The ooo daddy thing is still cracking me up.
Welcome to episode 91 of Delete This History, podcast by two besties of a certain age searching for answers.
We're your host, Brea Brown.
And Cara Burch.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Hi.
What's up? Oh, I don't know.
There's a guy sitting behind you.
Is he looking at us? been sitting there a long time.
Oh.
 What is he doing? He's on the interwebs.
 You might not want to look too close.
Well,  he appears to be on a SharePoint site, oh but he's fiddling around with his phone right now.
Oh, so he's procrastinating.
Yeah.
He's doing what I do and I'm supposed to be doing something productive.
Yes.
And I'm like, oh, that reminds me.
I should do this other thing.
Yeah, and then 45 minutes later, I'm like, no, what was I doing? Yes.
At home, not at work.
I don't waste that much time.
Of course not.
Maybe five minutes at work before I'm like, what am I doing?  Like today at work, all of a sudden I was like, oh, Peyton said for his birthday, he wanted banana pudding instead of a cake.
Great choice, Peyton.
He wants like a layered trifle, like a banana pudding trifle.
like his Mimi makes.
 But Mimi just had to have a procedure done.
And I didn't want to bother her asking for the recipes.
So, I went on all recipes.
 Still great after all these years.
 I still have my account.
I still have a bajillion recipes on there.
Can I tell you something hilarious? What? This weekend, I literally deleted my all recipes account this weekend.
because it is a goal of mine in 2026 to get rid of accounts that I don't use anymore.
It's gone.
As soon as I get rid of my all recipes account, I'll need something like a banana pudding recipe.
Well, it's true.
Anyway, so I was looking that up because I was like, if I don't do it, yes, forget it.
And so I found one and I was like, OK, well, then.
you can add the ingredients to your Walmart shopping list.
Oh yes.
Which I had to go back to Walmart, because I'm sorry, Hy-Vee, but you're too expensive.
Too expensive.
I can't do it anymore.
Yeah, yeah.
Our food bills are ridiculous.
So, I've had to go back to the evil Walmart.
 But that's only until our Super Target opens, and then I'm going to do Target.
Yes.
So, come on, Super Target, let's get on it.
Yeah, right, get open already.
March 2026.
They're behind.
Yeah, well they keep delaying it.
And they keep delaying that road work there too, that bridge.
don't know what is going Oh my gosh, that bridge!  Don't even get me started.
It's a nightmare.
So, many phone calls.
Cara, Cara, the bridge, the bridge, the bridge, the bridge.
And I was like, what? You're telling me the bridge is still out?  I know the bridge is out, lady.
It's   I know it is.
I know and I apologize at this point I know it was supposed to have done been done.
oh Poor people who have only that's the way they go home.
I know there's just no good detour.
And the businesses that are right there.
 that are oh how are they surviving? don't know.
 Anyway so um  where did that come from?  See this is like my day.
 This is what happens.
 Why did we start talking Because I said I had- I added my- ingredients to my Walmart list and I hate having a Walmart list.
I hate it.
 I hate it.
You're so bad Walmart.
You fund such terrible things.
ah But  you and Amazon, I just can't quit you apparently.
Anyway, I've got a new driver in my house.
 Sort of.
He got his permit last week, but he has not practiced or had any lessons.
What?  Well, that's strictly a dad thing in our house.
 Oh.
In our family.
Because mama cannot teach people how to drive.
 I'm too uptight.
Just ask Caleb.
 I almost ran us into a utility pole.
 Oh.
Because he was not turning like I wanted him to.
Yes.
 So, I grabbed the wheel.
 Oh.
 Oh my gosh.
First and last time I did a driving lesson.
That's all that's going on in our house.
All right.
Well, banana pudding.
Yum.
I know.
Hello.
What's going on at our house? um, um, Really nothing.
There's not, there's not a lot going on.
Are you still in mourning for the chief season? No, because it was so bad all year.
It just, you know, you kind of saw the writing on the wall.
It's kind of a relief.
It's just, yeah, no more.
Let's not even think about it.
worry.
Now, real quickly.
Yeah.
I don't want to talk about football for very long for our listeners that find it very boring.
However, did you watch the Steelers in the Ravens game last night?  No.
Holy crap.
It was good, huh? What a game.
I'll have to watch the highlights.
What  a game.
I mean, I told Sean, this  is I'm reminded  of how fun and exciting football can be.
Yes.
When you don't have a losing team.
Yeah.
When your team can get their shit together.
Oh my gosh.
But that game for them, it was on the line.
The fourth spot in the NFC was on the line.
And so of course they were both teams wanted it.
Yeah.
Wow.
What a game.
Okay.
I'll have to look at the, at the highlights, but yeah,  no, I watched uh a half.
Yeah, I watched the first half of the Chiefs game, which was, you know, week 18 last week.
Um, and I said, I'm out.
It was terrible.
It was just so painful.
Yeah.
It was like a competition to see which team could be the worst.
So, bad.
I was just like, Oh my gosh, is this.
