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
Thanksgiving: Stuffing, Salmonella, And Other Family Seasonings
Stuffing or dressing, real tree or fake, canned cranberry or homemade—choose your fighter. We share fails, fixes, and a must‑watch holiday list. Listen and weigh in: which hill are you dying on this Thanksgiving?
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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 Carrie. And I'm Chrissy. We've come full circle, Chrissy. Yeah. We've had our podcast for a year, and our number one episode for the longest time was our Thanksgiving episode from last year. Oh, right. The Thanksgiving sort of combo prepping for Christmas. Yes, yes, yes. And now here we are, the night before Thanksgiving. That should be a movie. I bet it is somewhere. It probably is. The Thanksgiving that almost was it? There is. No.
CHRISY:There is. I have it down. I really up. It is a thing. Oh my gosh. It is. I was gonna touch on this uh after we got started here, but since you brought it up.
KERRY:Well, since I brought it up, I'm not realizing I brought it up. So see, this is the benefit of not reading the show notes before we start recording because my life is like spiraling out of control right now. That's all right.
CHRISY:I like the uh element of surprise. There you go. You didn't think this was a thing. I didn't. I thought I was being all ha ha ha ha. And no. Okay, it's a cartoon.
KERRY:Oh, of course it is.
CHRISY:The other two that deal with Halloween and Christmas.
KERRY:They were real people.
CHRISY:They're real people. What do you call that type of show? Live action.
KERRY:Live action, yeah. I don't know if that's even the appropriate word to the show.
CHRISY:You've used a term in the past, but it was made in 1972, which is a year that's dear near and dear to our heart. And uh I just noted a question here I'm throwing out there. I have no explanation for this. Okay, but it seems that back in the like 60s and 70s, yeah, because that's when these were made, yes, everyone was afraid that Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas might get canceled somehow. What do you mean? Well, because why would they make all these shows? Oh, oh, it was the Halloween that almost wasn't. What are we gonna do? It's the Thanksgiving that almost Oh my god! And then the tap it top it all off. The Christmas that almost wasn't? Are you kidding me? We gotta talk about that one.
KERRY:This is kind of like a a a series, a sequence. You know how like we talk about like the movie series or Advent 1, Advent Two, Advent Three. Well, this is the series of the holidays that almost weren't. Yes.
CHRISY:They should come. Well, then nobody buys DVDs anymore, but if they did, yes, because I did get the Charlie Brown set, and even Garfield knew to get in on that. Right. Yes, this is true. He had Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. These need to be a box set if there was such a thing anymore.
KERRY:On sale, by now, 1995. If you're in the next 10 minutes to order.
CHRISY:If you're at your local Sun Coast video, you guys know what that is. Sun Coast in the Mall that's dying. Um yeah, go to Suncoast or your uh Best Buy or Shows.
KERRY:But so tell me about this movie that or show that Thanksgiving that almost wasn't 72.
CHRISY:Here's the bigger surprise. Oh god. I didn't know till I Googled it, Gemini, whatever the hell it is. I looked it up. Okay. I was like, was there? I feel like I thought there might have been. Oh my god. And then I looked at it and I'm like, damn, there was a Thanksgiving that almost wasn't. I haven't watched it. Okay. Uh I was trying to read the notes, uh, the the description on it. I had something to do with a squirrel, and it had a Native American and a pilgrim, and uh somebody got lost in the woods or something. I God, I gotta look it up. I don't know, but uh either way, probably uh everybody should run uh to YouTube or wherever you can get this and watch. Okay. I mean, uh how could you go wrong with squirrels and Native Americans and pilgrims?
KERRY:And a holiday that almost wasn't uh the night before the holiday that is going to happen.
CHRISY:Well, here it does a quick here's a quick overview, and it's nice, it's really quick. Jeremy Squirrel comes to the rescue of two lost boys, one an American Indian, the other a pilgrim. Oh, there we go. It sounds lovely. It does.
KERRY:And I think I'm gonna have to be watching a quick view as I'm drinking my farm teeny of Crown Royal and banana pie.
