August 27, 2025 • 32 mins
The transition from summer to fall brings with it a wave of nostalgia, especially for those of us who remember the distinct rituals that marked the back-to-school season of decades past. In the latest episode of Dysfunction Junkies podcast, hosts Chrisy and Kerry take listeners on a journey through their memories of this bittersweet seasonal shift, revealing both universal experiences and uniquely personal moments that defined their school years.
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DJ Nick (00:07):
Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies podcast.
We may not have seen it all,but we've seen enough.
Now here are your hosts, Chrisyand Kerry.
Kerry (00:20):
Hello Junkies, I'm Kerry
Chrisy (00:22):
and I'm Chrissy.
Kerry (00:23):
Oh, I can't believe it's the end of summer already.
It always comes around.
I know it took us forever toget here, though.
We had cold weather andtorrential rain until June and
then June.
I don't know where did June go?
July was nice.
It was warm, I liked it.
Yeah, and now here we are at theend of August, Yep, Back to
(00:46):
school, Back to school.
I don't really get toexperience this much right now
because you know mygrandchildren live far away and
they're still in.
You know first grade Right, Notin school yet.
You know Gracie's still not inschool yet.
This is real life for you.
Chrisy (01:01):
Yeah, and well, kids are older, but back to school.
They still got to do theshopping for the supplies, for
the clothes.
Yeah, but I tell you not likewhen we had our back to school
the fact that you go out theschools, publish lists of what
you need.
We pretty much got what wewanted.
(01:24):
Yeah, we kind of knew what wewere expected to have for the
most part, but did you?
Kerry (01:29):
have this Because, you know, I went to a Catholic
school, you went to a Catholicgrade school, so, but we were
two different schools, so Idon't know if it was something
that all the schools did or ifit was unique to ours, but I
remember before school started,like maybe two weeks before
school started, like maybe twoweeks before school started we
would go to the school and wewould go into, like whatever,
their auditorium or whatever,and they basically had all the
(01:52):
school supplies there and youwent around the room okay, you
have to pick your school crate.
You know that you had like thatcrayon box, that cardboard box
that was your pencil box, andyou would get, okay, you need
one eraser and you need a redpen or a pencil or whatever.
And you would go around andthen you, you were buying them,
(02:13):
but it was all right there, soyou didn't have to go to well,
hills, we didn't have walmart's,then we had hills or whatever.
Chrisy (02:19):
But it's like, yeah, you know.
Kerry (02:21):
so it was all right there and you just went around and
you picked there.
Chrisy (02:25):
I feel like this was something maybe, but it wasn't
like before school, but maybe atsome point they did have
something like this.
But yeah, I don't reallyremember getting that
opportunity prior to schoolstarting.
Kerry (02:39):
I just basically kind of remember doing the Hills thing
or the Kmart thing or and thiswould have been the same time
that you would have gotten like,because we had uniforms.
So I think that was the day youpicked up the uniforms.
So, like your uniforms, yourparents probably ordered a month
ahead, but you went that day topick up your jumper or your
(02:59):
skirt or whatever.
And then, you know you, you hadto provide your own blouse or
whatever, but you picked that up, so it was like all the same
day.
And then that's where you gotyour teacher list of oh, here's
the teacher you're going to haveand this is the classroom
you're going to be in, and thenthe parents would take you to
that classroom and you wouldmeet the teacher that you know.
Of course, we we had basicallyone teacher.
(03:20):
You were in that one classroomall day, right with one teacher.
Maybe you switched anotherperson, but yeah, that's that
was my room that was my remember.
And then when you went to thedepartment store or whatever,
you were getting your clothes,other clothes like your shoes or
your blouses, maybe.
Maybe you got a trapper keeper,yeah, which pick up extra paper
(03:44):
or something.
But wasn't a lot of schoolsupplies shopping in my younger
years that you did that at theschool?
Chrisy (03:50):
going to junior high or high school.
You know more serious stuff, Iguess notebooks and things of
that nature.
Uniforms, because I did both.
Yeah, I like uniforms.
(04:12):
Oh, I love a uniform.
And you know I had theopportunity for three years to.
I went to public school and youhad to pick your clothes.
And it's just horrible in myopinion and plus, the time
period in general for fashionwas horrible.
We're talking 85, 86, and theend of the role, no, the
(04:34):
beginning of 87, I guess, andacid wash.
Not that that was still a thingwhen we were in high school,
but I had a uniform so I didn'thave to worry about it as much.
Yeah, just those stretchy pants.
Kerry (04:46):
They were just not flattering on anybody With the
stirrup strap.
Chrisy (04:51):
Well, no, actually before the stirrup because that
would have been more when wewere in high school.
I don't really remember them injunior high, but they were just
like stretchy pants and justlike not flattering and it's
just like not flattering and asa teenage girl early teenage
girl, when you're 13 or 14, youkind of already feel you know,
unless you're lucky enough to bea stick which I wasn't.
(05:13):
The pants I don't care howreally thin or whatever you were
, they just made you feel evenmore dumpier.
DJ Nick (05:21):
I'm sorry.
Chrisy (05:21):
They're like dumpy pants .
You know what am I wearingthese for?
Yeah, Almost.
I guess like they would bethought of as pajama pants, but
they were not.
Yeah, Nobody wore pajamaJogging pants, kind of like.
It's so funny.
I had such a problem with mydaughter Specifically.
It seemed like it was more of athing for her and maybe they
still do this, but I have a realproblem with they would have
(05:42):
pajama day at school and mydaughter.
Kerry (05:46):
I don't think we ever had that at our school.
No.
Chrisy (05:49):
And I never understood why this was something you felt
you should have your students do.
Yeah, how does that preparethem for the real world?
Well, it's terrible, because Ithink it has.
If you've been out in public,obviously it's prepared somebody
because they're making choicesof wearing this stuff out while
(06:10):
shopping, which I'm sorry, I'mjust.
DJ Nick (06:12):
I don't agree with it.
I don't.
I think.
Chrisy (06:15):
No, no, no.
You're not if you're notwearing it on the job, if you
have a job.
I think the last person who Iknow wore pajamas to his job all
the time was Hugh Hefner, andthat's fine.
Hey, who's going to argue withthat?
DJ Nick (06:32):
I'm not offended by Hugh when he was wearing his
pajamas.
Chrisy (06:35):
That's what he did, I mean, the guy probably spent
more on his pajamas than I everspend on any piece of clothing.
Silk and lovely, and he had animage and that's fine.
But no, I didn't agree withthat at all.
So back to school.
Shopping was always fun.
Kerry (06:50):
Yeah, it was fun for us because, you know, not having a
lot of money, the back to schoolshopping was the one time we
would get to buy a coupleoutfits.
You know.
Granted, those outfits was forpretty much the year.
That had to last us throughEaster, you know, until maybe we
got a couple more for thesummer.
But yeah, so that was kind offun.
But yeah, just, I remember thisthing.
(07:11):
I never really thought about ituntil we started talking about,
but I also remember in ourschool that there was, they had
a, it was like a little staplesstore in there, you know, and
you could go buy constructionpaper and you can buy so at your
grade school?
yeah, at our grade school it waslike this little closet room
and there was one lady that shesat in there and if you needed a
(07:32):
pencil or if you need an eraser, if you needed a two-pocket
folder, there was this verylittle room.
I mean it was like the size ofa little closet.
Chrisy (07:40):
But yeah, I remember that at our school well, I
didn't have that at my gradeschool, but we had that at high
school in the cafeteria.
Kerry (07:47):
We had that, but they sold also like T-shirts and
sweatshirts, yeah it was likestuff, but they had pencils.
Did they really?
Chrisy (07:55):
Yeah, they had like little things like that, I think
you could get, or maybe a full.
I feel like maybe it was a highschool with the emblem on it
folder.
It was called something cottage.
Was it the Irish?
Kerry (08:06):
cottage, irish cottage.
You're right, and it was in ourcafeteria.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chrisy (08:10):
And I tell you one thing about our high school.
