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!
Dysfunction Junkies
We watched the dysfunction so you don’t have to
What do you do when the wildest stories in your life are the ones you didn’t cause—you just watched? We dive into the hilarious and heartfelt mess of secondhand dysfunction: a sibling clinging to a car hood to save neighborhood kittens, a dad proudly returning from the pound with “our” collie that was definitely a Labrador, and a mysterious 70s women’s gathering where a legally blind grandmother briefly claimed clear sight. It’s a tour through the moments we’ve normalized, the roles we played as witnesses, and the ways humor helps us carry complicated love for the people who raised us.
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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:Hello, junkies. I'm Kerry.
CHRISY:And I'm Chrissy.
KERRY:Welcome to our episode today. How are you doing over there, Chrissy? I'm fine, thank you. How are you?
CHRISY:I'm good. What are we talking about today, Chrissy? Well, some uh dysfunctional situations that don't involve us firsthand. Okay. But we were witness to. Okay. And I know you've been having a little bit of trouble trying to remember one, although I bet you you've got them. Oh, I'm sure I do. They didn't impact you as much as I have a couple that seem to impact me. Yeah.
KERRY:Maybe something will spark with me along the way.
CHRISY:Might maybe. But go ahead. Yeah. No, go ahead.
KERRY:No, no, you go ahead. You go ahead.
CHRISY:I have a feeling we're going to say the same thing, but you go ahead. I don't think we are. Oh, oh, what? No, go ahead. Okay, I'm about.
KERRY:We had too much coffee and pulp and sugar and I don't know what today is. Uh but speaking of all that sweets, I was gonna say we got a little special thing coming up this weekend. Yes. It's Sweetest Day this weekend.
CHRISY:Shout out to Sweetest Day. If it's a Northeast Ohio. Right.
KERRY:So sir, for some of our international listeners or our West Coast listeners, you have no idea what we're talking about. But if they listen to the Valentine's Day episode, they do. That's right, because the Valentine's Day episode is still our number one episode. It is.
DJ NICK:And you guys talked about its evolution.
KERRY:Yes.
DJ NICK:Well, you helped us with that.
KERRY:DJ Nick got the the etology of it.
DJ NICK:Thank you, Google Gemini, whoever.
KERRY:The word of the day has etology.
CHRISY:Now that is a good one now. I never heard of that one.
DJ NICK:Isn't it etiology? Isn't that how you say that?
KERRY:Oh, Nick. God, you and your doctorate's degree over there. She had me at etology. Is that like she had me at hello? Yeah.
CHRISY:Okay. Word of the day is etology, no matter what Nick's happy.
KERRY:Okay. DJ Nick, can you Gemini the differ the word etology?
CHRISY:Yeah, we're curious. While we're thinking about Sweetest Day and what you need to buy me this weekend.
DJ NICK:The cause or set of causes or manner of causation of a disease or condition.
KERRY:Okay, so I guess I wasn't using a word right. I was thinking the the origins of.
DJ NICK:Well, and I think in general, the etiological generic, but its original meaning was for the etiology of a disease. But people use it for as the cause or the attribution, a cause, or a reason for something, or the beginnings of something. So yeah.
KERRY:So you say it etiology, and I was saying etology.
DJ NICK:Yeah.
KERRY:And and what does Gemini say the proper pronunciation is? Does it tell you?
DJ NICK:Well, usually it gives you the start of something.
CHRISY:The only thing I can think of is Adam and Eve. No. The song. But gonna be starting something.
KERRY:Oh yeah, no, I gotcha. Is it Michael? Yeah, that's very much her. Etiology. Etiology. E.T. all Etiologia. Okay.
CHRISY:So, well, who then I can't remember which one of you said what? I think she was right.
KERRY:I think I said it right. Yeah, you did.
CHRISY:Because yeah, you said etol. Bam!
KERRY:Yes. My little BA degree just trumped your little master doctorate degree.
DJ NICK:When I will stay silent, but I said the opposite.
KERRY:Alright, enough goofing around there. So sweetest day is coming up. Yeah. So happy sweetest day, Farm Boy Jim.
CHRISY:Come on. Happy Sweetest Day BD June.
