What Childhood Songs Really Meant: Who the Heck is Miss Suzie?

Why do we remember Miss Susie Has A Steamboat forever, but not what we ate yesterday? We dig into classic folklore like Ring Around the Rosy and the plague theory behind its lyrics, plus the way other staples get linked to real events and power struggles. From Three Blind Mice and its grim imagery to Mary Mary Quite Contrary and the Bloody Mary rumors. Then we shift to the schoolyard material that trained a whole generation on innuendo and social rules: Miss Susie Has a Steamboat, clapping games, jump rope chants, and camp songs that were “naughty” without technically saying anything. We also laugh about counting-out rhymes like eenie meenie minie mo and bubblegum bubblegum in a dish, and what it felt like to be picked for teams when popularity and survival were on the line. 

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Transcript

Welcome And Why This Topic

SPEAKER_00 0:07

Welcome to the Dysfunction Junkies Podcast. We may not have seen it all, but we've seen enough. And now we are your hosts, Christy and Carrie.

KERRY 0:21

Hello, junkies. I'm Carrie.

SPEAKER_02 0:24

And I'm Chrissy. Oh, I got a good one for you today, Carrie. You do.

KERRY 0:31

Oh, I'm so excited.

SPEAKER_02 0:32

Well, at least I think it's good because it's stuff that I always like ask myself and like wondered as I got older. You don't question this stuff when you're a child, but all those lovely little sayings we used to say when we were kids. Like what? And the generations before us, too, I guess. But now they're not so PR correct. I don't know. Yeah, I again I don't know what the term is anymore. And are they say politically correct?

KERRY 1:02

Or are they songs?

SPEAKER_02 1:04

Are they what songs? Well, basically, I guess what you call nursery rise. There you go. Back back in the day. But

Little Polly Flinders And Edited Lyrics

SPEAKER_02 1:12

so the reason this kind of came up, I remembered it, was my daughter when she was still in preschool, had to basically do uh saying. And she they gave they they signed them to the kids. Okay. In pre-screen, these little nursery rhymes. Yeah. Yeah. Each one got like Miss Mary Muffet and so and so. And so they signed the kids all these different little nursery rhymes, and they were gonna put on a show, and the kids would go up on the stage and they would do their part, and then the next kid would go up. And they were supposed to also dress like the character that they sort of were reading about. And my daughter got assigned, which I never heard before this. Ms. Little Polly, what the give me the name again?

SPEAKER_00 2:01

Flinders.

SPEAKER_02 2:02

Flinders. And I remember it, they gave it to me, but they had to change it because it had something in there that was really inappropriate.

SPEAKER_00 2:15

So it said, are you gonna do you have a I was basically saying that she got her feet too close to the city?

SPEAKER_02 2:22

No, little Polly Flinders sat by the cinders warming her. Why do I remember this and I didn't even memorize it? Little Polly Flinders sat by the cinders warming her pretty little toes. But now I'm lost. But basically, what it comes down to, he'll find it. The mother whooped her ass because she got her clothes dirty from the cinders. But it's rhyming. So that makes it better. That makes it okay. If you can rhyme your abuse, abuse rhyming is acceptable. If you can rhyme your abuse, then it's not abuse. It's okay. No, it's fine. So but they were good enough at her preschool to say, you know what, we changed this. I can't remember for sure how they did it, but we totally cut out the mom and the ass beating, which is good.

KERRY 3:18

But what was left of the story?

SPEAKER_02 3:21

I don't know. I gotta pull the office.

SPEAKER_00 3:23

Little Chloe Flinder sat among the cinders warming her pretty little toes. He had the first half of it right. There's only six lines in the whole thing.

SPEAKER_02 3:32

Oh, and the other half the girl gets her ass. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:41

So she whipped her little daughter. Whipped her little daughter. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 3:47

I think what they did was they said she and she scolded her little daughter.

SPEAKER_00 3:52

Is that how you had to change it?

SPEAKER_02 3:54

I think that's how it was changed, yeah. So she didn't get her ass beat, but she got verbally abused over it, so she is so peat. No wonder why we're all screwed. So end dysfunctional. Right. Right. So that was we're opening with that, but there's plenty to talk about here. It's not just little polyflitters, which was a one I didn't even hear of until my daughter got us on. Oh my god. Yeah.

