May 6, 2026 • 29 mins
Cinco de Mayo is supposed to be light, loud, and fun, but sometimes a date picks up a second meaning that never goes away. We talk about why May 5 can feel like a party and a memorial at the same time, and how we’ve learned to make space for both. “Cinco De Mama” becomes our way of honoring loss without losing our sense of humor. Tune in and tell us what’s your ideal Mother’s Day or Cinco De Mayo meal?
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SPEAKER_02 (00:07):
Welcome to the dysfunction junkies podcast.
We may not have seen it all, butwe've seen enough.
And now here's junkies.
KERRY (00:20):
I'm Carrie.
Hi, Chris.
Oh, it's this wonderful time ofthe year.
It's May.
I'm so excited.
SPEAKER_00 (00:33):
Sure.
Well, we're only, and we're inOhio, so we're only excited that
maybe we'll have the majority ofthe days be over 50 degrees.
We're hoping.
This is true.
But we're not.
We're not.
We will we'll try not to bedisappointed when that doesn't
happen.
KERRY (00:49):
Yeah, maybe by June, July, August.
Yeah.
So well, we were hanging out.
We were hanging out an hour ago.
So here it goes.
Here.
SPEAKER_00 (01:00):
Oh, I gotta work on my tan.
I am still I've constantly justbeen freaking out about the
level of Casper legs I have.
They're so white.
It's so scary.
Oh it's so scary.
I what?
What?
SPEAKER_02 (01:21):
Carrie, for the first time in how long we've
been together?
35 years, including our courtingtime before we got married.
She her lay her legs are whiterthan mine.
It's it's beautiful.
It's beautiful.
KERRY (01:40):
Jim was just saying we were down at the pool and Jim's
like, I don't think I'm I don'tthink I'm getting tan.
I'm like, oh honey, yes, youare.
Like the farmer's tan is almostgone from living in Ohio.
So but the reason that's I guessthe reason why I'm so happy in
May is these first two weeks ofMay, there's so many exciting
(02:02):
things happening.
And most importantly it's Cincode Mayo, which I oh I didn't
think you were gonna say thatwas the most important thing.
I listen why, because you know,last year I lost my mom and we
buried her on Cinco de Mayo.
It just happened to be May 5th.
(02:23):
So now Cinco de Mayo to me isalways Cinco de mama.
So we'll be celebrating, youknow, mom.
And then there's those otherthings, you know, my birthday
stuff, which you know, don'tremember people, don't forget.
SPEAKER_00 (02:40):
Oh yeah, I don't know.
Your birthday.
Yeah, gosh, don't.
I had to I like question myself,which I said it right in my
head.
I said the date.
I'm not gonna say here becausewe're gonna cover it, but I was
like, okay, it's this date.
SPEAKER_02 (02:56):
I told you it's the same as my sisters.
All right.
I told you that.
It's easy.
My one sister is the same day asyours.
She's exactly four years olderthan you.
SPEAKER_00 (03:06):
So it's not about her, Nick.
Then I double went back.
No, it's yeah.
It's the one time I'm gonna pulla Chrissy.
I had to go back on my phone andI went through all my texts from
to just you, because it wasn'tpart of our group text, and I
scanned, scroll down, I'm like,please confirm my date.
(03:27):
Please confirm my date because Idon't want to get into trouble.
And then I found my message toyou on that date, and I was
like, Oh my god, though.
unknown (03:35):
I had it.
KERRY (03:36):
You mean I'm not automatically in your contacts
with my birth date, so itautomatically just shows up on
that day every year?
SPEAKER_00 (03:43):
Probably, yeah.
No, I'm sure it is programmedwith my contact information, but
it's not coming up.
I'm sorry, I see ask it toremind me 30 days in advance or
anything.
SPEAKER_02 (03:55):
Or even five days in advance.
SPEAKER_00 (03:57):
Yeah, I know you can ask it to like just put a
reminder out and schedule it tolike remind me of this this
early, but uh yeah, no, it's ait's a little too early yet.
KERRY (04:06):
So you guys didn't you didn't partake in any cervezas
and salsa and margaritas andeverything yesterday for Cinco
de Mama de Mayo.
SPEAKER_00 (04:17):
No, I have enough events and holiday type things
that I have to overthink, overstress, and then become horribly
disappointed at the end of it.
That I I think I'm prettyreasonable with this one.
And I love all these things thatyou just named.
I'm not crapping on that.
(04:38):
But the total like stress ofhaving to try and make the
perfect day with the perfectmenu and make sure you have the
margaritas and make sure, youknow, you just celebrate, you
know, just having a great time.
I'm I'm certainly not one tolike dress up for anything at
all.
So I don't know what you know.
(04:58):
I know they wear beads for MardiGrand.
St.
Patrick Day are supposed to weargreen and blah blah, but you
know, so but you know, makingyou know, inspired cuisine is
but everybody's doing it.
So I figure why participate inthat?
I like it any day.
It doesn't have to be just thatday.
KERRY (05:17):
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner Mexican food.
I love it.
So that's one of the best thingsI love about golden the
Caribbean is you can have notthat it's all it's not that it's
Mexican food, but it's more ofthat, you know, beans and rice
and tortillas and variations of,and you can, you know, go up to
(05:38):
the buffet bar or whatever,omelette bar and say, Can you
just make me a quesadilla withcheese and egg?
And they'll be like, of course.
SPEAKER_00 (05:47):
So I don't know what you're talking about.
I've never experienced any ofthis.
Where I can go up anywhere andsay, Can you make this for me?
And somebody usually I get thewhat do I look like to you?
Get the hell out of here.
That's what I usually get.
So uh I go back and sit down.
(06:08):
So, well, so yeah, so it was saygood to mama and I say good to
mama.
And just first thing I was gonnaask is how's everybody feeling
this morning?
SPEAKER_03 (06:20):
Good.
SPEAKER_00 (06:20):
Because just like everything else, everybody likes
to overdo it.
Especially for this one.
I'm sorry.
Hangover, no stomach aims.
KERRY (06:32):
Because I regret to partake in the Mexican food, and
because margarita ingredientsare a standard stock in our
health.
I don't wait for just May 5th tocelebrate in that.
So I'm good.
You might want to be moreworried on some like other
(06:52):
holiday when I'm not on my youknow regular regime.
SPEAKER_00 (06:58):
So say when you were still living in in Nevada, in
Las Vegas, that had to be prettycrazy for Cinco Dumaya, I would
say.
