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 Trace How A Jolly Legend Turns Dysfunctional When You Add Manipulation, Workplace Chaos, And A French Folklore Villain
Snow, lights, cookies… and questions we usually avoid. We pull back the tinsel to explore how the Santa story shapes trust, behavior, and values, and why so many of us remember the joy of belief but not the awkward in-between. The conversation gets real, candid, and funny as we test which parts of the myth build wonder—and which parts quietly train compliance.
Things turn intriguingly dark when we uncover Père Fouettard, the French folklore figure paired with St. Nicholas to punish misbehavior. We won’t import the terror, but we do ask what it reveals about how cultures balance reward and fear—and how we can choose warmth over threats while still setting boundaries. By the end, we offer a kinder script: keep the magic, ditch the manipulation, and invite kids into the “helper” role as they grow.
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Oh ho! Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies Podcast. We may not have seen it all, but we've seen it up. And now here your hosts, Chrissy Ken Perry. Well I love it.
SPEAKER_04:Merry Christmas Eve, everybody.
CHRISY:I'm Carrie. And I'm Chrissy. My apologies to Santa. He's dysfunctional. We're gonna talk about that.
SPEAKER_04:Very good, very good. I was recording that. I'm gonna post that on our Facebook page. So alrighty. Well, it is Christmas Eve. My house doesn't smell like fish. No, it does not smell like fish.
CHRISY:Because I ain't doing it.
SPEAKER_04:So I'm not sure how to lead into today's. I love this right up my alley. So I'm gonna just preface with this. Sometimes when we're coming up with show ideas, it comes up very organically and you know, it just kind of happens. And sometimes we have to do some research. This one was research, and this is all crissy. And so I apologize in advance if some of you are not sure about the dark turn of events that's about to happen here, but I'm going with it because it is completely dysfunctional.
CHRISY:Well, hey, we have to remember what we are based in, and that is dysfunction. It is. We do, we uh ultimately it's to be humorous and give you all who are taking time to listen to us a chance to sort of not think about all your stress and maybe your dysfunction at the same time, and let you know that yes, we are dysfunctional. Everybody, I don't care how clean and sweet you think you have it, you don't. And uh the best way to deal with it is to uh find humor, yes, which is what we really work hard at doing. And Santa Claus, maybe he thought he was free of this burden of being considered dysfunctional, but he ain't.
SPEAKER_04:And and maybe this would be a good time that if sometimes you happen to listen to our show with your children present, this may not be an episode that they want to be listening to because we don't want to ruin anyone's perception of Santa Claus. Right. So I'm gonna I'm gonna lead into I don't look at the show notes usually until right before we record. You know, we put our thoughts in, and as we were getting ready, all I have to say is Santa and cannibalism showed up on the same lines, and I was like, whoa, we're going down a dark hole.
CHRISY:I was even taken aback by that. But hey, it it's out there. So, Chrissy, what's so dysfunctional about Santa? Let's share. Well, I'm made my quick key points and then we can elaborate. But the things that seems to be dysfunctional with Santa, okay, and that people can connect with Santa on some level, or maybe feel that uh these uh unfortunate things do have some connection with Santa Claus, deception and trust, behavioral control, okay, manipulation, health risks, including obesity, uh, workplace issues, and then we have cannibalism.
SPEAKER_04:This is where I don't understand.
CHRISY:And a negative impact, realizing that a myth is not real. Okay. Um we're gonna break these down one by one?
SPEAKER_04:Sure.
CHRISY:Let's get into it, everyone. Which one are you gonna start with? Deception and trust. Okay. This is, I'm sure, probably everybody's knows where we're going with that. Yeah, I can see this. So you got us as parents and as adults, uh-huh, although our heart is in the right place, and we have to basically put a lie out there. Yeah. Uh that there is this wonderful man who will bring you uh lovely things one night a year, but you have to make sure you're asleep. There could be a point. Now I didn't experience this. There was probably a little bit of a period where I was like kind of wanting to know the truth and I wanted to hear them say it. Uh-huh. It seems like this unwritten understanding or code or discipline that parents have, although maybe not everyone, but with my case, and maybe with yours, when you are realizing that this seems way too far-fetched to be real, yeah, and you start trying to push them to say it. Say it. Say it. You know? Yeah. They don't, at least mine didn't. They just ignored my level of questioning. Yeah. So I think there was a period where I felt like, you know, come on. Just now you think I'm an idiot and you're gonna still push this. But as you got older, you really try to reflect on how wonderful you felt when you were still under the magic of all of that. Right.
