Your nails are so pretty.
Thanks, I'm getting them redone today.
 And if I leave them alone, they look fine for three weeks.
 Gotcha.
But it's hard because I am still a nail biter.
 I chew on them sometimes  and then they crack and break.
 It surprises me that that didn't stop you.
 Like, that didn't break that habit.
It's so ingrained  that I have to have something to...
 You need to replace that with something.
You need to get something.
Get a fidget.
I mean, it's not good for my gums.
No, no.
Or my teeth or any of that.
So, if I replaced it with something else, it would just still be bad for my teeth.
No, I don't mean to on something else.
I have to, though.
It's like it's some kind of oral fixation.
don't understand.
really? Well, just start smoking.
OK.
I would lose weight, too.
Win, win.
Perfect.
Welcome to episode 94 of Delete This History, a podcast by two besties of a certain age searching for answers.
We're your hosts, Cara Burch.
And Brea Brown.
I have a couple of corrections and a follow up for you.
Oh my gosh, I have a follow up too.
Oh great.
Okay.
Two corrections from episode 992.
I incorrectly told you that a head covering was a snoodle.
Yeah, it's a snood snood.
I knew what you meant.
Thank you Also, I incorrectly stated that the movie That Benedict Cumberbatch was in was called enigma.
Yeah is the imitation game.
Oh Yeah, it was the imitation That was in episode 93.
I was like, mmm, Cara, that's not right.
Okay.
So, I just wanted to set the record straight for anybody.
I don't like people coming at me.
No, no.
Yeah, don't like fact errors.
No, no.
That's an F.
Especially with movies and people and TV shows.
mean, come on, get with it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And then I have a follow up.
We discussed the chemical makeup of tears.
Yes.
And you wondered...
whether emotional tears had the same chemical makeup as tears shed when a person is experiencing pain, I could not find a definitive and clear answer as to whether or not they were made, they're the same.
oh But I would imagine if you're in pain, you probably have some emotional tears happening there.
Yeah, probably.
Fear, denial.
 grief.
 My future! I have a hang now right now and let me tell you  all my feelings about it.
Are you in pain? you getting gray? I'm annoyed.
Oh, yes.
 And that's about it.
And you can't leave it alone.
Once you just go to the hangnail, it's like, yeah, it's only going to get worse.
I know.
I'm going to be biting on it later.
Gross.
 OK,  I have a follow up too.
 Oh, wait, did you get all your stuff then? OK, that's all your admin.
OK, um my follow up is I can't remember, even though I'm the one who edited it.
But I can't remember how much of the discussion about pickup truck backing in that I left in the episode  because I cut  so  much.
 We talked a lot.
We talked forever.
Yes.
And I cut  most of the pickup truck backing in parking conversation out.
But I have information about pickup truck backing in.
Oh, OK.
Because I was at a hair appointment  and I was pimping the pod.
to everybody who would listen.
Nice.
Because that's what you do, right?  And I used our rants about backing and parking as an example of the kind of high brow, deep intellectual content that they could expect from us.
Perfect.
Yes.
 And other customers at the hair wash station  really enjoyed some of our observations.
But then my amazing stylist, Phil, this one of the sweetest, most wonderful men I know, he kind of chuckled.
Sheepishly?  Yes.
 And he said, yeah, I drive a pickup truck and I prefer to back in.
Ugh, Because I can tell better if I'm far enough into the spot that I'm not hanging out in the driving lane.
All right.
I said, OK.
And then he said, but I never back into a spot if there's a vehicle driving behind me in the parking lot.
Thank you, Phil.
So, we laughed at the idea of him, of all people, being a backer inner.
 But then I commended him on his completely in character conscientiousness towards other drivers.
Yes.
Yes, because that's just who he is.
Yes.
 And then oh we also talked about how the majority of pickup drivers don't actually need a pickup truck and he's a hairstylist.
 But he owns that salon and then he owns some other like rental houses.
Does he carry the hair away in the pickup bed? No, I don't think so.
Oh, okay.
 Phil.
um So, he probably does need a pickup truck because he owns properties and he has to maintain the properties.
That's legit.
 Renting one every single time would be a pain in That would be, yes.
Anyway, not that anybody has to justify to us why they want to drive a pickup truck.
you don't.
But just be more like Phil.
And try to be aware of what's going on around you in the parking lot.
Absolutely.
And don't make your parking preferences everyone else's problem.
Yes.
We're living in a society.
Yes.
