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I put my Cologuard kit out on the porch, which
is so weird to think that this is just a box
of your poop on the porch.
And Peyton left for
school the next day and brought it back in.
He
thought it was an Amazon delivery.
For Pete's
sake.
Did you miss the pickup? Oh, gosh.
Thank
goodness I noticed before I left for work.
Did
you tell him that's my poop? Put it back.
I told
everybody when I was putting it out there.
Here's
my poop.
I'm putting it on the porch.
And we
laughed about it.
And I was like, this is so
disgusting and weird.
But hey.
See, I just took
mine to the UPS store.
Easy peasy.
And then me
and the cashier just didn't make eye contact.

I was like, the UPS guy is just going to have
to come up onto my porch and pick up my poop.

Got to freeze poop.
Yep.
Welcome to episode 97
of Delete This History, a podcast by two besties
of a certain age searching for answers.
We're
your hosts, Brea Brown.
And Cara Burch.
Hi.
Hi.

What's new, bestie? Oh, let's see.
Nothing.
Nothing?
I had a four -day weekend.
I know.
I try to be
happy for you.
I know, and I shouldn't bring
it up.
I try to be so happy for you, but I just...

Well, I mean, you would only have a three -day
weekend, really.
It's true.
I took Friday off.

Yeah.
I took a Friday off, so I've...
Yeah.
And
it was a glorious Friday to take off, too.
Oh,
my gosh.
It was so nice.
I bought a new rug.

Did you? I bought three new rugs.
Like big rugs?
Well...
I had one big rug to go under the couch
because we just need to replace it.
Sean needed
a new rug under his recliner.
And then we needed
another new rug at the front door because they
were all pretty worn out.
And they all match.

Holy crap.
You're a grown up.
I'm an adult.
This
is how you know.
I know.
And I went with a lighter
rug this time because I had a darker one.
It
was kind of had some red in it, like really like
a maroon almost.
These are very light.
Very light.

Ooh, it may have been a mistake.
Well, you'll
just have to clean them more often.
So, I was,
I'm very excited.
Get the rug, doctor.
I'm very
excited about having a lighter colored rug.
This
is how exciting my life is.
Well, you know what?
It brightens up a room.
It does brighten up a
room.
And a bright room makes you happy.
Yep.

That's right.
And I stare at that rug.
I'm looking
at it right in front of my chair all the time.

Yeah.
So, that's about as exciting.
um as our
day got we went out to eat where did we go i
don't even remember i thought my car was going
to be in the shop for a recall for like days
and days that's right so we dropped it off i
had choir rehearsal thursday night and so i just
drove straight to honda that night and dropped
it off because my appointment was the next day
at eight o 'clock they called me at 8 20 and
they're like recall done What? Yes.
Okay.
I mean,
that's great.
It was great.
But at the same time,
it's like...
Something weird happened.
And you
can cut all of this out, but I'll tell you.
So,,
you know, we were there for two hours last time.

Yeah.
And it was just a software update was the
recall.
And they couldn't get it to go through.

They couldn't get it to go through.
Well, so
two days later, my car...
Every time I turned
it on, it would say, you've got a new update,
blah, blah, blah.
And so then when I would turn
my car off, it would say, you will not be able
to use your car for at least three minutes as
this update is blah, blah, blah.
It did that
six times over the, like it started two days
later and it did it six times for about the next
three or four days.
I have not, and I told them
this the last time I got an oil change.
I've
had this car for two years, and every time I
turn the car on, it will say, Bing! Update available.

See dealer.
I have not gotten any software updates
on that car for two years.
And so I think what
happened is they finally fixed what was blocking
the updates, and I had massive downloads and
updates to...
catch up for the past two years
and so they couldn't get the recall software
done because i hadn't gotten any updates for
two years so one of the updates is what the recall
needed to do its thing i think so oh my gosh
so so and i think that it had so much to download
it just they it couldn't do the download wasn't
finished at honda I think it was just still downloading.

That's what we've decided.
And so everything
got downloaded and updated.
And so then when
I took it to Honda for the actual recall software
update, it took 20 minutes and it was done.
oh
my gosh technology so now like all the things
in my car the dings are different because i've
gotten these updates and like the sounds that
it makes electronically are all different it's
like a new car it's like a new car it's weird
yeah i've never had it talk to me before it's
never said like you cannot use your car for three
minutes following this update blah blah blah
it talks out loud yes oh that's kind of creepy
i couldn't believe it was like iris has a voice
It does.
So, anyway, I thought I was going to
be without my car for four days, but...
Look
at you.
Nice.
Yeah, my life
is exciting.
Sorry, I really hijacked that.
You
can edit all that out.
I was just going to say
that I always forget what a VVV time of year
it is at work.
For you? Yes, this time of year.

