Sleeveless Turtlenecks, Recycling Batteries, Nightmares, + more

Introducing Search History, a new series where I discuss real personal and professional searches with guests. In this kick-off episode, I'm joined by Chris Slezak to discuss a very Dad-centric episode of our searches. 

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Transcript

Ross Herosian:
[00:00:00 - 00:00:43]
It's been a long hiatus, but I'm back, and I'm back with a brand new show series. I'm calling it search history. And, you know, it's an aspect of the show, really, to have some fun with my friends, colleagues, coworkers, clients, all that stuff to talk about, just that their search history now, of course, will go down the rabbit hole all about search engine optimization and search technology itself. But this whole series is really just intended to have a little fun. And in prepping for this episode, I also kind of had an illumination. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:00:43 - 00:01:46]
So I was going back through my search history, and I talk about this a little bit in this episode, but it is illuminating when you go back through your own search history and you look at it in its totality and you look at essentially the picture your search history paints of you, and quite frankly, it's a little shocking what Google probably knows about you or can infer about you. So that, I think, is always going to be a consistent theme throughout this series. But I am super excited to welcome back my good, good pal, Chris Slezak to the show. He actually was there when we launched this podcast, way back when it was called Tripod. He has been a loyal co host, a beloved friend, and candidly, one of the funniest people I know. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:01:46 - 00:02:02]
So I hope you enjoy it. And more to come, I am back on the grid, baby. Clarity's back. But first, a little Frank Turner. Through my ups and downs, I figured one thing out. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:02:02 - 00:02:28]
Don't take anyone's shit. I'm still standing up, and there's nothing you can do. It made all the sense in the world to me that the first guest on this new segment was the guy who was on the first episode of this podcast. It's Chris. He's here. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:02:28 - 00:02:29]
Hello. Hi, buddy. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:02:30 - 00:02:30]
Hello again. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:02:30 - 00:02:37]
Oh, my God, man, I missed doing some pods with you and you missed it so much, you didn't even have a microphone anymore. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:02:37 - 00:02:47]
Yeah, I tore my closet apart trying to find the mic. It was like, what, 20 minutes before we were supposed to go? And I was like, I need a microphone for this, don't you? 

Ross Herosian:
[00:02:48 - 00:03:05]
Yeah. You're like, hey, are we just doing audio? Which is an indicator to anyone listening to this, that we are horribly dressed right now recording this out at 830 at night, which might as well be midnight. I swear to God, I am wearing. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:03:05 - 00:03:07]
A lightning McQueen t shirt. Are you calling that? 

Ross Herosian:
[00:03:07 - 00:03:22]
I'm wearing an Orlando magic tank top. And here's the thing. It's not even of a real player. Look, Chris, it says 89 on it. And you're like, numbers go that high in basketball? 

Ross Herosian:
[00:03:22 - 00:03:29]
No, it's like the year it was founded, the like, but it's comfy as all hell. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:03:29 - 00:03:32]
We're both just totally like dad dressed right now. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:03:33 - 00:03:49]
I come home and anything with sleeves is not to be worn. I just am so freaking hot. It's not just Florida, it was like that in Texas too, but I also run hot. So that's the struggle. That's the struggle. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:03:49 - 00:03:57]
But this is a new segment show. I don't know what to call it anymore. It's a new pod. Who cares? And search history. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:03:57 - 00:04:43]
And for me it's just kind of having a fun discussion with friends and colleagues and things like that about search and what we've both been searching the last couple of weeks. So I want to start with this, actually, before we jump in. What's kind of your search routine, Chris? So, like, do you find yourself searching more on mobile and do you use the Google app or you just go to Google? What's kind of your most common search routine? 

Chris Slezak:
[00:04:46 - 00:04:55]
Yeah, I mean, definitely just the Google app on mobile and typing know, whatever random thoughts pop into my head. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:04:55 - 00:05:01]
So do you use the widget? Because I'm a widget user. I use the Google widget. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:05:01 - 00:05:05]
No, I'm just opening the app and new window. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:05:06 - 00:05:25]
All right, I got the widget I go to. But here's the thing, I also, and this is where it's the new age of search, but on my lock screen I have a button to quick fire Chat GPT. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:05:26 - 00:05:34]
Additionally, I wondered if you were going to mention that. So you use that for chat searching? 

