Flash Back Friday: What Are We Really Celebrating On St. Patrick’s Day

Leprechaun “traditions” can get unhinged fast: green toilets, green marshmallows, and kid pressure. Our St. Patrick’s Day flashback is equal parts funny and horrifying. Listen and reply: parade or stay home?

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Transcript

Flashback Friday Kickoff

SPEAKER_00 0:07

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

CHRISY 0:23

Hello, Dysfunction Junkies. I am solo because I don't know why, but because Carrie's in Utah, I guess. I don't know, but I'm gonna be uh introducing our flashback Friday. We're gonna be looking at St. Patrick's Day because that's what's coming up for everybody. And just to remind you what fun we had with this episode, we talked about whether or not I was Irish, and I at the time didn't think I was, but then I found out I am about 2%, so I guess I'm in the club now.

SPEAKER_01 0:55

Also, wait, wait, wait. What? You said you're solo. You didn't I'm here too.

CHRISY 1:00

I'm sorry, Nick's here. Yay, DJ Nick's here. I'm sorry. I am sorry. You're you are you're thank you, DJ Nick. What else are we gonna talk about? We're gonna talk about green beer and wine and leprechauns on the loose, leaving green pea in your toilets and the Blarney Stone thing, which I still don't get, but obviously it's a tourist uh draw of some sort. So you have anything to add to that, DJ Nick?

SPEAKER_01 1:28

No, the highlight of the episode is the uh explanation of corned beef. I think, you know.

CHRISY 1:33

Oh yeah. The corned beef that I didn't understand. I didn't realize it was beef. That's how bad I am at being Irish. So uh yeah, it's uh fun. It's that time of year. Everybody's celebrating. Please drink responsibly and no driving. Have a designated driver, call an Uber or whatever else is out there, and be safe and have a great time and uh enjoy listening to uh this episode. Bye, everybody.

SPEAKER_00 2:00

Bye.

Are We Actually Irish

CHRISY 2:00

Hello, junkies.

KERRY 2:02

Welcome to your safe space. I'm Carrie and I'm Chrissy. Big week this week. It's St. Patrick's Day this weekend. Yay!

CHRISY 2:12

Top of the morning to y'all. Chrissy, are you at all Irish? No. None? None. I I don't believe so, no. I a sibling did the uh little testy thing. Ancestry.com. Uh that's gonna be uh stay tuned for a future episode in regards to those, but uh she shared her report with me, and uh I didn't see anything like that. I mean, there's a ton that goes into making up this wonderful person here. There's all kinds of but not a sliver, not a not a gold coin, not an Irish beer, not the nothing.

KERRY 2:53

Well, apparently, according to Antresty.com DNA testing, I am six percent Irish, which growing up, we were always told we were a hundred percent Italian. It was a little bit of a surprise when I got my DNA test results that I was not all Italian in that I had Irish in.

CHRISY 3:11

Wait a minute, so you're 94? Oh no, no, it's why do they do that? I know they don't want to be bothered with all the other stuff because everybody's just like, you know what? I'm just this, I don't want to explain everything.

KERRY 3:23

My husband was very disappointed because you know, when we met and found out I was Italian, because that's what I thought I always was, he was like, Oh, I'm gonna get the best spaghetti. I hate spaghetti. Do you really do? So I hardly ever cook it. And he's like, I've been robbed. And then when I got my ancestry report back, I was like, Well, this explains why I don't like the spaghetti, because I'm not as Italian as I thought I was.

CHRISY 3:49

Just a quick segue, though. Your family's ancestry hails from northern Italy, I'm betting. Because you're all like beautiful, kind of blondish and light-eyed. Yes, my family's a little bit on the darker side. You are, and we are definitely from the south people. Yes, loving the south. We at the bottom of the boot. The bottom of the boot. That's why I don't burn real easy. I got good skin.

KERRY 4:17

Yes, yes, yes, yes. So, what are your plans for St. Patrick's Day?

CHRISY 4:22

Nothing? No, nothing, I don't think so. Yeah. No, I did finally invest in a shirt with a clover on it. Oh. I forget what it says. Something about luck being lucky, not luck of the Irish, because I'm not Irish. Shoot, I forget what it says on it. I have to remember, I should be wearing it. And uh we went to a Catholic high school that was um very Irish. Irish.

