Flashback Friday: Naughty, Nice, And Everything In Between

It's Flashback Friday and we go back to Season 1 Episode 13: Naughty or Nice. Enjoy and let us know are you a Chrisy or a Kerry on the Naughty or Nice spectrum.

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Chapters

• 0:00 Flashback Friday Setup
• 0:44 Why “Naughty Or Nice” Still Matters
• 2:45 Tattoo Terror And A Mother’s Relief
• 6:40 Normalizing Naughty: TV, Toys, And Risk
• 8:20 The Mothball Incident
• 12:05 The Readathon Puppy Heist
• 16:20 Background Checks And Lie Detectors
• 19:15 Confession, Catholic Guilt, And Humor
• 22:30 Bike Brakes, Blood, And “Fingers”
• 26:20 Basketball, Sprains, And More Fingers
• 29:30 Tigers On The Strip And Cop Anxiety
• 33:20 Fake IDs, Haunted Houses, And A Cop’s Pass

Transcript

SPEAKER_00: 0:06

Welcome to Flashback Friday, a special edition of the Dysfunction Duckings Podcast. Where we may not have seen it all, but we've seen enough. And now, here are your hosts, Chrissy and Carrie.

KERRY: 0:21

Alright, everybody, I'm Carrie. And I'm Chrissy. Welcome to the podcast today. We have a special flashback Friday episode. We like to do this once a month. Uh go back to one of our earlier episodes just to kind of commiserate or remember or have some fun.

CHRISY: 0:42

For my case, anyhow.

KERRY: 0:43

Exactly. So this episode came to you January 29th of uh 2025. This was season one, episode 13, naughty or nice. You really want to see who Chrissy and Carrie are, you gotta listen to this episode.

CHRISY: 0:58

Yeah, it's good way to sort of basically we had been a few months in at that point, I guess, two, three months. And yeah, I totally demonstrated exactly what kind of philosophy I followed uh as a child. And uh if you were near or around me and decided to maybe give me an hour of your time or so to engage with me and play with me, you might have walked away bleeding or broken or poisoned. Or poisoned.

KERRY: 1:25

So uh this episode is where we also introduce uh fingers. We did Chrissy's friend Natalie that earned the nickname Fingers from this episode, also talked about just uh uh different things that we did growing up when I got my first tattoo and how I was afraid to tell my mom about it for fear of what she was gonna think. So, anyways, we hope you enjoy this flashback Friday episode, and we'll see you next week. Bye, everybody. All right, welcome back, junkies. I'm Carrie and I'm Chrissy, and we have another exciting episode for you today.

CHRISY: 2:00

Yes, we do.

KERRY: 2:01

Chrissy and I were talking about, you know, our childhoods and how we grew up, and we realized in our conversations that uh as we grew up, uh Chrissy was unsupervised naughty, and she was normalizing naughty, where I was what what how did we word it? I was naughty, but don't talk about it. Naughty, but don't talk about it. I was like And when you did, then there was discussion, maybe, but maybe not. So I was like under the radar naughty, like you know, I was stealth naughty. So not here, but that's your story to tell. Right. Some of the but some of my naughty, I mean they're so tame, especially whenever you compare them to your stories, Chrissy. But uh I remember one of the first things that I did as an adult that I was afraid to tell my parents about. So have you ever had anything like, you know, have you ever had this experience where you were like really worried to tell your parents about something as an adult, and you're sitting there telling yourself, like, I'm an adult, why what are they gonna do to me? Send me to my room. I live 1200 miles away. I got my first tattoo when I was uh in my late 20s. I was living in Las Vegas. It literally took me probably about three weeks to get the nerve to tell my mom that I got a tattoo. Yes, uh-huh. Yeah, because I knew she was gonna be mortified. Like I knew there was gonna be probably rosaries being said and masses being said and holy oil being sent to me in the mail. Like I just knew like she was not going to take this news well. So I finally got them to her of up and I'm like, Oh mom, you know, like we're on the phone and I'm like, I really gotta tell you something. And she was like, Okay, and I I could tell she was bracing herself. And I was like, Well, I got a tattoo. And then she said, Oh, is that all? Like the sound of relief on her voice. And I was like, What do you what do you mean? What did you what did you think? She goes, I thought you were gonna tell me you had AIDS.