KERRY 4:19

Never heard of it.

SPEAKER_02 4:21

Yeah.

Ring Around The Rosy Gets Dark

SPEAKER_02 4:22

So there was the ones that we all used to say, like the ring around the rosy thing, which I guess is about death. Yes. And do you have do I think that's a good one? One of them was about the really demonic plague, I thought. Actually, that might be, I think that's yeah, because they were burning the bodies.

KERRY 4:42

Yes. Uh-huh. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 4:44

Yes. So that's always fun to sort of dance with your friends about, right? Dancing over dead bodies. There you go. So that that's always a good one. I don't know. What tell me about this situation you have with Girl Scouts?

Girl Scout Songs With Hidden Meaning

KERRY 5:00

Oh, so well, first of all, when when you had the title in the in the show notes, and I hadn't really read much about where you were going with it, I had to laugh because recently on Facebook on the reels, there's this lady who does these old like nursery rhymes, or you know, when you would do the clapping thing, you know, this kind of thing when you were a kid and you'd have these little scenes. We're gonna talk about that. Right, okay. And so she was, and it was funny because I've this one has always been stuck in my head when I remember it from Girl Scouts, and I didn't know all the lyrics, you know, but they only taught us the reader's digest version, you know. So here, so it happened to come across it, so I watched it. Well, then of course, you know, you watch it, then all their other stuff. And so I was like laughing whenever I saw this. I'm like, oh my God, that's so crazy that you were talking about this because I've been recently watching these reels about it. But the one that I remember from Girl Scouts, uh I remember that I knew it was naughty. I knew there was like a subtle other meaning, but I didn't know what they all meant. And so I'm trying to think of if I wrote it down. I want a man. That's what. So it's like, I want a man, I want a man, I want a man, I want a man, I want a mansion in the sky. And then at one point it says, I want a neck, I want a neck, I want a neck, I want a neck, I want a necklace made of pearls.

SPEAKER_02 6:29

It's like the Miss Suzy thing. Yes, you know, because you you think it's you're saying one thing, and then you end up saying something completely different.

KERRY 6:36

Yes. So I didn't I never heard that one. You never did.

SPEAKER_02 6:40

Oh, no, that's the thing.

KERRY 6:42

I don't know if our listeners really want to. This was something you did what you guys did this at like camping? Yeah, at Girl Scout Camp around the bonfire. We'd sing these songs, and this this one about a man. And I remember I just thought it was so funny and everything, but I knew that it was somewhat naughty, and so I would never sing it around at home. Like, never. If my mom would have heard me singing this, I would have been in so much trouble, even though you weren't really saying anything naughty because they, you know, they changed the words up, but still there was that implication. But yeah, so I that's whenever we were started, you know, reading the notes about this, I was thinking about that because I would never, and then that even that Miss Susie song, you know, again, it's just some of the things that you're saying turn into something else, you know, and so you think you're gonna say a bad word as a kid, and you know, like which is very appealing, yes, but when you're little, you know, but you don't say it, but you feel like you're still getting waves, yes. But oh man, I wouldn't have tested those waters in my house. That would have been that would have been, you know, rosaries and extra masses and who knows what else.

SPEAKER_02 7:52

Let me tell you this real quick. I'll

A Childhood Joke That Worked

SPEAKER_02 7:55

segue, and then we can come back and talk about who the hell Miss Susie is, because I always wanted to know who she is. But we used to talk about her a lot. There's that you're afraid that you, if you said this, that you're gonna get in trouble. Hopefully, not the ass whooping that Polly Flinders got, but I get it. You were worried. She wasn't saying bad things, she just got her clothes dirty. I once told my father this joke, I was little because I wanted I wanted to manipulate and get something I wanted in a good mood to ask. So I remember telling this joke and it worked. It was about cats. Like this kid found a cat, a stray cat, and it was a little boy cat, and ran to the mom and said, Mom, I want to keep this cat, it's a stray. And she says, Well, I don't know. She's like, Okay, go ahead. And and she says, Well, what are you gonna name it? And they said, Almond Joy. That's the cat's name. So then the kid's out playing again and finds another stray cat and brings it to the mom and says, Mom, I I gotta keep this kitty too. It doesn't have a home, I'm gonna keep this kitty. She's like, I don't know. And it's a little girl kitty now. So she says, She says, Okay. And then she says, Well, what are you gonna name it? And she says, Mounds.