What's that?
Our cafeteria was very, verybig.
It was big, it was a reallygood sized cafeteria.
It was Because when I was atpublic school, they had like six
different lunches because thecafeteria was small.
Yeah, we only had two.
Yeah, we did.
Yep, you were either in.
What was it?
(08:30):
A or c?
What happened to b?
I don't know.
I don't remember them eversaying you're in lunch b.
Kerry (08:33):
It was either you're in lunch a or lunch c.
You're right, that is true,because I think the lunch was
less time than a full class,because they you either had an
11 30 or a 12 30 or something.
There was something about that.
Chrisy (08:46):
Well, I think they had to prepare for the next group to
come in to clean up the tables,and then yeah so you had to go
and hover about in the lobby.
Remember, everybody went to thelobby yeah, you're right and
sort of milled about until wewere allowed to be released into
our next class.
So yeah, because we would eat,yeah, and then we would go to
the lobby.
(09:06):
We were never, we didn't gooutside.
Kerry (09:09):
Hardly ever.
Chrisy (09:10):
I don't remember ever going outside for lunch.
Kerry (09:12):
No, you could go outside, but I think just because the
weather was so crappy, really, Iknow.
Chrisy (09:17):
Geez, I was like I ain't going outside.
Kerry (09:19):
Yeah, I'll just stay right here.
Chrisy (09:20):
No, I remember we had lunch together the one year, yes
, and we would sit together, ofcourse, and my lunch always had
the same exact thing they usedto make those no-bake peanut
butter with the chocolate on topsquares.
Oh those were good, they werereally good.
(09:40):
I've never been able to findanything that tasted like that.
Kerry (09:44):
I wonder if they still serve it.
I don't know if they do, let'sgo down there in September and
see what they got going on.
Chrisy (09:50):
We'll go get in the cafeteria line.
Well, you remember, because wewere very lucky, we had a
caterer that managed the kitchenat Ursuline.
How do you know this stuff?
Well, because it was food firstof all.
You know, I'm on board withthat.
Kerry (10:05):
We had a caterer.
Chrisy (10:07):
They didn't have a cafeteria cook that cooked the
food.
Well, he oversaw the cafeteriafood, though.
We were really very lucky.
I don't know where Mr Fusillois anymore.
Kerry (10:17):
Oh, that was the person you oversaw.
Chrisy (10:18):
Yeah, and he was a caterer also, so I tell you they
didn't.
And Thursdays, I think, waspasta day and everybody was
running for that cafeteriabecause you needed to get in
line.
It was good.
Kerry (10:41):
It was good I was given a roll of quarters for two weeks.
A roll of quarters was my lunchmoney that I had to make for
two weeks.
So whatever, if I wanted thathad to last me.
Chrisy (10:47):
No wonder we were eating this the squares, and I think I
remember we had an orange drink.
But thursdays I rememberparticipating in lunch.
Kerry (10:55):
I didn't always eat the full thing.
It was usually just somethingsmall because I had to make that
last, but I forget what it was.
There was something that Ialways would get because I
really liked it.
Chrisy (11:05):
I don't know I think they used to do taco type oh,
that might have been it, yeahbut thursdays.
But if I got the full meal.
Kerry (11:12):
That usually meant three days out of the 10 that I didn't
have a lunch.
I had to bring something, or Ijust didn't eat.
Chrisy (11:18):
Again, Carrie's bringing up something where I just have
no concept of this.
It makes me feel so bad.
So wow, yeah.
Kerry (11:28):
I can't believe you don't remember me with my little roll
of quarters.
You know this roll of quarters.
Chrisy (11:32):
Like it wasn't even a bill.
It was like a roll of quarters.
It was roll of quarters, likeit wasn't even a bill.
It was like a roll of quarters.
I wasn't concerned, I waseating.
I probably sat down with mywhole meal and you were eating
the flipping chocolate square.
I was probably done eatingbecause I was like what's the
matter, carrie, aren't youeating?
Look at this, you want some Yum, yum.
Kerry (11:54):
So yes, Around here because you know well well, we
have the camfield fair in ourarea, gosh I forgot about that
yeah, so back to school alwaysmeant the camfield fair.
So camfield fair is like thelargest county fair, not only in
the state of ohio but I thinkit was like one of the largest
ones east of the mississippi.
(12:14):
Now it's gotten mean, obviouslythe property size is the same
but there's not as much there asthere used to be.
But that was kind ofinteresting because we always
started school the week of thefair, so Labor Day.
The Canfield Fair is always onthe Labor Day weekend, so it was
always like the week before ortwo weeks before or whatever.
But I always missed it becauseI would be showing at the fair.
(12:36):
So it was always a struggle oflike school starting and missing
a day, the most missing thosefirst few days of school because
I'd be at the fair.
Now I know that some of theschools would purposely wait to
start until after the fairbecause all the kids were in 4-h
or whatever.
So at urslan, because we were,it was a city school.
(12:57):
That was always a hard thingbecause we would start during
the fair, so I would often missthose first few days of school?
Chrisy (13:02):
I seem to, because I did both public and private school.
The Catholic school seemed toalways start before Labor Day.
Kerry (13:09):
Oh, yes, because they got to get the football season.
Chrisy (13:11):
So it was usually that week before Right, and when I
was in the public school systemyou went the Tuesday after Labor
Day.
That was your first day.
Yes so that's sort of likewhere I noticed the difference
with that.
Yeah, you know what.
Just to tell you about where Ilive now here in Worcester and
their fair, which Nick remind methat's the largest agricultural
(13:35):
fair in the state.
DJ Nick (13:38):
Yeah, it has some distinction.
Obviously it's not as big asthe Canfield Fair, but something
about the agricultural aspect.
Kerry (13:44):
Right, because Wayne County has a lot of agriculture,
Right right.
Yeah, so the Canfield Fair hadagriculture, but they also had
vendors, and you know theproperty size.
I mean it's just rows and rowsof food.
Chrisy (13:58):
Yeah, no, I think that with the Wayne County Fair here,
I can see that a lot of peopledo come here and appreciate it
for that aspect, and the thingthat they do here for their
children who are involved in 4-His they.
I think that even they go backpretty early for school here.
Kerry (14:18):
But I take a break for that.
Chrisy (14:19):
They have like two days off, yeah, so those children can
participate in their 4-H.
That's awesome.
So Gotta support that.
Kerry (14:27):
So any other Labor Day weekend specialties?
You guys got something specialon Labor Day weekend.
Well, we got married, yeah.
Chrisy (14:36):
And then it's a good time to get married.
I don't know that it's a realpopular time because a lot of
people look for spring or fallweddings and that's sort of the
end of summer.
Kerry (14:45):
But did you do that for the convenience of if people
were coming, they would be ableto get time off because it was a
holiday weekend?
Chrisy (14:51):
No, we ended up moving it a few times because, well, we
were both still in college,because, we got married we were
both still 21.
And you know my dad, if youlisten to our Valentine's
episode, wanted to make sureNick finished college.
Kerry (15:06):
Hey, that Valentine's episode is the number one
episode for us and I love it.
It's great.
I am so glad people areenjoying it.
Chrisy (15:13):
So we basically decided originally I think our wedding
was going to be like.
At one point it was going to belike at the end of April.
Then we moved it up to the yearbefore, in October, because we
wanted to have the fall aspectto it.
But then, because of theuniversity we went to in
Youngstown, they were still onquarters, yeah, and quarters
(15:36):
generally started the end ofSeptember and we didn't want to
have to miss a whole quarter.
So we felt we could get marriedin early September, have a
chance to go away on a honeymoonand be back in time to start
that quarter, which we did.
Kerry (15:54):
So, yeah, we did so.
Yeah, we did that.
Chrisy (15:56):
I feel like it was like always september 20th or
september 21st, like aroundthere, that the ysu would start
absolutely absolutely so and Ithink the other thing we might
want to touch on that probably alot of people don't have any
concept of but it defined ourlabor day.
Kerry (16:10):
it did the jerry lewis Find our Labor Day?