KERRY 4:44

Yes. And so I was Irish for four years of my life. Well more than I'm now.

CHRISY 4:49

You're very participant. You were a very good participant in that. We wore kilts. We did. People sent each other green carnations that were colored torture to the carnation. I don't know that they were naturally that color, but you dipped them in the green dye, and we sent them to each other. Well, I didn't get any.

KERRY 5:08

Did you get some?

CHRISY 5:09

Yeah. Huh. Even though it wasn't a popular no, you well, your boyfriend didn't go to school with us.

KERRY 5:15

Again, he could have paid, like he knew you. He could have said, Hey Chrissy, can you buy some carnations and hook carry up?

CHRISY 5:22

Yeah. Usually I'd be like all, you know, about a month before or a couple weeks before, be like all friendly with somebody. I could usually get some dope to subscribe to send me a flower. And then the next day I was like, I don't know you. I sent you flowers. When? What color were they? Oh, let me guess. Get away from me. Yeah, so we we were uh we had to participate in that. That's why I think for a long time I didn't have the Irish colours in my closet. Yes. And my husband is. Yes, okay, but not the f Irish that celebrates. Oh, okay. He's the other Irish that uh I'm thinking they represented by the orange on their flag.

KERRY 6:09

I never realized that. That was something I learned new today, was that the colors meant the different religions. Didn't realize that. I never know what anybody's flag means.

CHRISY 6:16

Oh, I think the stars mean how many states we have right now.

KERRY 6:20

Somebody told me that. My husband, uh, we need to do the DNA test on him because I'm sure he's got Irish in him, just because of like he's got a little bit of the red in in his hair. I mean, he's he's blonde hair, blue eyes, but there's there's the red flecking in there, and then the skin, his um, he's kind of got the freckles and stuff. So I'm sure. Oh, the freckles. Yeah.

CHRISY 6:42

I was worried about that when I started having kids. Oh. And I was also worried about maybe somebody with um red hair. Oh. Because I haven't nobody in our family has that. Yeah. You I'm very self-absorbed most of the time. And I was like, Really? We haven't noticed Christmas. I was like, if they have red hair, which is beautiful, but they're gonna think it's not my right, not your kid. Yeah, you know, my husband doesn't have red hair, but I knew there was Irish there, and I said that could just all of a sudden pop out. Come come along. Yeah. Mm-hmm. So no, no, no.

Vegas Mayhem And Party Culture

KERRY 7:17

What you know, the I've never we never I think we talked about this in our Halloween episode. Like, we didn't decorate for things growing up, like really the only thing we really decorated for was Christmas. So we never did the you know, Valentine's Day decorations, everything in the house, and then change it to you know St. Patrick's Day or whatever. Never been into that, and still, so I really don't celebrate these holidays much. And I'll never forget, we were living in Las Vegas, went to go out to dinner and March 17th, and hey, let's go out to dinner tonight. Let's go down one of the strip and one of the nice restaurants. Big mistake, huge mistake, really big mistake. You remembered real quick what day it was. Yep, and we I had no clue that St. Patrick's Day in Las Vegas is almost a bigger event than New Year's Eve on the strip in Las Vegas.

CHRISY 8:08

I think it is for a lot of uh people.

KERRY 8:11

Oh, it was horrible. Oh my gosh, just the the shenanigans going on.

CHRISY 8:18

My very bad attempt at uh we're sorry if we're we're not trying, we're just trying to have fun because everybody's having fun today on St. Patrick's Day. They love it, they love it.

KERRY 8:30

But uh yeah, it was it was just m mayhem and drunkenness, and oh my gosh, like it was just the things we saw, like people peeing in the street because they were so drunk, and oh, it was just it was horrible. So yeah, we learned from then on like don't go on the strip on St. Patrick's Day.

