But so like the rocket van, it's hard for me
to climb into that thing because it's so high
up.
Really? Yes, it's super annoying.
I have
to do one butt cheek at a time.
Get one cheek
hiked up there, hold on to the seat, and then
just shift myself inside of it.
So, I prefer a
car because I'm so low to the ground already.
But me and the ground, best friends.
With you,
the sun is shining 24 -7 Cause when we're together,
it feels like we're in heaven If it will get
dark, you'll be my million stars I know I can
lean on you Welcome to episode 99 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.
Hello, Cara Birth.
Hi, Brea.
What's the new bestie? Nothing.
Except
that this is episode 99.
99.
I had to say it.
Oh, that's a good one.
I didn't even think about
it.
Love that show.
Me too.
They've got compilation
videos on YouTube of Brooklyn Nine -Nine.
So,
funny.
It'll just be like, all the cold opens
with...
Oh, yes.
Captain Holt.
All the cold opens
with...
Terry.
Oh, Terry's got to have his nibs.
It is the best show.
Man, it's so stupid.
What
was the name of the game that they all got addicted
to? Or Captain Holt did? Oh, Quazy Cupcakes.
He's in the bathroom playing Quazy Cupcakes.
crazy cupcakes crazy if you've never watched
that show just do yourself a favor it's so good
do it oh my gosh and even if like the first episode
you're kind of like what in the heck just stick
with it yes for a couple more episodes because
you'll be hooked oh my gosh i was gonna um talk
about how much i love slim jims but i found out
I found out some very, very upsetting news today.
About Slim Jims.
Oh my gosh.
I thought they were
the perfect protein -packed snack.
And I've just
been living on Slim Jims and yogurt and almonds.
Pretty much.
I mean, I eat a sensible dinner
with some green things and vegetables and shit.
What happened? What happened, Brea? Well, I had
a headache I could not get rid of.
I missed a
family birthday get -together this weekend.
Oh,
good grief.
Because it would go away for a little
while, and then it would come back.
And I was
like, what is happening? My uterus is gone.
This
is not supposed to happen anymore.
And then...
Just on a whim today, I thought, these are really
salty.
I wonder what's in these.
And I looked
it up, and I looked up, do Slim Jims cause headaches?
And sure enough, people who are susceptible,
meaning me, yes, because they have MSG in them.
And sodium nitrite or trate, one of those, not
good.
No.
Not good.
I'm very sorry.
There might,
Sean eats some that I think are grass fed, supposed
to be grass fed beef.
And he really likes them.
And we get them on occasion from Aldi.
Oh, Aldi.
I'll have to look those up and see.
They might
be an alternative.
See, I don't like beef jerky.
I like the way it tastes, but it's too chewy.
It hurts my mouth.
I gotcha.
It's just too leathery.
I've never had any that I could actually chew
without hurting myself.
Have you tried to soak
it in water? It's disgusting.
Warm water.
It's
so gross.
No.
You know what? I'll just get my
protein somewhere else.
And I take my vitamins.
Take a cheese stick and wrap it up in turkey.
Meat stick.
I'm just not a big fan.
Like lunch
meat in general gives me headaches.
Oh, yeah,
you're right.
You're right.
I hadn't thought
about that.
Because it's all just the same, you
know? Yeah, it is.
Anyway, whatever.
I've been
drinking my two liters of water a day.
Nice.
Yeah.
I told Sean, I'll tell you guys, I wasn't
going to tell this story, but I'm going to tell
it now.
Because you brought up your water.
Nice.
Because I'm trying really hard.
I basically get
home and stop drinking water.
Well, look at that
big cup you have.
Well, this is what I keep at
work.
So, I have multiple water bottles.
Well,
this is what I brought for this week.
So, this
is my big water bottle for the week.
But when
I get home, I just stop drinking at all, completely.
And it's not good.
I should keep drinking throughout
the night.
Yeah.
And so I told Sean the other
day, I said, listen, I don't judge me, but I
bought, Some basic bitch supplies from Amazon.
What were they? They were water enhancers.
Oh,
boy.
That have their own ka -chunk.
Ka -chunk.
Do they? Pumps.
So, they look like the syrup that
you use at Starbucks.
But they are sugar -free,
very light.
They don't taste artificial.
They're
just super light.
So, I got three of those.
Oh,
no.
Then I got some ice cube trays.
Their ice
cubes are round.
And so I filled up two of those
with just water and two of them with the actual
water enhancers.
The ka -chunk? The ka -chunks.
Oh, my gosh.
So, I throw those in and then I just
pour my water on top of it and it eventually
melts and it's delicious.
Then I also bought
something that I already knew I'd like, but I
bought a huge box of crystallized lime.
So, I'm
putting like two packets of crystallized lime,
which is delicious, into my water.
Then I'm adding
– no, I'm only doing the ka -chunks during the
evening.
During the day, I'm just drinking plain
water.
Yeah, it's like your motivation.
It's
my motivation.
It's my basic bitch water at home.
Just until you get in the habit, right? Probably
not because I've tried for 47 years to get in
the habit of drinking water, and it still hasn't
happened because I hate it so much.
But this
is, so I set up a little place in my kitchen
where I can go get my BB water.
Not BB brown
water.
Not BB, but my basic bitch water.
Oh.
Do you have a basic bitch water station? Yes,
I do.
Awesome.
So,, and I will say it is working
quite well.
If it's a treat or if it's fun.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So,, that's.
You mentioned water, so I told
it myself.
You know how else to motivate yourself
to drink more water? Yeah.
Is have THC gummies
because they make you super thirsty.
Oh, okay.
I thought you were going to say Slim Jims.
Nope.
Slim Jims will make you thirsty as well.