Well, when you put in the fourth string quarterback, you know, everything is just like.
We're we're just done.
 Right.
We're done.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That guy was not very good.
 Oh no.
You know what? He started out okay.
But then I don't know if he just got tired  or his cage got rattled.
too hard.
Yeah.
I don't know.
But then it was just like, Oh buddy, what are you doing here?  Oh buddy.
 Gosh.
So, I'm looking forward to these playoffs actually, because it kind of seems like a crap shoot.
like teams that you think  that wouldn't normally be in the playoffs or in the playoffs.
Teams that you think should be winning or not.
And I mean, I just think these playoffs are going to be, it's just up for grabs.
I think anybody can win this thing.
em But wow,  I highly encourage, if you like football and you didn't watch the Raymond Steelers game last night, watch the highlights.
 I was yelling at the TV.
And that was from January 4th.
 For those of you listening two weeks or one week ahead of now.
That's right.
January 4th.
Yeah.
The last week of the regular season.
It was the last game of the regular season.
 Bye-bye football.
We're going to miss you so much.
I don't know though.
No, I am.
I'm still going to miss it.
Normally I do, but  this year has been...
It's not been great, but...
 I've just been supplementing it with other good teams.
And I'm not a fair weather fan.
I still love them and I still root for them, but it just was not fun to watch.
Not at all.
What is the point if it ain't fun to watch? mean, we don't have to go to the Super Bowl every year, like win more than six games.
Yes, please.
That would be nice.
Any who's all.
Yeah.
 So, speaking of games,  would you like to play a little game we like to call?  Search Me! Are we each asking each other one trivia question from our week's internet searches? Yes please please please! Okay.
Carrie, your question for today is,  what are termite mounds made of?  mounds?  I'm gonna go with hint it's three things  oh okay and an eight sugar spice and everything nice yeah yeah yeah and it's not even snips nails and puppy dog tails yeah yeah yeah it's grosser than that well I'll tell you the very first thing that popped in my head okay was termite poop  you're correct  and then I'm gonna go with termite like eggs,  like larvae? No, oh but it is something else that comes from the termite.
The spit, the saliva.
And there's a third thing? There's a third thing and it's not from the termite.
they take something from the environment.
Oh,  oh, oh, oh, oh.
 Wood.
 No.
I don't know.
 Soil.
 Oh.
Soil.
What a terrible word.
Dirt,  Dirt.
Disgusting.
Saliva, soil, and poop.
Yum.
And certain species of termites build mounds that can exceed 10 feet in height.
Oh my gosh, that's a lot of termite poop.
 These structures are engineering marvels.
Oh.
 Allegedly.
Featuring natural ventilation systems that regulate temperature and humidity.
Ew, I got the chills just now.
I know.
 And...
It's perfect for sustaining the colony.
Blah, blah, blah, blah.
But they smell real gross.
 Why did I search this? We got a new trivia game for Christmas called Where Did I Learn That?  Nice.
We like trivia games.
We especially like trivia games that are just cards  where you can just like, if you get it right, you get the card.
Yeah, yeah.
And then you can, that's how you keep score.
Blah, blah, blah.
Simple.
Not a lot of, I mean, it is the laziest way to play trivia.
 Well, no, on your phone would be lazier, probably.
because we do have to get the cards out.
But anyway, it's lazy man's trivia and that's what we're down with.
 And then termite mounds, that wasn't the answer, but it was like, what was the  largest termite mound or something like that.
oh It just made me  think, what does that even look like and what are they made of? And then I really regretted all my life choices  after I looked that up.
Bro! Because it is gross.
Oh, that's nasty.
My sources were Wikipedia, Animals Around the Globe, Science Array, and Biology Insights.
 Great.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, mine's not about bugs.
 Okay.
Today,  you have to name this liquor.
Okay.
No, liqueur.
Okay.
It is a dark, complex herbal liqueur.
 made from a secret recipe of 56 different herbs, fruits,  roots, and spices, steeped in alcohol and water, and then aged in oak barrels, resulting in a bittersweet, syrupy spirit.
It's most commonly enjoyed as a chilled shot, but also can be used to make cocktails.
Now I have a hint  if you  want it or if you want to think for a minute.
I would like a hint.
It's German.
Oh, okay.
That's a good hint.
Thank you.
 Um,  I mean, is it going to help me come up with the answer? No, but  it did rule out the thing I was going to say.
 German.
Made with herbs, fruits,  roots, spices.
 oak barrels?  Is  it,  um,  oh, Jaegermeister? It's Jaegermeister, exactly!  Jaegermeister! You nailed it!  Oh man.
Now why did I look this up? I just didn't know what Jägermeister, oh, I was watching TV show.
oh Like it's all I've done for like the last 10 days.
 And uh they were having Jägermeister shots.
I've never in my life had Jägermeister.
Really? Yeah.
And  I've heard of it, obviously.
uh So, I looked it up to see what it was all about and I'm kind of interested in having some Jägermeister now.
