A Wet Boot And Bare Foot Bus Ride Turns Into A Lesson On Public Manners

A packed shuttle in Zion National Park is not the place to turn your river-soaked hiking shoes into a personal rinse station, but that’s exactly what happens to us and it kicks off one of those stories you can’t believe until you see it. Simultaneously, Parents are discussing wills and guardianship on the bus… while this dude’s wet boots and bare feet are inches away. If you’ve ever felt trapped in a shared space with someone else’s zero self-awareness, you’ll feel this episode in your bones.

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Transcript

Welcome And Overpeopling Begins

SPEAKER_00 0:07

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

SPEAKER_02 0:22

Hi Junkies, I'm Carrie, and I'm telling you, I have seen enough.

SPEAKER_01 0:30

I'm Christy, and I'm going to tell you that for this show, Carrie has definitely seen.

SPEAKER_02 0:40

I don't even know where to begin. Here we go. I'm a little bit overpeopling. I'm just gonna say that. I'm overpeopling.

SPEAKER_01 0:52

To begin in the first place. That's ridiculous.

SPEAKER_02 0:56

So we moved here to beautiful St. George, Utah. Is that even a real place at this point? I don't even know. It is. So Zion National Park. Okay. Zion National Park is practically in our backyard. Okay. And um, I don't know why my camera suddenly zoomed in on me. I don't know, but in any case.

SPEAKER_01 1:17

It knows this is very important.

SPEAKER_02 1:19

It knows. So, anyways, so Zion National Park is practically in our backyard.

Why Zion Feels Overrun

SPEAKER_02 1:25

Number two visited national park in all of the United States. It's gorgeous, it's becoming very popular. Just amazing, amazing place. Jim and I used to go here all the time when we lived in Las Vegas area. And so we wanted to go back and just enjoy the beauty. And we get there and people happen. And it people can be a beautiful thing. Oh, oh! So when you get to Zion, there's no cars allowed, and they have buses, okay? Because it's they're they're trying to preserve the beauty, and as and there's so many people are coming to visit there. Now we but e-bikes and bikes are allowed, and that's like was a whole nother thing. But I want to talk about the man on the bus. So we there's this this stretch of canyon, and you can go all the way up to the top and back on the bus. But at the very top of the canyon, there's a place called the Narrows, and that is it's a a hike that I have yet to do. I desperately want to do it. But after this weekend, we were up there. I I don't know if I can do it because I think I I think I'll be annoyed the whole time at people. But the narrows, you have to cut you have to wade in the river that cuts into this canyon, and it's just beautiful. You're at the bottom of this canyon with this, you know, the Virgin River running through, and it's beautiful hike, but but there's water, a lot of water involved. So the people that go on this hike, they rent these waders, so they got their waders on, and they got their water shoes and they got their hiking poles because it is it's a strenuous trip. I think you can go like nine or 13 miles up this river through this very small, you know, carving out. So, anyways, so when you're on the bus, you've got the people going up to get up there, and then you have the people coming back. Well, most people before they get on the bus will disembark their waiting materials, they'll take the the waiters off, they'll empty their soaking wet shoes outside before they get on the bus. Not this guy.

The Man Who Drains His Shoes

SPEAKER_02 3:55

No, no, no, not this guy. Now, mind you, these buses can be packed. There are seats, you can sit down and you're like facing each other, like a city bus, kind of, you know, you kind of face each other, but then when there's too many people, then you got people standing, you know, standing and it's tight. So your your knees and elbows and things are touching. I gotta I gotta show you a picture. This man thought it would be perfectly okay once he got on the bus to start taking his shoes off and emptying the water. Like literally, water was pouring out of the shoes like a waterfall, running down while you while on the bus on the bus. Then he decided just gonna let the feet air out. But where we were particularly sitting on the bus, which I strategically sat here to have the most the least amount of people by me. We were like where the wheel is, so you're kind of like up a little bit, and people can't get kind of next to you, and you got a little bit, but but you're facing each other, and so there's just barely enough room for a person to walk in between your knees and the guy across from you, and this is what I'm staring at. You see that? You see those feet? It's a beautiful thing. See the water on the floor, yes. I'm sitting there going, there's crusty old feet in front of me. They're they're like right there. Air it out, and this is a long bus ride. It's not short. How long? I don't know. Like by the time you do the 10 stops from the top at Temple of Sinawana until then you get down to the bottom and you got 10 stops. I don't know. Half hour, and so then people are having to get on and off, and they have to walk by this guy and his feet, and their little calves are bumping and they're having to step around because they don't want his toenail fungus to get on his on their legs, and then at one point now was he the only person airing out his feet?