KERRY:And I'm gonna throw a happy sweetest day out to my son and my grandchildren too. So love you guys.
CHRISY:To my kids too. Love you, love you, love you. There you go. What about our doggies?
KERRY:You love our doggies.
CHRISY:Well, geez, but Carrie got all kinds of pets. She loves doggies.
KERRY:Yeah, we'll be we'll be we'll be here for way too long if I live in all that. Yeah.
CHRISY:Just everybody enjoy the day.
KERRY:Eat some candy. Happy Sweetest Day to all our listeners. We love you guys. Yes.
DJ NICK:So I do believe that there's been an update to Wikipedia on Sweetest Day. Oh. Because you know, we had talked in the previous episode how it, so Northeast Ohio thing, it actually started in Cleveland. Now it's probably because people have moved over, moved from Ohio. Yeah, all over now in Arizona and in Florida.
KERRY:Oh, well, there you go. Yeah, I that's just true. Actually, you know what it is? We have a lot of listeners in Arizona and Florida, and I think they listened to our episode, and now that's why they're celebrating it.
CHRISY:That is why Hallmark needs to cut us a check. I'm telling you.
KERRY:And it's now going to be an international holiday because all of our listeners in Pakistan and Sweden and Russia and Jamaica and Ireland and uh Singapore. Singapore and Jamaica. Did I say Bahamas? I feel like I'm missing one. United Kingdom. United Kingdom, United States. Hmm. Third Saturday in October, everyone. That's right. Third Saturday of every October. So this year it's October 18th. So there is our etiology of Sweetest Day. So but what our show's really about today is dysfunctional situations that we witnessed.
CHRISY:Yeah. All right.
KERRY:So Chrissy, you're gonna have to start doing some talking, and I'm gonna keep doing some soul searching. And because I feel like I was just the firsthand of all dysfunctions in my life. So I mean, from yeah, just from everything. So I I I can't think of secondhand situations.
CHRISY:Well, I maybe because and I wonder if it had anything to do with the fact that you guys didn't talk about the elephant in the room.
KERRY:Yeah, I was apparently the elephant. I don't know.
CHRISY:But you're right, you're right. And we normalized everything. And since it looked like everybody was gonna put on a good show, I sort of just sat back and watched. Yeah, got the popcorn. Yeah, so one I can remember when I was fairly young, and this is a weird one, but it happened. My sibling chased after a neighbor in their car because they had gathered up some kittens from the neighborhood. Oh, and they were threatening to drown them because they were tired of the cats getting in their garbage, probably, or something like that. And we did have a lot of strays. We lived near a park, right? And it seemed like it was fairly uh, especially uh of the time period a popular place to unfortunately dump unwanted pets, especially cats. So we had a lot of stray cats around, and this neighbor just hadn't had enough. And they took the cat, the kittens, and they took them in the car, and my sibling wasn't having it. She chased after the car and she threw herself on the hood. Oh my gosh. And they drove off with her on the hood. Oh. Bye. Can I have your room? Are you gonna can I have your dinner tonight? I mean, yeah. It was like I didn't How far did they get with her on the hood? To the park, I think. That was like what a quarter of a block, and they probably couldn't That was like a quarter of a mile. It was a little f we lived at our old house. So it was a little further, but we were just around the corner from where I was. Oh, so it wasn't even farther. A little bit, not much. How fast were they going? I don't think fast. I think she he couldn't he couldn't see. She was blocking, she was on the front, not like on the top, she was like literally on the hood, like blocking the window and everything.
KERRY:Like, did she get the kittens?
CHRISY:Yeah, she was walking eventually when we found her again. I mean, she's just like walking back and she had the I guess he sort of left him out the window.
KERRY:Oh my gosh. So I'm proud of your sister. Go for her.
CHRISY:Well, okay.
KERRY:You can give her credit for that, I guess. But that that was a little, yeah.
CHRISY:Well, we just sort of tells you about our parenting. Yeah. What I and I hate to say this, I give dad an out. He wasn't home.
KERRY:Oh. Okay, now so you think if your dad was home that wouldn't have happened, or that would have been a whole different situation.
