What Do Our Social Media Reels Say About Us?

Ever doomscroll social media at 3 a.m.? We confess our favorite reels: chaotic fart pranks, baby hippos, Gen X anthems, and cooking roasts. See what we binge then tell us what you binge and what we should make next. Dance? Pets? Pranks? Listen to this week's episode and weigh in—what’s your guilty scroll?

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Chapters

• 0:07 Welcome And Today’s Theme
• 0:29 Why We Scroll At 3 A.M.
• 1:21 Animal Voiceovers And Fart Pranks
• 3:48 Stressy Clips: Body Cams And Shoplifters
• 4:53 Gen X Relatables And Comedy Favorites
• 8:27 Zoo Babies, Principals, And Southern Moms
• 10:15 Parodies, Cooking Bits, And “Two Drink Day”
• 13:12 Scare Pranks, Falls, And Why We Laugh
• 18:16 Attention Spans And Snackable Content
• 19:37 DIY Decor Fatigue And Chef Reactions
• 21:19 Spotting AI Fakes And ’80s Nostalgia
• 23:41 Dance Reels That Actually Wow
• 24:56 Listener Ideas And Possible Reactions Series
• 26:10 Where To Connect And Charity Shoutout

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: 0:21

Hey Junkies, I'm Kerry

Chrisy: 0:24

And I'm Chrissy.

Kerry: 0:25

Alrighty. I'm so excited for this one today. We're gonna be talking about all our favorite social media, reels, memes, things that we scroll on at 3 a.m. when we can't sleep. Right. Because we have to get up, go to the bathroom a hundred times, you know, all of that other stuff that robs us of our sleep now that we're getting older. So absolutely. Yeah. So Chrissy, what's where you want to start? What's your favorite things to to watch wheels on?

Chrisy: 0:55

Well, before I tell you, too, this is a whole is it are you a Carrie or are you a Chrissy? Because I have a feeling our choices, not all. I see your list has some of the ones I I watch too. But I definitely have a little bit of the joy in watching some ridiculous, probably, and then I sit in bed and I laugh, and my husband's trying to sleep, and I am like laughing horribly at these things. Some of my favorite things are though, there's the one with the animal videos, which I see you listen, yes, watch too. Yes. There's this one where he does a voiceover for the animals, like they're talking back and they're interacting with their owner. Oh, okay. Because they're like these video snippets that people send to him, and he does basically the voice of the animals. Yes. They are hilarious. He's called Rockstar. Okay. And I find those, and the guy found a niche, and he is talented with it. So people send them their videos and he puts voice and stuff to it. Yeah. Like you can sometimes he'll keep the owners who are interacting with their pet on there too, but sometimes it's just pets. So he has uh people, I'm sure, who work with him that offer other voices. So there's like an exchange between these animals. Very funny. Mostly dog and cat videos, but he does other ones. They're really, really good. A shout out to him. There's a guy on Instagram I watch, and he's probably on Facebook too. And my husband does not understand why I watch these because it's so offensive, but it's hilarious. He farts. But he farts mentioned about the fart videos before. Fart videos cracking up. He does, he's like walking through a park and he's very animated when he farts. Oh he like slams his leg down or I've seen the yes. He'll do a twirl and fart. This is definitely a difference between a carry and a Chrissy one. Yeah. So this is a Chrissy one. Oh, yeah. Less carry. And I just, I'm like on board and I get mad when I scroll up if the next one's not another fart video. I'm like, no, no, I don't want to see this. I want to see more of this guy with the fart videos.

DJ NICK: 3:07

But if I accidentally have some flatulence, oh, I'm in trouble. But she watches these videos. This cracks her up. But if I do it, I don't know.

Chrisy: 3:17

I'm not present.

DJ NICK: 3:18

She is not pleasant.

Chrisy: 3:20

She wants to hear it, doesn't want to smell it. No, that's correct. I don't want to be firsthand involved with this. I like watching as a spectator from a very far distance. Yeah.

DJ NICK: 3:31

She doesn't like when I break the fourth wall.