Every year I forget.
Why is it so VVV? Because
we have annual reporting that has to be submitted
by March 1st.
Fun.
So, everything from 2025 for
eight landfill sites, I think it is, has to be
done.
And there's like the annual reports, it
varies.
It's like two to three reports within
the report.
Are those for DNR or the EPA? It
is for the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency,
MPCA.
Ew.
Yeah.
So,, yeah, it's a lot.
And then
some of these sites have like five or six reports
within the annual report.
And I have to touch
every one of them.
Oh, my gosh.
And then we get.

to this point in the year, and I've forgotten,
kind of like the money in the jar.
And I'm like,
let me off this train.
It's not a pleasant surprise,
like the money in the jar.
It's like, oh, fuck.

I forgot how crazy this time of year is.
It does
make the days fly by.
I mean, it is like 3 o
'clock in the afternoon, and I'm like, where
the F has this day gone? And what am I doing
with my life? But it was touch and go whether
I was going to be ready to podcast today.
Yeah.

Because we're doing this a couple days earlier
than usual.
And then, I mean, I almost texted
you last night and said, I'm out.
You should
have.
Because I was so exhausted last night.

And I hadn't done my rundowns.
But I was like,
no, Brea, stop being such a drama queen.
Get
a good night's sleep and you'll be fine.
And
I was.
I can't believe you didn't text me.
I
got up early this morning and did it.
You should
have said something.
It's too much of a pain
in the butt to try to reschedule.
So, I was just
like, girl, take your vitamin in the morning.

You'll be fine.
But I was wiped out last night.

I was just sitting there staring at the TV like
a wrung out.
Anyway.
Oh, my gosh.
Well, I appreciate
your efforts.
Thanks.
As do our DTH besties.

You know, I didn't want to let anybody down.

Absolutely.
Just because, you know, I'm a little
bit tired.
Big deal.
That's life.
That's what
I tell Peyton all the time.
Because every day
he's tired.
Every day.
Maybe he should get some
vitamins.
That's why.
Last week I said, I sang
the Flintstones song at him because I was like,
I'm going to get you some Flintstone vitamins.

But then I remembered he's 16.
He could probably
just take the regular vitamins.
Just regular
vitamins.
Would you like to play a little game?
So, much.
It's a game we like to call Search Me.

Where we each ask each other one trivia question
from our week's internet travels.
Cara, your
question for today is fun.
Ooh.
Which modern
hobby retailer began as a tiny family -run scrapbook
store in Springfield, Missouri, before becoming
a nationally known destination for papercraft
fans? Oh, my gosh.
Really? Would you like options?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Your options are A, Hobby Lobby.

Boo.
B, Scrapbook Generation.
C, Michaels.
Sponsor
us.
Or D, Joanne Fabrics.
Oh.
Hmm.
Man.
I think
I'm going to go with Scrapbook Generation.
You
are correct.
Yes.
I felt like Michaels would
be too big.
I knew it wasn't Hobby Lobby.
Did
you know that? No, I did not know that.
I didn't
either.
And the scrapbook generation is kind
of close to where I live.
The old one.
Yes.
And
I drove past there recently and it was vacant.

And I almost started crying because I was like,
oh, no, I love that place.
But I just haven't
had time to go in there lately.
And what if I
had just gone in there? I could be supporting
this business, blah, blah, blah.
But they just
moved.
Oh.
Where did they go? They moved even
closer to me.
Oh, no.
On way south Kansas Expressway.

Oh.
Like near Republic Road.
But I can't picture
where it is.
Okay.
And I didn't look it up.
I'll
have to go check that out.
But Copilot told me.

Oh.
Because Copilot gave me the old address and
I said, uh -oh, Copilot.
I went by there recently
and it was vacant.
Did they move? And they said.

Very well spotted.
Yes, they did.
Copilot is
so nice to me.
It's always complimenting me and
telling me how smart I am.
Chat GPT.
I'm trying
to come up with new smart goals for my stupid
evaluation at work.
Oh, that's a great idea.

Yeah.
And so I was like brutally honest with
chat GPT about where I wanted to go with these
smart goals.
And it responded more than once.

I want to say this to you gently, Cara.
And like,
it was like, it didn't want to hurt my feelings.

Really? Yeah.
Isn't that hilarious? I want to
say this gently, Cara, but.
You know what it
told me? You need to find a new job.
I was burnt
out.
Yeah.
That's what AI told me.
He's like,
Cara, it sounds like.
Maybe you got a problem.

You have a classic case of burnout.
It told me
rather than saying, what should my goal be? I
should think, how do I want to change my workplace?
Oh.
You're going to be the change? Yeah.
Don't
think in terms of I need goals.
Think in terms
of making a change.
Oh, my gosh.
We had a long
conversation.
I'm going to go to your office.

You tell me when evaluation day is.
And I'm going
to show up as your, oh, yeah, I'll be like Firefly
is for Jackie.
I'll be your ambassador, like
your workplace ambassador and be like, listen,
my client needs this.
I am thinking about moving
my desk.
Construct a she shed where your desk
is.
Are you ready for my sources? Please.
Okay,
my sources were Copilot, Google Scrapbook Generation,
and Chamber of Commerce.
All right.
Brea, your
trivia question for the day is not a happy one.

