September 12, 2025 • 38 mins
It's Flash Back Friday! Flashing back to Episode 9 our New Year's Episode. Plus, in this nostalgic Flashback Friday episode, Kerry and Chrisy take us back to what they describe as possibly the most thrilling New Year's celebration of our lifetime – Y2K.
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Speaker 1 (00:07):
Welcome to Flashback Friday, a special edition of the
Dysfunction Junkies podcast.
We may not have seen it all,but we've seen enough.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
And now here are your hosts, chrissy and Kerry.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Hello Junkies, I'm Kerry and I'm Chrissy.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Happy New Year.
Wait a minute Please.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Well, this is our Flashback Friday episode and we
are flashing back to our episode9, I believe, which was our New
Year's Day episode.
Right episode nine, I believe,which was our New Year's Day
episode.
Right, and I thought I wasbeing so witty saying happy new
year because I thought I wasquoting a TV show and here it
was happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I should have been saying but oh gosh yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
That's right.
I remember that now Right.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Right, right Right.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Well, you'll hear all about that later on as the
episode continues.
Chrissy and I were talkingabout New Year's and Chrissy
brought up a really good pointabout the best, most exciting
New Year's ever.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah, if you were alive during this historical
event in our lives, especiallypeople our age, because in
general I don't like New Year'sEve and New Year's Day is just
like the holidays are over,taking all the stuff down, type
of thing.
I thought back to one NewYear's that I think was just
(01:32):
like sit on the edge of yourseat, exciting.
And that was 1999 to 2000.
Outside the fact that we hadbeen planning for that for so
long because of the Prince song,what they call that Y2K.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yes, yes, and we All the computers were going to quit
working.
Everything was going to crash.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Everything was going to crash.
People were basically doomsdayplanning because there was going
to be no way to be able to.
People were taking their moneyout of their accounts because
you weren't going to be able touse your ATMs or get anything
from the bank.
Everybody thought that thecomputers were going to think
instead of it being 2000, thatit was 1900 and then no
(02:16):
technology would be recognized.
We would be back to 1900 againand we were like man this sounds
like a party and a half and itwas unfortunately the biggest
disappointment.
How dare we be so prepped thatnothing really came?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
of it.
That was really unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
So where were you that night?
You know I'm we were talkingabout it a little bit and I
cannot I know where I was livingat the time.
I didn't have children yet andI don't remember going anywhere
because, like I said, wegenerally stayed.
Either we went to friends andstuff like that for house
parties, or we maybe had peopleover.
(02:54):
So I'm guessing maybe we hadpeople over.
I'm sure I had sauerkraut andkielbasa somewhere Ruin in the
background.
The threat of 1999 and 2000happening did not stop the
sauerkraut play.
But yeah, I wish I would havetaken pictures or somehow made a
(03:16):
better mental memory of whatwas going on.
I just do remember a lot of thehubbub prior to that date and
how they were really trying tobasically prep us for the
absolute worst case for the endof the world.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Almost pretty much that's what I.
I was working in Las Vegas.
I had just moved there in 1999.
And I was working at the one ofthe major hotels and my job at
the time was raising lions thatwere on display at this major
hotel.
We would have lions on displayin this big exhibit in the hotel
(03:53):
.
We'd have baby lions with us,and so I remember I was working
that night with the lions andnormally we were on display
until about 10 o'clock, becausethe Las Vegas Strip is kind of
like Times Square.
On New Year's Eve they shut theentire strip down and it's, you
know, all foot traffic andthere's all.
(04:15):
It literally is like TimesSquare, except the entire strip
of Las Vegas.
Because of that, we had to beout of there by like five
o'clock instead of our normal 10, because they were shutting all
the roads down and we just knewthat we had to make sure we
were out of there because notonly were they shutting down for
New Year's Eve, but because ofall this mayhem and everything
(04:38):
is, you know, oh, it's going tohappen, and everything.
So I just remember scramblingto get off of the strip and home
.
Before you know, mayhem happensand yeah, so I will never
forget that.
So, in fact, one of the kind offunny things that happened.
(05:01):
I could be wrong, but somethingtells me I think I'm right was
so we would back this box truckup to this roll-up door and we
had the lions in a cage, arolling cage, and we would roll
them into this back area thathad a double door catch cage
that led them out to thisexhibit.
(05:22):
Something happened that nightwhere somebody left another door
open and we didn't catch it,and so one of the lions actually
, we loaded it into that areaand we went to the truck to get
the second one and next thing,you know, there was this lion
behind us and now the door isopen.
Like the box truck didn't fitsecurely.
(05:42):
There was gaps, is what I'msaying.
And I just remember the guy wasworking with like grabbing this
lion that was as big as him, andwe're like and like we're
thinking like, oh, my God, we'regoing to lose our jobs.
What if this cat gets out onthe strip?
You know, and I just remember,thank God, this lion was so good
and so we got it back in and wekept that.
(06:06):
We kept that quiet and I'mbreaking the silence now, but I
feel like the time statute oflimitations but something tells
me it was that same night but Icould be getting.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Maybe I'm getting my dates wrong, but yeah, I'm
getting like a jurassic park,like remember when they were
there and like the electricitywent down because of some
typhoon that was happening, andlike all of a sudden, whoops, we
can't contain the t-rex anymore.
Yeah, every man for himself.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I feel like it was somehow all on the same night,
because I remember thinking like, oh my god, this is how our
night's starting, and you know,like it was like a premonition
of the night to come, what wasto come, yes, yes yes, oh gosh,
but anyway.
So other than that, the nightwent fine and we got home fine
and I got home to my house, youknow, because I was not going
(06:59):
out, I had done I think I haddone the strip the year
afterwards.
Yeah, that night I was like I'mnot going out there, Right, I
don't blame you Well but theanxiety that we were given.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, and you can be nostalgic for a lot of things
you know and life experiences.
I don't know that this makesany sense to anybody, but I'm a
little nostalgic for the amountof anxiety and fear they used to
have.
Maybe because I'm past it nowand I know, nothing happened,
but boy.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I tell you they were pumping.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
They gave us all the scenarios as to what could go
wrong.
I think it was probably just tohelp boost certain industries.
I think that's probably wherewe got those doomsday buckets
and help the food industry out.
Everybody was basicallystocking up on canned goods and
water.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
It was preparing us for COVID.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Minus the masks and the social distancing.
Yes, yeah, exactly yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
But you know that is true and I think for me, I
remember it even being such abig thing because I was living
in such a major town, you knowis such a major city and with
the amount of people and justyou know the nature of the city
and everything there was.
Even it was more amplified thanI'm sure how it was here in
this Youngstown area.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
So well, yeah, plus you know, they basically told
you every horrible thing thathad happened in the last 50
years or 100 years was going tohappen again.
We were going to have plague,famine, we were going to have
nuclear war, right.
This was going to be ourenemies taking advantage of our
weakness.
Our guard was down you knowyeah, return of the Living Dead
(08:43):
was going to happen.
We were going to have zombies.
Before the zombie thing waslike really a big deal.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
We were going to have it all, yes.
So, anyways, that leads us intoour Flashback Friday episode,
where we're going to revisit NewYear's Day episode.
So please sit back and enjoy.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Have a great time everybody Duck and cover, Duck
and cover.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Well, hello junkies, Happy New Year.
Happy New Year.
I don't know if you know whatI'm referencing.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Happy New Year.
Is it my favorite, frosty?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Oh, oh Well he, yeah, he only said happy birthday.
Oh, he said oh, I ruined it, Itotally ruined it.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
You tried to slide that by me oh.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I'm like happy New Year.
I thought he was saying happyNew Year.
No, you're right.
I'm like happy new year.
I thought he was saying happynew year.
No, you're right, he did sayhappy birthday.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yeah, he was totally nowhere near.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I'm the Carrie dumbass in that one.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Going back to episode one, you were referencing what
I'm going to get into in alittle while, that Rudolph,
shiny new year.
Oh, is that where they talkabout happy new year?
Well, because they just say itin there.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Oh, okay, by the way, I'm Chrissy and I'm Carrie.
Happy New Year everybody.
Oh, I thought it was being allwitty you were witty.
No, I really wasn't.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I failed, you can't, no, but generally you can't get
those by me, because again I hadno life and I got all that crap
kind of memorized it's the newyear 2025.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Oh my gosh, do you do New Year's resolutions?
No?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
None, what Never?
No, no, no, I don't, I can'tthink of anything.
I mean be nicer to people.
No, don't eat all that junkfood.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,no.
How about you?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I've dabbled in it.
You know it's usually the samelist.
You know, lose weight, dowhatever you know oh, the lose
weight thing.
I used to do that, yeah, everyyear started my diet season
right, right right, righthorrible right never works, you
know so but so many gymmemberships on january 2nd I
couldn't even tell you.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
But yeah, no, yeah no , all it did was create bigger
problems but I have a surprisefor you.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I need to hear this surprise.
