Dysfunction Junkies
Two high school besties reconnect and commiserate their stories as they navigate the dysfunctions of life from marriage, families, illness, death of childhood families, and creating healthy boundaries. Join them each week as Chrisy and Kerry share their stories and life lessons all with a zest of wit, humor, and love. They may not have seen it all, but they have seen enough!
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Flash Back Friday: Memory Lane on New Year's Eve
It's Flash Back Friday! Flashing back to Episode 9 our New Year's Episode. Plus, in this nostalgic Flashback Friday episode, Kerry and Chrisy take us back to what they describe as possibly the most thrilling New Year's celebration of our lifetime – Y2K.
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Welcome to Flashback Friday, a special edition of the Dysfunction Junkies podcast. We may not have seen it all, but we've seen enough.
Speaker 2:And now here are your hosts, chrissy and Kerry.
Speaker 1:Hello Junkies, I'm Kerry and I'm Chrissy.
Speaker 2:Happy New Year. Wait a minute Please.
Speaker 1:Well, this is our Flashback Friday episode and we are flashing back to our episode 9, I believe, which was our New Year's Day episode. Right episode nine, I believe, which was our New Year's Day episode. Right, and I thought I was being so witty saying happy new year because I thought I was quoting a TV show and here it was happy birthday.
Speaker 2:I should have been saying but oh gosh yeah.
Speaker 1:That's right. I remember that now Right.
Speaker 2:Right, right Right.
Speaker 1:Well, you'll hear all about that later on as the episode continues. Chrissy and I were talking about New Year's and Chrissy brought up a really good point about the best, most exciting New Year's ever.
Speaker 2:Yeah, if you were alive during this historical event in our lives, especially people our age, because in general I don't like New Year's Eve and New Year's Day is just like the holidays are over, taking all the stuff down, type of thing. I thought back to one New Year's that I think was just like sit on the edge of your seat, exciting. And that was 1999 to 2000. Outside the fact that we had been planning for that for so long because of the Prince song, what they call that Y2K.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes, and we All the computers were going to quit working. Everything was going to crash.
Speaker 2:Everything was going to crash. People were basically doomsday planning because there was going to be no way to be able to. People were taking their money out of their accounts because you weren't going to be able to use your ATMs or get anything from the bank. Everybody thought that the computers were going to think instead of it being 2000, that it was 1900 and then no technology would be recognized. We would be back to 1900 again and we were like man this sounds like a party and a half and it was unfortunately the biggest disappointment. How dare we be so prepped that nothing really came?
Speaker 1:of it. That was really unfortunate.
Speaker 2:So where were you that night? You know I'm we were talking about it a little bit and I cannot I know where I was living at the time. I didn't have children yet and I don't remember going anywhere because, like I said, we generally stayed. Either we went to friends and stuff like that for house parties, or we maybe had people over. So I'm guessing maybe we had people over. I'm sure I had sauerkraut and kielbasa somewhere Ruin in the background. The threat of 1999 and 2000 happening did not stop the sauerkraut play. But yeah, I wish I would have taken pictures or somehow made a better mental memory of what was going on. I just do remember a lot of the hubbub prior to that date and how they were really trying to basically prep us for the absolute worst case for the end of the world.
Speaker 1:Almost pretty much that's what I. I was working in Las Vegas. I had just moved there in 1999. And I was working at the one of the major hotels and my job at the time was raising lions that were on display at this major hotel. We would have lions on display in this big exhibit in the hotel. We'd have baby lions with us, and so I remember I was working that night with the lions and normally we were on display until about 10 o'clock, because the Las Vegas Strip is kind of like Times Square.
Speaker 1:On New Year's Eve they shut the entire strip down and it's, you know, all foot traffic and there's all. It literally is like Times Square, except the entire strip of Las Vegas. Because of that, we had to be out of there by like five o'clock instead of our normal 10, because they were shutting all the roads down and we just knew that we had to make sure we were out of there because not only were they shutting down for New Year's Eve, but because of all this mayhem and everything is, you know, oh, it's going to happen, and everything. So I just remember scrambling to get off of the strip and home. Before you know, mayhem happens and yeah, so I will never forget that. So, in fact, one of the kind of funny things that happened.