KERRY (07:10):
Well, if you went to the Mexican I know you mentioned
like New Year's was kind ofcrazy.
That was the worst.
But honestly, for us, because wewould usually just find some
really great, authentic Mexicanrestaurant to go to, but we
didn't go down like on the stripor whatever, so I don't really
(07:31):
know what it was like there, butwe would always just go to our
favorite hole in the wallMexican place, and of course,
it's always it's a party everyday, it doesn't matter, but
especially on Cinco de Mayo forthem.
So yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (07:45):
So, and what was so nothing real crazy, just you
went to a yeah, we've got thisreally restaurant.
Was it the same thing in Ohiowhen you were in there?
KERRY (07:54):
In Ohio half the time, I had to do it my own because
sorry, there's not a lot of goodMexican food in Ohio.
So I would make my own, we'dhave our own at the farm.
So, but here that was one reasonwe were so excited to get back
out west was to get really good,authentic Mexican food.
And we found this awesome placehere.
It's like five miles from thehouse.
(08:16):
Yeah, we're loving it.
So great margaritas, great chipsand salsa, really good shrimp
type things on the menu becauseyou know, we're all about the
like the Baja shrimp.
So yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (08:31):
So I guess I'm just gonna assume that what I eat in
Ohio is passable.
You got you got taco, but itseems authentic when you walk up
and taco.
KERRY (08:39):
That says it right there.
SPEAKER_00 (08:42):
I seen her recall going to a place with you a
couple times that you like sortof that was a good thing.
KERRY (08:46):
Oh, yeah, that was I you are correct.
But we had to try, but my pointis we had to travel an hour and
a half to go to tacos andtequila in Ashland, Ohio.
So if you do well, it was just alittle and you want a good
Mexican restaurant, authentic,go to Tacos and Tequila in
Ashland.
They were excellent.
But my point was we had to drivean hour and a half to find a
(09:10):
good one.
You know, here I've got one, youknow, six minutes down the road.
SPEAKER_00 (09:17):
Okay.
We were just uh he keep runninginto a wall with our uh we have
nothing to offer as far as thisgoes.
Yeah, that tacos in tequila wasonly about nothing.
Yeah, it was closer for 30minutes for us.
Yeah, about a half hour.
Well, what's funny is the sisterrestaurant right in Worcester.
(09:38):
When you were here, we shouldhave gone.
Al Campesino.
KERRY (09:42):
I now but see, I bet you it's not too late, even though
tomorrow was yesterday.
You could probably go there allweek and they're starting,
they're probably stillcelebrating.
They probably haven't shut thedoors yet from from yesterday.
SPEAKER_00 (09:57):
Probably it's always we've been there and we have
some neighbors who like tofrequent once a week generally,
but not always.
But they like the food, theylike to have the nice drinks
that they have, and sometimes westop by and see if they're
hanging out and if they oh no,it's always like you said, it's
always a party.
Love it, yeah.
They always look yeah, theyalways look like they're ready
(10:17):
to go.
So, yeah, so I guess pretty mucheverybody uh celebrated, maybe
had Mexican cuisine, uh had somemargaritas or whatever.
What's the other Cervesas?
Mexican cervezas, which is beer,modelo.
Cerveza.
What's a what's the difference?
Oh, that's a beer.
Cerveza means beer.
(10:38):
Cerveza is like it means beer.
KERRY (10:41):
Modelo is a brand of beer that's Mexican, modelo.
Have you guys seen that?
SPEAKER_00 (10:50):
What about the one you stick the lina?
That's cerveza, correct?
That's what we have.
In fact, I almost then we andthen we didn't say that anymore
because we everybody didn't wantto say it because it was named
together with the other.
KERRY (11:03):
I almost thought about drinking one while we were like
having one here instead ofsipping my water and stuff.
I was like, oh, I maybe I shouldbring my one of my coronas in
here.
SPEAKER_00 (11:16):
No, because if anybody celebrated too much
yesterday and then they seethat, they might get like sick
because they probably drink toomany of them the day before.
So maybe it's better we didn'tdo that.
Um now we're on to the nextholiday.
So well, real quick, I just wantto say because I didn't remember
this being a big deal when wewere in high school, or when we
(11:36):
were younger at all.
See, go to Mayo.
So I did have Nick check justreal quick and tell me when did
this become popular?
Because we never know.
We always need to find out whenthe hell did this happen?
Because it's like you woke upone day and all of a sudden it
was a thing.
SPEAKER_02 (11:49):
But he said through his uh quick little Yeah, it was
in the 1980s when it becamewidely correct.
Now, you know, I what it reallyis, it was one year after the
Battle of Puebla, which was in1862.
So in 1863 is when it became aholiday.
SPEAKER_00 (12:07):
And it took 120 years for us to start doing
something.
We're real quick on the uptake,huh?
SPEAKER_02 (12:15):
Well, it was it was it was celebrated in 1863,
probably on the West Coast,because the Battle of Puebla had
to do with Mexican independencefrom France.
So a lot of it was inCalifornia's southern border
states as a way to supportMexico's fight against freedom,
against the And then it got someit got some momentum during the
civil rights um as part of uhyou know, as part of what was
(12:38):
referred to as the Chicano civilrights movement in the 60s and
70s, focusing on culturecultural pride and education and
social justice for the thepopulation.
And then in the 80s, we took itand made it a huge party and an
excuse too much and I'm surethere was probably some
(13:00):
commercial marketing involved.
KERRY (13:01):
Like, was that when Corona became a popular beer?
Was there a bud was there aSuper Bowl commercial about you
know Mexican beer or or nachosor something that you know,
tortilla chips that they theyhooked on to this Cinco de Mayo,
and that's what made itcommercialized.
SPEAKER_00 (13:22):
Well, I'm just gonna say this and then we can move on
to the next holiday, but no, itwas the alcohol companies.
SPEAKER_02 (13:27):
There you go.
SPEAKER_00 (13:32):
What was big in the 80s?
It's it started in the late 70s,but really hit it was at its
peak in the 80s, and Iparticipated heavily in going
and they did a lot ofadvertising.
Of course, they're gonnacelebrate.
I know we still can't get overcheating.
KERRY (13:53):
We gotta find out what the status is of that coming
back.
SPEAKER_00 (13:56):
I know they've talked about it and stuff, but
like I think they opened um youmight actually be closer to
where it's at.
Because it was what do you quotewhat are you saying no for?
SPEAKER_02 (14:11):
I thought it was Midwest, like Minnesota or
something like that.
SPEAKER_00 (14:15):
Cheese.