KERRY 9:24

Oh no.

SPEAKER_02 9:26

And she says, Well, they look almost alike. How you can tell them apart, and she says, because almond joys got nuts, mounds done.

SPEAKER_00 9:38

Did your dad laugh at that?

SPEAKER_02 9:40

Like crazy, man. All right, yeah, I got to get it.

SPEAKER_00 9:46

Mission accomplished, then, right? What did you want?

KERRY 9:49

I want to know that. What was the thing? Man, I wish I remembered.

SPEAKER_02 9:51

Remember that because I was little. I was little. You know what it may have been? Because I remember I told you my father would take forever to put the tree up. Like it was like five days to Christmas, and we were still like, man, everybody else is ready for Christmas. What's that? I'm exaggerating, but it especially by today's standards, my dad was really late because now people are putting stuff up before Halloween. And so he would usually do it around the second week of December or so. But you would want the tree up, so you had to put him in a good mood because he just didn't feel like it was a lot of work because he was a little bit of a perfectionist. I think it was I wanted the tree to go up, and I wanted to ask him if we could put the tree up, but I knew I had to get him in a good mood. So a good joke. So I was never worried like you were, I guess was my point of getting in trouble for saying the other thing I used to do, I don't want to be, you know, whatever you want to call it, offensive, but the one thing I used to do because it was on cable all the time.

Quoting The Jerk As A Kid

SPEAKER_02 10:52

And nobody ever told me to not say what I was saying. The movie The Jerk was on all the time. That movie was from 1979, so it was on early cable around 1980. I have no clue what that was. So it was all Steve Martin, the jerk? Oh. It's yeah, maybe oh my god, it's such a classic.

KERRY 11:12

I might remember now.

SPEAKER_02 11:13

Okay, go ahead. The movie starts out with Steve Martin sitting around, like he's homeless. And he always starts out the movie saying that he was born a poor black child. Oh, yeah, I do remember now. Because he was raised by black, yeah, a black family. And he was trying to start the movie out by telling his story. So I used to constantly walk around at the age of nine, eight or nine. And I didn't always tell, yeah, I always say, I was born a poor black child. And again, just let her go. She'll go to her room and watch more of that movie and be quiet. Just let it go. Oh my god because you know there was so much, you know, overseeing of me in my house. Yeah, you were so well supervised. Yes. So, anyhow.

Who Is Miss Susie Anyway

SPEAKER_02 12:05

So let's get back to these lovely nurseries.

KERRY 12:07

So, who's who the heck is Miss Suzy?

SPEAKER_02 12:10

I started looking this up and I saw where it said Miss Susie actually had another name. Do you have that one pulled up, Nick, for me? About or do we have it in the printout? Yeah, Miss Susie didn't start out necessarily as Miss Suzy. The other thing that always bothers me about these rhymes is like the Miss Suzy has a steamboat. That one was as fun because it was a play on words. And like with what you were reciting at camp, it was this whole situation where you thought you were gonna say something naughty, but then you didn't. Yes. It you segued into something else.

SPEAKER_00 12:41

Well, Miss Suzy at a steamboat was a jump rope song, like you would say it to jumping rope.

SPEAKER_02 12:46

Yeah, I didn't do that because I I was gonna talk about that too. I always hated all those people who can jump into the old Dutch. And they would be, well, no, oh, oh, we didn't do that. It was but it was one rope.

SPEAKER_03 13:00

Yes, yes, yes, yes.

SPEAKER_02 13:01

But they would, and you would jump in. I can sometimes jump, yeah. Yeah, I could pull that off once in a while, but yeah, I was not as coordinated as you need to be for that. But we used to always do it with a hand thing, yeah, to each other, slap and then go back and forth. And then I do remember that there was another Miss Suzy that talked about her son in the bathtub. Yes, tiny tin. Yes. Well, that was some of the stuff was just horrible. Like what was gonna happen.