SPEAKER_01 6:22

Yes, nobody else was doing that, yes, okay, and he sat in front of me. He did that's where I would sit if I wanted to air out my feet, right in front of you.

SPEAKER_02 6:36

I'm watching these poor people walk by and trying to avoid because they got shorts on, it's hot here, they're hiking, and they're trying not to let his skanky feet touch their legs or his toe no, god forbid, slice their calves open.

SPEAKER_01 6:55

And you know what you should have done? You should have every time somebody walked by, you should have said, Oh, watch your feet. Oh, watch oh, scanky. Oh, don't get too close. There's feet over there. Beware of the feet. Watch your feet, there's feet over there. I would have been like, remember that for next time. It sounds like this is gonna happen again.

SPEAKER_02 7:14

So, no, what I did do though is I was taking videos and pictures and texting you going, oh my god, Chrissy, we have contact for the episode this week.

SPEAKER_01 7:23

Yeah, she sends me feet, and I'm just like, Well, somebody's taking an awful lot of their feet. What the hell are you sending me somebody's feet for?

SPEAKER_02 7:31

And and then I was desperately trying to find. There was a sign somewhere that said you had to have your shoes, your shirt, like you had to have basically your freaking clothes on to ride this bus, you know? And I couldn't find it where I was sitting at. I was desperate. I was like, kept looking, like, where's the sign? Because I was gonna point to him and go, sign, but I couldn't find it. So, so, anyways, now as we're making our does that matter to anybody wearing anything. I know.

SPEAKER_01 8:02

It's a complete nightmare out there now. It is pajamas, exactly shoes.

SPEAKER_02 8:08

I'd rather, I'd rather deal. I will never I will never talk bad about the pajama people again because they have been trumped by the no-shoe stanky feet guy that was just draping in the Virgin River.

SPEAKER_01 8:19

Right. They are at least wearing something.

SPEAKER_02 8:21

He's covered, yes. So, okay, so by the time we get every time every we're coming down the mountain, everyone's trying to leave the park. So every stop, more people, more people, more people. Now it's standing room only. There's three people basically crammed in this little leg space, and this guy's just sitting there with his feet, just and he's sitting there proud, he's just sitting there like I looked at Jim.

SPEAKER_01 8:50

How old of a person would you say this is? Just out of curiosity.

SPEAKER_02 8:56

65 to 70. RA 65 to 70. Oh, maybe so old is he might have been a road hard put away wet 56, 7, but 65-70. Okay. Just prouder than shit of himself because he did this narrows hike. So, anyways, I looked at Jim, and Jim's so funny because he knows me so well now, and he's like, content, because that's our code word. Anytime something great happens out in public that I know is gonna be great for the show, I'm always like, content, and I get my phone out and I'm taking notes, you know. This was more like content, you know. I was just like dying about it. So as we're making our way down the mountain, the bus is getting fuller. This family comes on. So there's this father, I don't know, late 40s, mid-40s, 10-year-old, 12-year-old son, eight, 10-year-old other son. I think they were with maybe like a brother or sister-in-law or a sister and brother-in-law. You know, they had this little, they were from Las Vegas and they were came up to here for the weekend, little getaway, you know. So, anyways, they're standing now between. They're they're my buffer to the feet guy, okay? But all I could do was stare at this guy's feet, watching to see, oh my god, this poor little 12-year-old boy in front of me is gonna have some skanky guy's fungus on his kneecaps because you know, they're exposed here. So, anyways, I start realizing the conversation that this family was having. And I was so funny because I didn't know whether I wanted to like love him because of the conversation or be like, is that really appropriate right now? So, what was the conversation? The conversation was that apparently the dad and the mom, the wife who was over down a couple people, she she probably saw the foot guy and was like, Oh hell no, I'm not standing there. She she was like at the front of the bus by the bus driver, practically sitting on the windshield to get away from the foot guy. So,