And
they will also give you crippling headaches that
make you miss out on life.
I'm so mad at myself.
Well, I'm really glad that you figured it out.
That's good.
Because I was like, oh, man, I'm
just stressed out about work.
And I'm just tense.
And I'm just this.
And I was blaming everything.
Yeah.
And, you know, things outside of my control.
Yes.
Had no idea I was doing this to myself.
My buddy.
I don't know what's wrong.
Idiot.
Anyway.
Oh, shoot.
Is that all we get to talk about?
I think so.
Okay.
Now it's time to play a little
game we like to call Search Me, where we each
ask each other one trivia question from our week's
internet searches.
Cara.
Yo.
Your question for
today is multiple choice.
I like multiple choice.
Me too.
Which aquatic animal is older than both
trees and grass? Oh, my gosh.
Are you ready?
Yeah.
A, sharks.
B, dolphins.
C, anglerfish.
Or D, penguins.
Penguins.
Penguins.
Sharks.
What
was the second one? Dolphins.
Oh, dolphins.
Anglerfish.
Or penguins.
I'm going with anglerfish.
That
was a good guess, though, because you would think,
because they're kind of like prehistoric looking
and they're so gritty.
Down there at the bottom
of the...
Is it sharks? It's sharks.
Dang it!
They are about 450 million years old.
Trees are
roughly 385 million years old.
And grass is only
young.
Super young.
Actually, they're old.
Here
are the ages of the modern versions of the other
animals.
Okay.
Now, this is modern versions.
Don't come at me, all you science nerds, and
be like, well, actually.
Dolphins, 10 to 20 million
years old.
Penguins, 20 million years old.
Anglerfish,
less than 50 million years old.
So,, they're even
younger than grass.
They're all freaking old,
though, considering that modern humans, Homo
sapiens, are only about 315 ,000 years old.
Wow.
So, to put it another way, if sharks were 24 hours
old, we would be 0 .
1 seconds old.
My goodness.
They're very much older than us.
Yes, they are.
They've just been swimming around, waiting for
grass and trees.
That's right.
They're like,
when are those grass and trees going to get here?
Damn it.
Landscape could be better.
Just swimming,
can't blink.
It's all that's around here is water,
water, water.
When are the penguins going to
get here? They're the partiers.
Get you some
anglerfish.
Spice things up.
My sources were
Britannica, Ancient 360, and Snopes.
Okay.
Snopes.
Snopes.
I used Snopes for a search a few weeks
ago.
Was that three weeks ago? Maybe.
Hmm.
Interesting.
I don't know.
Let's look it up.
Copycat.
Hey,
Brea.
Yeah? In 1970, this singer was named an
honorary federal agent and police officer.
He
used his authority to pull over speeding cars,
but he gave autographs instead of tickets.
Name
that singer.
Oh, my gosh.
I've heard this somewhere.
Oh, damn it.
I thought you were going to say
that is correct.
Would you like to guess it one
more time? Bob Dylan.
No, he would never worked
for the man.
It was Mr.
Elvis Presley.
Damn it.
Elvis freaking Presley.
I mean, Elvis Aaron Presley.
That's right.
That's right.
Interesting.
It's
super weird.
That is weird.
So, random.
That'd
be like.
That'd be like, hey, Harry Styles.
We
love you so much.
Why don't you come hand out
some tickets? Here, you get a badge and everything.
Just pull people over.
It'd be fine.
Bizarre.
Ed Sheeran? Yeah.
You want to give some people
their Miranda warnings? Who would you want to
pull you over? Like, you're speeding along and
you get pulled over.
Oh, I have so many.
Colin
Firth.
Cherries are ringing in the back.
okay
it would have to be an american because yeah
yeah okay oh i'm thinking i've named all british
singers you're right and celebrities let's see
can you tell what i watch all day long um okay
i would say tom hanks oh that is a great one
because he would be so nice yes you're like listen
It's really unsafe for you to be driving that
fast.
And you have a tail light out.
Oh, yes.
Here's my autograph.
Here's a typewriter.
Here's
a typewriter.
Tom Hanks, that's really good.
I don't know that I can top that.
He is a national
treasure.
You know what popped into my mind,
but he's also British? What? Chris Martin.
Oh.
I would like for Chris Martin to pull me over.
What if he was on a stool? And he just came rolling
up to...
He's just like doing this.
And he came
rolling up to your car and he was just humping
the stool the whole time.
Is he pushing a piano
in front of him too? Yes.
Gosh, that guy.
He
can do whatever he wants.
I'm telling you, he's
got lots of energy.
Harrison Ford would be a
good one.
Yeah, he would be a good one.
Do you
watch that show? Shrinking? Yes.
Of course I
do.
I love that show so much.
The show is so
good.
God, I love that show.
That's actually
in my But What About This One today because I
had to look it up.
I just love it.
It is really
good.
I mean, the main character, Jason.
Siegel.
Thank you.
I'll watch him in anything.
He just
has such soulful eyes.
I know.
I love him.
I
know.
One of my favorites.
Favorite movies that
he's done is What About Sarah Marshall? Oh, was
it Searching for Sarah Marshall? Oh, Waiting
for Sarah Marshall? Finding Sarah Marshall? What's
it called? I'm looking it up.
What did I say?
Finding? Waiting? No, you said Searching? What
About? No, What About? No, it's not What About.
Waiting.
Forgetting.
Forgetting.
One of those
verbs that's also sometimes a noun.
It's called
a gerund.
Has an ing.
Oh, my God.
See, that makes
sense because they broke up.
Forgetting Sarah
Marshall.
Forgetting.
The whole movie is about
him trying to get over her.
I remember that movie
makes me laugh so hard that I remember the first
time I saw it.
There are parts of that that I
was crying.