It did.
Chrisy (16:14):
The Jerry Lewis Telethon .
Kerry (16:16):
Yes and boy I tell you that was amazing.
Chrisy (16:20):
It was like between the fair that you mentioned,
canfield Fair, and they had atent.
They did have a tent there.
Kerry (16:28):
For that yeah.
Chrisy (16:29):
And you would want to go out there and if you made a
donation or they'd have likelocal TV personalities manning
the tent, you wanted to try andget on TV.
Yep, and the other place to goif you wanted to get noticed for
the Jerry Lewis telethon wasthe mall.
Oh yeah, you're right.
Kerry (16:49):
They had a thing at the mall.
Chrisy (16:50):
Yes, yes, yes so you ran out to the mall or you ran out
to yes, yes, it shows.
Kerry (16:56):
So you ran out to the mall, or you ran out to, so we
might want to actually explainwhat the telethon was, because
there might be listeners whohave no idea what this is about.
Chrisy (17:04):
Well, I tell you it's funny because it was such a big
deal and it was every year and Idon't know how long that
telethon ran, but it's probablybeen gone for 30 years.
I don't even know how long it'sbeen gone.
Kerry (17:14):
Maybe not that long you don't think they still do it.
I'm going to Google that?
Chrisy (17:17):
No, I don't.
I don't think so.
Not that they don't still raisemoney.
Kerry (17:21):
It was basically telemarketing in the very early
ages Kind of, or like online.
What do you QVC?
Chrisy (17:36):
Kind of like call-in shopping, but you're making a
donation, but it was also yeah.
DJ Nick (17:38):
Yeah, I mean, they provided entertainment.
I guess, by definition, what atelethon is?
It started in 1966 oh, youfound it okay.
And actually it ended in 2014.
That was the last jerry lewisoh 66 to 14 now they may do
other ones, but the one that wasspecific to jerry lewis, you
know, for muscular dystrophy, itran from 1966 to 2014.
Chrisy (17:56):
Wow, and it had a specific formula yes it went for
24 hours straight.
And remember we're talkingabout when television carrie
brought this up to remind me,because at that time tv did stop
.
Yep, after midnight there wasno more programming.
You had your national anthemand then, and then you usually
(18:19):
had a little blonde girl sittingin front of the tv that said
they're here.
Oh no wait, I'm sorry wrong,wrong.
Kerry (18:28):
No, it was the gray white noise static yeah, which freaks
me out.
Chrisy (18:33):
Even that sound, you're not.
Even just the fact that you'remaking the sound is freaking me
out.
I was causing you to gettremors.
I just hear the sound, I think,of the image, but yeah, so Jerry
was on.
Generally Jerry was like takinghis break, though I don't know
how often he came out in themiddle of the night.
You generally didn't get your.
(18:54):
I hate to be insulting, but Imean your top notch entertainers
weren't going to get the threeo'clock in the morning slot.
No, they were going to get goodbilling time Right.
They were going to be on atprime viewing times and you had,
you know, the whole Rat Packthing you know, and one of the
big things which, even though Idon't really I'm not a big Jerry
(19:18):
Lewis fan, I love Jerry.
Lewis.
Do I think he was funny?
Yes, did I appreciate some ofhis movies?
Sure, but the fact is, I'm sureall the stuff that's come out
about him and his personalityand the way he treated other
people, especially women, Ithink that was probably true.
So in that sense, personally Ijust don't appreciate him.
(19:39):
But I do appreciate the man'scraft.
I know he was responsible fordeveloping a specific type of
camera.
Oh really, yes, he was infilmmaking.
I mean, the guy was definitelyimportant and talented.
But what I was getting at wasthere was one time because and
again, I'm dating myself andpeople are like who are these
people you're talking about?
Back in the day, before even us, there was Jerry Lewis and Dean
(20:04):
Martin.
They were a comedy team Yep,and I guess they were a really
big deal.
By the time we had come on thescene they had already been
broken up for quite a while.
Kerry (20:14):
I love watching those old movies with them too.
Chrisy (20:17):
Well, they just were.
You know, Jerry was the cut upand Dean played the straight man
.
I think Dean eventually gotsick of being the straight guy,
but I'm sure there were otherreasons Dean was more associated
with what they called the ratpack.
Don't get that confused withthe brat pack.
Not them.
Not molly ringwald it was.
It was the rat pack.
(20:38):
So it was dean martin, franksinatra, sammy davis, jr, joey
bishop and peter lawford howabout that?
that's pretty impressive,christy and peter lawford was
married to a Kennedy, by the way, want to let that be out there,
go ahead.
DJ Nick (20:55):
What were you going to say?
Nick scoot in, so I found your.
He did.
He was a pioneer in using videoassist technology in filmmaking
, which basically means it's youwould be, you would as you were
filming.
You were also recording scenesusing both film and video
cameras.
And what it did is it enabledimmediate feedback on captured
footage.
Chrisy (21:13):
That's cool.
DJ Nick (21:14):
So that was Jerry Lewis's contribution.
Chrisy (21:16):
One of them.
DJ Nick (21:17):
I don't know that he invented, invented, but he was
one of the first, or pioneer,one of the early adopters of it.
Chrisy (21:24):
So, yes, so very important in pop culture, very
important in motion pictures andcomedy, and what he did for
muscular dystrophy, you cannotdeny him any of that.
Kerry (21:38):
But that definitely marked Labor Day weekend.
Chrisy (21:41):
The Jerry Lewis telethon yes it was everything, so yeah,
and yeah, I mean, oh my, mygosh, if I even try to pull up
something from that it wouldtake me so back to my childhood
oh 100 and just you know and Ithink you would call in donation
yeah even if it was a littlebit, just because you wanted
(22:02):
somebody to say your name youwanted to hear it on tv,
remember, ed mcmahon you, thenyou would sit there and you'd
wait for them to tell you howmuch they've raised.
Yeah, ed mcm McMahon.
Yeah, what was this?
Didn't they have a saying thatwhen they told them to show the
money, there was a saying theyused to say to Ed, you know.
Yeah, I don't know, I don'tremember what the saying was oh
crap Just a total.
Kerry (22:21):
Oh yeah, but to try to do you wanted so bad.
So you know what?
I don't remember, because youknow, really, credit cards and
that kind of stuff, like was Imean, how did they do that then?
Were you just calling in apledge and you were sending in a
check?
Yeah, I think you pledged.
You pledged it and you sent acheck.
It's not like they were takingI mean, in later years I'm sure
they were taking credit cards-and stuff.
Chrisy (22:42):
But in the beginning that no.
And I think that they did havea lot of people that reneged who
would just do it to hear theirname and didn't get the money.
No, Come on, that's kind oflousy everybody.
I mean they were willing totake whatever to help that cause
out Right.
But I know that that wasdefinitely a thing that was done
.
Kerry (23:01):
I wonder how many checks bounced.
Chrisy (23:04):
Well, I don't know that they bounce, they probably just
never mailed them out.
Kerry (23:08):
Oh, I'm sure they had some bouncers too.
Yeah, I'm going to send you $1million.
Chrisy (23:14):
Well, that's real extreme.
So yeah, I'm trying to think.
Kerry (23:19):
Was there anything else that we did before back to
school?
Well, you know, it was always.
For me it was always bandnights.
Oh, that was a big thing forback to school, because you know
your, your band, that you knowyour school band, your high
school band.
You would, you know, spend amonth of your summer learning
your routine, and then all thebands would get together.
You would just have a bandnight, and it was just a night
where it was all the differentschools you know, have 10
(23:41):
different schools and they wouldjust do their halftime
performance, and so it gave youa chance to it, gave the kids a
chance to practice it before thefootball game started or
whatever.
So, right, that was alwayssomething that we that.
It was a big marker, whether Iwas performing in the bands or
before I was old enough to be in, and my mom would always like
to go that so we would go toband nights.