Speaker 1:I could be wrong, but something tells me I think I'm right was so we would back this box truck up to this roll-up door and we had the lions in a cage, a rolling cage, and we would roll them into this back area that had a double door catch cage that led them out to this exhibit. Something happened that night where somebody left another door open and we didn't catch it, and so one of the lions actually, we loaded it into that area and we went to the truck to get the second one and next thing, you know, there was this lion behind us and now the door is open. Like the box truck didn't fit securely. There was gaps, is what I'm saying.
Speaker 1:And I just remember the guy was working with like grabbing this lion that was as big as him, and we're like and like we're thinking like, oh, my God, we're going to lose our jobs. What if this cat gets out on the strip? You know, and I just remember, thank God, this lion was so good and so we got it back in and we kept that. We kept that quiet and I'm breaking the silence now, but I feel like the time statute of limitations but something tells me it was that same night but I could be getting.
Speaker 2:Maybe I'm getting my dates wrong, but yeah, I'm getting like a jurassic park, like remember when they were there and like the electricity went down because of some typhoon that was happening, and like all of a sudden, whoops, we can't contain the t-rex anymore. Yeah, every man for himself.
Speaker 1:I feel like it was somehow all on the same night, because I remember thinking like, oh my god, this is how our night's starting, and you know, like it was like a premonition of the night to come, what was to come, yes, yes yes, oh gosh, but anyway.
Speaker 1:So other than that, the night went fine and we got home fine and I got home to my house, you know, because I was not going out, I had done I think I had done the strip the year afterwards. Yeah, that night I was like I'm not going out there, Right, I don't blame you Well but the anxiety that we were given.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and you can be nostalgic for a lot of things you know and life experiences. I don't know that this makes any sense to anybody, but I'm a little nostalgic for the amount of anxiety and fear they used to have. Maybe because I'm past it now and I know, nothing happened, but boy.
Speaker 1:I tell you they were pumping.
Speaker 2:They gave us all the scenarios as to what could go wrong. I think it was probably just to help boost certain industries. I think that's probably where we got those doomsday buckets and help the food industry out. Everybody was basically stocking up on canned goods and water.
Speaker 1:It was preparing us for COVID.
Speaker 2:Minus the masks and the social distancing. Yes, yeah, exactly yeah.
Speaker 1:But you know that is true and I think for me, I remember it even being such a big thing because I was living in such a major town, you know is such a major city and with the amount of people and just you know the nature of the city and everything there was. Even it was more amplified than I'm sure how it was here in this Youngstown area.
Speaker 2:So well, yeah, plus you know, they basically told you every horrible thing that had happened in the last 50 years or 100 years was going to happen again. We were going to have plague, famine, we were going to have nuclear war, right. This was going to be our enemies taking advantage of our weakness. Our guard was down you know yeah, return of the Living Dead was going to happen. We were going to have zombies. Before the zombie thing was like really a big deal.
Speaker 1:We were going to have it all, yes. So, anyways, that leads us into our Flashback Friday episode, where we're going to revisit New Year's Day episode. So please sit back and enjoy.
Speaker 2:Have a great time everybody Duck and cover, Duck and cover.
Speaker 1:Well, hello junkies, Happy New Year. Happy New Year. I don't know if you know what I'm referencing.
Speaker 2:Happy New Year. Is it my favorite, frosty?
Speaker 1:Oh, oh Well he, yeah, he only said happy birthday. Oh, he said oh, I ruined it, I totally ruined it.
Speaker 2:You tried to slide that by me oh.
Speaker 1:I'm like happy New Year. I thought he was saying happy New Year. No, you're right. I'm like happy new year. I thought he was saying happy new year. No, you're right, he did say happy birthday.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he was totally nowhere near.
Speaker 1:I'm the Carrie dumbass in that one.
Speaker 2:Going back to episode one, you were referencing what I'm going to get into in a little while, that Rudolph, shiny new year. Oh, is that where they talk about happy new year? Well, because they just say it in there.
Speaker 1:Oh, okay, by the way, I'm Chrissy and I'm Carrie. Happy New Year everybody. Oh, I thought it was being all witty you were witty. No, I really wasn't.
