Squeegee

[00:00] well you know what I want to get cultivated here I want to get I want to
[00:08] get the truth cultivated for once out of an under Google how does that sound
[00:15] guys you know this is the part where we just make up a bunch of shit right yeah
[00:19] but then we fact-check it afterwards okay
[00:35] under Google that was the play of super excited told us we had to we signed up
[00:43] for it in the end it's gonna be better and more true than Google can give you
[00:50] so here's an under Google wolf that's been that that's been in the back of my
[00:58] mind and in one of my colleagues Ethan buddy mine and we've been wondering the
[01:09] phrase keep your eyes peeled when I hear that phrase to me just means I'm
[01:17] gonna keep looking for something specific so whatever it is like I'm gonna look
[01:22] for you know whatever whatever it is I'm gonna look for that specific thing I'm
[01:28] gonna pay extra special attention for it just to make sure you know I'll see it if
[01:33] if it's there but then the you know things are peeled you're taking layers
[01:41] off and stuff and eyes have layers as Jason can probably go into very thorough
[01:47] detail I don't want my eyes peeled so every time that I say it I feel a
[01:55] little a little gross why would we say that we're keeping our eyes peeled well
[02:06] so yeah you mentioned Ethan and he actually asked me this question because I
[02:12] think I said I think it was weird walking somewhere and I was like yeah you
[02:19] always want to be looking around you know keeping your eyes peeled for
[02:22] whatever and he was like what the heck does that mean and my thesis was that
[02:32] it's not so much peeling a layer of your actual eyeball but that your eyelid serves
[02:39] as the peel and you're keeping it peeled open your eyes are open so is
[02:47] that what it was that the truth you cultivated for your child yeah yeah I know
[02:56] I'm I am straightforward that I don't know things with them but uh yeah let's
[03:02] say this is my best guess I like that and then I said but we should do that as
[03:06] an under Google and then promptly forgot so I'm glad Joey it's in some sort of
[03:12] kismet had the same thing occur in his world so so wait it's to Ethan's I
[03:20] I'm so confused no just the one that makes money then you don't keep your ears
[03:27] peeled right I think I've heard that before now you keep your ear to the
[03:33] street keep your nose peeled you keep your nose on the grindstone right so it
[03:41] does seem like a specific eye thing mm-hmm yeah I was also thinking of it
[03:51] and yeah similar way in a pretty like sense the only other thing that had
[03:59] occurred to me was you know if you're very tired and your eyes sort of close
[04:06] involuntarily you can sort of peel back your own eyelids it's a try and stay
[04:12] awake true okay maybe it's like a well Joey you've been you've been thinking
[04:20] about it what is your bent what is your are we taking off the uvia or the cornea
[04:26] that's just what comes that's what comes the layer on just cuz I mean I've had
[04:30] eye surgeries in the past and they used some sort of fruit peeler nope well I
[04:39] was out for you know what I don't know I can't speak to that I was sleeping I
[04:46] think they use lasers but I had that when I had LASIK they used like a little
[04:54] squeegee and scraped off the epithelial and then yeah that's disgusting that's
[05:02] a real cross I mean yeah I just I think about yeah physically dismantling your
[05:17] eyeball was which is okay unpleasant I don't like it so it's one of those
[05:24] things when I say it and I'm like every time I say I'm like why did I say that I
[05:27] don't want to say that and we're sure it's peel like not PEL right see I'm not
[05:36] sure right so like I'm there's probably other uses of the word peel and that's
[05:42] where we're at here right like bells peel the bells peel yeah wait what is
[05:47] that it's like it's like it yeah it rings just the sound of a bell okay I'm
[05:58] trying to think of I've seen it written I'm sure I've seen it written somewhere
[06:01] but can't think off the top of my head but I always assumed it was yeah that's
[06:09] what I thought too but I certainly can't remember everything I mean having seen
[06:13] it written either so it may just be you know an old English word that has a
[06:23] different meaning and we only use it in this context now or something like that
[06:26] that's a possibility I mean when do you think people started telling people to
[06:32] keep their eyes peeled this seems like a thing that ganks years in the 20s
[06:37] I was feeling like PIs but around the same time frame keep your eyes peeled for
[06:44] that for the fuzz same speed situation some some cool PI lingo yeah yeah keep
[06:55] your eyes see I'm thinking like I think I said old English cuz I'm feeling like
[07:02] this is really old I'm feeling like this is medieval times really yeah we're
[07:13] keeping our eyes peeled for like some some guards of the yeah I'm thinking of
[07:18] you know a storming party coming through the woods and we're trying we're
[07:24] sitting we're sitting on the barracks or whatever and keeping our eyes peeled
[07:27] because if you don't see them I'm gonna torture you with I stuff right and I'm
[07:36] thinking this is a French it's a French derivation but so do you think it's like
[07:44] PEL specific I think it probably in French it's like P E L E or something I
[07:52] don't know and it just got morphed into something I think it means sharp or