A Family Talks Wills On Transit

SPEAKER_02 11:10

anyways, he's like on the top of the bus thing. Yeah, like I'm not, you know, I'm out. So, anyways, the father was talking to the sons about, you know, your mom and I went and made sure that we had all the paperwork done, you know, that if anything happens to us, and he mentioned the people that they were with who I think was maybe like a brother or a sister or something like that, they would they would be the ones to take care of you. And of course, okay, so beautiful. Wait a minute.

SPEAKER_01 11:39

This is if something catastrophic happens to us, we took care of it for you. Right, nice flipping getaway.

SPEAKER_02 11:47

So I'm not really sure what prompted this conversation. Now, part of me thought maybe it was because unfortunately at Zion they did have a death that weekend, or like two days before, because one of the most beautiful trails there is the Angel's Landing Trail, which they had to do a lottery for people to do it because people are so dysfunctional. They were too many people. And literally on this trail, it's like 1200-foot drop-off one side, thousand-foot drop-off with only three feet in between and a little chain you hold on to when you're you're doing this part of this trail. Okay. Well, unfortunately, sadly, someone had fell off and died. So I don't know if maybe the precipice of this conversation was because maybe they were hiking and they were talking about this. And so the dad maybe thought, must have thought this is a great opportunity to tell my kids, hey, but if anything happened to us, it's okay. We've got you covered, we've done some planning that if anything happened to mom and I, they're gonna take care of you and you'll be okay. And I'm thinking, like, so finally I'm in this juxtaposition of we talked about this on our episodes about being prepared, and we just talked about this a few weeks ago. So I was so excited that yay, this guy and his wife did it. But at the same time, I'm like, but why are you having this conversation on a bus with nasty foot guy literally rubbing his toes on your son's kneecaps at this point on a beautiful day that you just spent with your family? And so I was like, so finally the dad, the kid starts asking questions, and of course, the kid you could tell was trying to process this, and so finally he goes, So, in other words, if anything happens to you, we'll be rich, you know. Like, and I'm like, God bless that little kid. He can't process what the parents are saying, so he's his little brain is just trying to find something good because this is a very morbid conversation. And I looked at the dad at that point and I said, I want to thank you for having this conversation with your family. And I said, and I'm not I'm not making fun of your conversation. I am seriously, I appreciate it. I said, Not quite sure now is the right time to bring it up, but and I told him we have a podcast, we talk about this and everything. And so, so there he was like, Yeah, it was really hard. So we kind of like broke up the conversation, but then the they said something about so the brother-in-law or whatever said, What about the cat? And I go, Oh, you have pets? And he goes, Yeah, my wife has three cats. And I went, Did you put them in the will? Did you did you when you were doing this planning? Did you do this? Because we just talked about this a few episodes ago. And he goes, No. And I went, forget it. I was happy for you. No, I'm not. I said, You got you gotta go back.

SPEAKER_03 14:34

You gotta go back.

SPEAKER_02 14:36

You you you didn't finish the job. You gotta make you gotta make arrangements for the cats, you know. So, anyways, gave him our uh our our magnet, told him, Hey, please pay attention because yeah, you're definitely gonna be on the episode. I don't

Kids Today Versus Old School Parents

SPEAKER_02 14:50

know if the guy with the feet was paying attention to this, but if he was and he's listening, dude, don't rinse out your feet on the public bus.

