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
New Year, Same Brains
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Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies Podcast. We may not have seen it all this past year, but we've still seen it all. And now, here are your hosts. Chrissy and Carrie.
CHRISY:Happy New Year! Yeah. This is Carrie. And I'm Chrissy. Woo! Happy New Year's Eve! Welcome to our depression segment. I really like that song.
SPEAKER_02:That was great. And you know, depending on where you are in the world, it may already be New Year's Day. It might be. So happy New Year! Happy New Year's Eve. Happy, happy, happy.
CHRISY:Happy, happy. Happy the holiday season is almost at an end.
SPEAKER_02:Happy, happy. Yes, absolutely. That was fun. We had fun with that. I hope you all enjoyed it as much as we did making that. Yes. We had a great time. It is New Year's Eve. It is. Yes. We made it through another year. Yeah. Did we? We did.
CHRISY:Did we? We did. Oh, I guess. I don't know.
SPEAKER_02:Well, I guess we're still this side of the terra firma, so yes.
CHRISY:Right. If you believe that stuff, there's some people say we're in an alternate, alternate dimension where we're actually dead already.
SPEAKER_02:Oh. Like Matrix, Matrix kind of theory. I'm gonna be ashamed to say this. I've never seen The Matrix.
CHRISY:Oh, really? Don't know why, but I haven't. Have you seen it? Because you usually see things I don't see. Nope.
unknown:Okay.
CHRISY:I maybe this year I have to make a commitment to myself to sit and watch The Matrix.
SPEAKER_02:Well, tomorrow, whenever you're, you know, eating your sour crayout in Kebasa. Oh, I'll be starting that tonight. Not me. Okay. Fine. Oh my. So what dysfunctional things are we gonna do today or talk about today?
CHRISY:Well, New Year's Eve. We we proved it last week.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, oh really? We went down a hole last week.
CHRISY:There is a total layer of dysfunction with Santa.
SPEAKER_02:If we haven't lost any listeners yet, go back and listen to that.
CHRISY:You are committed to this and we need to deliver uh thought-provoking content.
SPEAKER_02:Yes, we do.
CHRISY:And I think we came through last week. We definitely maybe this, I don't know that this will be as as uh devastatingly uh dark dark as that one, but uh I will try my best to uh lead you out of this year and into the next uh with uh depression issues.
SPEAKER_02:So, with that being said, it says see printouts, and again, I did not look at show notes before.
CHRISY:I like it because I really threw you off that last time.
SPEAKER_02:I totally did, totally did. Okay, so the dysfunction of New Year's Eve. Here we go. Widespread mental health challenges and physical health risks go. Where did you wow, where did you read that? On your show notes thing, dysfunction of New Year's Eve, right here. Wow, oh yeah, it's right there.
CHRISY:All right, well, I'm just gonna do the bullet points first, and then we can try and talk about them briefly one by one. So, what New Year's Eve really does with uh with it being uh what it is, unrealistic expectations. Oh, yeah. Which I think not only applies to New Year's, but maybe with New Year's because it's like your last chance. Yeah. Life in general. Yeah. It's a metaphor for many things. It is, it is. Some people are lonely and isolated because you really get the promotion from outside sources that you should be spending this time with someone you love or a group of friends and having a fantastically great time, and that's probably more often than not, not the way it's not the case, right? Exactly. Anxiety, which is a day-to-day thing for me. For me too. Yep, AML. Okay, and then you sit around and force you again with that lovely song we just heard to uh reflect and regret. Yes, and then you got the anxiety thing again and fear of what this next year's gonna bring. Yes, yes, you know, every year starts out with many possibilities. Yes, seasonal affective disorder, which is an actual real thing. Many people suffer from it, especially in our area, but being in northeast Ohio and in part of the country.
SPEAKER_02:Yes, that's why I'm looking forward to moving to Utah. So I have more sun. Is that a scientific fact that you'll have more sun than than I will here? Definitely have more sun than you. Yes.
CHRISY:Why is that? You don't follow the change of the clocks or what's going on over there?
SPEAKER_02:No, it's just better weather. Sunnier, warm, no snow, no shit you don't want.
CHRISY:Did you realize that when the sun reflects off of the snow, you know, it's brighter out and cold and miserable and cloudy. No, the sun, there's no clouds. It's just it's I don't want it. I'm trying to spin something good here. Never mind. Social stress. Yes. Some, you know, if you're not exactly excited about having a bee, if you decide to go to your friends talking to go into uh an event where there's a lot of people uh having a great time, dancing, having cocktails, peopling, that brings uh uh some uh social stress, and I totally understand that. Financial stress. I don't know, what are you spending on a limo and a gown? I mean, what is what is this financial stress?