(24:02):
So, yeah, so I will have to saythere is a little part of me
that you know it's about nowthat we're starting to hear the
schools, their bands are havingband camp and are practicing,
and so sometimes even at lunchat work, because where I work,
the high school is just a blockdown the road.
You know, if I go outside atlunchtime I might hear the
drummers or you might hear youknow, and so it always kind of
is a little exciting, like oh,they're practicing, and to hear
(24:27):
that, that that was kind of abig thing for us.
Chrisy (24:30):
Well, the one thing I do remember, which brought sadness
, because it was the end ofsummer, the end of your freedom
no school and all the summer funyou were having with swimming,
like for us or whatever wasthere was that weird silence
that started to come over theneighborhood Because I think
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kids were going and gettingstarted with their school
extracurricular activities likeband or sports.
So they weren't really runningaround the neighborhood as much.
And the other thing I rememberabout just that weird quiet that
started to happen in August andinto early September was you
heard the crickets?
DJ Nick (25:11):
get louder in the evening.
Chrisy (25:13):
And that meant you know cold weather was coming and
summer was going to end.
Kerry (25:18):
Yeah, because you do.
That was always something about.
August is the.
You'd still have your hot days,but cool nights.
And so we're already starting,you know, doing that.
Where we have the, you know,the air conditioners on during
the day, but at night time wecan sleep with the windows open.
So, yeah, there's.
That is that now.
Are they?
Are you thinking that they werecrickets?
Are they tree frogs or are theytechnical?
Chrisy (25:41):
I got busted.
I always thought they werecrickets.
They weren't barn swallows,were they?
No, no, those were birds.
What was making that noise,carrie?
I thought it was crickets.
What the hell was the noise?
Kerry (25:53):
You know, and I just had a mental block too, because
there's, but it's the tree frogsare one of them that you're
hearing, and then the other one,gosh, I can't believe I can't
remember.
Chrisy (26:02):
Where do these tree frogs come from?
How do they get in the tree?
What are you telling me?
Kerry (26:06):
The tree.
It's a frog and it lives in thetree.
How does it?
Chrisy (26:10):
get up a tree With its little sticky feet, and then it
can just like land at you.
Kerry (26:15):
Yeah, they don't usually jump on you, but they live in
the tree.
They live in the tree.
Yes, how is it?
Is it crook, crookets?
Chrisy (26:24):
What is it?
Well, I tell you, you say treefrogs.
And recently I had anexperience where this came up.
We were just socializing andsomebody had a very nice
swimming pool built-in swimmingpool.
And we were just sort of hangingaround the pool and they were
commenting.
It was at night and they werecommenting on some stuff that
was falling into the pool andthey mentioned this tree frog
(26:50):
thing, which I became horrifiedby, and they were just sort of
picking these things up andtossing them out of the pool and
I was like, is that somethingthat falls off of a tree?
But you call it that because itresembles a frog, but it's
really a leaf or no, it's a frog, it's a frog.
Kerry (27:05):
There's also cicadas.
That's probably what you'retalking about, the cicadas but I
thought there's only cicadas.
That's probably what you'retalking about the cicadas, but I
thought there's only came everyseven years or something well,
there's different species, andsome species are seven years and
something there's pretty muchalways, but the cicadas are also
something that you really willstart hearing too.
Chrisy (27:20):
That was the word I was thinking crookets those are
really creepy I know people getexcited about that and, okay,
they're very large bugs and I amfreaked out yeah, so, but the
tree frog thing is likesomething.
No but, swear.
I never heard yeah, untilrecently.
It is.
Kerry (27:39):
Uh, I'm just looking at these trying to find the other
bug identifier.
Yeah, the tree frogs, they makea lot and actually when we go
the caribbean they have them alot and it it's the weirdest
sound because it sounds likethis high pitch buzzing or
whatever and it almost soundslike it's not real, like it's a
microphone left on, like it'sbuzzing noise but, it's these
little tree frogs and they livein the plants and the trees and
(28:02):
stuff and well, now that youbring this up and you explain it
to me.
Chrisy (28:05):
I was.
I was told my husband.
He says wow, having a built-inpool is really complicated
because these little frogs justwant to jump in your pool.
But now that you're telling meand the person even said it was
a tree frog, and I didn't put ittogether that they're falling
in there, probably from the tree.
I just equated it as somethingthat just decided to jump in
your pool.
(28:26):
No, and I was like geez, I'mkind of glad I never had a
built-in pool, because I thoughtit was just too easy for them
to get into.
But we never had trees.
You didn't have trees over yourright, so it wouldn't matter if
it was above or in ground.
Kerry (28:39):
But I don't think it's so much the tree frogs that are
falling in the pool, as it iscicadas falling in the pool.
Chrisy (28:44):
I think it's more the cicadas that fall like I know
that if I saw that that's gonnabe like a person splashing down
in the water A small bomb landednext to you.
Kerry (28:57):
You know, the one part of summer that I always love is
the fireflies.
I just actually did 5k and itwas at night and it was really
neat because it was just at thattime of night where the
fireflies start coming out.
DJ Nick (29:10):
So as you're running.
Kerry (29:10):
there's all these little fireflies popping up and stuff,
but now that it's getting colderat night they're starting to go
away that means summer's ending.
Chrisy (29:18):
Yeah, july seemed to be the height for that you know,
what's sad is there, you don'tsee as many as we used to yeah
they're saying that probably inour lifetime they'll be gone
they'll be gone.
Kerry (29:29):
It's all the insecticides and stuff.
We have a lot of them at thefarm, but we also are very
organic at the farm.
Chrisy (29:34):
Right.
Kerry (29:34):
So we do have a lot, but yeah, you're right, you don't
see them like you used to.
Chrisy (29:38):
No, when we lived back in the Youngstown area we had a
ravine behind us and it was darkand we would go stand or sit
out on our deck at night.
Stand or sit out on our deck atnight, yeah it was such an
amazing sight it was likechristmas trees they would just
go off and it was quite yeahlovely to sort of watch.
Kerry (29:58):
That is how it is at our at our house at night in in the
in the summer we see some herein our backyard, but not that oh
yeah, there'll be like hundredsof them, and it's so neat
because it's almost like a lightswitch.
It's just like boom, they'rethere, there, and you don't see
them.
And then boom, you see them.
Chrisy (30:13):
Yeah, it's like a bunch of twinkle lights, it is.
Kerry (30:15):
It's really cool.
And what's funny is, you know,I got these little Papillon dogs
and they were from a breeder inCalifornia, arizona, and so
this is like a whole new worldfor them to have this yard, this
big yard and grass and stuff,and when the fireflies first
started coming out, you knowthey had never seen that, and so
they'll be.
They'll be running and they'llsee it flash and they'll run to
(30:37):
it and then it stops flashingand they're like looking around
like where'd it go?
And then it flashes another onebehind them, it's, it's.
I think it's hysterical towatch.
Well, because, yeah, they'retrying to figure this.
Chrisy (30:47):
They can't figure it out .
You know, Summer always windsdown and we have to think about
going back to school for ourkids and the summer in general
ending.
People are closing up pools,people are closing up campers
all that good stuff.
Kerry (31:05):
But we have something really to look forward to in
September.
So, as we introduced in August,we have our Junkies Care
Initiative, which is ourcommunity outreach to community
awareness, recognition andengagement.
And Canine Companions is theorganization that we are
partnering with through asponsorship to bring awareness
(31:26):
to this wonderful organizationthat provides service dogs to
people with disability, and weare going to be at their dog
fest event in September.
It's going to be September 21,in New Albany, ohio, which is
outside of Columbus area.
So if you happen to live aroundthe area that day and you want
to have something fun to do inthe afternoon between one and
four, come find us so we'regoing to have a booth there.
(31:47):
It's a great day to learn aboutCanine Companions.
You can bring your kids, bringyour pet dog on a leash to learn
about the organization.
We'll be there raising fundsfor them.
So that I will have to say, asmuch as I am sad to see summer
ending, I'm very happy thatSeptember is coming for this
event.
DJ Nick (32:03):
Yes, Very exciting.