So I have decided, in honor ofour friendship and how we met
remember how we met.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I do don't want to refresh our uh, our junkies out
there who may not have listenedyet to episode one, how we met
we met in high school oursophomore because I didn't go to
our high school, my freshmanyear, in gym class, yes, and you
scolded me quite partiallybecause I wasn't running Right.
We were supposed to be runningRight and the whole class was
(11:22):
going to get punished if Ididn't pick up the pace.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yeah, and I really wasn't a runner and I was in a
lot of pain and because I wastrying to was trying to do what
the teacher said follow therules.
So, anyways, since that time inmy life I have dabbled in
running.
And how this started was whenmy son went to high school.
One of the first girls that hestarted to like was in cross
(11:45):
country.
So we were living out in LasVegas and he was like I want to
go to her cross country meet.
Well, her cross country meet wasMount Charleston, which is
about 40 minutes outside of LasVegas, and so we went up there
to this mountain, to this crosscountry race, and we were
watching these kids race a 3.15K up this mountain.
And so we went up there and itwas the first time I've ever was
(12:11):
exposed to like a running groupor a running race or a club,
and I was actually reallyenthralled by all these people
and they were running and theywere having such a good time and
there was so much camaraderieand support and love.
And what did it for me wasthere was this like 80 year old
lady and I have been trying toremember her name and for the
life of me, I've not been ableto remember her name and for the
life of me I've not been ableto remember it.
(12:32):
But she was running up thismountain, perfect hair, just
came from the salon, you knowthe blue hair, perfectly permed,
cut, and now, mind you, she wasrunning, but it was really like
a slow walk, but with runningmovements awesome my favorite.
Yeah, I mean, she was going upthis mountain.
It was quite the incline, butshe did this 3.
Mean, she was going up thismountain, it was quite the
incline, but she did this 3.1race all the way up this
(12:55):
mountain.
And I was so impressed by herand I'm like, oh my God, if that
80-year-old lady can run upthis mountain, I should be able
to do that.
So I started running.
Now, mind you, I am not fast, Istill get that stitch to my
side, whatever.
But since then, when we wereliving in Las Vegas, I ran a
couple marathons, a couple halfmarathons.
Trust me, did not finish fast.
(13:15):
I'm at the back of the packmaking sure everyone's okay, no
one's falling in a pothole oranything but I did it.
I completed them.
So it's been a while since I'verun a marathon and I've decided
that for 2025, I'm going to runa marathon in honor of our
friendship.
That is my New Year'sresolution.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
That is amazing.
I have seen you post thingsabout being in races, running
races, yeah, and I scrollquickly past it because I get
like the shakes and Traumaticmemories of our first encounter.
You're not going to run amarathon.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
No.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
DJ.
No, I have.
I do like my spinning bike andthat's what I do.
Yes, I do try to stay fit and Iam good at that bike into
nowhere buddies.
That's what I like to do bikeinto nowhere.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
I'm more of a rower the rower.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I did for a while, but, man, that that is a workout
.
Yes, it is so do you need me tolike come there and move slowly
so somebody yells at you andyou can pass me up and bitch at
me for not picking up the pace.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
You are welcome to come and attend.
I'm hoping to sign up for theErie Marathon because that's in
September and it's one of theflattest races in the country,
which that's what I need.
It's what I'm used to.
That'd that'd be the one I'd belooking for Exactly Nobody can
accuse you being stupid.
Right.
So we'll see if I can getentered into that and if that
doesn't work out, I'll have tofind another one.
(14:41):
But yes, that is my New Year'sresolution.
This year is in honor of ourpodcast, in honor of our
friendship.
I thought that would be fun andsince, obviously, I didn't
torture myself enough during theholidays by my lack of
decorating, I'm going to torturemyself all year by training for
this marathon.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Well, you're making it up minute by minute step by
step to me.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I have to repair this friendship here, you gotta
suffer, and this is bigsuffering here.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yes, well, I am going to make a resolution then that
I'm going to support yourresolution.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Oh well, thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
That's my first New Year's resolution.
Support Carrie in herresolution, because that's what
friendship is all about there wego.
There we go.
So, well, I appreciate that.
I am very touched by that and Ithank you.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
We'll see how it works out.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I'm going to have to figure out what I'm going to be
able to do to something to honorour friendship.
Give me a time.
I'll come back to everybodylater.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
We got all year.
We got all year, all right.
So how was your Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Well, that was.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
New Year's growing up .
Did you do anything special?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
No, no, just like my vacation life.
Nothing special Did you have?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
any special food Because, although we didn't have
special food on Christmas Eveand we had the same Christmas,
thanksgiving and Easter dinnerwe did have one special food on
New Year's.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Day.
I wonder if it's the same.
I'm sure it is.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Sauerkraut, sauerkraut and kielbasa.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah, and maybe throw some pork in there too short
ribs.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
All I can tell you is oh, my god, you don't like.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I still love, and I'm the only one that eats it, and
I'll make a whole big crock potfull of it and then I'm the one
eating it for a week.
I mean well, as long as you caneat it before, it's just awful,
but I love you know, what is sowonderful it's's of the earth.
If anything, it's like that'sthe one thing I'm close to the
earth with.
Is that food sauerkraut?
(16:35):
Oh, don't rinse it.
People used to rinse it and youknow it's sour.
You put the brown sugar inthere, the greasy kielbasa.
You're going to get heartburnfrom that.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
And it's your spirit food is what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Sauerkraut is your spirit food instead of your
spirit animal, so wonderful, andit makes the house smell so,
and that's the point, that iswhat I cannot stand.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I don't like when I have to smell food for 12, 24
hours or whatever and then eatit like.
So if I don't necessarily mindeating sauerkraut and kielbasa,
if I don't have to smell it forthe day before, so if I went to
a restaurant, if I might orderit there, or if I go to
somebody's house and they'reserving it, I might have it
(17:22):
because I haven't had to smellit for all day while it's
cooking.
But just the thought of wakingup on New Year's morning and the
smell of the house is justpenetrated with that sauerkraut
and kielbasa smell.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
But you know, you just brought up a good point.
I never thought of it untiljust now.
What's that?
I don't remember ever seeingsauerkraut on a menu at any
restaurant I've ever gone to inmy life, the closest you'll
probably find is a Reubensandwich.
Yeah, but they don't even theycall it cabbage, don't they?
Or do they actually say so?
I guess they do.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah, they do call it , and maybe if you well, I feel
like some of the Amishrestaurants around here you'll
you'll find it, or maybe in thearea.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Germany, I guess.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yeah, I know Four line wants some salad.
I'm on board with you.
Yeah, no, not a fan.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
I shovel it in my husband's face because he has to
have at least one spoonful.
Don't ask me why.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
My years have not been better or worse?
For it.
Sour crap, you made me eat.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
No luck I know, I'm sorry, I keep trying.
He won't eat it.
He doesn't like it.
I believe his family probablyhad it too.
He just avoided it.
Did you put hot dogs in yours?
What?
Wait a minute?
Are you going to a ball game?
Or what are you doingcelebrating new years?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
poor family here.
Remember poor family.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
We grew up so we had sauerkraut and kielbasa, but it
also had hot dogs in it fillerand in the yeah, yeah, closest
meaning of the word, hot dogsare full of filler and you
filled up your sour cream so mymom would buy like one of those
links of the kielbasa, but therewas more hot dog in it than
sour or the kielbasa, probablybecause it was cheaper.
(19:04):
But yeah yeah, so I can't do itI'm not saying it would be
horrible, but yeah, no, thatalmost seems like a crime has
been committed when you're nothaving hot dogs for baseball or
something.
But hey, anybody else out thereputting hot dogs in your
sacrifice?
I'm going to tell you.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I don't know how I feel about that.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
But you guys, be you, you do you and we'll do us.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
You'll marinate on that for a week and next week's
episode we might be coming backto that.
Chr Plus, you'll marinate onthat for a week, and next week's
episode we might be coming backto that.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Chrissy might have more thoughts, yeah, so yeah,
because they hit me later, I'mnot real quick.
The other food I do equate withNew Year's only because I had
to eat it as a child, because Iwas usually babysat on New
Year's.
Everybody was older and hadplaces to go and people to see
and pizza rolls.
Really, yeah, they're awful,but got excited sticking those
(19:54):
bad boys in the oven and thenburning your face off because
you bit into it and it wasscalding hot inside.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Pizza rolls are a staple and one of our staples in
our house.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
You like them or purposely, you have them in your
house.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yes, yeah, my son and my husband definitely like them
a lot.
But I mean I'll partake in them.