SPEAKER_04:You know what's funny is looking back, I totally remember the time when I 100% believed in Santa. And I totally remember, okay, not no kind of knowing where the the truth lies. But I don't remember the gray questioning it period in between. I have no recollection of that. So it must not have been a traumatic evolution or something, right? You know, that's interesting.
CHRISY:I remember I would start asking my mother things and trying to read her uh-huh response or her body language or something. I don't know. You're leaning in the case. Nick's leaning, you obviously got something to say here.
SPEAKER_02:No, I mine, I had a sibling ruin it for me. Oh. I don't know how old I was. Probably older than I should have been. However, and then at that point, my parents they they just fessed up.
SPEAKER_04:They fessed up.
SPEAKER_02:There was no in-between for me. Yeah. My sister, she actually she ruined uh Santa Claus and Easter Bunny in one fail swoop. Oh then I went back and I said, Mom, what's the deal? And she was like, Oh, oh you know, I think I was a little bit older, so I wasn't like devastated. Yeah. And I probably maybe was questioning it, but I don't remember outwardly questioning it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, I don't remember that either. Yeah, my sister ruined ruined the Easter bunny and Santa Claus. In fact, it was more like Easter time. Yeah. She was like, she she, you know, Santa was the cherry on top for her. She could no Easter bunny. And she goes, you know what? There's no Santa Claus either, or something.
SPEAKER_03:So yeah, so one fail swoop. Better table for one, sister.
CHRISY:I I do think that this is where all three of us, we had talked about all of us being the youngest. Yes. Where we uh and anyone out there who has older siblings or I mean even cousins or whatever, you will probably fall prey to this. It's gonna they're gonna come at you with it. I think it's more out of their hostility about losing that magic that they want to ruin it. How why are they still having a good time thinking that this is happening when it's not? Mine was uh I had an older friend that was like a couple years older than me that I was pretty close with when I was growing up. And I was older, probably uh considered older to stop believing than some other children. I think I was probably around nine. Okay, and that might have been the fact that I was wrapped up in TV a lot, yeah. Which is one big box of fantasy. Yeah. So it helped me maintain that for a while. And I generally was ignoring the living people around me. And so, you know, as long as there was more presents for me under the tree on Christmas morning. I'll believe whatever you want. Did a red man uh suit a man in a red suit deliver all of this? And it's for me. I knew I was special. Thank you.
SPEAKER_04:So there's there's one conception and trust. Okay, I can get I I can be on board with with the dysfunction of that around Santa Claus.
CHRISY:Right. So behavior control, and I'm gonna say something very controversial, but I don't care. You do it anyway, so I'm gonna anyways, and this is gonna upset people who are into faith and religion. I'm sorry. I appreciate what you do, uh, and how that makes you feel, and that you have a strong faith. But I'm gonna say that uh behavior control uh is Santa not just an offshoot of of a religion. He's a saint. Yeah. And it's behavior control. And in my opinion, I feel like uh uh unfortunately the the great book is a little bit of behavior control for the masses. What? Oh, you went down. Is that wrong? Well, if you have to cut it out, you have to cut it out.
SPEAKER_04:Nope, nope, nope, nope is your safe space.
CHRISY:This is my opinion.
SPEAKER_04:It is my opinion.
CHRISY:I am not religious.
SPEAKER_04:Can't say that I maybe share to that extent. I thought you were gonna go along the Santa giving you gifts because you're naughty or nice behavioral control. I wasn't thinking you were gonna go down the whole rabbit hole of religion philosophy. Yeah.
CHRISY:Look, I have accepted my fate a long time ago. Okay, now he's leaning again.
SPEAKER_02:I'm gonna lighten it up for the behavior control.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_02:So this is this is the magic of where my mom was probably extended my belief time. And she was because she was she was what a great lady. I miss my mother. Um but you know, the whole behavior control, you gotta be good. Yeah, you know, blah, blah, blah. And I would notice that I wouldn't get as many presents as my buddy down the street, who I know was a bad kid. And I I was a pretty good kid. And I'm not trying to be practical. You were saying that. I don't know about that. But I was a good kid. I did good in school and never behavioral problems at school or at home, or I was a pretty good kid. And I was like, why does he get more presents than I get? Uh-huh. Well, then my mom, she was pretty cool. She was a slick lady. She says, Well, we do have, you know, and I was probably almost getting to the point where I was maybe questioned. Yeah. She was like, you know, we do have to pay Santa. And I knew we didn't have as much money. So she she said, Yeah, we have to, we can't totally we have to help Santa pay for the gifts. That's how Santa really works. So she kind of made, she probably got me a couple extra years of belief in Santa with that. Because I'm like, why is my friend who's a prick down the street getting more shit than me?