 It was the right thing to cut out most of our uh pickup truck We did not sound like nice people.
We really got on a rant.
Yeah.
But now we're here.
We're here.
We're going to have a great podcast.
Yeah, we are.
I'm feeling Zen.
You know what goes with Zen? What? A little game  that we like to call...
Search me!  or something like that.
That sounded terrible.
It was really bad.
But this is where we each ask each other one trivia question from our week's internet searches.
Oh yeah.
Brea.
This week,  I have a trivia question for you about the Winter Olympics.
Oh, yay.
I'm directly stealing this from the New York Times.
 Excellent.
It is their question, and it was so good.
I was like, I gotta  get Brea in on this.
In a cheating scandal that has rocked Norway.
Two ski jump coaches and an equipment manager were suspended for making which illegal modification to their athletes gear.
Now, if you want some choices,  the New York Times provided options.
Oh, yes, I do.
Would you like some choices? There's just too many options.
OK, here we go.
Was it band ski wax that was used, crotch stitching in their uniforms, helmet reshaping, fin gloves, forearm fins,  ski boot fins,  or ski boot rudders.
 That was more than four options.
Yeah.
 So, this was for the ski jump.
Yes, ski jump.
I'm going to say a helmet modification.
uh I'm so sorry.
I thought something to make them more aerodynamic.
It was crotch stitching.
 That's the one I least understood.
was like, what would that even be? I'm glad you asked.
Okay.
All right.
The trio admitted to adding illegal crotch stitching to the ski jumper's uniforms after it was caught on video and anonymously uploaded to YouTube.
A bigger suit provides more lift and an extra centimeter or two of material in the crotch area.
can give a jumper an extra five or six meters in length.
We're talking about their jump, right? Yeah.
Can you believe that?  Oh my gosh.
 That's a lot.
I can't believe that.
That was shocking to me.
That's a lot for such a small modification.
Right.
And who discovered that?  I would assume it were some other competitors.
And they're like, how  all of a sudden are they getting five to six more meters? The coaches and the uniform equipment people, were like,  the athletes didn't know, they didn't know.
And the athletes all said, no, we didn't know.
 so like  the athletes, they were suspended for, but not for very long, but the coaches and the equipment managers, they got like years of suspension.
Oh my gosh, you're out of here.
Yep.
Oh crap.
And now your name is Sully'd.
 I've not gotten caught up  on information, but Lindsey Vonn crashed.
 Oh no.
It was like her last run before  the Olympics.
Like  her practice I don't know if it was a practice or if it was like a qualifying race.
I don't know.
I didn't get all the details, but all I know is that she crashed and she was airlifted away.
Oh my gosh.
So, the poor girl, I don't know.
I need to find out what happened.
That sucks.
I know.
I felt really bad for her.
Cara,  your question for today is...
What major global event is often cited as the reason audiences suddenly craved predictable, comforting love stories again,  aka rom-coms?  Are we talking about a specific global event? Yes.
 Oh.
A major global event is  often given as the reason for the comeback of the rom-coms.
Was it  the  royal wedding, the last royal wedding? No.
 It was the COVID-19 pandemic.
 So, when the pandemic hit in 2020,  2020, oh other words,  audiences gravitated toward comfort viewing as a way to cope with stress, isolation, and nonstop bad news.
 Romcoms offered the emotional opposite of the moment, predictability, warmth, and guaranteed happy endings.
The genre had nearly vanished from theaters in the 2010s.
Do remember when there was like a real dearth of rom-coms? Like there was hardly any rom-coms at all.
I don't know.
2010s was when it was.
maybe not paying attention.
Superhero franchises dominated the box office.
Oh, now, yeah.
And studios abandoned mid-budget films, which is what rom-coms typically are.
streaming platforms stepped in realizing rom-coms were inexpensive to produce, highly rewatchable, and perfect for algorithm driven recommendations.
This led to a wave of modern hits like Set It Up, never heard of it,  To All The Boys I've Loved Before, oh Oh,  I've heard of that one.
I have not.
Netflix.
Okay.
 And now Good Fortune with Lily Tomlin  and...
 Oh.
What? What's her face? Good fortune.
Is that the one? Yeah.
The funeral one? Yeah, yeah.
It is? Yeah.
That's not a rom-com.
Well, that's what they're calling it.
 They're calling it a cozy, optimistic rom-com.
Maybe chick flick would be more...
It's not really a rom-com.
You're right.
Maybe  they're grouping chick flicks together.
There's a little bit of romance in that one.