I don't think they're horrible,but I mean yeah, so that we, we
kind of like our pizza rolls,yeah but we never had them on
any holiday like that wasdefinitely something later in
life.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
That was never something we had growing up the
lady who had to watch me, but Iguess she had to watch me and
she's very nicely did she cometo your house or did you have to
go to her house?
No, I went to her house becauseactually her name was Millie.
She was my brother-in-law, whowas married to my oldest sister,
his mother, and what's funnyabout that is that my sister did
marry the boy next door.
(20:40):
They live next door to us, ohokay.
So when I was real little, thatwas convenient to just take me
over there and she watched mefor New Year's and we would have
pizza rolls and watch thathorrible show, which one the
only one there is.
I'm trying to think is there anynew year's?
There's just that horribleagain.
Here comes rudolph, oh gosh.
Here he comes.
(21:01):
Gotta be a shithead throughanother holiday, rudolph, shiny
new year, oh my gosh.
So.
But yeah, as far we can doubleback to that, but as far you
know.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
So New Year's Day was usually playing cards and
having the sauerkraut andkielbasa.
(21:35):
That was usually pretty much it.
But later in life, when I movedout to Las Vegas, I did the
whole like going out onto thestrip of Las Vegas on New Year's
Eve and that would be theequivalent of the New York Dick
Clark kind of ball drop thingand that was a one and done.
Glad I did it once but probablynever going to do that again.
That was way too many peopleThat'd be like my.
(21:55):
It's how I, how I felt that dayon New Year's Eve, with all
those people and being crowdedon that strip in Las Vegas, was
how I imagined being on a cruiseship.
So yeah, I'm not going to dothat again.
Yeah, it sounds terrifying, itwas terrifying.
Yeah, it sounds terrifying, itwas terrifying.
Yeah, it was terrifying.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Who are these people out there in New York?
Do they bust those people?
Where do they come?
They're just there.
Some people I think wouldprobably actually go there on
purpose.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
That's their vacation .
They're going there, I don'tthink so.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
You know those people are all pissing all over the
street.
They are.
I mean, I'm sorry You're there.
I see you on the TV Congrats.
You're wearing crazy hats andweird glasses with numbers on
them At least when I did it inLas Vegas.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I mean, yeah, it gets cold in Vegas.
I mean it's not.
Even though it's in the desert,it's still cold, but you're not
freezing your tail off like youwould be in New York.
I mean sometimes there it'slike snow and ice and negative
temperatures and stuff.
Like why would you want to dothat?
Like why I don't get that?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yeah, but the people who do it.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
They're dedicated.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Feel very strongly about it and look at us like we
are lost souls, that we wouldn'thave any interest in doing it.
And that's fine, because youcan say you did it and I sure as
hell can tell you that I cansay I never yeah, ever wanted to
do that yeah, I, I did it oncejust to say hey, I did it, but
yeah, no desire to do it againno, and and dick clark was
(23:21):
always such a joy.
Yeah, I mean, people try to fillthat void doesn't happen, it's
gotta be, yeah, gotta be.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
He was classic.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
The worst entertainment in the world,
though the worst Generally,everybody was lip syncing their
music and there was just.
It was just awful.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yeah, awful entertainment.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Why are we watching this?
I don't remember ever saying Ihave to watch Dick Clark's.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
New.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Year's Rock and Eve Ball, because Belle Biv De and I
can't miss that, yeah, never,ever said those words, nope.
But going back to Rudolph, yes,because I know everybody's
waiting for Rudolph.
What the hell is up with that?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
show.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
And people still watch it.
I'm sure I have it somewherehere, you probably do.
My kids probably put it in.
I try to block it out.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
That's one of the few ones that my husband has, that
whole collection of the Rudolphand Frosty and all that.
But I don't think he has theshiny New Year one, not missing
anything.
Maybe that'll be his Christmaspresent, it's just like really
awful, awful.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
The baby New Year, oh the baby.
I don't know where the hellthis concept come from.
Okay, the baby new year, oh thebaby, I don't know where the
hell this concept come from.
Okay, fine, baby new year.
Baby new year gets.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Maybe Jesus, I guess, needed a cousin, I guess.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I don't know.
You can't move on to the nextyear without a baby.
And this baby was wearing a tophat all the time and just a
diaper.
I don't know what the hell lookthat is Chippendales.
I don't understand is why thebird was gonna drop dead if he
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didn't stop the new year.
His time was up at the end.
I think that's what I'm tryingto remember.
This show now.
It was horrible.
The only thing I can tell youfor sure, people, is it is
horrible that when that kid tookhis hat off and those ears came
out those ears, nick, do it,those ears, yeah.
And that that's how the.
Actually the bird was worriedabout dying because if the new
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year came he was dead anyhow.
He flippin fell off themountain and died anyhow because
the.
Is that how he died?
I can't remember, I'm notwatching it not watching it.
People write in tell me how,this damn thing what?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
what is up with all these things dying, in these
things we have, you know, thetragic death of frosty melting
and terror for the little karenyeah, that was horrible because
it's just it is.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
We have to be taught especially our generation had to
be taught at an early age thatit's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I guess, I don't know .
Speaker 2 (26:01):
It's horrifying, you know, yeah, these things, maybe
we thought too much in it.
I'm sure I hate ruining it foryou people out there but I'm
sure there are people out therethat are just like you know,
chrissy, we just sat and watchedthe stuff it's lovely love.
We love the music, we love thestory, we loved rudolph and
frosty and we got the plushiesand the blankets and you know,
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sit by the tree and enjoy hotchocolate, drink it out of a
frosty or rudolph mug, andthat's all fine and well.
But I was sitting therethinking shit's going down
people, this is not good.
But you could sit there withthat smile on your face.
But I'm reading between thelines here and they're prepping
us for something awful the yearto come the year to come.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
That's right, and so, yeah, very, very did you ever
get to go to any like New Year'sparties or anything like, as
you got older, when you didn'thave to be watched by Millie?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah, finally they got me to get dolled up.
I only remember one.
I don't even know that you andI have ever gone to.
We've gone to friends houses.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Yeah, and we've had people yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
For New Year's Not often, but once in a while, and
that's all well and good and Ithink a lot, I think a majority
of people probably do that.
But one year I do remember wegot tickets to go to one of the
halls social halls in our areafor New Year's and provided you
with you know, like your drinksand the food.
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And you had dancing.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
I was still below underage.
It was when I was in highschool.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
I was just going to say middle school, high school.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Yeah, I think it was like 15, I think Okay, in fact.
Well, no, you know me on memory.
I can tell you exactly what itwas December 31st 1987.
Why am I pretending I didn'tknow exactly when this nightmare
happened?
So this is right about when wemet nightmare.
So this is right about when wemet.
Yes, okay, it would have beenmy sophomore year.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yeah, we must not have been buddy buddies yet,
because I didn't get a ticket togo with you that night well, I
think we were friends becausethat was right after we went to
that dance oh yeah, together.
Okay, so maybe I wasn't allowedto go with you anyway.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
So tell us about this party, believe me I probably
knew it was going to be anightmare from the moment it was
scheduled.
It wasn't good, but just myjust the hostility of my father.
I'm betting he might have beenmad that he had to do this
because he was a Freemason.
Yes, and they might have beenhaving some sort of gathering.
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Oh, they were having their own.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Thing.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Well, I don't know that they actually had like for
Freemasons like a New Year'sthing, but he had his friends in
that organization and heenjoyed doing things with them
very much and somebody might'vebeen having a get together
Somehow.
Either he thought it was a goodidea to do this and then second
guessed himself, or somebodymade him feel like he should do
this.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Your mom trumped him and said no, you're going to do
this.
Yeah, we're going to do thefamily thing.
I want to go dancing New Year'sEve.
You're coming?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Pulled the mom card Might have Wife card, something,
but big mistake, because thenmy father just harbors hostility
through the whole thing andit's just a buildup to when he's
going to explode.
And eventually he did.
He complained about food,alcohol, both.
It turned into a big shit showand I just remember I was
miserable and I think I leftwith my one sister and she snuck
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me into a bar.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
So you left that and then you went to a bar with your
sister and her husband and herhusband.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
And she's a piece.
It was a neighborhood dive.
I could probably even name nameit, but I'm not going to yeah,
please don't I don't want to andit's not there anymore anyhow
okay it was just a neighborhooddive bar yeah, I only went to
one.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Oh well, my husband and I, when we first moved back
here to ohio back in 2013, wewere friends with a couple and
they wanted to do go to thoseplaces like, like you said,
rental hall and everything so wewent to a couple of them, but
my husband doesn't like to dance, so he will sit and watch me
dance and everyone else, but hedoesn't want to go up and dance.
So, you know, it was nice forthe food and the camaraderie and
(30:07):
again, it was nice to check itoff that bucket list and say
we've done that.
But yeah, no, not my thing.
