From Palms to Ashes: A Comedic Journey Through Lent

Join us as we dive deep into the reflective yet often humorous world of Lent and Ash Wednesday! In this engaging episode of the Dysfunction Junkies podcast, hosts Chrisy and Kerry chat about the quirks of preparing for Lent. The conversation turns personal as the hosts share their varying experiences growing up in different religious backgrounds and how that shaped their current views on faith and tradition. As they navigate the laughter and struggles of giving things up for Lent, you can’t help but reflect on your personal experiences. You don’t want to miss the laughs and insights! Tune in this week!

Chapters

• 8:45 Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies podcast
• 20:22 Your safe space to discuss all things Lent
• 46:44 The history and significance of Ash Wednesday
• 1:39:47 The process behind palm ordering for the church
• 4:01:30 How to support our podcast and share your stories
• 8:32:19 Changing perspectives on religion and Lent

Transcript

DJ Nick: 0:08

Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies podcast. We may not have seen it all, but we've seen enough. And now here are your hosts, Chrisy and Kerry.

Kerry: 0:20

Hello Junkies, welcome to your safe space. I'm Kerry

Chrisy: 0:25

and I'm Chrisy,

Kerry: 0:26

and we want to take a moment to thank all of our listeners. We are so excited. We are now in 23 states and over 80 cities in three countries the United States, bahamas and Bermuda. So thank you to all of you out there listening. We so appreciate that.

Chrisy: 0:46

Yes, thank you. Love you all.

Kerry: 0:49

Chrisy, how you doing what's going on.

Chrisy: 0:50

I don't know. You told me what's going on. You come over here I don't know how to bring this up. What, what do you got on your head? I didn't know you smoked. Who smokes in your house, chrissy? Looks like somebody put a cigarette out on your head. No, it's Ash Wednesday. Come on. Oh, it's Ash Wednesday everybody.

Kerry: 1:08

It's Ash Wednesday, it's the beginning of Lent. Where's your thumbprint on your head?

Chrisy: 1:12

No, no, no. Oh, come on, what are they sticking on your head? Explain that to me real quick, if you can't, you can't, but I know it's palms from the year before. At least that's what they tell us. Where do they get these palms From?

Kerry: 1:26

the year before.

Chrisy: 1:27

But where are they from?

Kerry: 1:34

Where do we live? In Ohio? We don't have palms. You're answering your own question. Well being that.

Chrisy: 1:38

I work at a church. I can tell you where the palms come from. Oh, I want inside information, right?

Kerry: 1:40

now, yes, there's companies that are out west and they grow the palms and you order them. In fact, I was so irritated this year because we weren't even through Christmas and we were still ordering poinsettias for Christmas and I started getting the flyers and brochure information on ordering palms and I'm like it's December, why am I even looking at palm ordering information in December, like that's, it's like the whole decorating thing or Christmas, you know, when they put the stores, put the Christmas stuff out. You know July, and it's like I haven't even gotten through, like Thanksgiving yet, and you're putting this out. It's the same thing, you know. So, yeah, you order them and they send them to you.

Chrisy: 2:19

Okay, wait, the palm thing is like a two parterter, because they burn them for Ash Wednesday. Just thumbprint everybody's ID, everybody's forehead and then, but we use them.

Kerry: 2:32

So Palm Sunday.

Chrisy: 2:33

Oh yeah, that one. That's what I'm thinking.

Kerry: 2:35

Yes.

Chrisy: 2:36

They give you, they hand the stuff out, so you okay.

Kerry: 2:39

Oh my God, Chrissy, Do we have to go through Catholic School 101 now again here?

Chrisy: 2:43

I wasn't at school on Easter Sunday or Palm Sunday. It was Sunday. We weren't classy. You know what they used to say you like school on a Saturday. You got no class.

Kerry: 2:55

Oh my gosh.

Chrisy: 2:56

I'm not even going to tell you where I heard that one, because you can't talk about that cartoon anymore because it's naughty.

Kerry: 3:01

No, now you got my curiosity up.

Chrisy: 3:03

Well, it was a heavyset lead character and his gang, but oh, it was on Fat Albert. Oh my God, he said the words.