But didn't cheat cheese start inColorado?
No?
At any rate.
SPEAKER_02 (14:25):
At any rate, you know, I I we should be you know,
supporting the patronizingauthentic Mexican restaurants
for Cinco de Mayo.
Rather than those, you know,because are we we're trying to
tie this into the theme of theshow is Minnesota?
KERRY (14:42):
Correct, Minnesota.
Yeah, I don't know.
The first nude feeling whichyou're closer to Minnesota than
I am is expected to open inMinnesota.
SPEAKER_00 (14:55):
Anyways, okay, so I am moving on.
All right, moving on.
What's next?
Next over the next week or whatare we coming?
KERRY (15:04):
Uh Mother's Day.
Two Sundays from now.
No, next Sunday.
This coming Sunday.
It is this coming Sunday.
Yeah.
No, it's coming, coming Sunday.
SPEAKER_00 (15:15):
It is this Sunday.
Mother's Day.
So don't need it.
Yeah, so I don't take it to thatmuch to heart as far as that I
have, you know, I think Nicktries to make sure I have a nice
day, but the food thing's alwaysan issue because you don't want
anybody to have to do anything,the the the mom or whatever.
(15:35):
But they and I know that a lotof places try to have food that
you can get easily to serve yourfamily so mom doesn't have to
cook, but a lot of times thatcan be a little disappointing.
SPEAKER_02 (15:46):
Yeah, and I unfortunately I I have no
cooking skill whatsoever.
So we and I r and I really don'twant her to order.
And so a lot of times, or you II I don't want you to have to
cook, so I usually will ordersomething, is what I meant to
say.
SPEAKER_00 (16:05):
I'm just enjoying good breakfast that day.
We don't have to worry aboutnothing else.
If you can get a good breakfast,then I'm happy.
And usually you can get a goodbreakfast anyway.
I'm not that disappointed ingetting a flipping McMuffin and
a good coffee at McDonald's.
I don't care.
Sweet.
That's how old I am now.
It's like totally wrecked.
I don't need to have eggs,Benedict.
(16:25):
Yeah.
So I mean maybe maybe we can gomaybe do the Bob Evans thing if
we could just raise the bar alittle bit.
SPEAKER_02 (16:31):
Uh but the golden M is gonna stand for mom on that
day.
SPEAKER_00 (16:37):
Thank you.
So but I I know that last yearyou had a that was a lot for you
for Mother's Day.
But you know, you're sure it'slooking up.
Now you're closer to Yeah,because as you say, you're
closer to family that you canmaybe get to see that week, you
(16:58):
know, this weekend or something.
KERRY (16:59):
I have to give a shout out because my peeps, my peeps
know me and they're listening,and now I'm accessible because
I'm on this side of the country.
So I have to give a shout out tomy sister-in-law, Kitty, and my
bestie Dawn, because we'reactually going up to Salt Lake
(17:21):
this weekend to be up there,visit with them, celebrate my
birthday, you know, because Ialways like to run away on my
birthday.
I have to get away.
So I didn't want to just be herein St.
George as much as I love ithere.
So we said, well, let's go upnorth and we'll go um hang out.
And so once we told them, hey,we're gonna come up for the
(17:42):
weekend, the next phone call Iget like a couple days later, is
from the two of them, Don andKitty.
And they're like, We have yourbirthday and everything planned.
We have your weekend is planned,and then my Sunday morning is
Mother's Day, so there's aMother's Day uh section of the
birthday weekend for all of us,you know.
(18:05):
So, oh yeah, they've they've gotfacials scheduled at the mint
facial.
They've got um, you know, we'regoing horseback riding, we're
going to the aquarium.
Husbands and spouses are makingbreakfast and beds for us on on
Mother's Day.
We got barbecues uh scheduled.
I mean, with it, they they haveit packed.
(18:26):
So I am super excited for mybirthday this year, which is
something I rarely say, butthank you to my peeps for
listening to me.
And uh yeah, so I'm lookingforward to it.
So yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (18:38):
Well, it's uh common.
KERRY (18:39):
It always is.
SPEAKER_00 (18:40):
You can't get away from that.
Mother's Day slash Carrie'sbuttons.
Always was.
KERRY (18:45):
But uh, you know, but again, we were having a hard
time because like we weretalking about like going out to
eat or whatever, and it's thatstupid restricted menu, or you
can't get a reservation in.
Like, there were two places Ithought about before I knew that
uh Kitty and Dawn had planned,you know, the birthday
extravaganza.
Um, that I was thinking, like,oh, we should go to you know,
(19:07):
one of these two places that areup in Salt Lake.
Couldn't get a reservation if wetried, because it's packed with
everyone for Mother's Day.
And then when I was looking atthe menus, I'm like, I wouldn't
want to go anyways becauselimited menu.
So hate that.
Hate that.
We talked about that last year.
Well, listen, like listen tolast year's episode.
SPEAKER_00 (19:26):
We talked about that, so but yeah, so yes, we
don't like to be told that youcan only pick these two or three
items for an appetizer or for amain course.
I want what I want, whatever.
SPEAKER_02 (19:39):
So it's the Valentine, the the Valentine's
Day is worse for that, usually.
SPEAKER_00 (19:44):
It's equally as bad.
Memory for me.
I think probably as far as goingout, I don't know which one of
those two is the most as far asr restaurant business goes, but
they have to be pretty close asfar as I'm gonna go.
KERRY (20:02):
I think I would rather stay to a Valentine's weekend
dinner at a restaurant than aMother's Day weekend.
I had to pick the two, they'reequally bad.
SPEAKER_02 (20:14):
All I know, all I know is I just need to know how
many egg McMahon's.
KERRY (20:20):
No, no, the bar's been raised.
She already said I should havenever said Bob Evans.
So you Mickey, Mickey D's isout.
Sorry, Nick.
Bob Evans.
SPEAKER_00 (20:31):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (20:32):
Yeah, we might need to that don't matter to me
because I'm I went to McDonald'sdrive-thru the other day.
It was almost I probably wouldalmost spend as much there as I
do with Bob Evans.
So everything's expensive.
SPEAKER_00 (20:46):
So well then, yes, we covered your birthday and we
were gonna talk about yourbirthday, but you kind of
covered so you got the plan set,so that's good.
KERRY (20:52):
So yes, but hey, we have some other things to chat about
because we have some things tobe thankful for.
So Chrissy and I have decidedthat we're going to start doing
some thankful blurbs everyepisode instead of just one
dedicated episode.
So uh Chrissy, what are wethankful for?
unknown (21:14):
What are we thankful for?
