Hey, squeaky shoes.
Is that me? Am I doing that? Sorry.
I thought it was me at first and then I'm like, I'm not moving.
I can't sit still because I've had excedrin.
I've had excedrin because my head has hurt so bad today.
So, I'm just like, because I've got so much caffeine in my system.
So, I probably won't sleep tonight, which is not the thing I need.
To help with this headache.
No.
It's bad pattern.
See some melatonin in my future.
Yes.
With you the sun is shining 24 7 cuz 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 leave Welcome to episode 90 of Delete This History a podcast by two besties of a certain age Searching for so many answers We're your host Cara Burch and Brea Brown.
Hiya.
Hello.
How's it going? Good Yeah, yeah, I have to make a correction.
Oh right off the bat.
Yes I just want to get it out of the way.
She's just waiting for this moment What was the correction in episode 89? Yes last week, okay I kept calling Billy Crystal's character in The Princess Bride Mad Max.
Yes, I did notice that I wasn't going to...
He's not Mad Max.
That's a totally different movie.
Thunderdome! Now, in all fairness, I didn't catch it while we were talking.
But when I listened, I was like, oh, Mad Max.
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah, it's Miracle Max.
I knew that.
I got it right the first time I said it, but then I just, I hit on Mad Max and then I just went with it.
Thunderdome! Oh well, 6'7", whenever it does.
Six, seven.
I also got em more information about six, seven.
I didn't think there was any information.
There really isn't.
Okay.
But I just keep pulling people who know, um, Jen alphas.
Okay.
And I just keep asking like what's going on.
All right.
What did you find out? And she has twins.
She's, she's a new employee at my work.
And she's awesome.
And she's got twins.
And um anyway, she said that her kids hate it.
Her kids hate six, seven.
Yeah.
All right.
So, that's good.
em But and they hate everything that is considered brain rot, which was also a new term to me, sort of like I knew about brain rot, but Like I didn't know that it was a specific thing now.
Okay.
I'm pretty sure that's what I did for the last week.
To be perfectly frank, not according to this definition.
All right.
But you probably did like, I don't know, a gen X version of brain rot.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I didn't realize there was a difference.
Oh, there is.
There's too much to keep up with and it's stupid.
Why does it have to change all the time? That's probably what our parents thought and we were okay with it because our brains were plastic and we could just go with it.
still say the same crap we said back then.
It has gone 30 years with me.
Yeah, yeah.
It was new to your parents though.
Yeah, that's true.
But what words did we have that were just cool for a little while and moved on? Nothing.
oh that I can even remotely think of, unless I just wasn't in the cool crowd.
That's probably part of it.
just didn't know.
Cool beans.
Yeah.
It's just stupid to stuff like that.
Cool beans.
uh But we didn't get rid of it as fast.
No.
Like you said, I mean, it kind of just stuck.
I'm telling you social media.
Yeah, that's the thing.
And it's just like short attention spans.
Yeah.
Social media always needing to be different and unique and new and yeah, your whole life for young people or whatever is about generating content.
I know that's what your whole life is.
Who cares? Not me.
I don't give a crap.
I know I'm so old.
I can't even imagine having like, I look at people that I do follow on Instagram and they have so much content.
It's like, and I, I realize that's probably their job now.
That's what they do all day long.
They get paid for it.
But I can't think of anything I would rather do less.
but you're so good at it.
ah You really are very good at social media.
But yeah, it's not fun.
No, it's an icky feeling.
It's just like constantly, you know what I equate it to? It's like, um I got a new journal for Christmas and it's a five year journal.
oh And so each page, it's kind of tiny, but it's one line a day.
That's fun.
You just put one line a day and it can be deep.
can be just what happened that day, something, or it could be anything you want.
I love that.
And it's still too much pressure.
Every day I'm like, what am gonna write in this damn thing? It's just one line.
Six, seven.
Oh my gosh, you are killing me.
But I think about that like what do they have to talk about? I don't know.
I think that's what is so makes me feel so icky is that the thought of me once a day or multiple times a day talking about me and what I'm doing.
I don't I am NOT a sharer.
I you know, I've got my small group of people.
Yeah.
That know things about me.
Yeah.
Otherwise, we don't really share much.
I mean, nobody wants to know.
No.