[07:57] open or something how do you say eyes and I think it's like eggs I took I took high
[08:12] school French guys yeah yeah do you know how to say it like sharp and French no
[08:19] yeah I'm just making all of this up guys this is what we do here yeah I mean it's
[08:26] like oh hose and yeah Spanish so it's got to be something close to well like
[08:31] you know if you hear a bell peel is that I don't know I'm wondering if it's the
[08:37] same route somehow I like your your guys gumshoe is probably closer to the truth
[08:44] you good with that Joey what do you think where do you following this I don't
[08:49] think it's French I guess I don't have another that random thing I just made
[08:54] yeah I don't know is that well I okay I think that the peel does maybe just mean
[09:01] make you keep your eyelids open you know because that makes sense like it's peeled
[09:08] it's it's open I just I was taking it as layers that were deeper than the eyelid
[09:15] into the into the eyeball itself which I was not happy with but maybe if it was
[09:19] just the outside just means keep your eyes open and look for this thing I
[09:24] so maybe it's just like literary like somebody came up with a you know a nice
[09:29] yeah which is why I'm super shocked you didn't just go with Shakespeare instead of
[09:34] going on that weird French rabbit hole that we just boom I'm going I'm going for
[09:37] Shakespeare I'm boxing a man with no Shakespeare
[09:42] I'm going Mark Twain folksy Mark Twain okay yeah wow since we had a tweener it
[09:54] is yeah watch it be French and I backed off I see alternate is keep your eyes
[10:08] skinned oh I like that less I like that much less so yeah hey I overlords say
[10:20] origin theories include peeling potatoes some suggest it comes from the day of
[10:24] peeling the eyes or buds off potatoes to see them better or figuratively removing
[10:30] a layer from your own eyes to improve vision or Robert Peel so connects it to
[10:39] Sir Robert Peel who established the British police force nicknamed peelers or
[10:44] bobbies who are expected to be watchful for lawbreakers that sounds truthy first
[10:59] use in 18 oh wait no no probably not the first use but it did appear in the
[11:07] Morning Herald in st. Louis in 1853 yeah young man keep your eye peeled when
[11:18] you are after the women in in Moby Dick it says a white whale skin your eyes for
[11:25] him men look sharp for white water if you see but a bubble sing out yeah so it
[11:34] seems like keeping your eyes skinned is way proceeds the peeled and then it
[11:41] sort of got overtaken I'm not seeing anything definitive no does seem like it
[11:51] is spelled PE yes yeah and if it is after the cop it doesn't that doesn't seem to
[12:02] work if the phrase was before that keep your eyes skinned I mean that can't
[12:08] so according to the idioms it can be traced back to the time of sailing ships
[12:15] when pirates were on the seas frequently in the 1800s the staying
[12:22] incentive was crucial and then since became popular but there's no evidence
[12:29] put forward here like people using it so maybe I mean maybe it was just largely
[12:35] skin until around this you know 1830s time frame and everyone was just super
[12:42] uncomfortable with that and decided to go with peeled instead yeah and Robert
[12:48] Peel was the early 1800s yeah Metro police force in 18 1829 and okay so
[12:57] that would 18 yeah and so they called them peelers because they reported
[13:01] directly to him I was kind of curious just if that was the if there was
[13:04] anything more to that but it doesn't appear to be well the grammar list has
[13:10] some variations which we could also use we had the aforementioned keep your eyes
[13:14] skinned but then the one I think I like the best keep your peepers open keep a
[13:20] sharp eye out keep your gaze peeled keep a weather eye out that's probably
[13:26] sailor blinkers on you know what I've been AI wrote this I've never heard
[13:33] anyone say keep your blinkers on well I'm gonna say we nailed it we were
[13:39] maybe a little bit off on the date but peel as the ringing of the bell is from
[13:49] Middle English PLE meaning a call especially the ringing of church bells
[13:57] so I just got my peels confused I didn't say French do you think I guess the
[14:04] other one that I haven't I haven't seen anything come up for this do you think
[14:07] it's from key and peel Jordan Pools George Jordan peels Wikipedia page and
[14:21] it says not to be confused with Jordan pool which I would never get them
[14:25] confused but then I that I did after then you did next thing that happened
[14:31] immediately and French for I is a but it's no eil which is like in my mind
[14:47] that's why I was like an egg sure I sort of remembered something but it's
[14:53] basically just saying I and a French accent it's kind of piratey if we're
[14:58] being honest about it oh the so for French the masculine term for peeled is
[15:11] it's spelled the same as Pele we never we never mentioned all right well we did
[15:18] not nail that but I think we did too it's literal yeah well yeah I would say we
[15:28] got that mean you know yes like but the time is we weren't but what's a hundred
[15:35] years in the grand scheme of things universe is 15 billion years sure it's
[15:39] fair all right team well I think that gets us right to the end of the show I'd
[15:47] like to thank everyone for being here with us coming on this ride and
[15:53] realizing that the term keeping your eyes peeled came from Jordan pool that's
[15:59] what I remember from this show