Fall, Coffee, and Dysfunction

Fall shows up like a guest who brings both flowers and a suitcase of trouble, and we spend this episode unpacking the contradictions. On one hand, there’s the slow-fire beauty of leaves, warm days paired with crisp nights, and that comforting hush when the air thins out. On the other hand, we feel the quiet grief of summer ending, the looming dread of snow or its slushy cousins, and the way the calendar tips us toward holidays, expectations, and endless errands. Join as we dive into the dysfunction of Fall.

Chapters

• 0:07 Welcoming Fall, Mixed Feelings
• 0:35 “Indian Summer” Debate and Origins
• 4:19 Seasonal Sick Talk and Comfort Levels
• 10:50 DIY Decor Anxiety: Pool Noodles & Picks
• 16:22 Coffee Confessions and Creamer Panic
• 22:31 The Quest for Espresso at Home
• 28:53 Bridal Registry Tangent and Frothers

Transcript

DJ NICK: 0:07

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

Kerry: 0:20

Hello, junkies. Kerry.

Chrisy: 0:22

And I'm Chrisy.

Kerry: 0:24

Welcome to fall. Welcome to fall, Autumn.

Chrisy: 0:27

Oh my gosh. Everybody was waiting for this since July.

Kerry: 0:32

I know, not me, but you know.

Chrisy: 0:34

Not really me either. It puts me through all kinds of stress.

Kerry: 0:37

Actually, I was I was driving in today and I was starting to see how the fall leaves are changing and the colors. And I will say, I do like fall for a lot of those aspects. I just mourn in fall because I know my warm summer months are over and that wicked S thing is coming. Snow. Snow.

Chrisy: 0:58

If you're lucky.

Kerry: 1:00

Oh.

Chrisy: 1:00

But if you're not, you're just gonna end up with sleet, the other S words. And slush. The other S word. Just lousy, unfortunate weather. And a pretty snowfall. I'm I'm all for. Once we can get through, I would like to have a fall, though.

Kerry: 1:15

Yeah. I do, I do enjoy the fall. I enjoy the warm day, cool nights, you know, but oh yeah.

Chrisy: 1:23

I don't like the Indian summer thing.

Kerry: 1:26

You can't say that. That's not allowed to be said no more. Oh. That's not politically correct. Oh crap.

Chrisy: 1:34

I didn't get that memo. When did that happen? Oh, because I watch really old shows and they still say that word. They said it. I think it was was it the name of an episode of Mad Men? It was the name of a name of a movie, too.

DJ NICK: 1:53

From the early 90s.

Chrisy: 1:54

Yes. Yeah. Sorry. Yeah. I don't know what am I supposed to call it?

Kerry: 2:02

That's what I was just thinking. What do we call it? The um the April Fool's Day of summers. I don't know.

Chrisy: 2:10

It's it's fall, but it's not acting like fall. Yeah. It's uh fall in disguise. It's fall in the sky. I could go down some really bad. I'm not gonna say anything. It's a summer encore.

Kerry: 2:21

That's what we're gonna call it. We're gonna call it summer encore.

DJ NICK: 2:24

When did they really did they say you're not allowed to say that? I don't think that it's that non-PC.

Kerry: 2:29

I think it's still I thought it had to do with the whole, you know, how people would say don't be a blank giver.

DJ NICK: 2:35

Yeah.

Kerry: 2:36

You know? And I think that was re I thought it was referring to fault. Okay, DJ Nick, Google this.

DJ NICK: 2:41

So I think in in general, I don't know that it's as taboo as like like saying, you know, other things. Oh, don't say it. Oh my god, please actually is rooted in this is it was a time when Native American tribes would use the time to gather their winter stores, you know, so they would you know when it was because of w in a little bit warmer weather was their time to gather stuff to get ready for the winter. So I don't know that it's so it's not referencing other things. Yeah. Whether it's a baseball team or we can say Native American summer?

Kerry: 3:12

I I think that would be more politically correct.

Chrisy: 3:15

No, I Can I just say that maybe who's judging all of this?

DJ NICK: 3:19

I don't know. I mean it's and that might be more insulting. I'm actually not finding anything where it says it's that's a taboo.

Kerry: 3:26

Okay. I thought it was referencing that other thing about don't be a Native American giver, you know. I thought that referenced that. So that's always been negative, even before I know, but for some reason, because I was under the impression it had to do with that thing with fall, because it was like, oh, we had fall, and then it went back, it was taken back, you know, and so that's why I thought yeah, but I I'm apparently I could be wrong.