New Year's Eve, usually in bedby about nine, smart.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
That's the smart thing to do, and most I do talk
to a lot of people with NewYear's.
They would prefer just to beasleep.
Yeah, and let me tell you, NewYear's is, in my opinion again,
here comes my opinion the mostdepressing day of the year.
It's not your birthday, Forgetthat birthday thing, Everybody
gets oh, I'm getting a yearolder.
I'm so depressed I can'tbelieve it.
(30:36):
Oh my God, yeah, New Year's,that clock ticks over.
Really, it is like the countdownto death Again here, with the
death.
I'm here to ruin every holidayfor everyone out there.
But it is you count down?
Yeah, but it is you count down?
Yeah.
Now you're in another year.
What's gonna happen this year?
Am I gonna drop dead this year?
I don't know what the hell.
(30:57):
It's a whole new year.
I'm terrified, it's awful.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
There's no hope of oh , this is gonna be the year that
we do something great orfabulous or whatever.
No, it's all death anddamnation yes do you have?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
thoughts like that yes, not if doesn't.
No, you're on the other end,yes, you're like this is gonna
be my year it is, things aregonna happen.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Usually the year before was so shitty it's like
next year has to be better thisyear.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
But see, the year before that you were sitting on
new year's eve that year beforesaying this is gonna be.
And now you just told me theyear was that.
You were sitting on New Year'sEve that year before saying this
is going to be, and now youjust told me the year was shitty
.
I know.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
You might as well just prepare yourself.
You're lying, look.
I want everybody to havefantastic upcoming years.
I want to have a fantasticupcoming year Already.
I'm on track to have afantastic upcoming year Already.
I'm on track to have afantastic upcoming year because
I am with my friend andhopefully I'm entertaining all
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of you out there.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
See, there it is.
There's your ray of light.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
So maybe, yay, I've rubbed off on you.
2025 is going to be that oneyear where I can maybe sit there
for a second and say, huh, nah,oh, chrissy, but I love the
fact that you guys have gone out.
You partied hard, you had agreat time, you wore the crazy
hats and blew all the confettiall over the place.
(32:25):
Nobody's going to clean thatshit up.
I mean, you know.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Here's my biggest beef.
I think with New Year's, it'sthe people shooting the guns.
Now, my biggest beef, I thinkwith New Year's, it's the people
shooting the guns Now.
You see, when we were in LasVegas, we experienced this a
little bit more than here backeast, but in Las Vegas it's.
This is like this phenomenonthese holidays, especially on
New Year's Eve to oh, new Year'sEve, let's everybody go outside
(32:49):
and shoot our gun straight upinto the air, and I'm sorry,
what goes up must come down.
Where are those bullets comingdown at, you know?
Okay, great, Now I'm completelyfreaked out.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
But it's weird you say that because, yes, actually
when I was very little, someparent would stay home.
Maybe they just weren't goingout yet or they didn't make
plans that night.
But when I was very little, Ido remember my father taking me
in the stroke of midnight, goingout and standing on the porch
to hear the chaos.
Oh, okay, and it was gunfire.
(33:20):
Yeah, and it was.
But if you know where we'refrom, I mean that was right,
that could be any night.
It was comforting.
It was comforting, well, butnow you're telling me stuff's
coming down.
Well, yeah, what goes up mustcome down.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
And so I do remember there were a couple years living
in Las Vegas and just dread NewYear's Eve or July 4th was
another one because I was soworried about this and
especially the one place that welived in.
I literally slept on the floorbecause I was afraid of stray
bullets coming through the housebecause everyone, all these
people just outside justshooting around, you know, this
(33:54):
was in Vegas, this was in Vegas,yeah, Wow.
So you know houses are closertogether, you know like you're
on top of each other andeverything, but I wouldn't go
outside on New Year's Eve tocelebrate or whatever, because
I'm like no, there's straybullets people.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
So yes, no ordinances against that.
Oh yeah, there's ordinances,but nobody's paying attention.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
How are you going to enforce that?
I mean, like you got 100,000people or whatever, whatever the
population is, but you got allthese people shooting.
There's no way they can.
I mean, I know here inYoungstown, maybe here in the
area that we live in, they havethat thing called shots fired.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
And if you fire a gun there, it tells you kind of the
exact location the policerespond.
But we didn't have that there,but still, yeah, it's just it's
a crazy town.
That is crazy.
Yeah, I understand, people wantto celebrate fireworks would
achieve the same thing exactly.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Yeah, I mean, and they're illegal too.
At least you know, at least outwest, they were because of the
fire hazard.
But I would much rather have afirework going off and look at
something pretty than hearsomething go off and then have
to worry of coming through myhouse.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Yeah, so no, not a big fan of it.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Well, I mean I can totally get it.
So then you get through the newyear.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Yep.
And now?
What do we got to look forwardto?
What's coming up next for us?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Well, January through March and my whole thing was
just depressing Right.
And that's usually when theweather showed up that you
wanted to have for Christmas.
Yeah, this is true, and you'relike, but I'm so not interested
in this now.
Right, no, you'd really justrather go into like 60 degree,
70 degree.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
I guess when you're out west you kind of are there,
but yeah, I'm not lookingforward to the next three months
of snow and slush and ice andmelt and rain, and then you know
, rinse and repeat Same thingover in cold weather.
No, I'm not looking forward toit.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
When's?
Speaker 1 (35:42):
the next vacation.
I think I got one coming up toget away from all this.
I need another one.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
I'm sure you do.
I have Let me think Is thereanything coming up on TV I might
want to watch?
I don't know.
That's my whole thing.
I'm just waiting for somethinggood to show up on TV?
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Yeah, because right now we're in the lull even on TV
shows.
You know things are on break,so they got to wait till they
come back.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Yeah, I'm old school.
The season started in like withthe school.
Yes yes, that was seasons.
They have seasons for shows.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
It's so weird.
Well, so the one thing I bestget going then is I need to go
start running, because I gotthat marathon to run.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
I better go get my ass in shape and I guess, yeah,
I mean God love you, god loveyou.
No, the running.
I know some other people familyand some friends who also post.
They are very involved with therunning and marathons and they
all look very happy.
They're like happy.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
I know Smiling.
It's one of those things thatwhen you finish it's like, oh my
gosh, I'm not going to do thisagain.
But then, at the same time,you're so elated and happy and
the next morning you findyourself back on trying to find
something else to sign up for.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
But whatever, wow so.
But this year I have a littledifferent motivation.
So well, I appreciate that.
That is lovely, and I am yournumber one fan.
I need a shirt with your nameon it.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
I'll wear a sandwich board.
I'll wear a sandwich.
I'll wear a dysfunction junkieshirt when I run that's the best
one to wear so.
So, yeah, all right, junkies.
Well, happy New Year.
Please make sure to check outour Facebook page and maybe give
us what your New Year'sresolutions are.
Do you look at the new year assomething to look forward to for
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great things to come?
Are you about gloom and despair?
So, are you a Chrissy?
Are you a Carrie?
Speaker 2 (37:28):
That's right, you are you.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
That's perfect way to put it, and I like the fact
that I am part of the gloom anddespair group.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
I will rep that all the way.
Well, you're wearing a blackt-shirt right now, so you're
good to go.
I am yeah, so yeah, and we are.
One thing we are lookingforward to is 2025 and our
junkies and growing our familyand keeping our family laughing,
yes, and keeping you in yoursafe place.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Yes, absolutely All right, Junkies, we'll see you
next week.
Happy New Year.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
Happy New Year.
Duck and cover.
Welcome to Flashback Friday, a special edition of the
Dysfunction Junkies podcast.
We may not have seen it all,but we've seen enough.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
And now here are your hosts, chrissy and Kerry.
Speaker 1 (00:21):
Hello Junkies, I'm Kerry and I'm Chrissy.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Happy New Year.
Wait a minute Please.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
Well, this is our Flashback Friday episode and we
are flashing back to our episode9, I believe, which was our New
Year's Day episode.
Right episode nine, I believe,which was our New Year's Day
episode.
Right, and I thought I wasbeing so witty saying happy new
year because I thought I wasquoting a TV show and here it
was happy birthday.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I should have been saying but oh gosh yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
That's right.
I remember that now Right.
Speaker 2 (00:57):
Right, right Right.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Well, you'll hear all about that later on as the
episode continues.
Chrissy and I were talkingabout New Year's and Chrissy
brought up a really good pointabout the best, most exciting
New Year's ever.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah, if you were alive during this historical
event in our lives, especiallypeople our age, because in
general I don't like New Year'sEve and New Year's Day is just
like the holidays are over,taking all the stuff down, type
of thing.
I thought back to one NewYear's that I think was just
(01:32):
like sit on the edge of yourseat, exciting.
And that was 1999 to 2000.