CHRISY:It sounds like a perfect combination. They just go together like bread and butter.
KERRY:Like bread and butter.
CHRISY:Like peas and carrots.
KERRY:Yeah. Jen A. Oh God. Oh my. So where do we want to go after that? I don't know, but let's see here. So, you know, normally at Thanksgiving time we do a friends giving, but because I know my life is in total chaos right now. I mean, literally, I showed up today and it it it was it was an experience getting here today, just from the moment I woke up this morning to the moment I got in the car. And then I get here and realize that oh, I just drove an hour and a half and I don't have my computer. I don't have my show notes, I don't have a pen. I don't have my wallet. I mean, thank God you guys got me my drink.
CHRISY:Yeah, we do. We were usually good for that. And if you if you hadn't hit your coffee join up, we would have uh been able to uh cover you on that stage.
KERRY:I know, but I mean, yeah, so the fact that I wasn't able to schedule our Friendsgiving dinner for this weekend like we did last year, I realized we're instead of Friendsgiving, we're gonna have to have a friend holiday. Sure. Okay.
CHRISY:I was new to the Friendsgiving thing, so we're gonna take it over.
KERRY:So we're gonna have to schedule a time for us all to get together and have a dinner sometime in this holiday season. I'm sure that whether it's between now and New Year's, because I know you know our other couple that we go with. I was gonna say how we're well, they're moving off to Guam.
CHRISY:I know everybody seems to be going somewhere very exciting, except I'm very stationary. So I keep trying to get you to move with me. But I'm watching you fall and melt down. It doesn't look like any fun yet. Make it look more fun than maybe I think so.
KERRY:Yeah, we're gonna have to have a friend all a day because yeah, so I'm we're definitely gonna do it. It just won't be this weekend. That's okay. But you know what I am gonna do this weekend?
CHRISY:What's that?
KERRY:I promised you that I was. I was gonna ask. Let me see. Here it let me I'm gonna suffer. We're going to dig up that live tree. Where are you killing a tree at? Just out of curiosity. I want to come watch. I'll take a video. Um, please. I would love to see this. Oh, they have all these little tree farms all over here in northeastern Ohio that they grow the trees and you go out, and sometimes you take a covered wagon, sometimes you take a horse-drawn wagon, sometimes you walk, sometimes you take a tractor, and they drop you off in the middle of the tree grove, and you'd have your little saw, and you'd go pick out your tree, and you cut the tree down. So drag it back. Very full of effort. I told you I was gonna suffer. So and you really way more than I would, but okay. I will be digging out every Christmas ornament box, every Christmas decoration box. Everything is coming up out of that basement, and it's gonna be holidaypalooza in my dining room this weekend.
CHRISY:Lovely. Uh you know, we should almost make a video of this. I will. And put it on our thing though. Okay. We'll think about it. No, I can do it. Just because you would need me there though to make reactions to you. Okay. Wouldn't you want me to just sit there and answer? Well, what we could do is commentary as to what I am seeing.
KERRY:I can make the video, and then when we're together, we can watch it and you can we can do a live, you know, a step-by-step reaction of things. So I can FaceTime you or something.
DJ NICK:All it's gonna be is oh my god, Carrie, you're gonna get rid of that.
CHRISY:Oh my god. No, I was talking about I wanted to see her cut this tree now. You want to come over? We we got let's think about this. Oh, this could be a possibility because I think it would be a very funny video. It will be. Because I'm not gonna do anything but watch.
KERRY:Which speaks volumes. Well, we're we're going on Saturday. So if you guys want to come up on Saturday and partake in the zomba, zomba, zomba, cutting the tree.
CHRISY:It would be the first time I ever participated, but of course, uh not fully because I'm not gonna do anything, but we don't decorate the same day.
KERRY:We simply cut it down, and then you gotta drag it into the house and you gotta set it up, and it has to rest for a few days. Because you gotta make sure all the critters come out, you know. Oh my god. You know, in case there happens to be a squirrel living in there from the Thanksgiving that almost was there.
CHRISY:You go.