CHRISY: 3:55

Oh my god. Wait, okay, so you were in your late 20s, late 20s. So yeah, I guess it was still sort of a thing.

KERRY: 4:04

But she, because I moved to Las Vegas and I was living in Sin City, I don't know what she thought I was doing, but I was like, I was mortified. Like I was offended. That was what she thought. Like, uh there were so many other things I could think of. I'm like, I got a tattoo. Like, she was relieved. She was like, Oh, okay. That's fine, it's fine. Yeah. Oh my god. I'm like, I I stressed for three weeks about trying to talk to her about this because you know we don't talk about things, but I'm like, I'm gonna need to tell her because I'm gonna see her and she's gonna see the tattoo.

CHRISY: 4:37

And yeah, so wow, wow, wow, boy, oh boy, oh boy. She really thought you were having the party of a lifetime.

KERRY: 4:45

Because so move 1200 miles away from little country towns get AIDS, just get it didn't matter that at the time I was working with lions and putting my life in danger physically by working with lions and everything. You thought you'd step it up a notch and then put yourself out there to get a deadly disease. Yeah, exactly. So I mean, I don't know what yeah, what she thought I was doing on the side, I wasn't, but anyway, so yeah, but that was that, and I'm like, you know, here it stems back to like whenever I was, you know, 16 and reathing in pain, and she thought I was having sex and she never looked at me the same. Well, I guess it stemmed from that. She still thought something was going on. I don't know.

CHRISY: 5:22

So boy, I tell you all that religion and people, it sort of does give people uh the unfortunate nature to just think that everybody is out there doing well, obviously having a lot of fun.

KERRY: 5:35

So and they're not oh my, but yeah, that was uh that was crazy times, crazy times.

CHRISY: 5:44

Well, yeah, I would say so. And and we try to talk a little bit before we were gonna do this, and I have to tell everybody out there that it's very hard to pry anything naughty out of Carrie. She obviously just never had it. I loved a sheltered light. Well, it's not sheltered, but I think just because again, probably watched too much TV and just was totally influenced to do bad things, especially since nobody was monitoring what I was watching, so I was probably watching things that I shouldn't have been anyhow.

KERRY: 6:21

So it was all normalized, all the bad things.

CHRISY: 6:23

Yeah, oh my god, look at how much fun these people are having. They like almost stabbed each other. And yeah, I mean, I know everybody talks about the toys that we had and they're dangerous, and you know, we used to do dangerous things, and we did, and it was like fine. So maybe that's why some parents were a little bit more numb to anything crazy. Well, one of my first things I I'll never forget, because it was so horrible what I did. Oh god, uh, not supervised. I was with a neighborhood kid, one of them neighborhood kids. Was it Chrissy Pissy? The boys that call you Chrissy Pissy. No, no, it was a girl. It was a neighborhood girl. It was somebody else, and it was a little bit after all that. We were actually in my grandfather's basement, and uh my grandfather's basement for the longest time was sort of like almost locked in this like frozen state of like 1968, maybe. Okay, like nothing had been changed, and there were like cabinets down there, and they had a fruit cellar, which is where they used to keep canned goods and other stuff. It it was just horrible. I mean, the basements were kind of uh the house wasn't real old, but it was from the 50s, but it was old enough. Perfect dark cryptic place. It was yeah, it was just in these in the grandpa wasn't gonna come down there because he wasn't walking real well. My grandmother had passed away by then. There was a pool table down there, so that you could usually use as an excuse as to why you were over Gramps uh in the basement, unsupervised. The cabinets had like old canned goods in them. Yeah, like way expired. Yeah, like why would you open this? Uh I should have kept them though, because you can make money selling those on eBay. Oh, jeez. No, I didn't before you because I know we get into it. Chrissy keeps too much stuff. But I remember there being a box of this substance that was in little round balls that was crystallized. Oh god, and round and pretty. Oh god. It looked like sugar to me. But I knew that it wasn't something I wanted to try. So, hey, Mikey. Oh no. Although this was not the person's day. I'm just playing off of the commercial for a life cereal. Hey, these are sugar cubes. Oh my god. Do you want to try one? Absolutely. Took the sugar cubeslash, no, it was not a sugar cube. And again, yes, this is awful, everyone. I am so sorry, kind of. I mean, it be I would have been more sorry if something horrible had happened. She took it. Oh my god. Like Snow White taking the apple. Put it in her mouth and spit that damn thing across the floor so quick. And oh my god, it was a mothball. Oh my god. I didn't really even know.