Kerry: 3:13

He said the words we grew up on all that lovely stuff. Okay, so back to the palms. So we get our ashes on Ash Wednesday and then those are from the palms from the prior. We get our ashes on ash wednesday and then, from the prior, from the, those are from the palms from the prior year. So then on palm sunday we get the palms and then you keep those, or the priest or the church keeps those palms and they can burn them to make the ashes, and then they keep those for the following years.

Chrisy: 3:39

Ash wednesday where are these burnt? Uh, and a burn pile in the back, I mean they just hang out and have, but they sit down, they drive them out yeah, they just like they're sitting around having beers and burning the palms or no, they're drinking the mogan david. Oh, remember the church wine I'm fascinated by the companies that manufacture and uh, distribute these.

Kerry: 4:01

Yes, and they limit you depending on the palm production of the year. So, like this year, when they sent the flyers out, they were saying like, oh, you can only order so many of this palm or so many of this palm because you know growing rate and the drought and everything.

Chrisy: 4:15

Oh, okay. Because I work for a company, an oil company, and our allocation is dependent upon how much we bought sometimes so is it like that with outside of oil? No, your allocation is dependent upon how many you bought the prior year.

Kerry: 4:31

No, because there's different kinds of palms, so churches like to buy different palms to decorate with, like there's the date palms, yeah, those are annoying.

Chrisy: 4:40

People have those. We used to have those and there were people who could do this. They could create like little crucifixes, oh, and some of them are really. Yes, yeah, anybody got a pussy cat out there? Because if you know, if you got a cat in a palm, the cat's gonna start nibbling on these things. They find them fascinating and then they're gonna hack it up cats eat those, at least in my experience.

Chrisy: 5:07

Oh my god, they seem to be fascinated with eating. Isn't that part of the bible somewhere where the kitty cat? Isn't that a sign of something when the kitty cat eats the palm and then pukes it up? What bible did you read? I didn't read a bible. I was asking you if they had that part in there.

Kerry: 5:24

I have never heard of this story. So I'm, I'm good, I don't know.

Chrisy: 5:30

Again, my, my imagination is wild. I'm not sure if you're pranking me right now or if you're being serious. I'm serious that I have a very active imagination, but I'm I have no, no logic in anything that's based on. But no move forward. Go Okay, I'll come, we'll do that. Another, there'll be another.

Kerry: 5:48

Ash.

Chrisy: 5:48

Wednesday We'll talk about it. So, anyway, go back to your thumbprint. Yeah, so the thumbprint? Yeah, but it's supposed to look like a cross, isn't it? Well, yeah, they do the little cross, they're really lousy and they're really lousy, and that's a simple symbol, isn't it? Up and down and then across.

Kerry: 6:08

Well, it depends on if they have a fat thumb, or if you were the first one in that dip, you'd think they'd be up there with like a nice paintbrush. Oh, my God.

Chrisy: 6:16

Or maybe a stick-on like a stick-on tattoo. Can we just do that?

Kerry: 6:21

Then it gets weird, yeah you're making it weird Because I'm getting flashbacks to like things people used to carve in their foreheads the worst part I have about it is when you go in the morning and you get the palms and if you happen to be first in line or you know, they dip their thumb in the ashes like every two or three people because there's so much. So if you're that first one after the dip, you got it really thick and then it sprinkles in your eyes and when you have contacts it's like all day I'm like. But you know, god, take one for the team, I guess.

Chrisy: 6:55

Going to Catholic school and we would be gathered in the gymnasium when all of us had to attend because we didn't? Our Catholic high school didn't actually have a church attached to it like? Our elementary schools had.

Chrisy: 7:06

We were all attached to the churches and so we would all gather in the gym, which made you feel very, very close to god. And then people would. They would have you go up on ash wednesday and the amount of students at our school, they are they. They were very involved with doing this. Yes, I was like I am 15, 16, 17.

Kerry: 7:27

I put makeup on, did my hair.

Chrisy: 7:31

Now you want me to go get a thumbprint on my head? Ain't happening, nope. So I used to walk around and hope nobody questioned. But we had a lot of people.

Kerry: 7:38

Did you skip the line?

Chrisy: 7:39

Oh yeah, I never would go and get that on my head. You didn't have to. Oh, you didn't have to. No, I don't know. There were a lot of our fellow classmates who were not Catholic but went to our Catholic high school because there were other reasons to go?