Chrisy: 3:49

I thought it had something to do with harvest and uh the gathering.

Kerry: 3:53

I was overthinking it.

DJ NICK: 3:54

Yeah, so I don't think there's anything. There's nothing in here indicating okay.

Kerry: 4:00

So Chrissy, you're okay. So you can say it. Jesus. Well, that was three minutes of craziness. Yeah.

DJ NICK: 4:08

A lot of pressure, huh?

Chrisy: 4:09

I was really shuffling to try and save myself here. Oh my god. I thought I was gonna be so canceled, and I don't know what.

Kerry: 4:18

Okay. So I have to bring this up because we've been kind of talking about all morning, but this is the one thing I also don't like about the fall, especially whenever you start getting into fall. It's the fall creepy crud, the germs, the illnesses, the sicknesses. So I'm sitting here in the studio with coffee one and sniffly two.

Chrisy: 4:38

Oh, that's wrong. I did not ask to get anything, and I am through uh most of it. Uh it's just the leftover because I incessantly blow my nose. I know, but you're sitting here where where okay, paper towel. This is a paper towel. If you don't blow my nose on that, look at you. You're worried about getting shirts. What if I did blow my nose on that you can't? Because I've been watching you.

Kerry: 5:03

Oh, just of it, not this part here. But it's clean. Okay, but Chrissy, you don't use a paper towel to wipe your nose. It's like sandpaper. You would rather just run down. Well, no, but go get go get it cleenex.

Chrisy: 5:17

Go get toilet paper is the same. I get I walk around with a roll of toilet paper. I would rather see you do that than with a paper towel. This I I don't know why I brought this here. I don't know.

Kerry: 5:28

But I but this is the time of year. All the kids go back to school and it just is this petri dish of all of a sudden everyone's getting sick because of those germy little and then they ugh. Well, it's it just is what it is. I mean, you know, you could have to deal with it, I guess. But yeah, there's there's one part of the early fall that I just I'm like, oh god, here comes the creepy crud.

Chrisy: 5:56

Well, yeah, but yeah. It's but am I creepy? I guess I'm a creepy crud. I'm just like the kids.

Kerry: 6:04

Creepy as in creepy as in well, I get it.

Chrisy: 6:13

Yes, when school starts, although school's been in for a while now. I know, but they've been incubating it. Yeah. And then the weather, change, yes, then warm days and cold nights. I know those are lovely, but I think that helps sort of oh it breeds stuff. Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's gotta be cold all the time.

Kerry: 6:32

Well, I try to keep the hot all the time.

Chrisy: 6:35

Well, I don't know. We're I'm of the age. I don't know how you feel, but I know the age that I'm experiencing I don't want to be hot ever. I want to be freezing cold. Because unfortunately, I can't control the heat that I sometimes feel.

Kerry: 6:48

Admit. Well, I've been in uh what is that? Not menopause, like whenever because I have my ovaries taken out, it's a false it's not a false menopause, what is it? Medical menopause, something there doesn't need for it. So I've been experiencing that for 20 years. So that's old school.

Chrisy: 7:04

Yeah. So I never wanted to be. I would rather be cold and have to try and cover up with a sweatshirt or a blanket than have to try and figure out how to cool down and jump in cold water, I guess, or something.

Kerry: 7:19

Yeah, I do like a good snuggle under a blanket, but in general, I don't like to be cold. I just don't want to be cold. I'm okay with it. So what's going on with your take on fall?

Chrisy: 7:30

Fall is what do we got to look forward to?

Kerry: 7:34

What's dysfunctional about fall?

Chrisy: 7:36

Oh, what's dysfunctional about fall? Well, all those crazy videos people have been making since July to get you ready for fall. That's dysfunction. It gives me anxiety. And when did a pool noodle become the answer to everything? What do you mean? These videos, they take these pool noodles and they show you how to do these crafts. A pool noodle can be used as a a decorative piece over your archway. You get the tension rod, you get a pool noodle, you cut the pool noodle down so it can like hook onto your tension rod, and then you buy a bunch of artificial fall flowers and little cadoodles and stuff like that. Uh, and you just stab the hell out of the pool noodle in a ritualistic fashion that creates a decorative piece for yourself. And then people come over and they go, Is that a pool noodle or is that a decoration? And you're like, hey, hey, don't say nothing about my pool noodle. I don't see a pool noodle, do you? You know, and then you buy these fluorescent pool noodles. Yeah. That's just a lot of pressure to have to cover up. I mean, if they're gonna have you use pool noodles for everything, uh-huh, they should at least come out with colors that coordinate with what you're decorating. Oh, so we need fall-colored pool noodles. Yes, I said it here first. Okay, and I have not trademarking this.

