that Die Hard is the best Christmas movie.
And then they argue about whether Die Hard is really a Christmas movie, blah, blah.
but there's a lot more to the movie than that.
And it involves sledging.
In the context of relationships, this refers to the toxic dating trend where someone keeps a partner through winter just to avoid being alone.
oh Ie dragging someone along  as on a sled or sledge through the winter Like the lesser-known John Mayer song st.
Patrick's Day.
Oh You might not know it.
No, I don't I'm not a John Mayer fan.
It was on his very first album.
Okay In it he talks about it being impossible to break up with someone from November to March Thanks to all of the emotionally charged holidays that fall during that period and it's exemplified in the following lyrics.
No one wants to be alone at Christmas time and then  we'll all be safe until St.
Patrick's day.
Oh my gosh.
Now this is a real thing.
He called it in an interview, he called it cuffing.
Okay.
But it's different than cuffing.
Cuffing referring to being handcuffed  is where  intentionally and aggressively seek out serious or short-term romantic relationships for the colder months.
This is crazy!  And there's a whole schedule for cuffing.
What? Are you ready? Oh my lord.
According to Gen Z,  of six, seven...
It borrows from the football season.
Okay.
You scout for potential candidates in August.
You draft your choices through dating in September.
You go deeper in test compatibility in October with tryouts.
You establish a consistent partner in November, which is the preseason,  prior to the major winter holidays.
Then you settle in during the regular season, which is December through January, with your plus one for holiday parties and matching pajama picks, et cetera.
And you make sure you have one MVP for Valentine's Day, which is the championship.
No, this is wrong.
It is so, I mean, so calculated besides the fun football metaphor.
em It's so unromantic and bleak.
Really think people do that.
Yes.
Oh  my gosh.
em Okay.
But I am disgusted.
Disgusted.
Back to sledging.
Okay.
The motivations for sledging meaning  Let's  refresh our memories here  and not think about cuffing for a minute.
Sledging is when you are trapped in a relationship through the holidays  because you don't want to ruin anyone's holiday by breaking up with them.
Yes.
Okay.
And you don't want to be alone either.
So, the motivations are companionship or sex, having a quote unquote warm body for the cold months, avoiding loneliness,  Ensuring that you have a date for holiday parties in New Year's Eve.
And the social pressure, avoiding awkward questions from family about being single during holiday gatherings.
And this is like a lot of rom-coms on those Hallmark Christmas  movies.
um All of the ones that come out, all the rom-coms that come out at this time of year that are holiday centric.
Most of it is, you know, they  are  constantly, who are you seeing right now?  You know, the meddling family members who  ask questions and you know, somebody has like, they find somebody to be their fake boyfriend or girlfriend for the holidays, that kind of thing.
Anyway, um I find that I found myself defending rom-coms a lot  recently with my kids.
Yeah.
When we were watching these movies because  they don't,  I mean, Hayden gets it a little bit better than Jackie does, but she really doesn't get it.
She  doesn't like that formulaic, the formulaic nature of rom-coms.
It annoys her.
Oh, they're always this and they're always that.
So, we started doing a game that I almost immediately regretted  called  trope trolling,  which meant that we were supposed to as the movie goes on, especially the worst movies,  know, because  they're not very fun to watch unless you play a game  watching them.
we got into a couple of them I was like, this movie is awful.
So, we would do some trope trolling and we would just call out the tropes, the romantic comedy tropes in each one, like, oh, it takes place in New York City or oh, she's...
really skinny and beautiful, but she thinks she's ugly or  her friends or family call her plain or whatever and she's not.
Stuff like that.
But then it started to be like trope trolling  and they were making fun of the tropes, which was not the point  of the game in my opinion.
And then it basically turned into like trope trashing.
with Jackie because she hated some of these tropes so bad.
And some of them are not very progressive.
Sure.
Or  modern.
But still, that's the kind of the whole point.
Well, people find comfort in the predictability.
That's what I was telling her.
That's why they're so popular.
Right.
So,  it's easy.
It's light.
It's a puff pastry of a movie.
Yes.
Yes.
um But it kind of put my entire  like side hustle of writing romantic comedies in a very harsh light.
Don't you let that  drag you down.
It's six seven.
You just keep doing what you do, girl.
I started to feel kind of bad.
was like, you're right.