SPEAKER_00 (21:16):
We have some new uh areas to be some new countries,
new cities.
Uh so we have some prettyexotic, pretty exciting places.
We have Egypt, Guyana, Honduras,and oh god, I wrote it down
phonetically, and I still amgonna mess it up.
Help me with the I can't read mywritings, I scribbled it.
KERRY (21:41):
Kergus.
SPEAKER_00 (21:42):
What was that one again?
Kergas.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Sorry, Kyrgyzstan.
I it's me.
I have a hard time saying a lotof different things.
And then independence, Ohio.
If we're coming back towardsthis way for a new city, and we
uh Exciting.
Berlin and Bangkok.
KERRY (22:05):
So when I saw that, I couldn't start singing that song
in my head.
What not in Bangkok?
SPEAKER_00 (22:12):
That tells you exactly how old we are about how
old we are.
SPEAKER_02 (22:17):
But some of the all I know is Carrie, Carrie, come
come Monday.
Carrie's gonna be my age.
That's all I know.
SPEAKER_00 (22:25):
Jim is just enjoying the whole idea of her birthday
and you had to do that.
KERRY (22:30):
Well, some of the other countries that we've had, uh,
we've had Ukraine, which I wasreally excited about because I
really that little country Ifeel so bad for, and I've always
been a big supporter.
I love to buy things on Etsy,and I found things on Etsy from
Ukrainian people that wereselling and I buy from them.
(22:51):
So when I saw Ukraine pop up, Iwas super excited.
Ukraine, Turkey.
Speaking of Cinco de Mayo,Mexico finally came up on our
list.
SPEAKER_00 (23:03):
Oh my gosh, you're right.
They did.
Yes, they did.
I do remember that.
Ethiopia also, yeah.
KERRY (23:13):
We went from we are now in 73 countries, which again
just so grateful, so thankful toall of our listeners, everyone
who's sharing with theirfriends, spreading the word, and
so grateful, grateful, gratefulabout that.
I also wanted to be thankfulfor.
(23:35):
Let me look up my notes here.
I went and saw a new doctor.
I can't remember if I talkedabout this on the last episode.
I know I think we talked aboutit, but I don't think I talked
about it on the air.
But I went to a functionalwellness doctor and you were
talking about you were gonna begoing.
Well, I haven't discussed andI'm in love with this new
(23:57):
doctor, still waiting for bloodresults and things.
So I will keep you posted onthat.
But I'm telling you, as a womanin her 50s, ladies, if you don't
feel like you're being heard byyour doctors, and you know, you
see all this stuff aboutcortisone levels and hormone
changes and everything, findyourself a good functional
(24:21):
wellness doctor in your area.
It is, I'm telling you, I'malready can tell it's gonna be
life-changing.
So, to the doctors over atDesert Bloom um here in St.
George, Utah, looking forward tohaving you in my life.
So very thankful about that.
So you got anything else,Chrissy, for thankful.
Thankful to be here.
SPEAKER_00 (24:44):
I love it.
Yes, I'm thankful to everybodywho wants to share some laughs
with us for the little bit oftime we try to bring you
something fun to think about foronce a week.
So we we're appreciative ofanybody who's gonna come out for
us.
KERRY (24:59):
And then the other thing we do want to talk briefly about
is this is May in the month ofMay, and we are with our Junkies
Care Initiative, we are raisingawareness for lupus.
So, as I've talked about before,I'm a lupus lawyer, you know,
was diagnosed about like eightyears ago.
But honestly, I've probably hadlupus since uh early childhood,
(25:20):
which I've learned, beenlearning a lot.
Wait a minute, can you reallyhave it that long without it
being detected?
For sure, but I suspected it allthese years.
And in my research and learningfrom Lupus Awareness Month this
month and going to lupus.org andthe lupus foundation of America,
I was going through theirwebsite and taking quizzes on
(25:41):
there and just to learn moreabout the disease that I
actually have.
And it says that there are about10 to 20 percent of people that
are diagnosed with lupus thatactually develop it as a child.
And when I went to my functionalwellness doctor, and we were
going through my history andtalking about things, and we
were talking about some of thedifferent symptoms and things, I
was like, I think I've had this,I think this has been since I
(26:04):
was a child.
And she goes, I have no doubtthat you probably have, given my
history, my symptoms, when wetrack things.
So for me, one of the thingsthat we always joke about, I
mean, joked about it in myfamily, but not that it was
funny, but it was just, youknow, didn't know, was my my mom
always would say my thermostatsbroke.
(26:26):
So everyone would be hot, Iwould be cold.
Everyone would be cold, I wouldbe hot, or I would be hot and
cold, which is like the craziestthing.
Like I will feel hot inside, butoutside is cold.
So like I want to wear a sweateror something because I feel
cold, but I'm burning up inside.
(26:46):
It's it's a very odd feeling.
SPEAKER_00 (26:48):
I don't really know how to describe it, but it
sounds, I mean, I kind of getit, but it sounds like probably
you have to really experience itto understand what exactly.
KERRY (26:58):
So my mom always said from when I was, I mean, I
really think that from likearound maybe 12 that it really
started developing like that.
It like that was one of the oneof the things.
And um, and so she would alwayssay, My thermostat's broke.
And so even Jim and I talk aboutit because he'll be cold, I'll
(27:19):
be hot, and all he'll be like,Oh, your thermostat's broke, you
know.
So, so, anyways, but throughthese, through going through the
lupus.org website and umlearning information from the
lupus uh foundation of America,I was reading that, and when I
came across that about 10 to 20percent can uh develop as a
child, I was like, that's me, nodoubt about it.
(27:41):
And then my doctor was like kindof, yeah, I wouldn't doubt it as
well.
So, so, anyways, we aresupporting lupus awareness
month.
If you don't know a lot aboutlupus, I highly encourage you to
go check out their website.
If you know somebody who haslupus, wear purple this month to
bring awareness to lupus.
And you can go to lupus.org tolearn more about it.
(28:02):
Um, and sometimes they havecommunity events during the
month of May, so you can go tothe website and see if there's
uh an event near you to learnmore.
SPEAKER_03 (28:11):
Yep.
KERRY (28:11):
Perfect.
Well, wonderful.
All right, yeah, goodinformation.
Happy Mother's Day to everybody,Chrissy, to you and your
beautiful family.
Happy Mother's Day.
And uh I guess we'll see you allnext week.
SPEAKER_00 (28:28):
Happy birthday to Carrie.