Crying.
I was laughing so hard.
Oh,
yeah.
I mean.
Oh, my gosh.
Jason Segel.
He's
so good.
What's that movie with him and Paul
Rudd? I Love You, Man.
I Love You, Man.
That's
a good one, too.
That makes me laugh.
Paul Rudd.
I was talking about him today at work because
somebody was talking about the reboot of Scrubs.
Oh, yeah.
That just came out.
um as we're recording
this and he said i was really worried because
i loved that show when it was on and i was worried
that this reboot was just gonna be crap but it's
it's really good like so far they've really kept
to you know the canon nice of the original and
he said the the mean doctor he was in the first
two episodes but he's not going to be in it and
i was like well yeah because in real life that
guy there's no way he'd still be working as a
doctor he'd be retired on a beach he is old he
goes yeah but you know what he looks the same
and i said that's hollywood like it used to be
dick clark was yes was just Like, oh, my gosh,
Dick Clark, he never ages.
But now there's so
many of them.
I know.
Paul Rudd, that dude, whatever
his name is.
They're all just like.
I know.
I
don't know how they do it.
Paul Rudd, what coffin
are you sleeping in every night? I know.
I don't
get it.
I didn't watch Scrubs the first time
around.
I've always wanted to see it, but I've
never seen it.
It's pretty funny.
It looks hilarious.
But it does get a little old.
So, Sean tried to
watch it one time, and he said it got on his
nerves, and he couldn't stick with it.
It's very,
I wouldn't say manic.
You know, that's my favorite
word to use.
Maybe chaotic.
Okay.
Karen and I
had a conversation about how AI loves the word
chaotic.
Yeah, and unhinged.
Unhinged.
It talks
about us that way.
I know.
Every time I ask AI
about us, it's like...
Here's a nice unhinged
idea.
I had to tell chat GPT to stop saying our
podcast was unhinged.
It was like, absolutely.
You're right.
That is not the tone of the show.
Shut up.
You don't even know, asshole.
I had
to tell you.
Well, not just that, but what if
it is? But it's not.
We're not unhinged.
Well,
sometimes we can be a little bit silly.
I wouldn't
call that.
Let's look up what unhinged means
right now.
Like the actual definition.
of unhinged
what are the kids saying unhinged death give
it to me wildly irrational and out of touch with
reality well shoot yeah we're a little unhinged
all right sorry ai but here's the deal it's like
stephanie meyer find a different word for beautiful
get a thesaurus It's AI.
It has access to everything
on the internet, including thesaurus .com.
That's
right.come on.
Yeah.
Even I know how to use
that.
I'm an old lady.
You know how to use a
thesaurus because you're an old lady.
Yeah, that's
true.
We had classes on how to use dictionaries
and thesauruses.
You're correct.
Thesauri? Thesauri.
I don't know.
That sounds like a dinosaur.
That's
what a thesauri would sound like.
A thesauri.
But he had a really big vocabulary.
He didn't
just do one roar.
He did lots of roars.
I think
we're unhinged.
Maybe.
Okay.
Cara.
Yo.
We're
unhinged and it's something we share.
Yes, it
is.
We're so unhinged.
So, now it's time for Shared
History where we tell you, our DGH besties, the
most interesting thing we learned this week.
That's right.
Okay, so last week, one of my what
about this ones was Cockney rhyming slang origin.
And I was like, I'm sorry, but I'm going to have
to revisit that.
I'm really glad because when
you read that, you just like went over it so
quick.
And I was like, huh? So, I'm glad you're
revisiting it.
I'm curious.
I know.
I was like,
please don't ask about it.
That's why you went
through it so fast.
You knew.
You knew I was
going to ask.
I love Cockney rhyming slang.
Okay.
Because I think it is hilarious to refer to a
phone as a dog and bone or stairs as apples and
pears.
It's just so weird.
It's just so random.
It's so unhinged.
It's unhinged.
But to make
it a code rather than just a joke, it needs to
be a bit more complicated than that.
So, dog and
bone phone is shortened to just dog.
Okay.
So,
those in the know with the Cockney rhyming slang,
they'll say, I'll call you on the dog.
And everybody
will be like, I don't know, on the bog.
You know,
are they talking about talking to me on the toilet?
No, it's the dog and bone, but it's shortened
to dog.
Similarly, apples and pears, stairs is
shortened to apples.
She fell down the apples.
Oh, my gosh.
And you just know this because you've
heard it over and over again when you live in
the UK.
You drop the rhyme to make it less crackable.
And why would you make it less crackable? Because
by the early 20th century, Cockney rhyming slang
had become part of London identity, especially
working class identity.
And it showed up in musicals,
comedy routines, and eventually in TV and film.
Shows like Only Fools and Horses helped cement
it in the British cultural imagination.
It functioned
as a kind of social glue.
If you understood it,
you were in.
And if you didn't, you were an outsider.
The insider -outsider dynamic is part of why
it caught on so strongly in East London's working
-class neighborhoods, where identity, humor,
and quick verbal play were woven into everyday
life.
Today, it's more of a cultural artifact.
Oh.
Something people reference, parody, or revive
for fun.
It's no longer a living, expanding system
in the way it once was.
But it has spread to
Australia.
Ireland, and even parts of the U .
S.
,
although not this part of the U .
S.
Can you imagine
people around here? They would not get it.
No,
no.
Cockney rhyming slang survives because it's
clever, mischievous, and deeply tied to a sense
of place.
It's a reminder that language isn't
just about communication, it's about identity,
humor, and belonging.
And...
interesting fact
that i learned on what i lie to you yes that
criminals used it how so to because when it was
new and it was still you know very new if you
were in the know when you were a criminal you
could use it and the cops wouldn't know what
you were talking about oh yeah all right so i'm
just looking up here i'm not ignoring you No,
I know.