Kerry: 7:52

Did you stay in the stadium seating or did you have to? Everyone have to get up and walk and you just when it came to that part, you just bypassed and kept going. No, I think. Or did you stay seating?

Chrisy: 8:03

and kept going. No, I think I. Or did you stay seating? I think you just sat there. Oh, I might have laid on the ground until everybody got back. All right, enough of my crappiness, go for it. Oh, my, yes, so we are in the season of Lent. Yes, ok.

Kerry: 8:16

Now, you and I, although we went to the same Catholic high school, we grew up very different as far as religion. We grew up very different as far as religion yeah, so we've talked about that. Religion was kind of like a very prominent thing in our house. So did you even do anything for lent in your house? Did you ever give up anything? No, never I don't.

Chrisy: 8:34

Might have said it just to say, because I think when we went to catholic school you had to tell them what you were giving up and draw a picture showing you. Usually you know it was mine was like a little girl with tears because I had to give something up pizza, no, it ain't happening.

Kerry: 8:50

Ice cream not happening well, no, you need the hot dogs in your ice cream. Yeah, how am I supposed to diet without?

Chrisy: 8:56

this is how much am I supposed to do. You know my life already is rough and you want me to give up stuff now. Talk about misery, on misery here.

Kerry: 9:05

Yeah.

Chrisy: 9:06

Lent is fascinating, but no, no, I don't remember a whole lot Just getting ready for the Easter bunny, but I guess it's not really. Even though it's connected, it's not part of the Lent thing.

Kerry: 9:19

No, two different things.

Chrisy: 9:20

Well, they get the Fat Tuesday. Thing.

Kerry: 9:22

Yeah, what's up with that?

Chrisy: 9:25

Well, that's just another way of them making you have to go on a diet with hot dogs and ice cream.

Kerry: 9:30

I think this is my theory on Fat Tuesday and Lent. Okay, so we had the first of the year where we all decided, okay, we ate too much over Thanksgiving and Christmas. So we had to have New Year's Day where we had to purge everything out of that, clean out the cupboards, and we're going to start our diets, we're going to start being healthy. That lasted what? Eight weeks, and now it's the beginning of March and we failed at it, so we're going to try again. Okay, so now we got Lent, we're going to try this Lent thing. So, fat Tuesday, we're going to eat everything out of the house, we're going to purge everything, we're going to try again with Lent and we're going to give up stuff for Lent. That's what I think is going on.

Chrisy: 10:07

By the way, everybody, I just scheduled my appointment in hell for this episode, so some of you I will see there, Some of you will not. One place in the Bible, sodom and Gomorrah or whatever. What is that? I don't know. I hear people say that.

Kerry: 10:25

These Bible references. There's what the different types of Bibles. I'm gonna have to look up the Bible. No, it's just like it's Cliff Notes.

Chrisy: 10:37

Cliff.

Kerry: 10:37

Richards.

Chrisy: 10:38

Notes. That's what I got. You got to watch because the health department doesn't let some of those churches fry that fish because they don't have appropriate kitchens. Be care, make sure that they got their little ticket from the health department. You don't want to eat that bad fish. I saw one church. They were doing it out in their garage. Some of those fish fries are really good though. Oh, they're great. Yeah, until you get food poisoning we really struck a nerve today.

Chrisy: 11:09

Chris is going to hell and catholics gone wild. That's what I offer today. Carrie go go?

Kerry: 11:16

where do I, where do I even follow up with that my? So fish fries are a no for Chrissy, so we are not. No, I love them as long as they have the health department license.

Chrisy: 11:25

Well, no, you've got to just make sure that. Yeah, back where we're from, you have such a flippant choice of fish fries and when we moved where I live now, yes, do you not have them here?

Chrisy: 11:37

Yeah, I think. Yes, do you not have them here? Yeah, they, I think they have them a little bit, but you really got to look for them, which is fine, yeah, but you gotta look for them and you don't have the variety of choices that we used to have. And I'm not generally following not eating meat on it. I'm done with that. My mom was so christmas stuff.

Kerry: 11:56

My mom was so strict on that it became, you know, like you were saying, your mom changed the rules on the the uh going. Uh, go into the graveyard.