Kerry: 9:01

Yes. So this is going up with our Karen on the roof and uh what was it? Chrissy Go.

Chrisy: 9:10

Chrissy Go. Um, so why are we not having pool noodles in muted, uh like a burgundy or a burnt orange or maybe black or red and green for Christmas? Yes, the people got like fluorescent green and pink pool noodles that they're stabbing fall colors into. They make centerpieces with these things and the zip ties. Oh, yeah. Zip ties and pool noodles are the answer to everything. And duct tape? No, I haven't seen anybody do anything with duct ties. Oh, duct tape out, it's zip ties and pool noodles then. Zip ties and pool noodles, and then just a bunch of artificial flowers and picks. We used to call them picks. Picks? The like little pumpkins or things you would put in a wreath, like if you were making a uh a holiday wreath. Some thinking like hair picks, like you know, like oh yeah, no, no, no, yeah. I'm using an old term. My sister, who was in the floral design and all that, that's what we would call them. Picks, oh okay, which you would use to decorate things with. So yeah, I get a lot of anxiety watching all these videos and the other thing is is I get a lot of anxiety about my coffee. Oh, yeah. Because talk about coffee. I love coffee, as every well, most people do. My husband does not, he won't drink coffee, he doesn't like the taste of it or whatever. He likes the way it smells, it reminds him, but he does not enjoy the the taste of it.

Kerry: 10:34

Yeah, Jim uh farm boy Jim is a black coffee person. He'll drink hardcore series.

Chrisy: 10:40

Oh, yeah.

Kerry: 10:41

But I do love the smell of the coffee in the house. My coffee has to be foo-foo.

Chrisy: 10:46

Me, me too. Absolutely. But these people making their own creamer. And so then I think geez, they they point out to you how horrible these creamers are that you buy. Oh, yeah. With all these things. Now I do buy the one creamer, not a sponsor, Chibani, uh-huh, which is generally basic ingredients. Yes. But then I feel bad even about that, and I'm like, oh, so I'm supposed to buy the sweet and condensed milk and the half and half and get a mason jar and shake the hell out of it. And now I got creamer for like a week in my fridge. Okay. And I'm like, okay. And then I forget I bought it, and it's behind in the back of the fridge. And I'm like, what the hell is that? What's that kernel in the back of the fridge? Who made this? Who is the idiot who put this in my fridge?

Kerry: 11:27

Speaking of the peachy dishes.

Chrisy: 11:29

Yeah. There's a science experiment. And then they make this where they take the raw pumpkin. Oh, yeah. And you have to have your one year. This was last year. You did it? They cause such a panic in me about the pumpkin pie spice. You're not gonna be able to get it. Everybody's putting pumpkin pie spice in everything. Your foods, your everything. They're sprinkling it on the pool noodles, probably. It's everywhere. I went and I I couldn't find it at stores. I was like panicking. I didn't even want it. But I just was looking for it and I felt like I had to have it. I finally went to one of the stores and they had it. I bought like three things of this. Of pumpkin spice. Yeah. I don't need pumpkin spice ever again for like years to come. So now I try to switch over because the inner told me I'm horrible with this. And I try not to be swayed, but I was suede. So now instead of this plain cinnamon that I was sprinkling in my coffee, now I'm sprinkling pumpkin pie spice.

Kerry: 12:25

So a lot of you know, there was a small time frame I did like the pumpkin pie spice, but no, I I'm not a fan. No. Now I love like so right now, Starbucks can not a sponsor, but I do love my Starbucks. I love their pumpkin muffin that they have right now, but I've no on the pumpkin spice latte.

Chrisy: 12:44

Yeah, no, I I don't know what to do. I'm at a bad place. And then I need I need one of those little hand things that stirs stuff. Oh, the whiskey thing, yeah. Yeah, but yeah, I don't I have a coffee maker that came with like sort of an attachment on the side, yeah, which I love and it will froth my milk milk and stuff. But then I thought I need to invest in a good espresso machine. Oh yes, got one. They're expens you have one?