No, it's not your birthday yet.
Oh, sorry, we can't celebrateyet.
Are you picking that up for me?
KERRY (28:40):
Poor thing.
All right, everybody.
Bye.
Bye.
Welcome to the dysfunction junkies podcast.
We may not have seen it all, butwe've seen enough.
And now here's junkies.
KERRY (00:20):
I'm Carrie.
Hi, Chris.
Oh, it's this wonderful time ofthe year.
It's May.
I'm so excited.
SPEAKER_00 (00:33):
Sure.
Well, we're only, and we're inOhio, so we're only excited that
maybe we'll have the majority ofthe days be over 50 degrees.
We're hoping.
This is true.
But we're not.
We're not.
We will we'll try not to bedisappointed when that doesn't
happen.
KERRY (00:49):
Yeah, maybe by June, July, August.
Yeah.
So well, we were hanging out.
We were hanging out an hour ago.
So here it goes.
Here.
SPEAKER_00 (01:00):
Oh, I gotta work on my tan.
I am still I've constantly justbeen freaking out about the
level of Casper legs I have.
They're so white.
It's so scary.
Oh it's so scary.
I what?
What?
SPEAKER_02 (01:21):
Carrie, for the first time in how long we've
been together?
35 years, including our courtingtime before we got married.
She her lay her legs are whiterthan mine.
It's it's beautiful.
It's beautiful.
KERRY (01:40):
Jim was just saying we were down at the pool and Jim's
like, I don't think I'm I don'tthink I'm getting tan.
I'm like, oh honey, yes, youare.
Like the farmer's tan is almostgone from living in Ohio.
So but the reason that's I guessthe reason why I'm so happy in
May is these first two weeks ofMay, there's so many exciting
(02:02):
things happening.
And most importantly it's Cincode Mayo, which I oh I didn't
think you were gonna say thatwas the most important thing.
I listen why, because you know,last year I lost my mom and we
buried her on Cinco de Mayo.
It just happened to be May 5th.
(02:23):
So now Cinco de Mayo to me isalways Cinco de mama.
So we'll be celebrating, youknow, mom.
And then there's those otherthings, you know, my birthday
stuff, which you know, don'tremember people, don't forget.
SPEAKER_00 (02:40):
Oh yeah, I don't know.
Your birthday.
Yeah, gosh, don't.
I had to I like question myself,which I said it right in my
head.
I said the date.
I'm not gonna say here becausewe're gonna cover it, but I was
like, okay, it's this date.
SPEAKER_02 (02:56):
I told you it's the same as my sisters.
All right.
I told you that.
It's easy.
My one sister is the same day asyours.
She's exactly four years olderthan you.
SPEAKER_00 (03:06):
So it's not about her, Nick.
Then I double went back.
No, it's yeah.
It's the one time I'm gonna pulla Chrissy.
I had to go back on my phone andI went through all my texts from
to just you, because it wasn'tpart of our group text, and I
scanned, scroll down, I'm like,please confirm my date.
(03:27):
Please confirm my date because Idon't want to get into trouble.
And then I found my message toyou on that date, and I was
like, Oh my god, though.
unknown (03:35):
I had it.
KERRY (03:36):
You mean I'm not automatically in your contacts
with my birth date, so itautomatically just shows up on
that day every year?
SPEAKER_00 (03:43):
Probably, yeah.
No, I'm sure it is programmedwith my contact information, but
it's not coming up.
I'm sorry, I see ask it toremind me 30 days in advance or
anything.
SPEAKER_02 (03:55):
Or even five days in advance.
SPEAKER_00 (03:57):
Yeah, I know you can ask it to like just put a
reminder out and schedule it tolike remind me of this this
early, but uh yeah, no, it's ait's a little too early yet.
KERRY (04:06):
So you guys didn't you didn't partake in any cervezas
and salsa and margaritas andeverything yesterday for Cinco
de Mama de Mayo.
SPEAKER_00 (04:17):
No, I have enough events and holiday type things
that I have to overthink, overstress, and then become horribly
disappointed at the end of it.
That I I think I'm prettyreasonable with this one.
And I love all these things thatyou just named.
I'm not crapping on that.
(04:38):
But the total like stress ofhaving to try and make the
perfect day with the perfectmenu and make sure you have the
margaritas and make sure, youknow, you just celebrate, you
know, just having a great time.
I'm I'm certainly not one tolike dress up for anything at
all.
So I don't know what you know.
(04:58):
I know they wear beads for MardiGrand.
St.
Patrick Day are supposed to weargreen and blah blah, but you
know, so but you know, makingyou know, inspired cuisine is
but everybody's doing it.
So I figure why participate inthat?
I like it any day.
It doesn't have to be just thatday.
KERRY (05:17):
Breakfast, lunch, and dinner Mexican food.
I love it.
So that's one of the best thingsI love about golden the
Caribbean is you can have notthat it's all it's not that it's
Mexican food, but it's more ofthat, you know, beans and rice
and tortillas and variations of,and you can, you know, go up to
(05:38):
the buffet bar or whatever,omelette bar and say, Can you
just make me a quesadilla withcheese and egg?
And they'll be like, of course.
SPEAKER_00 (05:47):
So I don't know what you're talking about.
I've never experienced any ofthis.
Where I can go up anywhere andsay, Can you make this for me?
And somebody usually I get thewhat do I look like to you?
Get the hell out of here.
That's what I usually get.
So uh I go back and sit down.
(06:08):
So, well, so yeah, so it was saygood to mama and I say good to
mama.
And just first thing I was gonnaask is how's everybody feeling
this morning?
SPEAKER_03 (06:20):
Good.
SPEAKER_00 (06:20):
Because just like everything else, everybody likes
to overdo it.
Especially for this one.
I'm sorry.
Hangover, no stomach aims.
KERRY (06:32):
Because I regret to partake in the Mexican food, and
because margarita ingredientsare a standard stock in our
health.
I don't wait for just May 5th tocelebrate in that.
So I'm good.
You might want to be moreworried on some like other
(06:52):
holiday when I'm not on my youknow regular regime.
SPEAKER_00 (06:58):
So say when you were still living in in Nevada, in
Las Vegas, that had to be prettycrazy for Cinco Dumaya, I would
say.
KERRY (07:10):
Well, if you went to the Mexican I know you mentioned
like New Year's was kind ofcrazy.
That was the worst.