Chrisy: 3:35

Right. Oh, that's funny. Um, so I yeah, I I will have to post I forget his name, but I consider it like it's kamikaze farting because he's like he just attacks out of nowhere. The oh, the one thing I do watch and I gotta stop myself because then I have so much anxiety, uh it bothers me to the no end. There'll be videos that'll pop up with traffic stops or shoplifters where it's actual from like the body cam footage. Oh, okay, and they're like showing you just and it just reinforces my whole thought. I'm sure a lot of people's thought. People are horrible. Oh, yes. And they argue with police, yes, and they don't understand what their rights are, and they make up their own rights, which is basically to not cooperate on any level till the point where they're now arrested for, you know, yes, whatever, not cooperating. And oh my god, I get so stressed out. But I sit there and watch them and I'm like, I can't, I have to I've actually tried to really stop that because it does, it gives me a lot of anxiety because I feel like I am at the store and there could be somebody next to me who is this person. Right. And I just don't want to like- You don't want to be anywhere near it. I don't want to think about it. I don't want to, yeah. There's a couple of people who really speak for our generation, the Gen X people. There's one, the real slim Sherry, I think her name is. Okay. And she's really funny. I really like her dialogue that she presents. I'm sorry, good mythical morning. I do watch their videos, even though I watch them on YouTube all day long, anyhow. But Rhett and Link, yes, I do watch those videos. There's a there is this one guy, Cody Tri Stuff. He came up with this, he cooks and he's really fun. I think he's out of New Jersey, maybe. But the one video he found this video of this guy who makes these cooking videos, and they're like really perfect. Uh-huh. But the way the guy presents the food, it's a little creepy. Oh. So what he decided to do is take this guy's videos, but he goes through extraordinary lengths to basically act, he is this guy's hostage. So when he's doing this video, it's hilarious because here's this guy. He's handcuffed usually to a bed, and he's like, Oh, the guy's name is William. He's like, William, oh, you remember me today? What do we have? And and this guy explains what he created.

DJ NICK: 5:58

His dish. He cuts it, he cuts the film there and then puts the guy's original film.