CHRISY:All right. I'm not going to disagree with you on how lovely your mother was. But I'm going to tell you right now, and that worked to get you buy you a couple more years of believing. And it was an explanation because she had no other way to explain the jackass down the street getting more gifts than you. But this is like crossing uh organized crime levels of payoff. I don't think it was that at all. I don't think she was thinking that, but that's what I'm thinking. I have to give some, I have to go slip a couple extra 20s for them extra boxes of gifts.
SPEAKER_04:That was quick thinking on your mom's part. Oh, she wasn't. That was quick. Well, okay, so we also have to add organized crime to Santa's list here.
CHRISY:I'm sorry, but the whole idea, I think, is based in the same premise. You be a good person, be good, follow the rules, eat your vegetables, go to bed on time, don't give me a lot of shit. You're gonna get a lot of presents. Okay. You're gonna be rewarded in the city.
SPEAKER_04:Every parent on every trip to the grocery store or to, you know, the the department store, to anywhere that negotiating. It's a lot of negotiating.
CHRISY:Right. You need to be good or you're negotiating with people who don't understand the definition of negotiating, which is hilarious. They have no concept of what that is, but you're still doing it. Right, right, right, right. Because it has there has to be some sort of form of payment for this. Yes. So this is all right. I made it horrible. Christmas Eve. I'm going to hell twice. Okay. You're welcome. Okay. There you go. Going there twice. Okay. So let's uh go ahead and get off the behavior control. Right, right, right. Because obviously that was offensive. Manipulation. Well, geez, we just slide right back into another perfect thing. If you want something, you have to do this. Right. And Santa's watching.
SPEAKER_04:Right.
CHRISY:So I gotta manipulate you to get you to do this because you know that this is how we're gonna be able to score gifts.
SPEAKER_04:A plethora of dysfunction going on here.
CHRISY:I know. We maybe should want to shelve this uh episode. I don't know. I didn't realize we were gonna be ruining. And it's Christmas Eve, and you're probably making cookies or wrapping last-minute things. Or frying fish.
SPEAKER_04:We're picking up the Christmas tree off.
CHRISY:Don't let any purify off the floor sitting here. There's gonna be a specific type of person listening right now. I love you to death. You're my peep peeps. That's our people. So yeah, there's your uh this one's hilarious I'm I'm sorry, I don't mean to make fun of this one, but health risks is so funny to me. Because how do we describe Santa? We all have the same idea of what Santa's supposed to look like.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah.
CHRISY:And he doesn't look like, you know, um healthy. No. Well, I mean, yeah, he looks he looks very healthy.
SPEAKER_04:Well, he looks healthy in the in a non-traditional sense of the word.
CHRISY:Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:I mean, you know, he's not like uh Santa hasn't missed any uh cookies on on all the tables.
CHRISY:No, and the fact that he has to, you know, the only payment for him to, you know, that he only asks of you to leave you presents is cookies and milk. It's not like milk is good. It's yeah, that's uh born out of our generation that we were telling everybody got milk. Yeah, yeah. Santa does. I left him some. I don't have any more. I gave it to Santa. But uh the other thing too is uh Rudolph. Yeah. Uh the show. Yeah. That Mrs. Claus is riding the hell out of Santa, who's already a jackass. Oh, Jesus in that show. Santa's not represented well. He's a dickhead to flipping Rudolph. And I killed the end. Until the right because he can use Rudolph for something. Now Rose is useful.
SPEAKER_04:Rudolph is now useful to him.
CHRISY:If there was no stove snowstorm that year, Rudolph would still be sitting crying in a corner somewhere. So Mrs. Santa says, Oh, nobody wants a skinny Santa. She keeps saying, Eat, Papa, eat.
SPEAKER_02:I didn't know Mrs. Claus was Italian.