I am totally like.
I don't think that  I would never compare your books to a Hallmark movie  ever.
Oh, well, thank you.
Well, you're welcome.
But I mean, those are successful.
People love them.
Exactly.
And that's that's what I was trying to explain to her.
was like.
what you just said, there's comfort in the predictability.
That's why you watch it.
You watch it because you know what's going to happen.
It's a stressful time of year for many people.
You've got a lot of stuff going on.
Yeah.
And just to unplug and have something easy.
Yes.
That you don't have to think about.
Right.
You can just sit back and enjoy and you're not going to be shocked into a dub con and.
m You know it's gonna be okay.
Yeah, you know it's gonna turn out happy in the end.
Yeah, she doesn't go back to the big city.
She stays on the farm and marries the cowboy.
She doesn't go back to the big city.
She stays at the chateau and marries the prince.
Right.
I mean, and it's ridiculous.
Of course it's ridiculous.
If look at it through a realistic lens, it's stupid.
And you can't do But you have to suspend disbelief.
think that's her biggest.
Problem with it is she cannot suspend disbelief.
She's too literal Yes,  and she's too like this is not not everybody can live in the big city.
She's like Nick Snowball Yes, it doesn't obey the laws of physics.
I won't watch it correct  Yep  Nick ain't watching many movies these days.
I don't know.
I don't think so em But it took the magic out of Hallmark's like the meat- Oh no! The meat cute and the big romantic gesture, you know, it turned into, of course they're gonna do blah, blah, blah.
Oh, of course he's gonna chase after her in the airport.
Just being able to say, of course he's gonna chase after her in the airport is the charm of the movie.
Right.
Anyway, kids ruin everything.
The moral of the story is  kids ruin everything.
Oh my gosh.
I did get Peyton to watch the Family Stone for the very first time the other night and he cried so hard y'all.
Well,  and not only are you going to square mouth cry at that movie.
Yeah.
This year that one hits a little different because Dan Keaton actually is gone.
I know.
And I didn't really think about that until I was about halfway through and I was like, yes.
I know.
Yes.
It's such a good movie though.
And I made the mistake of pointing that out to Peyton.
Oh, why? Because he was already upset and I said, oh my gosh, and you know what? I was just trying to like um sympathize and empathize with him and say, yeah, you know, it's really sad for me too, even though I've watched this several times.
And I told him about Laura and me crying in the um movie theater, Square Mouth Crying, the first time we saw it, because we got tricked into thinking it was a zany comedy.
And we went to see it and we both just, it was awful.
Laura still has not watched it again ever.
Really? Because I texted her and said, hey, I got Peyton to watch Family Stone and he cried his face off.
And she texted him, buddy,  Family Stone is no joke.
It's so good.
She says she can't make herself watch it.
Oh, I love that movie.
Again, it was so traumatic for her, but I love the movie, because I like to cry sometimes.
I do too.
It is a rough movie if you've never seen it before.
to stop the movie, and then when he was, and we were both like laugh crying because we were so, he was so like shocked at how much it was affecting him.
So, then he was kind of like nervous laughing and then I was kind of laughing at him because it was just such an extreme like  gut wrenching crying.
He was really empathizing with those characters and he was like, I hope I never had to go through something like that.
Oh buddy,  oh well.
Six seven.
Yeah, we all do.
Six seven.
Six seven.
Gosh.
think that was my Friday night and it was a good one.
Well, to lighten up oh your holiday watching.
what? My sources.
Oh, yes.
What were your sources?  Sorry.
We're Psychology Today, Human Kinetics, Times of India, John Mayer dot info,  Wikipedia, and Google Gemini.
John Mayer dot info.
John Mayer.
Buh, brother.
If you need a little cheerful...
holiday thing to watch that's really short.
like 30 minutes.
Yeah.
Sean the sheep.
Oh, yeah.
Have you seen that? It's on Netflix right now.
Oh my gosh.
Sean and I were laughing so hard.
It is the cutest thing.
I love Sean the sheep.
If you guys like Wallace and Gromit,  this is a derivative of Wallace and Gromit and it is adorable.
Yeah.
It is so, so,  so cute.
And if you want a movie that like hit you in the heartstrings but doesn't make you square mouth cry.
Last Christmas is really really good.
so good.
I did not see the end of that coming.
It's a good one.