Speaker 2:I failed, you can't, no, but generally you can't get those by me, because again I had no life and I got all that crap kind of memorized it's the new year 2025.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, do you do New Year's resolutions? No?
Speaker 2:None, what Never? No, no, no, I don't, I can't think of anything. I mean be nicer to people. No, don't eat all that junk food. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. How about you?
Speaker 1:I've dabbled in it. You know it's usually the same list. You know, lose weight, do whatever you know oh, the lose weight thing. I used to do that, yeah, every year started my diet season right, right right, right horrible right never works, you know so but so many gym memberships on january 2nd I couldn't even tell you.
Speaker 2:But yeah, no, yeah no, all it did was create bigger problems but I have a surprise for you.
Speaker 1:I need to hear this surprise. So I have decided, in honor of our friendship and how we met remember how we met.
Speaker 2:I do don't want to refresh our uh, our junkies out there who may not have listened yet to episode one, how we met we met in high school our sophomore because I didn't go to our high school, my freshman year, in gym class, yes, and you scolded me quite partially because I wasn't running Right. We were supposed to be running Right and the whole class was going to get punished if I didn't pick up the pace.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I really wasn't a runner and I was in a lot of pain and because I was trying to was trying to do what the teacher said follow the rules. So, anyways, since that time in my life I have dabbled in running. And how this started was when my son went to high school. One of the first girls that he started to like was in cross country. So we were living out in Las Vegas and he was like I want to go to her cross country meet.
Speaker 1:Well, her cross country meet was Mount Charleston, which is about 40 minutes outside of Las Vegas, and so we went up there to this mountain, to this cross country race, and we were watching these kids race a 3.15 K up this mountain. And so we went up there and it was the first time I've ever was exposed to like a running group or a running race or a club, and I was actually really enthralled by all these people and they were running and they were having such a good time and there was so much camaraderie and support and love. And what did it for me was there was this like 80 year old lady and I have been trying to remember her name and for the life of me, I've not been able to remember her name and for the life of me I've not been able to remember it. But she was running up this mountain, perfect hair, just came from the salon, you know the blue hair, perfectly permed, cut, and now, mind you, she was running, but it was really like a slow walk, but with running movements awesome my favorite.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, she was going up this mountain. It was quite the incline, but she did this 3. Mean, she was going up this mountain, it was quite the incline, but she did this 3.1 race all the way up this mountain. And I was so impressed by her and I'm like, oh my God, if that 80-year-old lady can run up this mountain, I should be able to do that. So I started running. Now, mind you, I am not fast, I still get that stitch to my side, whatever. But since then, when we were living in Las Vegas, I ran a couple marathons, a couple half marathons. Trust me, did not finish fast. I'm at the back of the pack making sure everyone's okay, no one's falling in a pothole or anything but I did it. I completed them. So it's been a while since I've run a marathon and I've decided that for 2025, I'm going to run a marathon in honor of our friendship. That is my New Year's resolution.
Speaker 2:That is amazing. I have seen you post things about being in races, running races, yeah, and I scroll quickly past it because I get like the shakes and Traumatic memories of our first encounter. You're not going to run a marathon.
Speaker 1:No.
Speaker 2:DJ. No, I have. I do like my spinning bike and that's what I do. Yes, I do try to stay fit and I am good at that bike into nowhere buddies. That's what I like to do bike into nowhere.
Speaker 1:I'm more of a rower the rower.
Speaker 2:I did for a while, but, man, that that is a workout. Yes, it is so do you need me to like come there and move slowly so somebody yells at you and you can pass me up and bitch at me for not picking up the pace.
Speaker 1:You are welcome to come and attend. I'm hoping to sign up for the Erie Marathon because that's in September and it's one of the flattest races in the country, which that's what I need. It's what I'm used to. That'd that'd be the one I'd be looking for Exactly Nobody can accuse you being stupid.
Speaker 1:Right. So we'll see if I can get entered into that and if that doesn't work out, I'll have to find another one. But yes, that is my New Year's resolution. This year is in honor of our podcast, in honor of our friendship. I thought that would be fun and since, obviously, I didn't torture myself enough during the holidays by my lack of decorating, I'm going to torture myself all year by training for this marathon.
Speaker 2:Well, you're making it up minute by minute step by step to me.