Outside the fact that we hadbeen planning for that for so
long because of the Prince song,what they call that Y2K.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
Yes, yes, and we All the computers were going to quit
working.
Everything was going to crash.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Everything was going to crash.
People were basically doomsdayplanning because there was going
to be no way to be able to.
People were taking their moneyout of their accounts because
you weren't going to be able touse your ATMs or get anything
from the bank.
Everybody thought that thecomputers were going to think
instead of it being 2000, thatit was 1900 and then no
(02:16):
technology would be recognized.
We would be back to 1900 againand we were like man this sounds
like a party and a half and itwas unfortunately the biggest
disappointment.
How dare we be so prepped thatnothing really came?
Speaker 1 (02:32):
of it.
That was really unfortunate.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
So where were you that night?
You know I'm we were talkingabout it a little bit and I
cannot I know where I was livingat the time.
I didn't have children yet andI don't remember going anywhere
because, like I said, wegenerally stayed.
Either we went to friends andstuff like that for house
parties, or we maybe had peopleover.
(02:54):
So I'm guessing maybe we hadpeople over.
I'm sure I had sauerkraut andkielbasa somewhere Ruin in the
background.
The threat of 1999 and 2000happening did not stop the
sauerkraut play.
But yeah, I wish I would havetaken pictures or somehow made a
(03:16):
better mental memory of whatwas going on.
I just do remember a lot of thehubbub prior to that date and
how they were really trying tobasically prep us for the
absolute worst case for the endof the world.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Almost pretty much that's what I.
I was working in Las Vegas.
I had just moved there in 1999.
And I was working at the one ofthe major hotels and my job at
the time was raising lions thatwere on display at this major
hotel.
We would have lions on displayin this big exhibit in the hotel
(03:53):
.
We'd have baby lions with us,and so I remember I was working
that night with the lions andnormally we were on display
until about 10 o'clock, becausethe Las Vegas Strip is kind of
like Times Square.
On New Year's Eve they shut theentire strip down and it's, you
know, all foot traffic andthere's all.
(04:15):
It literally is like TimesSquare, except the entire strip
of Las Vegas.
Because of that, we had to beout of there by like five
o'clock instead of our normal 10, because they were shutting all
the roads down and we just knewthat we had to make sure we
were out of there because notonly were they shutting down for
New Year's Eve, but because ofall this mayhem and everything
(04:38):
is, you know, oh, it's going tohappen, and everything.
So I just remember scramblingto get off of the strip and home
.
Before you know, mayhem happensand yeah, so I will never
forget that.
So, in fact, one of the kind offunny things that happened.
(05:01):
I could be wrong, but somethingtells me I think I'm right was
so we would back this box truckup to this roll-up door and we
had the lions in a cage, arolling cage, and we would roll
them into this back area thathad a double door catch cage
that led them out to thisexhibit.
(05:22):
Something happened that nightwhere somebody left another door
open and we didn't catch it,and so one of the lions actually
, we loaded it into that areaand we went to the truck to get
the second one and next thing,you know, there was this lion
behind us and now the door isopen.
Like the box truck didn't fitsecurely.
(05:42):
There was gaps, is what I'msaying.
And I just remember the guy wasworking with like grabbing this
lion that was as big as him, andwe're like and like we're
thinking like, oh, my God, we'regoing to lose our jobs.
What if this cat gets out onthe strip?
You know, and I just remember,thank God, this lion was so good
and so we got it back in and wekept that.
(06:06):
We kept that quiet and I'mbreaking the silence now, but I
feel like the time statute oflimitations but something tells
me it was that same night but Icould be getting.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Maybe I'm getting my dates wrong, but yeah, I'm
getting like a jurassic park,like remember when they were
there and like the electricitywent down because of some
typhoon that was happening, andlike all of a sudden, whoops, we
can't contain the t-rex anymore.
Yeah, every man for himself.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
I feel like it was somehow all on the same night,
because I remember thinking like, oh my god, this is how our
night's starting, and you know,like it was like a premonition
of the night to come, what wasto come, yes, yes yes, oh gosh,
but anyway.
So other than that, the nightwent fine and we got home fine
and I got home to my house, youknow, because I was not going
(06:59):
out, I had done I think I haddone the strip the year
afterwards.
Yeah, that night I was like I'mnot going out there, Right, I
don't blame you Well but theanxiety that we were given.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Yeah, and you can be nostalgic for a lot of things
you know and life experiences.
I don't know that this makesany sense to anybody, but I'm a
little nostalgic for the amountof anxiety and fear they used to
have.
Maybe because I'm past it nowand I know, nothing happened,
but boy.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
I tell you they were pumping.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
They gave us all the scenarios as to what could go
wrong.
I think it was probably just tohelp boost certain industries.
I think that's probably wherewe got those doomsday buckets
and help the food industry out.
Everybody was basicallystocking up on canned goods and
water.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
It was preparing us for COVID.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Minus the masks and the social distancing.
Yes, yeah, exactly yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:59):
But you know that is true and I think for me, I
remember it even being such abig thing because I was living
in such a major town, you knowis such a major city and with
the amount of people and justyou know the nature of the city
and everything there was.
Even it was more amplified thanI'm sure how it was here in
this Youngstown area.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
So well, yeah, plus you know, they basically told
you every horrible thing thathad happened in the last 50
years or 100 years was going tohappen again.
We were going to have plague,famine, we were going to have
nuclear war, right.
This was going to be ourenemies taking advantage of our
weakness.
Our guard was down you knowyeah, return of the Living Dead
(08:43):
was going to happen.
We were going to have zombies.
Before the zombie thing waslike really a big deal.
Speaker 1 (08:47):
We were going to have it all, yes.
So, anyways, that leads us intoour Flashback Friday episode,
where we're going to revisit NewYear's Day episode.
So please sit back and enjoy.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Have a great time everybody Duck and cover, Duck
and cover.
Speaker 1 (09:02):
Well, hello junkies, Happy New Year.
Happy New Year.
I don't know if you know whatI'm referencing.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Happy New Year.
Is it my favorite, frosty?
Speaker 1 (09:15):
Oh, oh Well he, yeah, he only said happy birthday.
Oh, he said oh, I ruined it, Itotally ruined it.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
You tried to slide that by me oh.
Speaker 1 (09:27):
I'm like happy New Year.
I thought he was saying happyNew Year.
No, you're right.
I'm like happy new year.
I thought he was saying happynew year.
No, you're right, he did sayhappy birthday.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yeah, he was totally nowhere near.
Speaker 1 (09:34):
I'm the Carrie dumbass in that one.
Speaker 2 (09:37):
Going back to episode one, you were referencing what
I'm going to get into in alittle while, that Rudolph,
shiny new year.
Oh, is that where they talkabout happy new year?
Well, because they just say itin there.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
Oh, okay, by the way, I'm Chrissy and I'm Carrie.
Happy New Year everybody.
Oh, I thought it was being allwitty you were witty.
No, I really wasn't.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I failed, you can't, no, but generally you can't get
those by me, because again I hadno life and I got all that crap
kind of memorized it's the newyear 2025.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
Oh my gosh, do you do New Year's resolutions?
No?
Speaker 2 (10:12):
None, what Never?
No, no, no, I don't, I can'tthink of anything.
I mean be nicer to people.
No, don't eat all that junkfood.
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,no.
How about you?
Speaker 1 (10:29):
I've dabbled in it.
You know it's usually the samelist.
You know, lose weight, dowhatever you know oh, the lose
weight thing.
I used to do that, yeah, everyyear started my diet season
right, right right, righthorrible right never works, you
know so but so many gymmemberships on january 2nd I
couldn't even tell you.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
But yeah, no, yeah no , all it did was create bigger
problems but I have a surprisefor you.
Speaker 1 (10:52):
I need to hear this surprise.
So I have decided, in honor ofour friendship and how we met
remember how we met.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
I do don't want to refresh our uh, our junkies out
there who may not have listenedyet to episode one, how we met
we met in high school oursophomore because I didn't go to
our high school, my freshmanyear, in gym class, yes, and you
scolded me quite partiallybecause I wasn't running Right.
We were supposed to be runningRight and the whole class was
(11:22):
going to get punished if Ididn't pick up the pace.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yeah, and I really wasn't a runner and I was in a
lot of pain and because I wastrying to was trying to do what
the teacher said follow therules.
So, anyways, since that time inmy life I have dabbled in
running.
And how this started was whenmy son went to high school.
One of the first girls that hestarted to like was in cross
(11:45):
country.
So we were living out in LasVegas and he was like I want to
go to her cross country meet.
Well, her cross country meet wasMount Charleston, which is
about 40 minutes outside of LasVegas, and so we went up there
to this mountain, to this crosscountry race, and we were
watching these kids race a 3.15K up this mountain.