And I like it when movies do that to me.
Me When they really turn the corner and I'm like, what? Because we're all so cynical now.
It's hard to trick us.
But yeah, that's a great one.
Yeah, last Christmas is really good with the dragon lady.
Yeah, the mother of dragons.
Mother of dragons.
Khaleesi.
I remember that name.
My Instagram feed has been feeding me a lot of Amelia Clarke lately.
specifically the movie, You Before Me or Me Before You or whichever.
Yeah.
I keep getting clips of that movie in my Instagram feed.
I'm not sure why I'm not.
It's fine because I love that movie.
Oh gosh.
Another good one.
That's a square mouth cry.
Peyton watched that one before? I don't think so.
See, here's why we watched Family Stone, because we were talking about Last Christmas and he said, oh man, that movie is so sad.
And I was like, oh well, it's heartwarming and stuff, it's not sad.
I would call it sad.
I was like, it's not really sad.
And he goes, I think it's really sad.
And I was like, you want sad, the Family Stone is freaking sad.
And he was like, all right, let's watch it.
It was kind of like a dare.
I can hear it.
Brother.
He needed to eat a lot of ice cream after we watched that I bet he did.
All right.
Okay.
But Brea.
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.
We're just too damn boring.
You're boring.
Oh my gosh.
You are so boring.
seven.
Six, seven.
oh Oh crap.
Here's my list.
Civilian forensic jobs, pounds to dollars, J-O-B Christmas pop-up,  roller skate wheels for office chair.
Nice.
I didn't mean to laugh.
That was like a legitimate search, but when I read it just now, I forgot and I searched that.
I am homeless if this is not my home book.
Okay.
Jammies for Greyhounds.
I'm going to butcher this.
Zuka.
Rebarbaro, Rebarbaro, Rebarbaro.
Just keep saying it.
don't know.
Rizuka Reb, I can't say it.
Rebarbaro.
Amaro, it's an alcohol.
Rumchada L'Cour.
L'Cour 43.
I was looking up all the things that were in the drink.
had fleece Navidad.
Oh yeah, yeah.
Clip.
on Instagram of John Ham dancing in nightclub,  LL Bean and Ice Ice Baby video.
eh I was feeling a little nostalgic.
see that.
IMDB searches, Jonathan Taylor Thomas.
I saw something online.
People were talking about him in the past tense, like he was dead.
And I was like, my gosh, is Johnny dead? Johnny?  He's not, he's alive.
JTT.
Step by step,  Sherlock.
I started rewatching Sherlock.
It's so good.
Oh, yeah, it is a good show.
The Institute.
Okay.
That's it.
My What About This One list is 51 items long.
This is the longest What About This One list I've ever had.
has been happening? I don't know.
I just did a lot of searching.
Are you ready? Rainbow Google Watchband.
TV and news bloopers, messy fails, Latin American singers from New Jersey, Gloria Estefan.
Jackie said Gloria Estefan was from New Jersey.
And I was like, no, I think she's from Cuba actually, but then Miami.
And Jackie was like, no, no, no.
What was the answer? Who was right?  Me.
Mama.
Of course I was.
Six, seven.
Six,  F, and seven.
OK, famous Tejana.
Famous Tejana's slash Tejana meaning.
Resort packages in Branson,  Branson Scenic Railway, Big Cedar stay and play packages.
Can you guess what I am researching? QI gossip slash trivia behind the scenes, sledging slang meaning.
What is a roommate on a train? Fall question.
Oh, good job.
Train trips, Missouri.
Overnight train journeys, USA beginning in Missouri.
What? Why are you searching all this train stuff? I want to go on a train.
Oh, OK.
Growing pains theme song credits.
oh  Remove ink from skin.
Putties.
What? What did it say? Soap and water? um It said soap and water  or um rubbing alcohol.
Oh, yeah.
Or  hand sanitizer.
Did it work?  Yeah.
Good job.
I had a pen explode on me.
Oh, shoot.
Yeah.
was a good time.
uh Putties.
P-U-T-T-E-E-S.
Dramatic cats.
Parenting fails.
Funny kids.
How to get slime out of hair.
oh no.
Electric scooters, Springfield Mo, license requirements.
E-Bikes license requirements, Missouri.
ah Dolcetto Tuscan crisps.
Total Wine.
Donal Finn.