What I'm doing, it's so boring.
too.
I'm so And that's why I have a podcast because I'm so boring.
I have so much to share.
You know what though? You're actually not that boring.
You're an author.
How many books have you written? So, many, like, kajillions.
Yeah, but I mean, I'm a very boring person though.
Day to day.
Yeah, me too.
Everybody is that crap you see on Instagram or wherever.
It's not real.
It's manufactured.
It's manufactured.
It's tiring.
Everyone is just as boring as you and I are.
OK, well, not everybody, but you and I are special kind of boring.
I'm so boring that if I had an Instagram, yeah, people would have to like put toothpicks in their eyelids just to Follow me maybe like maybe maybe that's your shtick I'm is you try to see how boring your posts could be I'm like more boring than like a sloth cam or something.
I don't know.
I can't even People love sloths.
I ran across a guy It was a time lapse of himself sitting in a chair for an hour to make himself focus on just the moment.
That was the entire post was a time lapse of him just sitting in a chair for an hour.
Well, that was his idea for the day.
That was his idea.
And he, he was saying that for in 2026, he's going to try and be more present and make himself just B.
He's already failing because he's already thinking ahead to the rest of 2026.
Well, and he set up his camera to do it.
I don't know.
Anyway, whatever.
I got to stop.
I got to stop scrolling on Instagram.
I need to just be.
It's so hard to be though.
Anyway, what else? Anything? I don't think so.
Okay.
All right.
You want to play a little game? I do.
It's called Search Me! This is when we ask each other a trivia question from our week's internet travels.
Brea, here's your question for this week.
This group of pilots from World War II were nicknamed for the place where they were educated and trained.
Oh.
Was it the Tuskegee Airmen? Yes! Ding, ding, ding! Yeah! It was the Tuskegee Airmen.
They were primarily a black group of military pilots who trained at various places, including the Tuskegee Army Airfields, the Tuskegee Institute, which is now called the Tuskegee University, which is located near Tuskegee, Alabama.
It starts to not even sound like a real thing anymore.
doesn't even sound like a real word.
It sounds like brain rot.
Skibbity tuskegee.
Skibbity kastigee cool beans.
the holidays, Sean and I watched Masters of the Air.
Oh my gosh, that's in my queue.
It is so...
Really? Yes.
I know if you like it, it's gotta be real good.
It's, I mean, it's the same, it's Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg who did Band of Brothers.
They've got the formula.
They really do.
This was really good.
Now I will say, I liked Band of Brothers better, but this one was, it was excellent.
Okay.
It was really excellent.
My grandfather was a World War II pilot.
Was he really? And he flew a bomber.
So, I was really into this.
So, I got to kind of see what he went through and it is freaking terrifying.
That is amazing.
It's a flip a miracle that he survived.
Oh, any of them did.
It, I didn't have any idea how dangerous flying a bomber was in world war II until the Tuskegee Airmen came along.
Anyway.
It's really good.
You should watch it.
Now there is a companion documentary that I have not watched.
It's about an hour long and I can't wait to watch it too.
Okay.
Highly recommend.
It's on Apple TV if anyone is interested.
All right.
I am very much so.
Do you have sources? Oh, it was, uh, I just, I just went to Wikipedia.
Okay.
Cool.
I have a true or false question for you today.
50, 50 jobs.
Yeah.
True or false? Domestic cats have been shown to experience grief and remember other cats that have died.
I'm gonna say true.
You're right.
It is true.
Cats are capable of forming social bonds and research along with anecdotal evidence suggests they can experience grief when a companion cat dies.
Which is kind of sad.
I actually wanted a different answer than that.
uh Behavioral changes such as increased vocalization loss of appetite or withdrawal can last for days or even weeks and while cats don't mourn in the same way humans do they do remember familiar companions and React to their absence likely due to both memory and routine disruption.
Ah, yes Now I searched this because I was watching funny cat videos like I like to do.
Mm-hmm.
It's one of my favorite things I babysat Quinn last weekend and She was not happy with me because I used the N-O word.
Oh no.
And so to get back in her good graces, I turned on some funny cat videos because you know, she's Miss Kitty Cat.
And you know, it seems like there's always like more than one cat in these videos because that's what makes it funny is because they pick on each other or they fight or they, you know, whatever they interact like siblings.