Speaker 1:I have to repair this friendship here, you gotta suffer, and this is big suffering here.
Speaker 2:Yes, well, I am going to make a resolution then that I'm going to support your resolution.
Speaker 1:Oh well, thank you.
Speaker 2:That's my first New Year's resolution. Support Carrie in her resolution, because that's what friendship is all about there we go. There we go. So, well, I appreciate that. I am very touched by that and I thank you.
Speaker 1:We'll see how it works out.
Speaker 2:I'm going to have to figure out what I'm going to be able to do to something to honor our friendship. Give me a time. I'll come back to everybody later.
Speaker 1:We got all year. We got all year, all right. So how was your Thanksgiving?
Speaker 2:Well, that was.
Speaker 1:New Year's growing up. Did you do anything special?
Speaker 2:No, no, just like my vacation life. Nothing special Did you have?
Speaker 1:any special food Because, although we didn't have special food on Christmas Eve and we had the same Christmas, thanksgiving and Easter dinner we did have one special food on New Year's.
Speaker 2:Day. I wonder if it's the same. I'm sure it is.
Speaker 1:Sauerkraut, sauerkraut and kielbasa.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and maybe throw some pork in there too short ribs.
Speaker 1:All I can tell you is oh, my god, you don't like.
Speaker 2:I still love, and I'm the only one that eats it, and I'll make a whole big crock pot full of it and then I'm the one eating it for a week. I mean well, as long as you can eat it before, it's just awful, but I love you know, what is so wonderful it's's of the earth.
Speaker 2:If anything, it's like that's the one thing I'm close to the earth with. Is that food sauerkraut? Oh, don't rinse it. People used to rinse it and you know it's sour. You put the brown sugar in there, the greasy kielbasa. You're going to get heartburn from that.
Speaker 1:And it's your spirit food is what you're saying.
Speaker 2:Sauerkraut is your spirit food instead of your spirit animal, so wonderful, and it makes the house smell so, and that's the point, that is what I cannot stand.
Speaker 1:I don't like when I have to smell food for 12, 24 hours or whatever and then eat it like. So if I don't necessarily mind eating sauerkraut and kielbasa, if I don't have to smell it for the day before, so if I went to a restaurant, if I might order it there, or if I go to somebody's house and they're serving it, I might have it because I haven't had to smell it for all day while it's cooking. But just the thought of waking up on New Year's morning and the smell of the house is just penetrated with that sauerkraut and kielbasa smell.
Speaker 2:But you know, you just brought up a good point. I never thought of it until just now. What's that? I don't remember ever seeing sauerkraut on a menu at any restaurant I've ever gone to in my life, the closest you'll probably find is a Reuben sandwich. Yeah, but they don't even they call it cabbage, don't they? Or do they actually say so? I guess they do.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they do call it, and maybe if you well, I feel like some of the Amish restaurants around here you'll you'll find it, or maybe in the area.
Speaker 2:Germany, I guess.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know Four line wants some salad. I'm on board with you. Yeah, no, not a fan.
Speaker 2:I shovel it in my husband's face because he has to have at least one spoonful. Don't ask me why.
Speaker 1:My years have not been better or worse? For it. Sour crap, you made me eat.
Speaker 2:No luck I know, I'm sorry, I keep trying. He won't eat it. He doesn't like it. I believe his family probably had it too. He just avoided it. Did you put hot dogs in yours? What? Wait a minute? Are you going to a ball game? Or what are you doing celebrating new years?
Speaker 1:poor family here. Remember poor family.
Speaker 2:We grew up so we had sauerkraut and kielbasa, but it also had hot dogs in it filler and in the yeah, yeah, closest meaning of the word, hot dogs are full of filler and you filled up your sour cream so my mom would buy like one of those links of the kielbasa, but there was more hot dog in it than sour or the kielbasa, probably because it was cheaper.
Speaker 2:But yeah yeah, so I can't do it I'm not saying it would be horrible, but yeah, no, that almost seems like a crime has been committed when you're not having hot dogs for baseball or something. But hey, anybody else out there putting hot dogs in your sacrifice? I'm going to tell you.
Speaker 1:I don't know how I feel about that.