Tiny But it's more of a girlfriend movie.
yeah.
Chick flick.
At the same time, viewers were craving nostalgia, especially the cozy, optimistic vibe of the 90s and the early 2000s rom-coms.
You're thinking 27 Dresses.
Yes, yes.
You're thinking Love Actually.
Yes, yes.
The Holiday.
Notting Hill.
Yes.
Oh, the holiday.
I haven't seen that in so long.
It's the best.
The combination of comfort, nostalgia, and streaming economics created the perfect environment for the rom-com revival.
my sources were New York Times, Fox, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Variety, Bustle, and IndieWire.
Thanks, COVID.
We share the taste.
in rom-coms is that how do I say that we share a love a love of rom-coms love of rom-coms which leads us to our next segment which is shared history yes it is  now brian i didn't go searching for this topic this topic found me it did yeah  it was through a press release at my workplace  and i had no idea that this existed it  is let's see what was it breast milk donations  Oh, wow.
What?  Yeah.
I had no idea that breast milk donation was a thing.
 I had no idea it could be donated.
I had no idea it should be donated.
 I had no idea it was needed to be donated.
 I just  I mean, I've heard of that.
 had I had to do some research on this because I was flabbergasted.
Were you I had to find out more.
What were your gut feelings about it, though, when you read it at first?  I really had no idea.
Like I was, I just didn't know.
Were you like, Oh my gosh,  no, I was just like, why,  why?  I don't understand.
And then who's doing this and why? And so it's actually really sad.
I mean, it's a pretty sad situation.
Great.
Let's um dive in.
It's joyful, but the reason for it is sad.
Yeah.
So, we've all heard that breast milk is best,  know, allegedly.
Unless you do meth or...
Well, right.
Yes.
And it turns out that breast milk is best for, especially for babies who are premature or sick.
Human milk can literally be life-saving medicine for them.
In fact, having breast milk has shown to reduce mortality by 75 % in NICU babies.
Wow.
Isn't that crazy? That's an astonishing number.
That is a big one.
uh But not all moms are able to provide breast milk.
So, a safe and accessible donation option is critical That's where milk depots for the milk bank come in Which is a nonprofit organization.
So, local milk depots we have one in Springfield Which is why this press release went out local milk depots for the milk bank  Serve as a drop-off site for approved breast milk donors to donate their extra frozen milk The depot that's here in Springfield opened in 2013 through a partnership between Springfield Green County Health Department and the Greater Ozarks  Regional Breastfeeding Coalition.
I didn't even know any of those places existed.
uh Milk collected from local donors is shipped to the Milk Bank, uh the nonprofit organization where it's processed, analyzed, pasteurized, and distributed to NICUs, hospitals, and families across Missouri, Kentucky, and Indiana.
The Greater Ozarks Regional Mother's Milk Depot  collected, this is what the press release was about.
 They collected 30,388 ounces of breast milk from 56 donors in 2025.
I'm gonna need to know how many Olympic size swimming pools there  is.
I'll get back with you.
That amount set a record for the most milk donated in a year.
The previous record was 18,000.
they almost doubled it.
That was set in 2021.
Every ounce of milk collected can provide up to three feedings.
One ounce is three feedings for a baby in the NICU.
Oh my gosh.
So, that means the record setting amount collected locally here in Springfield last year can provide over 91,000 feedings.
which is probably what you do for one baby in their lifetime.
can't imagine.
It feels like it.
mean, my babies never just drank and out.
Well, maybe when they were brand, brand, brand.
Well, and they weren't NICU babies, right? No, no, no.
So, I imagine NICU babies are, like they're getting fluids anyway, I'm sure.
so I'm talking like I know what NICU babies are going through.
I do not.
um Parents who are able to donate extra milk can apply online at the milkbank.
org.
You can also apply to receive donated milk through the milk bank.
 You can also donate money.
If you don't have breast milk to give, they'll take your money.
 It's a nonprofit and  that helps cover the cost of shipping materials to milk donors, healthy screenings for donors, and infant loss support groups for parents.
So, that's...
 where some of the extra milk comes from.
Mom may have had a baby, not make it, like pass away, but she's still producing milk.
oh Isn't that awful?  But there are lots of moms um that just, everything's fine.
Their baby is fine.
They just produce a lot of milk or more than they need.
So, they freeze it and then they just  donate it.
Isn't that amazing? I think that's just amazing.
That is a very worthwhile, lovely gesture.
God bless them.
 My sources were Springfield Green County Health Department and the milkbank.
org.