Ross Herosian:
[00:05:34 - 00:06:16]
Yeah, I use it for honestly stupid things. I do use it for work, but I also use it for, like, I was meeting a relative. When I say good example, I mean terrible example. And I was meeting a family member's fiance for the first time and she was irish. And so I asked Chat GPT to give me a whole bunch of irish slang that I could go use with her and talk about with her. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:06:16 - 00:06:31]
And it was good. It was good conversation. I of course went into it like, hey, I've Chat GPT, these phrases of irish slang, can we talk about them? And she was like, oh, heck yeah, right. She may not have said heck yeah. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:06:31 - 00:06:34]
She might have said the irish equivalent, which I don't know what it is. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:06:35 - 00:06:50]
Yeah, I could see that being an advantage using Chat GPT for that, so that you just get your answers right there instead of having to then search through a list of sites to then dig through and try to find the answers within those sites. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:06:50 - 00:07:09]
Yeah, I can see mean, I think that's arguably the whole thing around even like, generative search. Right? I'm a Google user. Most of the world is, but I also turned on generative search on Google, so it still gives me those little AI driven results in addition to the results. But I use both. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:07:09 - 00:07:21]
Man. Sometimes I don't want to be told what the answer is. Sometimes I want to search it out. Sometimes I'm just like, just tell me what the answer is to this. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:07:21 - 00:07:34]
Well, I'm realizing now, talking about that and looking at my searches, that most of mine are not seeking answers. I'm seeking media. Interesting for the most part. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:07:34 - 00:07:56]
Okay, this is going to get interesting. Okay, so what we're going to do is we picked out a handful. Our homework assignments were to pick out a handful of recent searches we did, and we're going to talk about them. So do you want to go first or do you want me to go first? 

Chris Slezak:
[00:07:56 - 00:08:28]
I'll go first. I got one ready to go strong. I feel like it's actually a nice, easy, googleable answer. Can you throw away? Know, I've got a ziploc bag full of used batteries and my wife Katie and I are very adamant about recycling batteries. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:08:28 - 00:08:52]
We know you can't just throw them in the trash. But the closest place is like at least a 35, 40 minutes drive away to recycle them, to my knowledge. And it's also never in a direction I'm going. It's the opposite part of town. I'm never going to go there. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:08:52 - 00:09:09]
But I can't just in good conscience throw the batteries away. But I was like, but can I? Could I? What's worse for the environment? Throwing away the batteries or spending the gas and driving all the way out there? 

Chris Slezak:
[00:09:09 - 00:09:10]
I don't know. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:09:10 - 00:09:17]
That second part sounds like you're just trying to tell yourself that it's okay. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:09:17 - 00:09:22]
Yeah, I want to do what's right, but with the least amount of work possible. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:09:22 - 00:09:23]
Yeah. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:09:25 - 00:09:27]
So that was my simple Google, which. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:09:27 - 00:09:29]
Okay, but before you tell me the answer. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:09:29 - 00:09:32]
Yeah, I just want to share with you. Wait, what's I supposed to have the answers? 

Ross Herosian:
[00:09:32 - 00:09:58]
No, actually, before you tell me what you learned, which, ironically, if a lot of these searches, it's nothing, I think that itself proves a massive point about how we search. I have this giant garage door battery. I'm holding it up right now. It's huge. And it's been sitting on my desk for like two months for the very same reason you're saying. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:09:58 - 00:10:20]
Because we were like, when we took it out. Megan, my wife, was like, well, can we throw this away? I was, no, no, I think you gotta recycle it. But it's the exact thing you're saying where it's like, I think I can take this to a best buy. I'm pretty sure best buys have a little battery recycle thing. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:10:20 - 00:10:23]
I think. I haven't been in Best Buy in forever. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:10:23 - 00:10:24]
I was going to say, is that their new. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:10:24 - 00:10:26]
But I'm never at a best buy. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:10:26 - 00:10:33]
Right. They're just a virtual showroom and battery recycle. Just. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:10:34 - 00:10:41]
Okay, so what did you learn in this query? 