But honestly, for us, because wewould usually just find some
really great, authentic Mexicanrestaurant to go to, but we
didn't go down like on the stripor whatever, so I don't really
(07:31):
know what it was like there, butwe would always just go to our
favorite hole in the wallMexican place, and of course,
it's always it's a party everyday, it doesn't matter, but
especially on Cinco de Mayo forthem.
So yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (07:45):
So, and what was so nothing real crazy, just you
went to a yeah, we've got thisreally restaurant.
Was it the same thing in Ohiowhen you were in there?
KERRY (07:54):
In Ohio half the time, I had to do it my own because
sorry, there's not a lot of goodMexican food in Ohio.
So I would make my own, we'dhave our own at the farm.
So, but here that was one reasonwe were so excited to get back
out west was to get really good,authentic Mexican food.
And we found this awesome placehere.
It's like five miles from thehouse.
(08:16):
Yeah, we're loving it.
So great margaritas, great chipsand salsa, really good shrimp
type things on the menu becauseyou know, we're all about the
like the Baja shrimp.
So yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (08:31):
So I guess I'm just gonna assume that what I eat in
Ohio is passable.
You got you got taco, but itseems authentic when you walk up
and taco.
KERRY (08:39):
That says it right there.
SPEAKER_00 (08:42):
I seen her recall going to a place with you a
couple times that you like sortof that was a good thing.
KERRY (08:46):
Oh, yeah, that was I you are correct.
But we had to try, but my pointis we had to travel an hour and
a half to go to tacos andtequila in Ashland, Ohio.
So if you do well, it was just alittle and you want a good
Mexican restaurant, authentic,go to Tacos and Tequila in
Ashland.
They were excellent.
But my point was we had to drivean hour and a half to find a
(09:10):
good one.
You know, here I've got one, youknow, six minutes down the road.
SPEAKER_00 (09:17):
Okay.
We were just uh he keep runninginto a wall with our uh we have
nothing to offer as far as thisgoes.
Yeah, that tacos in tequila wasonly about nothing.
Yeah, it was closer for 30minutes for us.
Yeah, about a half hour.
Well, what's funny is the sisterrestaurant right in Worcester.
(09:38):
When you were here, we shouldhave gone.
Al Campesino.
KERRY (09:42):
I now but see, I bet you it's not too late, even though
tomorrow was yesterday.
You could probably go there allweek and they're starting,
they're probably stillcelebrating.
They probably haven't shut thedoors yet from from yesterday.
SPEAKER_00 (09:57):
Probably it's always we've been there and we have
some neighbors who like tofrequent once a week generally,
but not always.
But they like the food, theylike to have the nice drinks
that they have, and sometimes westop by and see if they're
hanging out and if they oh no,it's always like you said, it's
always a party.
Love it, yeah.
They always look yeah, theyalways look like they're ready
(10:17):
to go.
So, yeah, so I guess pretty mucheverybody uh celebrated, maybe
had Mexican cuisine, uh had somemargaritas or whatever.
What's the other Cervesas?
Mexican cervezas, which is beer,modelo.
Cerveza.
What's a what's the difference?
Oh, that's a beer.
Cerveza means beer.
(10:38):
Cerveza is like it means beer.
KERRY (10:41):
Modelo is a brand of beer that's Mexican, modelo.
Have you guys seen that?
SPEAKER_00 (10:50):
What about the one you stick the lina?
That's cerveza, correct?
That's what we have.
In fact, I almost then we andthen we didn't say that anymore
because we everybody didn't wantto say it because it was named
together with the other.
KERRY (11:03):
I almost thought about drinking one while we were like
having one here instead ofsipping my water and stuff.
I was like, oh, I maybe I shouldbring my one of my coronas in
here.
SPEAKER_00 (11:16):
No, because if anybody celebrated too much
yesterday and then they seethat, they might get like sick
because they probably drink toomany of them the day before.
So maybe it's better we didn'tdo that.
Um now we're on to the nextholiday.
So well, real quick, I just wantto say because I didn't remember
this being a big deal when wewere in high school, or when we
(11:36):
were younger at all.
See, go to Mayo.
So I did have Nick check justreal quick and tell me when did
this become popular?
Because we never know.
We always need to find out whenthe hell did this happen?
Because it's like you woke upone day and all of a sudden it
was a thing.
SPEAKER_02 (11:49):
But he said through his uh quick little Yeah, it was
in the 1980s when it becamewidely correct.
Now, you know, I what it reallyis, it was one year after the
Battle of Puebla, which was in1862.
So in 1863 is when it became aholiday.
SPEAKER_00 (12:07):
And it took 120 years for us to start doing
something.
We're real quick on the uptake,huh?
SPEAKER_02 (12:15):
Well, it was it was it was celebrated in 1863,
probably on the West Coast,because the Battle of Puebla had
to do with Mexican independencefrom France.
So a lot of it was inCalifornia's southern border
states as a way to supportMexico's fight against freedom,
against the And then it got someit got some momentum during the
civil rights um as part of uhyou know, as part of what was
(12:38):
referred to as the Chicano civilrights movement in the 60s and
70s, focusing on culturecultural pride and education and
social justice for the thepopulation.
And then in the 80s, we took itand made it a huge party and an
excuse too much and I'm surethere was probably some
(13:00):
commercial marketing involved.
KERRY (13:01):
Like, was that when Corona became a popular beer?
Was there a bud was there aSuper Bowl commercial about you
know Mexican beer or or nachosor something that you know,
tortilla chips that they theyhooked on to this Cinco de Mayo,
and that's what made itcommercialized.
SPEAKER_00 (13:22):
Well, I'm just gonna say this and then we can move on
to the next holiday, but no, itwas the alcohol companies.
SPEAKER_02 (13:27):
There you go.
SPEAKER_00 (13:32):
What was big in the 80s?
It's it started in the late 70s,but really hit it was at its
peak in the 80s, and Iparticipated heavily in going
and they did a lot ofadvertising.
Of course, they're gonnacelebrate.
I know we still can't get overcheating.
KERRY (13:53):
We gotta find out what the status is of that coming
back.
SPEAKER_00 (13:56):
I know they've talked about it and stuff, but
like I think they opened um youmight actually be closer to
where it's at.
Because it was what do you quotewhat are you saying no for?
SPEAKER_02 (14:11):
I thought it was Midwest, like Minnesota or
something like that.
SPEAKER_00 (14:15):
Cheese.
But didn't cheat cheese start inColorado?
No?
At any rate.
SPEAKER_02 (14:25):
At any rate, you know, I I we should be you know,
supporting the patronizingauthentic Mexican restaurants
for Cinco de Mayo.