Oh, no.
But it does align with a hobby of yours,
which is learning about World War I and II.
Oh,
yes.
You enjoy those.
I do.
What did Germany
bar its citizens from eating? To build zeppelins
for World War I.
Oh my gosh.
Another episode
I'm talking about food.
I might have been hungry
when I...
Just help them build zeppelins? Yes.

By barring people from eating it? That's correct.

Pork.
I'm going to give you that because it's
sausages.
Because they needed the skins? They
used the casings to make the skins of the Zeppelins.

That is disgusting.
Do you want to know a little
bit more about Zeppelins? I love Zeppelins, actually.

So, they were created by the Germans to scout
enemy positions, naval patrols over the North
Sea.
tracking troop movements, and they could
stay airborne for very long periods of time and
see way more than ground forces could see.
Of
course.
Germany then started using Zeppelins
to bomb cities such as London, Paris, Antwerp,
and coastal cities in England.
The goals of using
Zeppelins were to break civilian morale, disrupt
energy, energy, no, disrupt industry um force
fear and psychological pressure and show technological
dominance so it's like pretty scary to see this
giant thing hovering over or you know especially
once it started bombing yeah yeah you can't hear
them i was gonna say you're not being stealth
about it they're not in i mean No.
They're not
inconspicuous.
But at that time, there's nothing
you could do about it.
Correct.
They were just
going to drop a bomb, and it didn't need to be
accurate.
Right.
You just knew a bomb was going
to drop, and that was terrifying in and of itself.

Yes.
You know what's really terrifying is having
bombs up in a Zeppelin.
Which leads me to the
rest of my facts for you.
About the Hindenburg?
They eventually became ineffective.
They were
huge.
Yeah.
They were slow moving.
Yes.
They
were filled with hydrogen.
Yeah.
They could easily
be shot down once incendiary bullets were developed,
fighter planes improved, and anti -aircraft guns
advanced.
Right.
Like, all of a sudden, Zeppelins
were a super duper bad idea.
Yeah, because you
could just shoot a hole in it.
The humanity.

Correct.
Yeah.
They were fireballs.
My sources
were the New York Times Encyclopedia, Britannica,
World History Encyclopedia, UK National Archives,
and History .com.
Fascinating.
Zeppelins are
crazy.
I really like them.
I mean, have you seen
drawings and sketches and stuff like that of
the Hindenburg, what it looked like on the inside?
No.
It was luxurious.
Well, I knew that because
of Indiana Jones.
Oh, right.
Of course.
Where
we get all of our history knowledge.
Where I
get all my history about Nazis.
But they were
so cool.
You'd just be walking around up there.

Not shoved in a little tiny seat.
Yeah.
Digging
into your hips.
I have to travel for work coming
up here soon.
It's on her mind.
So, wait a second.

Could you catch a zeppelin to Green Bay? I wish.

I so wish.
If I could, I would brave a zeppelin.

I would brave it.
Oh, man, the Goodyear blimp.

Why can't the Goodyear blimp just pick me up?
You know what? I don't think the Goodyear blimp
is still a thing.
Have you seen it recently?
It used to be at football games all the time.

And they used to say, photography of the stadium
brought to you by the Goodyear Blimp.
Yeah, now
we got drones.
We don't need the Goodyear Blimp.

You're right.
You are right.
Sorry, Blimp.
Aw.

They've used drones.
I mean so much during the
Olympics.
Sean said he saw drones following some
skating races.
Like they were right behind them
on the ice.
It gives you like a first person
view without the jerkiness.
It's pretty risky
in my opinion.
Because drones.
What if they interfere
with the.
Right.
With the competition.
What if
it falls on the ice and then you've got drone
pieces everywhere on the track.
Like, seriously,
I'm really not okay with drone use in the middle
of an Olympic race.
Well, think about the pressure
of being the operator of the drone.
Yes, exactly.

Because, I mean, Mike Tirico, he broke it all
down for me one night about the drones and who
the operators are.
And each drone has, like,
an operator and a...
scout or something it's
like multiple people for each drone thank goodness
and they get super close like some of those um
big air uh competitions those drones were getting
so close to those competitors i was like that
must be really distracting yes i would not like
that it seems like maybe they're used to it maybe
it's been they've been doing using drones in
like um The X Games and all kinds of other competitions
before now.
Interesting stuff.
Yes.
But I do
need the Goodyear Blimp to come pick me up at
the end of March.
Can we do that? I'll make a
few calls.
End of March and end of April.
Okay.

I'll see what I can.
I can't promise both trips,
but see what I can do.
Otherwise, I'm just going
to be asking for seatbelt extenders and dealing
with arthritis in the air.
Wouldn't it be better
to drive? I am driving one of those times, actually.

I'm driving at the end of April.
Okay.
Because
I'm picking up somebody on the way.
Halfway there.

Yeah, yeah.
And we're going to be travel buddies.

I would drive both times.
Because flights are
so hit and miss these days.
I don't know if I
can drive by myself, though.
For 11 hours.
Girl,
you drove all the way.
I know, but you were in
the car with me.
No, with your children, remember?
They were in the car with me.
It doesn't matter.