SPEAKER_01 15:02

We got three points for this, real quick. Yes, please. One, why the hell are you putting yourself through any kind of trip like this? Just stay home. This sounds terrible. Even if you didn't run into this guy with his nasty ass feet, what the hell are you going anywhere where there's a flipping thousand plus feet drop off on one side, flap the other side? You got a rinky dink flipping dog bleashane or something that you're supposed to hold on to. Obviously, somebody already, unfortunately, that's terrifying. Somebody passed away already once, fell down, fell down, fell gone. And then you have people discussing that they've made out their will and the kids will be taken care of. Not the cats, but the kids. This sounds like a flipping dream. I tell you, I can't wait till I can never go on this trip. I've never going on this. Parents today, hilarious. They're all about, oh, if something happens to me, you're taken care of. I can tell you, I probably heard something to this effect from not my mother, but my father. Uh, if he was trying to guilt me into not going somewhere because he knew I was probably gonna get into nothing but trouble. He used to say, before you go out the door, did you clean your room in case something happens to you? Because he's I'm not gonna clean your room if you never come back.

unknown 16:26

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 16:27

So that was the kind of talk I got. These parents are like, oh, I took care of you. If something happens to me and my father, if something happens to you, I'm not cleaning your damn room. So you better hope there's nothing in there. Because somebody's gonna find it. Because I know you're going somewhere bad.

SPEAKER_02 16:42

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_01 16:43

And here's my third thing. I have a foot story. Oh it's a it's oh, it's just as bad. It's just as bad. How can I do this? I need to take a picture though, because I was just so freaked

Barefoot At The Orthodontist

SPEAKER_01 16:55

out. Because I this was at a doctor's office.

SPEAKER_02 16:58

And it was not a foot doctor office.

SPEAKER_01 17:02

No, it was a teeth person. A dentist office.

SPEAKER_00 17:08

Orthodonis.

SPEAKER_01 17:10

What? Alright. What? I wasn't gonna I was gonna try and keep it generic. I took my daughter for her appointment. Beautiful office. Yeah. It's no joke. It's a gorgeous brand new building. They got a coffee bar, they had everything. It's a beautiful office. I'm sitting there waiting for my kid, and these people walk in uh of a specific type of background, uh, as far as whatever, to take into account where I live and the kind of culture that maybe is close by. Okay. And but this is this is no excuse. I know everybody has uh things that they could wear on their feet. I didn't understand this at all, and it just freaked me out. So the young person walked in, um, and they went back to one of the rooms to get their examination, nothing on their feet at all. Completely barefoot. Completely barefoot.

SPEAKER_00 18:07

What happened to no shirt, no shoes, no service?

SPEAKER_01 18:11

The person that was taking them back to the room is just like, oh yes, let's get to your appointment. And her bottom of her feet were flipping black as hell. If I wouldn't have really looked, I would have said, maybe those are shoes, but they are the crazy looking shoes I've ever seen in my life. And I had to do a total. So then, of course, my poor daughter, she comes out of her appointment, and I'm like, You don't even want to know what I just witnessed. I'm never bringing you back here again. I said, Next time you have an appointment, your father's bringing you. I cannot tolerate this. I had to sit here and keep my mouth shut, which you know for me is a nightmare. And I'm like, and then when I was walking out, I'm like, I've got shoes on, and yet I feel dirty walking in the same place with Christmas.

SPEAKER_02 18:53

Yes.

SPEAKER_01 18:54

Trying to figure out the route they took so I could not take that route. I'm just like people.

SPEAKER_00 19:01

The phone call I got was hilarious.

SPEAKER_01 19:04

I'm sure it was.

SPEAKER_00 19:06

It was probably when she has an orthodontist appointment. You're taking her. You're taking her.

SPEAKER_02 19:13

I can't believe you didn't say something to the receptionist or whatever. Like do you not have do you not have a shoe policy?

SPEAKER_01 19:25

No, because again, with the type of the the the fam, the type of nice, I'm sure she was a nice young girl.