Kerry: 13:11

Yeah. Well, and it's not a really super good one, but it's enough of one. But my problem is, see, I'm a white chocolate mocha person, and I yet to find a white chocolate mocha that tastes like Starbucks. So I've purchased every different type of white chocolate mocha syrup. Then there's the uh, let's see, there's um there's the creamer, there's like syrup, there's there's another name for it that's it's like a thicker one, and nothing tastes the same. So I'll make it at home, like on Saturday, when I want a couple cups of it, you know, to drink and stuff. But gosh, nothing beats that Starbucks, though. Yeah, it's so good.

Chrisy: 13:48

It's really hard. You know, you start out with a simple espresso machine. Like, you know what? I just want I want my coffee to be strong. Yeah. Because I was going to uh caribou, not a sponsor. Yeah, and eight shots of espresso. It had a ton of espresso, and I get the uh it was uh oat, what was it? A caramel oat milk espresso shaker. Okay. Loved it and still love it. Yeah. And I'm like, geez, I just really need to have this at home. And I would try to make my coffee really strong. Yeah, couldn't duplicate it. Yeah. I'm like, that's it. I have to have an espresso machine. This is the answer to that. So then you start shopping for them, which I'm making myself crazy because you start out with the ones that are affordable. Right. And you're like, okay, it's just gonna make this beautiful little espresso, and then I'm gonna have to do everything. But then you start looking, and then they have these machines, they do everything for you. All you do is push a button. Yes. And it's like, I want this, I want a latte, I want that, I want that. Well, I'm like, I want that. I don't want to sit, I need me, I'm busy. I ain't got time to sit here and mix drinks. So then I start looking at that. These machines are like thousand dollars. They're a thousand dollars plus. And then I'm like, well, I'm just gonna treat myself. Right. Of course. I've been punished enough in my life, I deserve this. And then, you know, I'm like, okay, I've learned as I've aged to maybe put myself off a little bit and think it through, which I know nobody out there is buying this, but it's true. And I generally put myself off long enough where I lose interest for a little while. But then it comes back. Oh, yeah. It's back and forth of me. Exactly. Right now I don't have an espresso machine, just to let everybody know.

Kerry: 15:17

I'm not committed to this as of yet. The fall season is early. Right, right, right, right. Well, the the little machine I have is perfect because it it will make one or two cups, you know, and it has the espresso. It makes, you know, the the espresso goes through, but then it has the milk frother. And since mostly I like a cappuccino or a latte, so I I need that a lot of milk to be steamed, it works perfect. But I just haven't found the sweetener that gives it the flavor that I exactly like. I'm close. I mean, it's close, but it's just not quite. I bought the Starbucks coffee beans, you know. I've done that, you know, I'm using the soy milk because I, you know, would prefer soy milk, but it's just that white chocolate flavoring. I just, and I've even gone in there and begged them. I'm like, can you just sell me the syrup? And they're like, no, we can't do that.

Chrisy: 16:06

Well, do they do they sell something they say is because I know they sell the coffee. Right. And they do have like the other Starbucks brand stuff in the stores, but not this syrup.

Kerry: 16:16

Not I have yet to find where they're yeah. And even my sister-in-law, when she was uh in town a few weeks ago, like she was trying to help me crack the code, and we thought we figured it out by getting this one. Like I said, I don't I can't think of the name of what it's called, but we even tried that and in hmm, I got an idea.

Chrisy: 16:33

What? We should get a part-time job somewhere just for like a couple days, go undercover, see what the hell this stuff is.

Kerry: 16:40

I know. Or or smuggle a few out.

Chrisy: 16:43

No, I was like, anything don't belong to me. No, but I want to see what the hell's going on because I do wonder that because I'm like, man, I really would love to make this at home. Yes. And I really need to know what you know. And I'm thinking, I come here and I buy from you all the time. I know.

Kerry: 16:59

Can I just come in and watch you make my dream? I mean, I watch them make it and I watch them do the squirts of the stuff, and I'm like, I that's that's the one ingredient I need.