KERRY:Jeremy Squirrel, Jeremy could be in the tree.
CHRISY:And now he's displaced.
KERRY:Well, you also have to make sure that you don't bring home a nest of ticks. See, this is why my father, we never had a real tree.
CHRISY:Never, never know.
KERRY:But you do need to let it rest because you know it's cold now, and God, we've already seen the S N O W shit no one wants. Oh. Snow. S N O Well. No one ones. It's an acronym. She just light bulb.
CHRISY:You're rubbing your eyes. You're laughing. I love it. That's a first. Well, because you're like, Were you at my house? Because everybody says that's what's here. Shit no one wants. And I was like, what is she? She keeps digging me. Keeps digging me about my crap.
KERRY:Oh, you know, you gotta let the tree rest so that the the leaves or the leaves, the limbs and everything relax so that way when you decorate it, like the decorations don't fall even further.
CHRISY:Anyway, I don't know what to say to any of this. Okay, well, we're gonna see what that what we can do with that.
KERRY:That seems like uh an opportunity we shouldn't miss out on, but you know, I I know you're making things ahead of time, but what'd you decide to do? You you had a contemplation about what you were gonna do for your main entree this year.
CHRISY:The turkey? Well, I'm doing a turkey always, but I like to do the full turkey. I used to be a stickler for stuffing it, even though they told you years and years ago you can't, it's not good to do that. Yeah, because the way to eat it. Yeah, have it stuffed. You need to have a little salmonella in that stuffing. Well, yeah, I mean, that's I just always end up probably overcooking my bird, but uh I have uh done crock pot stuffing, but I guess if you're not using it inside the bird, you have to call it does it become dressing at that point? Oh, because it's on the side, it's not it's not coming from the bird.
KERRY:I don't know what the official definition is. I don't know, because dressing sounds like you know, ranch or blue cheese.
CHRISY:They call it dressing if it's I think it's on the side because it's like on the side. I get ya. But I have made it in the crock pot in the past just to have extra.
KERRY:Yeah.
CHRISY:The one thing that I can say that I can get it pretty close as if it were in the bird, is once I have all the droppings from the turkey cooking, oh, all that lovely juice. Not the droppings, the drippings. Drippings, whatever. Yeah, not bird droppings. Sorry. I'm not uh I just I try not to say things. Carrie's got me talking all the time. You can see why I don't say things a lot because they always come out wrong. The drippings from the bird. Although I know you try to reserve some of that so you can make your gravy. Yeah. But if you get some of that and you pour that over the stuffing you made in your crock pot, it does, it gets some wonderful uh moisture to it and flavor, and it tastes pretty darn close.
KERRY:I like I'm a I like things smothered and covered, you know what I mean? Like in general. So I like gravies and sauces and everything on my stuff, but it it's a texture thing too with the the stuffing. Uh it's gotta be mushy and smothered and covered, and that's why I like the one in the bird, because it seems like all the ones that are made as outside the bird, they're too dry. They are they're not mushy enough, they're not saturated with all that yumminess and fat and salmonella and whatever else they're gonna, you know, kill you with it. But right.
CHRISY:It should be, you know, a sort of an adventure when you're eating uh your cuisine, especially on a holiday. The more people in the house, the more you're fighting for restroom time, aren't you? Yeah, true. Which is exciting too. Um so you decided against the turkey press for sure? No, I'm st I I think I would like to do one because um my husband, he prefers the the uh the breast uh over like the legs and uh the thighs and thit whatever. So you like white meat, not dark meat.
KERRY:Are we allowed to say that anymore? I don't even know. I was literally referring to the Oh my god. I don't know why I feel weird when I say that. Of all the things you talk about, then that's what you're worried about talking about.
CHRISY:Yeah, okay. Well, Nick likes the white meat, okay? Because then somebody usually chimes in and has something smarky to say, yeah.
DJ NICK:And so I There ain't nobody else in here but the three of us. Who the hell do you think you're gonna say anything?
CHRISY:I well, all the people listening might have some thought run through their mind. So I might I think I will maybe do just do a turkey breast and not do the whole turkey.