SPEAKER_02 19:33

So you think it was a cultural thing that why they were barefoot?

SPEAKER_01 19:37

No, no, no. I just didn't know what was going on. Okay. I really am not upset with the child who didn't. Well, of course not. It's not the child's fault. No. But just the whoever is supervising the poor child, maybe help them. And it's not even that I'm offended at how it looks. I've seen bare feet before, okay. I'm not freaked out. I know, but you just don't I was worried.

SPEAKER_02 20:02

What if you step on your you're in a doctor's office? Whether it's whatever kind of doctor it is, they all have needles or something. It was lovely, but you never know what's on the floor.

SPEAKER_01 20:13

For God's sake. So no, I mean, I'm trying to, so it was just it was a little bit much for me. And no, I've gotten better. I take medication for that much, you know. Well, I really do try to hold it in until I can't hold it in anymore. So give me a little credit that day, because boy, I tell you.

SPEAKER_02 20:34

Well, I will say

Trail Crowds And Angel’s Landing Risk

SPEAKER_02 20:35

that the trip that we took, by the time we got, because there were so many other things that happened too that just people were driving me nuts that day. I don't know why. I don't, I don't know. Maybe I was having a bad day, maybe I was emotional. I I don't know. Maybe it was just it was just too many people. I went from my little bubble here in this beautiful little community that I don't have to people much to mass exposure. It I might have just been an overload, but but you know, you're on these trails and people like, oh, they're just gonna stop in the middle of the trail. Just stop. Because they wanna then you you're the one that falls down the side. Well, it's the whole reason why they had to do this. Because but you know, this this trail, we we used to hike it. We we did not do it this time. We didn't, you know, we probably I I probab uh I could see maybe one more time doing it, but we used to do it every time we went up to her before there was this lottery. And there was a lot of people that would go, but they wouldn't want to be patient for the person who is like paralyzed with fear because you know, 13, 1200 foot drop offs or whatever. And so they would try to go around you, and and that is exactly why people have fallen to their death because of that. So they made this lottery to reduce the amount of people up there, so you know, but it still accidents happen, and it could have it could have not been a fault of anybody else. Could it just be an accident? But my guess is yeah, probably, you know, somebody was not being patient and tried to go around or whatever. But but yeah, so even on the flat trail.

SPEAKER_01 22:09

Is there um is there just no way to have a safer route? What what are you trying to achieve? Oh, the view, it's just doing this.

SPEAKER_02 22:18

It's just a majestic view to get to this pinnacle of this one place. But yeah, it's like the Everest of the West, I guess. I don't know. People just, you know, you want to do it. So I will say Jim had a really cool experience one time when we went there and we got to this very top of it, and he laid down and he looked over the edge because it is, it's it's like a sheer rock cliff is going on over there with you too.

SPEAKER_01 22:46

I did not know what the hell is going on.

SPEAKER_02 22:49

The cool thing was when he looked over the edge, he was basically staring eye to eye to this condor that was like had a nest like right over the edge. So, I mean, it's just it's magnificent. I thought you were gonna say he saw feet. Well, he wouldn't have seen them long because they would have been quickly falling to the ground. But but in any case, so yeah, we're on this path. Or pack his face off. Why would you stick your face over a cliff and see what's going on? He didn't know there would be a condor over there when he looked. He just wanted to look down the cliff. But so, but anyways, teach him a good lesson. Don't do that again, Jesus God. But on the flat trails, you know, at the bottom where you know people were walking, yeah, people Where where I would be. Yeah, yeah. Exactly. Well, but then people would just stop, just stop. And oh okay, yeah, sure. Or they would go three or four wide. Well, four to five wide is as many people that's gonna fit on the width of this trail. So common sense, traffic, traffic, you know, so too wide, too wide, you know, or whatever what wherever you're from, even if you're going the other direction, you know. But but no, they would and so like when people would try to do that, I would just stand still. I'd make them go around me. I'm like, I'm you're in my I'm in my lane, you need to move over. So so by the end of it, I was just so we get down to where our car was at, and we were hungry, wanted lunch, and we found this real quiet spot at the back of the one center, the museum that they had there, and we sat on this bench and it was so peaceful. And I'm like, this was the best part of the whole trip because there was no people around, and you just saw the beautiful mountains and everything. I'm like, yeah, next time let's just go have lunch behind that thing and not do that. So, but yeah, it was people, people, man. So they ruin everything. Yes, they do, they do. So so yeah, I had a whole bunch more to talk about, but I see we're you know quite into this. Maybe we'll save my other peopling for uh a part two episode.