Chrisy: 6:03

Oh, yeah. So it looks like they're having an exchange back and forth. Oh my gosh. And the guy does go through a lot to be able to present the guy's, like he presents it on a tray, usually. So he makes sure he has like the same tray, same china or dishes, same glassware. And the one thing he always says, because sometimes this guy will present with his meal two different drinks. So then this guy goes, two drink day, two drink day. And he's like, I knew it was gonna be a two drink day. And then he talks about different types of food that he's like, Oh, only the best, right, William? Like this Koopy Mayo is supposed to be, I think, like real high-end mayo. Okay, he's like, only the best, William. I know you're only about only the best. Very funny videos. And the guy, he saw something, and I'm so jealous when the people think of like these really cool things to do with all of this stuff in social media. Yes. So, um, but yeah, and there's other ones uh we can maybe tag if you guys are interested. We find funny, but tell me some of the ones you have. So, yes, I am definitely about some of the animal videos. Lately, the two that I have been obsessed with is a dog named Stella. So these people have these uh Labrador retrievers, and with it, you know, fall and the leaves are falling, they have these huge leaf piles. Oh, yes, I have many dogs. The dog comes like running like a bat out of hell and just slams into the pile of leaves, and they'll just it and they just go over and over and over. It's hysterical. I'm obsessed with that. I like those too. That is a good one. I am also obsessed with recently the Tanganika Wildlife Park, and they have a baby pygmy hippo called Mars. And Mars for the longest time didn't want to go into her habitat at night. So the keepers would have to get Mars and try to get Mars into the nighttime habitat. So for like a month, or I don't know, it could have been longer than that. Every day they would post a new video of trying to get Mars to go in, trying to get Mars to go in, and it was just hysterical. It was so damn cute. So those two animal videos definitely are on always on my watch list. But there's several other influencers that I have to give shout-outs to. First of all, my latest one is uh Jerry Brooks, he's a school principal, and uh I'm gonna laugh about it. He talks, he does these phone calls that they're they're based on real phone calls. That is a school principal that he has gotten from from different parents or whatever. And so he be looking at the camera and he'll answer the phone, but his phone is always something different, you know. It might be a toy phone that looks like a hamburger, or maybe it's a toy phone that looks like a shoe, or maybe it's just an otoscope. It's whatever. But he'll reenact these phone calls that he's had from these parents, and it'll be something absurd. And he has this great southern accent, so he'll be like, school principle, it's first day of school, don't piss me off. How can I help you? And then he'll go and tell this, you know, story that you're just like, oh my god, the parent really did that. And then when he hangs up the phone, he always goes, Oh, good lord. And so I I laugh about it all the time. And so um, I just think his he's hysterically funny. So if you want to just listen to some of these things and like this is why we hate people, it's because you listen to these kind of things, like, yeah, this is the world we live in. Oh, I get that. Yes. Another one is that I don't know when you look at it, it says easy S and B. So I don't know what it stands for, but it's this lady, and she does these Southern mom phrases, and she'll just go on and on with these different scenarios about Southern mom phrases, you know. So she'll be like, Oh, you know, she was um like, oh, bless her heart, and just all these, but she'll do a whole monologue of them. So she's really funny. So I find her stuff kind of quite funny. Granny spills, that's another one. I think I've posted this one on my Facebook page. This lady's like 80 years old, she loves pink, owns everything in pink, so she'll have a pink Corvette, pink yacht, pink whatever, and she gives life advice about, you know, you know, basically very empowering to women and stuff, but she's also hysterical. So that's another one I really, really enjoy. But I have to give a huge shout out to the Holderness videos of the Holderness family pet. I watch those too, and I do follow them. Oh my god, their videos are hysterical because they take real life things and they make a take it to a song, and it could be about whether shopping at Costco or playing pickleball or whatever. They do it very relatable. They are in our age group. Yes. I know they've touched on menopause, yes, and kids leaving the nest and parents being disconnected from their children's generation versus they are they talk about generation X. The one video I remember I watched was they were upset. Uh, she came home from the doctor's office and she said, Oh my god, it's terrible. And he's like, Oh my, whatever it is, we're gonna get through this. He thought she got bad news at the doctor's office. Here she came home, she was upset because they were playing Nirvana in the waiting room. And it was like, when did our stuff become a doctor's office music? Elevator music.

Speaker 4: 11:08

Elevator, yes, music.

Chrisy: 11:10

Yeah, and they're like, I thought they only played like yacht rock and everything in doctor's offices. Well, how did this happen? Right, right. And they're like, Have you even listened to a classic rock station lately? What are they playing on there? And they turn it on, and it's like all of our music. Yeah. So yes, I agree. Holiness, they are very, very good. Now, this is funny because I find it quite fun and to watch the videos of people getting the shit scared out of them. You know, love those. Right now, but I hate to be the person getting scared. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Don't even think about doing it. Because I'll yeah, and my husband, he loves this. He loves to scare people. He loves, but he's learned from very early on our relationship don't pull that shit with me. I love watching these videos of it. So have you seen the one where the people are laying on the floor and their head is just sitting there?

unknown: 12:00

Yeah.