KERRY: 9:01

You didn't realize at the time it wasn't a mothball.

CHRISY: 9:04

Well, you didn't know, but you knew. Well, I mean, how much honesty?

SPEAKER_03: 9:09

Oh my god.

CHRISY: 9:10

I mean, how much honesty do I want to play out here? So, yeah. So horrible, horrible. But remember back then, late 70s, early 80s, nobody was telling you you need to lock this crap up. No. Because you got stupid kids who will look at this and say, you know, they talk about those Tide Pods, all those like wash, those things that the kids are eating because it looks like candy. Which I won't have in my house. I'm still liquor. Yeah, it's it's bad. It's all bad. So that poor kid. I don't really remember playing with her after that. No. Kind of thought it was funny, though. I mean, if we're being honest, and I want everybody out there who was taking time to listen to our wonderful show to know that I will never lie to you.

KERRY: 10:01

No, she will not. I will not.

CHRISY: 10:03

It might be painful, but damn it, I'm not gonna lie. And so, yeah, you don't have anything like that?

KERRY: 10:10

No. The worst thing I did as a child was, I mean, seriously, I know, I know. It's sheltered life.

CHRISY: 10:16

Oh, oh, oh, I thought you were gonna give me something good.

KERRY: 10:18

Come on, let me was our school was, I was in second grade, and our school was having one of those readathons, you know, and they used to pass around like the pamphlet. And if, oh, if you read this many books and raised this much money, you'd get this little prize. And then this, if you did more, you got this prize. Well, they had this little plush puppy dog that was like a little sleuth dog or something. Right. I wanted that so bad. You did. Oh I did. So I wrote on the little, you know, sign-up sheet. Like I thought I was being creative and like signed all these names, like trying to hide my handwriting and stuff. And I turned my little sheet in after, like, you know, a couple weeks of here, look, I earned enough to get this little plushie dog. Well, they turned the paperwork in a couple weeks later, they passed out the prizes. Oh, Carrie read like 20 books, I don't know how many it was, and raised so much money. And here's your little plushie dog. I was so excited that I won this little plushy dog. I did not read one book, did not read any of it. Well, I got home and I'm like, well, I can't take this plushie dog in the house. My mom's gonna wonder where did you buy this? Because you know, we didn't have any money, and so I didn't get no allowance.

CHRISY: 11:30

I'm amazed that she paid that much attention to you. She was like able to track some new toy coming into our home.

KERRY: 11:36

Yeah, we yeah, she would have, because you know, again, we didn't have a lot. So something brand new and shiny and plushy, you we would would have noticed it. So I hid it under the steps in the garage. Okay. Well, a couple weeks later, the school sent home an envelope and they were like, you know, give this to your mom when you get home. So I gave it to my mom. Well, here it was the bill for like the whatever$200 or whatever that I was supposed to have gotten from people, all those fake names. And so she found out, and actually, she never she never confronted me and said, What is this? But she somehow found the plushie dog.

CHRISY: 12:10

And then what did she do? She returned, she didn't return your dog, did she?

KERRY: 12:14

Uh, you know what? I think they did, because I never I don't I never had the plushie dog after that. And I think she ended up, I had a little like savings account, like you know, from my first holy communion money or whatever. And so she took the money out of that to pay for it. So I lost my first holy communion money and I didn't have the plushie dog.

CHRISY: 12:30

Yeah. Oh my god.

KERRY: 12:31

That was my big crime. That was my big sin.

CHRISY: 12:34

No, the bigger crime is your punishment did not fit the crime. That what my god. First of all, they you were that creative that you nowadays, yeah, they would say, look at how creative my kid is. They made up all this BS to get something. Tried to disguise her hair. They know that hard work equals you get what you want. But then punishment. I know. You took all that time to fill out that form. You had the dog, you fell in love with it. I bet you named it. I had a name.