Were they awake? Yeah.
Oh, I just assumed they
slept the whole time.
One of them, that was their
job.
One of them was allowed to be in the back
seat sleeping while the other one had to keep
me company.
Hmm.
Maybe I should just go to Green
Bay with you.
You're just going to have to.
I'll
clear my schedule.
Okay.
End of March.
Ready?
Okay.
It's time for some shared history because
we share a hatred of tiny plane seats.
It's true.

And what else we share is that we search a lot
of things on the internet.
Yeah.
Per week.
It's
true.
So, here we're going to tell you, our DTH
besties, the most interesting thing we learned
this week.
The one most interesting thing.
And
the one most interesting thing I learned was
exercise for people who hate exercise.
This is
all part of my remake me initiative.
Okay.
Which
I do it about every two years.
Okay.
And I always
look this up.
Like, I really hate exercising.

What can I do to get the physical activity that
I need without actually exercising? And here's
what I was told.
I'm told the same thing every
time.
And I don't like any of it.
But I just
keep trying.
Okay.
Because nevertheless, she
persisted.
So,.
most people who hate exercise
don't actually hate movement then there's me
no i'm just kidding they hate gyms boredom pain
or the performative culture around fitness i
hate sweating i also hate sweating i don't like
to sweat i don't like to be uncomfortable yeah
same that's what exercise is yes it is no pain
no gain right Reframing movement as anything
that raises your heart rate slightly opens the
door to dozens of non -gym, non -sweaty options.

The best entry point is stealth exercise.
These
are activities that don't feel like workouts
but still count.
Walking while on calls.
Dancing
while cooking.
I don't feel like dancing when
I'm cooking.
I do get sweaty when I cook.
Same.

So, maybe that counts.
Yeah, sure.
Why not? Cleaning
with intensity.
Ugh.
Or taking stairs at a normal
pace instead of a heroic one.
Just taking the
stairs, period.
Okay.
Is better than taking an
elevator, which that's true.
That's true.
But,
you know, if you have to stop in the middle of
the stairs and rest, it's kind of embarrassing.

That's another thing.
I don't like embarrassment.

Right.
So, I don't like being out where people
can see me walking.
And then I feel like they're
judging me because I'm a hippopotamus.
Habit
researchers say the biggest barrier isn't motivation,
but friction.
Removing friction.
meaning you
don't have to put on any special clothes, you
don't have to have special equipment, you don't
have to commute somewhere, leave your house,
whatever, that dramatically increases follow
-through, which is true.
Micromovement is the
secret weapon.
You could do five -minute bursts
of activity sprinkled throughout the day, and
that can match or exceed a single 30 -minute
workout in health benefits.
Wow.
Five minutes.

I can do five minutes.
Yeah.
I can endure five
minutes of anything.
Really.
I mean, I've had
babies.
What the hell? Absolutely.
People who
dislike exercise often thrive with purpose -based
movement.
Gardening, walking, walking a dog,
carrying groceries, rearranging furniture, or
doing home projects.
I do like to rearrange furniture.

I also do, but our house doesn't lend itself
to rearranging furniture.
Ours doesn't either.

At all.
I mean, ours is a tiny, tiny bit.
I've
rearranged our living room a few times.
Our bedroom
could be rearranged if I felt like disassembling
my office slash desk area, which would be a nightmare.

Yeah, that would be.
Gamification works especially
well for exercise -averse people.
You could do
like step challenges, movement streaks, or apps
that turn walking into quests or storylines.

Now, I tried that, remember? Didn't work for
me.
No, that doesn't work for me either.
I don't...

I didn't care about biking through Mordor.
Yeah,
what am I going to get out of walking to Canada?
I don't know.
No, I didn't get anything out of
it.
You'll get a medal, a virtual medal at the
end of this.
F that noise.
I can't even think
of anything to make me that motivated.
Any kind
of prize or goal at the end.
Food? What is going
to motivate me? Not even that.
There's a plate
of sushi.
But then you're like, I can drive and
get some sushi.
That's true.
Yeah, I can't even
think.
Okay, you walked 100 miles.
You've reached
that goal.
Okay.
Now what? Give me a million
dollars.
Right.
Maybe.
That might be motivation.

Yeah.
Buy me a house.
Oh, yeah.
Nobody's offering
that.
Let me retire.
Oh.comfortably.
Oh, man.

I don't want to end up in a cardboard box.
Mm
-hmm.
Social.
Maybe that's what they should do.

They.
Those people out there.
At work? Whoever.

Put you in a cardboard box? They.
If I don't
exercise, if I don't walk this amount of time,
let's say 30 minutes a day.
If I don't walk 30
minutes a day, they take 100 bucks out of my
bank account.
That's what would motivate me.

Taking my money away.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
Or something
that I love, like my paper crafts.
I have to
burn some paper crafts.
It would have to be a...

Big amount of money, though.
Because if it was
just $10, I'd say...
Oh, yeah.
I'd pay $10 a
day not to exercise.
It needs to be significant.