Chris Slezak:
[00:10:41 - 00:11:16]
What I learned is that be in Austin, you can. I used to, because I used to live there. In Austin, you still can take batteries to the battery. They had basically a bin that you could just drop off your old batteries at the library here in Charlotte, North Carolina. No, I'm stuck driving one state over, essentially, to go recycle my, this reminds. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:11:16 - 00:11:32]
Me a little bit about, do you remember that Seinfeld episode where they were trying to figure out how they could make the financials work of recycling glass bottles? Ed Newman had to get the mail truck on. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:11:34 - 00:11:53]
Know, I actually did consider something like that, where I was like, oh, I could offer a service. Nobody would want to pay for it, but I could start a nonprofit in my neighborhood. A service where drop all your batteries off to me. I'm making a run to the recycle center. Tips are welcome. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:11:53 - 00:12:00]
And I'll just drive with a car full of aa's and maybe get myself a hot sandwich on the way home. And tips. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:12:03 - 00:12:07]
That's what I think. Sounds dangerous. Car full of batteries. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:12:08 - 00:12:12]
Now, I googled this probably two weeks ago, and I'm still looking at a ziploc. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:12:15 - 00:12:33]
Okay, here's an idea. Okay. Instead of making it a whole business, what if you just posted, are you of the age where you're on next door? Maybe you could put a post on next door and just have people chucking batteries. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:12:34 - 00:12:40]
But I was going to say, you know, somebody on next door is going to find a reason to be mad about me. Recycling, though. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:12:41 - 00:12:53]
Recycling for the planet. I don't know who that guy is. That's your neighbor two doors down. That's Steve. Yeah, that's Stevie. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:12:53 - 00:12:54]
He hates batteries. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:12:55 - 00:13:07]
It should be one of those things where I just slowly pass batteries around to somebody heading that direction. It's like a handoff, right? Until it makes its way to the recycle center. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:13:07 - 00:13:17]
Yeah. You need to put a note or something on it, like a homing pigeon or something. So, you know, and then see if it works its way back or something. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:13:18 - 00:13:33]
Can I not just, I don't know, tape the bag to the side of my recycle bin on trash day, please? Who's more likely to make it to the recycle center, me or the recycle truck? That's all I'm saying. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:13:34 - 00:13:51]
I hope the recycle truck, but I think that's the answer. All right, that's a good one. See, this is going to go down history as the first query on search history. It's going to go down in search history as the first topic on the show. Search history. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:13:52 - 00:13:53]
When somebody searches. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:13:54 - 00:13:55]
When someone searches. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:13:55 - 00:13:55]
Yeah. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:13:55 - 00:14:13]
My brain just exploded. Okay, here's mine. Here's my first one. Where can I go without a visa but UK passport? This was my query. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:14:14 - 00:14:17]
Because you don't know this territories. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:14:18 - 00:14:22]
You don't know this. I'm a British Citizen now. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:14:23 - 00:14:24]
Why? 

Ross Herosian:
[00:14:25 - 00:14:34]
What the hell is that supposed to mean? What, are you insulting? Are you insulting the king? How dare you? How dare you, sir? 

Ross Herosian:
[00:14:34 - 00:14:47]
I challenge you to a duel. No, dueling is probably pretty american, so. I'm both. I'm not an American. I'm also a Brit. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:14:47 - 00:15:06]
United Kingdoms. I was born there. And through a crazy loophole, Chris, in this small window of time, I was eligible for a UK passport. And if I'm eligible for something. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:15:06 - 00:15:07]
You're going to do it. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:15:08 - 00:15:20]
I'm going to do it. And I did it. And so now I have it. And so, of course, with the upcoming election, I'm looking at, how can I get out of here? What are my options? 

Chris Slezak:
[00:15:20 - 00:15:21]
This is your. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:15:22 - 00:15:48]
What are my options now? I'm going to tell you, ironically, this is one I searched for, and I actually don't have an answer for you. And I was like, I'll come back. This looks involved. It was one of those where it was like, I searched to scratch the itch, but then the itch, it wasn't really scratched, but it looked like. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:15:48 - 00:16:28]
I'm going to tell you, it looked like a lot of places, Chris. Like, I saw maps that were color coded maps, because, like, a lot of places that, I don't know if you know this, but my people, the English, yeah, they were colonizers and they've heard they did some unsavory. Anyways, there's a lot of places that for some reason, it's still cool for you to go there and hang out for, like months, right? 