CHRISY 8:49

Yeah, I worked, I have worked for a lot of wonderful people, and I still think that a lot of them are wonderful, even though some of the people I work for have been up to no good, no good all the time, and maybe had to go away for a while and then come back. Oh, but hey, you know, it's a work experience for me, so I appreciate that. But I worked for uh someone who was Irish who also went to our high school. Uh-huh. Um, they had a yearly party. Oh. Then it was very known in their circles that they were having this party. It was a regular event for a lot of people, and the wine and the beer was all Was this party held at their house or did they have it at an event center? They usually had it at one of the places down in the park. The one pavilion down there, the big one. Pioneer Pavilion. Is it enclosed? Yes, that one is enclosed. Okay, because I'm in Ohio. Yeah, no, no. This one Pioneer View Pavilion in Mill Creek Park is closed, and it's a pretty big venue. It's beautiful inside. It has a lovely upper floor with the wood and the stone. It's I highly recommend it, not to give a plug, but I guess I am. But they would have a party there every as far as I can remember, that's where it always was. And you had the green beer, you had the green wine, you had a lot of Irish people who were very enthusiastic about being Irish and about St. Patrick's Day. And I'm sure a lot of people who are not Irish but still were Irish that day. Everybody's supposed to be Irish that day. I'm not exactly sure if everyone agrees with that. But yeah, no, we didn't decorate for uh St. Patrick's Day because like I said, no one in my family is uh Irish.

KERRY 10:33

I don't understand is then the decorating goes to a whole nother level. Like Chicago, they dye their river green. Yeah, I've I've seen this and heard of this.

CHRISY 10:43

I I've never I've been to Chicago, but not during this.

KERRY 10:46

But what I don't understand is why only that day of year? Like, okay, then why don't they dye it red at Valentine's Day?

CHRISY 10:54

Well, that's terrifying. And now we're referencing back to our previous episode. That becomes biblical.

KERRY 11:01

Oh, are we talking about the King James version of the Bible or the Queen Chrissy version?

CHRISY 11:09

Red usually means the fish have gone bad or something. I don't know, or the world is about to end or something. Yeah.

KERRY 11:16

But then why can't they make it what why what I don't understand is why is it that oh they're gonna kill the environment one day a year by dyeing this whole you mean it's not a bunch of the McCormick dye they use?

CHRISY 11:27

That's I don't know.

KERRY 11:30

I don't know. It's not food grade dye. I would hope that it is. I don't know. We're thinking wrong. Yeah. But what I don't understand is why is it that only that one day a year? Why don't they do it for other things? Why not make it a beautiful turquoise blue in the summertime? So like people think they're in the Caribbean instead of you know, I will reference a movie.

CHRISY 11:51

The fugitives that takes place in Chicago. There's a character in there that works under Tommy Lee Jones that asks him a question if you know anything about Tommy Lee Jones. Yeah, generally he's agitated by people and who's in a movie with him. And the guy asked him, How come they can dye this river green on St. Patrick's Day and they can't dye it blue the other 364 days of the year? There you go. But I mean, I agree, I guess. I don't know. I don't live in Chicago, so nice idea, I guess, to dye things. People love dying things green, even though we were not Irish growing up. Yeah. We still got a leprechaun running through the house somehow. Is it like one of those elf on the shelf things you have all the way? No, no, no, no. You never saw this one. Oh. Which is terrifying, especially if you grew up in the 70s. Yeah. There was like horrible movies about like little dolls and stuff that would come to life and then bite you. Like a trilogy of terror, something like that. I remember it was like this one doll or something. If it lost its necklace, it had these horrible fangs on it. Karen Black. I remember the actress's name. Oh my god. Uh my one sister, she used to always reference that. That must have freaked her. That was one of her traumas. But you I had a vision of this crazy leprechaun running through the house because somebody, one of my cousins, I think, used to do this. And my parents did not participate in this. And I think we were at my grandparents' house or something, and you you go to the bathroom, all of a sudden the wall the water was green in there. And you're like, what? And you're like four or five years old, you're freaking out. You're like, somebody's sick in the house. Just piss green in here.

KERRY 13:27

We would have never done that at our house because we lived on a farm and had well water. And so my mom would have never done anything like that because you know, if you put anything anything down the drain, you know, bleach or whatever down the drain, that's gonna eventually go back into your water that you're drinking. So yeah, she wouldn't have done that. You had to be a chemist to understand exactly what you could do because it could turn into some other kind.