KERRY: 13:03

I probably did.

CHRISY: 13:04

And you were trying to keep it safe by keeping it hidden. Yeah.

KERRY: 13:07

Actually, you know where I put it when under the It was a refugee in your house. The stairs I put it under was the stairs our collie dog had puppies under. So, you know, that's I guess that's why I put it there. Oh, maybe you thought it would have puppies if it was there. Yeah, because you know you just open the barn door and puppies happen. Oh my god. But then to take your money. Yeah, well, they had to pay. They had to pay up. The school was sending that invoice. Pay up.

CHRISY: 13:30

Uh no, the parents. Obviously, that's a failure on their part. They need to pay. No, don't take your kids' communion money. They took my communion money. So I know.

KERRY: 13:39

Oh my god. I know. I know it doesn't compare to, you know, poisoning the neighborhood kid, but no. But the funny part about it is my little pristine life up until I was, you know, in my 20s, was uh and I was applying for a job in a police department for working in animal control. And part of this is a big background check, and they want to know all your sins. They want to know all the drugs that you took, they want to know everything. You gotta fill out this form after I mean it's a thick pack. They want to know your driver's license number. Well, you know, here's me, you know, trying to be little miss honest and perfect. Like, I'm digging through every like house application, anything to try to find all my driver's near pretty much did. Now, I'm now in hindsight, I'm like, they don't really expect you to have all your driver's license numbers, but whatever. They're just looking to see for honesty or whatever, or whatever. Right. So when it came time to like, did you ever take drugs? No. Did you ever do this? No, did you ever do this? Whatever. Well, this was like my only story of like, did you ever steal anything? And so I put this, I'm like, Oh no, this does not equal that. So they had a heart that they kept like they thought I was lying. It was like being in that that room with uh with everybody looking at me when I was reading in pain, thinking I was lying whenever I said I didn't have sex and couldn't be pregnant. It was the same flashback because they kept thinking, you have to be lying because no one could be this good. And I'm like, I I really, really was. And so like I had to do the lie detector test, like oh my god, oh yeah, they put me up first. They did the voice control one, and then they do the whole thing where they hook you all up all the hooks and everything. And they finally determined that yeah, I I I was little Sally do good and didn't have any worst thing I did was still a little sleuth puppy from the read of thought. They made you the sergeant of the whole doctor, but it was this terror, and I remember being so stressed out, I was like, I wish I could tell you I did something bad, but I didn't.

CHRISY: 15:35

So well, that reminds me a little bit, real quick, just a little uh offset of that, when you have to tell people something uh being young and going through Catholic education, when you make your, I believe they called it reconciliation. Oh yeah, confessions, confession, yeah, confession.

KERRY: 15:51

Tell me your sins.

CHRISY: 15:52

First of all, a confession to a crime. I get confession when you're in what is it, third grade? Yeah, yeah. Eight. Yeah. What do you want me to tell you I did? Now me might have done something. Was it worth confessing in my mind? Poison the neighbor with monster. Well, I didn't think that that I don't remember that being on the uh Ten Commandment or whatever lists we spoke to.

KERRY: 16:17

That was number 11. There wasn't room on the stone.

CHRISY: 16:20

Yeah. But you would I well, I'm not gonna talk about for everybody, but I'm just saying right now. I lied. Yeah. So I'm in this room with a splipping completely off-putting figure, very uh dominant, the man in a robe with a white collar thing. What's going on? Hello, lied to him. You lied in confession. I lied in confession. Now I'm what where does this end? Now I'm definitely in trouble. Not only did I screw up confession, I lied to a priest, but I didn't confess that. I should have lied and said, I just lied to you. And and okay, good, I feel better now. I just lied to you. Were you in the face-to-face original screen? That screen thing. I didn't want to what what are you doing over there? What are you doing over there? What is happening? It goes with the family. If I'm gonna sit here and talk to you, I'm gonna talk to you. You need to look at me. I am not gonna go behind some goo-goo. What where the hell did that come from? It's very entertaining when you see it in film and stuff. I love it. Yeah, but it's ridiculous in real life.

KERRY: 17:23

That's the only way I would ever go.