Speaker 2:But you guys, be you, you do you and we'll do us.
Speaker 1:You'll marinate on that for a week and next week's episode we might be coming back to that. Chr Plus, you'll marinate on that for a week, and next week's episode we might be coming back to that.
Speaker 2:Chrissy might have more thoughts, yeah, so yeah, because they hit me later, I'm not real quick. The other food I do equate with New Year's only because I had to eat it as a child, because I was usually babysat on New Year's. Everybody was older and had places to go and people to see and pizza rolls. Really, yeah, they're awful, but got excited sticking those bad boys in the oven and then burning your face off because you bit into it and it was scalding hot inside.
Speaker 1:Pizza rolls are a staple and one of our staples in our house.
Speaker 2:You like them or purposely, you have them in your house.
Speaker 1:Yes, yeah, my son and my husband definitely like them a lot. But I mean I'll partake in them. I don't think they're horrible, but I mean yeah, so that we, we kind of like our pizza rolls, yeah but we never had them on any holiday like that was definitely something later in life.
Speaker 2:That was never something we had growing up the lady who had to watch me, but I guess she had to watch me and she's very nicely did she come to your house or did you have to go to her house? No, I went to her house because actually her name was Millie.
Speaker 2:She was my brother-in-law, who was married to my oldest sister, his mother, and what's funny about that is that my sister did marry the boy next door. They live next door to us, oh okay. So when I was real little, that was convenient to just take me over there and she watched me for New Year's and we would have pizza rolls and watch that horrible show, which one the only one there is.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to think is there any new year's? There's just that horrible again. Here comes rudolph, oh gosh. Here he comes. Gotta be a shithead through another holiday, rudolph, shiny new year, oh my gosh. So. But yeah, as far we can double back to that, but as far you know.
Speaker 1:So New Year's Day was usually playing cards and having the sauerkraut and kielbasa. That was usually pretty much it. But later in life, when I moved out to Las Vegas, I did the whole like going out onto the strip of Las Vegas on New Year's Eve and that would be the equivalent of the New York Dick Clark kind of ball drop thing and that was a one and done. Glad I did it once but probably never going to do that again. That was way too many people That'd be like my. It's how I, how I felt that day on New Year's Eve, with all those people and being crowded on that strip in Las Vegas, was how I imagined being on a cruise ship. So yeah, I'm not going to do that again. Yeah, it sounds terrifying, it was terrifying. Yeah, it sounds terrifying, it was terrifying. Yeah, it was terrifying.
Speaker 2:Who are these people out there in New York? Do they bust those people? Where do they come? They're just there. Some people I think would probably actually go there on purpose.
Speaker 1:That's their vacation. They're going there, I don't think so.
Speaker 2:You know those people are all pissing all over the street. They are. I mean, I'm sorry You're there. I see you on the TV Congrats. You're wearing crazy hats and weird glasses with numbers on them At least when I did it in Las Vegas.
Speaker 1:I mean, yeah, it gets cold in Vegas. I mean it's not. Even though it's in the desert, it's still cold, but you're not freezing your tail off like you would be in New York. I mean sometimes there it's like snow and ice and negative temperatures and stuff. Like why would you want to do that? Like why I don't get that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, but the people who do it.
Speaker 1:They're dedicated.
Speaker 2:Feel very strongly about it and look at us like we are lost souls, that we wouldn't have any interest in doing it. And that's fine, because you can say you did it and I sure as hell can tell you that I can say I never yeah, ever wanted to do that yeah, I, I did it once just to say hey, I did it, but yeah, no desire to do it again no, and and dick clark was always such a joy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, people try to fill that void doesn't happen, it's gotta be, yeah, gotta be.
Speaker 1:He was classic.
Speaker 2:The worst entertainment in the world, though the worst Generally, everybody was lip syncing their music and there was just. It was just awful.
Speaker 1:Yeah, awful entertainment.
Speaker 2:Why are we watching this? I don't remember ever saying I have to watch Dick Clark's.
Speaker 1:New.
Speaker 2:Year's Rock and Eve Ball, because Belle Biv De and I can't miss that, yeah, never, ever said those words, nope. But going back to Rudolph, yes, because I know everybody's waiting for Rudolph. What the hell is up with that?