CHRISY:Oh, okay. Whole different situation. Mom was home though. Oh. I don't remember her involved at all. I mean she was vacuuming. And I was just sitting there like, uh, excuse me. I know I'm only like four, but is the sibling supposed to be on the hood of that car? Because it don't look right, and there seems to be yelling happening, and she's swinging back and forth like an episode of Star Ski and Hutch here.
KERRY:You know, that's kind of funny that you talk about that. Because although I did not physically witness this because it happened during the night and I was asleep, but that's funny that jumping on the hood of a car was apparently the answer to things back in the day because my dad stopped a guy from stealing my sister's car in the middle of the night because he heard something going on and he went out and they were pulling out of the driveway, and my dad jumped on the hood or the car or tried to jump in the door of the car and ended up being drugged halfway down the road or whatever. Yeah, to try to stop at the car. Like who does that? Apparently, people the 70s rocks, man. Yeah, it would have been 70s. Oh, yeah.
CHRISY:That was a thing. Because we watched all the TV shows. It was always on, you know, people are jumping on the car.
KERRY:That was the answer to things. Absolutely. Oh. So I'm glad I missed that. There's no jumping of cars on me. I'll call the police. I'm not gonna jump on. I'll call, I'll chase you down to get your license plate number as you're doing something, but I ain't jumping on no car.
CHRISY:Well, he knew he was gonna eventually come back too because he lived in the neighborhood. Yeah, it was your neighbor. You knew where they were. Yeah, we knew who they were. It wasn't just some random guy. It was like, oh, look at it, there goes so-and-so. Wow. Seems to want to take your sister down to the park. Yeah, there you go. So bye, sibling. Uh, you swim, so you'll be all right. Oh, okay. So whatever happened to the kittens? Oh, I don't know. They probably lived a long, healthy life in the neighborhood. Oh, okay.
KERRY:So they didn't become your house pets?
CHRISY:No. Oh no, no, no. We had we had a cat or two, but generally my my father had a pretty big rule about because there were a lot of stray cats where we lived. And he he really didn't even want you to feed them.
KERRY:Yeah.
CHRISY:Because then they don't leave. Uh so no, I don't remember bringing them. But I know there were other neighbors that would feed cats. That's probably another reason. Not only were they abandoned near our homes, but then there were neighbors who were feeding them.
KERRY:Yeah. So okay, so something just sparked my mind that I can say I was a witness to that, I guess in hindsight, I could say this was quite dysfunctional. All right. So and it has a line to do with animals. We had two dogs growing up. One was a purebred collie and one was a mixed breed. And it was a collie, but it was a mixed breed collie. Uh there was a lightning storm, thunder and lightning storm. So, what was that phobia of lightning storms or something? We talked about it. We had that. Astro. Oh, yeah, that's right. Good, good job, Nick. Astrophobia. Um, so, anyways, the dog had run off, and so it was gone for a couple days, and we couldn't find the dog. So, my mom told my dad to go to the pound and see if you can find our dog. And so he went to the pound and he was all excited. He came home, he found our dog's name was Lady. He goes, I found Lady. And my mom and I go out in the garage and we look at the dog and we're like, that's not our dog. Oh no. It looked nothing like our purebred collie. I mean, right. That that's a pretty distinct look. Yes, okay.
CHRISY:Not one you can generally use.
KERRY:This dog looked nothing like it. It was DJ McStein.
CHRISY:I'm finding this actually a little unfortunate.
KERRY:And he's like, we're like, it's got short hair, even. And he's like, well, they probably shaved it. And we're like, it's like a lavador retriever. It doesn't look anything like. And he was like, no, this is our dog. And we're like, I'm sorry. No, so he had to take the dog back to the palm. But because he had claimed ownership of this dog, he had to own or surrender this dog. I know, but I mean, it's like I mean, it's not like we only it's it's not like we had this dog for like a month and then he had to go find it. Like this dog was like seven years old. It had been in the Yeah, he didn't know what our dog looked like. He brought home the wrong dog.
DJ NICK:Did you ever find the real lady?
KERRY:Yes, the real lady did end up coming back home like the next day or something like that. Somebody had found her and they, you know, were keeping her safe until they found the owners or whatever. But yeah, that was that was something dysfunctional.