And so we went up there and itwas the first time I've ever was
(12:11):
exposed to like a running groupor a running race or a club,
and I was actually reallyenthralled by all these people
and they were running and theywere having such a good time and
there was so much camaraderieand support and love.
And what did it for me wasthere was this like 80 year old
lady and I have been trying toremember her name and for the
life of me, I've not been ableto remember her name and for the
life of me I've not been ableto remember it.
(12:32):
But she was running up thismountain, perfect hair, just
came from the salon, you knowthe blue hair, perfectly permed,
cut, and now, mind you, she wasrunning, but it was really like
a slow walk, but with runningmovements awesome my favorite.
Yeah, I mean, she was going upthis mountain.
It was quite the incline, butshe did this 3.
Mean, she was going up thismountain, it was quite the
incline, but she did this 3.1race all the way up this
(12:55):
mountain.
And I was so impressed by herand I'm like, oh my God, if that
80-year-old lady can run upthis mountain, I should be able
to do that.
So I started running.
Now, mind you, I am not fast, Istill get that stitch to my
side, whatever.
But since then, when we wereliving in Las Vegas, I ran a
couple marathons, a couple halfmarathons.
Trust me, did not finish fast.
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I'm at the back of the packmaking sure everyone's okay, no
one's falling in a pothole oranything but I did it.
I completed them.
So it's been a while since I'verun a marathon and I've decided
that for 2025, I'm going to runa marathon in honor of our
friendship.
That is my New Year'sresolution.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
That is amazing.
I have seen you post thingsabout being in races, running
races, yeah, and I scrollquickly past it because I get
like the shakes and Traumaticmemories of our first encounter.
You're not going to run amarathon.
Speaker 1 (13:48):
No.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
DJ.
No, I have.
I do like my spinning bike andthat's what I do.
Yes, I do try to stay fit and Iam good at that bike into
nowhere buddies.
That's what I like to do bikeinto nowhere.
Speaker 1 (14:03):
I'm more of a rower the rower.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
I did for a while, but, man, that that is a workout
.
Yes, it is so do you need me tolike come there and move slowly
so somebody yells at you andyou can pass me up and bitch at
me for not picking up the pace.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
You are welcome to come and attend.
I'm hoping to sign up for theErie Marathon because that's in
September and it's one of theflattest races in the country,
which that's what I need.
It's what I'm used to.
That'd that'd be the one I'd belooking for Exactly Nobody can
accuse you being stupid.
Right.
So we'll see if I can getentered into that and if that
doesn't work out, I'll have tofind another one.
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But yes, that is my New Year'sresolution.
This year is in honor of ourpodcast, in honor of our
friendship.
I thought that would be fun andsince, obviously, I didn't
torture myself enough during theholidays by my lack of
decorating, I'm going to torturemyself all year by training for
this marathon.
Speaker 2 (14:56):
Well, you're making it up minute by minute step by
step to me.
Speaker 1 (15:00):
I have to repair this friendship here, you gotta
suffer, and this is bigsuffering here.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Yes, well, I am going to make a resolution then that
I'm going to support yourresolution.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
Oh well, thank you.
Speaker 2 (15:12):
That's my first New Year's resolution.
Support Carrie in herresolution, because that's what
friendship is all about there wego.
There we go.
So, well, I appreciate that.
I am very touched by that and Ithank you.
Speaker 1 (15:26):
We'll see how it works out.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
I'm going to have to figure out what I'm going to be
able to do to something to honorour friendship.
Give me a time.
I'll come back to everybodylater.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
We got all year.
We got all year, all right.
So how was your Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2 (15:39):
Well, that was.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
New Year's growing up .
Did you do anything special?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
No, no, just like my vacation life.
Nothing special Did you have?
Speaker 1 (15:51):
any special food Because, although we didn't have
special food on Christmas Eveand we had the same Christmas,
thanksgiving and Easter dinnerwe did have one special food on
New Year's.
Speaker 2 (16:02):
Day.
I wonder if it's the same.
I'm sure it is.
Speaker 1 (16:06):
Sauerkraut, sauerkraut and kielbasa.
Speaker 2 (16:09):
Yeah, and maybe throw some pork in there too short
ribs.
Speaker 1 (16:13):
All I can tell you is oh, my god, you don't like.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
I still love, and I'm the only one that eats it, and
I'll make a whole big crock potfull of it and then I'm the one
eating it for a week.
I mean well, as long as you caneat it before, it's just awful,
but I love you know, what is sowonderful it's's of the earth.
If anything, it's like that'sthe one thing I'm close to the
earth with.
Is that food sauerkraut?
(16:35):
Oh, don't rinse it.
People used to rinse it and youknow it's sour.
You put the brown sugar inthere, the greasy kielbasa.
You're going to get heartburnfrom that.
Speaker 1 (16:49):
And it's your spirit food is what you're saying.
Speaker 2 (16:51):
Sauerkraut is your spirit food instead of your
spirit animal, so wonderful, andit makes the house smell so,
and that's the point, that iswhat I cannot stand.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
I don't like when I have to smell food for 12, 24
hours or whatever and then eatit like.
So if I don't necessarily mindeating sauerkraut and kielbasa,
if I don't have to smell it forthe day before, so if I went to
a restaurant, if I might orderit there, or if I go to
somebody's house and they'reserving it, I might have it
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because I haven't had to smellit for all day while it's
cooking.
But just the thought of wakingup on New Year's morning and the
smell of the house is justpenetrated with that sauerkraut
and kielbasa smell.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
But you know, you just brought up a good point.
I never thought of it untiljust now.
What's that?
I don't remember ever seeingsauerkraut on a menu at any
restaurant I've ever gone to inmy life, the closest you'll
probably find is a Reubensandwich.
Yeah, but they don't even theycall it cabbage, don't they?
Or do they actually say so?
I guess they do.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
Yeah, they do call it , and maybe if you well, I feel
like some of the Amishrestaurants around here you'll
you'll find it, or maybe in thearea.
Speaker 2 (18:01):
Germany, I guess.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Yeah, I know Four line wants some salad.
I'm on board with you.
Yeah, no, not a fan.
Speaker 2 (18:10):
I shovel it in my husband's face because he has to
have at least one spoonful.
Don't ask me why.
Speaker 1 (18:17):
My years have not been better or worse?
For it.
Sour crap, you made me eat.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
No luck I know, I'm sorry, I keep trying.
He won't eat it.
He doesn't like it.
I believe his family probablyhad it too.
He just avoided it.
Did you put hot dogs in yours?
What?
Wait a minute?
Are you going to a ball game?
Or what are you doingcelebrating new years?
Speaker 1 (18:39):
poor family here.
Remember poor family.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
We grew up so we had sauerkraut and kielbasa, but it
also had hot dogs in it fillerand in the yeah, yeah, closest
meaning of the word, hot dogsare full of filler and you
filled up your sour cream so mymom would buy like one of those
links of the kielbasa, but therewas more hot dog in it than
sour or the kielbasa, probablybecause it was cheaper.
(19:04):
But yeah yeah, so I can't do itI'm not saying it would be
horrible, but yeah, no, thatalmost seems like a crime has
been committed when you're nothaving hot dogs for baseball or
something.
But hey, anybody else out thereputting hot dogs in your
sacrifice?
I'm going to tell you.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
I don't know how I feel about that.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
But you guys, be you, you do you and we'll do us.
Speaker 1 (19:26):
You'll marinate on that for a week and next week's
episode we might be coming backto that.
Chr Plus, you'll marinate onthat for a week, and next week's
episode we might be coming backto that.
Speaker 2 (19:33):
Chrissy might have more thoughts, yeah, so yeah,
because they hit me later, I'mnot real quick.
The other food I do equate withNew Year's only because I had
to eat it as a child, because Iwas usually babysat on New
Year's.
Everybody was older and hadplaces to go and people to see
and pizza rolls.
Really, yeah, they're awful,but got excited sticking those
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bad boys in the oven and thenburning your face off because
you bit into it and it wasscalding hot inside.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
Pizza rolls are a staple and one of our staples in
our house.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
You like them or purposely, you have them in your
house.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Yes, yeah, my son and my husband definitely like them
a lot.
But I mean I'll partake in them.
I don't think they're horrible,but I mean yeah, so that we, we
kind of like our pizza rolls,yeah but we never had them on
any holiday like that wasdefinitely something later in
life.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
That was never something we had growing up the
lady who had to watch me, but Iguess she had to watch me and
she's very nicely did she cometo your house or did you have to
go to her house?
No, I went to her house becauseactually her name was Millie.
She was my brother-in-law, whowas married to my oldest sister,
his mother, and what's funnyabout that is that my sister did
marry the boy next door.
(20:40):
They live next door to us, ohokay.