I know what you're doing.
I'm looking
up the first time I ever heard Cockney rhyming
was in a movie.
And it was Ocean's 13.
Oh, I
was going to say, was it a Guy Ritchie movie?
No, it was, which I may have because I used to
watch a lot of Guy Ritchie movies, but I didn't
realize what I was hearing.
But the first time
I knew what I was hearing was in Ocean's 13 when
Don Cheadle, he was Basher.
yes he was the explosives
dude he said like if we don't do this we're gonna
be in barney and they all looked at him he said
rubble trouble i was like oh my gosh that's a
good one yes i do like adam and eve as well what's
that like would you adam and eve it believe adam
and eve believe Here's another one.
Loaf of bread
is head.
Oh.
Bees and honey are money.
Oh, okay.
I like that.
Boat race is face.
Boat race? She's
got an ugly boat race.
Oh my gosh.
Plates of
meat are feet.
Gross.
That one grosses me out.
That's nasty.
Bottle and stopper equals copper,
like police officer.
Oh, okay.
So, it's funny
that Don Cheadle in Ocean's Eleven says it because
they're criminals.
Yes, they are.
So, he was probably
like really disappointed in his fellow criminals
that they did not understand the code.
He was
very frustrated with them.
Yeah.
Butcher's hook
is look.
Mince pies is eyes.
Trouble and strife
is wife.
Oh, my goodness.
I like honey and bees.
I do, too.
I really like.
Or bees and honey,
I guess it was.
Yeah, it was bees and honey.
It was honey.
Plates of meat.
That's classic.
I got to go rest my plates of meat.
Boat race.
That one really got me.
Boat race.
That's hilarious.
I mean, I just love British slang.
It's the best.
I think you need to move there.
I just think
you need to.
I think it's too rainy and cold.
Oh, well, yeah, you don't like that.
But man,
I do just love it.
It's because it's clever and
different.
That's why you like it.
Oh, I know
what I was going to say.
Like when you say to
somebody, you've got a face like a slapped ass.
I mean, who says that? I don't.
No one I know.
It's great.
They use it all the time over there.
It just means that you're kind of down or you're
kind of like you're grumpy looking.
Wow, what's
wrong with you? You got a face like a slapped
ass.
Me for the last two weeks.
Arse.
Face like
a slapped arse.
Arse.
Those Brits.
Hilarious.
My sources were HistoryHit, CockneyAccent .com,
and Wikipedia, CockneyAccent .com.
Of course.
Because there's a website for everything.
We've
said it before.
We'll say it again.
It remains
true.
Hey, Brea.
Yeah.
Do you like the music?
I do like the music.
How about music from the
about Ace of Base? Oh, my gosh.
It was one of
the first CDs I ever owned.
Oh, really? Yep.
My first CD was Billy Joel, River of Dreams.
That was my second CD.
It was a good one.
I still
have that CD.
My first CD was James Taylor's
Greatest Hits.
I know.
What an old person.
Old
soul.
But Billy Joel, River of Dreams was my
second CD.
Man, if you could wear out a CD, I
would have worn out that CD.
It's the only CD
I had.
They were so expensive.
It's the only
one I could afford.
So, I listened to that one
a lot.
I only ever got them as gifts.
Oh, I save
up my dollars.
See, so I got James Taylor's Greatest
Hits for my birthday.
Then I got...
Billy Joel's
River of Dreams for Christmas.
That's why it
was my second one.
And then Ace of Base, the
sign.
I got that for something.
It was also a
gift, though.
Yeah, once I started making money,
there was no stopping me.
I started buying CDs
like crazy.
I just couldn't.
Yeah.
Because they
were too spendy.
They were expensive, but I wasn't
allowed to go out.
But I could have a job.
Yeah.
So, I got a job when I was 15.
And so I could
have a job, but I wasn't allowed to go out until
I had my driver's license.
Then you could go
to Walmart.
Then I could go.
Yeah.
So,, but I
had money and, you know, mom went to Walmart
or wherever every week.
So, I always had access.
Yeah.
You just tag along.
I'm going to be in
the music section.
Oh, man.
Yeah.
Yeah, those
were the days, man.
Hang out in the music section.
Yeah.
Sean and I, our thing when we first started
dating was we'd go get dinner and then we'd go
to Hastings.
Yes.
And we would hang out at Hastings
for hours.
Hastings Superstore.
Oh, my gosh.
We were there for hours.
And that was our date.
That was our standard date after, you know, we'd
been together for a while.
And we had so much
fun doing that.
Yeah.
Entertain Mart.
Yeah.
We
used to spend lots of hours and entertain our
own.
We were poor.
We go there occasionally.
Like if I'm looking for a specific season, like
I'm still trying to buy new girl, but.
Oh yeah.
Cause they do.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But, and I've
got like, I think I've got like seasons one through
three, but then I'm super cheap and I will not
pay $30 for a season.
Right.
And the new girl
seasons.
They will not come down in price.
They
will not.
So, sometimes I'll head to Entertain
Mart and see what they got.
They never have new
girl seasons.
I have not been in Entertain Mart,
I would say, in 15 years.
It's changed a lot.
Like, so much of it is video games and, like,
lots of comic books.
Now they've got a whole
section for LPs.
Oh, yeah.
And then they've got
a huge section, huge section of those Funko dolls.
Oh, yeah.
Tons.
Yeah.
I can't believe how much
of their real estate inside that store is Funko
dolls.
People love those things.
They do.
I just
don't get it.
I don't either.
Anyway.
Uh -huh.
So, I was trying to find.
I've gotten stuck in
a music rut.