Chrisy: 12:03

Okay.

Kerry: 12:04

My mom, I think, changed the rules on the no meat on Friday thing because it used to be, yeah, during Lent, no meat on Friday. Well then all of a sudden it became you can't eat on Friday, any day, any Friday of the year, like no Fridays. And so she would say when she was living with us she'd be like, oh, I can't eat meat on Friday. I'm like mom, it's not Lent, oh no, we can't eat meat on Friday.

Chrisy: 12:24

Does your mother still observe that? Well, if she, I know she's older.

Kerry: 12:28

Yeah she's cognitively declining and so like she doesn't think about it.

Chrisy: 12:35

Oh, over the last 20 years or so, oh yeah.

Kerry: 12:38

Oh yeah, oh yeah, and that's what I'm saying. It got worse. It got to where it wasn't just during Lent, it was all every Friday. You could never have, like she would fast. Not only is it don't eat meat, but you had to fast like on Fridays, like you ate very little on Fridays.

Chrisy: 12:53

Yeah, but that's like you're getting ready, man, and that's what we used.

Kerry: 12:56

We used to tell her we're like Mom. You know, once you get to a certain age, you don't have to abide by that.

Chrisy: 13:01

Oh no, the little precious lady upstairs that's visiting with me right now, she will tell you all the rules she no longer has to follow, as if she followed them in the first place. Now she's just trying to gaslight me and make me think that she was following the rules all along. I don't seem to remember it that way, but okay, maybe you were. I can't say for sure.

Kerry: 13:22

Yeah.

Chrisy: 13:23

As you can tell from my stories, probably wasn't paying much attention to what they weren't paying attention to me and, equally, here I wasn't paying attention. I was not interested. It was. We were perfect for each other. I had the best parents for me, for you. Yeah, yeah, hands off, hands off. Yeah, she constantly reminds me of her age. I don't know what the age cutoff is for following rules, but she's been that age for as long as I can remember. Now I don't have to follow that anymore.

Kerry: 13:49

But that's so funny because on the other side of the coin, she doesn't want to live in the assisted living because she's not old enough for that. No, yeah Well, so she uses her age when it's to her advantage.

Chrisy: 13:59

That's my whole life. Just make it up as you go along and change it whenever you want.

Kerry: 14:04

Yeah, see, for me, religion growing up. And again, disclaimer I do love my religion and we do joke around about things or whatever, but it's just because of how we grew up that you have to find some perspective on things. So for me it was growing up. You know, religion was always this you had to always like how was the words I want to say? You could, you. You weren't allowed, you had to take it. You know, you had to take whatever people did to you. It was like, you know, you couldn't, no-transcript Jesus. Well, if you're getting tormented, well then there you go. Good for you, you're doing the right thing. And that was hard for me for the longest time. It took me a long time to learn to stand up for myself. And so now, when I look at religion and how it affected me growing up, it does give me a different perspective. But I found my way in my faith. But it's definitely different than how I grew up.

Chrisy: 15:11

Yes. I want to state that I do understand. You are strong in your faith, yes, and that you were when we were good friends too.

Chrisy: 15:18

I was just trying to play along. You did, you played the part I mean. And my Catholic religion was not because my family, if you can figure anything out from this, was into being Catholic. My father became Catholic when he married my mother. He was not raised Catholic, right. He had grandparents who were Catholic. He was not raised Catholic, Right, he had grandparents who were Catholic, but I don't know that my grandfather or grandmother were subscribers to any religion specifically. So he became Catholic when he was going to marry my mom.

Chrisy: 15:49

The reason I ended up at Catholic school I actually, in kindergarten, I did go to the public school in town, on my side of town. It seemed like only one day to me in my memory, because I can only remember one day of it. Oh, okay, but I my understanding from listening to other people was it was more a few like a few weeks. Oh, the reason I got placed in catholic school wasn't because they thought it would be lovely to have chrissy have a wonderful experience in, in a catholic experience and catholic education. It was because my mom and dad worked and they needed to put Chrissy somewhere all day. Ah, because the public school only had kindergarten half days.