Chrisy: 17:07

Oh, so anyways, though. What wouldn't we get so crazy with this? You know, you said that you have the frother. Yeah. Long time ago, I worked for a department store. Uh-huh. Uh, probably almost 30 years, well, probably is 30 years ago. And I was the bridal manager, which meant I registered brides for their stuff. A bunch of spoiled, rotten bridezillas who would send sometimes just register for one washcloth, one towel, and one hand towel. And I'd be like, I think you're gonna need more than this. Can we talk here? I are you just registering for you? What about your spouse? Or what's going on? They would register for bizarre stuff, but I I got for free, it was a crups. Oh, yeah. This was 30 years ago. Yeah. Espresso kind of machine. Yeah. And I remember reading the instructions and I was so excited to get this, and it scared me because it said it was under pressure. Yes. And there was a chance something could explode. And I gave it away. I was like, I don't want to explode. I got so scared. Oh, Chrissy. The bad part about this is the way I could get free stuff was I had to register the brides for so many. Right. And then I got something for free.

Speaker 03: 18:18

Oh.

Chrisy: 18:19

And you would take the first tag. I don't care about the third statute of limitations right now. And they're just gonna flip and return this stuff anyhow. A bunch of rotten people. Nobody even read do they register? I guess they do register, but it's a totally different animal. And nobody's registering for fine china and crystal anymore. That was still a thing. Yeah. And uh I would be like, you know, do you want to register? This is important. You need to have this Waterford stem set. Because that was another thing I wanted. So you were upselling. I wasn't selling anything. I would make them get it on there. I wanted them to get it on the register. I understand that, but you were up registering. Yes. And and sometimes I could I could persuade them to put it on there. Yeah. And other times they gave me an attitude and be like, I just don't need that. It's impractical. I'm thinking, the marriage is impractical. What are you talking about? You're about to venture into ridiculous. I could tell you two ain't gonna make it. I mean, get the stuff and then return it and have some money when you guys are trying to figure out what the hell to do with each other. So I would stick it on their registry without them knowing. Oh, Chrissy. What? So what? They didn't have to tell them they're so busy doing all this other crap. They didn't even notice. And then you get them couple of little snobby bitches come back and you're like, I didn't want this. This is on my registry. I need you to take it off right now. And I'd be like, oh, fine. I already got credit for it, honey.

Kerry: 19:46

Bye-bye. Oh, Chrissy. How old were you when that was? Were you 20?

Chrisy: 19:51

I'm in my 20s. I was married.

Kerry: 19:53

I was married already.

Chrisy: 19:56

You need I needed stuff in my house. What the hell, man? Oh, that's great. Take control of your registry, people. There's nobody walking around with that gun anymore registering people. Oh, the gun. Because I that was like a big deal before. Before you'd go in the store and they'd have the little scanner. Yeah. Beep, beep, yeah. And you know, and then they started letting these people walk around with the gun themselves. I mean, that was a that was a ticking, it was time for that to run out. Yeah. So I'm sorry, I didn't mean to segue into bridal registry. How we went from fall during the room.

Kerry: 20:34

We were talking about espresso espresso.

Chrisy: 20:38

We probably should have made Lucy's Rage on Bridal Registry. Me and my job, I got a whole slew. I had many jobs. So that was one of them. So let's go back. So yes, I do play around the idea of getting an espresso machine. Yeah. Kudos to you. You have one. Yeah. Obviously working for you.

Kerry: 21:00

Farmboy Jim got it for me as a present. So he was he I'm okay. It was a gift for me, but trust me, it was totally probably self-s self-serving because he probably has a he doesn't like how much I go to Starbucks.

Chrisy: 21:14

So he's like, oh, you can see this machine, it can do that for you. I know.

Kerry: 21:19

And then he'll be like, you don't ever use it. I'm like, well, I do use it, but it's also one of those things like it takes time, you know, you got to get the milk in, you know. So to me, that's using it at home is like that's a Saturday morning thing when I can enjoy my morning and relax and enjoy making my coffee. On a regular Monday through Friday, when I get up at six and I gotta be out the door by seven, take care of three dogs: a bird, a cat, a horse, a cow, myself, and everything else. Yeah, Starbucks. I get it.

Chrisy: 21:52

I get it. Okay. Anyway, so I get it very much. Yeah, stay away from the videos with the pool noodles and the zip ties. Um fascinating to watch, and and just in general, people are doing really great things, and it's it's really great to see that creativity.

Kerry: 22:06

And I I do I love it when I see somebody's house tastefully decorated in fall decor. Now, note I said fall decor. I'm not talking Halloween.

Chrisy: 22:17

I'm talking mean a Halloween hater.