CHRISY:It's um, you actually did a really good impersonation of it. That was over the top exaggeration, totally stereotypical of whatever the hell she was doing over there. I don't know. God love the 60s and 70s with the Christmas shows, though. So yeah, and so now we have to fatten everybody up to be a Santa Claus representation. And now you've got diabetes, you know, diabetic issues, heart disease. Uh, you got the whole thing. Yay.
SPEAKER_04:Do we have an Azempic uh Santa Claus yet?
CHRISY:No, because it's skinny Santa. Nobody wants that. Don't let him get any of that damn medication. Good lord. No, workplace issues. This cracked me up when I read. Where's my notes on this? Because I'm trying to figure this out. Is because he's like basically got a sweatshop going on with the elves. Oh, no, this is just the fact that you have to imagine that managing such a global workforce, elves and reindeer, this is like forget this is Amazon. That guy does it easy. Santa had the worst nightmare dealing with unruly elves and reindeer who are just pooping and eating eat fed and they crap everywhere all the time, cleaning stalls. So yeah, he's got a nightmare of a management situation. Okay. Sorry, Santa. Now that we get into this place where Carrie is totally freaking out. And I didn't know about this either. Now I gotta find the damn good.
SPEAKER_04:It's the it's right there. The dark origins. The dark origins of Saint Nicholas, the historic inspiration for Santa, including a tale of French cannibalistic butcher or an innkeeper. What the heck are we talking about? Some stories what what Christmas that wasn't happening or Santa that almost wasn't where what story is this coming from? Did you research this part?
CHRISY:No, it just it was sounded good. I don't know.
SPEAKER_04:So we have uh cannibal Gemini, this whole what is this French cannibalistic Saint Nick story?
CHRISY:Well, it sounds like he's a businessman. He's a butcher and an innkeeper. If you got somebody pulling double duty like that, and those are the two professions they're they're doing, you probably want to have an investigation occurring. Because anybody who's uh double uh doubling as a butcher and an innkeeper generally that sounds historically bad.
SPEAKER_04:Isn't there a movie about something about an There's many, I'm sure.
CHRISY:Yeah. So I can only imagine. Uh we'll let Nick look this up. I no, I did not. I because I just saw cannibalism and I was like, oh wow. Like, okay, Nick. Oh boy. Scoot in. Here we go.
SPEAKER_02:Scoot in. He just saw cannibalism and said, oh, this is cool. So it was part of the life. The French cannibalistic Saint Nicholas refers to the dark folklore surrounding Père Futar, which is English as Father Whipper, Saint Nicholas's sinister companion in eastern France, who embodies a story where a butcher kidnapped, murdered, and assaulted three children. Oh, God, we're not. Finally for Saint Nicholas to resurrect them, turning the butcher into his eternally whipping sidekick for misbehaving kids.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, this is horrible.
SPEAKER_02:That's really dark.
SPEAKER_04:This is horrible. What are you looking at me for? I didn't make the list. I just I reached. You didn't do enough.
CHRISY:Well, clearly not enough research. Wait a minute. This is good. And we need to get in on this because this is gonna turn into a movie. If we got clowns hanging out in drains.
SPEAKER_02:So basically, this uh father whipper, Pear Futar, is uh uh basically uh St. Nicholas's hitman for children. This is horrible.
CHRISY:Yeah, this is very horrible. What? This is the yin and yang of life. Yin and yang.
SPEAKER_02:To discipline naughty children while St. Nicholas rewards good ones.
CHRISY:Wow! Everybody, you heard it here first. You didn't hear it here first, but well, you heard it. Yeah, whatever.
SPEAKER_04:Our following just dropped by plummeted.
CHRISY:What are you talking about? We're not promoting this, we're bringing awareness to it.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I don't know. I don't want to hear you say, we lost more followers on Facebook.
SPEAKER_04:I'll be like, Chrissy, remember that show where you uh Christmas Eve. On Christmas Eve. All right. I mean, talk about dysfunction. Holy my lanta. I don't believe this.
CHRISY:I don't believe anybody in my family follows this. But to be honest, let's face the facts here. Jesus was tempted by Chrissy. No, not by Chrissy!
SPEAKER_02:So he this uh this let's cut the Jesus part out. The father the father whipper. It's pretty it's pretty this is dark. I don't but it's pretty common in France. I mean looking at this today. Why would I deny French? There I believe he's a common figure in French St. Nicholas parades. Really? Appearing as a disheveled bearded man with a whip, ready to pun. Bad kids, unlike Jolly Sand.