And it made me think of Jasper and Boo.
And I was like, oh no, does Jasper still have memories of boo and miss her? And then I got super duper sad.
Oh no! And so then I looked it up and I was like, I bet they don't.
So,, mean, know Heather did say that Jasper did, you know, look for her after she first went over the rainbow bridge.
But I was like, do they have memories though? Do they sit around and think like, oh, remember when we used to blah, blah, blah, when we used to sit on the steps like baskets or when we used to.
put our legs through people's flip-flops.
You know, stuff like that.
I was like, oh no.
I don't know how they couldn't, especially if they lived together for a long time.
And like you said, that routine is there.
Yeah.
you know, they would realize the routine is off.
It's not the same.
I mean, it's the same, but it's not.
It just made me really sad.
I was like, I really regret looking this up.
So, now I'm going to share it with Cara and everybody on the podcast.
you so much.
I'm sorry, Heather.
I'm sorry if this made you sad.
I think our cat Olive was delighted when Martini died.
I don't think she mourned for one second.
She was like, oh, finally, I'm an only cat again.
Yes.
Because the day we brought Martini home, well, the day I brought Martini home from color 10, actually.
Yes, yes.
uh was the worst day of Olive's life.
ah And Martini was the sweetest cat.
He was so sweet.
But Olive was just, you know, she was an only child.
Oh, she hated Martini.
And when Martini was gone, Olive turned into the sweetest cat.
She's like, oh, so there you are.
You can be nice.
see.
My sources were the Institute for Environmental Research and Education.
That old saw.
Uh, s'more science.
Oh.
And pet memory guide.
What? I don't know.
Oh, my Lord.
Well, would you like to move on to your next segment here? Not your next segment, our next segment.
Yes, please.
Because we share it.
Yeah, we do.
It's such a shared thing.
It's a shared thing.
And that's why we call it shared history.
Uh-huh.
This is where we tell you our DTH besties.
what we searched this week, what we learned, what was interesting.
Yes.
Blah, blah, blah.
You guys know the drill.
You're like a cat with a routine.
All right.
So, in episode 88, one of my searches was about traditional holiday foods in other countries that you really enjoyed.
It was so delicious.
So,, I made some of those that what over the holidays.
some of those options? Yeah, I did.
Wow.
No, I didn't.
Okay.
So, gross.
Did you keep a carp in your bathtub? I did.
Did you name it before you ate it? Yep.
Wow.
We called it Fred.
He was delicious.
No, he wasn't because he's a freaking bottom feeder.
Gross.
Ew.
That search produced a lot of answers.
Like, you know, there were tons of traditional holiday foods.
that I could have talked about, but I narrowed it down to just a few, right? Right, right, right.
The grossest ones.
Yes.
And I found out, I pulled out the ones that were the most outrageous to people like you and I.
Yes.
Then you and I wondered what foods Americans eat that gross other countries out.
Oh yeah.
So, that's what I searched.
Oh yay.
And so I decided I was, this was a job for ChatGPT.
Yeah.
So, it and I could converse.
about this rather than me just looking up random things.
Okay.
So, I'm going to read to you verbatim.
Okay.
What chat GPT said to me, because it was being very silly the day I talked to it about this.
Really? It's a little bit creepy.
Okay.
But wait.
Yes.
Were you being silly? No, no, no.
You were being straightforward.
I typed in, um, what foods do Americans eat that other countries might find gross? Okay.
That's what I typed in.
Here's what it says.
Oh, this is a fun one.
Food culture shock is real.
It like accentuated the word real.
Food culture shock is real.
Here are some very American foods that often make people from other countries recoil, gasp and politely say, interesting.
While backing away slowly.
Meat and animal bits.
Okay.
hmm.
Hot dogs.
The mystery meat reputation alone horrifies people, especially in Europe.
Corn dogs.
Meat on a stick dipped in sweet batter, confusing and alarming.
Chicken fried steak.
Beef pretending to be chicken, pretending to be fried.
Many find it unholy.
It kind of is, but it's delicious.
It's so good.
Biscuits and gravy.
The gravy.
white thick sausage speckled freaks out folks expecting brown gravy.
Okay.
Yeah.
Cause brown gravy is a lot more popular in other cultures and worlds and things.
mean, don't get me wrong.