So when I was real little, thatwas convenient to just take me
over there and she watched mefor New Year's and we would have
pizza rolls and watch thathorrible show, which one the
only one there is.
I'm trying to think is there anynew year's?
There's just that horribleagain.
Here comes rudolph, oh gosh.
Here he comes.
(21:01):
Gotta be a shithead throughanother holiday, rudolph, shiny
new year, oh my gosh.
So.
But yeah, as far we can doubleback to that, but as far you
know.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
So New Year's Day was usually playing cards and
having the sauerkraut andkielbasa.
(21:35):
That was usually pretty much it.
But later in life, when I movedout to Las Vegas, I did the
whole like going out onto thestrip of Las Vegas on New Year's
Eve and that would be theequivalent of the New York Dick
Clark kind of ball drop thingand that was a one and done.
Glad I did it once but probablynever going to do that again.
That was way too many peopleThat'd be like my.
(21:55):
It's how I, how I felt that dayon New Year's Eve, with all
those people and being crowdedon that strip in Las Vegas, was
how I imagined being on a cruiseship.
So yeah, I'm not going to dothat again.
Yeah, it sounds terrifying, itwas terrifying.
Yeah, it sounds terrifying, itwas terrifying.
Yeah, it was terrifying.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
Who are these people out there in New York?
Do they bust those people?
Where do they come?
They're just there.
Some people I think wouldprobably actually go there on
purpose.
Speaker 1 (22:19):
That's their vacation .
They're going there, I don'tthink so.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
You know those people are all pissing all over the
street.
They are.
I mean, I'm sorry You're there.
I see you on the TV Congrats.
You're wearing crazy hats andweird glasses with numbers on
them At least when I did it inLas Vegas.
Speaker 1 (22:39):
I mean, yeah, it gets cold in Vegas.
I mean it's not.
Even though it's in the desert,it's still cold, but you're not
freezing your tail off like youwould be in New York.
I mean sometimes there it'slike snow and ice and negative
temperatures and stuff.
Like why would you want to dothat?
Like why I don't get that?
Speaker 2 (22:55):
Yeah, but the people who do it.
Speaker 1 (22:57):
They're dedicated.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Feel very strongly about it and look at us like we
are lost souls, that we wouldn'thave any interest in doing it.
And that's fine, because youcan say you did it and I sure as
hell can tell you that I cansay I never yeah, ever wanted to
do that yeah, I, I did it oncejust to say hey, I did it, but
yeah, no desire to do it againno, and and dick clark was
(23:21):
always such a joy.
Yeah, I mean, people try to fillthat void doesn't happen, it's
gotta be, yeah, gotta be.
Speaker 1 (23:29):
He was classic.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
The worst entertainment in the world,
though the worst Generally,everybody was lip syncing their
music and there was just.
It was just awful.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Yeah, awful entertainment.
Speaker 2 (23:39):
Why are we watching this?
I don't remember ever saying Ihave to watch Dick Clark's.
Speaker 1 (23:43):
New.
Speaker 2 (23:43):
Year's Rock and Eve Ball, because Belle Biv De and I
can't miss that, yeah, never,ever said those words, nope.
But going back to Rudolph, yes,because I know everybody's
waiting for Rudolph.
What the hell is up with that?
Speaker 1 (24:03):
show.
Speaker 2 (24:04):
And people still watch it.
I'm sure I have it somewherehere, you probably do.
My kids probably put it in.
I try to block it out.
Speaker 1 (24:11):
That's one of the few ones that my husband has, that
whole collection of the Rudolphand Frosty and all that.
But I don't think he has theshiny New Year one, not missing
anything.
Maybe that'll be his Christmaspresent, it's just like really
awful, awful.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
The baby New Year, oh the baby.
I don't know where the hellthis concept come from.
Okay, the baby new year, oh thebaby, I don't know where the
hell this concept come from.
Okay, fine, baby new year.
Baby new year gets.
Speaker 1 (24:35):
Maybe Jesus, I guess, needed a cousin, I guess.
Speaker 2 (24:38):
I don't know.
You can't move on to the nextyear without a baby.
And this baby was wearing a tophat all the time and just a
diaper.
I don't know what the hell lookthat is Chippendales.
I don't understand is why thebird was gonna drop dead if he
(25:07):
didn't stop the new year.
His time was up at the end.
I think that's what I'm tryingto remember.
This show now.
It was horrible.
The only thing I can tell youfor sure, people, is it is
horrible that when that kid tookhis hat off and those ears came
out those ears, nick, do it,those ears, yeah.
And that that's how the.
Actually the bird was worriedabout dying because if the new
(25:30):
year came he was dead anyhow.
He flippin fell off themountain and died anyhow because
the.
Is that how he died?
I can't remember, I'm notwatching it not watching it.
People write in tell me how,this damn thing what?
Speaker 1 (25:41):
what is up with all these things dying, in these
things we have, you know, thetragic death of frosty melting
and terror for the little karenyeah, that was horrible because
it's just it is.
Speaker 2 (25:54):
We have to be taught especially our generation had to
be taught at an early age thatit's gonna happen.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
I guess, I don't know .
Speaker 2 (26:01):
It's horrifying, you know, yeah, these things, maybe
we thought too much in it.
I'm sure I hate ruining it foryou people out there but I'm
sure there are people out therethat are just like you know,
chrissy, we just sat and watchedthe stuff it's lovely love.
We love the music, we love thestory, we loved rudolph and
frosty and we got the plushiesand the blankets and you know,
(26:25):
sit by the tree and enjoy hotchocolate, drink it out of a
frosty or rudolph mug, andthat's all fine and well.
But I was sitting therethinking shit's going down
people, this is not good.
But you could sit there withthat smile on your face.
But I'm reading between thelines here and they're prepping
us for something awful the yearto come the year to come.
Speaker 1 (26:46):
That's right, and so, yeah, very, very did you ever
get to go to any like New Year'sparties or anything like, as
you got older, when you didn'thave to be watched by Millie?
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Yeah, finally they got me to get dolled up.
I only remember one.
I don't even know that you andI have ever gone to.
We've gone to friends houses.
Speaker 1 (27:06):
Yeah, and we've had people yeah.
Speaker 2 (27:08):
For New Year's Not often, but once in a while, and
that's all well and good and Ithink a lot, I think a majority
of people probably do that.
But one year I do remember wegot tickets to go to one of the
halls social halls in our areafor New Year's and provided you
with you know, like your drinksand the food.
(27:28):
And you had dancing.
Speaker 1 (27:30):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (27:30):
I was still below underage.
It was when I was in highschool.
Speaker 1 (27:34):
I was just going to say middle school, high school.
Speaker 2 (27:36):
Yeah, I think it was like 15, I think Okay, in fact.
Well, no, you know me on memory.
I can tell you exactly what itwas December 31st 1987.
Why am I pretending I didn'tknow exactly when this nightmare
happened?
So this is right about when wemet nightmare.
So this is right about when wemet.
Yes, okay, it would have beenmy sophomore year.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Yeah, we must not have been buddy buddies yet,
because I didn't get a ticket togo with you that night well, I
think we were friends becausethat was right after we went to
that dance oh yeah, together.
Okay, so maybe I wasn't allowedto go with you anyway.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
So tell us about this party, believe me I probably
knew it was going to be anightmare from the moment it was
scheduled.
It wasn't good, but just myjust the hostility of my father.
I'm betting he might have beenmad that he had to do this
because he was a Freemason.
Yes, and they might have beenhaving some sort of gathering.
(28:27):
Oh, they were having their own.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Thing.
Speaker 2 (28:29):
Well, I don't know that they actually had like for
Freemasons like a New Year'sthing, but he had his friends in
that organization and heenjoyed doing things with them
very much and somebody might'vebeen having a get together
Somehow.
Either he thought it was a goodidea to do this and then second
guessed himself, or somebodymade him feel like he should do
this.
Speaker 1 (28:48):
Your mom trumped him and said no, you're going to do
this.
Yeah, we're going to do thefamily thing.
I want to go dancing New Year'sEve.
You're coming?
Speaker 2 (28:55):
Pulled the mom card Might have Wife card, something,
but big mistake, because thenmy father just harbors hostility
through the whole thing andit's just a buildup to when he's
going to explode.
And eventually he did.
He complained about food,alcohol, both.
It turned into a big shit showand I just remember I was
miserable and I think I leftwith my one sister and she snuck
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me into a bar.
Speaker 1 (29:23):
So you left that and then you went to a bar with your
sister and her husband and herhusband.
Speaker 2 (29:30):
And she's a piece.
It was a neighborhood dive.
I could probably even name nameit, but I'm not going to yeah,
please don't I don't want to andit's not there anymore anyhow
okay it was just a neighborhooddive bar yeah, I only went to
one.