So, I was going through all my playlists
and I was like, I've got this Ace of Base playlist.
And so I listened to my Ace of Base playlist.
I was like, oh my God, this is so good.
Ace of
Base is so good.
Holds up.
I was like, what are
they up to these days? What I love about Ace
of Base is, I think this is true, that they did
not really know any English and they sang all
these songs.
in english because they knew american
audiences you know that's where the money was
i don't know if that's true or not i i did not
come across that in my research oh shoot but
i didn't ask that question specifically i didn't
look down again they were very popular in so
okay yeah let me just let me i'll get there get
with it Okay, so right now, the most current
information about Ace of Base is there is a three
-part documentary that was released in 2024.
Really? Called All That She Wants, The Unbelievable
Story of Ace of Base.
I think you can watch it
on Prime.
Oh.
So, I may be paying $4 .
99 to watch
this this weekend.
Oh, to rent it.
Yes.
to rent
it yes um it chronicles the band's meteoric rise
struggles in the aftermath of their fame in late
bridge which is one of my favorites um received
a 30th anniversary double vinyl release Run out
and get your records, kids.
30th anniversary.
Yes.
I didn't say that to make you feel old.
Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Even without new music being
produced, Ace of Base's catalog remains extremely
strong on streaming platforms with millions of
monthly listeners.
Gosh.
While the original group
hasn't reunited for tours, Jenny Bergeron...
She's one of the original vocalists.
She continues
to perform Asa bass songs as part of solo appearances
and nostalgia themed events.
Oh, so she's hitting
like 90s throwbacks.
My 50th birthday.
So, they
never officially disbanded, but they haven't
performed together as a original band for decades.
So, when their popularity surged, it really wasn't
something that Lynn Bergeron, I think I'm saying
that name.
Maybe it's Bergeron.
B -E -R -G -G
-R -E -N.
I don't know.
She was not comfortable
with being famous.
Really? At all.
So, she was
the blonde.
Yeah.
And she was the main singer.
She kind of had like the lower register voice.
And Jenny, her sister, had the higher register
voice and was doing a lot of the harmonies and
background music.
And then one of the guys was
a brother.
So, there's three kids.
And then the
other guy was the guy's friend, the brother's
friend.
And so, okay, so Lynn was not comfortable
with...
She gradually started to withdraw from
public eye in the early 2000s, and she hasn't
performed or participated in band projects since
around 2009.
She consistently expressed the need
for personal space and normalcy after years of
intense fame.
The sudden and massive success
of Asa Bass in the 90s brought constant media
attention and touring schedules, which reportedly
became overwhelming for her, and she chose to
step away to protect her well -being.
Lynn was
singing most of the songs when they first became
popular, but as she began to withdraw, Jenny
started singing lead vocals on many of the tracks,
with Lynn singing back up her heart.
on the recordings
and then rarely appearing in public um or on
tours so she just stopped going on tours with
them so they were like okay you're gonna sing
for the recording and then when we go on tour
we'll just find somebody else yeah so they sing
your part sometimes they use another person lots
of times they just use a track like her track
really yeah that sounds like lots of things could
go wrong and they had to like make they like
had to become a bigger stage presence to kind
of fill her space yeah um what happens if the
track goes wrong or they fall behind or something
crazy happens and then her part of the track
just keeps going and they're like ask millie
vanillie i don't know scary the change of lead
vocalists changed the vocal texture of the band.
Jenny has a strong voice, but Lynn's distinctive
tone was part of the original sound of Asa Bass,
and so fans noticed right away in the later albums
that they sounded very different.
Lynn's input
on songwriting and production diminished, and
while she may have contributed to studio work
behind the scenes, her absence influenced...
Her absence influenced the style of later albums,
which leaned more toward dance pop and mainstream
radio sound rather than their unique reggae pop
blend of the early records.
Oh, yeah.
It does
kind of have a reggae.
Did you ever think that?
I never really put that together.
Me neither.
Now that you say it.
So, I went back and listened
to their first album, which was The Sign.
And
I was like, I...
Yeah, it is kind of...
I hear
it a little bit.
Well, that hook in the background
of the sign that...
I'm not going to do it.
That's
very reggae sounding now that I think about it.
Yeah.
So, their first album came out in Europe
and it was called Happy Nation.
Living in a happy
nation.
Yeah.
So, then...
They were very popular.
They got like Germany and Sweden, I think it
was.
They were like going crazy there.
Then it
started to get popular in the UK.
And then when
it started to get super popular there, it started
to leak into the US.
So, like there were a couple
of songs in the US already and they were just
starting to really pick up steam.
And so they
renamed that album, Happy Nation, The Sign.
They
added a couple of songs to it and then released
that album in the U .
S.
As The Sign.
As The Sign.
So, Happy Nation, they put those two together.
Happy Nation slash The Sign was their first album.
Fun fact there.
Interesting.
Okay, so then I
wanted to know why they named the band Ace of
Base.
Because it doesn't really make any sense
to me.
B -A -S -E.
I don't get that.
It's not
B -A -S -S.
Right.
Like, do -do -do -do -do.
Slap -a -da -bass, man.
That wasn't...
There's
your Paul Rudd joke from I Love You, Man.
Okay,
so the name Ace of Bass was chosen by the band
in the early 90s.
They were originally called
Tech Noir.
Fun fact.
Tech Noir is the name of
a bar in the movie Terminator.
Oh my gosh, that's
hilarious.
So, then they changed it to Ace of
Base.
And, you know, they all kind of have a
different story of why they called it Ace of
Base.
But the word ace suggests top quality or
excellence.
The word base is foundation or the
core.
Base is also a homophone for...
Bass, B
-A -S -S, as in bass guitar or bass music, which
was the key element of their pop reggae sound.