CHRISY 13:49

Yeah, no, city water, don't throw the green in, who cares? Yeah, and it just don't used to freak me out because you find like little green drops everywhere, and I'm like, is the leprechaun bleeding? Is this some sign that something horrible is about to happen? I mean, a leprechaun shows up at your house for St. Patrick's Day, and all they can do is run around to all of your toilets and take a piss. They don't leave any gifts, they don't leave any candy, there is no point. And if that's not bad enough, my daughter come home and I think they talked about this stuff in school, and she insisted that we had a leprechaun, and it put a lot of pressure on me, and so i I had to step it up a notch, and instead of it just being the leprechaun pisses in all the toilets, I had to take it from that to pooping. So and I threw I colored a bunch of green marshmallows like green, uh-huh, and I said he took a dump in the box. And I was like, I don't know where he went. Well, we do know where he went, but he took a dump and left here. That's what he thinks of us. They probably found out we weren't Irish that way.

Parade Weather And Crowd Safety

KERRY 15:01

We do these crazy things. Somebody starts to torture us, they obviously don't have kids. The worst thing, well, the best and the worst thing about St. Patrick's Day to me is the weather. Because here in Northeast Ohio, you know, hopefully, you know, we just came out of February where we had the single degree temperatures and the Arctic cold. Now we're gonna get this little fake spring. Yeah, you know, the teasers, the teaser, and my husband will get all excited, he'll be like, Yay, spring's here, and I'll be like, Nope, St. Patrick's Day hasn't come yet, because that was always the telltale. We were always gonna get some big winter catastrophe of cold and snow on St. Patrick's Day.

CHRISY 15:38

Yes, St. Patrick's Day.

KERRY 15:40

We were always waiting, right? And how I really know this because I cannot tell you how many parades that I have. I was just gonna bring up a parade.

CHRISY 15:48

I was at a parade or two for you because my other friend was also marching in that parade. Yes. And it was usually I don't remember it ever being nice.

KERRY 15:57

It was never nice, and we it would never fail, like the day before the parade. It'd be beautiful, it'd be lovely. We'd be like, oh my god, we're gonna have a nice day. And we wake up the next morning and it'd be like frozen tundra and snow, and we had a trudge down. Oh, it was horrible. It was horrible for everyone.

CHRISY 16:15

Us watching, you marching. It was just a nightmare. You were such a good friend to come though. Remember, we used to throw candy out at parades? Yeah, do we still do that? I don't think they're allowed. Oh no, yeah, I don't know. That was always fun.

KERRY 16:27

Yeah. You know, I did recently because I was Lions, a lion for Lions International, and we had a little parade in our town, and we did throw out candy, but there was some kind of rule about the candy, which I mean, most candy isn't a wrapper, anyways. But otherwise, people were throwing out other things that were non-food related.

CHRISY 16:47

So but maybe it depends on the town you live in. Yeah, I'm not a parade person, and parades are dangerous, is in my opinion, because just there's terrible people out there.

KERRY 16:56

So it's too many people too close together. I would rather be in the parade than on the sideline of the parade.

St. Baldrick’s And Doing Good

CHRISY 17:01

I'd rather watch the Macy's Day parade while I'm making my turkey. And let everybody else go out there and stand there in the cold. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not gonna go watch a parade anymore, but no. Yeah, no, St. Patrick's Day is uh it's interesting, it's fascinating, it's uh people love it. Talking about that weather issue, the one person I did work for who used to have the big shindig every St. Patrick's Day with the colored beer and wine. Yeah, we got a really one year they were having it and we got a really bad snowstorm. Yeah. And they had to cancel it. And they were stuck with Did they didn't just reschedule it? No, no, no, I don't think so. And they were stuck with green beer and wine, and I don't know what happened, but it was uh it was an unfortunate event, I guess.

KERRY 17:49

Did you ever see those things? Um, and this is a good thing for the the St. Patrick's Day, they do where the people shave their hair off for the kids with cancer. So they do it's uh it's uh it's like St. Baldo. I don't know. It's uh there's a there's a reference or something to us, but it's a thing, and so yeah, because where I used to live, there was an Irish bar kind of at the top of the street. I remember we were walking around the plaza the one day, it was St. Patrick's Day at the time, they had all these guys were in this tent just all getting their heads shaved. Yeah, that's a good customer, yeah. That's what I'm saying. That's a that's a good thing.