SPEAKER_02:You're coming down off the financial stress of the holidays. You're getting you're starting to get your bills from all your shopping that you did.
CHRISY:Your credit card bills.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, your credit card bills are starting to trickle in from December. Well, oh well, I can't help you there, but okay.
CHRISY:Health risks. Yes. This is really great due to your drinking, binge drinking, and uh probably oh, overeat. I put a note on here, which I don't know that was in my notes that I pulled, but overeating, and I put uh too much sauerkraut. So you're having a stomach distress at this point. A little heartburn. And that might help with your uh social stress because nobody's gonna want to be around you to be having it. So I think the sauerkraut's an answer to a lot of things. And if you're not used to staying up real late, yeah, which I know it throws off your routine. I know a lot of people who say they pride themselves on being to sleep before the midnight polls. Nine o'clock, eight o'clock, I'll be in bed. Yeah, I'm not gonna it does really try to uh push you that you have to stay up to, you know, yeah, watch midnight happen wherever you are. Yeah, I don't know. But midnight it's gonna happen every night, and I'd barely see it really necessary. So don't feel the need to have to do it.
SPEAKER_02:Surely, truly. So which one do you think affects you the most on this list, Kirsi?
CHRISY:All of the above.
SPEAKER_02:The above.
CHRISY:Well, at some point or another, I'm sure I've had all of these things. Unrealistic expectations. Yeah. So what are we talking about there? Throwing a party.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, being expected to go to a party or attend a life-changing party that sets the tone for the rest of the year. Yeah, see, I don't, no desire. No desire. You know, and I find that a lot. There's things like I want to go to, and I'll be like, oh, that sounds really fun, and I'll sign up for it. And then as we're driving there, I'll be like, why did I do this? I don't want to go. I don't want to go. Then when I'm there, I'm like, oh, this was kind of fun. And then shortly after I'm there, after I have that thought of, oh, this was really fun, I'm like, okay, can we get out of here now? I've had my fun time to go. It's such a roller coaster and such a uh back and forth ping-ponging effect of emotions. But yeah, I've no desire to go to a New Year's Eve party.
CHRISY:And I think that the other thing is if you're actually hosting a party, you have a ton of expectations. The menu. No. Are you gonna play games? How are you gonna keep everybody engaged for a few hours? No. And I have to reference a movie because you know my mind always goes there. There is a really great movie, which you cannot find anywhere to watch. So I'm gonna sit here and tell you about this fun, great movie that takes place in on New Year's Eve, and you're not gonna be able to find it anywhere, but you can find little snippets of it. It's got a huge cast. It's perfect for Generation X. It's a huge representation of actors and people of our, you know, uh time.
SPEAKER_02:I'm dying to know the title.
CHRISY:200 cigarettes.
SPEAKER_02:I have never heard it.
CHRISY:It's a great movie.
SPEAKER_02:200 cigarettes.
CHRISY:It's got a New Year's Eve movie? It takes place in the 80s. Live action, not cartoon? Yes, it's not a cartoon. We're talking Kate Hudson, Paul Rudd, Courtney Love, Dave Chappelle.
SPEAKER_02:I'm Geminiing this as we toss me out some other people who are in this.
CHRISY:I mean, there are And what year was this made in? It was made in the 90s, but it's supposed to take place in the early 80s. 1999. 1999. Uh Martha Plimpton, I believe. Is that her name? She was in the movies. I don't remember all that.
SPEAKER_02:Ben and Casey Affleck, Dave Chappelle, Angela Featherstone, Gabby Hoffman, Kate Hudson, Courtney Love, Jay Moore, Martha Plimpton, Christina Ricky, Paul Rudd, Elvis Costello.
CHRISY:Elvis, yes. The Elvis, yes. It's very it's uh it's about the Martha Plimptons having a New Year's Eve party and she doesn't think anybody's gonna show up. There's people trying to get to the party. There's people breaking up with girlfriends and hooking up with their best friend just because and lovely. Okay, now this one sounds like I can look. I'll I'll watch it.
SPEAKER_02:But you can't is there a New Year's Eve that almost wasn't?
CHRISY:Oh my god, I didn't look at this up. Chrissy!