KERRY 13:31

Do you have the words to some of these written down somewhere? So, like if for those that aren't familiar with Which one do you want? Do the Miss Suzy.

SPEAKER_02 13:39

I got I can still remember.

Reciting Miss Susie Wordplay

SPEAKER_02 13:41

Okay, do it. Miss Susie has a steamboat. Miss Susie has a steamboat, the steamboat had a bell. Miss Suzy went to heaven, the steamboat went to hello, operator. Please give me number nine. And if you disconnect me, I'll kick you from behind the refrigerator. There stood a piece of glass, Miss Susie fell upon it, and broke her little. Ask me no more questions. I'll tell you no more lies. The boys are in the bathroom, pulling down their flies are in the city, the bees are in the park. Miss Susie and her boyfriend are kissing in the dark, dark, dark. Yes, yes, yes.

KERRY 14:10

Good job.

SPEAKER_00 14:12

I'm I'm marveling at how you remember that. That up before?

KERRY 14:15

Is that just always childhood repet repetition ingrained in our brave? In 25 years from now, we won't be able to remember our names, what we had for breakfast, who our husbands are, but by God, we're gonna be able to sing Miss Susie out of steamboat.

SPEAKER_02 14:30

Probably.

SPEAKER_00 14:32

Well, you've certainly committed that to long-term memory.

SPEAKER_02 14:35

So hopefully we can I think the YouTube link that's the way to go out.

KERRY 14:40

Yeah, I think the YouTube link that I sent you was that lady doing the Miss Suzy one. Oh, is it? Okay.

SPEAKER_02 14:48

So um I did have it pulled up. Miss Suzy. Oh, wait, I thought I had this pulled up. Nick, did you look it up? The Miss Suzy thing that well, what are you doing over Susie? You said it. So why do I think that's a good one? No, uh, her origin. I said she was not always Miss Susie. And I have to do that.

SPEAKER_00 15:10

Well, there's one that it's uh it uses the same, I guess, music or melody, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 15:16

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 15:17

Is Miss Lucy had a baby?

SPEAKER_02 15:19

Well, I don't know. Yeah, I think originally her name might have been Miss Lucy, but then somehow it switched over into Miss Suzy. Maybe Lucy just wasn't a popular name. I don't know. No, but do they at least tell you like the country of I mean, these are all American gen, you know, origin from our country here? Or you're my king of Gemini over there, and today you're not on the ball. What the hell's up? What do you think?

SPEAKER_00 15:43

I'm trying to get to so Miss Lucy has been used in the context of literature and art.

SPEAKER_02 15:49

It doesn't say where it started. It's pretty much a 20th century, I think, derived from that time period. But oh yeah, these other ones.

KERRY 15:57

If you look online, you'll see all there's way more words to it, too. Okay, let's look up origin of Miss Suzy. What is what is oh, it's an American folklore. Okay, here we go. The origins of Miss Suzy had a steamboat are rooted in American flo folklore. The nursery mime, also known as Hello Operator, has been a popular in schoolyards for decades, using in clapping games and jumping roads. It's the biggest version to date back in the 1950s with various adaptations.

SPEAKER_02 16:25

Yeah, it's more it's a mid-century 20th century. What's wrong with that?

KERRY 16:31

It's just how it makes you Miss Susie. It's how it's just that words that were like almost swearing.

SPEAKER_02 16:37

Yeah, yes. Okay. You're gonna say something inappropriate, but then you don't.

SPEAKER_00 16:41

Well, because I'm just saying it doesn't compare to ring around the rosy. Yeah, you're talking

Plague Theory Behind Ring Around

SPEAKER_00 16:46

about.

KERRY 16:46

So let's talk about that ring around the rosy. Okay. Because that's the one I think that's all about the bubonic plague or something.

SPEAKER_03 16:54

It is.

KERRY 16:55

So let's see.

SPEAKER_02 16:57

The most infamous theory connects this to the Great Plague of London in 1665. The rosy is the red rash of the infected posies, where the flowers used to mask the smell of death, and ashes to ashes refers to the cremation of the bodies. It's good times.