I think you should go to Macadoodles and get little samples.
 Can I get a little sample? I think you can get Jaeger samples.
eh Okay.
The little sample bottles.
 That way if you don't like it, no biggie.
The airplane bottles.
Yeah.
Okay.
 Um, oh my gosh.
When we did bowling league  for color 10.
I even imagine.
 were in our twenties.
 It was like,  it was TV bowling league.
Yes.
So, was all the different affiliates, the news people affiliates from the city.
city from here and we would get together on Friday nights after the late news.
Yes, so it's late.
It is friggin late.
Like 11, 1130.
Yep.
How did you ever do that? Yeah, I'm like, what, what, did we do with our kids? Kid, I guess we only have one.
I think Andrew still lived with us.
Well, Clint.
Was he on the bowling alley? Oh, what did you? It's 1130, do you know where your child is? We were just like, ah, he's sleeping, he'll be fine.
He's fine.
No, I think Andrew was living with us still.
Was Klopp in a car seat laying on the floor of the bowling alley? He was not with us.
It would not have been good.
Oh, shoot.
Yeah, and we did Jaeger a few times.
 And we did Goldschlager a couple times.
It has like little flecks of gold in it.
 Whoa!  That was kind of crazy.
And then we would always go to Taco Bell afterwards because it was the only place open that late back in them days.
 Now, I was not on the night shift for  most of my stint there.
I was on the morning shift for almost the entire time.
Right.
But I went to the night shift  for a little while and I went out with these people one time.
And we went to that hole in the wall, Ray's.
Oh yeah, Ray's.
On St.
Louis.
Yes.
I don't even think it's there anymore.
No, it's not.
So, they turned it into, it got turned into something.
 I mean, that building is still there, but it's not, it's not Ray's, because I think Ray died.
Oh, he was old.
He was so old.
But yeah, I went out and when I got there, uh some of the crew were already  well in.
Oh my gosh.
And it was...
I didn't stay very long.
 I couldn't keep up.
was just...
There were times that Shannon's husband  and Clint would get together before we would be done at the TV station.
And then we would be like, we'll meet you after  the show.
And we would go out, like hang out at someone's house or whatever.
 And there was one time, we were in Amy Cooper's apartment,  and Clint And Sam were so wasted that they were holding each other up and walking through Chesterfield Village.
Oh my lord.
Chesterfield.
Holding hands and like holding each other up.
 then they were like having a competition to see who could go faster on Amy's exercise bike.
 Great idea.
 This is in an apartment, people.
I mean, we were  such jackasses.
 Gosh.
Where are other people in those apartments? Good God.
 Fortunately, most were like college kids too.
I'm just picturing Clint  and what's his name? Sam.
Just these two lanky tall guys.
Yeah.
Just trying to hold each other up.
 Holding hands.
 Oh my gosh.
 We were so dumb.
 What a good time though.
That's what you're supposed to do when you're 20.
I guess so.
 Anyway.
oh I can't believe I pulled that out of my ass.
was pretty good.
right.
We'll have to do those shots when we do our, um, when we do some, uh,  vacation planning.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
I was thinking about that this morning.
 As a matter of fact, I was like, when are Brea and I getting together to plan this stuff? Cause we got to get on the ball soon.
Cause yeah, you've got to make plans.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'll bring the Yeager.
Got to get it going.
Okay.
uh Our crazy time at the TV station is something we share.
It's part of our history that we share.
It goes way back.
Way, way, way further back than I want to admit.
um And now  it's time for a segment that we call Shared History, where we tell you our DTH besties the most interesting thing we learned this week.
 I have a new guilty pleasure.
 Oh.
I didn't talk about it in the last episode because I knew I was going to talk about it now.
OK.
But  it is watching police chases on YouTube.
What?   Now I have been  a pretty outspoken person when it comes to police.
Yes.
Okay.
So, I like to watch body cam videos and I really like to body cam videos of corrupt police getting caught by other police officers body cams that  is satisfying.
Okay.
Okay.
But I also like, I'm listen, I'm not totally down on police.
If they went away, I would be very upset.
Yeah.
Because we need them.
So, I'm not like a totally, you know, every cop is a bad cop.
It's not like that.
But I do have some criticisms of the way our justice system in general, not just the police, but our justice system in this country works.
And it's not great.
But these police chase videos are thrilling.
Now are you talking they're in a car or are these foot chases? These are dash cam car chases.
Gotcha.
Sometimes they turn into foot chases,  like foot pursuits, but mostly it's just cars and it's from the cops dash cam and you're just watching.
And sometimes some of these YouTube channels, they're fancy.
 And if there's multiple police officers  pursuing  a suspect or whatever, they will switch oh dash cams and they'll say,  look at it from this person, this cop's perspective, the one who was a little bit further back or look at it from  the police officer who did this.
Okay, so anyway, um they routinely say in  these videos, I'm gonna try a pit.
I'm gonna try a pit.
 And I was like, like a pit stop? I was thinking like racing,  but it's not a pit stop, it's pit.