It needs to hurt.
Yeah.
One baseball bat to my
car.
Oh, my gosh.
You don't walk your 30 minutes,
baseball bat to the car.
Just one.
One swing.

Oh, my gosh.
That's stressing me out.
This is
how much I hate exercise.
Me too.
Social movement
beats solo movement for many people.
Whatever.

Sorry.
Go ahead.
Walking with a friend.
Joining
a casual pickleball group.
No.
Oh my gosh.
I
can't think of anything worse.
I would be so
humiliated.
So, embarrassing.
Oh my gosh.
Or doing
a low stakes class where nobody is trying to
crush it.
Whatever.
I don't want to go to a class.

People, those kinds of classes don't exist.
Yeah.

I don't want to go.
Oh, no, no, no, no.
I don't
need a fatty class.
Fatty class.
You create a
class called fatty class.
I'm there.
But it's
just you.
It's just.
It's a room with a door
and no one can see in.
Correct.
Yeah.
There's
no instructor either.
No, it's just me.
You know
what this is called? YouTube in your living room.

Yep, you're right.
But then Sean's in the house
and I don't like to do stuff with him around.

And the dogs.
If you started just exercising
in the middle of your living room.
They would
get too excited.
Your dogs would be like, what
is happening? And then I couldn't do anything.

We'd just be a giant mosh pit is what it would
turn into.
Want to ride the horsey? Now, the
nervous system loves novelty.
Okay.
Rotating
through multiple low effort activities prevents
boredom and keeps movement feeling fresh.
It's
like the crossword puzzle thing.
This is cool.

I can do this.
I can do this.
And then I'm like,
oh, like two minutes in.
I'm like, oh, I hate
this.
Yes.
Then I finish it.
I'm like, oh, my
gosh, I did it.
And I always feel better.
That's
what I hate.
Yeah.
Is that if Sean and I do something,
like we do go for a walk or I work real, like,
so before you guys came over last weekend, I
told Sean, I was like, I do not have the energy.

I'm just going to do the basics, clean the bathroom,
sweep the floors.
Like I'm not going overboard
to clean this house.
Yeah.
And I told you that.

Yeah.
But then once I got started, I was like,
oh my gosh.
It just needs to be done.
Yeah.
It's
always like.
You can't just do a little.
It's
always a rabbit hole.
Yeah.
And then once I got
started and things started looking cleaner, then
I was like, I want more.
I want more clean.
Yeah.

Yeah.
This is great.
I love this feeling.
And
I worked so hard that day that I was really worn
out that night.
But then the next day I felt
awesome.
Like I woke up the next day and I felt
so good.
Cause you slept hard.
I don't know.

I think it was just the fact that I will probably,
yeah, I did sleep hard.
There's no doubt.
But
I think just the fact that I got motion movement,
I exercised, I just felt good.
Yeah.
I always
do that.
See, I, I don't because my joints and
my arthritis are just like, I just feel like
a truck hit me.
The next day.
And that's part
of what keeps me from doing it.
Yeah, I understand.

Is that I'm like, oh my gosh, tomorrow I'm going
to feel like I got hit by a Mack truck.
Yeah.

That's no fun.
No.
Nobody wants to look forward
to that.
It's not.
The goal isn't becoming a
fitness person.
It's building a life where movement
happens naturally without dread, guilt, or Lycra.

Okay.
I didn't write that last thing.
It's just.

And don't come at me, people, with all your suggestions
and all your, well, just do this, just do this.

Because that just makes, it's just more frustrating.

Because then I'm like, nope, tried that, didn't
like it.
Nope, tried that, didn't like it.
You
know what I did for a while? During the pandemic,
I would go out in the cul -de -sac and I would
walk around the cul -de -sac in a circle.
Nothing
wrong with that.
But then I started thinking
my neighbors probably think I am insane.
No way.

During a pandemic, everybody did weird stuff.

Right.
But now if I did it.
Well, maybe if you
walked up the street and then back down and then
like you're just doing a loop rather than like
you're doing a big loop rather than a little
loop.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I've done that too.
And it
still feels weird.
I need to care less what people
think.
Yeah.
Me too.
That would help a lot.
But
how do you retrain your brain? I mean, I am getting
to the point where I care less a little bit about
some things.
Part of my problem is I feel so
awkward and so out of shape that it doesn't matter.

Like even if nobody around me cares.
It just
makes me feel so self -conscious.
And uncomfortable.

And I'm not good with uncomfortable.
I like comfort.

Not that it's comfortable to be overweight.
Right.

But it's easy.
Yeah.
That's part of the problem.