Kerry (32:05):
All right, everybody, we'll have a safe Labor Day
weekend.
If you happen to be aroundfireworks, please be safe, duck
and cover and enjoy your holidayweekend.
Bye everybody, bye-bye.
Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies podcast.
We may not have seen it all,but we've seen enough.
Now here are your hosts, Chrisyand Kerry.
Kerry (00:20):
Hello Junkies, I'm Kerry
Chrisy (00:22):
and I'm Chrissy.
Kerry (00:23):
Oh, I can't believe it's the end of summer already.
It always comes around.
I know it took us forever toget here, though.
We had cold weather andtorrential rain until June and
then June.
I don't know where did June go?
July was nice.
It was warm, I liked it.
Yeah, and now here we are at theend of August, Yep, Back to
(00:46):
school, Back to school.
I don't really get toexperience this much right now
because you know mygrandchildren live far away and
they're still in.
You know first grade Right, Notin school yet.
You know Gracie's still not inschool yet.
This is real life for you.
Chrisy (01:01):
Yeah, and well, kids are older, but back to school.
They still got to do theshopping for the supplies, for
the clothes.
Yeah, but I tell you not likewhen we had our back to school
the fact that you go out theschools, publish lists of what
you need.
We pretty much got what wewanted.
(01:24):
Yeah, we kind of knew what wewere expected to have for the
most part, but did you?
Kerry (01:29):
have this Because, you know, I went to a Catholic
school, you went to a Catholicgrade school, so, but we were
two different schools, so Idon't know if it was something
that all the schools did or ifit was unique to ours, but I
remember before school started,like maybe two weeks before
school started, like maybe twoweeks before school started we
would go to the school and wewould go into, like whatever,
their auditorium or whatever,and they basically had all the
(01:52):
school supplies there and youwent around the room okay, you
have to pick your school crate.
You know that you had like thatcrayon box, that cardboard box
that was your pencil box, andyou would get, okay, you need
one eraser and you need a redpen or a pencil or whatever.
And you would go around andthen you, you were buying them,
(02:13):
but it was all right there, soyou didn't have to go to well,
hills, we didn't have walmart's,then we had hills or whatever.
Chrisy (02:19):
But it's like, yeah, you know.
Kerry (02:21):
so it was all right there and you just went around and
you picked there.
Chrisy (02:25):
I feel like this was something maybe, but it wasn't
like before school, but maybe atsome point they did have
something like this.
But yeah, I don't reallyremember getting that
opportunity prior to schoolstarting.
Kerry (02:39):
I just basically kind of remember doing the Hills thing
or the Kmart thing or and thiswould have been the same time
that you would have gotten like,because we had uniforms.
So I think that was the day youpicked up the uniforms.
So, like your uniforms, yourparents probably ordered a month
ahead, but you went that day topick up your jumper or your
(02:59):
skirt or whatever.
And then, you know you, you hadto provide your own blouse or
whatever, but you picked that up, so it was like all the same
day.
And then that's where you gotyour teacher list of oh, here's
the teacher you're going to haveand this is the classroom
you're going to be in, and thenthe parents would take you to
that classroom and you wouldmeet the teacher that you know.
Of course, we we had basicallyone teacher.
(03:20):
You were in that one classroomall day, right with one teacher.
Maybe you switched anotherperson, but yeah, that's that
was my room that was my remember.
And then when you went to thedepartment store or whatever,
you were getting your clothes,other clothes like your shoes or
your blouses, maybe.
Maybe you got a trapper keeper,yeah, which pick up extra paper
(03:44):
or something.
But wasn't a lot of schoolsupplies shopping in my younger
years that you did that at theschool?
Chrisy (03:50):
going to junior high or high school.
You know more serious stuff, Iguess notebooks and things of
that nature.
Uniforms, because I did both.
Yeah, I like uniforms.
(04:12):
Oh, I love a uniform.
And you know I had theopportunity for three years to.
I went to public school and youhad to pick your clothes.
And it's just horrible in myopinion and plus, the time
period in general for fashionwas horrible.
We're talking 85, 86, and theend of the role, no, the
(04:34):
beginning of 87, I guess, andacid wash.
Not that that was still a thingwhen we were in high school,
but I had a uniform so I didn'thave to worry about it as much.
Yeah, just those stretchy pants.
Kerry (04:46):
They were just not flattering on anybody With the
stirrup strap.
Chrisy (04:51):
Well, no, actually before the stirrup because that
would have been more when wewere in high school.
I don't really remember them injunior high, but they were just
like stretchy pants and justlike not flattering and it's
just like not flattering and asa teenage girl early teenage
girl, when you're 13 or 14, youkind of already feel you know,
unless you're lucky enough to bea stick which I wasn't.
(05:13):
The pants I don't care howreally thin or whatever you were
, they just made you feel evenmore dumpier.
DJ Nick (05:21):
I'm sorry.
Chrisy (05:21):
They're like dumpy pants .
You know what am I wearingthese for?
Yeah, Almost.
I guess like they would bethought of as pajama pants, but
they were not.
Yeah, Nobody wore pajamaJogging pants, kind of like.
It's so funny.
I had such a problem with mydaughter Specifically.
It seemed like it was more of athing for her and maybe they
still do this, but I have a realproblem with they would have
(05:42):
pajama day at school and mydaughter.
Kerry (05:46):
I don't think we ever had that at our school.
No.
Chrisy (05:49):
And I never understood why this was something you felt
you should have your students do.
Yeah, how does that preparethem for the real world?
Well, it's terrible, because Ithink it has.
If you've been out in public,obviously it's prepared somebody
because they're making choicesof wearing this stuff out while
(06:10):
shopping, which I'm sorry, I'mjust.
DJ Nick (06:12):
I don't agree with it.
I don't.
I think.
Chrisy (06:15):
No, no, no.
You're not if you're notwearing it on the job, if you
have a job.
I think the last person who Iknow wore pajamas to his job all
the time was Hugh Hefner, andthat's fine.
Hey, who's going to argue withthat?
DJ Nick (06:32):
I'm not offended by Hugh when he was wearing his
pajamas.
Chrisy (06:35):
That's what he did, I mean, the guy probably spent
more on his pajamas than I everspend on any piece of clothing.
Silk and lovely, and he had animage and that's fine.
But no, I didn't agree withthat at all.
So back to school.
Shopping was always fun.
Kerry (06:50):
Yeah, it was fun for us because, you know, not having a
lot of money, the back to schoolshopping was the one time we
would get to buy a coupleoutfits.
You know.
Granted, those outfits was forpretty much the year.
That had to last us throughEaster, you know, until maybe we
got a couple more for thesummer.
But yeah, so that was kind offun.
But yeah, just, I remember thisthing.
(07:11):
I never really thought about ituntil we started talking about,
but I also remember in ourschool that there was, they had
a, it was like a little staplesstore in there, you know, and
you could go buy constructionpaper and you can buy so at your
grade school?
yeah, at our grade school it waslike this little closet room
and there was one lady that shesat in there and if you needed a
(07:32):
pencil or if you need an eraser, if you needed a two-pocket
folder, there was this verylittle room.
I mean it was like the size ofa little closet.
Chrisy (07:40):
But yeah, I remember that at our school well, I
didn't have that at my gradeschool, but we had that at high
school in the cafeteria.
Kerry (07:47):
We had that, but they sold also like T-shirts and
sweatshirts, yeah it was likestuff, but they had pencils.
Did they really?
Chrisy (07:55):
Yeah, they had like little things like that, I think
you could get, or maybe a full.
I feel like maybe it was a highschool with the emblem on it
folder.
It was called something cottage.
Was it the Irish?
Kerry (08:06):
cottage, irish cottage.
You're right, and it was in ourcafeteria.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Chrisy (08:10):
And I tell you one thing about our high school.
What's that?
Our cafeteria was very, verybig.
It was big, it was a reallygood sized cafeteria.
It was Because when I was atpublic school, they had like six
different lunches because thecafeteria was small.
Yeah, we only had two.