Dang.
Fascinating.
I just thought that was so fascinating.
All right.
I want to tell you about 1870s literacy rate.
 1870s.
Literacy rate in the US Western territories.
All right, that is about as random as it comes We were watching young guns a couple weeks ago well Peyton and Clint were watching young guns and I was just sitting there having a real good time watching this movie I hadn't seen it in forever.
Yeah, I was like 10 or 11 It is not a good movie for a 10 or 11 year old, but I watched it back then but that's what probably the last time I watched.
I watched Young Guns 2 multiple times.
I loved that movie.
But the first one, I don't know, maybe because I was too young the first time.
maybe so.
Second one, I was like, I'm all over this.
So, we watched it, and I had forgotten a lot of it.
And a lot of it's really weird.
And a lot of it is very slow moving.
It's interesting to me how, because that was like, what, late 80s?  Probably, yeah.
80s, yeah.
Because it was before we moved from Kentucky.
That's how I measure everything.
 And it's so interesting to me how that doesn't seem like that long ago, right?  But it's interesting how moviemaking and storytelling styles have changed just since the  80s.
Very much so.
90s.
mean, I was like, can we wrap this up? Let's cut this down.
 There were lots of long looks.
uh I was like, was this like Brokeback Mountain before Brokeback Mountain?  Lots of long looks between these guys and some fight scenes that went on way too long.
And I was just like, oh we, this is not aged well.
But  anyway, there was one part in the movie where the characters were shocked that Billy the Kid was so well read.
 Somebody handed, you know, the dude who was like the leader of their gang.
or whatever, their mentor or whatever hands this paper to Billy.
He's like,  it's learning time.
 And he said, read that.
And Billy reads it like it's no big deal.
And all the other guys who were taking their turns reading are kind of like,  ugh,  ugh, ugh, ugh, ugh.
 Anyway, so this led to a discussion with Clint, Peyton, and me about how many people really were illiterate during that time.
 in that geographic region.
So, like the characters in the movie, we assumed illiteracy rates were pretty high.
So, I was like, yeah, they probably were surprised that he was literate because I mean a lot of people didn't know how to read blah blah blah.
Were we right? I'm guessing no.
We weren't.
Okay.
So, the myth versus the reality  is that pop culture paints the West as rugged, lawless, uneducated, but historical records show a region full of readers, writers, and amateur intellectuals.
 Now what is an amateur intellectual? Oh, that's you and me.
That's you and me.
Apparently so.
 That phrase just kind of struck me as funny.
 I'm a professional intellectual.
 You amateur.
Many frontier communities saw literacy as path to legitimacy, prosperity, and connection to the rest of the country.
 So, the frontier was more literate than the stereotype suggests.
Many settlers arriving in the West in the mid to late 1800s were already literate, especially migrants from northern states in northern Europe.
 OK.
Not so much the South.
Sorry.
Sorry South.
Sorry.
uh Sort of.
What are we anyway? Are we like the mid-South in Missouri? People say that we're Southern.
People will say we're Southern, but  I mean, I don't feel like we are.
I feel like Arkansas is the Southern line.
Like you hit Arkansas, you're in the South.
Is that just because you don't want to believe that? Maybe, yeah.
 But  we're not the deep South.
 Definitely not.
No, no.
And I mean, we're midline, don't you think? Yeah.
I mean, I just call us the Midwest.
 I  always thought we were part of the Midwest too, but then I heard somebody say something about the Mid-South.
And then the Midwest is such a misnomer.
Yeah, it is.
That's Because it's not West at all.
No, we're not.
We're not West.
That's true.
 People not from the United States are constantly questioning the Midwest label.
 And I never thought of it until somebody pointed it out.
And I was like, oh.
Do you think that that is an  old? It is old.
Before the frontier was settled.
Yeah.
So, we need to change that.
 So, what are we? Middle.
We're just middle.
The middle.
We're in the middle.
 Yeah.
 We're the built vehicles.
 We're the flyover states.
They call us that a lot.
 Yeah, we are.
I don't blame anybody.
 Keep a flying.
um National literacy rates were rising steadily after the Civil War, supported by federal attention to education beginning in the 1860s.
Even small frontier towns often had surprisingly high literacy because reading was a primary form of entertainment and information.
Ooh, and with the Civil War, everybody wanted to know what was going on.
You gotta know.
Gotta know.
You gotta have that FOMO, man.
Civil War FOMO.
I'm in the West.