Rather than those, you know,because are we we're trying to
tie this into the theme of theshow is Minnesota?
KERRY (14:42):
Correct, Minnesota.
Yeah, I don't know.
The first nude feeling whichyou're closer to Minnesota than
I am is expected to open inMinnesota.
SPEAKER_00 (14:55):
Anyways, okay, so I am moving on.
All right, moving on.
What's next?
Next over the next week or whatare we coming?
KERRY (15:04):
Uh Mother's Day.
Two Sundays from now.
No, next Sunday.
This coming Sunday.
It is this coming Sunday.
Yeah.
No, it's coming, coming Sunday.
SPEAKER_00 (15:15):
It is this Sunday.
Mother's Day.
So don't need it.
Yeah, so I don't take it to thatmuch to heart as far as that I
have, you know, I think Nicktries to make sure I have a nice
day, but the food thing's alwaysan issue because you don't want
anybody to have to do anything,the the the mom or whatever.
(15:35):
But they and I know that a lotof places try to have food that
you can get easily to serve yourfamily so mom doesn't have to
cook, but a lot of times thatcan be a little disappointing.
SPEAKER_02 (15:46):
Yeah, and I unfortunately I I have no
cooking skill whatsoever.
So we and I r and I really don'twant her to order.
And so a lot of times, or you II I don't want you to have to
cook, so I usually will ordersomething, is what I meant to
say.
SPEAKER_00 (16:05):
I'm just enjoying good breakfast that day.
We don't have to worry aboutnothing else.
If you can get a good breakfast,then I'm happy.
And usually you can get a goodbreakfast anyway.
I'm not that disappointed ingetting a flipping McMuffin and
a good coffee at McDonald's.
I don't care.
Sweet.
That's how old I am now.
It's like totally wrecked.
I don't need to have eggs,Benedict.
(16:25):
Yeah.
So I mean maybe maybe we can gomaybe do the Bob Evans thing if
we could just raise the bar alittle bit.
SPEAKER_02 (16:31):
Uh but the golden M is gonna stand for mom on that
day.
SPEAKER_00 (16:37):
Thank you.
So but I I know that last yearyou had a that was a lot for you
for Mother's Day.
But you know, you're sure it'slooking up.
Now you're closer to Yeah,because as you say, you're
closer to family that you canmaybe get to see that week, you
(16:58):
know, this weekend or something.
KERRY (16:59):
I have to give a shout out because my peeps, my peeps
know me and they're listening,and now I'm accessible because
I'm on this side of the country.
So I have to give a shout out tomy sister-in-law, Kitty, and my
bestie Dawn, because we'reactually going up to Salt Lake
(17:21):
this weekend to be up there,visit with them, celebrate my
birthday, you know, because Ialways like to run away on my
birthday.
I have to get away.
So I didn't want to just be herein St.
George as much as I love ithere.
So we said, well, let's go upnorth and we'll go um hang out.
And so once we told them, hey,we're gonna come up for the
(17:42):
weekend, the next phone call Iget like a couple days later, is
from the two of them, Don andKitty.
And they're like, We have yourbirthday and everything planned.
We have your weekend is planned,and then my Sunday morning is
Mother's Day, so there's aMother's Day uh section of the
birthday weekend for all of us,you know.
(18:05):
So, oh yeah, they've they've gotfacials scheduled at the mint
facial.
They've got um, you know, we'regoing horseback riding, we're
going to the aquarium.
Husbands and spouses are makingbreakfast and beds for us on on
Mother's Day.
We got barbecues uh scheduled.
I mean, with it, they they haveit packed.
(18:26):
So I am super excited for mybirthday this year, which is
something I rarely say, butthank you to my peeps for
listening to me.
And uh yeah, so I'm lookingforward to it.
So yeah.
SPEAKER_00 (18:38):
Well, it's uh common.
KERRY (18:39):
It always is.
SPEAKER_00 (18:40):
You can't get away from that.
Mother's Day slash Carrie'sbuttons.
Always was.
KERRY (18:45):
But uh, you know, but again, we were having a hard
time because like we weretalking about like going out to
eat or whatever, and it's thatstupid restricted menu, or you
can't get a reservation in.
Like, there were two places Ithought about before I knew that
uh Kitty and Dawn had planned,you know, the birthday
extravaganza.
Um, that I was thinking, like,oh, we should go to you know,
(19:07):
one of these two places that areup in Salt Lake.
Couldn't get a reservation if wetried, because it's packed with
everyone for Mother's Day.
And then when I was looking atthe menus, I'm like, I wouldn't
want to go anyways becauselimited menu.
So hate that.
Hate that.
We talked about that last year.
Well, listen, like listen tolast year's episode.
SPEAKER_00 (19:26):
We talked about that, so but yeah, so yes, we
don't like to be told that youcan only pick these two or three
items for an appetizer or for amain course.
I want what I want, whatever.
SPEAKER_02 (19:39):
So it's the Valentine, the the Valentine's
Day is worse for that, usually.
SPEAKER_00 (19:44):
It's equally as bad.
Memory for me.
I think probably as far as goingout, I don't know which one of
those two is the most as far asr restaurant business goes, but
they have to be pretty close asfar as I'm gonna go.
KERRY (20:02):
I think I would rather stay to a Valentine's weekend
dinner at a restaurant than aMother's Day weekend.
I had to pick the two, they'reequally bad.
SPEAKER_02 (20:14):
All I know, all I know is I just need to know how
many egg McMahon's.
KERRY (20:20):
No, no, the bar's been raised.
She already said I should havenever said Bob Evans.
So you Mickey, Mickey D's isout.
Sorry, Nick.
Bob Evans.
SPEAKER_00 (20:31):
Yeah.
SPEAKER_02 (20:32):
Yeah, we might need to that don't matter to me
because I'm I went to McDonald'sdrive-thru the other day.
It was almost I probably wouldalmost spend as much there as I
do with Bob Evans.
So everything's expensive.
SPEAKER_00 (20:46):
So well then, yes, we covered your birthday and we
were gonna talk about yourbirthday, but you kind of
covered so you got the plan set,so that's good.
KERRY (20:52):
So yes, but hey, we have some other things to chat about
because we have some things tobe thankful for.
So Chrissy and I have decidedthat we're going to start doing
some thankful blurbs everyepisode instead of just one
dedicated episode.
So uh Chrissy, what are wethankful for?
unknown (21:14):
What are we thankful for?
SPEAKER_00 (21:16):
We have some new uh areas to be some new countries,
new cities.
Uh so we have some prettyexotic, pretty exciting places.