Yeah, we did.
Yep, you were either in.
What was it?
(08:30):
A or c?
What happened to b?
I don't know.
I don't remember them eversaying you're in lunch b.
Kerry (08:33):
It was either you're in lunch a or lunch c.
You're right, that is true,because I think the lunch was
less time than a full class,because they you either had an
11 30 or a 12 30 or something.
There was something about that.
Chrisy (08:46):
Well, I think they had to prepare for the next group to
come in to clean up the tables,and then yeah so you had to go
and hover about in the lobby.
Remember, everybody went to thelobby yeah, you're right and
sort of milled about until wewere allowed to be released into
our next class.
So yeah, because we would eat,yeah, and then we would go to
the lobby.
(09:06):
We were never, we didn't gooutside.
Kerry (09:09):
Hardly ever.
Chrisy (09:10):
I don't remember ever going outside for lunch.
Kerry (09:12):
No, you could go outside, but I think just because the
weather was so crappy, really, Iknow.
Chrisy (09:17):
Geez, I was like I ain't going outside.
Kerry (09:19):
Yeah, I'll just stay right here.
Chrisy (09:20):
No, I remember we had lunch together the one year, yes
, and we would sit together, ofcourse, and my lunch always had
the same exact thing they usedto make those no-bake peanut
butter with the chocolate on topsquares.
Oh those were good, they werereally good.
(09:40):
I've never been able to findanything that tasted like that.
Kerry (09:44):
I wonder if they still serve it.
I don't know if they do, let'sgo down there in September and
see what they got going on.
Chrisy (09:50):
We'll go get in the cafeteria line.
Well, you remember, because wewere very lucky, we had a
caterer that managed the kitchenat Ursuline.
How do you know this stuff?
Well, because it was food firstof all.
You know, I'm on board withthat.
Kerry (10:05):
We had a caterer.
Chrisy (10:07):
They didn't have a cafeteria cook that cooked the
food.
Well, he oversaw the cafeteriafood, though.
We were really very lucky.
I don't know where Mr Fusillois anymore.
Kerry (10:17):
Oh, that was the person you oversaw.
Chrisy (10:18):
Yeah, and he was a caterer also, so I tell you they
didn't.
And Thursdays, I think, waspasta day and everybody was
running for that cafeteriabecause you needed to get in
line.
It was good.
Kerry (10:41):
It was good I was given a roll of quarters for two weeks.
A roll of quarters was my lunchmoney that I had to make for
two weeks.
So whatever, if I wanted thathad to last me.
Chrisy (10:47):
No wonder we were eating this the squares, and I think I
remember we had an orange drink.
But thursdays I rememberparticipating in lunch.
Kerry (10:55):
I didn't always eat the full thing.
It was usually just somethingsmall because I had to make that
last, but I forget what it was.
There was something that Ialways would get because I
really liked it.
Chrisy (11:05):
I don't know I think they used to do taco type oh,
that might have been it, yeahbut thursdays.
But if I got the full meal.
Kerry (11:12):
That usually meant three days out of the 10 that I didn't
have a lunch.
I had to bring something, or Ijust didn't eat.
Chrisy (11:18):
Again, Carrie's bringing up something where I just have
no concept of this.
It makes me feel so bad.
So wow, yeah.
Kerry (11:28):
I can't believe you don't remember me with my little roll
of quarters.
You know this roll of quarters.
Chrisy (11:32):
Like it wasn't even a bill.
It was like a roll of quarters.
It was roll of quarters, likeit wasn't even a bill.
It was like a roll of quarters.
I wasn't concerned, I waseating.
I probably sat down with mywhole meal and you were eating
the flipping chocolate square.
I was probably done eatingbecause I was like what's the
matter, carrie, aren't youeating?
Look at this, you want some Yum, yum.
Kerry (11:54):
So yes, Around here because you know well well, we
have the camfield fair in ourarea, gosh I forgot about that
yeah, so back to school alwaysmeant the camfield fair.
So camfield fair is like thelargest county fair, not only in
the state of ohio but I thinkit was like one of the largest
ones east of the mississippi.
(12:14):
Now it's gotten mean, obviouslythe property size is the same
but there's not as much there asthere used to be.
But that was kind ofinteresting because we always
started school the week of thefair, so Labor Day.
The Canfield Fair is always onthe Labor Day weekend, so it was
always like the week before ortwo weeks before or whatever.
But I always missed it becauseI would be showing at the fair.
(12:36):
So it was always a struggle oflike school starting and missing
a day, the most missing thosefirst few days of school because
I'd be at the fair.
Now I know that some of theschools would purposely wait to
start until after the fairbecause all the kids were in 4-h
or whatever.
So at urslan, because we were,it was a city school.
(12:57):
That was always a hard thingbecause we would start during
the fair, so I would often missthose first few days of school?
Chrisy (13:02):
I seem to, because I did both public and private school.
The Catholic school seemed toalways start before Labor Day.
Kerry (13:09):
Oh, yes, because they got to get the football season.
Chrisy (13:11):
So it was usually that week before Right, and when I
was in the public school systemyou went the Tuesday after Labor
Day.
That was your first day.
Yes so that's sort of likewhere I noticed the difference
with that.
Yeah, you know what.
Just to tell you about where Ilive now here in Worcester and
their fair, which Nick remind methat's the largest agricultural
(13:35):
fair in the state.
DJ Nick (13:38):
Yeah, it has some distinction.
Obviously it's not as big asthe Canfield Fair, but something
about the agricultural aspect.
Kerry (13:44):
Right, because Wayne County has a lot of agriculture,
Right right.
Yeah, so the Canfield Fair hadagriculture, but they also had
vendors, and you know theproperty size.
I mean it's just rows and rowsof food.
Chrisy (13:58):
Yeah, no, I think that with the Wayne County Fair here,
I can see that a lot of peopledo come here and appreciate it
for that aspect, and the thingthat they do here for their
children who are involved in 4-His they.
I think that even they go backpretty early for school here.
Kerry (14:18):
But I take a break for that.
Chrisy (14:19):
They have like two days off, yeah, so those children can
participate in their 4-H.
That's awesome.
So Gotta support that.
Kerry (14:27):
So any other Labor Day weekend specialties?
You guys got something specialon Labor Day weekend.
Well, we got married, yeah.
Chrisy (14:36):
And then it's a good time to get married.
I don't know that it's a realpopular time because a lot of
people look for spring or fallweddings and that's sort of the
end of summer.
Kerry (14:45):
But did you do that for the convenience of if people
were coming, they would be ableto get time off because it was a
holiday weekend?
Chrisy (14:51):
No, we ended up moving it a few times because, well, we
were both still in college,because, we got married we were
both still 21.
And you know my dad, if youlisten to our Valentine's
episode, wanted to make sureNick finished college.
Kerry (15:06):
Hey, that Valentine's episode is the number one
episode for us and I love it.
It's great.
I am so glad people areenjoying it.
Chrisy (15:13):
So we basically decided originally I think our wedding
was going to be like.
At one point it was going to belike at the end of April.
Then we moved it up to the yearbefore, in October, because we
wanted to have the fall aspectto it.
But then, because of theuniversity we went to in
Youngstown, they were still onquarters, yeah, and quarters
(15:36):
generally started the end ofSeptember and we didn't want to
have to miss a whole quarter.
So we felt we could get marriedin early September, have a
chance to go away on a honeymoonand be back in time to start
that quarter, which we did.
Kerry (15:54):
So, yeah, we did so.
Yeah, we did that.
Chrisy (15:56):
I feel like it was like always september 20th or
september 21st, like aroundthere, that the ysu would start
absolutely absolutely so and Ithink the other thing we might
want to touch on that probably alot of people don't have any
concept of but it defined ourlabor day.
Kerry (16:10):
it did the jerry lewis Find our Labor Day?
It did.
Chrisy (16:14):
The Jerry Lewis Telethon .
Kerry (16:16):
Yes and boy I tell you that was amazing.
Chrisy (16:20):
It was like between the fair that you mentioned,
canfield Fair, and they had atent.