DJ NICK:I guess it would be. Yeah, you brought home the wrong dysfunctional dads and dogs.
KERRY:Oh, that'll be the episode title. There we go.
CHRISY:Oh my gosh.
KERRY:Dad's dogs and kitty cats on cars. So okay. Yeah, that's that was this. Oh that was the only thing I could relate to on that one. Right.
CHRISY:Well, that's dysfunctional. Yeah.
KERRY:I mean, uh but wait, do you see a theme here? You were talking about the hood of the car and it was related to my dad, and now we're talking about the cats that's related to my dad. The source of all dysfunction. So sorry, dad. Love you, dad. In heaven.
CHRISY:Well, you know what? That's uh you can't deny. Sometimes those dysfunctions, they just sort of roll where they're coming from.
KERRY:Okay, I cannot wait to hear this next one you have on the list. You actually wanted to start to talk about it before we started rolling. And I was like, no, don't tell me. I want to hear the story live. So I have not heard this before. Chrissy, go.
CHRISY:This is a weird one.
KERRY:It it sounds it by the way, what you have in your notes.
CHRISY:I might have been a participant at a very we're talking again, four or five seventies were just yeah, great. I mean, just great. Any of you, a lot of you did not, we're not here, cannot remember any of it. They were great. Yeah. And this is why women getting together, yeah, in some weird fashion, almost thought maybe we were at a Tupperware party. Okay. Just chicks everywhere, you know. Mom mom chicks, though, like, you know, like housefrows and stuff like that. Women, you know. What'd you say? House housefrows, housewomen. Frau like Frau, you know, like Germany.
KERRY:The word of the day is housefrau.
CHRISY:Frau versus Frau Line. Okay. Anyhow, my grandmother had this gathering of women, and I kind of had to look it up because I tried to ask uh the parental figure if they recalled this very your mom. Yes. I tried to ask her if I don't if she remembered this, and she didn't. And I'm thinking maybe because everybody was high. I I try to understand how this even came about. But I remember there was a gathering of women at my aunt, my grandmother's house, uh-huh, and no man present at all, which somebody should have been figuring this whole thing out. Or I I'm still it's so hard to explain. And there was a lead woman there, like the charge.
KERRY:I like I don't know how to even explain what she was. Do you think they were having a party where they were it was like a multi-level marketing selling of some product party?
CHRISY:It wasn't a selling thing, it was an experience. Okay. Again, this is so weird. Everybody there was at the understanding. I don't know if she was some sort of psychic. Okay. Or but it I didn't see any fortunes being told. And I just remember she had interaction with my grandmother. Okay. Who had pretty much was legally blind. Now, that doesn't mean she couldn't see anything. Her her blindmother was my grandmother was legally blind. Okay. So she she could see shadows and things like that. She was a very um bad diabetic. Okay. And in that time period, didn't have all the treatments we have now. Thank, you know, thank goodness for treatments and uh, you know, all of that. But so this woman did something with my grandmother, and it was explained then that my grandmother all of a sudden had clear sight. From that day forward. No. Oh, just during the time. Just within a moment. And the one thing she was like yelling, and this is a little tr traumatic for me. Yeah. She wanted them to bring me to her. Oh. Because her sight probably was really bad by the time I came on this evening. Right. And I did spend a lot of time with her because she would babysit me before I kind of went to school. So they kind of like dragged me over there. I mean, this sounds a little bit like Rosemary's baby. I mean, it's a little bit weird. It's just it's a little scary. And they had to put me in front of my grandmother, and she like was caressing, you know, my head, and my according to her, she could finally have a clear picture of what I looked like. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Wild, weird. Wow, why am I here? Wow, what's everybody drinking? Wow, why did this happen? So I was looking this up. Okay. Because I was like, is this something that was going on in the 70s? Did you hear about the key parties? Yeah. People were swap wives. Uh-huh. I'm like, is this some other weird kind of what did you find? Well, there is something that mentions that there is like a time period where in the 70s it was like considered a feminist spirituality movement. Wow. Where the people would women would get together, I guess. Goddess worship, women participated in rituals and worship that honored the divine feminine.