And I looked it up and it's actually an acronym, PIT.
 And in this maneuver, they ram the suspect vehicle and run it off the road.
And this is a way to  end the chase  and  hopefully, you know,  mitigate damage to other people's cars and endanger to  just the general public and motorists, okay? But the PIP maneuver, it stands for Precision Immobilization Technique.
And it's a law enforcement tactic used to stop fleeing vehicles during pursuits.
The maneuver involves a pursuing police vehicle making intentional contact with the rear quarter panel of the suspect's car on either side, whichever side they can get around to.
But mostly what you're trying to do is you're trying to hit the side that you want the car to go.
 So, if you want  the car to go  off the right side of the road, you would hit it on the right side.
 Because then it's going to  spin it clockwise.
 If you want it to go off the left side of the road, like into like a median on a highway,  if they're in like the  fast lane, and you want it to go into the median, then you would hit it on the left side and it would turn it.
which was kind of counterintuitive to me the first time, the first few times I watched it, was like, no, no, no, don't hit that, because it's going to go into traffic, but it's not.
It's interesting how the physics of it works.
The goal is to end dangerous chases quickly and safely, minimizing the risk to officers, suspects, and the public now.
I don't know if they're really minimizing the risk to the suspects.
 Yes.
Because in many of these cases,  they are going over a hundred miles an hour  and the suspect does not make it.
Yeah.
Yeah.
After they...
Now, it's true that other cars generally are not involved.
They're really good at it, at figuring out, you know, when to do it, how to do it so that other cars don't get hit, you know, just bystanders and um just innocent bystanders.
 I've seen a lot of people, I've seen a lot of these crashes where the suspect does not make it.
Good grief.
Yeah.
That's pretty disturbing.
Yeah.
But at the same time, it's kind of like, I mean, you don't want to get callous about it, but it is kind of like, what are you doing?  You're putting all these other people in danger for something.
And usually it's like what they're being pulled over for is like nothing.
 But the problem is they know they've got a warrant out on  them or they've got drugs in the car or they're doing something they're not supposed to be doing or it's a stolen vehicle or whatever.
But usually the thing that grabs the attention of the police officer is usually some minor infraction.
 And then it turns into, here we go.
Yeah,  a thing.
 You hear the cops start to get out of the car.
Ding ding ding the door, you know the door chime and then the car in front of them Yeah, and you hear the car scrambling all this shit on their uniforms squeaking and clanking and they're You know and it's on no So, how they do it is the police vehicle aligns its front bumper with the rear quarter panel and then gently steers into the suspects car applying lateral pressure And then the result is that it causes the suspect's rear wheels to lose traction, initiating a spin, usually about 180 degrees so that they're facing the other way um and stop.
But  I've seen a few of these videos where they do it  multiple times.
 And the person just  keeps going.
 Or they attempt it and it doesn't work or whatever.
It's crazy.
 The maneuver creates a yaw movement.
Yaw.
Nope.
The maneuver creates a yaw moment.
ah rotational force around the vehicle's center of gravity, forcing it to spin out of control and halt.
 And they use it when a fleeing suspect poses a significant threat to public safety, such as during high speed pursuits or serious crimes.
Policies vary, but most departments require that the danger posed by the suspect outweighs the risks  of using the pit.
 Factors considered include speed, traffic, road conditions, and pedestrian presence.
 Here's where the controversy comes in.
It's controversial due to the risk of injury or death.
especially at high speeds.
So, if you're going faster than 20 to 35 miles per hour, which they always are, it can be classified as deadly force.
Gosh.
Which if you're running away from a police officer and on foot, sometimes they use deadly force in those cases too.
I mean, what are you going to do? Then again, if you just get the license plate number and let them go.
 A lot of times you can catch up to them later without.
I think there's a policy, Springfield police have a policy that they will not  pursue.
That's right.
Correct.
I think that they do pursue up to a certain speed and then they stop because it's just, it's no good for anybody.
 Right.
And if they'll back off, that person will slow down and just try and go hide somewhere.
Right.
But the sheriff's department does not have that policy.
do not have that policy and they be done.
Are you saying that on the record?  Maybe.
 I don't approve.
I think Springfield police are doing the right thing.
Yeah.
 And they typically will find that person anyway.
Yes.
I don't think Greene County should chase people like that.
Well, they get on.
What  was that show? Something live.
PD live? PD.
Oh, life PD.
They get on live PD all the time for that, or they used to.
 Because they were  one of the few willing to do it.
Now Arkansas State Police, they use it constantly.
Okay.
Do not mess.
Do not.
 Do not run from an Arkansas State Police officer.
 You will get f'd up.
They don't give a crap.
Well.
They will just, they'll keep at you.
 There's a couple other, it's mostly southern.
oh mostly southern states.
 They're just like, it's Georgia, Arkansas.
I see a lot of Florida, of course.
You know why? It's that damn Duke's a Hazard Show.
 They're all boss hogging it.
They're all boss hogging it.