Speaker 1 (29:46):
Oh well, my husband and I, when we first moved back
here to ohio back in 2013, wewere friends with a couple and
they wanted to do go to thoseplaces like, like you said,
rental hall and everything so wewent to a couple of them, but
my husband doesn't like to dance, so he will sit and watch me
dance and everyone else, but hedoesn't want to go up and dance.
So, you know, it was nice forthe food and the camaraderie and
(30:07):
again, it was nice to check itoff that bucket list and say
we've done that.
But yeah, no, not my thing.
New Year's Eve, usually in bedby about nine, smart.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
That's the smart thing to do, and most I do talk
to a lot of people with NewYear's.
They would prefer just to beasleep.
Yeah, and let me tell you, NewYear's is, in my opinion again,
here comes my opinion the mostdepressing day of the year.
It's not your birthday, Forgetthat birthday thing, Everybody
gets oh, I'm getting a yearolder.
I'm so depressed I can'tbelieve it.
(30:36):
Oh my God, yeah, New Year's,that clock ticks over.
Really, it is like the countdownto death Again here, with the
death.
I'm here to ruin every holidayfor everyone out there.
But it is you count down?
Yeah, but it is you count down?
Yeah.
Now you're in another year.
What's gonna happen this year?
Am I gonna drop dead this year?
I don't know what the hell.
(30:57):
It's a whole new year.
I'm terrified, it's awful.
Speaker 1 (30:59):
There's no hope of oh , this is gonna be the year that
we do something great orfabulous or whatever.
No, it's all death anddamnation yes do you have?
Speaker 2 (31:11):
thoughts like that yes, not if doesn't.
No, you're on the other end,yes, you're like this is gonna
be my year it is, things aregonna happen.
Speaker 1 (31:22):
Usually the year before was so shitty it's like
next year has to be better thisyear.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
But see, the year before that you were sitting on
new year's eve that year beforesaying this is gonna be.
And now you just told me theyear was that.
You were sitting on New Year'sEve that year before saying this
is going to be, and now youjust told me the year was shitty
.
I know.
Speaker 1 (31:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:38):
You might as well just prepare yourself.
You're lying, look.
I want everybody to havefantastic upcoming years.
I want to have a fantasticupcoming year Already.
I'm on track to have afantastic upcoming year Already.
I'm on track to have afantastic upcoming year because
I am with my friend andhopefully I'm entertaining all
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of you out there.
Speaker 1 (32:02):
See, there it is.
There's your ray of light.
Speaker 2 (32:04):
So maybe, yay, I've rubbed off on you.
2025 is going to be that oneyear where I can maybe sit there
for a second and say, huh, nah,oh, chrissy, but I love the
fact that you guys have gone out.
You partied hard, you had agreat time, you wore the crazy
hats and blew all the confettiall over the place.
(32:25):
Nobody's going to clean thatshit up.
I mean, you know.
Speaker 1 (32:27):
Here's my biggest beef.
I think with New Year's, it'sthe people shooting the guns.
Now, my biggest beef, I thinkwith New Year's, it's the people
shooting the guns Now.
You see, when we were in LasVegas, we experienced this a
little bit more than here backeast, but in Las Vegas it's.
This is like this phenomenonthese holidays, especially on
New Year's Eve to oh, new Year'sEve, let's everybody go outside
(32:49):
and shoot our gun straight upinto the air, and I'm sorry,
what goes up must come down.
Where are those bullets comingdown at, you know?
Okay, great, Now I'm completelyfreaked out.
Speaker 2 (32:59):
But it's weird you say that because, yes, actually
when I was very little, someparent would stay home.
Maybe they just weren't goingout yet or they didn't make
plans that night.
But when I was very little, Ido remember my father taking me
in the stroke of midnight, goingout and standing on the porch
to hear the chaos.
Oh, okay, and it was gunfire.
(33:20):
Yeah, and it was.
But if you know where we'refrom, I mean that was right,
that could be any night.
It was comforting.
It was comforting, well, butnow you're telling me stuff's
coming down.
Well, yeah, what goes up mustcome down.
Speaker 1 (33:32):
And so I do remember there were a couple years living
in Las Vegas and just dread NewYear's Eve or July 4th was
another one because I was soworried about this and
especially the one place that welived in.
I literally slept on the floorbecause I was afraid of stray
bullets coming through the housebecause everyone, all these
people just outside justshooting around, you know, this
(33:54):
was in Vegas, this was in Vegas,yeah, Wow.
So you know houses are closertogether, you know like you're
on top of each other andeverything, but I wouldn't go
outside on New Year's Eve tocelebrate or whatever, because
I'm like no, there's straybullets people.
Speaker 2 (34:08):
So yes, no ordinances against that.
Oh yeah, there's ordinances,but nobody's paying attention.
Speaker 1 (34:13):
How are you going to enforce that?
I mean, like you got 100,000people or whatever, whatever the
population is, but you got allthese people shooting.
There's no way they can.
I mean, I know here inYoungstown, maybe here in the
area that we live in, they havethat thing called shots fired.
Speaker 2 (34:38):
And if you fire a gun there, it tells you kind of the
exact location the policerespond.
But we didn't have that there,but still, yeah, it's just it's
a crazy town.
That is crazy.
Yeah, I understand, people wantto celebrate fireworks would
achieve the same thing exactly.
Speaker 1 (34:44):
Yeah, I mean, and they're illegal too.
At least you know, at least outwest, they were because of the
fire hazard.
But I would much rather have afirework going off and look at
something pretty than hearsomething go off and then have
to worry of coming through myhouse.
Speaker 2 (34:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:56):
Yeah, so no, not a big fan of it.
Speaker 2 (34:59):
Well, I mean I can totally get it.
So then you get through the newyear.
Speaker 1 (35:06):
Yep.
And now?
What do we got to look forwardto?
What's coming up next for us?
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Well, January through March and my whole thing was
just depressing Right.
And that's usually when theweather showed up that you
wanted to have for Christmas.
Yeah, this is true, and you'relike, but I'm so not interested
in this now.
Right, no, you'd really justrather go into like 60 degree,
70 degree.
Speaker 1 (35:27):
I guess when you're out west you kind of are there,
but yeah, I'm not lookingforward to the next three months
of snow and slush and ice andmelt and rain, and then you know
, rinse and repeat Same thingover in cold weather.
No, I'm not looking forward toit.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
When's?
Speaker 1 (35:42):
the next vacation.
I think I got one coming up toget away from all this.
I need another one.
Speaker 2 (35:46):
I'm sure you do.
I have Let me think Is thereanything coming up on TV I might
want to watch?
I don't know.
That's my whole thing.
I'm just waiting for somethinggood to show up on TV?
Speaker 1 (35:55):
Yeah, because right now we're in the lull even on TV
shows.
You know things are on break,so they got to wait till they
come back.
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Yeah, I'm old school.
The season started in like withthe school.
Yes yes, that was seasons.
They have seasons for shows.
Speaker 1 (36:10):
It's so weird.
Well, so the one thing I bestget going then is I need to go
start running, because I gotthat marathon to run.
Speaker 2 (36:20):
I better go get my ass in shape and I guess, yeah,
I mean God love you, god loveyou.
No, the running.
I know some other people familyand some friends who also post.
They are very involved with therunning and marathons and they
all look very happy.
They're like happy.
Speaker 1 (36:41):
I know Smiling.
It's one of those things thatwhen you finish it's like, oh my
gosh, I'm not going to do thisagain.
But then, at the same time,you're so elated and happy and
the next morning you findyourself back on trying to find
something else to sign up for.
Speaker 2 (36:58):
But whatever, wow so.
But this year I have a littledifferent motivation.
So well, I appreciate that.
That is lovely, and I am yournumber one fan.
I need a shirt with your nameon it.
Speaker 1 (37:03):
I'll wear a sandwich board.
I'll wear a sandwich.
I'll wear a dysfunction junkieshirt when I run that's the best
one to wear so.
So, yeah, all right, junkies.
Well, happy New Year.
Please make sure to check outour Facebook page and maybe give
us what your New Year'sresolutions are.
Do you look at the new year assomething to look forward to for
(37:23):
great things to come?
Are you about gloom and despair?
So, are you a Chrissy?
Are you a Carrie?
Speaker 2 (37:28):
That's right, you are you.
Speaker 1 (37:39):
That's perfect way to put it, and I like the fact
that I am part of the gloom anddespair group.
Speaker 2 (37:41):
I will rep that all the way.
Well, you're wearing a blackt-shirt right now, so you're
good to go.
I am yeah, so yeah, and we are.
One thing we are lookingforward to is 2025 and our
junkies and growing our familyand keeping our family laughing,
yes, and keeping you in yoursafe place.
Speaker 1 (37:54):
Yes, absolutely All right, Junkies, we'll see you
next week.
Happy New Year.
Speaker 2 (37:58):
Happy New Year.
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