CHRISY: 17:25

But you do you think they really don't know who you are? I know that, but then they can't. I know. I know. It's ridiculous. It is so no, and then I never had that thing you had to say afterwards. Ever mind. Oh, the act of contrition. What the what what? I used to just sit there and hope that their voice was louder than mine. Oh, they said it with you. Were were they supposed to? I don't know. They never know why they were saying it with me. Because you didn't know it. So I would just sit there and mumble. Um it sounded like I was saying something, and they were just like, Well, she's just really quiet. She talks really quiet.

KERRY: 17:59

And she said, You were saying the bless us of the Lord, please, I guess. Like that's the prayer.

CHRISY: 18:04

I was like, I want pizza, I want this, I don't want to be here. I'm looking at you. No, it was crazy. Confession's crazy. And even when I was in church when I was little, yeah, I didn't know all the words of those songs. Yeah, you you sung them every week, all the time. And then when you were in Catholic school, you had to go to church during school days for certain things. Yes, once a week. So then you just learn to make it look like you're singing. Everybody else seems to know what's going on here. Let them cover up and do the words, make them work for you, and that's that. But yeah, so yeah, yeah, the whole uh admitting and all that, that that's crazy. It's crazy.

KERRY: 18:39

So when you so okay, that was younger, or what was your more cryptic things when you got older?

CHRISY: 18:44

Well, as I got a little older, there was one friend in the neighborhood, and again, if she does listen, um, she's gonna remember this stuff because I just was always somewhat ornery and required attention. Because when you're the youngest, there is some level of attention you get naturally. Yes. And then either you sort of just take that as I don't like that, uh-huh, or you're like, I have to have it all the time. Yeah. I wanted to have attention a lot, so generally try to do as much as I could to get it. So I remember one time riding bikes with my friends. Okay, and we were both sort of being, you know, whatever kids. We're riding up the street and poppin' wheelies and I'm trying to I'm trying to ride faster, and I'm trying to get her my dust, and and uh she's trying to keep up, but she was a little younger than me. And I decided to slam on my brakes because she was like catching me, and I'm like, well, I'm just gonna stop, stop, see what she does. Maybe she'll roll down the hill.

unknown: 19:39

Oh god, crazy.

CHRISY: 19:41

Stop, drop, and roll. She did. She first of all she slammed into my bike. Oh, but okay. I had a big old bike. It was like from my sister's bike. It was a three-speed Schwin. It was the most disgusting bike, but it was it was like a good one. It was an old, a good old, reliable, you know, bike. You weren't gonna get hurt on that. So she flips down the hill with her bike and she, you know, trying to recover, comes up the hill, and she's like dusting herself off. And I look and there's blood running down her hand and like her arm. I said, Oh my god, you're bleeding. Why would you be bleeding? We gotta bleeder. And uh her fingernail is just dangling at the root. It was like, wow, that's insane. You lost your fingernail through that? How did that happen? Well, then she sees it and totally freaks out. Why are you freaking out? What's going on here? Now you're being loud, and now we're getting attention for the wrong reasons. You're hysterical. So I was sitting there going, look, it's okay. This happens to me all the time. Look at my nails. Look at my nails. They rip out all the time. This is not a big deal. Just suck it up. Get it, let's get your bike going. We'll get to my mom's house. My mom will bandage you up. You'll be fine. Oh my gosh. So what do I do? Well, I'm moving faster than her. I'm like, out of there. Because she's she she's screaming and yelling. Everybody's looking, coming out of their house. There's a kid in the street yelling, what's the matter? She's crying the whole way. I'm like, are you gonna come? And finally she makes it to my house because I had been there like 10 minutes earlier. And I'm like, are you gonna come in and get that thing washed off? Or what are you doing? Oh my gosh. She's like, no, I just want to go home. I want to go to my mom. I gotta go see Chris. So I'm sitting on the porch now. Uh, you know, my entertainment for the afternoon is gone. Oh God, Chris. And then there goes her car with her mom up the street, off to emergency. Oh god. Chris. Bye. Okay. You took the the the the not the the the easier route. Okay. And yeah, she came back, and it was like she had no fingernail on that hand. But thank God the root she was able to regrow, I guess, a fingernail. I hope she was. I I should have asked. And then unfortunately, the same girl, you would think she'd learned just and I think that her mother did used to make her take breaks from me because they just knew. I wonder why.