SPEAKER_00:Gemini and trying What do you think Rudolph's Shiny New Year was all about? That's what it was about, trying to cancel New Year's, right?
CHRISY:But it didn't have the title. They didn't go out on a limb and name it what it was. Okay. So yeah, see if there's a New Year's that Eve that will almost wasn't. And as far as 200 cigarettes, whoever has the rights to this and is not allowing us to stream it or I don't even think you can buy a DVD of it right now.
SPEAKER_00:It's like it's it's a book. There's a book called The New Year That Almost Wasn't.
CHRISY:Oh well, that requires reading again.
SPEAKER_00:That'll make it into a movie at some point.
CHRISY:Well, wait a minute. Maybe I need to have the rights to this book so I can finally make a There Almost Wasn't movie. There you go.
SPEAKER_02:There's the sequel Chrissy's gonna write. It's mine. It's Chrissy's.
CHRISY:But uh can you tell us a quick background on why 200 cigarettes is not available anywhere? Anyhow. So you can't find this anywhere? I can't watch it if I wanted to. You can go on YouTube and you can look at snippets.
SPEAKER_00:Can you buy it?
CHRISY:You cannot buy it. I've tried. It's a very fun, very good movie. Especially if you're in our age group, you generation Xers out there. It is just super fun and very nostalgic. It's from 1999. Yes.
SPEAKER_02:Um Chrissy, you can buy it on a DVD for$16.99 on Amazon. It'll be here by Saturday.
CHRISY:Nick? Add to car. You know what? I'm sorry. Do we have a DVD player?
SPEAKER_02:Yes.
SPEAKER_00:Christmas is over. You know what?
CHRISY:You're mean, and you don't have your German engineer vehicle anymore, and it's changed you. It's changed you. And I don't appreciate your tone. If I want a movie.
SPEAKER_02:Ah! Ah! Ah! It's free on Roku. It's free on Roku, the Roku channel. Online for free. I wonder if they pulled this out because it's time of year. It's on one of those. It's on one of those. Yeah, watch 200 cigarettes on Netflix. What? It says right here. Oh my god. Netflix.com. Wait a minute. I'm pulling it up.
SPEAKER_00:You know it does. Sometimes it says that and you actually go to try to go to Netflix and it's not there. I'll I'll work.
CHRISY:Is it there? Oh wait, remind me. We're getting very excited and we don't even know if we're allowed to use it.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, it's not right now available on Netflix, but I I put it on the remind me. But but it does look like it's available on some of these not great lesser streaming places. So okay, I'm gonna look at you know, I got one of those. Maybe I won't know the name the name of it, but special boxes that you get free TV that's not free, you know, on the black market kind of box.
CHRISY:Like when you your father used to uh pay extra to the cable guy to accidentally connect your wires to see if you get the it's something like that where you get all this free TV.
SPEAKER_02:I know nothing about this. Yeah. So I'm gonna look on my my special little black box that's attached to my TV to see if I can uh find Is that what the black box is on an airplane?
CHRISY:Maybe it's actually It's actually they've been lying to us. And why is this thing always not destructive? That's what they look for, to find out why the plane is now in pieces. Well, if we find the black box, we'll know what happened. And I did hear a comedian, I can't remember exactly who it was, somebody, I'm not taking credit for this, but I remember on some stand-up show they said, if that black box is indestructible, why not make the whole plane? Why is the whole plane not a black one black box? So that then there's no issue. But we haven't gotten there yet. So anyhow, how the heck did I go? That was a very we went down a rabbit.
SPEAKER_02:What was that? Uh but unrealistic expectations.
CHRISY:So the loneliness, isolation, anxiety, yeah.
SPEAKER_02:See, I have no problem with being isolated on New Year's Eve. No problem.
CHRISY:Well, I will if you were all but you're with somebody who's very important to you. Yeah. But if there are some people, I suppose, that are just really having a hard time, and they are. This uh, we are still fairly lucky. Anxiety, depression.
SPEAKER_02:My anxiety can be through the roof on anything, so I can totally buy into that one.
CHRISY:Right. Reflection, regret, we understand, fear of the future. We that's every day. Every day. Let's see here. Health-related issues.
SPEAKER_02:Holiday heart syndrome. Have you been diagnosed with holiday heart syndrome? Heavy alcohol. There's a cure. Can trigger an abnormal heart rhythm, AFib, in some individuals. Huh.