KERRY:Um this sounds like a Wiccan party.
DJ NICK:Yeah, but I don't know that your grandmother was up to that with that stuff.
CHRISY:No, but she probably heard, or somebody who was uh able to convince her that this is something she should do. So somebody else probably had an experience with this. Right. And so That's how it starts.
KERRY:It's like a chain letter. Yeah.
CHRISY:And they're like, you know, you really should see if this is something that would mean something to you.
KERRY:Literally.
CHRISY:And she should see. And they're like, okay, yeah, so I'm gonna go to the show.
KERRY:I'm getting it.
CHRISY:So I'm saying you should see. You should see you will see.
KERRY:You will see. That's what I'm saying.
CHRISY:Listen to me, Grace. Listen to what I'm saying. I'm still freaking out about this all these years, like 50 years, 49 years old.
KERRY:We remember going in front of your grandmother and her being like, I see you.
CHRISY:Yeah, it was it was freaky.
KERRY:Wow.
CHRISY:And it's not to say anything negative about the other children that were in her group of grandchildren. I think it was just because I was the last one.
KERRY:And she had never really seen me.
CHRISY:And she had never really seen me as much as you know. Right. I don't even remember if my sisters were at the party or my cousins. I don't remember.
KERRY:You were too traumatized by the fact that this happened. You blocked everything out except for that. Yeah, it was just it was And there was probably no TV there, so you had to participate.
CHRISY:Well, yeah, there were rules back then, like if you had so many people in the house, the TV had to be off, you know, type thing, I think. Yeah. Well, that's up. No, no TV. And it was in the evening, so like no Sesame Street, which was really lousy, but no Gilligan's Island, no Jetsons. So this was really weird. And I can only imagine that it maybe had something to do with this. Like there was a woman who was like, you know, really uh, you know, checking into her feminine side and sort of promoted that she had these capabilities to sort of help people. Yeah. So it's in that psychic group. Yeah, you know.
KERRY:Yeah.
CHRISY:But interesting. Yeah.
KERRY:Yeah, I'd have nothing to correlate to that one. It's weird.
CHRISY:I don't either. Somebody, please. Why was I involved in these weird things? Because you're special. I'm so special. Thank you. Yeah. Please, anybody out there who kind of has any idea at all as to what I experienced, I so welcome your input, please.
KERRY:It sounds like one of those things that used to see. Like, I'm sure there was an episode like on Little House in a Prairie. I know, like, I think Peach Dragon has a scene of this or whatever where there's the person that comes through town and does the miracles, you know, and they get people to, you know, like, you know, all come around and oh, they're healed. And the person gets up and walks and kind of like, you know what I'm talking about?
DJ NICK:A snake oil salesman.
CHRISY:Yeah.
KERRY:Yeah, exactly.
DJ NICK:It's like the Michael Jackson Say Say Say video with uh Paul McCartney.
CHRISY:Oh, where they pretend to be healed. Yeah, they're selling elixir.
KERRY:Elixirs, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. Yeah. So I wonder what elixirs they were digging during that party. Yeah, I don't know what was going on.
CHRISY:I don't even know why we were like uh involved in this. And I really I It was a girl's night out. It was a girl's night out instead of like the lamest girls' night out. Girls' night in with no men at the house. It just didn't seem it seemed like you kind of think if this is what women are doing when they're getting together, I mean this is ridiculous. You guys need to play bridge or something. I don't know what the hell's going on. This is lame. It was weird, it was very weird.
KERRY:Yeah, I'm sure that there was a lot that I was secondhand to witness, but I it's been trumped by all the firsthand dysfunction I had to experience.
CHRISY:So well, I can understand that.
KERRY:Yeah, I get it.
CHRISY:So yeah, my my stuff's a lot of witnessing. Not that things didn't directly happen to me. We've discussed already, and I'm sure we will discuss more as time goes on. But yeah, I mean, your family didn't have some weird stuff going on. You had a lot of family, way bigger than me. Is it I had such smaller number and they were that kind of weird.
KERRY:You would think that there's directing these questions over at DJ Next.
CHRISY:Yeah, there'd be more weirdness in numbers. Like he had the percent of the city.