Okay, the group also took inspiration from the
song Ace of Spades by Motorhead.
They liked the
name of that song.
They liked how it sounded
when they said it, Ace of Spades.
Yeah, yeah.
So, they're like, what can we...
Yeah.
So, they
kind of stole that a little bit.
Yeah, yeah.
suspect they probably wanted to call it ace of
bass b -a -s -s and i'm guessing an american
record producer was like people are not going
to pronounce that correctly they're going to
say ace of bass yep and you're going to be fish
right that would be my guess that is so sad because
it doesn't make any sense that's real sad but
anyway My sources were Wikipedia, IMDB, Radio
Max Music, and BandsInTown .com.
Okay.
Man, that
is a blast from the past.
They have five albums,
and I didn't know that.
I didn't know they had
more than one.
They've got The Sign, The Bridge,
which I have The Bridge.
It's an excellent album.
Cruel Summer was after The Bridge.
And then there's
one called...
Da Capo.
Da, Da Capo.
Da Capo.
And then the Golden Ratio.
Oh, and Flowers.
So,
that's one, two, three, four, five, six.
Damn.
Oh, and then they have a Greatest Hits.
They
have six more albums than I do.
Seven with Greatest
Hits.
There you go.
Everything you ever want
to know about Issa Bass.
Man, I can still see
the CD cover.
Poor Lynn.
I'm sorry for her.
Yeah,
that sucks.
I think a lot of people, though,
have that experience where, you know, they have
a talent.
They think that, yeah, I want to be
famous someday.
And then they become famous and
they're like, oh, this kind of sucks.
I feel
like that's what happened to the Civil Wars.
Oh, yeah.
I loved those two.
They were excellent
together.
she wanted to either go in a different
direction or keep building on what that fame,
because they became famous pretty quickly, I
think.
And he did not want to go in the direction
she was wanting to go.
And I think she ended
up doing a solo career that didn't do very well.
How fitting that the name of their group was
Civil Wars.
They've got good music.
I liked it.
But Cara.
Yeah.
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 we're just too damn
boring.
Yeah, boring.
Oh, so boring.
Here we
go.
I have a pretty long list this week.
Very
long list.
Okay, here we go.
Burger King e -gift
card.
Sonic e -gift card.
Is gift cards legit?
Full question.
Short answer, yes.
Longer answer,
not very reliable.
Avoid.
McDonald's gift cards
online.
Seven Brew gift cards online.
Those,
did you do that? No.
I got screwed by one of
those.
Did you? Yeah, because I was trying to
order a gift card and they mailed it to me.
Yeah.
It took three weeks.
Yeah.
What the actual beep.
Hey, 1990.
Right? Good grief.
Hey, Seven Brew,
Right.
Email me a link.
Good night.
Right.
Okay.
Gold, blue, Peter badges.
Gold Blue Peter badge
winners.
Have you ever heard of Blue Peter? It's
like a kids show over in the UK, which I just
think it sounds terrible.
I mean, the name of
it.
Like, what in the heck? Sometimes I feel
like they were just always on acid or something
over there when they named things.
Esther Freud.
David Morrissey.
Alex Bell slash Alex Bell QI.
Still and slow.
Oh.
Yes.
I bought another.
Oh,
no.
You said you weren't going to.
I bought another.
You said you were done.
Brea, you have to stop.
I'm intervening.
I bought another coloring book.
But they're so good.
I know they are.
Which one
was this one? The flowers one.
Okay.
Yeah, the
flowers is good.
Old Navy.
Vellum slash Toothy
Vellum.
Mel Gidrich.
Hogwarts train location.
Dan Schreiber.
James Harkin slash James Harkin
kids.
Oh, that sounds really creepy that I was
looking that up.
I just wanted to know how many
kids he had.
And that still sounds creepy.
Doesn't
doesn't matter.
Pythian Crossing slash Pythian
Crossing history.
Washer dryer sets on sale.
Top and bottom washer dryer.
Kenmore dryer slash
electric Kenmore dryer slash electric Kenmore
dryer beige.
It keeps going.
Dryer timer repair.
Dryer timer repair.
Kenmore cost.
Dryer roller
replacement.
Oh my gosh.
Our timer and the rollers.
The rollers that move the drum around.
Both kaput.
My goodness.
The timer's been out for a long
time.
Yeah, I was going to say.
So, it just keeps
running.
So, we have to set a timer on our phones
to say, hey, turn off the dryer.
Because the
way we found out that it wasn't working was somebody
put clothes in the dryer at night before bed.
And that dryer was on for like four hours.
Oh,
no.
And Clint got up to go to work.
Thank God.
He gets up at an ungodly hour.
And it was still
going.
And he was like, what is happening? And
he said those clothes were so hot.
My gosh.
They
were about to catch on fire.
That's so dangerous.
I know.
So, anyway, so now we have to set a timer
on our phone and make sure that we turn it off.
It's really un -American to have to do something
so inconvenient.
Fingerprint says.
I'm right.
Mod 60s dress.
60s mod mini dress.
Skater dress.
Drop waist dress.
Sharks older than grass or
trees.
Wait, no, that was sharks older than grass
or trees.
Exactly.
There we go.
Frontal lobe
function.
Cyanosis.
Purple feet.
Plates of meat.
It's not funny.
It's a serious condition.
Sorry.
It's not actually a serious condition.
Peripheral
artery disease.
Raynaud's disease.
School of
Metaphysics, Missouri.
U .
S.
cult map.
Yellow
Deli, Warsaw, Missouri.
What? Yellow Deli in
Warsaw, Missouri.
Okay.
It's supposedly, allegedly
run by a cult.
Oh.
But they deny it.
But they
would.
Yeah, they would.