CHRISY:Look, just because it's not something we see here in the United States, there is horrible violence everywhere. They obviously just take it and just roll with it there. To the point where it's not even mentioned that much. Now we dug it up this way.
SPEAKER_02:Le Père Fuitar.
SPEAKER_04:Do we have French on our international listenership yet? Not yet. God, we're not going to get them now. Why?
CHRISY:We're talking about something that they this is part of their Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, okay. It's pretty dark, but it looks like it's pretty dark. It's pretty common in French. Wow!
CHRISY:This may end up being an uncut version if you feel the need. But I'm just gonna tell you you have Jesus and you have Satan. Yes. This is biblical. I'm not telling you anything.
SPEAKER_04:I can see your point with that. There is good and evil. There's good and bad, yes. Yes.
CHRISY:And this is just how the world is.
SPEAKER_02:So we have Santa and Mr. Whipper. Hey, that's why Star Wars is still so big, even today.
CHRISY:Yeah, we're not talking about any concepts that have not been making billions of goddamn dollars for how long? Mr. Lucas, thank you. You know, uh the concept is just there. Now, the the bad part of this is the really dark part is that Santa knowingly and willingly is basically employing. No wonder he's got a workforce issue. He's got this He's got this nightmare employee. He didn't know what to do. Obviously, it's a cousin or a relative of somebody high up, and they're like, you know, can you keep my guy employed? He needs a job. And he's like, Well, geez, okay, I'll just use him as the scary part of what I do to keep all the kids in line. And when the kids get out of line, I'm just gonna turn them over to him and he can whip the hell out of them. Mr. Whipper instead of wow. Okay, sorry. Let me see what else is on my list. Oh my lord. Moving on. We might need to air this a different day than Christmas Eve because that's what I'm really having a hard time doing. It's not talking about this, it's talking about our Christmas Eve and the fact that I didn't participate in the fish making. Now I feel like I'm just gonna get it's out there, everybody. It's out there.
SPEAKER_04:Well, for those of you that didn't suffer on enough during the holidays, you're gonna be suffering now.
CHRISY:The last part of this was talking about the negative impact, realizing that your dreams were not all that they seemed to be. Yeah. Which we already basically touched on. Yeah, we did.
SPEAKER_04:But let's let's then touch on some of the some of these things that okay, so the whole thing about this strange person coming down your chimney in the middle of the night into your house, whenever normally it's like strange or danger, don't you know? So like it is kind of sending a mixed message to to to kids. Like, why is it okay for this strange man to come into your house through an unethical way, not not even through a door?
CHRISY:Because he's leaving, not taking things. Oh, okay. So I guess I don't know.
SPEAKER_02:Unless you're the Grinch.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, that's just true.
CHRISY:Well, then we have that whole thing.
SPEAKER_04:Did you have a fireplace in your house? I can't remember.
CHRISY:Here?
SPEAKER_04:No, I when growing up.
CHRISY:Yes. Okay. We had it duh, it was double. That's why I probably expected double the land. There were two points of entrance, then they were sitting, they sat on top of each other. One was on the first floor, and then one was down in the family room. So yeah, oh, absolutely. And it was a traditional wood burning type fireplace with a chimney and everything. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Okay. This is where my mom was slick again. We didn't have a fireplace in my home growing up. Right. And she just made it sound like that, you know, Santa is magical. He can he can just he'll cut. We had a chimney, but not one that was it went like just right to the furnace.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:So he can make one appear. He can come through the wall. Oh, okay. So Santa Santa has magic.
SPEAKER_04:There you go. See, we had a fireplace in the basement that at one point in my life, yes, it became active, and we were, you know, we had like a family room down there, but for most of the Santa Claus believing years was not active. So we had my mom had like a fake mantle fireplace in the living room. And you know, somehow I just thought, oh, that that that counted. So but yeah. Interesting. Very interesting.
CHRISY:So yeah, there's a lot of stuff on here. I'm not gonna get into it because it could turn into a whole other thing. It hasn't already. Well, I I am sorry if I uh uh when you talk about dysfunction, uh in general, you're gonna probably make people feel uncomfortable or unhappy about certain things.
SPEAKER_04:You've definitely made me feel uncomfortable on Christmas Eve. Thank you, Chrissy. Oh my goodness. I'm definitely gonna have to say a couple extra Hail Mary, some rosemies at midnight mass that probably isn't gonna be at midnight. I think it's at 10 o'clock tonight.