I don't know what's going on.
dare my dearest darling Yeah, how are going to read all their  letters from the city?  Nearly every settlement, no matter how small, had at least one newspaper, sometimes two.
uh Newspapers served as the community's lifeline.
was local news, national updates, serialized fiction, political arguments, ads, and public notices.
 Basically our internet.
 And because towns were isolated, newspapers became essential for shaping identity and maintaining social cohesion.
Now here's something that I found really interesting.
 Women frequently founded the first schools  in new settlements.
That was women's work.
 They were often teaching in makeshift classrooms like churches, cabins, or even tents.
Female teachers were cheaper to hire.
Of course.
No shit.
 Which made them the backbone of frontier education.
And women also organized literary societies, reading circles, early libraries.
helping to normalize literacy as a community value.
Nice.
Did you ever hear about the women in Appalachia, Appalachia, depending on how you prefer to say it, who would  ride out into like these really remote, country mountainous areas and they would take books to people? No.
It was called shit.
Something about a traveling library maybe.
Books on boroughs.
 They weren't on boroughs, they were on horses.
 Horses, horses, horses.
But yeah, in Kentucky,  in like western, nope, not western, eastern Kentucky,  near the West Virginia border, they did that.
 It's really interesting.
I've read a couple.
fiction books where that is kind of the centerpiece of the story.
It's these old timey ladies  who go out and  they help distribute books and help with literacy  in Appalachia.
That's cool.
Yeah, pretty cool.
uh Schools were symbols of civilization in the West.
Settlers believed that the town wasn't real until it had a school.
Oh.
A marker of stability, morality, and civic legitimacy.
That's interesting.
I don't think of any of those things when you say school now.
 I mean, I might say...
 Civic legitimacy, Read your list again.
Stability, morality, and civic legitimacy.
I guess I wouldn't say stability, maybe structure.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Schoolhouses were often built before jails, courthouses, or even permanent churches.
Oh, what? Oh my goodness.
What are you worshiping? The presence of a school signaled that the settlement intended to last.
Oh, so interesting.
yes, yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's how you know.
We got a school, we are legit.
Reading was essential for navigating land claims, contracts, railroad schedules, and supply catalogs.
Farmers and ranchers relied on printed manuals for everything from veterinary care to irrigation.
 Literacy also helped immigrants integrate, as English language reading classes were common in some communities.
em And then popular reading was wild wildly varied you had the dime novels Which were the cheap sensational stories about outlaws and Cowboys and front teen front teen? Mm-hmm front teen heroes  Said it again didn't I frontier heroes  Cheese  you have religious texts newspapers and practical manuals.
Obviously we already talked about that  And then serialized fiction and newspapers kept readers hooked week after week.
 Long before television existed.
Damn that cliffhanger!  Reverend, um the late 1800s saw rapid population expansion, which increased demand for schools and teachers.
Federal education reporting began in 1867.
 And by 1870, millions of children were already enrolled in elementary schools nationwide.
Wow.
And we liked to put our uh native community children, we love to press gang them into schools and be like, hey, You're gonna sit here and you're gonna learn this language and you're never gonna talk your other language again And you're gonna be like a white person, but we're still gonna treat you like crap.
Yes.
 How's that? That sound like a good deal great um As more families moved west literacy became a shared expectation rather than a luxury It's like just the way it is yeah Nowadays I hear a certain someone who lives in my house complain that he doesn't get paid to go to school   And you know, I thought about it and at first I was like, get over yourself.
But then I was like, yeah, but then once you get out of school and out of college and everything, college, you have to pay them to go, geez.
But once you get out of school and you start having a job, a real job,  paying job,  and then you tell your kids, hey, school is your job, it does seem kind of weird that.
They just go there every day and they just, you have to go there every day and you don't have a choice and you go and this is what you do.
I don't know, is it weird? Kind of is.
I never really thought about it.
because that's what you do.
It's just what you do.
 My sources were Cambridge University Press, Wikipedia, and the National Center for Education Statistics.
 All of that out of watching Young Guns.
Yeah, I mean, when you're sitting there and you're just bored out of your freaking mind  during an action movie.
 Babrius, what about this one? What about it? This is a quick listing of our other searches from the past week that we didn't have time to discuss in this episode or were just too damn boring.
Get on our hang.
Oh man, you're boring like young guns.
Man, you just wait for this list.
is long, long.
 So, you were searching, searching, searching.
Yes, I was.
Are you ready? I'm ready.
back and relax.
All right.