They did have a tent there.
Kerry (16:28):
For that yeah.
Chrisy (16:29):
And you would want to go out there and if you made a
donation or they'd have likelocal TV personalities manning
the tent, you wanted to try andget on TV.
Yep, and the other place to goif you wanted to get noticed for
the Jerry Lewis telethon wasthe mall.
Oh yeah, you're right.
Kerry (16:49):
They had a thing at the mall.
Chrisy (16:50):
Yes, yes, yes so you ran out to the mall or you ran out
to yes, yes, it shows.
Kerry (16:56):
So you ran out to the mall, or you ran out to, so we
might want to actually explainwhat the telethon was, because
there might be listeners whohave no idea what this is about.
Chrisy (17:04):
Well, I tell you it's funny because it was such a big
deal and it was every year and Idon't know how long that
telethon ran, but it's probablybeen gone for 30 years.
I don't even know how long it'sbeen gone.
Kerry (17:14):
Maybe not that long you don't think they still do it.
I'm going to Google that?
Chrisy (17:17):
No, I don't.
I don't think so.
Not that they don't still raisemoney.
Kerry (17:21):
It was basically telemarketing in the very early
ages Kind of, or like online.
What do you QVC?
Chrisy (17:36):
Kind of like call-in shopping, but you're making a
donation, but it was also yeah.
DJ Nick (17:38):
Yeah, I mean, they provided entertainment.
I guess, by definition, what atelethon is?
It started in 1966 oh, youfound it okay.
And actually it ended in 2014.
That was the last jerry lewisoh 66 to 14 now they may do
other ones, but the one that wasspecific to jerry lewis, you
know, for muscular dystrophy, itran from 1966 to 2014.
Chrisy (17:56):
Wow, and it had a specific formula yes it went for
24 hours straight.
And remember we're talkingabout when television carrie
brought this up to remind me,because at that time tv did stop
.
Yep, after midnight there wasno more programming.
You had your national anthemand then, and then you usually
(18:19):
had a little blonde girl sittingin front of the tv that said
they're here.
Oh no wait, I'm sorry wrong,wrong.
Kerry (18:28):
No, it was the gray white noise static yeah, which freaks
me out.
Chrisy (18:33):
Even that sound, you're not.
Even just the fact that you'remaking the sound is freaking me
out.
I was causing you to gettremors.
I just hear the sound, I think,of the image, but yeah, so Jerry
was on.
Generally Jerry was like takinghis break, though I don't know
how often he came out in themiddle of the night.
You generally didn't get your.
(18:54):
I hate to be insulting, but Imean your top notch entertainers
weren't going to get the threeo'clock in the morning slot.
No, they were going to get goodbilling time Right.
They were going to be on atprime viewing times and you had,
you know, the whole Rat Packthing you know, and one of the
big things which, even though Idon't really I'm not a big Jerry
(19:18):
Lewis fan, I love Jerry.
Lewis.
Do I think he was funny?
Yes, did I appreciate some ofhis movies?
Sure, but the fact is, I'm sureall the stuff that's come out
about him and his personalityand the way he treated other
people, especially women, Ithink that was probably true.
So in that sense, personally Ijust don't appreciate him.
(19:39):
But I do appreciate the man'scraft.
I know he was responsible fordeveloping a specific type of
camera.
Oh really, yes, he was infilmmaking.
I mean, the guy was definitelyimportant and talented.
But what I was getting at wasthere was one time because and
again, I'm dating myself andpeople are like who are these
people you're talking about?
Back in the day, before even us, there was Jerry Lewis and Dean
(20:04):
Martin.
They were a comedy team Yep,and I guess they were a really
big deal.
By the time we had come on thescene they had already been
broken up for quite a while.
Kerry (20:14):
I love watching those old movies with them too.
Chrisy (20:17):
Well, they just were.
You know, Jerry was the cut upand Dean played the straight man
.
I think Dean eventually gotsick of being the straight guy,
but I'm sure there were otherreasons Dean was more associated
with what they called the ratpack.
Don't get that confused withthe brat pack.
Not them.
Not molly ringwald it was.
It was the rat pack.
(20:38):
So it was dean martin, franksinatra, sammy davis, jr, joey
bishop and peter lawford howabout that?
that's pretty impressive,christy and peter lawford was
married to a Kennedy, by the way, want to let that be out there,
go ahead.
DJ Nick (20:55):
What were you going to say?
Nick scoot in, so I found your.
He did.
He was a pioneer in using videoassist technology in filmmaking
, which basically means it's youwould be, you would as you were
filming.
You were also recording scenesusing both film and video
cameras.
And what it did is it enabledimmediate feedback on captured
footage.
Chrisy (21:13):
That's cool.
DJ Nick (21:14):
So that was Jerry Lewis's contribution.
Chrisy (21:16):
One of them.
DJ Nick (21:17):
I don't know that he invented, invented, but he was
one of the first, or pioneer,one of the early adopters of it.
Chrisy (21:24):
So, yes, so very important in pop culture, very
important in motion pictures andcomedy, and what he did for
muscular dystrophy, you cannotdeny him any of that.
Kerry (21:38):
But that definitely marked Labor Day weekend.
Chrisy (21:41):
The Jerry Lewis telethon yes it was everything, so yeah,
and yeah, I mean, oh my, mygosh, if I even try to pull up
something from that it wouldtake me so back to my childhood
oh 100 and just you know and Ithink you would call in donation
yeah even if it was a littlebit, just because you wanted
(22:02):
somebody to say your name youwanted to hear it on tv,
remember, ed mcmahon you, thenyou would sit there and you'd
wait for them to tell you howmuch they've raised.
Yeah, ed mcm McMahon.
Yeah, what was this?
Didn't they have a saying thatwhen they told them to show the
money, there was a saying theyused to say to Ed, you know.
Yeah, I don't know, I don'tremember what the saying was oh
crap Just a total.
Kerry (22:21):
Oh yeah, but to try to do you wanted so bad.
So you know what?
I don't remember, because youknow, really, credit cards and
that kind of stuff, like was Imean, how did they do that then?
Were you just calling in apledge and you were sending in a
check?
Yeah, I think you pledged.
You pledged it and you sent acheck.
It's not like they were takingI mean, in later years I'm sure
they were taking credit cards-and stuff.
Chrisy (22:42):
But in the beginning that no.
And I think that they did havea lot of people that reneged who
would just do it to hear theirname and didn't get the money.
No, Come on, that's kind oflousy everybody.
I mean they were willing totake whatever to help that cause
out Right.
But I know that that wasdefinitely a thing that was done
.
Kerry (23:01):
I wonder how many checks bounced.
Chrisy (23:04):
Well, I don't know that they bounce, they probably just
never mailed them out.
Kerry (23:08):
Oh, I'm sure they had some bouncers too.
Yeah, I'm going to send you $1million.
Chrisy (23:14):
Well, that's real extreme.
So yeah, I'm trying to think.
Kerry (23:19):
Was there anything else that we did before back to
school?
Well, you know, it was always.
For me it was always bandnights.
Oh, that was a big thing forback to school, because you know
your, your band, that you knowyour school band, your high
school band.
You would, you know, spend amonth of your summer learning
your routine, and then all thebands would get together.
You would just have a bandnight, and it was just a night
where it was all the differentschools you know, have 10
(23:41):
different schools and they wouldjust do their halftime
performance, and so it gave youa chance to it, gave the kids a
chance to practice it before thefootball game started or
whatever.
So, right, that was alwayssomething that we that.
It was a big marker, whether Iwas performing in the bands or
before I was old enough to be in, and my mom would always like
to go that so we would go toband nights.
(24:02):
So, yeah, so I will have to saythere is a little part of me
that you know it's about nowthat we're starting to hear the
schools, their bands are havingband camp and are practicing,
and so sometimes even at lunchat work, because where I work,
the high school is just a blockdown the road.