It's easy discomfort.
Yeah.
You're right.
I'll
just buy bigger pants.
Solved.
Oh, man.
Okay,
so my sources were, yet again, we have the CDC
and NIH and also the American Heart Association,
Psychology Today, Johns Hopkins, Cleveland Clinic,
Mayo Clinic.
Lovely.
I'm going to talk more about
war.
War.
This was a silly war.
What is it good
for? Absolutely nothing.
Say it again.
Have you
ever heard of the Toledo War? No.
The Toledo
War was between 1835 and 1836.
It was a border
dispute between Michigan Territory and Ohio over
a skinny strip of land called the Toledo Strip,
which included the city of Toledo.
Both sides
claimed it.
Both sides sent militia.
Both sides
were very serious about it.
And yet no battle
happened.
The confusion came from bad maps and
vague wording in early state boundaries.
Ohio's
like, this is our land.
Michigan was like, no,
actually, this is our land.
And everyone was
pointing to different land surveys.
So, they mobilized
militias.
Officials were arrested.
Shots were
fired into the air.
Oh, my gosh.
Kabang, kabang.

One guy did get stabbed with a penknife, but
no actual battlefield combat took place.
Oh,
my gosh.
Nowadays, that would be a massacre.

Yeah, probably.
You get all those people together
all charged up with weapons.
All you need is
one person to shoot one person.
Right.
And it's
all over.
Yeah.
It just becomes a freaking free
-for -all.
Yeah, yeah.
And people nowadays have
no impulse control.
No, no.
And then groupthink
just gets real crazy.
It gets real crazy.
So,
how did this end? The United States Congress
stepped in and basically said, okay, Ohio gets
the Toledo Strip.
Michigan, you take that upper
peninsula.
Oh.
So, at the time, Michigan was super
mad.
And they're like, stupid.
upper peninsula
i want the toledo strip but it turns out that
the upper peninsula had massive mineral resources
like iron and copper and so it was actually a
long -term win for them and it's gorgeous and
um yeah ohio got the toledo strip i think ohio
lost i think maybe so sorry toledo holy toledo
but that was um that's the whole thing i thought
it was going to be more of a Your search was
kind of like the Toledo War.
It really was.
It
was a nothing burger.
It was a nothing burger.

And it was just basically a bunch of people,
you know.
I'm going to get you.
Right.
No, I'm
going to get you.
I'm madder than you are.
And
then somebody said, here, you take this, you
take this.
Now you both have to wear the happy
shirt, the together shirt.
No.
And go stand in
that corner.
A big giant sweater.
Oh my gosh.

But yeah, that was 1835 to 1836.
So, nobody was
brave enough to actually do anything about it.

I'm kind of glad.
Yeah, me too.
I mean, come
on, people.
Borders are just imaginary anyway.

It's true.
It drives me insane.
How obsessed
we are with borders in the world.
I know we have
to make some kind of order of the chaos.
But
when it comes to fighting over what land is whose
land and it's like, who gives a fuck? Some people
do.
A lot.
I mean, people die over it.
Lots of
people.
Do you care that the Chiefs are moving?
No.
I don't either.
Who cares? I don't give a
crap.
They ain't going that far.
They're still
going to be called Kansas City Chiefs.
That's
how not far they're going.
Yeah, I don't.
And
guess what? They're going to get a beautiful
new stadium.
Yes, they are.
I love Arrowhead.

It's got a lot of nostalgia.
It's got a lot of
memories for me.
You know, whatever.
But it's
a fucking building.
Things change.
And if Missouri
wasn't able to keep them, then...
Too bad.
That's
the way it goes.
Yeah.
We lost the Rams.
Did
you hear about the person who was like...
Oh,
gosh.
I think there's a lawmaker or something
in Missouri because they're all a bunch of dumbasses.

This is a great story, Bebe, because I can't
remember half of it.
But something about...
Oh,
it was personalized license plates.
They're not
going to allow Missourians to have chiefs personalized
license plates anymore.
That'll show them.
That'll
show them.
Barf.
How about we focus on things
like, I don't know, poverty and people who can't
afford health care.
And like letting people who
are people get health care.
Yeah.
Regardless
of what's in their underpants and why you think
that they should be allowed to be called he or
she or whatever.
Right.
Just let people have
health care.
Yep.
Let's focus on, you know, real
things like license plates with football teams
on them.
And you know what? It's shooting themselves
in the foot because who gets the revenue from
the personalized license plate? If I want to
be a Chiefs fan and have a license plate, guess
what? You get the money, the extra money that
I pay for that.
Right.
Dumbasses.
They're such
idiots.
I mean, it's like, it is seriously like
reasoning with three -year -olds.
I know.
I know.

You're going to leave? You're going to take your
ball and leave? Well, I'm going to keep your
ball.
I'm going to keep your ball.
You go play
somewhere else.
I was like, who cares? Huh? Let
him go be successful and have a great stadium.

Big deal.
It's probably going to have a dome
on it, which means that the Super Bowl could
be played there.
Yeah.
Good job, Kansas.
Yeah.

I'm impressed with your moxie and your willingness
to bring a NFL team to your state.
Yeah.
Good
job.
You deserve it.
It's like good for you.

My brother and sister -in -law, they saw the
last game of the season.
They went to the Raiders
game in Las Vegas because tickets were so cheap
because both the teams were so bad.
And so they
got like $60 tickets.
I said, how was the stadium?
And they were like, you cannot believe how beautiful
and wonderful that stadium is.
They were like,
you know, I was sad about Arrowhead, but...
It
needs work.
A modern stadium, there's no comparison.