Speaker 1:show.
Speaker 2:And people still watch it. I'm sure I have it somewhere here, you probably do. My kids probably put it in. I try to block it out.
Speaker 1:That's one of the few ones that my husband has, that whole collection of the Rudolph and Frosty and all that. But I don't think he has the shiny New Year one, not missing anything. Maybe that'll be his Christmas present, it's just like really awful, awful.
Speaker 2:The baby New Year, oh the baby. I don't know where the hell this concept come from. Okay, the baby new year, oh the baby, I don't know where the hell this concept come from. Okay, fine, baby new year. Baby new year gets.
Speaker 1:Maybe Jesus, I guess, needed a cousin, I guess.
Speaker 2:I don't know. You can't move on to the next year without a baby. And this baby was wearing a top hat all the time and just a diaper. I don't know what the hell look that is Chippendales. I don't understand is why the bird was gonna drop dead if he didn't stop the new year. His time was up at the end. I think that's what I'm trying to remember. This show now. It was horrible. The only thing I can tell you for sure, people, is it is horrible that when that kid took his hat off and those ears came out those ears, nick, do it, those ears, yeah. And that that's how the. Actually the bird was worried about dying because if the new year came he was dead anyhow. He flippin fell off the mountain and died anyhow because the. Is that how he died? I can't remember, I'm not watching it not watching it.
Speaker 2:People write in tell me how, this damn thing what?
Speaker 1:what is up with all these things dying, in these things we have, you know, the tragic death of frosty melting and terror for the little karen yeah, that was horrible because it's just it is.
Speaker 2:We have to be taught especially our generation had to be taught at an early age that it's gonna happen.
Speaker 1:I guess, I don't know.
Speaker 2:It's horrifying, you know, yeah, these things, maybe we thought too much in it. I'm sure I hate ruining it for you people out there but I'm sure there are people out there that are just like you know, chrissy, we just sat and watched the stuff it's lovely love.
Speaker 2:We love the music, we love the story, we loved rudolph and frosty and we got the plushies and the blankets and you know, sit by the tree and enjoy hot chocolate, drink it out of a frosty or rudolph mug, and that's all fine and well. But I was sitting there thinking shit's going down people, this is not good. But you could sit there with that smile on your face. But I'm reading between the lines here and they're prepping us for something awful the year to come the year to come.
Speaker 1:That's right, and so, yeah, very, very did you ever get to go to any like New Year's parties or anything like, as you got older, when you didn't have to be watched by Millie?
Speaker 2:Yeah, finally they got me to get dolled up. I only remember one. I don't even know that you and I have ever gone to. We've gone to friends houses.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and we've had people yeah.
Speaker 2:For New Year's Not often, but once in a while, and that's all well and good and I think a lot, I think a majority of people probably do that. But one year I do remember we got tickets to go to one of the halls social halls in our area for New Year's and provided you with you know, like your drinks and the food. And you had dancing.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:I was still below underage. It was when I was in high school.
Speaker 1:I was just going to say middle school, high school.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think it was like 15, I think Okay, in fact. Well, no, you know me on memory. I can tell you exactly what it was December 31st 1987. Why am I pretending I didn't know exactly when this nightmare happened? So this is right about when we met nightmare. So this is right about when we met. Yes, okay, it would have been my sophomore year.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we must not have been buddy buddies yet, because I didn't get a ticket to go with you that night well, I think we were friends because that was right after we went to that dance oh yeah, together. Okay, so maybe I wasn't allowed to go with you anyway.
Speaker 2:So tell us about this party, believe me I probably knew it was going to be a nightmare from the moment it was scheduled. It wasn't good, but just my just the hostility of my father. I'm betting he might have been mad that he had to do this because he was a Freemason. Yes, and they might have been having some sort of gathering. Oh, they were having their own.
Speaker 1:Thing.
Speaker 2:Well, I don't know that they actually had like for Freemasons like a New Year's thing, but he had his friends in that organization and he enjoyed doing things with them very much and somebody might've been having a get together Somehow. Either he thought it was a good idea to do this and then second guessed himself, or somebody made him feel like he should do this.
Speaker 1:Your mom trumped him and said no, you're going to do this. Yeah, we're going to do the family thing. I want to go dancing New Year's Eve. You're coming?