KERRY: 22:08

Is this the same girl you fed the poison to go? No.

CHRISY: 22:11

No, no, no, no, no. New victim. No. Oh yeah. They moved away, and then this one was there. It was like time to break you in, honey. We were uh playing basketball on my uh driveway, and uh and never was allowed to have a hoop. Oh uh, so you just had to sort of wing it and pretend you had a hoop. My father was I was a girl. Oh there was no reason for me to have a hoop. Uh and he didn't want to have to cut grass around it or have to wheel it into his depending. It just wasn't happening. Okay. So but we were still didn't stop us from playing basketball. So we were playing and we're getting rough and we're yanking the ball from each other and blah blah blah blah blah. And I must uh jarred her finger. It's typical. Again, I didn't do it on purpose.

KERRY: 22:50

What is it with you and this girl's fingers? Just didn't want her to have them, I guess. What did you do? Did you break her finger?

CHRISY: 22:56

Well, I I don't think it was broken, but it was badly sprained, pull probably pushed back. And again, it was just both of us in that case, probably me stopping my bike right away, that was on me. But this was just a natural course of events kids can run into. But again, crying, drama, hello, why are you upset? Just suck it up. You want a some a splint? I bet you my mom got a splint in the house. She's a nurse, she's a nurse, she was a nurse. Come on. Uh no, I just want to go home and see my mom. I'm like, oh my god, always taken away. I gotta wait for you to show up back. There goes the car. Pass me on the porch. Sitting there with my ball all alone now. It's all about me. Hello. While you go get fixed up, comes back. Got a splint, got a whole thing. It's really bad spring. Oh my god.

KERRY: 23:46

Okay. God. All right. Did you realize how dysfunctional this was as a child? It was? Your behavior was a little bit. I mean, I know mine was just as dysfunctional, but in a quiet, passive, non-hurting other people way.

CHRISY: 24:04

If I wasn't hearing you screaming, it had no meaning. There you go. Put that on a shirt. If you ain't screaming, it has no meaning to me. So scream, honey. Because that now you're playing with Chrissy. You on Chrissy time now.

KERRY: 24:24

So yeah. Wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was so afraid of getting in trouble. Like I that I I that's why I was always trying to do everything right. I didn't want to bring any attention to me. I wanted, I didn't want to, you know, had to follow the rules, had to be behaved. Like, even as an adult, like, you know, gosh, I mean, I I don't really speed, you know, I've only gotten like two speeding tickets in my life, and they were like stupid ones, like just barely over, you know, 20 or 31 in a 25 or something. I mean, I'm serious. Um, I know it sounds pretentious, but but anytime even I see the cops coming up behind me and I see their lights, I get anxious. And I'm like, why am I getting anxious? I wasn't doing anything wrong. But I'll never forget one of the craziest things used to handle big cats when I was in Las Vegas. At nighttime on the strip, the one hotel, the Tropicana, had these two tigers on display outside. I worked for the magician that owned these tigers, and him and uh another guy, we would go at night and we would have to get these tigers and bring them home. So we had uh, you know, big rolling crates and we put them in this trailer and then we would drive to uh north part of town where the guy's compound was and where the animals were housed in nighttime, driving down the strip with these two tigers in the back. You know, people couldn't see what was in the trailer, it's just a big trailer. We uh stop at the light and we get rear-ended from behind. We get out. I mean, we hardly felt, I mean, we felt the bump, but you know, we so we get out. Well, here, of course, the guy that hit us, his car is all crunched up. Oh, jeez. So the cops come and I'm freaking out. And I'm like, I first of all, I was the passenger, I wasn't even driving the car, but I was terrified because I'm like, oh my god, we're gonna get in trouble. Like, why are we gonna get in trouble? I have no idea why I had this fear. Anyways, the cops come. They said to to me and the gentleman that was with us, and uh, he was like, You guys, you guys doing okay? Like, are you uh kind of smells a little funny back here? Like he thought we were smoking weed, he thought we were high. And But what what do you mean? You were the one that got hit. I know that he thought we were the one somehow that caused it because the odor that was coming from the trailer and apparently from us smelled like weed. And so we're like, he goes, What's in the trailer? And we're like, Well, we have two tigers in there, and he's like, Do you want to go see? He didn't believe us. Well, tiger piss does kind of smell like weed. So we're like, no, really, there's there's two tigers in there, and he's like, Um, you sure you're not high? And he's like, Ask me, we're like, no, really, there's two tigers in there. Cop didn't believe us, so then he, you know, we're like, Well, we we can open it up, but there's two tigers in there. So we finally we the he was not believing us, he totally thought we were high because of how bad everything reeked of what he thought was pot. So we were like, Okay, we'll we'll open up the trailer. Oh my god. So we opened up the trailer, and there's these two big white tigers staring at him, and they're like, Okay, um, yeah, I guess you're right. Buckle it all up, give the guy that hit us a ticket for hitting us, you know, and we went on our merry way. I know, but I was the whole time I was terrified because I thought we were gonna somehow be in trouble. And like we didn't do anything wrong. We were just, you know, minding our business, hauling tigers around Las Vegas. We're wearing the film that I got. This is just what was ingrained in me as a child that you know it was just that fear of God, fear of uh boring. You just said it. Yep. As you can tell, I didn't have that kind of fear buying the priest and so yeah, so I that kept me clean for most of my life. So now I'm boring. No, I could sit here and laugh at your story.