Chris Slezak:
[00:16:28 - 00:16:29]
I was going to. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:16:29 - 00:16:29]
Three months. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:16:29 - 00:16:32]
Yeah. You said without a visa, correct. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:16:32 - 00:16:40]
Not just permanent, but extended period of time. So it's promising. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:16:44 - 00:16:49]
This is an honest question. Canada. Can't you move freely between. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:16:50 - 00:16:51]
I think so. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:16:51 - 00:16:52]
Under the mean. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:16:52 - 00:17:02]
The way I see anywhere. Anywhere. That queen king. I think the Queen king is still on some of the money. Whatever. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:17:03 - 00:17:05]
Again, Australia. They're good to go. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:17:06 - 00:17:12]
Yes. However, I got a problem with Australia. I don't like it. I've never been, but I don't like it. I don't like it. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:17:12 - 00:17:27]
I don't think I'd like. Don't. The accent is not good. Yeah, I don't love it unless it's bluey. Well, that accent is cute as all hell. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:17:28 - 00:17:45]
Let's just be real. All right, blueies. He's the gold standard of Aussie accents. So this was one that I did search. I then became overwhelmed and I said, I'll come back to this search. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:17:45 - 00:17:55]
And here I am kind of coming back to it, but not really. And that's what blue is, a she, by the way. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:17:55 - 00:17:56]
Blue is a she. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:17:56 - 00:18:07]
I just want Bluey is she. Max is off. My son. Off Bluey. He's off Bluey now. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:18:07 - 00:18:11]
He was on Elmo for like a month. He's hot on Nemo now. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:18:12 - 00:18:14]
Hot as in. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:18:19 - 00:18:34]
Captain Nemo? No, he's hot on that fish. By the time we get him. You know how this is. By the time we buy him the toy to go with his obsession, that's when he's over it. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:18:34 - 00:18:35]
Oh, sure. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:18:36 - 00:18:37]
It's very convenient. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:18:39 - 00:18:41]
So you don't know where you're running off to yet? 

Ross Herosian:
[00:18:42 - 00:18:53]
Not yet, but if you want. Because obviously I'm going to have to follow up on this. I'm going to save the post it note that I haven't written on here. Rotten. That's british. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:18:53 - 00:19:07]
You wouldn't understand that. I haven't wroten on here. But you know what? I'll also search. I'll see where can I go with a friend and his family without a visa. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:19:07 - 00:19:10]
So that way I can see if I can get you covered, too. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:19:10 - 00:19:13]
Please. At least in a covered wagon or something. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:19:15 - 00:19:28]
My people don't do that. All right. What else you got? So, so far we've learned about batteries and that I am a british citizen. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:19:29 - 00:19:36]
So, as I said, the next few are more image and video searches, media. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:19:36 - 00:19:37]
And these are done in Google. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:19:38 - 00:19:39]
Yes. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:19:39 - 00:19:40]
Okay. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:19:43 - 00:19:52]
My next search was Raleigh St. Clair. Is that doing anything for you? Raleigh St. Clair? 

Ross Herosian:
[00:19:52 - 00:19:59]
St. Clair. Okay. Are you going to give me more than one or. That's just that one. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:19:59 - 00:20:00]
I didn't know if I'm going to. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:20:00 - 00:20:02]
Give you just that one. And I'm going to explain what. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:20:02 - 00:20:04]
Just that one? Yeah, please do. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:20:04 - 00:20:21]
Raleigh Sinclair is the Bill Murray's character from Wes Anderson's the Royal Tenet bombs. Now, the reason I googled this was because I had a show. A gig. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:20:21 - 00:20:21]
Yes. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:20:21 - 00:20:39]
Where I was playing the drums. It was a Wes Anderson themed party, and I needed a Wes Anderson character with a beard. My options were limited. Right. I had limited options, and one of them was Raleigh St. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:20:39 - 00:20:46]
Clair. So I then had to google an image of that for costuming reasons. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:20:47 - 00:20:50]
Were you successful in this? Costuming? 