KERRY 17:17

Good times. And yet And we still teach our children this today.

SPEAKER_02 17:24

Oh, it's such a cute song. Oh yeah. And they do the ring around, they hold hands. I've had my kids do it when they were little on the they do it on the trampoline. They'd hold hands and they'd spin around and then they'd fall down. Yes. Because it was easy to fall down on that without getting hurt. So oh, and then didn't you say what was the three blind mice? I have that.

Three Blind Mice And Bloody Mary

SPEAKER_02 17:46

Yeah. The mice are believed to be three, oh boy, now we're getting into religion. Three Protestant bishops.

KERRY 17:54

I've heard that, yes.

SPEAKER_02 17:55

Huh? Who were burned at the stake for conspiring against the queen. Oh, there's a couple that you told me were from that Queen Mary. Oh, yeah. So how does that go back to Mary there? Three. I don't know that one real good. Three blind mice. Three blind mice. I've heard this.

KERRY 18:15

Three blind mice.

SPEAKER_02 18:16

Yeah.

KERRY 18:17

See how they see how they run? Is that no? Yeah, I thought that's what it was. Okay, here let's let me look up. Three blind mice words. Yeah, you could tell everyone we we really we definitely do this sometimes on we concept it and then we just talk about it. Because that's I knew I had Miss Susie down. That's all I knew. It's an English nursery rhyme. Yes. It's in in a you you this is one of those that you would sing at camp because you would do it in a round, you know, like you one person starts and then two verses later another person starts. But three blind mice.

unknown 18:53

Three blind mice.

KERRY 18:54

Oh, this is it's not the American word. The original lyrics would I don't understand the original marriage, so I don't it's like Dom, Elion, Dom Elion, the middle, and his very old voice. Yeah, so her trip like through the. What is it, Latin? Yeah, I don't know. Well, English, so old school older in English.

SPEAKER_02 19:15

But yeah, so that one, and then there was the other one that I think had something to do with Queen Mary. You told me there was a second one, Nick, that was about Queen Mary. There were two yesterday.

KERRY 19:30

Yeah, here is three blind mice, three blind mice, see how they run, see how they run. They all ran after the farmer's wife who cut off their tails with a carving knife. Did you ever see such a sight in your life as three blind mice? That's the song.

SPEAKER_02 19:47

That's all for I don't think I ever got past the point where they ran. And then I think it was this Mary Mary quite contrary that also has to do with Queen Mary. Yes. Yeah. Frequently attributed to Queen Mary, Bloody Mary, as she was known by her friends. Uh, a devout Catholic who was executed, who executed hundreds of Protestants. Oh, is that her claim to fame? Yes. Okay, yeah, yes.

SPEAKER_00 20:17

She's a Mary Queen of Scots. Mary Queen of Scots. Not Mary.

SPEAKER_02 20:20

Yes. Lovely. Now I thought I saw something. It's about a canon. Humpty Dumpty was not about an egg on a wall. It was about a canon. It was about a canon. Yeah. So we never see pictures of a cannon in our books. We always see some dopey egg dressed up ridiculously, don't we? With no pants. With a crack. No pants on. The winny of the poo in it. So what the what war was this about? The English Civil War. Okay. Well, wonderful. And the cannon broke.

KERRY 20:59

Yeah. Is that what it's telling you? Yes. Okay. They couldn't put them back together again. So yes, a lot of these children. All right. So, all right. So back in the day, the people were surrounded by death and war. So they created these childhood songs. So

Making A Modern COVID Nursery Rhyme

KERRY 21:15

if you take this to modern times, what's the COVID song? You know, like, okay. Yeah, you know what I'm saying? Like, where's our COVID nursery rhyme that talks about, you know, the world came to us up and we all had to wear our mask and COVID.

SPEAKER_02 21:34

Yeah, my song is Where's My Mask? Where did I leave my mask? Does anybody see my mask? That's do we really need to go to the store? I love Instacart. I love Instacart delivery. We can make a lot of good stuff out of that one.

SPEAKER_00 21:54

Yes, yes. Put the stuff in my trunk. Put the stuff in.

SPEAKER_02 22:00

No contact, no contact, no contact.