 I'm boss hog.
Damn Duke boys.
boys,  they at it again.
 Regulations often limit its use to serious situations.
 Duh.
 And some departments avoid it altogether.
Like we were saying.
between 2016 and 2020, this is a little bit outdated, but the pit maneuver was linked to at least 30 fatalities in the US.
Whoa.
With many occurring after stops for minor traffic violations.
again, like I'm saying, you're stopped for something minor, but anyway, you're running.
Yeah.
And 30 fatalities in four years, not terrible.
No, but that's...
still a lot for one type of maneuver.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
One strategy.
Yes.
Yeah, I guess so.
 Wow.
But you know.
They shoot a lot of people.
That's true.
 Good point.
 How many fatalities from shooting people? Now I do notice that when they do get the suspect  to stop the car  or it rolls over or they crash out or whatever, um they use their tasers more than anything.
Man, love to watch somebody getting tased.
Oh my gosh! I know that's terrible.
  I'm seeing a whole different side of you I've never seen before.
a video of a lady getting tased in a Walmart.
 I almost peed my pants because it was so...
I she did too.
 But she...
the way that her body went...
It was so ridiculous looking.
my gosh.
Well, when you come back in next week and you say you have a new favorite video to watch and it's Tazing, I won't be surprised.
I don't seek out the Tazing videos, but because I watch so many cop videos, do see a lot of it.
it's pretty entertaining.
Oh my word.
They always warn people, I'm going to Taze you, I'm going to Taze you.
And then some people, especially people who are like really geeked out on drugs.
Oh yes.
They, it doesn't matter.
I know.
You could taste them over and over again.
I know.
It does not matter.
Yeah.
I saw a cop pepper spray a guy.
Yeah.
And he kept saying, I'm going to pepper, I'm going to mace you.
I'm going to mace you.
I'm going mace you.
And the guy just wasn't listening.
And so he sprayed him and the guy spit it back at the cop.
Oh my gosh.
And the cops face.
And they're so they're both like, oh,  they're both dying.
Oh my gosh.
And the cop is like, and the guy's like, it burns, it burns.
And the cops like, I know, man, I know, man, I can't breathe either.
And they start bonding over how they can't breathe because of the pepper spray.
Oh my gosh.
But yeah.
Dude, come on.
Well, would just I just cannot even imagine.
I can't imagine.
being like, you know, I'm just gonna run.
 know.
Well, that's because you're a rule follower.
But I just like, there's just no way.
No way.
No.
 Or if a cop told me anything, to do anything, I'd be like, okay.
Yeah.
And how long do you want me to do it?  I would  not  mess around.
No.
 I just, man, come on people.
 You're always going to lose.
Always.
In some way.
There are so many more of them than you.
Oh my gosh.
And they will call for backup.
 Oh yeah.
And you will get run down.
Yes.
Anyway, my sources were Wikipedia, LegalClarity, EngineerFix,  and the YouTubes.
 Oh, yes.
Of course.
Of course.
I hope you don't think less of me, everybody, that I find these  things  entertaining.
 If you have a problem with Brea's  delights,  Delete This History podcast at gmail.com  is where you can reach us.
 You can tell me how terrible I am.
em Brea, do you like to sleep? oh Yes, it's like one of my favorite things.
Are you  an early bird or are you a night owl? um I'm an early bird.
You are? Okay.
Yeah.
I'm not.
Sometimes I'm a night  owl and an early bird.
Yes.
That's not a good thing.
No, it's that hurts after a while.
 Yeah, but I can't help.
My body is just like it wakes up  no matter what.
 No matter how late I stayed up the night before.
It's like, oh, hey, time to get up.
No, I don't work that way.
Brea discovered I am not a morning person.
When we went to South Carolina together, I slept in.
She'd been up for like four hours.
I was still asleep.
It's OK, though, because I'm used to it.
Yeah, I'm used to being up by myself all the time.
And you have Boo and Jasper to keep you company.
And coffee.
had, you know.
It worked out.
And logic puzzles and all the things.
Yeah.
I was sawing logs upstairs.
 And I'm asking this because I learned this week that there are chronotypes.
 And I didn't know that.
 And so that's basically, you know, whether you're an early bird or a nigh owl and it's driven by your circadian rhythms.
Okay.
and influenced by your genetics.
apparently chronotypes have animals assigned to them  to describe specific types.
I never heard of this.
I mean, we've heard of early bird and, know, Nihal, but these are like specific animals have been, there's four types.
uh So, the bear.
 Which is what I am.
You're a bear? I'm a bear.
The bear aligns with the sun, sleeps and wakes with daylight.
 That's so me.
Often busy, but needs the sleep.
Yes.
That's just me too a tea.
Yeah.
The wolf is the classic night owl,  most alert and productive in the evening and late at night.
That's Sean.
Oh no.
 Well, it's sort of Sean.
 Actually,  I  did not.
Sean's a different animal.
We decided.
Oh, okay.
I'll get to that in a second.
 The lion  is the early riser.