Chrisy: 12:01

And somebody walks into the room and it just it looks very odd. They freak out because the their part, wife, husband, whoever, they're laying on the floor, and all you see is their head in a doorway, but they're on the floor and somebody's walking in and then and they start talking to their husband, like, hey babe, what's for dinner? And they like they fall. It does look very this. I love watching people get totally freaked out and scared. Very freaked out and scared. What I think is funny is like when the guy thinks he's being all funny and he goes to like sneak up behind his wife or whatever, and she's like got a vacuum or a broom, and she reacts and turns around like to protect herself, and then like his plasma TV gets broken. That's what you get for that. Yes, I do like the the people who get scared. What does that say about us? How dysfunctional is that that we find so much humor and joy out of watching this kind of stuff? Well, there's people making the videos, so we're obviously not alone. I know. The one thing, and again, and they're making a lot of money by doing this. Yes. Why are we? We're not making horrible videos about people getting I do like to watch people get hurt. But again, I told you that I like that. And it's sort of like because we're of the gen jacket the jacket generation. Right. The one thing I do have to say, and it's not nice, but they do show a lot of videos of people falling off their porch if it's icy or something. And a lot of times they're like old people. Yeah. I do find that. But but see, I find when I see those videos, I'm going, oh my god, did they break a hip? Oh god, I'm like grabbing that part of my body going, oh my god, what oh not Chrissy, she's laughing ass off. If you're farting and getting hurt, I am on board with you. Keep not in this coming, but not in person. But not no, I don't want to see it in person, but I will watch your videos forever. But see, this kind of also goes into my meme therapy. So a lot of times, you know, yes, there's these funny ones, but I get also down the rabbit hole of the therapy ones, you know. So, like Jimmy on relationships, he talks a lot about, you know, like surviving narcissistic relationships and things like that. And I just could, I, I could go for hours. I mean, it's not funny, it's not whatever, it's just like real life. And I'll I could just keep scrolling and scrolling, listening, and I'm like, yes, yes, yes, I'm that's the one thing has to be. That's a carry. It had that's definitely a definitely a carry. I just scroll really quick when I feel like it's trying to give me some life lesson. No, nope. Yes, people suck. If your thing is one sentence and it says people suck, I'm like, yes, I agree. I do like the comedian theme, the comedian, so to watch uh clips of comedians. So love the Sebastian Manascalco, love Matt Riff. So if I see those ones, I'm definitely gonna be sticking on that reel for a while, too. Yeah, no, I Chappelle's I watch a lot of Chappelle, even though I've seen all of his stuff anyhow, and we were devoted Chappelle show watchers. I do still find him humorous and I can listen to his jokes over and over. Sebastian, I definitely love yeah.

DJ NICK: 15:00

Well, you we could really relate to Sebastian because he talks about growing up and oh yeah, and he's our age.

Chrisy: 15:08

And there's a lot with the Saturday Night Live, they'll show some clips because I don't make it up late. Yeah and I don't make it a purpose to actually watch while it airs. Yeah. But I do appreciate some of their skits. They are hilarious. The one they did recently with the Beavis and Butthead, where uh what's his name?

DJ NICK: 15:24

It was Monkey Day, and I can't remember the name.

Chrisy: 15:27

The actor, the big he was in Barbie, the movie. Oh, um he actually made what what come on? What is his name? I could see the face, but I have no idea. Ryan Gosling. Ryan Gosling, Beavis, Mike Day playing Butthead. This one guy was trying to do a talk about AI. So is there's like a group of people, and the lady from Saturday Night Live, the other um regular, she's trying to do the interview, but he keeps the guy who's doing it is getting distracted because there's people in the audience that look exactly like Beavis and Butthead.

Speaker 4: 16:00

It's very funny.