Kerry: 16:26

So that's, interesting. Yeah because for me actually so because you lived on a different side. We lived close together but on different sides of town. So when I went to kindergarten, I went to kindergarten at a public school because it had all day kindergarten and my mom and dad worked so I had to go there and I couldn't go to the Catholic kindergarten because they only had half day.

Chrisy: 16:48

Ah, that's so well, you were a township.

Kerry: 16:51

Yeah, that's what I'm saying we were out there in the pretty townships. We lived close, close, but it was enough of a difference. And then, once you know, started grade school, then it was full time there.

Chrisy: 17:01

Yeah, no, the public school where I was assigned to go was only half days at that time. So, I think it, it it might be, I don't know because so many, so many Catholic schools where we grew up. Oh my gosh.

Kerry: 17:14

They're gone? Yeah, they are.

Chrisy: 17:16

I think there's only what like maybe three or four.

Kerry: 17:19

Maybe when there was probably what 12?

Chrisy: 17:21

Oh, more than that, easily that, oh my gosh, just on my side of town, I think we had three or four, yeah, some that I forgot even existed.

Kerry: 17:29

Well, like I said in one of the other episodes, when we were talking about riding the bus, I rode the bus and they picked up all the kids from the Catholic schools and they dropped them off at the different you know different schools so like we stopped the two other catholic schools to drop off kids wait a minute.

Chrisy: 17:42

The bus only picked up the catholic school kids. We didn't know when you're in the city. They made you share that with some of the public school kids.

Kerry: 17:49

Well, didn't they actually even drive the the public city buses? The kids from our high school, some of the kids, their bus from inner city was the the city bus yeah, yeah, oh, oh, you mean like the public transportation?

Chrisy: 18:03

yeah, public transportation bus no, I did I. No, I was still on a public yeah, a school approved vehicle yellow, yellow vehicle bus type the wheels on the bus. Yeah, not, not, not something from the bus. Downtown they had the uh transit, public transit thing, I'm not gonna say the name. Yeah, yeah, yeah well, it changes from city it does, it does, yeah, yeah, so did you have any other, any people with other religions in your family?

Kerry: 18:29

uh, uh, not that I can think of. So this was like a big thing in my family because it's obviously Catholic. My mom and dad were Catholic, they were raised Catholic, and so then at some point again big difference in age between me and my sisters and stuff, and so at one point some family members decided to go to a different religion.

Kerry: 18:52

OK well, this was like a huge thing in our family, but it was. It was a big problem and I was young enough, and even from a young age you know again very much, you know how we grew up with. Our religion was very much ingrained, but I still was very open to other, like it didn't, it didn't define me, it didn't define other people. You know so. But this was a big problem. It caused a big division in the family because some members of the family wanted to be this other religion.

Kerry: 19:20

I never had a problem with it and I remember as a teenager, when this was partly going on, saying to my parents why does it matter? Like, why, why does it matter? It's, it's okay, they're, they're not killing people, they're not doing you know, they different. And it was such a problem. And I always stuck up for those family members. And it was recently, within the last year, that one of those family members came at me and they said to me like accuse me of, you've never. You've always, you know, had a problem with my religion. And I'm like, where are you getting that from? Because I'm the farthest from, like I don't care what religion people are.

Kerry: 19:55

I really don't. I judge you as a person and how you act and how you are to me and how you are to other people. I don't care what the label says, you know, yeah. So that was like really hard. And what really got me is I'm like, you know, all of my life my family didn't stick up for me. They didn't protect me through all the things I've been through being abused as a child, being, you know, sexually abused by family members, all this other things and I stuck up for them. And then now they're accusing me of not sticking up for them and it's like where the heck? Oh, so frustrating.

Kerry: 20:28

And that's where religion, that's where I have sometimes an issue. It's like it becomes this defining thing and it's like wait just be yourself.

Chrisy: 20:37

I love the fact that you said that you don't judge people whatever religion they are. Yeah and I don't judge anyone's religion except Catholics, because I have a little bit of experience with Catholics. I'm not going to judge you if you're a Presbyterian Methodist.