Chris Slezak:
[00:20:50 - 00:21:04]
Successful enough? Yeah, I think nobody cared. I think I could have come wearing whatever I wanted. Nobody would have minded. But in my mind, yeah, pretty good. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:21:04 - 00:21:08]
And a reason to wear a turtleneck and a nice brown blazer. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:21:09 - 00:21:10]
Yeah, that's a nice. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:21:10 - 00:21:22]
It was a look. I had never tried to pull that look off before. I definitely had distinguished professor vibes, and I wasn't mad about it. Have you tried to borrow a turtleneck, though? No. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:21:22 - 00:21:32]
I might, but I have to return the turtleneck that I borrowed from my dad. I don't own a black turtleneck. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:21:33 - 00:21:35]
You don't own a turtleneck? 

Chris Slezak:
[00:21:35 - 00:21:36]
No. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:21:37 - 00:21:43]
I mean, I don't know why I do, because as I aforementioned. Yeah, I always run hot. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:21:43 - 00:21:44]
Yeah. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:21:44 - 00:21:46]
Turtleneck is the worst choice. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:21:47 - 00:21:49]
Sleeveless turtleneck. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:21:50 - 00:21:50]
Now we're talking. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:21:50 - 00:21:52]
Think about it. Think about it. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:21:52 - 00:21:58]
Now we're talking. Okay, now, wait, hold on, hold on. I'm going to Google that. No, I can't. No, that's for later. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:21:59 - 00:22:24]
Okay. Sleeveless turtleneck. Is that a sweater vest? I just need to understand where your head is at to see if we're on the same page. Is that a sweater vest with a turtleneck or what you're saying is it's like a sweater, but it just has a normal neck because the sleeve is the neck. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:22:25 - 00:22:32]
I think you even double down. I think you go, sleeveless turtleneck with sleeveless blazer. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:22:35 - 00:22:38]
You're basically like a Judd Nelson character. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:22:38 - 00:22:42]
I think you're really putting the professional in professional wrestler at that point. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:22:42 - 00:22:46]
Wow. I wonder if I could pull that off. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:22:49 - 00:22:50]
I think it's worth a try. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:22:53 - 00:22:56]
That does give off professional wrestler vibes. You're so right. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:22:56 - 00:22:58]
Right. Like, that's your mountie. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:22:58 - 00:23:00]
You're like the Mountie. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:23:00 - 00:23:04]
Professor wrestler. Professor Wrestler! 

Ross Herosian:
[00:23:09 - 00:23:11]
I'm going to put you in detention. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:23:14 - 00:23:16]
But you need the elbow patches just on your. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:23:16 - 00:23:20]
Oh, he's got him in the dunce cap! He's got him in the dunce cap! 

Chris Slezak:
[00:23:23 - 00:23:26]
He's going to lose his tenure over that one. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:23:30 - 00:23:33]
Oh, God. Okay. Good. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:23:33 - 00:23:35]
All right, what do you got for me? What do you got? 

Ross Herosian:
[00:23:36 - 00:23:45]
All right. So, recently, I've been having a lot of nightmares. Okay. I'm going to tell you about them. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:23:46 - 00:23:51]
I immediately blew air out of my nose in a light laughter, and I feel bad for it. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:23:51 - 00:24:09]
Thanks. Yeah, thanks for the support. Moral support. The first one was, I was a wide receiver for the New England Patriots. That's an american football. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:24:09 - 00:24:27]
Because, again, as all my british fans are probably listening, that's american football team. And I caught two, Chris, not one, two touchdowns in the first half from Tom Brady. Okay? 

Chris Slezak:
[00:24:27 - 00:24:31]
So there I am, the goat, some call him. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:24:33 - 00:24:40]
Don't make this into a sports podcast. It's going to. Not ready for that. Not ready for that energy. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:24:40 - 00:24:42]
Okay, you don't want my draft picks? 