Five pound apparel.
Bye.
They're going to be online.
Oh, yeah, that's
right.
So, you too can buy shirts that say Springfield,
Missouri on them.
Long boy gang and chrome nail
powder.
That's it.
Woo.
That's a lot.
You've
been a busy girl.
I am so busy.
researching dryer
yeah it sounds like it dryer repairs and dryers
and washers because you know we've talked about
this before my washer and dryer set is old yes
super old it's older than my friendship with
kara that's right oh my gosh that's right and
so i was like listen this thing's about to die
don't you think it's about time that we like
upgraded to a more modern washer and dryer yeah
and then i i priced modern washers and dryers
and I said you know what I think it'll be just
fine if we just get this part replaced they are
ridiculously expensive it's so stupid and they
all have computers in them and my washer and
dryer is nice and uncomplicated yes I can have
somebody come and fix it it's true I don't need
The IT crowd to come fix my washer and dryer.
Did you turn it off and back on again? Oh, man.
Keep it up.
Don't let anybody talk you into a
washer and dryer.
Hell no.
I am just going to
keep running those things.
And we do not treat
our washer and dryer nicely.
I'm telling you,
we put some big old loads in there.
Oh, I get
so mad at Sean.
He stuffs.
It stuffs it full
in its jeans.
It's like heavy stuff.
Heavy stuff.
And I don't.
I'm very gentle.
I don't want it
full because I feel like the clothes don't get
clean if it's just in there and they can't move
around and dance.
They've got to be able to dance
in order to get themselves clean.
And when you
fill it up to the top, I feel like they don't
get clean.
But Sean swears they get clean.
You
have a front load, though.
I do have a front
load.
Washer.
Yeah.
Would you do that again?
Yeah, I love it.
You do? Yeah.
If I ever got
a top load again, I would want, I don't think
they make them, but I would want the full arm
agitator that goes all the way up to the door.
But I don't think they make that anymore.
I think
they have an agitator in the bottom, but it's
just moving.
There's no arm in there.
Yeah, there's
no column that goes all the way up.
Ours has
that.
Whoa.
Because that's how old our washer
and dryer is.
It's older than penguins.
It's
older than grass.
It's older than grass.
Oh,
my gosh.
Okay.
All right, here's my list.
Jellycat.
Ounces to jelly cat.
You know what jelly cat
is? Is that the song that Phoebe sang? That's
smelly cat.
Oh, damn.
You're close, though.
Jelly
cat.
This is just a stuffed animal company.
Ounces
to milliliters.
Butter wouldn't melt in his mouth
meaning, which apparently is someone who acts
innocent, but they're actually hiding a sharper,
devious, or unkind.
They're cold.
They're cold.
I've always wondered what that meant, and I finally
looked it up.
St.
Michael's Hours, 180K Hammond
show listing, Springfield Mid -America Singers,
Matt LeFleur News.
I'm just waiting for them
to fire him.
I'd look every day.
Packers coach.
Oh, right.
I'm just waiting.
I don't think they're
going to keep him.
I feel it.
I can just feel
it.
Yeah.
I think they've given him lots of chances.
I think so, too.
And they're probably sick of
it.
I don't want to get on a soapbox.
My Green
Bay soapbox here.
But I don't like how he displays
his temper.
Oh, man.
He looks like a spoiled
brat out there.
And if I were a player, I would
not like to be treated like that.
There are lots
of coaches who act like that.
I know.
And it's
ridiculous.
Take a page out of Andy Reid's book.
Yeah.
Did you see we're getting Eric B.
Enemy
back? Yeah.
I'm super excited about it.
Now,
if only we can get Patrick's knee back.
It'll
be fine.
It'll be fine.
Okay.
Chiefs roster.
FedEx Glenstone.
Storage bins.
UPS tracking.
Ozark Empire Fairgrounds.
Springfield events
tonight.
Okay.
Saturday night, we kept hearing
a series of booms over and over and over for
about three or four hours.
And at first we thought
it was fireworks, but we were then we were kind
of like that.
It sort of sounds like fireworks,
but it kind of doesn't.
And it was after dark,
like it was like seven o 'clock at night when
it started and it went on until about 10, 1030.
And it was intermittent.
It wasn't like, you
know, boom.
And so then it would be a whole bunch
of booms and you wouldn't hear it for a while.
So, I looked up events in Springfield and the
monster trucks were in town.
Oh, God.
At the
fairgrounds.
And you're, yeah.
So, I thought maybe
like they had, yeah, we're close enough to hear
crap from that.
But it just, we couldn't get
it aligned to say, yeah, that's the monster truck
show.
We think maybe.
There was a quarry that
was blasting nearby.
That's the only thing we
could...
Because we were kind of a little bit
on edge because we had been watching the news
about the U .
S.
attacking Iran.
Oh, God.
And
so, you know, Whiteman Air Force Base is very
close.
And so, like, we just...
Fort Leonard
Wood, pretty close.
Yeah, we were just, like,
on edge.
And we just kept hearing all of these
booms.
Like, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.
And
then, boom! weird boom and then boom it was super
weird we've met we've been out there 20 blah
blah years we've never heard anything like that
before you know what was happening um last summer
um more than one time was that um jets were flying
over our house and creating sonic booms sean
brought that up he thought that could and that
seems legit like they could be practicing the
boom boom boom boom boom that's a rapid right
i completely agree it's usually just one humongous
what the fuck yes like just rattled the shelves
on my wall yes i don't know what was going on
but we were it was really weird oh moving on
ozark's public television schedule where is rachel
shinton She is not on All Creatures Great and
Small.
She was on there for a little while, and
then she just disappeared for the rest of the
season.
I assume she's having a baby.
I did hear
that she was pregnant while they were filming.