KERRY:The opportunity would be more, right? I hear you. Uh-oh. He's he's moving his seat, he's getting in close.
DJ NICK:I really can't think of anything. Yeah, like and nothing on the order of that.
KERRY:Yeah, really. Just you. Chrissy's good at her observation skills.
DJ NICK:This is so I really can't think of any. I mean, I'm there's there's plenty of nuttiness in the group, but you know, but uh that's all right.
CHRISY:Well, here's another real quick story good because it came up the other day, and I don't know why. But when we were talking about the fair.
KERRY:The Can't Feel Fair, yeah.
CHRISY:The Can Phil Fair and just fairs in general. Yeah. And this is gonna date a lot of things. Uh, but we're talking about the 70s, so but this was actually in the 80s. A weird thing I I witnessed and then was forced to participate in is that this performer, a comedian, Red Skelton. Oh yeah. If nobody knows who I'm talking about.
KERRY:I know he's I served him dinner. What when he was at the fair? When he was at the fair.
CHRISY:Oh my god!
KERRY:You get it. I know it. Okay, so he was at the fair. Explain to listeners who may not know who Red Skelton is.
CHRISY:He was a comedian and an actor. Yeah.
DJ NICK:I would say he had a variety show of his own. Yeah. Was it late 60s, early 70s?
CHRISY:Might be before that. Okay. I mean, just uh and he had a certain character. Freddie the Freeloader was the character he sort of played. He was a Freemason, which now involved my father.
KERRY:Yes.
CHRISY:And he was the highest degree Freemason, which is 33rd, I believe. Okay. My father was 32nd. Oh, admirer of 33rd degree masons and admirer of Red Skill. And then I have a little fondness for him because I enjoyed watching his stoke, because my father would watch them. So I liked watching those with him. So he performed at the Canfield Fair. Yes, he did. And we had tickets to see that, and my mother was there. My father used to do security and stuff a lot for the fair. So I think he was already kind of there, but behind the scenes type thing.
KERRY:Your dad might have been the cop that escorted me over with his Red Skelton's dinner. You never know. Could be six degrees of separation. You never know.
CHRISY:I don't know what happened with my mom. She like lost her mind, but the show was over. And my mother dragged me. A lot of times my mother would drag me places and tell me we we need to do this. This being one of those situations. We jumped the fence to get to his trailer.
KERRY:Yeah, because his trailer was on the inside of the track. Yeah.
CHRISY:Oh god.
KERRY:Did you make it through the trailer?
CHRISY:Oh, yeah. Oh. And she forced us in. Very nice. You know, we didn't get jumped or anything. It was horrific. This is the guy. And then she's like, you know, oh, Chrissy, it's a skeleton. Don't you know what I mean? Okay. Why did we just commit what seems to be a crime?
KERRY:So you actually got to his trailer to the door. Did you get inside the trailer? You were in the trailer. Yeah. And he was in there? Yeah.
CHRISY:It was after his show. It was so wrong. Why are you taking this? I probably try and think. Do you remember how old you were? Because that will help me remember how old. Yeah, 10?
KERRY:Oh no. Eight or ten. Oh no. I was because I was working the I was working the food stand that was underneath the grandstand and I was 14.
CHRISY:Oh my God. Were we really that old? Yeah. Uh-huh. I should have known better. I should have said you go. Why was I? Why did I get pulled out of the city?
KERRY:Yeah, because I think the youngest you at that time, the youngest you could be to work at the work, because I worked for a concession company and they owned all the concession stands that were underneath the grandstand there. It was my first year. I was old enough to work there. And so I know I was 14.
CHRISY:Oh my gosh.
KERRY:Yeah. So and it was that would have been You really I feel even more ridiculous now.
CHRISY:I really wish you wouldn't. Because I'm like, yeah, what were we? Like eight or ten? No. Oh my gosh. Mm-hmm. I really needed a place to go back home.
KERRY:So I was just like, I can't believe so your mom and you jumped the fence. Well, she dragged me. I know, but what I'm saying is physically had to go over the fence.
CHRISY:Yeah, there was no way for you to get to them after they were.
KERRY:I wish I could have seen Jane O'Cup to the fence.