Ross Herosian:
[00:24:43 - 00:24:47]
Please don't. This is not your mock draft board. That's a different podcast. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:24:47 - 00:24:49]
It's my mock turtleneck. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:24:51 - 00:25:06]
Okay, so we go into halftime. I'm chilling with Tom Brady. Tom Brady is actually kind of cool in my dream. And then the second half starts, Chris. But disaster strikes. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:25:06 - 00:25:15]
I cannot find my way to the field, and I'm lost in the stadium. Allah. Spinal tap. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:25:15 - 00:25:16]
Yeah. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:25:16 - 00:25:23]
Seriously. That's what it was like. It was like every door. I couldn't turn around, but I was in my uniform. I was in full pads. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:25:24 - 00:25:45]
And then I woke up. Okay, now, the second one was, I was going to the prom, high school prom. And I was in high school. Just to clarify, I wasn't this age going to the prom. I was a high school student going to the prom with my high school girlfriend. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:25:45 - 00:25:58]
We get to the prom, and it's like a big gym, right? But it's a pool, okay? And everyone's swimming. I jump in and I swim. Somehow. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:25:58 - 00:26:19]
I was in a tuxedo, but then I was in, like, a swimsuit. But then I get out of the pool, and I can't find my clothes. So these are two dreams related to being lost. So now my search history. Lost in dream meaning. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:26:22 - 00:26:27]
Do you want to take a guess? At what? Being lost in a dream. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:26:28 - 00:26:36]
Oh, I'm assuming you're having trouble with the direction in which your life is headed. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:26:37 - 00:26:44]
Man, are you Google? It's like you're Google. It's like you know things. Okay, here's some things. Here's what I got. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:26:44 - 00:26:58]
Anxiety, duh. Feeling disconnected, not knowing what to do. Feeling stuck. This one, not as helpful. Listen to this one. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:26:59 - 00:27:07]
Searching for something? Yeah, think on that one. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:27:09 - 00:27:11]
Like a whole football field. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:27:17 - 00:27:29]
Yeah, I've had that going on. I got one of these things or more one or more. At least one, possibly more things, I suppose going on. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:27:29 - 00:27:33]
It's 2024. We all got one of those things, right? 

Ross Herosian:
[00:27:33 - 00:27:36]
Am I right? I mean, any dream you'd be like. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:27:36 - 00:27:38]
Oh, anxiety play your problem. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:27:38 - 00:27:56]
I'm just wondering here, I'm going to put this, I'm going to put endless candy in dream. Meaning we're going to do a live query here and see what could it mean? 

Chris Slezak:
[00:27:56 - 00:27:59]
Is this a real dream or a dream you're hoping to have? 

Ross Herosian:
[00:27:59 - 00:28:19]
No kind of hoping, I guess I was just seeing if it told me I had anxiety from that. Also, I just feel like anxiety is in 90% of dream meanings. Sure, but it's not. Sensuality is, though. How does that make you feel? 

Ross Herosian:
[00:28:20 - 00:28:34]
Sensual, uncomfortable? Makes me feel like filling out an HR report. Okay. All right. You got another one? 

Chris Slezak:
[00:28:36 - 00:28:41]
Yeah. Joy Division album cover. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:28:43 - 00:28:45]
I think I know exactly what you were thinking. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:28:46 - 00:29:08]
Well, right, you're right. It's the one with, I believe it is the audio waves of a pulsar, if I'm not mistaken. But it kind of looks like a mountain range, that sort of vibe to it. Now, the reason I googled it is probably not what you would guess. And this actually happened last night. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:29:09 - 00:29:10]
Fresh. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:29:10 - 00:29:41]
So I don't know if you've seen a bunch, there's a bunch of parodies of this album cover, right? And the album is called Unknown Pleasures, which I've never listened to this album. I don't know if I'm missing out or not, but neither here nor there. It's an often parodied album cover. And I looked it up because I had a glimpse at my receding hairline and thinning hair and thought, can I make a parody of this album cover? 