KERRY 22:06

To the right, to the right, move sixty to the right, to the left, to the left, move sixty to the left.

SPEAKER_02 22:15

Where is the hand sanitizer? Oh my god, no toilet paper.

KERRY 22:19

What happened to the toilet paper? Oh, that would be the nursery rhyme. Like we went into the woods and we got plants because there's no toilet paper. We had to improvise.

SPEAKER_02 22:30

Wonder what my neighbors are wiping their butt with today because there was no toilet paper. And I'm sitting at home with nothing better to do but wonder what my neighbor's thinking about wiping his butt with. Yeah. So these all seem to be derived from, like you said, war and famine and plagues. So yeah.

SPEAKER_00 22:55

I just want to know what the impetus was for children to sing these things. They're very dark.

SPEAKER_02 23:02

Something about making them take their mind off of the horror, maybe to try and make it so children aren't walking around in fear constantly.

SPEAKER_00 23:11

How about some less dark lyrics? Think about something else. I mean, you put current events and they try to sanitize it and they put it in these nursery rooms.

SPEAKER_02 23:19

Well, look at the time period we're talking about. Yeah, I know. I don't think that unfortunately the population then had the key, they didn't process their thinking that way.

unknown 23:28

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 23:29

They were dealing with some pretty bad stuff, and they didn't have like their phones to look at. I distract them. So they're probably just like, you know, just let the kids. Yeah. Why is there a bunch of fires and it looks like Uncle Ted's on the fire over there? Let's make a lighter about it. We'll just do like a little rhyme about it, make them think it's okay. So we'll sing, you know, ring around the rosy. Okay. So they can do a dance.

Word Of The Day Impetus

KERRY 23:56

Before we get any farther, I have to ask. Okay, we have a word of the day. Nick said, I want to know what the impotence is. So the word of the day is impotence. Would you please spell that for me, please?

SPEAKER_00 24:10

I am P-E-T-U-S, impetus.

KERRY 24:12

Oh, impetus. Okay. I'm like going, I knew what you were saying, but what I was hearing videos. That sounds like a whole nother nurse for we can count on Nick to give us words.

SPEAKER_00 24:26

That sounds like the so that we've already used it in a sentence, though. Oh it just means the moving force, the impulse, the stimulus. What was the motivating thing to do that? And you guys kind of answered that for me.

KERRY 24:39

I'm still you know everybody was dying. Yeah. Yes. As Nick said, the move the force that makes something happen to happen were to happen more quickly. Whoa, I almost fell off my stool.

SPEAKER_00 24:50

So impetus is your word for the day. I'm glad I could supply it. Not to be confused with impotence.

SPEAKER_02 24:59

Let's try and keep the distinction there.

SPEAKER_00 25:02

Yeah, that's there's no motivating force there, right? Bethlehem of that.

KERRY 25:08

Well, like actually, there is a motivating force that just is not effective. So anyways, though, that was good. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 25:18

Viagra.

SPEAKER_02 25:19

Yes. Um now we're gonna get into something funny towards the end of our our time together. This is

Counting Out Rhymes And Being Picked

SPEAKER_02 25:25

another thing I didn't understand. Remember when you had more than two people together to play some stupid game or pick a tea for some stupid game? We could never just pick. We had to do these ridiculous, no more stupid sayings. Yes. Bubblegum bubblegum in a dish. How many pieces do you wish? Then somebody say four. And then you get one, two, three, four. And you are the one that I do not choose. Or you would say, I do choose. Right. Do you remember doing all this crazy?

KERRY 25:57

Red Rover, Red Rover, let so and so come over.

SPEAKER_02 26:01

Oh, well, we're gonna get into that. Okay, that's a game we're gonna talk about. Yes. But this was just trying to get to play the game.

KERRY 26:08

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

SPEAKER_02 26:10

In the eny meeny miny mo, catch uh something by its toe. Always something by itself, catch a pig, a tiger. I heard that one.

SPEAKER_00 26:22

What so they'll be in it? This is very timely. You're talking about this because the NFL draft is today.

SPEAKER_02 26:28

So is that how they pick is that how they pick their players?