CHRISY 18:24

And if you're doing that for St. Patrick's Day, I support you, and that is wonderful. If you're gonna drink and become obnoxious and and be a burden to society for 24 to 48 hours, if it's a weekend, you know, oh my god. But yeah, do do some good. So yes, thank you.

KERRY 18:39

I'm trying to Google that to see what that was called.

CHRISY 18:41

You know, the other thing with St. Patrick's Day is too, I've heard horror stories from people where that is usually, I mean, there are times people have gotten like physically hurt. I mean, these celebrations, more than anything, they get out of control. Yeah, they do, and people drink a lot. A lot. You know, people get knocked unconscious and get in fights, and uh yeah, it's more so than other drinking days of the year.

KERRY 19:04

Yeah, it happens. Yeah. I mean so it is called the St. Baldricks Foundation, and it is a volunteer-powered childhood cancer charity that raises money for research through shaving head events, and that's often held on St. Patrick's Day.

Corned Beef Confusion And Lent

CHRISY 19:18

I am totally on board with that. Let's talk real quick, too, about the food. Okay, just like everything else with us that interests us with dysfunction, is the food that we were told we had to eat or the food you can't eat today because we don't know why.

KERRY 19:38

Just don't eat it. Don't eat meat on Fridays, it's Lent.

CHRISY 19:41

But there's a when the guy, the Pope, he'll give you special dispensation if you're Irish. Don't eat the corned beef. And the lucky charms. No, just the corned beef. And I don't like corned beef. I don't understand it. Uh-huh. I think it's like lunch meat, isn't it? I don't know. I don't I never met a beef that was corned. Is that a special cow? It's a corny cow. Or is it corn? I don't even, I'm not a farm person. I don't know if that's pig or cow.

KERRY 20:14

I don't know. Oh, Gary doesn't know. I don't know.

unknown 20:17

What's corned beef?

CHRISY 20:19

But I do it on St. Patrick's Day.

KERRY 20:21

Well, the only corned beef I really like is a Reuben sandwich. But that's about the only way.

CHRISY 20:28

Doesn't it have Russian dressing on it? Which is Thousand Islands. Thousand Island dressing, yeah. Yeah. So we really got confused with all this stuff when we came over here. We uh was DJ next time. I was gonna say because I totally forgot what we were Googling.

SPEAKER_02 20:42

DJ's corned beef. Corn beef, bully beef or salted beef in some Commonwealth countries is a salt-cured brisket of beef.

KERRY 20:50

Oh, it's salty. Oh, it's cow. It's cow. It's cow, but it's a it's a how it's made, cured. Okay.

CHRISY 20:56

Of course, cure did anybody hear about this being a uh carcinogen now with this meat? Bacon, you might as well smoke a pack of cigarettes. If you're gonna eat bacon, it's a carcinogen just the same.

KERRY 21:07

I did not know that.

CHRISY 21:08

Yeah, I don't smoke anymore, but I still eat that damn bacon.

KERRY 21:13

Yeah, I do like meat bacon. Yeah. But see, the whole also the whole sauerkraut and kibasi thing, too, comes back up on St. Patrick's Day.

CHRISY 21:21

Well, that's usually what I'm like, look, I won't do the corned beef, but I'll I'll I'll revisit. As you know, I love the the sauerkraut and the uh I know, I know.

KERRY 21:33

I like the uh Reuben sandwich that has the corned beef with just a little bit of sauerkraut, not a whole lot. And not like your kind of sauerkraut where you're like, don't rinse it, don't drain it, whatever.

CHRISY 21:42

You want it Well, the first word in the title of the food is sour. I know. It's not sweetkraut. What the hell's that? Sweetkraut. You got some sweetkraut? I don't want the sour, but I'll have some sweetkraut if you have it. No, we do not. What's the on the Rubin sandwich?

KERRY 22:03

Is the uh Swiss cheese, corned beef, sour crumb?