I like a brown gravy, not on my biscuits.
No, no, but they don't even have like a biscuits and gravy.
I know that makes me sad for them.
I don't eat biscuits and gravy very often, but when I do, oh man, Sean and I know how to do that meal right.
We have got it down.
We don't go out for biscuits and gravy because nothing compares to what we can make at home.
Ooh baby.
Okay.
saying.
All right.
Next.
Gizzards and livers.
Organ meats aren't weird everywhere, but deep fried gas station gizzards, that's a lot.
But that's gross to Americans.
It's totally gross.
I hope.
Yeah, most people.
All right.
I like it obviously, but you know, I didn't even know gas station gizzards were an option.
I mean, any gas station food that's more than just like something that's pre-packaged or like, guess Casey's does pizza and they're pretty good.
I've heard, but I've never had a Casey's I had a Casey's pizza when I was a teenager and I, you know, can't remember.
I don't know.
Was it good? I don't know.
Yeah.
I mean, one of my sisters, uh, she, she just, that's all they ever get is pizzi's pizzas.
Well, maybe I'll have to try that someday.
All right, next category, dairy crimes.
Dairy crimes, okay.
American cheese, frequently considered not real cheese abroad.
It's not.
It's not.
It's weird.
It's gross.
It is gross.
Uh, cheese in a can.
Oh, but that's good.
This one genuinely haunts people.
Velveeta.
Described internationally as cheese flavored plastic.
Spray whipped cream.
Dairy aerosol equals existential crisis.
Oh no, it's delicious.
grief.
Alright, next category.
Sweet meets savory.
Why are you like this, America? Is that what it said? Yes! Okay.
Maple syrup on bacon.
Now, I don't like maple syrup on bacon.
Oh, I do.
oh Many cultures believe breakfast should pick a side.
You're so silly.
Peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Jelly on bread with peanuts is baffling outside the US.
It's not peanuts though.
It's not peanuts.
I mean, this computer doesn't know what it's talking about.
I know, but like...
And peanut butter and jelly is delicious.
Sweet potatoes with marshmallows, often cited as a war crime.
Chicken and waffles, deep confusion.
Respect confusion, but still.
Respect confusion.
I don't know.
I'm not a big fan of chicken and waffles.
I've never had it.
I mean, I've tried it.
Respect confusion.
It's just kind of dry.
Yeah, I can imagine.
There's nothing.
Yeah.
And I don't like marshmallows on my sweet potatoes.
Oh, I do.
Sweet potatoes are delicious just on their own.
They are, but I do love me some marshmallows.
like a marshmallow.
I like a lot of things that I did not use to like when I was a kid.
Biscuits and gravy is one.
oh Sweet potatoes and marshmallows.
Yeah.
Um, most of the like Thanksgiving foods, like cranberries in a can shaped like a can.
Sure.
I like that.
Um, but they're, yeah, I don't know.
I did not like sweet potatoes when I was a kid, but I'll get up on a potato now.
Oh yeah.
They're good.
I would eat.
Like russets, like crazy.
Sometimes that's all they could get me to eat.
But I wouldn't eat an orange potato.
That's disgusting.
Yams.
Yams.
Next category, drinks that raise eyebrows.
Root beer tastes like medicine or toothpaste to many non-Americans.
Now I don't like root beer.
I do.
I just never have liked it.
Non-dairy creamer.
What is it? No one knows.
Huge sodas with free refills.
This concept is alarming.
Okay.
Next category.
I think they're just jealous.
Yeah.
Also we have, we put ice in everything in our drinks and they don't do that in other countries.
Yes.
And so that's something that's kind of noteworthy.
100%.
Um, but I can't imagine drinking a soda without ice.
No.
I can't either.
Now I will drink a soda like if the can has been chilled.
Oh, right.
Right.
But like going to like a gas station and getting a fountain drink, you got to have ice in that.
Right.
Do you do you have a preference on ice? Like what kind of ice you get? No.
What's your? Well, I mean, I like little tiny cubes of ice.
Uh huh.
but I don't like go specific places.
Like I'm going to Sonic because they have the right ice or- buy ice from Sonic? Someone at work buys a bag of ice and puts it in the refrigerator or the freezer at work to have the ice.
They don't do it all the time, but they'll get it.