Chrisy: 16:01

And she loses it. The other thing was there was an old skit, Ryan Gosseling again was in it, where Kate McKinnon, they're talking about being abducted by spaceships. Oh. And it's very funny because Ryan Gossling cannot keep it together. He's almost like he's crying, he's laughing so hard during. I like when they lose, they don't stay in character. Yeah, of course. I do think that's funny. And that seems to be a more recent that's like even watching the old shows like uh Lucille Ball or Dick Van Dyke show where you see them cracking up at their own skits during the skit, you know, it always makes it. Yeah, that is fun. Yeah. You know what other animal videos I love to watch, and I have no idea which animal facility, zoo facility this is at, but they have this group of gorillas, and there's this like silverback, and then there's this baby gorilla, and this baby gorilla is always doing like real human baby kind of things, like it'll be banging on something with a stick, and just right next to the daddy gorilla, just bang him, bang him, bang him, banging. And the daddy gorilla is just sitting there holding his head, like, oh my god, child. And then all of a sudden he'll just reach over and grab the stick. Like, it's so humanistic. The reactions, or you know, the the baby will just be climbing all over him, you know, and then you can just see he finally has enough and he just pushes his hand down and holds him to the ground or something, you know. And so animal videos, you generally can't go wrong. Yeah, you can't. I'm sorry, the fall videos, people falling, or whatever, those are pretty funny to me. There was one where uh this couple, this older, I think it was was I don't remember who went out first, but somebody's trying to get their parents out the door, and the one fell, and the other one was on his way out, and so they're like, oh my god, mom! And they're trying to help her. And I think the husband saw that she fell. Oh, so he's trying to get out quick, and then he fell, and they're like, Oh my god, dad! They're like, Jesus! And they're like, both and like both parents down, both parents down, and it's just oh my gosh, it's so good. I know how creative people can be, and they think of this stuff and they're able to do that. It's just amazing. It does amaze me, it really is, and it's very entertaining. I almost hate to say it, but I watch probably this kind of stuff more than I watch anything that's actually scheduled. Yeah. Like you'll ask me, do you watch a TV show, but you'll sit and watch part reels? Yeah. Because even like a story for 30 minutes, my is it it has destroyed my attention. I definitely have like an attention deficit problem now. I probably always did, but this definitely like inflated it tenfold because for me to sit through something really long is difficult. You need that instant gratification. Yeah, I just want to be entertained in like five, ten-minute spurts. Yeah. Well, but that kind of goes in line with growing up as a child. You're watching cartoons or whatever, and then there was commercials, so you had five or ten-minute spurts. That's true. Yeah. Maybe those commercials were a good thing. I don't know. That was your time to go, you know, potty break and get a snack. Yes, absolutely.

DJ NICK: 19:11

Or I can ask my father-in-law for my wife's.

Chrisy: 19:15

That's true. If I had a TV issue, he did. But only at the bottom of the hour when the breaks were longer. I knew I needed more time.

Speaker 4: 19:23

So yeah, you can't.