CHRISY 22:06

You've named Russian dressing. Russian dress. Swiss Irish, Russian, Swiss. There's three nationalities on that sandwich. And I don't know if the Swiss and the Russians want to be pulled into it. Did we clear that with them or the Pope or whatever? Yeah, why is the Pope giving people, if St. Patrick's Day falls during Lent, on a Friday? It's like this happens every once in a seven years. Is that how long? Is that how the calendar works? What if it's a leap year? Well, then it screws everything up. Because there's 29 days or not. Is there 27 days sometimes in February? Or we just go to 29? They don't subtract to make it even.

KERRY 22:48

Remember that? Remember that saying 30 days has November, April, June, and September. All the rest have 31 except for February.

CHRISY 22:54

No, what the hell? Did you miss that day in school too? Did they say that to you? Yeah, that's how you remember the days. Oh, come on. You can't remember how many days. I mean, February's the only one that screws me up. Everything else is pointing. Yeah, because you think it's 27. I don't know. I'm just like, it's over. Just let this month be over.

KERRY 23:15

Yes, it is over. Now we're into March.

CHRISY 23:17

I know. This is a long month.

KERRY 23:19

I know.

CHRISY 23:20

In like a lion and out like a lamb.

KERRY 23:23

In like a lion out like a lamb. Yes, that's correct. What the hell does that mean? It's because of our stupid weather. Obviously, that was made in Ohio.

CHRISY 23:30

They're not saying that in Hawaii.

KERRY 23:32

I don't think so.

CHRISY 23:33

Lucky.

KERRY 23:34

I know.

CHRISY 23:37

They don't have any good sayings where the weather's cooperative. You really want to have character. You grow up in Ohio. We're from in Ohio. Northeast.

KERRY 23:47

This is true.

CHRISY 23:48

So corn beef, lots of nationality's in there, getting dispensation from the Pope if it falls in during Lent. Dye the river green, kill all the fish. Yeah. Get food grade. Get oil. Everybody I work for an oil company is self-promoting.

KERRY 24:05

Oh, I didn't realize you dealt with that kind of oil. I thought you just dealt with oil for cars.

CHRISY 24:09

No, there's all kinds of oil. It's wonderful. It's a beautiful product. Suntan oil? No. But the type of oil that I deal with probably goes into helping make that.

KERRY 24:21

Oh, well, there you go. Yeah. All right. Well, yeah. So parades, horrible weather. Yeah, I think we pretty much covered all the wonderful things about St. Patrick's Day this weekend.

CHRISY 24:30

No, come on. There's got to be something else. I don't know.

KERRY 24:34

Green, green, St.

CHRISY 24:36

Patrick's Day. Did you ever date an Irish gentleman? Well, I think I'm married to part Irish. He's part Irish. But even like, because of the school we went to, there was a lot of Irish families that went through school.

KERRY 24:46

Yeah, but I was only dating that one. Oh, that's right. No, I really can't say that. I think that my current husband is the only most Irish I've dated. Right. I dated a guy who was Irish. Yeah? Yeah.

CHRISY 25:02

Once.

KERRY 25:02

Did you date him during St. Patrick's Day? Were you together during St. Patrick's Day?

CHRISY 25:08

No. He was a public school guy.

KERRY 25:09

Oh.

CHRISY 25:10

I don't even know. I'm pretty sure he was Irish. I don't know. We didn't talk about it. We weren't together that long. No, it was a short, it was a short uh relationship. Yeah, no, uh, yeah, the Irish thing is wonderful, and the Irish people are very devoted to being Irish. I'm guessing probably just the same as Italians are devoted to being Italian.

Blarney Stone Germs And The Gift

KERRY 25:32

The only thing I I think that it would be lovely to go to to Ireland and Scotland and all those places because of all the castles. But have you ever heard of that where they go kiss that Barney stone on that one castle?

CHRISY 25:43

Have you ever seen this? Oh I have heard. You brought this up, really. Yeah, I've heard of this.