But she was pregnant when her character was pregnant
with their first kid.
on all creatures green
and small so maybe she's pregnant again or maybe
she got pregnant again and maybe she was sick
or something maybe so i don't know but i really
miss her this season and all creatures is over
like they finally aired the last season of their
last episode of season six i'm really sad oh
but it's not over over no no just like i think
they've got two more seasons already like in
the hopper like yo people yeah i i have to get
caught up i like to be able to just binge it
yeah i understand i understand because it's so
heartwarming what one of the episodes this season
was all about greyhounds oh my gosh they had
tons of greyhounds sean actually sat down and
watched that episode and every time a greyhound
would come on he'd go i think he likes greyhounds
jackie she watches that show with me sometimes
or she's in the room with me while i watch it
She cannot stand Siegfried.
She says, why is
he such a jerk? He never takes responsibility
for anything.
That's his character.
I know.
I
love that actor.
I do too.
Okay.
Moving on.
Why
is it called Chock Full of Nuts? Oh.
That's a
brand of coffee.
It is.
I looked that up.
That's
an old brand.
Oh, it's so old.
I saw, it's a
long story, but I bought some because I wanted
to see what it tastes like.
It's terrible.
And
maybe I'm just a coffee snob.
That's like church
basement coffee.
Oh, it's terrible.
It's straight
up Folgers type of coffee.
Like that's a little
wobble.
But apparently back.
In the Depression,
this guy opened a store and it was called Chock
Full of Nuts.
And then at some point he started
selling coffee and it just took off.
And he ended
up selling it nationwide rather than just in
his store.
But it was still called Chock Full
of Nuts because that was the name of his store.
And so there's no nuts in it.
Obviously.
No nuts
in this coffee.
No coffee nuts.
but sean really
liked the tin and so we're going i'm going to
donate the coffee to work because those are folgers
people and they won't know the difference but
he wanted to keep the tin because it looked it
was such a cool tin it is a cool tin it's very
retro long john silver's menu we eat long john
silver's once a year and it happened this weekend
so we're done for 2026 our long john silver's
weekend happened it was really good and then
we were we were uh regretful after it was over
yeah and we're like okay that's we're done you
feel dirty and just yeah like um imdb searches
shrinking because i had to see we're not gonna
watch shrinking until all the episodes are out
yes we gotta binge that one you know i can't
i can't wait i always have to watch it week to
week that's so funny because i love it it is
so good paradise I love Sterling K.
Brown.
And
the next season of Paradise, we're going to wait
until those are all out.
Sean started watching
Stargate SG -1.
Oh, barf.
Why? Why? It's horrible.
All creatures great and small.
I said that I'm
sad this is over, but PBS has a couple of series
coming up that I'm very excited about.
The Foresights.
Yes.
Did you watch the one from the early 2000s?
I tried.
You couldn't get into it? I could not.
I liked it.
I tried so hard because I loved Damian
Lewis, but he's so terrible in it.
I mean, not
terrible as a terrible actor, but his character
is so awful.
He's very awful.
And then The Count
of Monte Cristo.
That's going to be a PBS.
I
started watching Puzzle Lady.
I don't know what
that is.
It's on PBS.
It has Phyllis Logan in
it.
She's the woman who was Mrs.
What's -Her
-Face on The Housekeeper on Downton Abbey.
Mrs.
Hughes.
Mrs.
Hughes.
Yes.
She plays a functioning
alcoholic.
Oh, my goodness.
Who helps police
solve crimes.
The Puzzle Lady.
And she's called
the Puzzle Lady because I guess.
Everybody thinks
that she writes crossword puzzles, but I think
her niece is the one who actually does it.
Because
she's just not able to do it anymore.
But they
come to her and they're like, you're the puzzle
lady.
We got this murder.
And we think that this
clue is a crossword puzzle clue.
And so they
come to ask her about it.
And she's like, I don't
know what you're talking about.
And then she
gets intrigued by the case and she starts meddling.
You know, like they all do.
It's a cozy mystery.
It's a cozy mystery.
goodness all right so and
then my last one is um oh that was it boom that's
the end of my list i have no shout outs again
because i'm a loser okay well no it's all right
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info, Carol? Yeah, if anybody wants to get in
touch with us, they can contact us at OldSchoolDeleteThisHistoryPodcast
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is kind of like chock full of nuts.
Whoa, yes
it is.
And DTHGals on Instagram is kind of like
what? Starbucks? Starbies, yeah.
Starbies.
I've
never called it that.
Oh, that's great.
I'm hip
and mod, Brea.
Okay.
I never doubted it.
So,,
don't we want people to rate and review us? That
would be really good.
Please do rate and review
us.
Tell your friends.
Yes.
It takes so little
time.
And it would mean so much to us.
And then
you guys can have something in common.
You'd
be like, oh, my God, did you hear episode 99?
And they'll be like, I'm waiting till the end
of the season so I can binge it.
And then you
say, no, no, you can't do that.
That's not how
it works.
That's not how it works.
You have to
listen every week in order to catch all the jokes
and see how stupid they are.
Yes, and you've
got to listen in order.
Yes.
Because otherwise
you won't understand.
You're not going to know
what a cheese bag is for sure.
No, no, no, no.
You're not going to know why Brea says every
single week but a lie.
Nope.
You won't know.
You have to watch them in order.
You watch them
in order.
Listen in order.
We are not on YouTube.
Thank goodness.
Gosh.
Can you imagine? No.
No,
no, no.
Okay.
Now I got to go delete my history.
Me too.
I'm definitely going to do that.
Are
you? Yeah.
And then what? I'm going to tell little
cheese bags to stay fresh.
Okay.
And then I'm
going to say bye -bye.
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