KERRY:No, I think I still have to now I'm making more work for myself, yeah. And you're not gonna have all that juicy yumminess to put on your your dressingslash stuffing not made in the bird. You're not stuffed, you're no stuffed stuffing. I I know I've seen people do this.
CHRISY:Is these videos, these goddamn videos. I'm a victim of this, and I'm sure there's others out there. We're watching all these videos, these people doing all this great stuff. Yeah, I've been watching this these videos with just the turkey breast, uh-huh, and you put it in your crock pot and you smother it with seasonings and cranberry sauce from the can, which I always make my own. Yeah, I do. Because it's easy. Yeah, I like um, and then you put the uh onion soup mix, sprinkle that on top, and you cook the damn thing. Yeah, and it's supposed to come out and taste wonderful, and the meat's super juicy, and everybody's just uh extremely happy. Yeah, which would be nice to see people happy once in a while. Yeah, but not my house. Generally, we're all like living in dread and fear and hiding.
KERRY:But that's the way I like everybody, so you know. This is one of those silly things that you know, I know we talked about traditions and stuff last year, but as much as I too prefer homemade cranberry sauce, and it is very easy to make, and I love it to make that. I'll still probably well, not me this year, because I'm not hosting Thanksgiving, but the next time I do host it, I'll have the jellied, you know, coagulated jelly thing out of the can on the table, right? Sliced just in memory of my mom. Because she would always put that on the table. Yeah, and she would always throw it away afterwards because nobody ate it.
CHRISY:Like literally, did you have the homemade option as well? No, but just nobody wanted the canned stuff.
KERRY:No, but she would always put out there because her that was the tradition. You always you always had it, but no one ever ate it. And so it always was like we'd we'd be like, Mom, why don't we put oh no, we gotta have it, but no one ate it. So yeah, so I'll put it out there. Hey, it's I don't know if my sister I'll I'll have to remember. I don't remember. I think I was too too too much liquored up with the Mogan David last year to remember if there was coagulated candied jelly on the table. I bet there was.
CHRISY:She's she sets a very nice uh spread there.
KERRY:Yes, and a very reminiscent for mom.
CHRISY:Yeah. So so yeah, I I I need to do all this stuff and make stuff ahead and watch all these videos that give me anxiety, and uh I I'll be good to go.
KERRY:Yeah.
CHRISY:Used to wake up really early to start the bird. Yes, and I don't even know why. It was just something I thought I was supposed to do. So it would be like setting the clock, you're exhausted, yeah, and the clock goes off at like five, and it's like, why do I think I need to be at five and get the bird in by six, and then it's ready at like what noon? Well, see, that's what we do because we eat at noon. Well, that's good. Yes, so I'm still that's why I'm making a head. I would love to eat at noon. I to be honest, one year I actually made this is crazy. I made my Thanksgiving dinner the day before.
KERRY:Oh, good for you.
CHRISY:Because I was under the impression, which it's not an impression. In my mind, the leftovers taste bet better. Yeah, they do, because the flavors marry. Yes, they marry. Yeah. In my nightmare of refrigerator with a lot of displaced food that we don't know what it is in there.
KERRY:Just don't put the wrong dish out. Right. The one that's been in the back that's a petri dish experiment.
CHRISY:Yeah, they're like, what was this side dish I just did? That pumpkin spice latte stuff. Yeah, that was my coffee creamer I made like two months ago. Um you mean salmonella salad. That's a deal. Salmonella salad. So I did do that when you're but it I didn't do it again, but it wasn't a horrible idea. Yeah. Because it was just us, and then everybody just sort of tossed everything back on the island and just went to town. But then, of course, now everybody's got cold food on their plate that they're tossing in the microwave to reheat. Right. And so nobody's eating at the same time. No. Because as one plate's done, they go sit down and then the other person's up. Yeah, so it's it's a little, it's a little disjointed. The one thing I do make, I have to mention, that Nick hates. Oh, and I do make it every year. Sauerkraut? No sauerkraut. Although now I got I scored a pint. I might have to. You never know with me. I try to savor it. I do this uh cranberry fluff. Oh, and it's good, but I'm the only one who will eat it. Well, no, the kids might try it a little bit, but I gotta stop making it because then I'm the one that eats it all, and it's not good for you. It's a dessert, it's a dessert. So you do homemade cranberries and you put them in the food processor, you crush them up for the most part, chop them, and then it has you have to sort of put those in sugar overnight because cranberries are tart, terribly tart.