How to wipe an Xbox 360.
Oh, I didn't know where that was going.
 Egg substitute in cord bread mix.
Don't try it, it doesn't work.
 no.
Inoteca meaning  burrata cheese.
Burrata cheese cost.
Tom Brady age.
Red beans and rice recipe.
Chemical makeup of emotional tears versus chemical tears.
 What? No, chemical makeup of emotional tears versus pain tears.
Oh, gotcha.
I just had a stroke, I think.
 Do you smell toast? Not yet.
Okay.
Veronica the tool using cow, harder house hours, Honda, gotta pay that bill.
That's right.
The night circus, Norway crotch stitching,  prison hulk,  massage gun, uh a flat iron temperature for fine hair,  DRM meaning Greyhound shirts, Greyhound coats, Audrey Logan,  Molly Hua,  SATB coral arrangement.
 John Hamm Tina Fey comedy.
You said you were going to watch John Hamm Tina Fey a comic comedy.
was like, what is that movie? It was so good.
Is that the Mandy Moore's? not the Mandy Moore's.
was Maggie Moore's.
Maggie Moore's.
Yeah.
Mandy Moore's.
You know, she's great.
OK, I thought it was Maggie Moore's.
All right.
It's really good.
Jewish tradition of placing a rock on a tombstone.
NFL coaching changes for twenty twenty six.
Broncos Patriots Game Time Seahawks Rams Game Time  These are my IMDB searches.
Okay.
Nona's very good movie.
Yes death by lightning.
It was pretty good lame is a lob  Very good  That was the TV miniseries written by Andrew Davies.
Have you watched that? No, it ain't bad Is it better than all the movies that they've ever made? This is the first version of any Les Mis show, movie, musical I've ever watched.
Oh really? Because I thought I love Andrew Davies.
This is where I'm going to start.
And Dominic West was  Jean Valjean.
 Oh, was he now? Yeah, it was actually pretty good.
Okay.
 Six part mini series.
 Oh my.
 And they are all at least an hour, if not a little bit longer.
Good grief.
I think the first one may be an hour and a Oh my gosh.
Anyway.
But that's kind of nice.
You can break it up.
Yes.
But there's no singing.
It is just straight.
 Oh, it's just like  the book.
Yes.
Yes.
Yes.
 book.
There's no singing.
There's no singing in the  book.
Life of Chuck, the secret life of Walter Mitty, Finch, the Maggie Moors, Greyhound.
 Oh my gosh.
Have you watched Greyhound? No.
oh No.
What an amazing.
movie.
I'm gonna watch it again because there's so  much going on.
 Fascinating.
I'll need to watch that one with Clint.
He'll want to watch it.
Oh it was so good.
It's worth every minute and don't try to do something else while you're watching.
You've got to watch the whole time because it's so like  they're  like trying to track a submarine and they've got to do the booting.
 It's so stressful.
Hanks?  I hardly breathe through the whole thing.
Tom Hanks has typewriters.
It was...
No, he doesn't.
It was really good.
Greyhound, everybody.
Yeah.
Okay.
Down Cemetery Road.
That was good.
Little House on the Prairie.
Causeway.
Father of the Bride.
Futurama.
The Abandons.
Terrible show.
Yes.
 I can't even get through it.
It's so bad.
And all those actors, I was like...
I'm so watching this.
It's gonna be great.
 The story is so dumb.
 I mean, we need a better plot line.
Okay.
Anyway,  and  to round it all out,  the Muppet Babies.
 Muppet Babies,  make your dreams come true.
 Oh shoot.
If I could remember.
 all the things I need to remember to be a well functioning adult.
 If I could remember all those things as well as I remember theme songs to cartoons that I used to watch.
Yes.
 Or jingles to commercials from the  80s.
 I would be,  I just,  I would have my shit together.
It's when your brain was a sponge and it just soaked up all the things that you didn't need.
Just wow.
 Okay.
Here's my list.
Yes.
Cunk mockumentary experts acting.
 Malcolm McDowell good fortune movie oncologist meaning slash oncologist definition.
 Olga Koch origin of accent on the wrong syllable saying  some of these were some  peaches that I wrote down during interesting times.
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Emilio Estevez now.
Cocoa cream versus milk switch slash snow switches keyboard typing with nails slash difference between switches on keyboards.
 So, the switches are the things that are underneath the keys on your keyboard Okay,  and there are different kinds of switches and that's what makes some keyboards sound clacky and some keyboards sound Silent I see and some keyboards have like a lot of resistance when you press the key  and others have no  Like hardly any resistance.