Chrisy: 20:55

I grew up with some friends that were Methodists and I was always fascinated with religion. I worked for some people who were Jewish. That was one that was new for me and I was fascinated and I would ask you know well, give me some. And it was not out of disrespect, I was curious. I was legitimately curious, right, because I want to know, right, what is the gentleman in our office? Because I worked for a company where we had to bring food. Everybody just wanted to eat all the time, right, and we have, oh, one day a week everybody brings in a dish. I'm like really, yeah, I was like really young, I, young, I didn't really want to cook anything and now I got to sign up to make food and he would always somebody would always always bring in baked beans, baked beans. I don't know why. That sounds like a horrible thing to have at work.

Chrisy: 21:42

Why would you bring that to work, I know, but he would always run around and want to know who made the baked beans and if they were vegetarian or not.

Chrisy: 21:49

And I'm sitting there and the guy be running past my desk 10 times yelling you know the vegetative, the beans, are they vegetarian? And I finally went into his office and said look, I don't mean any disrespect, but why are you so involved with why the baked beans are vegetarian? I mean, they're beans, aren't they? I'm like I didn't understand. There's no, I don't see any meat in there. Yeah, I didn't understand. Yeah, because, yeah, because he was jewish, yeah, and he was, uh, somewhat strict, because my understanding he explained to me was some people, uh, and with jewish religion, they're stricter and others aren't just like catholics just like any religion.

Kerry: 22:24

Oh yeah, you have all.

Chrisy: 22:25

You have the whole gamut, but then he was telling me about the animals that they do not. If you're real strict, they don't eat certain animals with like split hoofs, yes, or any animals that are considered dirty, I guess. If they're real strict, they don't eat certain animals with like split hoofs, yes, or any animals that are considered dirty, I guess. If they're real orthodox, I guess they don't eat any fish that would be considered like a bottom dweller, yes. So he gave me which was, I appreciate it.

Kerry: 22:47

It was very educational.

Chrisy: 22:48

Yes, and on the other hand, I was working with a guy who was very christian, uh-huh, which was fine, and he I think I had mentioned that I wanted to get fish during lent and he wanted it. I shouldn't maybe not said that in front of him. He was a little bothered at the fact that I felt I needed to eat fish on friday during lent and again, it wasn't because it was ingrained in me, I just knew that I could get really good fish on friday during lent and I man, I'd really like to have some fish.

Chrisy: 23:15

The restaurants do have good fish during Lent and he wanted to explain to me that with the New Testament, in his opinion, I guess, or his facts or whatever, that when Jesus was given to us, the Son of God to come for us to I don't know work for us. I guess I'm really stinking. That's really interesting. I try to learn everything from Jesus of Nazareth, the one miniseries that's my favorite show. Robert Powell.

Kerry: 23:47

Jesus of Nazareth, there we go, that's the one I recommend everybody.

Chrisy: 23:50

At Easter I got to watch that and you say, why would you watch it? You're not even religious. But man, that guy puts a hell of a performance on his jeep. I mean he is. He's like the pitcher everybody had on their fireplace. That dude looks just like him. Anyhow, he wanted to let me know that I did not have to follow those rules anymore and that I was an idiot. Basically he was insulting me and if I was a really hardcore Catholic I guess I would have been insulted. I was still insulted even though I was like dude.

Kerry: 24:16

I just want to get some good fit. You were a hardcore Catholic.

Chrisy: 24:19

When Jesus came down, was born, he took away all those rules. I said, jesus, I didn't know that you mean us idiots are sitting here following all these rules. I think the Catholics have more rules than anybody. They do have a lot of rules Because some religions seem to be all hardcore Old Testament, yeah. And then all these other religions are like, look, throw that dumb book away and just follow this nice new one.

Kerry: 24:48

Shiny new toy syndrome.

Chrisy: 24:51

I'm like Jesus and then the Catholics. We go back and forth well tough.

Kerry: 24:56

I guess that's why there's a religion for everybody out there, chrissy shoot fits every foot. I guess I don't know what the saying is so I will know next year that we either won't record on ash wednesday or, if I do, I'll go to service after we record no, I, I love it Because I didn't realize this was going to cause such a trauma response no it doesn't, it doesn't, it doesn't.

Chrisy: 25:17

I just needed I'm glad this was a very good, because I didn't know. You taught me we have companies that make palms. We do have companies. Is it out of California or somewhere warm where they get the palms off the palm trees? What?

Kerry: 25:29

The place that I order from is in Arizona.