KERRY 25:50

Is that for real? Yes, like I've actually like known people that have done it. And like you gotta like lay on your back on the top, and then you kiss the stone. Is this a Catholic religion thing? I don't know. Well, what's it supposed to do? I don't know, it's luck or whatever, but what gets me is it's like the whole germaphobe thing in me freaks out because it's like sharing that chat with that terrible wine that you like. That's what I was thinking about. That it's just like the chalice thing. I'm like, how many people? Oh, and do they still do that post-COVID? I don't know. I don't know. We'll have to okay. We need audience in Ireland to listen to our show so they can give us all the facts on the Barney Stone in pre-COVID.

CHRISY 26:31

We don't want to say too much about it because we want to know more. And we're trying. Oh, oh you got DJ next. He's done some Googling with the P.

SPEAKER_02 26:41

People kiss the Blarney Stone in Ireland because of an Irish legend that says it gives the kisser the gift of gap. Well, you mean neither of you give me a gap.

CHRISY 26:49

You don't want me anywhere near that blarney stone. Oh, Blarney!

SPEAKER_02 26:53

I don't think either of you need the gift of gap.

CHRISY 26:56

It doesn't give you luck, it gives you the gift of so there's a bunch of quiet people, which uh you want to get me started on them quiet people. That'll be another episode. Yeah, but they're all over there line up. Ooh, I hope I can get the gift of gab. What the hell is that?

SPEAKER_02 27:10

The gift is said to make the kisser more eloquent and persuasive.

CHRISY 27:14

Well, I might need some eloquence. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Or some polishing charm school.

KERRY 27:20

But you might get a side of COVID with that eloquence if you kiss the stone now.

unknown 27:24

Yeah.

KERRY 27:25

Or bird flu or whatever disease of the moment we're in right now.

CHRISY 27:30

You ever get the f the the one thing with the this is a Catholic thing, the statue that winks at you? I think it's supposed to be married. Winks or bleed blood.

KERRY 27:38

Wait, Nick, DJ's Nick's drying dying to add something here.

SPEAKER_02 27:41

Oh, they do wipe off the stone between kisses, so. Oh, well, that's good to know.

CHRISY 27:46

Well, geologically, that stone's gonna get worn out. Erosion. It's down to a pebble now. How many times they wipe that off? What are they using to wipe it off? Just a rag ain't gonna clean it. You need disinfectant. And that's gonna have a chemical reaction with that stone, it's gonna deteriorate. Oh my god, it's in your mouth, it's just everywhere. Clearly, Chrissy wants a geology class.

SPEAKER_02 28:10

Staff clean the stone frequently, disinfecting.

KERRY 28:12

Frequently. That's not saying every person.

CHRISY 28:16

Who's watching you put your lips right on it? Oh, well, the Blarney. They do the people of Blarney. Is that an area in Ireland? Where'd that word come from? Castle.

SPEAKER_02 28:30

Blarney is a castle. Castle. Yeah.

CHRISY 28:32

The Blarney castle. Oh my gosh. I love it. Ireland, Irish people. I love, I love you, people. I love Killian. So I love you. Thank you for giving us Killian. Oh, another. Not the beer, by the way. The actual individual. I don't like the beer. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 28:53

So They even like that still? Killian's red? I don't even know if you can.

CHRISY 28:56

I don't know. I'm not a beer drinker. Yeah, I don't know. Heineken. Yay. Uh.

KERRY 29:02

I do like a good Irish whiskey though.

CHRISY 29:04

Ooh. Yes, I do like that.

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KERRY 29:07

All right. Well, this wraps up another exciting episode of Dysfunction Junkies.

CHRISY 29:12

Larny and leprechauns and peeing in your toilet. Why does a leprechaun travel all the way just to pee in your toilet? That's another thing I want to know. Rude. Leprechauns are rude. They're really not giving a good representation of what a leprechaun is. He's always running away. He does cereal. Yeah. It's just terrifying.

KERRY 29:28

But what we want to know is we want to know what you all are doing for St. Patrick's Day this weekend. We want to know what traditions your family has, or do you just do not do anything at all? Are you going to a parade? Are you marching in the parade? Or are you just at home eating corned beef? And ice creams and hot dogs.

CHRISY 29:46

Ice creams and hot dogs. After that, yeah.

unknown 29:50

Purge.

KERRY 29:51

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CHRISY 30:21

Yes. Thank you, everybody. All right, see you next week. Happy St. Patrick's Day. Watch out for the Blarney Snow.