Kerry: 22:22

I love the like I said, I do love fall. I do love the atmosphere of fall, I love the look of the colors and the you know, all of that. So to see that when you go up to somebody's house and they have the really nice little fall display and they got, you know, the like it, I I I appreciate it. I love it. At this point in my life, I don't do that. Maybe the next stage of my life I will have time to do that. But so I love that kind of stuff. But uh Halloween, nah, that's gonna be another episode. Yeah, well, you can.

Chrisy: 22:52

We can talk about the Dollar General fines. Oh gosh, because that's a whole video series. I'm not gonna talk about now. But then crappy plastic pumpkins, again, like the poo noodles, overused, and gives me a flipping problem because I feel like I need to run and go grab 20 pumpkins. Plastic pumpkins. That's because your dad decorated with plastic McDonald's pumpkins. My man would have never done what they're doing now. I mean, stabbing it and sticking a light bulb in it is one thing. But these people are like painting them and the little twinkle lights and another, another show, another show. Another show, another show.

Kerry: 23:32

So, what else we got for fall? So, what about these fall festivals? Do you guys go to any kind of fall festivals or falls?

Chrisy: 23:39

Like an Oktoberfest thing?

Kerry: 23:41

No, like for instance, like a lot of times this time of year you'll have like different communities will have craft shows and it'll be like fall crafts and you know, or just different vendors, and then they've got the hot apple cider, the you know, it's just fall theme. Like, for instance, this one place that's near us, White House Fruit Farms. Yeah. Not a sponsor. They have this big fall weekend thing, and so it's all about the apple cider and the donuts and pumpkins, pumpkins, and you know, it's just something to do on the weekend to go walking through the field and pick a pumpkin and it sounds wonderful.

Chrisy: 24:16

And I do remember when I lived in that area that that was a big deal. Yeah. For me, that requires being around an awful lot of people.

Kerry: 24:24

There you go, sister. Amen. And I would love to go, but I want only see, like, I don't want to be so close where I'm bumping shoulders with people. I don't, you know, like I and yeah. Limit it to like 30 people. Jeez, that's a lot.

Chrisy: 24:39

I know. You know, I kind of always want to go to the code.

Kerry: 24:42

Normally there's like 200 people. Well, yeah, it's horrible. Well, so 30 is better.

Chrisy: 24:47

Okay. So I my think process here is really bad because I would like to go to something, uh, which an or a company has like totally worked so hard to promote, put a lot of money investing in this to have a lot of people come in and enjoy it and buy things and just really be wonderful. And my whole thing is such a downer. I basically am in my own way, but not like right firsthand. I'm kind of hoping you fail. I want to be the only person that shows up because I don't want to be around anybody. So I'm thinking, wouldn't it be great if just like everybody forgot it was this weekend?

Kerry: 25:22

Or pray for bad weather. Let it freaking rain. And now see, now Jim and I do this a lot. We when we go to the zoo a lot and we're always like, let it be bad weather. I don't care. I'll we I'll go to the zoo in bad weather because that means there'll be less people there and I won't have to deal with them. I don't care if I have an umbrella and I'm walking in the rain, but it just means less people.

Chrisy: 25:43

Well, if it's warm enough, I suppose that probably would be fun.

Kerry: 25:46

I will say that is speaking of uh zoos, the the one Halloween type thing I do like to go to is when they have the boo in the zoo, you know, and they do decorate the zoo and they have all the fall Halloween things or whatever, and it's it's kind of like a prelude to the Christmas lights at the zoo. Right. That is one Halloween themed thing I can get into.

Chrisy: 26:08

See, I would be freaked out with the Halloween one because what if they're decorating and I mistake a real animal for decoration? And now I am the feast of uh Simba. Because I was like, look at this lifelike decoration, it's terrifying. And Simba had gotten out of the cage. Well, that's the other thing. I'm always worried about you go into a zoo, and it's just you see these again with the videos, so-so got loose, somebody let so-and-so out of the cage, and whoopsie.

Kerry: 26:48

We were there once when the moose got out of the zoo, and uh, so we were like put in lockdown because the moose got out.

Chrisy: 26:56

So did you see it running by and chasing it?

Kerry: 27:00

No, the funny thing is we had just walked past the moose exhibit and we didn't see it, so we just kept walking. Well, then next thing we know, it's we didn't see it because it got out and it was loose. I think it was like we maybe we did see it, but it was kind of in the trees, so it wasn't like feeling like we were threatened. But yeah, we were all put in lockdown. They they put us like they moved everybody to this one section where they were able to shut a gate, and so we were like locked in this one area of the zoo. What was funny, it was the African area. So, like I if you know, now we went from a well, relatively safe. I mean, it was a moose, it could still hurt you, but but then they locked us in the lion area where safer lion.