Chrisy: 19:26

So the chef ones are good too. Yeah. There's but then again, okay, going back to this where I don't feel like decorating anymore because a lot of these things have ruined it for me. Right. Because these people are doing so much and they're getting they're going to Dollar General and all this, and they're telling you all the stuff you can buy there, and then create these magnificent decor items. I'm like, oh my God. And if I took Nick to the Dollar General to pick up stuff first of all, he'd be like, You're gonna buy all this crap and junk up my house with it. I'd be like, Well, probably not now. And then the cooking thing, same, same premise. Yeah, there's this one, I think it's called Chef Reactions. It's a good one. Because this guy, he watches these stupid, he watches good ones where people are actually cooking with some sort of skill. Uh-huh. But then he watches there's this one woman who does these videos. They basically take the cans of stuff. Like refried beans. They'll take a big can, they've got an aluminum can sitting in front of it. They take this damn can, they turn it upside down, smack it right down in the middle of the damn thing. Then they throw all of these like other ingredients around the can. Right. Can you get whatever was in that can out? They wait till the very end when they have all this crap just floating all over around this can. They take a flippin' knife or scissors, they jab the bottom of the can, so then when they pull the can up and release it, right, and then you got this big obscene blob of beans sitting there. Now, do they even mix it in? No, they shove it in the oven like that, it comes out, it's all burnt and disgusting. And he reacts to this stuff, yeah, and he says, Oh, you're not gonna like totally mix that in. I mean, his reactions to it are very funny. Yeah. So I do like to watch those. But I don't like some of the AI stuff, and that's where Jim sometimes will often be like, is this real or is this AI? Or is this real or is this AI? Like, you know, you can't because I worry about that because I'm like, this doesn't this is too so like recently there was one where it was a little boy sitting on his porch or whatever, and there's a crocodile comes up like right behind him, and the little boy just walks away not knowing this big huge crocodile. And I'm like, clearly, this is an AI. Like you could you could tell by the video and stuff, but it's just like, or like one, it had a cow and like the cow was jumping over something, but it like jumped and did a pirouette and jumped, and then and I'm like, really, like, why? Why did you waste my time? Like, yeah, uh like the AI stuff, I'm like, eh, you know, but real stuff, yes, funny. But uh, when it gets AI inversioned on it, eh, maybe not. I agree. I I worry about that a lot now. There is this one segment that I will get suckered into it because it's real nostalgic and I think it just sort of plays off that. It's AI generated, but it's people coming at you and saying, Hey, this is we're back in the 80s. We hear 2025 totally sucks. Oh and they're like trying to tell you how great we stay out until the street. So they're basically just playing on everything that we try to talk about that we did in the 80s as kids, rode our bikes all day. Yeah, and they're like, All you guys do is look at your phones, and we do this, and we played in the playground and had friends, and basically making you feel bad, but it's all generated by air, right? Yeah because these people do not exist. Yeah, I do get suckered into watching some of them old videos where they show like the old dance shows that we used to watch where everybody is totally in those horrible 80s clothes, the horrible hair, Leotard, and they're dancing to MC Hammer, and I just sit there and I'm like, oh my god, I can't believe it. Okay, now I do like to watch some of the dancing videos. Like, I mean, there's a there's a couple, but there's like this one lady, oh god, her name is it's on the tip of my tongue, but she will take a song and dance to it, but she does it in these pink slippers and usually in a kitchen, and her husband's just kind of looking at her, and she does it like deadpan somber face, but damn, she's got all the moves. So, like, she'll do the hammer time dance, or I mean she'll do whatever in uh that one's kind of fun to watch. But I I do like to watch the dance videos, and if it's a guy dancing, you know, that's plus kudos. No shirt, even better. Oh my goodness. Oh, you spelled that out for us. Awesome. There is, I did see speaking of dancing, there was this one that it was played a lot. It was this ballet group, but they were it was really good, and they did their routine to under pressure by Queen and David Bowie, and it was just mesmerizing, it was hypnotic to watch these young girls. They had this choreographed dance to this, and it was it was really good, and then they did another one. I'll have to send it to you because it is just you like dance a lot. I didn't. And this was just really beautiful, and the music was wonderful, yeah, and their interpretation of the dance that they put together to do with the song. I mean, it was really good. So I do like to watch some of those. So, what I want to know from our listeners is I want to know what you guys are scrolling through at three in the morning on your social media reels. And I also want to know if Chrissy and I were to make some videos, what would you want us to do? Do you want Chrissy to make a fart video? No, not happening. Oh, it's real sound. It would be I wouldn't even do, I wouldn't even have the nerve to do it at with a fake fart machine. Or do Chrissy and I need to do a dance routine to something, a TikTok dance, or maybe we need to get our animals and do funny videos with our animals. But yeah, if we were to make a video that what would what would entice you to watch uh a video of Chrissy and I doing? I definitely want to hear feedback on this because I love to hear what they'd be interested in. But I have a little bit of an idea that we could do. You do? Well, because especially with me, uh would be uh Carrie and Chrissy's reactions. Like we should just go out and about into something ridiculous and just react to it. You know I'm gonna say something horrible and probably embarrass you. So that's true. The dysfunction junkies out in the public eye uh reacting to things, stupid things people do. This is true. I need to go to the dollar store and try and find some damn pool noodles. Um, you know, actually, just last night we went to Harbor Freight and uh there was a girl at the cashier counter. She would have been great for our tattoos and piercings show that we did. There was a lot to talk about there. So we could we could react to things like that that we see. I think that might be one of the possibilities, but we still want to hear what the listeners might think. We want to hear that's true. And I do want to maybe they have a good take on some new because the fart video, although classic, and I will always watch this guy, wouldn't mind getting experience uh exposure to something something new. Something new. Oh, okay. So alrighty. Well, that's what we want to know. Check us out on our Facebook page, Dysfunction Junkies, our Instagram, uh, shoot us a message. You can also find our website, dysfunction junkiespodcast.com. And don't forget, this month in November, we are raising awareness to sleep in heavenly peace, an organization that's national, has chapters all over the country whose goals is to provide a bed for every child. So be sure to read that about them on our Facebook page. Yes, please. And donate. Donate. All righty, have a good day. Bye, everybody.