It is just crazy nice.
Yeah.
They were like,
we were just walking around going, uh, this is
really nice.
Oh, my gosh.
What were we talking
about? Cara.
Yeah.
What about this one? Oh, 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.
You're boring.
So, freaking boring.

I'm falling asleep.
It's so boring.
Oh, man.

Get ready.
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How to avoid adverse side effects of GLP -1 supplements.

Uh -huh.
Blue Book.
Kelly Blue Book.
Accord Hybrid.
My lease is up.
My lease is up
on the Wokemobile.
Clint wants me to get an Accord.

Why? I don't think it's going to happen.
I really
like being up high.
Yeah? I feel safer up high,
and I can see better up high.
Yep.
And I don't
have, oh my gosh, getting in and out of his car.

Yeah.
It's so hard.
Yes.
Now, it's not hard for
me because I have corgi legs.
But you're right.

And you're so much taller than I am.
You get
what you want to get, girl.
I know.
Original
Burbs writer.
Oh.
Pizza near me.
What? I don't
know why that was so funny.
I had to order pizza
for the office this week.
Oh, okay.
And for the
meeting.
I also ordered pizza for an office meeting
this week.
Yeah, I was just like, I don't feel
like getting everybody's order for sandwiches
and blah, blah, blah.
I'm just getting pizza.

Nobody told me.
And it was like the morning of.

And someone was like, hey, you're getting lunch
for this, right? And I was like, no one told
me.
It was like 8 .
to start at 11 .
And I think there were like
five people in there.
And I was like, y 'all
are just getting the pizza that I pick.
Oh my
gosh, the same thing happened to me.
But I forgot
about the meeting.
It wasn't that nobody told
me.
I just forgot.
And then somebody asked me
at about 8 .
today? That's funny.
Isn't that hilarious? Our
lives are so stinking similar.
Really weird.

Ring sizer tool.
Oh.
Unisex class ring.
Hmm.

Peyton told me today, I have to have my class
ring order in by the end of the month.
Oh.
And
I said, you ain't getting a class ring this year.

Yeah.
Well, the people came and told us about
it.
And all the sophomores were told to go down.

And I was like, sophomore, you're too young.

You're too young.
You're not getting a class
ring.
You got to wait till your senior year.

And then I looked online for class rings.
And
I said, you ain't getting a class ring from those
people.
because back when we got class rings
you didn't have a choice yeah yeah the people
came to the school and you ordered the class
ring from the people who came to the school right
and you paid exorbitant amounts of money ridiculous
and now we don't have that problem you have lots
of options um checkia green county collector
fun hr block login taxes Can I get a train from
Kansas City to Green Bay, Wisconsin? Oh, that's
a great question.
Full question.
The answer is
no.
Giles Brandreth, Prunella Scales, Timothy
West, Laura Wade, Samuel West.
I just went through
this whole person's.
Family tree, apparently.

Exercise for people who hate exercise.
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menu.
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Food court.
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Aquarium Branson.

Branson Ferris Wheel.
Open AI.
Peanut Butter
Cookie Recipe.
CVS.
Total Wine.
We drove by that
yesterday and I said, look at that.
There's Total
Wine.
Brea loves that place.
It's so massive.

It's ginormous.
We still haven't been in there,
but...
Golly, from the outside.
It's my happy
place.
No, wait.
Have you been there physically?
No.
Oh, my gosh.
I've only been online, and I
make them bring it to me.
That is hilarious.

You know, maybe that's how I can get my exercise.

I could go walk around Total Wine instead of
having them deliver it to me.
I have started
parking further away at places.
That's good.

Hey, see? It's the little things.
It all adds
up.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's all.
Okay, mine
is super short.
Best Buy HP laptops.
How old
is Britney Spears? One pan cheesy ground beef
potatoes.
That was your recipe.
Yes, and it's
delicious.
Is Siri being discontinued? Yes.
Oh,
shit.
The Girl House, Springfield, Missouri.

That's right next to my nail salon.
So, I didn't
know what that was.
Sean and I were driving around.

So, I looked it up.
Let me tell you, a lot of
hair is being removed.
In that building.
What
do you mean? They all do all kinds of hair removal.

Eyebrows.
Oh, I see.
Hair removal.
Yes, yes,
yes.
Like, they had all these things that they,
like, remove things, you know.
And then it's
a salon.
And then nails.
And they do lashes.

And, like, there is a lot going on inside those
doors.
Yes.
And there's a steady stream of people
in and out of that place.
I don't doubt it.
The
Ozark Lunkers.
Brother H .
L.
Printer.
And what
does the dotted line face emoji mean? Dotted
line.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Have you ever used
that before? Like an outline.
Yeah.
There are
so many meanings that that emoji can take on.

There's no way I would ever use it.
That's an
emoji for the young crowd.
Now, what is it, though?
So, it was something like you feel invisible or
you feel like you haven't gotten attention or
you feel like you've been left out or what was
it? It was there were so many, so many things.