You know, if I go outside atlunchtime I might hear the
drummers or you might hear youknow, and so it always kind of
is a little exciting, like oh,they're practicing, and to hear
(24:27):
that, that that was kind of abig thing for us.
Chrisy (24:30):
Well, the one thing I do remember, which brought sadness
, because it was the end ofsummer, the end of your freedom
no school and all the summer funyou were having with swimming,
like for us or whatever wasthere was that weird silence
that started to come over theneighborhood Because I think
(24:51):
kids were going and gettingstarted with their school
extracurricular activities likeband or sports.
So they weren't really runningaround the neighborhood as much.
And the other thing I rememberabout just that weird quiet that
started to happen in August andinto early September was you
heard the crickets?
DJ Nick (25:11):
get louder in the evening.
Chrisy (25:13):
And that meant you know cold weather was coming and
summer was going to end.
Kerry (25:18):
Yeah, because you do.
That was always something about.
August is the.
You'd still have your hot days,but cool nights.
And so we're already starting,you know, doing that.
Where we have the, you know,the air conditioners on during
the day, but at night time wecan sleep with the windows open.
So, yeah, there's.
That is that now.
Are they?
Are you thinking that they werecrickets?
Are they tree frogs or are theytechnical?
Chrisy (25:41):
I got busted.
I always thought they werecrickets.
They weren't barn swallows,were they?
No, no, those were birds.
What was making that noise,carrie?
I thought it was crickets.
What the hell was the noise?
Kerry (25:53):
You know, and I just had a mental block too, because
there's, but it's the tree frogsare one of them that you're
hearing, and then the other one,gosh, I can't believe I can't
remember.
Chrisy (26:02):
Where do these tree frogs come from?
How do they get in the tree?
What are you telling me?
Kerry (26:06):
The tree.
It's a frog and it lives in thetree.
How does it?
Chrisy (26:10):
get up a tree With its little sticky feet, and then it
can just like land at you.
Kerry (26:15):
Yeah, they don't usually jump on you, but they live in
the tree.
They live in the tree.
Yes, how is it?
Is it crook, crookets?
Chrisy (26:24):
What is it?
Well, I tell you, you say treefrogs.
And recently I had anexperience where this came up.
We were just socializing andsomebody had a very nice
swimming pool built-in swimmingpool.
And we were just sort of hangingaround the pool and they were
commenting.
It was at night and they werecommenting on some stuff that
was falling into the pool andthey mentioned this tree frog
(26:50):
thing, which I became horrifiedby, and they were just sort of
picking these things up andtossing them out of the pool and
I was like, is that somethingthat falls off of a tree?
But you call it that because itresembles a frog, but it's
really a leaf or no, it's a frog, it's a frog.
Kerry (27:05):
There's also cicadas.
That's probably what you'retalking about, the cicadas but I
thought there's only cicadas.
That's probably what you'retalking about the cicadas, but I
thought there's only came everyseven years or something well,
there's different species, andsome species are seven years and
something there's pretty muchalways, but the cicadas are also
something that you really willstart hearing too.
Chrisy (27:20):
That was the word I was thinking crookets those are
really creepy I know people getexcited about that and, okay,
they're very large bugs and I amfreaked out yeah, so, but the
tree frog thing is likesomething.
No but, swear.
I never heard yeah, untilrecently.
It is.
Kerry (27:39):
Uh, I'm just looking at these trying to find the other
bug identifier.
Yeah, the tree frogs, they makea lot and actually when we go
the caribbean they have them alot and it it's the weirdest
sound because it sounds likethis high pitch buzzing or
whatever and it almost soundslike it's not real, like it's a
microphone left on, like it'sbuzzing noise but, it's these
little tree frogs and they livein the plants and the trees and
(28:02):
stuff and well, now that youbring this up and you explain it
to me.
Chrisy (28:05):
I was.
I was told my husband.
He says wow, having a built-inpool is really complicated
because these little frogs justwant to jump in your pool.
But now that you're telling meand the person even said it was
a tree frog, and I didn't put ittogether that they're falling
in there, probably from the tree.
I just equated it as somethingthat just decided to jump in
your pool.
(28:26):
No, and I was like geez, I'mkind of glad I never had a
built-in pool, because I thoughtit was just too easy for them
to get into.
But we never had trees.
You didn't have trees over yourright, so it wouldn't matter if
it was above or in ground.
Kerry (28:39):
But I don't think it's so much the tree frogs that are
falling in the pool, as it iscicadas falling in the pool.
Chrisy (28:44):
I think it's more the cicadas that fall like I know
that if I saw that that's gonnabe like a person splashing down
in the water A small bomb landednext to you.
Kerry (28:57):
You know, the one part of summer that I always love is
the fireflies.
I just actually did 5k and itwas at night and it was really
neat because it was just at thattime of night where the
fireflies start coming out.
DJ Nick (29:10):
So as you're running.
Kerry (29:10):
there's all these little fireflies popping up and stuff,
but now that it's getting colderat night they're starting to go
away that means summer's ending.
Chrisy (29:18):
Yeah, july seemed to be the height for that you know,
what's sad is there, you don'tsee as many as we used to yeah
they're saying that probably inour lifetime they'll be gone
they'll be gone.
Kerry (29:29):
It's all the insecticides and stuff.
We have a lot of them at thefarm, but we also are very
organic at the farm.
Chrisy (29:34):
Right.
Kerry (29:34):
So we do have a lot, but yeah, you're right, you don't
see them like you used to.
Chrisy (29:38):
No, when we lived back in the Youngstown area we had a
ravine behind us and it was darkand we would go stand or sit
out on our deck at night.
Stand or sit out on our deck atnight, yeah it was such an
amazing sight it was likechristmas trees they would just
go off and it was quite yeahlovely to sort of watch.
Kerry (29:58):
That is how it is at our at our house at night in in the
in the summer we see some herein our backyard, but not that oh
yeah, there'll be like hundredsof them, and it's so neat
because it's almost like a lightswitch.
It's just like boom, they'rethere, there, and you don't see
them.
And then boom, you see them.
Chrisy (30:13):
Yeah, it's like a bunch of twinkle lights, it is.
Kerry (30:15):
It's really cool.
And what's funny is, you know,I got these little Papillon dogs
and they were from a breeder inCalifornia, arizona, and so
this is like a whole new worldfor them to have this yard, this
big yard and grass and stuff,and when the fireflies first
started coming out, you knowthey had never seen that, and so
they'll be.
They'll be running and they'llsee it flash and they'll run to
(30:37):
it and then it stops flashingand they're like looking around
like where'd it go?
And then it flashes another onebehind them, it's, it's.
I think it's hysterical towatch.
Well, because, yeah, they'retrying to figure this.
Chrisy (30:47):
They can't figure it out .
You know, Summer always windsdown and we have to think about
going back to school for ourkids and the summer in general
ending.
People are closing up pools,people are closing up campers
all that good stuff.
Kerry (31:05):
But we have something really to look forward to in
September.
So, as we introduced in August,we have our Junkies Care
Initiative, which is ourcommunity outreach to community
awareness, recognition andengagement.
And Canine Companions is theorganization that we are
partnering with through asponsorship to bring awareness
(31:26):
to this wonderful organizationthat provides service dogs to
people with disability, and weare going to be at their dog
fest event in September.
It's going to be September 21,in New Albany, ohio, which is
outside of Columbus area.
So if you happen to live aroundthe area that day and you want
to have something fun to do inthe afternoon between one and
four, come find us so we'regoing to have a booth there.
(31:47):
It's a great day to learn aboutCanine Companions.
You can bring your kids, bringyour pet dog on a leash to learn
about the organization.
We'll be there raising fundsfor them.
So that I will have to say, asmuch as I am sad to see summer
ending, I'm very happy thatSeptember is coming for this
event.
DJ Nick (32:03):
Yes, Very exciting.
Kerry (32:05):
All right, everybody, we'll have a safe Labor Day
weekend.
If you happen to be aroundfireworks, please be safe, duck
and cover and enjoy your holidayweekend.
Bye everybody, bye-bye.
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