KERRY:I know. I'm thinking my cranberry fix today from pulp, not a sponsor.
CHRISY:Shouldn't be sponsored, should be. I got I got carroty chop and go seasonal. Then you sort of let that sit overnight, and the sugar gets nice and sweet, and then you mix in pineapple and marshmallows. Yum. And the pineapple, yeah. I like pineapple. He doesn't like marshmallows. Oh. I know, right? That's like the face he she just gave him. She's like disgusted, like she just smelled cat piss somewhere. That was a good face. It was that that's her nose crinkled up when you said he didn't like marshmallows.
DJ NICK:I've heard of whiskey face, but never cat piss face.
CHRISY:That was a catpiss face to me. Um, and then you make uh get the heavy whipping cream and you whip it and you make your own it's beautiful, fluffy whipped cream, and you fold that in. Yeah, and you let it sit a little bit in the fridge and marry, as you say. Uh the flavor's all merry, and oh my gosh. You don't put any vanilla pudding powder in there? Nope. The the how the uh heavy whipping cream that you whip up is enough and it turns into a lovely whipped topping.
KERRY:It sounds good. I would probably about the pineapple. I love pineapple, don't get me wrong. I love fresh pineapple, but I'm not a big fan of pineapple in other things. Well, you might be surprised. In this, it works really well. All right, so well, save me some.
CHRISY:I will. Somebody else needs to eat it, not just me.
KERRY:Um, what's hiding underneath your kitchen sink, I have to ask.
CHRISY:So every year we we don't actually carve the we talked about this last year. And we grew up in a time with the wrong code crap that you could buy people, the thing that used to clean your record player, your records off, the dust that used to build up. This was a huge problem in the 70s where the records were dusty and you didn't know how to wipe them off yourself. So you got a little machine that spun the record and cleaned it off for you.
DJ NICK:I could really use that now. I'm back, I mean, I'm into my vinyl. Yes, he has his little vinyl.
CHRISY:They also used, I believe, sell oh, maybe it was the Pocket Fisherman type thing they might have had. There was all these like commercials that were so nostalgic in the 70s. I love watching them. Mr. Microphone was the other one, which is if anybody wants to watch, laugh, that one that commercial is really funny. I thought they did an electric knife, but maybe I'm wrong. Gemini that uh DJ Nix. Yeah, did Ronco have an electric knife? Anyhow, the electric knife thing to me. Yes, did it really ever work? Did anybody have success with an electric knife on Turkey? Because it just seem like it was like the chainsaw massacre to me. I mean it didn't seem right. But we generally do, like I don't even have a really great knife, yeah. So we're basically like cavemen ripping into this bird, just trying to dig the meat off of it so we can be over it. I want to get the carcass out of my house. I don't want my dogs to accidentally get it or my kid, you know, uh, you know, kids throwing stuff on the floor because they think it looks cool. But the one thing that I always come across for my husband and my oldest daughter, it's like a tradition with them. Yeah. The wishbone. Yeah. And they have to snap it. Yes. But no, my Nick has reminded me that it was my call that you couldn't just immediately grab it after pulling it off of the carcass to see who snaps the thing correctly. You have to let it dry out. Yeah, that's I I don't know why I feel that, but maybe because it's all oily and slimy, and you need to like wait for that to go away, or your hands are gonna slip off. It's not official if you you can't get a good grip on it. So I do wrap it in paper towel and I usually stick it on my windowsill, but then after a while I'm like, why is this still on my windowsill? And then it probably gets swooped up with other stuff, and then it gets put under the damn sink. So I bet you if I go there, I don't even know if they did last year's yet. Probably bones and I am sure I I hope not.