CHRISY: 28:06

We all need uh Do you have any cop stories to share? Well, I do. Well when after we were friends, yeah, and then we sort of weren't on the same path at that moment, right? Which was good for you.

KERRY: 28:20

And that might have been why we stopped, not really stopped being friends, but I was probably terrified to be around you because I was worried you were gonna get in trouble.

CHRISY: 28:29

Oh yeah, you probably were, but can't blame me for that. But yeah, first of all, my mother went to YSU as a uh adult. Uh YSU non-traditional. I was always sick of people saying, No, you look just like your mom. You look and I don't think I really I mean there's a resemblance, of course. You look resemble your parents, but might. You might sometimes maybe I don't know. She had a YSU ID.

KERRY: 28:49

Oh boy, now your mom's ID.

CHRISY: 28:51

Well, here's I'm gonna just get it. You know what? Come at me, bro. I I don't know what to tell you. It just and I was under so I I guess I'm under the age uh as an adult, so you can't try me, maybe, but although what I would say. Statue of limitations. Well, hopefully, but my mom had a YSUD and she didn't keep it anywhere where I couldn't access it. And then I think she wasn't even going anymore. So now it was just a wasted opportunity, and I was gonna take it. So I got it, and uh the way the the the clubs or I wouldn't call them clubs, the the the nightlife on the campus worked was you could get in if you had a college ID if you had a college ID. Now, if you couldn't prove how old you were, yeah, you couldn't drink. Oh they would stamp your hand. Oh, okay. Now who's paying attention to those stamps? And uh after a while, who's knows what what one stamp means to the other. But the way to cover that was to have somebody with you who was very well, and I mean very well acquainted with whoever was working the door, you had an inn, whoever was the DJ, uh-huh, whoever was the bartender, uh-huh, maybe the manager. Okay. If you had a friend who was very well acquainted with these people, right. That was your backup if that ID failed. Okay. So you found a backup. Oh yeah. She was like, she was lovely, and I thank her. She was able to make sure we always had a good time. Yeah. And we were not age enough to have that kind of good time. We did, we did, we did. But one time I was with her. Yeah. And she called me up and insisted, insisted. And sometimes she had to give in because you know, she was working her end of the deal. Yeah. So you had to give in once in a while. Yeah. She wanted to go to a haunted house that was probably about uh, I don't know, like 45 minutes to an hour away from where we live. Okay. But it was like the place to go for people our age, I guess. I don't like haunted houses. I never understood the concept. It was kind of ridiculous. It was loud, it was just un unhappy all the way around. As much as I like Halloween. That's what I I can't wrap my brain around this. You love Halloween, you love horror movies. Yeah, but it's But you didn't want to go to a haunted house. No, because it's usually so hokey. And if maybe today, because we have so many things that we can decorate with, they're so much better. 30 plus years ago, it wasn't.