We have Egypt, Guyana, Honduras,and oh god, I wrote it down
phonetically, and I still amgonna mess it up.
Help me with the I can't read mywritings, I scribbled it.
KERRY (21:41):
Kergus.
SPEAKER_00 (21:42):
What was that one again?
Kergas.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Sorry, Kyrgyzstan.
I it's me.
I have a hard time saying a lotof different things.
And then independence, Ohio.
If we're coming back towardsthis way for a new city, and we
uh Exciting.
Berlin and Bangkok.
KERRY (22:05):
So when I saw that, I couldn't start singing that song
in my head.
What not in Bangkok?
SPEAKER_00 (22:12):
That tells you exactly how old we are about how
old we are.
SPEAKER_02 (22:17):
But some of the all I know is Carrie, Carrie, come
come Monday.
Carrie's gonna be my age.
That's all I know.
SPEAKER_00 (22:25):
Jim is just enjoying the whole idea of her birthday
and you had to do that.
KERRY (22:30):
Well, some of the other countries that we've had, uh,
we've had Ukraine, which I wasreally excited about because I
really that little country Ifeel so bad for, and I've always
been a big supporter.
I love to buy things on Etsy,and I found things on Etsy from
Ukrainian people that wereselling and I buy from them.
(22:51):
So when I saw Ukraine pop up, Iwas super excited.
Ukraine, Turkey.
Speaking of Cinco de Mayo,Mexico finally came up on our
list.
SPEAKER_00 (23:03):
Oh my gosh, you're right.
They did.
Yes, they did.
I do remember that.
Ethiopia also, yeah.
KERRY (23:13):
We went from we are now in 73 countries, which again
just so grateful, so thankful toall of our listeners, everyone
who's sharing with theirfriends, spreading the word, and
so grateful, grateful, gratefulabout that.
I also wanted to be thankfulfor.
(23:35):
Let me look up my notes here.
I went and saw a new doctor.
I can't remember if I talkedabout this on the last episode.
I know I think we talked aboutit, but I don't think I talked
about it on the air.
But I went to a functionalwellness doctor and you were
talking about you were gonna begoing.
Well, I haven't discussed andI'm in love with this new
(23:57):
doctor, still waiting for bloodresults and things.
So I will keep you posted onthat.
But I'm telling you, as a womanin her 50s, ladies, if you don't
feel like you're being heard byyour doctors, and you know, you
see all this stuff aboutcortisone levels and hormone
changes and everything, findyourself a good functional
(24:21):
wellness doctor in your area.
It is, I'm telling you, I'malready can tell it's gonna be
life-changing.
So, to the doctors over atDesert Bloom um here in St.
George, Utah, looking forward tohaving you in my life.
So very thankful about that.
So you got anything else,Chrissy, for thankful.
Thankful to be here.
SPEAKER_00 (24:44):
I love it.
Yes, I'm thankful to everybodywho wants to share some laughs
with us for the little bit oftime we try to bring you
something fun to think about foronce a week.
So we we're appreciative ofanybody who's gonna come out for
us.
KERRY (24:59):
And then the other thing we do want to talk briefly about
is this is May in the month ofMay, and we are with our Junkies
Care Initiative, we are raisingawareness for lupus.
So, as I've talked about before,I'm a lupus lawyer, you know,
was diagnosed about like eightyears ago.
But honestly, I've probably hadlupus since uh early childhood,
(25:20):
which I've learned, beenlearning a lot.
Wait a minute, can you reallyhave it that long without it
being detected?
For sure, but I suspected it allthese years.
And in my research and learningfrom Lupus Awareness Month this
month and going to lupus.org andthe lupus foundation of America,
I was going through theirwebsite and taking quizzes on
(25:41):
there and just to learn moreabout the disease that I
actually have.
And it says that there are about10 to 20 percent of people that
are diagnosed with lupus thatactually develop it as a child.
And when I went to my functionalwellness doctor, and we were
going through my history andtalking about things, and we
were talking about some of thedifferent symptoms and things, I
was like, I think I've had this,I think this has been since I
(26:04):
was a child.
And she goes, I have no doubtthat you probably have, given my
history, my symptoms, when wetrack things.
So for me, one of the thingsthat we always joke about, I
mean, joked about it in myfamily, but not that it was
funny, but it was just, youknow, didn't know, was my my mom
always would say my thermostatsbroke.
(26:26):
So everyone would be hot, Iwould be cold.
Everyone would be cold, I wouldbe hot, or I would be hot and
cold, which is like the craziestthing.
Like I will feel hot inside, butoutside is cold.
So like I want to wear a sweateror something because I feel
cold, but I'm burning up inside.
(26:46):
It's it's a very odd feeling.
SPEAKER_00 (26:48):
I don't really know how to describe it, but it
sounds, I mean, I kind of getit, but it sounds like probably
you have to really experience itto understand what exactly.
KERRY (26:58):
So my mom always said from when I was, I mean, I
really think that from likearound maybe 12 that it really
started developing like that.
It like that was one of the oneof the things.
And um, and so she would alwayssay, My thermostat's broke.
And so even Jim and I talk aboutit because he'll be cold, I'll
(27:19):
be hot, and all he'll be like,Oh, your thermostat's broke, you
know.
So, so, anyways, but throughthese, through going through the
lupus.org website and umlearning information from the
lupus uh foundation of America,I was reading that, and when I
came across that about 10 to 20percent can uh develop as a
child, I was like, that's me, nodoubt about it.
(27:41):
And then my doctor was like kindof, yeah, I wouldn't doubt it as
well.
So, so, anyways, we aresupporting lupus awareness
month.
If you don't know a lot aboutlupus, I highly encourage you to
go check out their website.
If you know somebody who haslupus, wear purple this month to
bring awareness to lupus.
And you can go to lupus.org tolearn more about it.
(28:02):
Um, and sometimes they havecommunity events during the
month of May, so you can go tothe website and see if there's
uh an event near you to learnmore.
SPEAKER_03 (28:11):
Yep.
KERRY (28:11):
Perfect.
Well, wonderful.
All right, yeah, goodinformation.
Happy Mother's Day to everybody,Chrissy, to you and your
beautiful family.
Happy Mother's Day.
And uh I guess we'll see you allnext week.
SPEAKER_00 (28:28):
Happy birthday to Carrie.
No, it's not your birthday yet.
Oh, sorry, we can't celebrateyet.
Are you picking that up for me?
KERRY (28:40):
Poor thing.
All right, everybody.
Bye.
Bye.
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