DJ NICK:I'm sure we got a handful of uh wishbones we haven't done before.
CHRISY:Why are we here's one of those weird idiosyncrasy, maybe somewhere. Well, why do I think we need to do this? I don't know. Who the hell? Because I don't even think we were allowed to do that when I grew up.
KERRY:We did it growing up, but I never it seemed like the rules always changed on whether if you got the short one or the big piece. What was the winner?
DJ NICK:The big piece, I thought.
KERRY:Well, see, that's what I thought. But my mom would say, no, the big piece that had the little stump was for the loser because the loser had to sit on the stump and contemplate, you know, how they lost, but the little piece was actually the winner. But I always thought it was sitting on stumps again.
CHRISY:You gotta bring up that book. That goddamn book. You always find a way to work that into our conversation. You know it upsets me. I hate that book. The green cover, that dumb, stupid old man sitting on that stump. The eating tree. Oh, he said it.
KERRY:Anyways, I just remember that the that my that was my. Why did you have to tell me that? Because now I don't know how to make my ruling on it. Okay, wait, first, you Gemini's something. Did you give us the answer?
DJ NICK:Yeah, so no, Ronco made an electric knife sharpener. I don't think they made an actual electric knife.
KERRY:How could they make a sharpener if they didn't make the knife? That's weird.
CHRISY:Because probably Black and Decker had the market on the other side.
KERRY:Oh, they might have. That might have. Okay, so now Google if you're gonna break. Let's find out about this stupid. Which is the which is the real answer? Because I always thought it was the big piece, but then my mom threw a ringer saying no, the little piece. She must have liked that book.
CHRISY:Yeah, you know what I mean.
KERRY:She did like that book.
CHRISY:She liked that book. So she's like, the stump wins.
DJ NICK:Maybe she wanted the the the the real loser to make them feel better. They said they actually won.
CHRISY:Well, that might have been very nice of her. I can see that being a kindly thing to do.
DJ NICK:So what do you got? I'm I'm looking.
KERRY:Who's the winner of the breaking of the wishbone, or yeah, whatever that is.
CHRISY:So is anybody even doing this anymore, or is it just why are we still doing this? I guess people do. I don't know. I never asked. We do it because we're dysfunctional and we just that's what we've always done.
DJ NICK:Well, according to Gemini, yes, the person with the larger piece of the wishbone wins.
KERRY:See? That's what I thought. My mom must have made that story up because I lost one year or something. And so she was trying to change the rules. She was probably trying to change the rules that I won, even though I didn't win. That's alright. That's a lovely thing to do.
CHRISY:That's very nice. So I just I have a problem with the word stump. Add the word tree in front of it. Now I've really got a problem.
KERRY:So you're yeah. Um, I guess I know what I'll be returning at for your Christmas gift.
CHRISY:Yeah, please. I won't get you, I won't get you the book. No, it's an emotional time of year as it is. I I can't be made to feel any more emotions than I already do. Oh my lanta, that's crazy.
KERRY:So, well, this has been uh a fun prep for the next 24 hours.
CHRISY:So yeah, but I gotta tell you what you should be watching now.
KERRY:Oh, yeah. Oh, yes.
CHRISY:What do we gotta watch? There's some stuff you guys need to torture yourselves with.
KERRY:Well, we already started with the uh first one we have to watch in the beginning. We talked about the Thanksgiving that wasn't.