So, you're a lion.
Energetic in the morning, but you tire easily.
Oh, yes.
 Like  by 10 o'clock in the morning, I'm like,  oh my gosh.
Oh my word.
I'm ready for second sleep.
 And second sleep, we all know is the best sleep.
It is the best sleep.
I had some second sleep this morning and it was the bomb.
Oh man.
Cause I woke up in a, I was so hot.
I woke up at four o'clock in the morning because I was so hot.
That's awful.
And I was like, I came like exploding out of the covers and like trying to get everything off of me.
And then I was so hot.
I couldn't go back to sleep.
Oh no.
Then I finally fell asleep around 5 45 and my alarm was set for six 15.
Oh no.
had 30 minutes of  Like  oh, yeah, it was really good sleep anyway, I digress The dolphin okay, this is what Sean is a light sleeper  often fragmented sleep and can be inconsistent Oh often fragmented sleep can be inconsistent and alert in bursts.
 That is just Sean to a tee He's a dolphin.
So, he gets like second and third wins throughout the day Yes, and so like he falls asleep at like eight o'clock, eight thirty at night.
He's falling asleep in his chair.
Yeah, yeah.
If he falls asleep for 30 or 45 minutes, he'll catch a second wind and he'll be awake until one or two in the morning.
Then he'll crash.
Yes.
And then he'll wake up again around five.
And then he has to get up.
He goes and pee and he gets a drink of water.
And then he crashes hard again until like before he needs to get up and get to work.
like around 7 30.
Oh my gosh.
He does this all the time.
It's so bad.
It's going to kill him.
I don't know how he functions like that.
He's been like that since I've met him and his mom was the exact same way.
She had terrible insomnia.
Yeah.
Terrible.
Yeah.
But and and Sean's got it too.
So, he's a dolphin.
Now your DNA, particularly the P.
ER3  gene  plays a significant role in determining your chronotype.
Now, why do our chronotypes matter? Hang on, my paper's stuck together.
 So, knowing when you're naturally  most alert helps you schedule demanding tasks for your peak times.
For your health, aligning your schedule with your chronotype can improve sleep quality, your energy levels, and your mood.
If you can understand your chronotype, it might even help you choose a job shift  or when the best time is for you to exercise if you're into that kind of thing.
 So,  how do you determine your chronotype? I mean, you pretty much probably already know  if you're an early bird or a night owl, but there are  in betweens.
And so uh there are online tests that you can take and they're free.
uh And you can  figure out if you do fall in between and you don't really know when might be the best time, you can go see a therapist and they can like work through that with you or a counselor and they can talk about like, okay, let's really get down into the nitty gritty.
Like when do you feel awesome?  And it may take a few weeks because you have to start paying attention to when you feel awesome and when you don't want to get up.
uh So, I took an online test  and  I,  the bear, I'm the bear.
So, I kind of actually fall in the middle.
I'm not an early bird  at all.
But I also,  I like to go to bed around nine-ish.
 I start getting sleepy when the sun goes down.
The winter's super hard.
 Cause when the sun goes down, like I'm, I'm sleepy.
I'm still at work.
 So, it feels better for me.
 I feel so much better if I can wake up around 8.
30 or 9 in the morning.
Waking up at 6 and 7 o'clock, I feel so horrible.
I feel nauseated.
I don't eat.
I don't drink coffee.
I don't drink water because my stomach, it just can't handle it when I first wake up.
So, I don't really start drinking coffee until about 8.
30 or 8.
45.
And that's when I'm like, I'm getting into my groove.
Like I'm waking up, my energy's kicking in.
8 o'clock, 9 o'clock, 10, 11, 12, 1, 2.
Those are my hours.
Yeah.
Once I hit about 3 or 3.
30, my energy levels really start going down.
My attention span starts going down.
I don't care anymore.
Yeah.
Like I'm done.
Yeah.
So,, I mean, I can tell like 8.
30 to 2 ish, 2.
30.
That's my sweet spot.
Yeah.
I'm totally just mourning.
m After lunch,  I'm useless.
 I mean, not useless.
I still force myself to Well, right, of course.
You have a job.
You have to.
 But I just am not as good.
Do you try to put harder work  at the beginning of the day? Yes.
Yeah, I wait.
I go through my email.
 I get all that stupid crap out of the way.
 And then around 9 or 9.
30 is when I start.
really being like, okay, what do I need to tackle today?  And I work on that stuff until the afternoon.
And then I go back to email,  the stupid crap in afternoon.
 Just the things that are like, okay, I can do that real quick and process this real quick.
Or then you start planning for the next day.
Exactly.
Like this is gonna wait till tomorrow.
Yep.
Yeah.
I do that too.
But it's usually like one o'clock  when my brain is like, gosh, we no more want to do.
 That must make for such a long day.
It makes for such a long afternoon.
you're like, OK, but we still got stuff to do.
It's too bad you couldn't start your day earlier.
I don't want to, though.
Oh, OK.
Because I'm kind of a slow starter, too.