Speaker 2:Pulled the mom card Might have Wife card, something, but big mistake, because then my father just harbors hostility through the whole thing and it's just a buildup to when he's going to explode. And eventually he did. He complained about food, alcohol, both. It turned into a big shit show and I just remember I was miserable and I think I left with my one sister and she snuck me into a bar.
Speaker 1:So you left that and then you went to a bar with your sister and her husband and her husband.
Speaker 2:And she's a piece. It was a neighborhood dive. I could probably even name name it, but I'm not going to yeah, please don't I don't want to and it's not there anymore anyhow okay it was just a neighborhood dive bar yeah, I only went to one.
Speaker 1:Oh well, my husband and I, when we first moved back here to ohio back in 2013, we were friends with a couple and they wanted to do go to those places like, like you said, rental hall and everything so we went to a couple of them, but my husband doesn't like to dance, so he will sit and watch me dance and everyone else, but he doesn't want to go up and dance. So, you know, it was nice for the food and the camaraderie and again, it was nice to check it off that bucket list and say we've done that. But yeah, no, not my thing. New Year's Eve, usually in bed by about nine, smart.
Speaker 2:That's the smart thing to do, and most I do talk to a lot of people with New Year's. They would prefer just to be asleep. Yeah, and let me tell you, New Year's is, in my opinion again, here comes my opinion the most depressing day of the year. It's not your birthday, Forget that birthday thing, Everybody gets oh, I'm getting a year older. I'm so depressed I can't believe it. Oh my God, yeah, New Year's, that clock ticks over.
Speaker 2:Really, it is like the countdown to death Again here, with the death. I'm here to ruin every holiday for everyone out there. But it is you count down? Yeah, but it is you count down? Yeah. Now you're in another year. What's gonna happen this year? Am I gonna drop dead this year? I don't know what the hell. It's a whole new year. I'm terrified, it's awful.
Speaker 1:There's no hope of oh, this is gonna be the year that we do something great or fabulous or whatever. No, it's all death and damnation yes do you have?
Speaker 2:thoughts like that yes, not if doesn't. No, you're on the other end, yes, you're like this is gonna be my year it is, things are gonna happen.
Speaker 1:Usually the year before was so shitty it's like next year has to be better this year.
Speaker 2:But see, the year before that you were sitting on new year's eve that year before saying this is gonna be. And now you just told me the year was that. You were sitting on New Year's Eve that year before saying this is going to be, and now you just told me the year was shitty. I know.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:You might as well just prepare yourself. You're lying, look. I want everybody to have fantastic upcoming years. I want to have a fantastic upcoming year Already. I'm on track to have a fantastic upcoming year Already. I'm on track to have a fantastic upcoming year because I am with my friend and hopefully I'm entertaining all of you out there.
Speaker 1:See, there it is. There's your ray of light.
Speaker 2:So maybe, yay, I've rubbed off on you. 2025 is going to be that one year where I can maybe sit there for a second and say, huh, nah, oh, chrissy, but I love the fact that you guys have gone out. You partied hard, you had a great time, you wore the crazy hats and blew all the confetti all over the place. Nobody's going to clean that shit up. I mean, you know.
Speaker 1:Here's my biggest beef. I think with New Year's, it's the people shooting the guns. Now, my biggest beef, I think with New Year's, it's the people shooting the guns Now. You see, when we were in Las Vegas, we experienced this a little bit more than here back east, but in Las Vegas it's. This is like this phenomenon these holidays, especially on New Year's Eve to oh, new Year's Eve, let's everybody go outside and shoot our gun straight up into the air, and I'm sorry, what goes up must come down. Where are those bullets coming down at, you know? Okay, great, Now I'm completely freaked out.
Speaker 2:But it's weird you say that because, yes, actually when I was very little, some parent would stay home. Maybe they just weren't going out yet or they didn't make plans that night. But when I was very little, I do remember my father taking me in the stroke of midnight, going out and standing on the porch to hear the chaos. Oh, okay, and it was gunfire. Yeah, and it was. But if you know where we're from, I mean that was right, that could be any night.
Speaker 2:It was comforting. It was comforting, well, but now you're telling me stuff's coming down. Well, yeah, what goes up must come down.