Chrisy: 25:32

Oh, they have palm trees there. Oh yeah, it's dry.

Kerry: 25:35

Southern.

Chrisy: 25:36

My understanding is that palm trees need a lot of water.

Kerry: 25:40

They need water, but I don't know. Necessarily they need a lot of water because there's a lot of palms in the desert.

Chrisy: 25:46

Oh, that must be a different palm tree.

Kerry: 25:48

Well, there's all kinds of palms. There's different types of palms. There's different types of palm trees. Kinds of palm. There's different types of palms. There's different types of palm trees.

Chrisy: 25:55

There's different types of palm bushes and it's just, it's a whole gamut. Okay, yeah, a margaritaville palm. Can I request those? Yeah, I don't?

Kerry: 26:02

yeah, I'm not sure if that would be the kind of palm I have to think about that this might be a two-parter.

Chrisy: 26:08

We might need to just keep talking after we end the episode and we can make that an extra episode. People want extra content. How many weeks is Easter? Isn't Easter like six weeks or something? Oh gosh, I'm looking at you for that answer, Carrie.

Kerry: 26:21

I think it's like six weeks. They don't make it easy like in Lent or Advent. You know there's four weeks because there's Advent 1, advent 2, advent 3, advent 4.

Chrisy: 26:30

Wait a minute. This is like sequels, like Iron man 1, Iron man. There's Advent 1 through 4? What if I only come to the game for Advent 4?

Kerry: 26:42

I got to catch up on 1 through 3.

Chrisy: 26:44

That was just. I used to like those candles because they were pink and then there was a purple one, or was it all purple and one was pink? There you go.

Kerry: 26:52

I thought the candles were really pretty Three purple and one pink. There you go. I thought the candles were really pretty Three purple and one pink. I like those colors, and then the one in the center for Christmas was white. There was a center candle.

Chrisy: 27:03

I didn't go to church after that. Oh, chrissy, I never saw the white one. I feel so cheated.

Kerry: 27:12

Well, I guess it probably depends on the church. But yeah, there usually is a center, one that you light on Christmas Cool.

Chrisy: 27:18

Yeah, I like the purple and pink ones. Yeah.

Kerry: 27:23

Well, this was very educational. I was thrown back into our Catholic grade school high school days here.

Chrisy: 27:31

Nobody got more education today than me.

Kerry: 27:33

Yeah but I think I scored probably a C today.

Chrisy: 27:38

Well then, I know what letter I got Alrighty A for effort.

Kerry: 27:46

We would like to know what you all are doing for this time of year.

Chrisy: 27:50

What are?

Kerry: 27:50

you giving up? If you would like to give up a few dollars you could we now have. Would like to give up a few dollars, you could. We now have a way that you can support our cast, our podcast. So we do now have a donation where, if you want to keep all this great content coming at you, you can help us out. Go to our website dysfunctionjunkiesbuzzsproutcom. You can choose to give us a one-time donation or you can do a reoccurring one. Any little bit helps helps us to keep this great cast coming to you. So just check us out on our website and check us out on our Facebook page. We'd love to hear your stories of Lent or Easter or whatever religion that you follow.

Chrisy: 28:29

Yes, I would love to hear all this stuff.

Kerry: 28:31

We'd love to hear about how things affected you growing up. Did your family have a strict religion? Did it have an easygoing kind of approach to religion? Did you have no religion? I mean, tell us about it. How did it affect you growing up?

Chrisy: 28:45

We want to hear all the stories. Yes, and I need some money to get to go see Advent 1 through 3 and 4. It's expensive at the theater. Now I don't know if you can catch it at the theater. If you just want to, maybe I'll take a picture of me next to a candle and send it to you if you donate. I'm going to sneak into a church and get near the. Oh wait, that's Advent. I've got to wait until Christmas?

Kerry: 29:06

what candles do we burn for Lent? We don't have any candles, oh, but the palms. I can set a palm on fire after Palm Sunday. Oh, but the palms. I can set a palm on fire After Palm Sunday.

Chrisy: 29:18

save the ashes for next year. Okay, I'm working on that. Thank you everybody. All right, thanks everybody, happy.

Kerry: 29:23

Lent, happy Lent, bye-bye, bye.