They'll be like, man, I want some Sonic ice.
I guess we all have our thing.
I guess, I don't know.
It cracks me It is good.
I do like that little ice though.
I don't like big, huge squares of ice.
You mean like craft ice? Like craft ice.
Exactly.
Okay.
Snacks that feel aggressive is the next category.
Pop tarts, dessert for breakfast with frosting? Oh yeah.
Twinkies, immoral sponge cake science experiment.
Ranch flavored everything.
Ranch as a lifestyle scares people.
Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
Oh baby.
Viewed as a chemical weapon in snack form.
I still have never had Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
Have you had Takis? I, no.
I've not had Takis.
I mean, these would be terrible for your bladder.
Oh yes.
Cause you have problems with spicy food in your bladder.
Yes.
But I love Takis and I...
And I do like flaming hot Cheetos, but they give me headaches, but talkies don't give me headaches.
So, I don't know what the difference is in the powder that they use, but I love talkies and talkies have a talkie nuts and they're like peanuts with a talkie shell on the outside, like a chip kind of a shell and they are red and they are so hot.
Chat GPT would be Mm-hmm losing its mind over that snack.
I I really like them.
That's hilarious and Clint, you know Beambo they distribute talkies.
So,, okay, we get some sometimes when they're out of date or try that Yeah, I've seen them at the stores, but I have never bought them before and I still I'm such a cheeto purist Yeah, like I just like the original crunchy cheeto if I'm gonna eat a cheeto Although I've seen like the jalapeno Cheetos and I love spicy foods.
just, you yeah, gladder doesn't.
And Takis, they have a couple of flavors that aren't super duper spicy.
And I like those two.
Like they've got a uh guacke Takis, I think is what they're called.
And they're like guacamole flavored.
They're super good.
Okay.
And then they've got a ranch flavor.
Of course.
It's America.
Merca Ranch.
It's a lifestyle.
It is a lifestyle.
But then they've got like the blue heat talkies.
That's what Peyton likes.
Blue heat.
They are so freaking hot.
It's not even enjoyable.
So, like a blue flame.
Yes.
Okay.
They hurt.
Oh man.
That's not enjoyable.
Yeah.
I don't like, I don't like that.
Okay.
Talkies.
I to try those.
Uh, have you had the jalapeno Cheetos? Uh-uh.
Okay.
I was curious what the difference between flame and hot and jalapeno are.
don't know.
Okay.
Maybe I'll have to do a taste test one day.
Maybe jalapeno is a little milder and more pickly tasting.
Oh, pickly tasting.
Like, you know, like on a nacho.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
If anyone has any comments about the difference between jalapeno Cheetos and flame and hot Cheetos, please let us know.
These are the burning questions.
Oh! I didn't even do that! I am so clever.
All right.
Honorable mentions according to chat GPT.
Okay.
Deviled eggs.
The name alone doesn't help.
Oh, shut your damn mouth.
Chat GPT.
Right.coming after my deviled eggs.
Next will be coming after devil's on horseback.
It's just so good.
But you don't like maple on bacon.
I know, I know.
It's different.
I don't know why.
Well, you know, whatever.
Our brains are just like that.
It's something to do with eggs.
Like if I'm eating bacon, there's probably gonna be eggs with it.
And I don't like sweet with eggs at all.
It grosses me out.
If syrup touches my eggs, that egg isn't eaten.
You trash.
Yeah, I agree with you.
But I will get up on Devils on Horseback.
yeah.
Bacon wrap dates.
Jell-O salads, especially with vegetables or meat suspended in sight.
Internationally terrifying.
Listen, nobody's done that since the 70s.
Fried butter at state fairs, often used as evidence in debates.
What? often used as evidence in debates.
Okay.
So, then that was the end of the chat GPT's responses.
And I said, what are your sources for these food opinions? And it said, totally fair question.
Short answer.
These aren't from a single study or a formal data set.
They're a mashup of well-documented cultural reactions that show up consistently across a few types of sources.
And here's what they're based on.
Okay.
Cross patterns of cross-cultural food reactions.
Over the years, the same U S foods come up again and again as shocking or gross in travel writing, expat blogs, cultural comparison books and essays, food anthology discussions, international student forums and exchange program reflections.
Oh, that must be great.
The exit interviews.