That's what switches are I see and they all have these crazy names like cocoa cream Oh or a milk switch  or   Snow switch or brown switches or red switches or blue switches, okay? And I was trying to find the perfect keyboard for me, and I think I found it.
I'm in love  Winter storm warning versus winter storm watch how long to boil medium yellow potatoes in a Dutch oven  How long to boil medium yellow potatoes mm-hmm period  There's a difference poke John Paul the second World War two Stand with Minnesota, Libro, Chad Michael Murray.
Do you remember him? Chad Michael Murray.
He was like on all the Tiger Beat, teen magazine back in the  I didn't get any of the teen magazines.
Clint said that somebody when he was younger and  Chad Michael Murray was popular, told him that he looked like Chad Michael Murray.
Oh.
 So, I looked it up  and you know.
He kind of did some of the pictures of him from when he was like a preteen, early teen, did kind of look like him.
So, I was like, dang.
was so ready to make fun of him and give him shit about it, but it was kind of legit.
How did this come up? I don't know.
Enabling Clint to tell that story.
He's been sitting on that one for a long time.
I don't know.
Maybe somebody said, look like Forrest Forrest Gump.
Cause that's what his younger brother told him one time.
 And he was like, yeah,  but I also look like Chad Michael Murray.
Oh my gosh.
Much, much, much more flattering.
 Hoarders.
Oh my God.
I can't believe I'm going to read this.
Okay.
Hoarders Deborah, season six episode slash Hoarders poop mountain.
Oh.
 Okay.
 Hoarders,  poop mountain and toilet episode.
 Oh.
 Look it up sometime.
Yeah.
Sean cannot watch that show.
 I tried to watch it years ago and he's like, I cannot.
I can't.
I feel terrible now because I laughed about it.
It was just about reading that, but it is a serious, serious mental illness.
this episode was particularly heartbreaking, but at the same time there's,  you know, what I just said.
Right.
uh that was also mind boggling  and Clint didn't believe me when I said that there was an episode like that.
So, I had to look it up to show him.
 And then we watched the whole thing.
Oh no.
 And it was the same episode where a cat runs out of this woman's house.
Like she had a bunch of cats and a cat had been hiding behind the toilet that had the situation.
 And the cat ran out of her house and died in the front yard.
 Oh my gosh.
It just was so shocked.
It had just been poisoned by...
I mean, think about how dangerous that is.
Oh yeah.
And  it out  and  dies in the front yard.
 And she's like,  oh Randy.
 So, now we say that in our house.
m Oh, Randy.
So, sorry, Deborah.
You finally got your life together.
And then assholes like me, we sit around and laugh about it.
Okay, Outdoors with Eric location.
Lore and ledger reading journal.
Is that the end of your list? It is the of my list.
I wanted to ask you how your one sentence per day journal is going.
I go multiple days where I forget.
uh And then I get caught up.
And I do what you  suggested.
I look through my texts  to kind of remind me what was going on that day.
What are you going to write for today?  That I had to say poop, not a  microphone.
 And Peyton missed the bus.
 Peyton missed the bus.
 I tripped  rushing around this morning and like my second toe went underneath my foot when I tripped.
Oh man, it hurts so bad.
 You're a second.
 It like got, it folded.
 Yes, it folded  underneath my foot.
It  hurt.
 I take it that's never happened.
 I take it that's never happened to you?  Well.
 I'm just trying to picture it.
 My toes are so tiny, there's no folding them.
Mine aren't that big.
 I do not have, but man, that thing,  it collapsed like a house of cards right underneath my foot  and it hurt.
Then I got to work and I was at work for hours, people, hours.
 I looked down.
 And my fly was just wide open.
 You got so much to journal about.
Oh  my gosh.
I mean, I  had had conversations with other people.
 You know, it wasn't like it was one of those days where I was the only person in the office.
Oh, of course not.
 I had had conversations with people.
People would like, oh I had like asked people to take me seriously up until that point.
Look down, I'm like, geez.
Oh crap.
Do you have any listeners shout outs or calls to action? No, other than I want everyone to tell us about your adventures during the latest winter storm.
Oh yeah.
What did you do? Cause I mean, everybody got it.
Even South Carolina.
Yeah.
We got about eight inches of snow at our house and it was very like dry, fluffy snow.
So, was super easy to move.
got the driveway cleared pretty quickly.
but the cold temperatures, that has been  awful.