Speaker 1:And so I do remember there were a couple years living in Las Vegas and just dread New Year's Eve or July 4th was another one because I was so worried about this and especially the one place that we lived in. I literally slept on the floor because I was afraid of stray bullets coming through the house because everyone, all these people just outside just shooting around, you know, this was in Vegas, this was in Vegas, yeah, Wow. So you know houses are closer together, you know like you're on top of each other and everything, but I wouldn't go outside on New Year's Eve to celebrate or whatever, because I'm like no, there's stray bullets people.
Speaker 2:So yes, no ordinances against that. Oh yeah, there's ordinances, but nobody's paying attention.
Speaker 1:How are you going to enforce that? I mean, like you got 100,000 people or whatever, whatever the population is, but you got all these people shooting. There's no way they can. I mean, I know here in Youngstown, maybe here in the area that we live in, they have that thing called shots fired.
Speaker 2:And if you fire a gun there, it tells you kind of the exact location the police respond. But we didn't have that there, but still, yeah, it's just it's a crazy town. That is crazy. Yeah, I understand, people want to celebrate fireworks would achieve the same thing exactly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean, and they're illegal too. At least you know, at least out west, they were because of the fire hazard. But I would much rather have a firework going off and look at something pretty than hear something go off and then have to worry of coming through my house.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so no, not a big fan of it.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean I can totally get it. So then you get through the new year.
Speaker 1:Yep. And now? What do we got to look forward to? What's coming up next for us?
Speaker 2:Well, January through March and my whole thing was just depressing Right. And that's usually when the weather showed up that you wanted to have for Christmas. Yeah, this is true, and you're like, but I'm so not interested in this now. Right, no, you'd really just rather go into like 60 degree, 70 degree.
Speaker 1:I guess when you're out west you kind of are there, but yeah, I'm not looking forward to the next three months of snow and slush and ice and melt and rain, and then you know, rinse and repeat Same thing over in cold weather. No, I'm not looking forward to it.
Speaker 2:When's?
Speaker 1:the next vacation. I think I got one coming up to get away from all this. I need another one.
Speaker 2:I'm sure you do. I have Let me think Is there anything coming up on TV I might want to watch? I don't know. That's my whole thing. I'm just waiting for something good to show up on TV?
Speaker 1:Yeah, because right now we're in the lull even on TV shows. You know things are on break, so they got to wait till they come back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm old school. The season started in like with the school. Yes yes, that was seasons. They have seasons for shows.
Speaker 1:It's so weird. Well, so the one thing I best get going then is I need to go start running, because I got that marathon to run.
Speaker 2:I better go get my ass in shape and I guess, yeah, I mean God love you, god love you. No, the running. I know some other people family and some friends who also post. They are very involved with the running and marathons and they all look very happy. They're like happy.
Speaker 1:I know Smiling. It's one of those things that when you finish it's like, oh my gosh, I'm not going to do this again. But then, at the same time, you're so elated and happy and the next morning you find yourself back on trying to find something else to sign up for.
Speaker 2:But whatever, wow so. But this year I have a little different motivation. So well, I appreciate that. That is lovely, and I am your number one fan. I need a shirt with your name on it.
Speaker 1:I'll wear a sandwich board. I'll wear a sandwich. I'll wear a dysfunction junkie shirt when I run that's the best one to wear so. So, yeah, all right, junkies. Well, happy New Year. Please make sure to check out our Facebook page and maybe give us what your New Year's resolutions are. Do you look at the new year as something to look forward to for great things to come? Are you about gloom and despair? So, are you a Chrissy? Are you a Carrie?
Speaker 2:That's right, you are you.
Speaker 1:That's perfect way to put it, and I like the fact that I am part of the gloom and despair group.
Speaker 2:I will rep that all the way. Well, you're wearing a black t-shirt right now, so you're good to go. I am yeah, so yeah, and we are. One thing we are looking forward to is 2025 and our junkies and growing our family and keeping our family laughing, yes, and keeping you in your safe place.
Speaker 1:Yes, absolutely All right, Junkies, we'll see you next week. Happy New Year.
Speaker 2:Happy New Year. Duck and cover.