Oh my gosh, my host family, they made me eat.
I can't poop anymore.
Oh my gosh, when thousands of people from different countries independently say, why is your cheese orange and plastic? It becomes a pattern rather than a hot take.
Media and public commentary.
These foods frequently appear on YouTube and TikTok series like Foreigners Try American Food.
That's the name of a series.
uh shows and documentaries about American culture and international news sources about US eating habits.
root beer tasting like medicine, spray cheese being upsetting and biscuits and gravy causing panic are basically recurring tropes at this point.
Yeah.
So, it goes on.
There's some more information that, you know, it spit out at me, but, um, you know, you get the point.
Yeah.
They're generalizations.
They're not universal truths.
Plenty of people abroad actually love American food.
Plenty of Americans hate some of these foods too.
So, disgusting does not equal objectively bad.
It just means unexpected.
Uh-huh.
Uh-huh.
Okay.
I was like, what is Chatchie Pete up to tonight? Yeah, it was feeling its oats.
It was really sassy.
Usually it just reflects the tone that you put into it.
That's one of the criticisms about AI is that it is programmed to tell you what you want to hear and to agree with you and to mirror you.
was one time I had used it for work to do something.
I don't remember.
And I was needing it to critique what I had written.
And he was like, that's great.
You did a good job.
And so I responded and I said, I need you to critique this honestly, like an English teacher or my boss would.
I don't need you to flatter me.
And it had a completely different answer.
Completely different answer.
And so you gotta be real careful about stuff like that.
And you can get into the settings and tell it like, you can specialize it to yourself.
oh Like I want everything that you spit back out at me to sound professional or to sound sassy or, But I searched this on the Delete This History chat GPT.
So, I'm assuming that's why it was cheeky.
Because, you know, I use that to help write social media posts sometimes and things like that.
I used it to write my whistle pig poem.
Haiku, I think it was.
I just wasn't expecting all of this sass.
It really was like, let me tell you what I know.
I like food.
I like food, too.
I like American food.
And I like to see other cultures' reactions to American food.
Like, I do like those kind of videos on YouTube where they'll be like, Irish people try blah, blah, blah.
Fruit Loops.
Yes.
Yeah, anything with red dye, whatever.
And they're like...
banned in their country.
They're like, what is this? This food is banned where I live.
Yeah, it's really entertaining.
Okay, I'm going to talk to you about grapple.
Okay.
What is grapple? I don't know what is it.
It is a type of frozen precipitation often called soft hail or snow pellets.
It looks like tiny white soft balls, usually about pea sized, and they can sometimes resemble Dippin' Dots ice cream.
mmm.
Oh man, Dippin' Dots ice cream.
I haven't had that in decades.
Yeah, me either.
I never even think about it.
No, me neither, because it's weird.
It is weird.
Unlike Hale, which is hard layered ice, or Sleet, which is hard pellets.
The grapple is fragile and crushable.
So, it might look like hail or sleet, but when you touch it, it just kind of disintegrates like snow does.
Okay.
How does it form? It starts as a snowflake falling through supercooled water droplets in the cloud.
Okay.
These droplets freeze on contact, coating the snowflake in ice.
When enough droplets stick, the snowflake loses its shape and becomes a soft pellet.
So, eventually all the different little pieces of ice on the snowflake kind of disintegrate the snowflake structure and just turn it into like a little ball.
And then um this process is called rhyming or accretion.
Oh, rhyming like.
R-H-R-I-M-I-N-G.
And they call it, em when the droplets freeze on contact and coat the snowflake, that's called Rime Ice.
Okay.
All right.
It often melts quickly and doesn't ping like sleet when it hits surfaces.
Here's some miscellaneous stuff.
It forms most in cold climates like the Northern U.
S.
and Canada and in mountainous regions.
And then the Scots have 421 words for snow.
Oh, okay.
And Inuit languages have over 50 words for snow pellets.
Oh my gosh.
Including grapple.
Okay.
Which is one of them.
And I searched this because I was watching a video called Fascinating Winter Events on YouTube.
Like I like to watch natural disaster videos.
As one does.
because I'm weird.
It like stresses me out, at the same time, it's just fascinating.
And so then YouTube keeps giving me other stuff.
Of course.