CHRISY:She's like, we'll just go over this way. I'm like, but that looks dangerous.
DJ NICK:No. So I'm looking this up, and it says he performed at the Canfield Fair in 1975.
KERRY:No, no. No, he did it. No. He did it anymore. He did it. He did another one because it has to be. It's in the 80s. He may have been the opening performer for something else or whatever, but no, he was there because I yes, because my mom had explained to me. And at the time, I was like, Oh, I don't. I said I came home and I went, Mom, I got to serve dinner to this guy, you know, that he was the performer. His name is Red Skelton. She goes, Oh, he's like a clown. That was how she described him to me. Meaning, like, you know, a comic. Are you sure you're not seeing that? No, I'm she there's there's he was definitely there because that was the only summer that I worked the Campfield Fair because after that is when I was in that traveling band and going to high school and everything. So I only worked for the fair one summer, and it was that summer.
DJ NICK:But I'm wondering if he he was there in 75 also.
KERRY:Maybe that's oh he may have very well been. Oh, sure.
DJ NICK:Maybe that's you were three years old and she was dragging you into a trailer.
KERRY:No, for some reason I feel like No, I bet you it was this time because yeah. Uh-huh. So what year would the bet would that if we were 14 and we were born in 72, what does that make it? 86. 86, yeah.
CHRISY:Um, just trying to read on this.
DJ NICK:Maybe I was maybe it was 13 then because it was before Yeah, the only one that's popping up is his perform that would have been 50 years ago. He was he was at the campus.
KERRY:Yeah. He he was definitely, but like I said, maybe he wasn't the main performer, maybe he was like a like I said, an opener or something, but he was definitely there. So yeah, I it's weird because it's really kind of hard to see here, but yeah, he was definitely No, it was definitely because I remember they we he ordered his dinner, we took him the steak hoagie sandwiches and French fries, and I think we even took him a funnel cake. We had to take that, and I remember they had a cop that came and walked us. We had to walk across the track over to the inside. I can see his trailer and everything that we went to, and I remember handing it to him, and he was like very sweet and everything, but I was just like, This is an old man, I don't know who this is, you know. And so when I went home, I'm like, I don't know, I got picked to go take Red Skelton. My mom's like, Oh, that's really good. Yeah, he's he's like a he's like a clown, and I'm like, he didn't look like he was dressed like a clown. Yeah, no, he wasn't. In my mind, I'm thinking clown, right? Oh yeah, but yeah, he was a comic.
CHRISY:Yeah, he was, but he had a the Freddie the Freeloader was a clown type uh character he did. And I'm betting if my father, because he did work the fair security a lot, yeah, he probably requested an Pretty much forced himself on that detail. That detail, yeah. Because he really admired him. So but yeah, it was a little bit humiliating.
KERRY:But that's funny that our lives crossed.
CHRISY:Probably we'll find out as with time goes on. More than that.
KERRY:More than that, yeah. So that is really interesting. So we want to hear your stories. What things did you witness?
CHRISY:Uh the things did your parents drag you over fences for. Stop drop and roll.
KERRY:Hey, in the meantime, we just want to remind all of you that in the month of October, Junkies Care is supporting the United Way of Wayne and Holmes counties in Worcester, Ohio. They do a fabulous job of supporting many different organizations in the community from the Salvation Army, Goodwill, the Dolly Parton Imagination Library. They also help with emergency sheltering and so much more. So we really want to give a shout out to them. We are sponsors for their Heart and Goal 2025 5K and one mile spooky sprint that's going to be on Saturday, October 25th in the historic downtown Worcester area. Chrissy and I will be there. We're still working on our costumes, but we will be there. I'm gonna probably try to run in the race and we'll be there. Hope to meet any of you, all of you that come out and support this great organization. Yes.
CHRISY:Thank you.
KERRY:In the meantime, if you ever have any questions about dysfunction junkies, want to see where we're going to be, who we're supporting, or want to read our blog. I have my blog on there that's called The Elephant Speaks. Chrissy's working on her blog adding to it, but that all can be found on our website, which is dysfunction junkies podcast.com. Yes. Alrighty, everyone. See you next time.
CHRISY:Bye, everybody.