Like, I'm up early, but I like to have that, like,  really slow.
Drink my coffee, do some logic puzzles, listen to some podcasts.
playing some games on my Kindle.
I wish I could do that.
And then, like around eight o'clock, I'm like, yeah, I'm ready to go.
Okay.
I can do this now.
And then I'm go, go, go, go.
Like I'm really like focused.
Man, I wish I could get up and just be calm around the house and just have some coffee and sit and...
I don't know, whatever, listen to podcasts or read a book or I don't know.
just, it's just not who I am.
If I have to get up and immediately start like, get in the shower, do this, get out the door, blah, blah, blah, I am miserable.
Yeah.
I feel so scattered.
Like I haven't had time for my brain to kind of like figure out what's, cause the whole time I'm doing all those stupid little piddly like nonsense things.
my brain is just kind of lining up my day and just kind of.
And I'm the same way.
 I, I wait till the last minute  to get up because I don't want to be up yet.
I'm so  not ready to be up.
 So, I am scattered.
I get up and it's, it's all a crisis.
Yeah.
The whole morning.
I can't handle that.
That sets my day off like I know, have terrible mornings every morning because I don't want to be up yet.
If I could wait, if my alarm could go off at eight o'clock,  oh  my gosh,  my life would be amazing.
 But wouldn't you just be...
 Wouldn't you just like if your alarm went off at eight o'clock you would just be? No, because I'm naturally already waking up at eight like eight or eight thirty I'm just that's just when I woke up.
So, your brain would be ready to get up.
Yes and hit the ground.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
At that time I'm like  six o'clock when I need to get up.
 It's  it doesn't matter how early I go to bed either.
If I go to bed at  nine o'clock and I'm asleep by nine thirty.
six o'clock in the morning is still so painful.
Yeah.
It's awful.
Because you're hitting some kind of part of your sleep cycle that means that you're not ready to be awake.
I'm just not ready to be up yet.
So, you wake up and you're like, oh, what's happening? What am I doing? Oh, I feel so crappy.
Yes, I feel crappy every morning.
And you can't get your brain to get like organized.
But when I was on vacation, this  last week or whatever, like eight o'clock, eight thirty, I just, it didn't matter how, if I stayed awake until one o'clock at night or I went to bed at ten o'clock, I would just always wake up at like eight or eight thirty and feel just fine.
Like I'm like, let's do this.
 Get up, get a cup of coffee.
 But I don't get to do that.
Oh my gosh, I'm yawning just because this is making me think of sleep and I want sleep so badly.
7.
30 PM.
I know, I'm ready.
I'm ready.
It's so dark outside though.
There are times when I'm like, oh my gosh, how is it not even nine o'clock yet? Uh-huh, yeah.
And then there are times when I'm like, I don't even give a rat's.
I don't care how lame this is, I'm going That's when your hierarchy of needs has shifted.
Yeah, and sleep.
is the most important.
Like I don't care how lame it is.
I'm going to bed.
No, there's nothing wrong with that.
Don't let anybody tell you any different.
 My sources for all that were sciencedirect.com.
But yeah, go online and take yourself a little uh chronotype test.
It was fun.
That's,  I love tests like that.
Yeah.
And it didn't even make you plug in.
Like I think I went to psychology today.
It didn't make you plug in your email address or anything.
You just could do it.
Okay.
Yay, yeah, so they're not gonna be sending you a bunch of crap like you're a lion.
What can we do to help you?  Oh gosh?  Spam But Cara what 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 Or we're just too damn boring.
Yeah I got some good ones.
Okay ready, yep, yep, yep Bentonville, Arkansas Oh, it's so boring.
Total wine Springfield.
No.
  I didn't buy anything,  but I did look it up.
Okay.
Okay.
Can you use an access pass card in an RFID blocking wallet? You can.
Okay.
Different frequencies.
I don't know how all that works.
I don't either.
But it's pretty cool.
Technology.
Okay.
 maneuver.
Horry County.
Quotidian Recipes Sour Cream Beef Casserole.
Quotidian? Yeah.
Okay.
That was the name of the lady's site that you sent me.
Titty.
 Stop thinking about titties.
That recipe is flippin delicious.
Well, I'm making it this week.
It's like lazy girls.
So, we've named it in our house, lazy Jane's lasagna.
Oh, it just tastes like a delicious lasagna that you didn't have to put a whole bunch of work into.
Oh, good.
And I wasn't expecting that.
I wasn't expecting a lasagna flavor.
No, it doesn't look like it looks more like a beef stroganoff.
Yes, that's what I was expecting.
Nope.
OK, well, numb.
Termite mounds.
 Uh, not yum.
 J Blades.
Oh, oh come on, J.
Do better.
 I just pretend like it's a different person.
Yeah, me too.
 Cause I don't want it to ruin the show.
I know that show is so great.
I love it.
But he's always kind of given me a squick factor.
Yeah, me too.
Me too.
He's always been a little bit annoying  and mean.
And not just.