CHRISY:It almost wasn't. Uh Jeremy the Squirrel is waiting for you and your YouTube views to uh get it going there. So we got Home for the Holidays. We didn't talk about that. And that is like one of the ultimately uh Natalie slash fingers. I know she's a fan of that uh movie because it's full of dysfunction. She referenced it uh either on her one Facebook page one time or maybe uh in a message uh to me. We were going back and forth. Great, fun, dysfunctional meltdown of family. I kind of recognize all of the players in that as somebody I might know. Oh, the this one, it's called Avalon, Barry Levinson. It's from like 1990. It's about family, it's just really good. It's got beautiful music in it, it's very uh art artsy kind of. I used to like to watch it, and especially now with all of our technology with our TVs, visually, uh-huh, it's actually really beautiful to watch. Avalon. It it's not gonna make you um basically uh feel great at the ending. Well, because it's it's spoiler alert, it's real, okay, and it's about life and about family and how things change. So it's it it's very honest. That's all I can tell you. But it's an it's a good watch. Gotta watch Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. Good lord. Except I'm always concerned about the controversy that came out about Franklin at the table. Which why did they have to tell us that? Never even noticed it. Not that I don't want to be like aware of things, but and and Nick did Google the situation, and he said that that was not true at all. What did you find out when you were looking that up? Because we wanted to know why Franklin's sitting on the one side of the table by himself. All the other kids are sort of in groups together around the other three sides of the table. And he's got the crappiest chair.
DJ NICK:Yeah, he's in a lawn chair. He's in a lawn chair, and everybody else is in like a big.
CHRISY:See, at like the kids' table? No, no. They're all kids.
KERRY:Oh, that's true.
CHRISY:So then there is no adult. There's that. There's no adult table with Charlie Brown. But but go ahead. So they were really being critical of this show because of that.
DJ NICK:So I I think they reached out to and I I think even his Charles Schultz's widow even said that he didn't, there was no intention or mouse. Actually, he he put a you know a black character in. He wrote Frank and the script at at the request of uh of a teacher. Yeah. You know, to have more black characters in. Yeah. So I don't think there was any bad will, but it it really isn't a good look. It isn't a good look. He's by himself on the one side of the table in a chair less than the chairs that everybody else is sitting in.
KERRY:And what year did this come out?
DJ NICK:1973.
CHRISY:It's the last one from that trilogy, even though it's not in order. They didn't do like Halloween Thanksgiving gift.
KERRY:But I'm gonna have to boycott it on that.
CHRISY:What? You can never boycott Charles Charlie Brown. I can't. Oh my god, I lost my breath. She's gonna boycott Charlie Brown. Everybody. The insult of the day is Carrie boycotts Charlie Brown. Never.
DJ NICK:And I also think Charles Schultz did not have much to do with the actual animation of that either. So I think that was the other thing that his his widow said.
CHRISY:I'll look at some of the other stuff then. And then the only other one is the that Garfield Thanksgiving. It's a really good one. Yeah, that one is good. If you want to laugh and say whatever happened to this person, son in law with Paul. Because it really, I don't know what the hell happened to this guy, but I mean he was like a king when we were, you know, teens, early twenties. I got my I got my list. You got a list. I got my list. So everybody get get busy cooking, get busy watching television. As long as I don't pack my TV, I'll start looking at it. That's gotta be the last thing you do.
KERRY:Another insane. Well, we did already sell the TV in the chairs in our movie room, so we're down to one TV in the house.
CHRISY:So how would you sell? Oh my goodness. I know. Although I'm I'm hopeful that you're that means you're getting a bigger and better one.
KERRY:Well, we just have to see what we what we move to to find out what you need. What we need and stuff. So and I don't want to pay to ship things if so, you know. That makes sense. I'm not gonna okay. Yeah, I'll give you a pass. So all right. Well, that should give everybody a lot to keep them occupied for the weekend. You know, if you need a good distraction from the the dysfunction, you can always uh you know find a safe space and say, Oh, I'm gonna go lay down, take a nap, and put your ear pods in and listen to us. Yes, we are with you. We pretend we are there with you. We are so we are we are definitely there for everybody. But in the meantime, please do make sure to check out our website, dysfunctionjunkiespodcast.com. Got a lot of great things happening on there. We have our our blogs to read. We also um have our map of all of our listeners and where you're located at. You can make sure your city is showed up on that map. And then also this month, this is our last week of supporting sleep in heavenly peace to provide beds for children. And you can uh check all out about them on our website. So have a great Thanksgiving farm teenies to all of you.
CHRISY:Happy Thanksgiving, everyone.
KERRY:Bye.