Let me see if I can find it real fast.
Represents
feeling invisible, overlooked, insignificant
or wanting to disappear.
It's often used to convey
being on the fence, feeling shy or dealing with
anxiety or unexpressed emotions.
For the love
of Pete.
That is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 different
things that emoji could represent.
I mean, I
guess if you've got the context of the conversation,
it might fit in, but...
Often used to convey
social anxiety or awkwardness.
Yeah.
How and
why would I ever text that? Right? Like, oh,
maybe you're at a party.
like a work party okay
and you text me and you're like this party is
so and maybe you could use that emoji because
you feel socially awkward maybe or there's a
bunch of people there that you don't like or
don't really know very well so you're just kind
of standing in the corner yeah it's when i was
texting you to tell you that my husband was backing
into a parking spot that's right And I saw that
emoji and I was like, hmm, would that one fit
here? And I was like, I don't even know what
that means.
But it kind of works in that situation
because I really wanted to become invisible because
I didn't want to be in that vehicle while he
was backing into a parking spot.
Man, I know,
right? Talk about hypocrisy.
Such a pet peeve
of mine.
You went on and on and on so much about
all the people backing into the parking spaces
next to your car.
And then you're in the car
with that person.
I couldn't believe he did it.

I was like, what are you doing? So, you were in
the pickup truck? No, we were in the rocket van.

Why? I mean, it is, in all fairness, it has a
huge blind spot.
It's really hard to drive that
thing.
Does it have a backing camera? No, no,
no, no, no.
It's too old.
Yeah.
Okay.
Um, but
that kind of makes sense.
So,, I mean, it did,
it does, it makes it easier and whatever.
I just,
I hate it so much.
Anyway, that's the end of
my list.
Oh, that's it? Yeah.
Dotted lime face
emoji meaning.
Do you have any shout outs? It's
not exactly a shout out, but we did receive a
message that made me howl.
Oh, what was it? It
was someone, I mean, it was obviously either
a scam or something.
Did you see this thing?
I did.
Hey, I'm the promoter team on harem fits
and we think you'd be perfect to fit.
You'd be
a perfect fit for our active wear.
I about died.

I just was like, well, if anything screams scam,
it's this one.
Yeah, they know us.
They know
us real well.
Yeah.
If you're interested, we'd
love to send you pieces for free.
Just tap the
share button above and DM collab to our main
account.
Hurry.
Oh, my gosh.
It has all of the
things that they tell you to look for.
The sense
of urgency, clicking on a link.
Like, if you
saw me, you could tell I don't hurry to do anything.

At all.
Is there a bear following me? No, I'm
not hurrying.
I just thought that was so funny.

It was like, no one messages us, but we got that.

We'd look great in their active wear.
Harem fits.

Harem.
Hello.
Yeah.
That's us.
Do you have any
shout outs? Yes, because this episode drops on
my niece Danielle's birthday.
And so happy birthday,
Dee.
She's a grown -up mom now.
Oh.
But I remember
when she was just a little thing, and she and
her sister and my other niece, Brittany, were
playing Running Away to New York.
And they actually
went really far away from the house.
Oh, shit.

And they scared the crap out of all of us.
Oh,
my gosh.
We all about had a heart attack looking
for them.
Oh, my gosh.
And they were like up
the street at a church parking lot or something
playing running away to New York.
So, here's hoping
her little ones, Walter and Ivy, don't pull the
same gray hair sprouting trick on her.
Oh, my
gosh.
Oh, my gosh.
Those three clowns, Brittany,
Danielle, and Jillian, whenever they were together,
they were such a riot.
It's so fun to have cousins
your same age.
Yep.
I did have cousins my same
age.
They were all boys, which was fine, but...

I had none.
I really wanted some girl cousins
my age.
I had no cousins.
And then I moved to
Lebanon, Missouri, and everybody is everybody's
cousin.
Oh.
Everybody.
It's ridiculous.
Oh, yeah,
that's my cousin.
They all have, you know, everybody
has the same last name.
And it's just like, oh,
my gosh.
Talk about dashed line emoji face.
I
ain't got no cousins.
I feel insignificant.
It
was easier for me to date than it was for them.

Well, yeah, it sounds like it.
Well, I don't
know.
Maybe they didn't care.
Okay.
Oh, man.

Happy birthday, Danielle.
Yes, happy birthday.

If other people would like to give shout outs
on this podcast, we're offering.
Yeah.
And if
you contact us, we'll give you a shout out.
Yes,
you can do that at Delete This History podcast
at gmail .com or at DTH gals on Instagram.
Yes,
we would love to get a message that's not about
active wear for harems.
Please don't contact
us about active wear.
Rate and review us.
Oh,
please do.
It takes no time at all.
Nope.
It's
good for your soul.
Oh, for sure.
Better than
chicken soup.
Tell your friends.
Engage
with us on social media.
Please.
Maybe.
Yeah.

We'll write back.
Yeah, we will.
But for now,
I've got to go delete my history and get some
lunch.
Yes, me too.
I'm starving.
Starving, Marvin.

Save fresh cheese bags.
Bye.
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