Chris Slezak:
[00:29:41 - 00:29:53]
But instead of the mountain range, the pulsar waves, it's my thinning hairline. So that was the thing I was looking up. I just wonder, it's not so bad. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:29:53 - 00:30:01]
I don't like how you bullied yourself. I don't like it. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:30:05 - 00:30:13]
It triggered an idea. I saw it and I thought, hey, you know what that looks like? That looks like Joy Division's album cover on top of my head. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:30:13 - 00:30:27]
You know what you might be able to do? Or I might be able to do? I'm going to throw that into old Chat GPT tomorrow and see what I can spit out for you. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:30:27 - 00:30:32]
I thought you were going to spin this into a ad placement for hymns. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:30:33 - 00:30:43]
You know what I could do? I can offer you a coupon code. Use coupon code Ross at hymns having. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:30:43 - 00:30:47]
Dreams about not performing for having anxious. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:30:47 - 00:30:51]
Dreams about Joy division albums. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:30:51 - 00:30:56]
Yeah. Comparing your hairline to new wave albums. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:30:56 - 00:31:00]
That commercial. I wouldn't skip that commercial. I'd listen to it. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:31:00 - 00:31:06]
I mean, really, if you're old enough to even know the Joy division album cover, you're probably old enough to have thinning hair. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:31:07 - 00:31:22]
And you're probably old enough to need something that hymns offers at this point. I guess they're like, every week it's something new. Like, oh, yeah. I feel like first it was ed, and then it's hair. It's probably now like athletes foot. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:31:24 - 00:31:27]
It's like, oh, do you have dry elbows? 

Chris Slezak:
[00:31:28 - 00:31:30]
Just give me the pill. Whatever. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:31:30 - 00:31:34]
Yeah, here's some pills. Let me throw some pills at you. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:31:35 - 00:31:37]
Something goes up, something else comes down. I don't know. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:31:38 - 00:31:40]
All right, I got the last one. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:31:41 - 00:31:41]
Okay. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:31:43 - 00:32:03]
All right. So I, on occasion, a couple of times a week, go into the office, right? I don't like tucking in a shirt. And I'm aware, untuck it exists. I get it, everyone. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:32:03 - 00:32:21]
But they're just stupid expensive for shirts that are just, whatever, they're fine, but they're just stupid expensive. I don't like tucking in my shirt. Once again, not to ring the same bell too many times, but because I am hot. I always am hot. Hot person. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:32:21 - 00:32:46]
And, Chris, you can't tell this from the camera angle. Chubbed up a bit. None of my shirts got problems. All right, so this is what led to this search, actually, before I say, what do you think this search is going to be? Because I feel like your head's already in a place that is not really. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:32:48 - 00:32:50]
I'm concerned about where it is. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:32:52 - 00:32:56]
Yeah. Honestly, I don't know. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:32:56 - 00:33:00]
Okay, it's fine. The term was french tuck. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:33:01 - 00:33:02]
Oh, sure. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:33:02 - 00:33:27]
Now, you may think, is that some sort of sexual euphemism, but it's not. Okay? A French Tuck is a lazy man's tuck. But since it's got French in it, it's like you could say, what do you mean I look sloppy? This is a french tuck, you stupid idiot. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:33:28 - 00:33:38]
I haven't said that at work to anyone. But I've thought about it, and the french tuck is, Chris, in case you're wondering, is you just tuck the front in, right? 