And they're like, oh, you like that kind of weather? What about this weather? What about that? And then it'll give me like these crazy like winter weather videos where people are like having to use snow blowers on their roofs.
And then there's avalanche videos.
I like those.
Those are messed up.
People just standing there watching, Evelyn, this is when you run.
Right.
Same with like mud slides.
Oh yes.
And slides or rock falls.
So, we'll just stand there and you're like, hello? Sinkhole videos.
Have you ever watched those where like just a hole in the ground just opens up? No.
I watched one the other day and like this dude was driving a motorcycle.
and he was following like a big truck.
Oh, this wasn't a sinkhole, but they were going to go over a bridge and the bridge just fell when the truck hit it and the guy on the motorcycle was like, Oh my gosh.
What the heck? Good grief.
But like sinkhole videos are pretty interesting, but then people will get like right up on the edge of it.
And I'm like, hello, do you not know how a sinkhole works? But every time I watch anything like that, like with sinkholes or whatever, Clint will be like, you know, Springfield's just one big sinkhole.
Springfield is one big sinkhole.
And I was kind of on a kick, you know, because once you watch one video on YouTube, it just keeps suggesting more and more and more.
Oh, you liked that.
What about this big ass tornado? You want to watch that? Sure I do, because I don't want to sleep tonight.
Now, I enjoy watching giant ships on the North Sea.
Oh, I don't know why getting tossed around just like, well, They go, you know, the North Sea is super duper rough.
Oh my gosh.
Yeah.
Super dangerous.
And these giant ships are just, you know, going the waves are so, I don't know what it is.
It's just fascinating to me.
A, how does that boat even like stay upright? B, why are people willing to get on these boats and drive out there? don't understand.
Are they just throwing up the whole time? Right.
I'd be so sick.
uh I just don't understand.
But they look like toys.
I know.
I'll watch those videos over and over.
Yeah.
I don't know why.
Also ship launching videos.
Oh my gosh.
I like that too.
But I really like the ones that go wrong.
Oh yes.
This terrifying.
It's like, shit, that wasn't supposed to fall over.
Oh, that worked.
But it's kind of funny.
All that work.
That's all I can think is all that work.
All that money.
I know.
Yeah, I, oh man, I'm just into all kinds of stuff like that.
And then you're like, oh my gosh, it's one o'clock in the morning.
eh I have work tomorrow.
And then you wake up with a migraine.
Oh, right.
videos.
Anyway, my sources for that were Wikipedia, HowStuffWorks, Weather.com, The Weather Network, and Weather Events Explained.
Wow.
Now, I hope I don't.
us and now we get a bunch of winter weather because I talked about it.
Well right now when I walked in here it was 63 degrees.
January people.
Christmas day it was 71.
I know, I know.
Hot.
We turned on the air conditioner.
got so hot.
The dogs were hot in the house.
These dogs that have no fat on their bodies, no undercoats, they were like, because it was sunny.
It was sunny and warm.
Cara and our other friends were laughing at me because I said, I went out on the driveway and I just stood on the driveway in my bare feet.
On Christmas freaking day and I closed my eyes and just told myself it's summertime and I breathed in the air and I put myself in summer.
And then I said, psych, it's really Christmas.
And I wigged my brain out.
My brain, like my mind was blown.
I had to go inside, sit down for a minute and be like, it's really weird.
I don't even remember the last time Christmas was this warm, but global warming is not real.
No, no, So, don't worry about it.
Climate change.
Not allowed to say it.
It's don't worry about it.
No, this is very, very normal to wear shorts and turn the air conditioner in Missouri on December 25th.
Correct.
Very normal.
Yes.
So, normal.
It's never happened before.
Like we broke records.
I know.
That was ridiculous.
Oh, but Priya, what about this one? What about it? Here's 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.
Oh, you're boring.
Oh, so boring.
Take it away.
Xbox supermarket simulator.
Chex mix recipe.
Tuskegee Airman.
Dead reckoning.
Jazz up little smokies.
I was looking for a different recipe from my little smokies.
Brilliant ideas that I found out there.
of American foods that are kind of gross, little smokies.
uh Irregular Jane, Clyde coffee, Lord of mercy.
We got some Clyde coffee as a gift for Christmas and the flavor or that brew was called Irregular Jane.
Hands down.
The absolute best coffee I've ever had in my life.