CHRISY:Because of the consumption of large amounts of alcohol. Yeah. Please drink responsibly, uh responsibly, everybody. That's uh and everybody here. Don't be driving anywhere. There's so many opportunities for you to be able to get Uber and what's the other uh lift, lift, self-driving cars on Twitter. There's a lot of good friends. I always had somebody uh who was very willing to be designated driver who wasn't going to participate in uh the uh beverages as much as me. That would be uh DJ Nick. So yes, please be responsible. You don't want to hurt anybody or get yourself hurt. Absolutely.
SPEAKER_02:Overindulgence of food. Amen. This was like the last six weeks.
CHRISY:Yes, that's true. I think though, that night, because you're coming to the end of the holiday season, which means you can't use that as an excuse anymore. So this is your last hurrah.
SPEAKER_02:And you gotta, and then there's the excuse of I'm gonna start fresh tomorrow morning, New Year's Day, gonna start the diet. So I gotta eat everything in the house. Can't have anything. Right.
CHRISY:All these candies, all the cookies. They try to tell you new year, new new you. Yep. That's the whole diet uh uh credo there. Hot dogs and ice cream starts tomorrow. I highly recommend that. And your disrupted routines. I mean, let's face it, back in the day when we could party it up with no serious consequences, except probably the fact that the next day or two you just weren't worth anything because you had drank and ate so much that your body just says, No. Yeah. What what were you thinking? Uh you were not in the mood to move off the couch or out of bed and uh you're gonna sit here and watch some ridiculous marathon that they throw on. Do you ever notice that that used to be a thing? I don't know if it still is. They'd have stupid like the I Love Lucy marathon, New Year's Day. Like I love Lucy? No. What? Out of all the wonderful shows that came out of that, uh, you know, the birth of television. Yeah, not one of my favorites. Wow. Does he mean they would they didn't like each other anyhow, even though they were married. Really? Yes. Are you making this up? No, they didn't like they got divorced, and I think then did they get divorced twice? No, maybe not. But yeah, it's no, they didn't. Total oil and vinegar, whatever, they didn't mix. Oil and water, oil and water, not oil and vinegar, they mixed vinegar was good.
SPEAKER_03:It was good.
CHRISY:Salad Jones was like, Well, and they had a good show. They did, and they were very smart uh about their show.
SPEAKER_00:So I give them credit, but and the film the way they filmed it and everything, they were way ahead of its time. Yeah, they were.
CHRISY:Yeah, they put it on actual uh film because back when TV was in its infancy, other people might know this, but I'll throw it out there, they did not know what reruns were. They didn't anticipate that once this aired, anybody was gonna ever watch it again. Okay. So they didn't film it. If you ever watch really old shows from the 50s and uh all that, the the graininess and just the crappiness of the way it was filmed is evident. Okay, but when you watch I Love Lucy, the it's very clear because they their Desi Lou productions, they film it on actual motion picture films.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, okay. So it's on some kind of media, but it's not a special kind of film.
CHRISY:Right. They just probably had a the f type of film maybe that they used. Anybody would probably know more about this than I would, but that they were just filming stuff to get it to air, run it one time, and be done with it. Huh. But they must have had some sort of understanding that this could pay off in years to come.
SPEAKER_02:So they knew they had comedy gold.
CHRISY:They did. I'm not gonna take anything away from what that is. No, but it's just not one of my favorites. One year I had the worst hangover ever. I actually couldn't get off my couch to change a channel, and it was an Andy Griffith marathon. So that tells you how damn flipping hungover I was. Because that I don't know what's worse. I love Lucy or and that whistling every 30 minutes. The whistling. And you're like, stop somebody, is there anyone home who can shut the TV up or you know, change the channel? I can't find the remote, and I'm hungover. So beware of the all day New Year's Day marriage.
SPEAKER_02:That that one, yeah. I I would agree with you on the Andy Griffin. I'm a I'm gonna change the channel on that one, too.
CHRISY:Sorry, Andy. Or madman. Madmen, get it modernized over the last 20 years. Those are the things you should be. Ozarks. Oh my god, that is so dark. That's dark. He and Mr. DJ watched that. I would pick it up once in a while. I did not like that show. Ozark?
SPEAKER_00:The Ozark.
CHRISY:Wasn't that the one with the basement?
SPEAKER_00:You know what?
CHRISY:You like Breaking Bad, and it was that's but I can't watch a lot of Breaking Bad again because that was dark.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, so yeah, Ozark was an intense, but it was a good show. It was good.