 And we apparently have water in our propane, and so it's freezing in the line, so propane can't really get through.
So, our house has been frigid.
Like we've been running, we just stopped running em space heaters like yesterday.
 We've been running them for like two weeks.
 Oh my gosh.
It's been awful.
em Our house was cold too, so I opened the oven.
Yeah, right.
 There were a couple of days where the oven was just part of our heating source.
It was just on.
I it's electric.
So, we were we were baking and  using the oven more than often just to leave it, you know, like let that heat help heat that end of the house.
Yeah.
Oh, my gosh.
Annoying.
So, dumb.
You got eight inches.
We got four tops.
 Oh, my gosh.
No, we easily got eight.
 It was so lame.
Oh, my gosh.
It was so lame.
Wow.
 But can I tell a funny story about Clint real quick? Because I do have some shout outs.
 OK.
Yeah, But Clint worked his butt off to clear our driveway.
Yeah.
OK.
And  he came in.
He was so proud.
Our driveway is the best looking driveway out there.
I'm like, great.
So, the next day, he had to go to work and he had to leave at like 2 in the morning.
 And after he had shoveled the driveway, the plow  plows never come down.
We live on a cul-de-sac.
Outside the city limits  we never get plowed well a plow came through I guess they were bored  and They came around our cul-de-sac and pushed snow up against the end of the driveway Yeah, well he just thought because like you were saying it was real fluffy snow right so he thought I'm just gonna bust through that thing You haven't hit it  in his Honda Accord oh So, he goes and he hits he backs up like he's gonna back through the snow and the car went  over the hump  and he got high centered.
The snow  hit two in the morning  and had to dig himself out.
 Oh my gosh.
 I bet he was  unbelievably angry.
Oh my gosh.
He was like, I almost woke you up and I said,  what were you going to do? Then you would have had a really You would have been even madder.
two angry people out there.
What's the point of that? What was he gonna have you do?  I don't know.
I don't either.
Help rock the car? don't know.
Oh my lord.
So, he said that he got some cardboard out of the recycling dumpster and he put that, know, because it's a front-wheel drive car.
 Oh god.
I'm sorry, but when he told me that story I just started laughing.
 I totally would have come in and woke him up, but whatever.
Okay, so here are my shout outs.
 I would like to shout out anyone in Minnesota right now.
 We're all thinking about you.
No kidding.
What's happening there is a travesty and an unconstitutional abuse of power.
I've done a little bit of research and I've asked some people in Minnesota what we can do.
So, StandWithMinnesota.com is a place where you can go and see  all the things that you can do.
 Nice.
places you can donate to, um everything.
 It runs the gamut from helping people pay their rent to, um I can't even think about it.
Also, readers may be interested in buying books from independent bookstores in Minnesota.
They've been sheltering protestors and supporting resistance efforts.
So, if you do a Google search for local bookstores supporting Minnesota resistance movement, that will get you started.
And my faves are Moon Palace Books,  Tropes and Trifles, and Once Upon a Crime,  all of which have online stores that will ship to you.
 So, you can buy from them, they'll ship it.
um I visited all three of those when we were in Minnesota last year,  and they're amazing.
And everybody who works there is so nice.
Also, Libro FM is an audiobook subscription service,  which is way better than Audible, by the way.
and it gives back to independent locally owned bookstores nationwide.
They're also standing with Minnesota.
Nice.
So, there you go.
Very good.
And just be nice people.
Right? Just be nice.
 Holy cow.
 And we have a new Bestie alert.
Phyllis  is a friend of my sister Heather.
 Phyllis.
Phyllis.
And she reports really enjoying the podcast.
it struck her how much I sound like Heather.
Oh.
 Which is not false.
That is hilarious.
 And I don't know how long you've actually been listening, Phyllis, but you're new to us, so welcome.
Yes.
And we're glad you're enjoying.
 please feel free to engage with us.
 Oh yes.
And definitely tell others you know who might enjoy listening as well.
um You could rate and review us.
Yeah,  you could.
um And how would she get in touch with us? Oh, well she could email us old school, Delete This History podcast at gmail.com or engage at dthgals on Instagram.
 We're on there sometimes.
Cara more than me.
If you engage, we will engage back.
That's correct.
Cara.
Yes, Brea, do you want to go delete your history? I do.
OK, yeah, I do too.
Say fresh cheese bags.
Brea had to mouth it to me.
Say fresh cheese bags.
Because I forgot.
I was already moving on.
OK, Bye.
What a mess.
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