Lori Davidson slash TV shows with Lori Davidson.
Ruth Jones, Richard E.
Grant, Ella Brucolari.
Target.
RV rental Springfield Moe.
They're expensive.
Yeah, they are.
Stupid.
Bath and Body Works.
First Mate.
Bosun.
Dubcon meaning  Candace Owen.
Canadian Pledge of Allegiance.
What? They have one.
Or they used to.
Do they pledge allegiance to their flag? um It's...
very similar to our Pledge of Allegiance and they do say I pledge allegiance to but it's not the flag.
Okay.
It's to  Something something so I don't remember but Eugene Levy mentioned it and That he used to say the Pledge of Allegiance Before school every day.
Well, he's real old because they haven't done that for a long time.
Oh my goodness Okay Budapest Capitol building whistle cars, Oakland, California Deca clubs slash.
What does Deca stand for? Funky keyboards interesting Christmas nail colors  Wooden keyboard.
Hannah Fry.
Emerging car tech.
Nia Roberts.
Sean Williams.
David Krupa.
Offset spatula.
Conjugal visit slang.
Stir.
Offset spatula? Yeah.
I wanted to know what an offset spatula was.
I don't even know.
Well, it was mentioned in a book I was reading.
Oh, okay.
And I was like, makes something an offset spatula? It's one of those long, skinny spatulas that has the curved handle so that when you frost a cake, you don't hit it with your hand.
I've gotcha.
Huh.
I just call that a frosting spatula.
I just...
Or a frosting knife.
I forget to call it a frosting knife.
Yeah.
Okay.
Now you know.
Knowing is half the battle.
Yeah, pork chop sandwiches.
So, do you have any shout outs? Yeah, I do.
Karen Kay was doing some important shopping  and she sent us a picture of Whistle Pig Whiskey.
Yes.
Now, for those of you who haven't heard it in episode three, Brea covers a search about actual whistle pigs,  not Whistle Pig Whiskey.
So, that's why Karen was reaching out to us and it made her laugh that she saw.
Correct.
So, she sent us a picture and everything.
I have another Karen K.
shout out.
Wait, I have to tell you something.
Oh, I'm sorry.
I looked up Whistle Pig Whiskey.
Oh, yeah.
It ranges from $50 a bottle to $5,000 a bottle.
Their $5,000 bottle is a single malt whiskey that's been aged for 30 years.
Holy crap.
All right, go.
Okay, so Karen Kay is a dear, dear friend of mine actually.
Oh, okay.
From high school.
Aww.
I love her very much.
And I was in her wedding and everything.
Oh my gosh.
So, anyway, she also um texted me just personally and said that  she used to teach a mythology class, because she's a teacher,  by the way, so God love her.
She's one of those  angels on earth.
And she used to teach a mythology class  and she said they talked about chimeras  in um mythology.
She's like, so interesting.
And I was like, yeah, I think about chimeras probably more than the average person.
em The book I'm reading, Uprooted, has a chimera.
What? Yes.
And the wizard had to go take care of it.
Because it was destroying the village.
Oh my gosh.
Yep.
I looked into that book, by the way.
Yeah.
I think I might download it.
I've also downloaded the book that our friend Laura recommended to us that now has a series written by Julie Cooper.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
I'm picturing it.
I can see it.
I keep wanting to say Tommy Knockers and it's not Tommy Knockers.
It's a Stephen King book.
I'm  gonna have to look it up now the long long landers the   Give me a hint when you find it.
Oh my gosh.
Give me the first letter.
It's not the anything.
Okay, what is it? It's rivals.
Yeah, I wasn't going there.
And em pull dark is where Aiden Turner is from.
And so she was talking about how he looks so different.
But  right.
I'm digging the mustache.
I'm cool.
I'm cool with it.
Yes, that's right.
Rivals.
But it also has Katherine Parkinson in it, which who I love.
Oh, my gosh.
She's so funny.
She's from the redhead from the IT crowd.
Oh my gosh.
She's like one of my faves.
She's amazing.
Tommy knockers.
That's great.
Okay.
Did you have any other shout outs? I don't.
Okay.
Okay.
Great.
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I just have to go delete my history.
I got to delete mine too.
Stay fresh, cheese bags.
Buh-Lai.
Buh-Lai.
And happy new year.
Six, seven.
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