CHRISY:You know what I can watch over and over? Mad Men. I never watched it. Oh my god. I hate you, John Hamm, but you are easy on the eyes.
SPEAKER_00:Bastard. So go going back to Lucy O'Bal, the Lucy show was filmed on 35mm film. Whereas other shows of the day would just use videotape. That's why the the Lucy show looks much better in reruns than other shows from that era if you were to watch them now. So yeah.
CHRISY:Yeah. Hmm. Very good. Howdy, there. Howdy hootie. Howdy. Howdy dootie. Howdy hootie. Howdy dootie. You try to watch that, it's crappy. I never watched that show. I didn't either. No, wasn't watching that. That's definitely got to be in the moment of that time period and probably like twelve and under. Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:No, never watched that.
CHRISY:That one. No nostalgia for the Muppets. He's not a Muppet. Sorry, Muppets. Love the Muppets. I love the Muppets. Why don't they ever do a flipping marathon of the Muppets show? I'm on board with that. Wonderful. Exactly. So, what else we got? Any what do you have one wonderful New Year's Eve that you can remember that just seemed to hit almost all of what you wanted it to hit? Perfect company. The food was great.
SPEAKER_02:This is gonna be a little silly, but my probably my most favorite and memorable New Year's Eve. When you said that, what popped into my mind is during the COVID era, my husband and I spent New Year's Eve in the barn building a stalls, inside stalls for the horses and stuff in the barn. And that's what we did on New Year's Eve. But it was one of the it was one of the nicest, most memorable, and fun New Year's Eve. And it was just us at home in the in the barn with our animals. We didn't have to do any peopling. We didn't have to go anywhere. We were doing something fun. We were hanging out with the animals. And there was always this tradition that my mom would say that on well, I guess she said it for Christmas Eve. It wasn't New Year's Eve, that you know, on Christmas Eve, if you're out with the animals at midnight, the animals talk. What we're gonna come back to that.
CHRISY:Go ahead.
SPEAKER_02:So so anyways, though, but yeah, that that was probably one of my that that when you said what New Year's Eve, that's what came to my mind. And I've spent many of New Year's Eve. I've spent it on the Las Vegas strip out on the strip. I've spent it, you know, at parties, I've sent it at dancing, I've spent it at home, I've spent it with family. But that New Year's Eve, it was around 20, 2021, was my best New Year's Eve.
CHRISY:I bet that that is uh a a common feeling for a lot of people.
SPEAKER_00:To spend New Year's Eve in the that that you you would maybe I was gonna say asking you to marry me on the on the way to talk about don't seem so bad, does it?
CHRISY:No, I have it. It worked out okay. Uh but I just think that if you were to ask many people, and maybe uh people can let us know on a uh uh our website or send us a message uh about what your favorite New Year's Eve memory was, I bet you'll a lot of people will say it's something very uh Intimate, one-on-one. Intimate, simple, uh not extravagant. Yes, uh not a lot of people, not a lot of pressure. And I bet that a lot of people would agree with that.
SPEAKER_02:What was your favorite New Year's Eve?
CHRISY:Um uh this'll speak volumes too, uh uh outside of the last probably 15 or 20 years. What is are am I not remembering?
SPEAKER_02:No, he's anxious to see if he's in the story.
CHRISY:Well, yeah, I think he's been in the story for pretty much my entire adult life.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, you know what? DJ Nick is not a narcissist, but he wants to know he was part of moving.
CHRISY:All of them that I have been able to be with you, yes. But uh it's probably a combination of many.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah.
CHRISY:As far as uh probably my most uh enjoyable uh New Year's Eve's have been where we've been home and or with uh close family, yeah. Uh a family that appreciates games, because we do like to play games. So uh throw some sauerkraut and kibasi in the crock pot. I'm sorry. I know there's other there's other options, cheese tray, you know, veggie tray.
SPEAKER_00:You know, can we have some seafood? Because you you held out on me for Christmas.
CHRISY:You want a shrewd cocktail, uh some Chapino. I like the Chapino. Nobody else likes Chapino.
SPEAKER_00:I I I don't need seven fishes, but can I get two?
CHRISY:Sure, why not? We can do that. Uh, you know, um, but yeah, that those are the the most fun. My kids sort of being around, maybe playing games with us or just doing their own thing. So yeah, I mean, those are for me, that's ideal. I don't want to dress up and go anywhere anymore. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
SPEAKER_02:I will say this year, you know, we've talked about this in the past on New Year's Eve about New Year's resolutions and looking forward to the year, and and and I know you're spin on it that you're setting yourself up to fail right from the beginning because it's probably gonna be a crappy year.