Chris Slezak:
[00:33:38 - 00:33:40]
A little ventilation in the back. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:33:40 - 00:33:57]
And then basically, once someone notices, it's too late anyways because you've walked by them. That's the thing. It's like a mullet. Business in the front, party in the back. It's like the shirt version of a mullet. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:33:58 - 00:33:59]
That's what it is. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:34:00 - 00:34:09]
Because it looks like you just came out of the bathroom. Trying to be discreet a little bit. Or a room closet. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:34:09 - 00:34:15]
There's an art form to it. There's a little zhuzh, if you will. You got to get the zhuzhing. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:34:16 - 00:34:16]
Sure. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:34:17 - 00:34:22]
Right. So there's a little bit of art to. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:34:22 - 00:34:27]
No, I learned about the french tuck from my boy tan and the fab five. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:34:27 - 00:34:33]
Oh, yeah. Okay. Look at this. I know things. Yeah. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:34:33 - 00:34:42]
It's good for us hot folks. Us sweaty folk guys. It's almost like anyone give it a word. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:34:42 - 00:34:52]
It's definitely the tuck for the. You're sitting in your office untucked, but then you got to run to a meeting. So you just tuck in the front on the way out of your office. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:34:53 - 00:35:10]
Correct. Or honestly, you go in and you kind of just are, like, hanging out at your desk most of the day. Like, whatever. So the french tuck, if you run hot like me and Chris, you run hot. Right. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:35:10 - 00:35:15]
You're hot blooded like me. Oh, yeah. I feel like we were sweaty. We've been sweaty together. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:35:15 - 00:35:16]
Oh, yeah. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:35:16 - 00:35:23]
Well, French tuck, it's where it's at. You can google it and see videos and pictures. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:35:23 - 00:35:36]
Not a summarize. To summarize, we're into no sleeves, bad dreams, french tucks, and ed medications. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:35:39 - 00:35:41]
I just want to say, okay, we. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:35:41 - 00:35:43]
Are men of a certain age. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:35:43 - 00:36:20]
Here's a very interesting thing about what's going to become of this segment. I very quickly, in looking at my own search history, when you go through it long enough, right? Because I went through probably like a month or two, just with some scrolls. It is really interesting, the picture that is formed from that, and I encourage you, the listener, whoever, to do it, and it really illuminated something I've known for a long time. But it really. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:36:21 - 00:36:29]
Oh, my God. Just thinking about how much information Google has on you based purely even on just your searches. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:36:29 - 00:36:36]
I mean, if I'm being completely honest, obviously these searches were cherry picked. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:36:36 - 00:36:37]
Sure. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:36:37 - 00:36:48]
Probably the other 90% is just me highlighting, right clicking and searching on an actor or actress's name that I'm reading about and finding out what. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:36:48 - 00:36:49]
Interesting. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:36:51 - 00:37:02]
Looking through my search history, I don't even know who this person is. I don't know who I looked up. And then I had to click on the search history to be like, oh, okay. I don't even remember looking that person up. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:37:03 - 00:37:13]
Oh, I had a bunch of those, too. I had a bunch of those, too, for sure. Yeah. But I feel like that's in the category of by itself, right? Or in and of itself. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:37:13 - 00:37:19]
Everyone's got those. Who is this? Where do I know this person from? Everyone's got those. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:37:19 - 00:37:21]
And then I'm in a rap going. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:37:21 - 00:37:33]
Through, and I was like, oh, my. Like, even just from last two months, I feel like, based on these queries, Google could have a really good picture of what I'm interested in. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:37:33 - 00:37:48]
Right. Like, all of a sudden, I'm reading about Game of Thrones, a show I haven't watched in five years, because I googled an actor who happened to be in one episode, and then now I'm going, yeah, there I am, down the. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:37:49 - 00:38:06]
I mean, now it knows you're interested in. You know, you might be interested in other HBO Max programming. They would love to have you sign up. They really need subscribers right now. Please, Chris. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:38:06 - 00:38:09]
Please. It's a guy got to do. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:38:10 - 00:38:11]
You're right. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:38:12 - 00:38:17]
This is a long winded way. HBO Max wanted me to reach out to you to see if you could sign up. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:38:18 - 00:38:30]
Yeah, it was an interesting exercise, for sure, to go back and again, find something that I was, I don't want to say, willing to talk about, but, like, worth talking about. You know what I mean? 

Ross Herosian:
[00:38:31 - 00:38:41]
Yeah. And you were even, like, coming in, we were just like, do we want to make this? How much biz talk do we want to have? You know what? We'll throw in biz talk here and there. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:38:41 - 00:39:07]
Sometimes you just need to have a little fun, and that is really what everyone needs to know. So this has been super fun. First, but not last, episode of Search History. And on that note, Chris, is there anything you'd like to promote? Anything the people out there should be searching for you, for sure? 

Chris Slezak:
[00:39:07 - 00:39:20]
I mean, I'm in a band right now called Modern Moxie, recording an ep, releasing a few tracks as we speak. I'm the new drumming up that band in sleeveless. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:39:20 - 00:39:21]
Yeah. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:39:22 - 00:39:27]
So feel free to check that out. I suppose if I'm promoting anything at. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:39:27 - 00:39:35]
All, you get to. I allow it. I won't edit it out, so then it can be found on the Internet. That's exciting. 

Chris Slezak:
[00:39:35 - 00:39:39]
Thanks for having me. Yeah, this has been illuminating. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:39:40 - 00:39:54]
I've missed you. Missed you. But with that, we're going to end this episode of Search history. So I encourage you to go forth onto the Internet, find what you're searching for. Till next time, everyone. 

Ross Herosian:
[00:39:54 - 00:39:57]
Keep pedaling. Bye.