CHRISY:So Yeah, well, now you're worried about what I said. What is this propaganda they put out at midnight mass? It ain't at midnight now. They gotta move stuff up, but nobody can stay up anymore. What's going on? Yeah, we're old. So get the young people to go. They should call it, you know, we're so old mass. We're so old. Nine nine o'clock. Come and see us. Oh donuts and coffee in the lobby. Thank you.
SPEAKER_04:With the side of fried fish.
CHRISY:Yeah, there's some there's some books referenced here. I'm not gonna, you know, I don't want to. I I I can it's some of these books are very interesting. I ain't gonna say nothing though. Yeah, but I mean there's some horrible, I'll just throw out some key words here. I'm not gonna name the books, but I see something that says uh dementia and uh psychiatrist and delusions of grandeur, and that the delusion is unfair to children. Okay. So these are all uplifting and fun ideas for us to explore out there on the World Wide Web. You're welcome.
SPEAKER_04:Wow. On that note, thank you for listening to us today as we went down this very dark uh Christmas Eve rabbit. I have to flip some of the episodes out.
CHRISY:This isn't meant and is recorded for Christmas Eve, but now everybody's got me feeling really bad all of a sudden.
SPEAKER_04:Don't feel bad, Chrissy. You do you. So just your safe space.
SPEAKER_02:I just can't believe that I'd never heard that story. I know. I mean, we're in we're in our early to mid-50s. Yeah, we've never heard of it.
SPEAKER_04:Never heard of well it's because that clearly was well protected from our Catholic education.
SPEAKER_02:They did not share this with us. But in France, you know, I mean it's it's affiliated with St. Nicholas. So I'm sure with French French Catholics, I'm sure they know about this. All right, I definitely I just I'm surprised. And with the World Wide Web and everything that we had never heard of.
SPEAKER_04:We've never heard of this. Yes.
CHRISY:Now somebody's gonna be there's gonna be a bunch of people who be like, whether you're stupid. We all knew about this. If you just came to the flipping game now, uh you're finally at the party.
SPEAKER_02:If you if you Google it, there's all kinds of references of it.
SPEAKER_04:All right. Well, I'm hoping that maybe our French listeners that if we have any and we haven't.
SPEAKER_02:Don't we have Canadian, the French battle? Oh, yeah, we do have Canada. I wonder if they so yeah. I wonder how they are if they're familiar with that in French Canada.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I want to I want to hear that the this from their perspective. So definitely need um, you know, hopefully we'll get uh get some feedback on our Facebook page um or send us an email or send you know, shout out in whatever.
CHRISY:Why are we being so offended? I understand it's dark and it's disturbing. But you know what our belief system here in this country is probably equally uh as disturbing to people who who live their lives by a different code of ethics.
SPEAKER_04:You're very true, Chrissy.
CHRISY:So, you know, I I ain't gonna crap all over anybody's uh if this is the way you're managing your population out there. I guess I'd like to do a study on what your uh juvenile delinquency rate is. Uh does this benefit and keep people uh in line longer?
SPEAKER_02:I really wish you would have made fish.
CHRISY:I might have to hurry up and try and unthaw some shrimp or some salmon or something to save my flipping soul.
SPEAKER_02:Oh my god. Do we got any frozen calamari?
CHRISY:Whatever. Oh, geez, now you act like I'm a flipping fish hut over here.
SPEAKER_04:Okay. Chrissy, we love you. I I love that you definitely went down a really dysfunctional rabbit hole for us. This is this is what we're here for.
CHRISY:You all were living this in real time with us too, because uh uh my husband and my best friend over here, uh, they really were taken back by some. And to be honest, I pulled the notes and didn't read them. What else? Would you expect anything else from me? This would have required uh lengthy reading. I just was gonna wing it. But in wong it we did. It's been wong the past tense of winging it. She won't. She was wrong, and she won't.
SPEAKER_02:So if you really want your kids to listen, tell them the French version. No, please don't.
SPEAKER_04:So all right. Well, again, Merry Christmas, everybody. Happy uh Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, all the other in-between, happy holidays, happy French Christmas. Yeah, happy French Christmas. Oh, and we look forward to to um probably offending you next week. So stay tuned, everybody. Bye-bye.
unknown:Bye.