KERRY: 31:05

I'm surprised you didn't want to go just to like snub people like you did at the mall.

CHRISY: 31:09

Well, no, because everybody has a mask on. So nobody can tell I'm snubbing them. Or I mean I well, they can tell I'm snubbing them, but I can't see who they are, so chances are I'm not gonna snub you. All right, so you were gonna go to the So we were gonna go to this, and I was just like, I just don't want to go, and she just like wouldn't stop. So fine. Okay, pick me up, we'll go. So we get in the car and we're driving. And we get into a little town outside of uh where we lived on our way to get on the freeway to get going. Uh-huh. And I don't know, I guess she was speeding and she went on this road where everybody used to get picked up. The cop a cop saw us and and pulled us over. Her license plates were expired on her car. And I think we both kind of knew that. And I was sitting in the passenger seat and I was like, please arrest her. Please, I just want to go home. I I really don't want to go anywhere. Can you arrest her? I mean, don't hurt her. Don't just keep her there for a little bit and get me. Can you give me a ride home? Is that part of the deal? If you arrest her, will I go home? Or do I have to go with her? Because that might be a problem. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So uh I was sitting there the whole time really wishing uh someone was going to get arrested, not me, her. And uh, when the officer found out that we did not go to the high school in his town, okay, that we went to a Catholic high school at the other town, he let us off with a warning because he hated the kids that lived in his town. And I was like, oh man, can I just lie to you now and tell you I am in your town and I do go to this school? Although then I'm in trouble and she's not, because she's not gonna lie to you.

KERRY: 32:44

So I had to go to the haunted house. That just so defines us exactly how they were, because you know, here's me all terrified of the cops, even in my 20s, and then here's you, or like totally normalized cops. You were wanting somebody to get arrested. Yeah, I was like, oh, good, yay, we're getting pulled over.

CHRISY: 33:02

The police are here, maybe they'll work in my favor, uh, you know, or chit-chat or give us a ticket.

KERRY: 33:10

Yeah, yeah, yeah. See, now sometimes I wonder though, like, you know, what you know, that was the things that we did or we experienced, but like, what are our kids? You know, what are their stories going to be growing as as they get older? What's their podcast stories gonna be about, you know? I don't know.

CHRISY: 33:29

I mean, I'm sure they're gonna have their stuff and it's gonna be funny for them. And we're gonna be those older people that just don't get it, which is really sad to think about.

KERRY: 33:39

Take me out my pine wood box.

CHRISY: 33:40

But um so I think we were pretty lucky. Yeah, we were because we kind of came out of some of that time uh reasonably unscarred.

KERRY: 33:49

Yeah.

CHRISY: 33:50

Well, well, no, no, we're scarred, we're very broken, we're scarred dysfunctioned.

KERRY: 33:56

At least we can say we live to tell the tale. We haven't seen it all, but we've seen it up. Oh yeah. Well, this was fun kind of walking down memory lane a little bit, kind of getting into our personalities a little bit more. Oh, yeah. I'm sure everybody has me figured out really quick here. I'm boring.

CHRISY: 34:14

No, no, you're reasonable and uh smart, and then uh there's a goofy chick, and she's always gonna get in trouble and have the attention.

KERRY: 34:24

Yeah, that's me. I'll say a rosary for you.

CHRISY: 34:29

Oh boy, don't do that.

KERRY: 34:32

Uh all right. Well, hey, whenever uh on our Facebook page, let's hear some of the crazy things that you all did as kids. Did you poison your neighborhood friend? I didn't know she was okay. She didn't not full. Please don't admit to any crimes. We don't want that. Did you have to send your neighborhood kids to the uh emergency room every time you had a play date? Yeah. Or were you the one that was just terrified of doing anything wrong that you lived the sheltered life to even that in your 20s or 30s, you were terrified of the cops, even though they didn't do anything wrong? Right, right. So all right. Well, hey, thanks for joining us. We'll look forward to seeing you all next week and welcoming you into our safe space. Five star rating, please. Absolutely. We love all of you, absolutely. So, all right, have a wonderful week, and we'll see you next time. Bye bye. Bye bye.