CHRISY:But well, that's I just that's what I do going into the year expecting that.
SPEAKER_02:But this year for New Year's Eve, I do have a lot of excitement for the coming year. We've got a lot of really great changes ahead for Jim and I personally. I'm really excited about our podcast. We've got some uh good plans for this coming year. Hopefully, in the next month or two, we'll be going live on video. So you won't be able to just listen to us, you'll be able to see us. So we got that in the works. You know, there's just so much going on. So this year, New Year's Eve, I I am looking a little bit more excited too. And and tonight, yeah, it is a um pivotal year, and there's a lot of good things look looking forward to. So tonight, instead of going to bed early and not doing much uh as in years past, tonight I I can see that we'll we'll probably do a little celebrating.
CHRISY:Well, good. I think that's a good attitude to go into, and I think we will too. I just again I just look forward to hopefully having some some good things people can snack on. I'm all into mock tails now because like I did say in the past, I can't really drink because of the medication I take, which I don't miss. Uh, I wake up feeling much better the next day. So, you know, there's a lot of uh farm teenies in my future tonight and some appetite.
SPEAKER_02:Definitely. Now that looked like a very intense beverage. It is intense. When you say you're taking what what what was the chocolate crown and banana pudding moonshine?
CHRISY:Yeah, when we say moonshine on top of already another alcohol, you're not there's no mixer.
SPEAKER_02:There's no playing. There's no mixer, no. And you are definitely serious, but we'll probably make some appetizers too. So, like uh, one of the things we like to have is bacon wrapped chestnuts. So I'll probably make it. Well, that sounds very evolved. Yeah.
CHRISY:So our daughter can't have yes, we have a daughter. She's a have as an has a nut allergy.
SPEAKER_02:A water chestnut is a nut? Well, what is it? I don't know. To me, it's starchy like a potato. What is it?
CHRISY:I don't know.
SPEAKER_02:What is a water chestnut? I thought it grew in the water. They are not a nut, but an aquatic vegetable that grows in marshes underwater and in mud. So they're actually they're really good. So and they're bacon wrapped. Yeah, you wrap them in bacon and then you put this like barbecue type sauce on them. It's really good. I'll get you the recipe. It's very easy to make. Yeah. Okay. Wonderful. It's just a it's just a way to eat bacon. It's just isn't that what our what life is about?
CHRISY:A device to eat bacon. We just try to find more ways to introduce bacon into our diet. I wanted to go back to your uh something you said. You think but you know, uh generally I'll dwell on something. Yes. So let's go back to the Christmas Eve barn mom song.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, mom saying that the animals talk on Christmas Eve, yes. At midnight.
CHRISY:I mean, some of my favorite shows about animals in the woods at Christmas involve them talking? Communicating. Yeah, at midnight. So I just very interested in this uh idea from your mom. Yes. Can you uh I'd love to hear about it.
SPEAKER_02:No, it was just something that we always grew up on, and so uh there was always kind of a thing that, you know, she would always say that the animals talk at midnight, and so it was often since we usually had animals or you know, at many times many years of my life we had barn animals and stuff, that when we would get home from midnight mass, we would always go out to the barn to talk to the animals, you know, and we would just say, like, because uh obviously by the time we got there, if we went to midnight mass, it was past, we'd be like, Oh, we missed talking to you and stopping in. So we it just became a thing that we would always go outside and say hello to the animals sometime on on uh Christmas Eve.
CHRISY:Aww.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, because we were trying to catch them talking.
CHRISY:Wonderful. I know. Well, I think that this is a great way to number one air our last episode of the year. Yes, and to remember your lovely mom Bonnie and her belief. I think that's a beautiful thing to believe. It involves Christmas, it involves uh animals, which I love. So we thank you, mama. Yeah, yeah, that's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
SPEAKER_02:Yep. Mom passed away earlier this year, so definitely uh it's been a rough year, but she's always felt and always present, as I'm sure many of your loved ones are. Yes. So all right, well, happy new year, everybody. Eat plenty of sauerkraut. Start your diet tomorrow. Yeah, please.
CHRISY:I I lost my face.
SPEAKER_02:Chrissy can't find her blower.
CHRISY:I got it, I got it. All right, ready? Happy, happy new year.