Chrisy: 27:43

Well, that says a lot about a moose.

Kerry: 27:45

So they they got the moose. It was like a nine-month-old moose that was actually an orphan rescue.

Chrisy: 27:50

So they got somebody orphaned a moose. Well, is that a common thing with the mm mm moose?

Kerry: 27:58

I don't know how to say that. Um I don't remember the whole story, but I the moose came from somewhere like Montana or whatever, and it the mother had gotten killed.

Speaker 03: 28:07

Oh no.

Kerry: 28:07

And so this was the orphan baby, and so the zoo took it, and and that's how they got this, you know, baby. So, but it was like nine months old or something like that, and so it was still learning like its boundaries and exhibits and whatever, it got out. But they within 30 minutes, it was safely back in its habitat.

Chrisy: 28:25

We were exciting 30 minutes.

Kerry: 28:28

It was so now every time we go to the zoo and we walk by the moose, we're like, hey, remember last time we were here and the moose got loose?

Chrisy: 28:34

See, now you like completely gave me another level of anxiety. Not that I go to the zoo a lot, but now she's never going to the zoo. Well, here's the deal with all things. Just to give you the background on my thinking, I'm gonna go to the zoo. And generally, when we didn't see the animal where it was supposed to be, yeah, I was just like, oh, it must be inside somewhere because it's cold or it just doesn't want to look at us right now. Or but now every time if I go back to the zoo, I'm gonna think, Where is this tiger? Where is it out? Why isn't it here? I need to know proof that this isn't wandering around. I'm gonna always think that if I don't see it, it's out somewhere.

Kerry: 29:11

Now that's dysfunction.

Chrisy: 29:12

There we go.

Kerry: 29:14

Because I'm always gonna think of a way if I'm gonna die today. Oh my god. Again, we digress. How we went from the fall to animals loose at the zoo. It's insane. I think we had too much coffee this morning. Our brains are jumping around. Probably.

Chrisy: 29:30

Absolutely.

Kerry: 29:32

Well, I hope everybody is enjoying their fall weather. Um and your coffee. And your coffee, whether it's pumpkin spice or white chocolate milk or plain black coffee with two ice cubes like Farm Boy Gym. Right. But we have to say we've got some exciting things happen this fall in October. Absolutely. So even though we may not like to be around people too much, we will love to be at the United Way of Wayne and Holmes County in Worcester, Ohio. For their 5K fun run that they're having on October 25th from 9 to 11 in historic downtown Worcester. This is the uh Heart and Ghoul 5K. Chrissy and I will be there. We still have to figure out our costumes. We have ideas. We have ideas, we do, but we are gonna be there. I'm probably gonna run in the race. Chrissy's gonna cheer me on from the sidelines. But this month for Junkies Care, we are supporting the United Way of Wayne and Holmes County. Um, so that is our Junkies Care initiative this month. So we do hope that you're able to come out and see us and maybe participate. One of the things they talk about there is after the race, there's an after party, and it's going to be at a restaurant called Muddies. So if you run in the race, you get a free beer or coffee. So you know, bring your pumpkin spice uh flavoring and you can add it to your coffee there that day.

Chrisy: 30:53

Very good, yes.

Kerry: 30:54

Or maybe they have pumpkin beer too. Oh, they do. Oh, they make they do make pumpkin flavored beer. Oh ginger beer, I could do, but not pumpkin beer. But, anyways, so that is our dysfunction junkies care for this month. But you can check out all the things about us on our website, which is dysfunction junkiespodcast.com. We also now have a blog. So Carrie's blog released this month and actually last a couple weeks ago in September. I talk about uh just anything and everything. And Chrissy's getting hers going too. So make sure you check out our website to read our blogs about other random thoughts that we have.

Chrisy: 31:33

Yeah, mine's gonna be everywhere.

Kerry: 31:36

Mine is called The Elephant Speaks. Chrissy's still kind of working on hers, although we have some good ideas what we think it's gonna be. But uh, so but yeah, you can check us out there, check us out what we're what we're talking about, our show ideas, episodes, everything you need to know about us is on there. So check that out.

Chrisy: 31:51

Yes.

Kerry: 31:52

Alrighty, everyone. Have a great fall, and uh we'll talk to you later. Bye bye. Bye.