SPEAKER_00 26:31

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 26:33

I don't think so. I hope not. What am I wasting my time for all those months with you yelling at the TV? So, yeah, the eny meeny miny mo. I I just I always thought that was funny. It's like, what the hell's wrong with us? Can't we just pick? Yeah, I want Joe, I want Tanya, I want this, I want why are we doing all this? And then you feel really crappy when you they don't even pick you from that.

KERRY 26:56

And then then you would get the smart ass one who realized that when they were doing the song correctly, that it was gonna land on the person they didn't want. So they would add some extra words in so that until they got to what they wanted. I was never what they wanted, I was usually the last one.

SPEAKER_02 27:14

It depended on the game. If the game was aggressive and violent, I was usually picked for but if we took the jump rope thing, I was last. They're like, don't pick Chrissy, she's can't she can't jump in, she can't do it for long.

SPEAKER_00 27:28

I'm not surprised on both accounts.

SPEAKER_02 27:31

Thank you. Yeah, we used to do floor hockey at my grade school in the gymnasium, and I loved floor hockey because I got a weapon on top of everything else. I had a stick now, and I used to always get picked first for floor hockey. Yeah, football and basketball, not so much. Yeah.

KERRY 27:50

If it was if it was a competition, if it was a schoolyard pick because you really wanted to win, I would have been higher up on the pecking order. Never first, but higher up. But if it was a popularity, like if you were just at recess and you're just playing games and they just wanted to be with their friends, yeah, I was the last pick.

SPEAKER_02 28:11

Here's what tells you. No, I'm I'm with you. I'm there. Yeah. The other thing that's funny is you would think so they would choose you sometimes as you were the captain and you had to do the pick. Yes. So why is it that us, me, I'm talking about me now, as a jerk, you would think, okay, my fellow people who aren't picked first.

KERRY 28:34

You would have picked them first.

SPEAKER_02 28:35

You should think that being nice, like by today's standard, they would encourage kids, okay, now you're the head of it. Pick the people that you know you feel bad because you're left out with them. Yeah, not at all. So pick them first and give them a chance. No, I still picked all the people who I knew was gonna be. Right, because you were playing.

KERRY 28:54

You had to pick some of the good players to save your soul, you know, because you were gonna get pelted with balls or getting your, you know, whatever beat because you didn't you didn't have some strong players, you know. Survival of the fittest.

SPEAKER_02 29:07

Absolutely. So, well, yeah. So when your kids or your grandkids are out there doing their nursery rhymes or they're doing the eny meeny miny mo or bubblegum bubblegum in a dish, you now you know a little bit. Although I'm sure some of these people, some of this stuff's pretty well known, but it just cracks me up all these things we used to say and how inappropriate they were. Like I needed anything extra to say that was inappropriate.

KERRY 29:32

I will find the YouTube link for the the I Want a Man song. So that way you guys can listen to that and and hear that whole thing. Because it is, yeah, it goes from like we're gonna get hot to when the damage is done, we're gonna have some chow this fun. I mean, it just it goes down the whole dating sex the birth spectrum.

SPEAKER_02 29:54

So I am looking forward to this. So yes, please send that. Oh my. Well,

Autism Support And Closing

SPEAKER_02 30:05

so yeah, so we're wrapping up the month of April.

KERRY 30:10

But we are still supporting autism because it is still the month of April, and our junkies care initiative is supporting local or local, national, worldwide organization that does great work. And being that April is autism awareness month, we have chosen the autism society in Akron and Greater. Okay, I always mess this up. The Greater Akron.

SPEAKER_02 30:34

The Autism Society Greater Akron. Is it is it greater? Greater Akron.

KERRY 30:39

Oh, yeah, we suck.

SPEAKER_02 30:41

I know. Well, because we want to say greater. We think Akron's great. Why not? A lot of good things come out of Akron. Yeah. So any autism society, they're all they're all over and they do wonderful things. They provide a lot of information for families, support for families, programs. Just a great resource for anybody who has questions or needs some help or doesn't know where to get started. Yeah. So we highly recommend looking into that in your area, or if you're over here where I am in northeast Ohio, that society will be more than happy to answer. Absolutely. All right, everybody.

KERRY 31:17

Have a great week, and we'll see you next week. Bye, everybody.