The best coffee.
Okay.
So, we went to look it up.
So, was like, we need this.
I need this in my life all the time.
Yeah.
It's, I can't afford it.
It would have to be a special thing.
It's from Missoula, Montana.
It will be a special thing because we will have to buy that again.
Wow.
Wow.
Holy crap.
It was good.
OK.
Defcon levels and U.
S.
current Defcon level.
Don't look that up.
No, that sounds scary.
Yeah.
Is that it? That's it.
I had a very short list.
I did a lot of nothing.
Hmm.
When I do a lot of nothing though, I look up a lot of things.
Oh, I mean literally it's nothing.
Okay, here we go.
coffee and ate sausage balls.
I don't have a very long list either.
Do cats remember other cats who have died? Full question.
Related people on the repair shop TV show.
Why is my kid crying? Wow.
That is a Reddit.
and also a YouTube thing and it is hilarious.
It's just things that people, and I think there's an Instagram too, where people put like videos or on Reddit, it's just text of ridiculous reasons why their kid is crying.
Like the pickle didn't laugh or yeah.
The pickle is the wrong shape.
Right, right.
Or whatever.
They wanted strawberries in their cereal.
I put strawberries in their cereal.
Yes.
Exactly.
Yeah.
It's funny.
Oh shoot.
Kids are so annoying.
Bowler Jason Belmonte.
You know how like when you learn how to bowl when you're a little kid? Like grandma style? Not quite granny style because it's kind of sideways.
It's kind of sideways, but it's two handed.
Oh.
And he is a professional bowler.
He bowls like that and it is pretty interesting to watch.
He's successful.
Nick Berry.
Nick in quotes to describe jail or arrest.
Oh.
Penzies spices.
Michael Landis.
Gruber Christmas Carol.
Andy Rosen.
Elizabeth and Andy's Nobody's Listening.
Motherhood TV.
Diane Morgan.
Grapple.
Speaking of motherhood TV.
Have you watched motherland? I have watched all of motherland.
I want to see that so bad.
It is very funny.
I thought I thought it was on Netflix.
I could have sworn I saw somewhere that it was on Netflix and I can't I it was not I can't find it and I am sad because now I can only find it on Brit box.
Oh don't have Brit box.
I'm thinking about getting Brit Box just so can watch that show.
It looks so funny.
So, good.
em That's it.
That's all I got.
All right.
Do you have shout outs? I do have shout outs.
um Pennsylvania Erin is alive.
She is.
She's been VVB.
Also, you were worried that your books were like Hallmark movies and Erin says, how dare you? How dare you? She loves your books and she even has an author, Brea Brown folder on her Kindle.
Yeah.
She is a super fan.
She spits on Hallmark movies.
Yeah.
She says she's never watched one and never will.
She spits on them.
Never.
She will not.
That is a very strong word.
It's a bold statement to say that your books aren't like Hallmark movies, but she's never seen a Hallmark movie.
It's bold, Erin.
I like it.
That's true.
didn't even think about that, but she's right.
Oh, you guys are so nice.
I also told her to read Family Plot if she hadn't read it, but she was like, uh duh, I've read all of Rhea's books.
Cara, I'm sorry.
Oh, you guys are so hilarious.
Also, I wanted to thank Nancy A and Martha R.
just simply for interacting with our social media that actually does get posted sometimes.
Oh, like once in a while.
Like they'll like our posts or like a picture or something like that.
So, just thank you for interacting.
I appreciate it.
Yes, we, really do.
Cara, how do people get in touch with us? They can do like Nancy and Martha do and they can interact with us on social media at dthgals on Instagram.
Yeah.
Or you can email us at Delete This History podcast at gmail.com.
That is correct, ma'am.
We would love it.
Oh man, we haven't had an email in so long.
I know we would love to see your searches.
We would love to see.
Oh, show us pictures of what you got for Christmas.
Oh yeah.
Look what I got.
It's beautiful.
I've been looking at it.
It's a sapphire surrounded by diamonds.
It's gorgeous.
Isn't it beautiful? It was such a surprise.
I know.
It's so nice.
So, sweet.
All right, well, I probably better go delete my history.
Oh, yeah, somebody looks at it.
Totally me too.
All right.
Stay fresh cheese bags.
Bly.
Bly.
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