Yeah, maybe not mean, like, um too familiar.
Yes.
One of those people.
 Anyway, if you watch, if you don't watch the repair shop, you should.
Oh, it's really good.
um But just pretend like uh he's a different person.
That's what I do.
Bay Jade's.
Bay Jade's.
 Quince.
Honda payment login.
Hey.
 Yeah, I pay that car payment.
 Well,  I pay the car payment automatically.
It comes out of my account automatically, but  it's  personal property tax time.
Oh, yes.
And I had to pay that on my leased vehicle because they pay it.
 Oh.
And then I have to pay them.
I see.
 And it was $450 Cara.
 Jerks.
At Christmas time.
know.
In addition to the 150, I already paid on the car that we own outright.
Oh my gosh.
I'm not going to tell you what ours were.
Oh my gosh.
We had real estate tax and personal property tax, know.
Oh.
It was like $4,000.
Oh my gosh.
It was very, very painful.
Very, very painful.
I'll stop complaining then because.
Well, I feel your pain.
I feel your pain.
It's just like, oh.
do this at Christmas time.
know and you for every year you forget and then you're like oh yeah this again.
 Carrie ad Lloyd husband slash children slash brother.
Michael Fassbender.
Requirements for driver's permit in MO.
Oh yeah.
Walmart grocery delivery.
 How much would an average new 16 year old driver add to a car insurance policy in Missouri? Yeah.
Employee satisfaction, Target versus Walmart.
 What  causes does Target support?  New target Springfield Mo opening date.
 Unsubscribe apps.
It's like you and I are on the same wavelength.
I've got a lot of accounts out there.
 The only problem is these unsubscribe apps,  only really target the ones that you pay for.
So, if you have accounts that are like Allrecipes, Pinterest, anything like that.
um It won't help you.
You have to kind of remember them all and be like, yeah, I'm canceling this.
I'm pretty good about writing down, like if I start an account, I write down the, or I add it to my phone.
And so I have a pretty good running list of what accounts I've started.
 I'm so, you're and everywhere.
That I don't know about, but they'll come back and bite me one of these days.
Yeah.
I'm all over the place.
Are you ready for my list? I'm ready.
Okay.
Jaeger Meister, oh Jennifer Lawrence kids, Rose bowl.
Springfield, Missouri rain chances in long-term forecast.
 God, we need some precipitation around here.
The whole city is just gonna burst into flames if we don't get some rain.
Stranger Things Season Four review.
All recipes, account deactivation, there it is.
em Apple Watch won't pair with new phone.
oh I had to wipe my watch  in order for it to pair with my new phone.
 Uh, Nathaniel Green Park, eighties tees.
And I don't mean tees like your hair.
mean like t-shirts.
What amount of land has to be burning to be considered a wildfire?  Oh, full question.
KRBK schedule today.
 Is Max Crosby hurt? Green Bay Viking game recap.
 They didn't air the Green Bay game.
Oh yeah.
Because it didn't matter.
 Right.
And so they, I guess they aired the Cowboys game, didn't they? In that, or did they? I have no idea.
Oh, okay.
You were not watching.
 Benadryl Doses for Dogs  and Colts quarterback is which is no longer Phillip Rivers.
He went bye bye again.
Cara, do  you have any shout outs?  No, not today.
I don't either this week.
Okay.
 Um,  but I do want people to rate and review us.
That's an excellent idea.
And tell your friends.
Yes.
About us.
It takes so little time.
 And you're talking to people.
Yeah.
Anyway at work.come on.
You're like, Hey, hey, Bob.
 Maybe not Bob.
 Hey, Sarah.
 Hey, Sarah.
I've heard about this podcast that I think you'd like.
Yeah.
It's really funny.
Sometimes.
 And  they're so relatable.
Sometimes.
Sometimes.
When they're not talking about liking to watch people get enticed.
  What? Not as relatable.
uh We're talking about hate crimes.
 my gosh.
Yeah, exactly.
 Sarah will be like, oh my gosh, I have been looking for a new podcast.
Yes.
And you can supply her with two years.
 Right.
Worth 91 episodes.
Right.
Of delight.
Yep.
Binge worthy.
um Or you can email us.
Yes.
at deletethishistorypodcast.
gmail.com.
Yes.
Tell us what you're searching.
Give a shout out to somebody you know who's doing a great job.
Shout out yourself.
Tell us your chronotype.
Tell us your chronotype.
Tell us if you've had Jägermeister.
Oh, yes.
Tell us about your wild times as a 20 something.
Where were your children at 1130 at night when you were bowling? If you can remember, you're better than I am.
He turned out okay.
He's fine.
He's perfectly fine.
You can also follow us on Instagram at DTHGals.
Yes, please interact.
That's pretty much it.
I think those are all the things.
That's not much to do.
No.
Just real quick.
Just put it on your to-do list.
But for now, on my to-do list is deleting my history.
Same.
Gotta do it.
Stay fresh, cheese bags.
Buh-bye.
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 music by Orkas.
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