SPEAKER_01 25:01

Oh, I'm sure, yes, okay. Because you've solved some of my notes. I mean, I'm sorry. Yes, I saw your notes, and I'm I'm sorry, but from what you've told me here, there was no way we were gonna be able to this has got way too many layers to it. I had to understand, and I still don't understand as far as your motivation.

SPEAKER_02 25:25

It's a beautiful, beautiful place.

SPEAKER_01 25:27

I'm sitting here trying to w I'm trying to think in my soul, is there anything that I want to see that bad where I might have to say, kids, I'm gonna go look at this view. You may never see me again.

SPEAKER_02 25:44

But my will's made out, so you're good.

SPEAKER_01 25:47

But I think I got you guys squared away, so goodbye. See you later. Maybe, I don't know.

SPEAKER_02 25:56

Oh wow. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 25:57

Well you have lived away. I do not remember when we were hanging out 36 whatever years, 37 years ago. I wasn't with you, and I was thinking maybe one day she's gonna climb a mountain where she could fall off and die. I just never saw me. I love her with a condor, that's how high up we are. And then maybe your husband will get killed by a condor because he accidentally popped in on the nest and said, Hey, how you doing? Yeah. Wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So makes me realize I totally didn't really know anybody ever. Never. Well I think I know my husband. That's it.

SPEAKER_02 26:43

We definitely decided notice I said thank. We definitely decided that we are going to wait until we get our e-bikes before we go back up to Zion. At least going up there to the canyon, so we don't have to take the bus. That way we can we have a little more freedom, a little bit more. Although, like I said, the bikes that's a whole nother story, but

E-Bikes And Timing Trips Smarter

SPEAKER_02 27:05

yeah, we're gonna we're gonna try that. And it's also we'll go there when it's cold because there's less people there then. So yeah, it's cold, but less people.

SPEAKER_01 27:15

So it's cold, which probably impairs your judgment. I know I can't think straight. And there's less people, so when you do fall down a thousand feet, nobody's gonna give a shit anyhow, because nobody's there to call anybody to help you. We think somebody just fell down the side of this hill.

unknown 27:36

Nobody's there.

SPEAKER_02 27:37

There you go.

SPEAKER_01 27:37

You can hear your echo very clear as you scream falling. Please yodel on your way to go. Thank you.

SPEAKER_02 27:51

Oh, I knew you would enjoy this one. So, so yeah.

SPEAKER_01 27:56

You enjoy hearing about it, but not thinking about doing it. Yeah, God bless you, Katie. I know, God, you're I'm sorry, I didn't mean to infringe, but you're not. Bless you. Oh, it's okay. Quite alright. So somebody's looking over you, maybe that condor or something the next time you go. Well, we were gonna say I'm gonna try to make a friend there. Were you gonna say something, Nick? No, no, he says he I'm sorry, he's not. If there is anybody in this duo that's even less adventurous than me, it's that one over there. I think, I don't know, maybe.

SPEAKER_00 28:41

Well, I look forward to the even as adventurous as you. I you know me, I don't do heights anyhow. I don't think I'd want to be up that high. Nope. There's no way.

SPEAKER_01 28:51

No, so I love this one. This is a good one.

SPEAKER_02 28:56

And it's in and honestly, like I said, we're gonna have to do part two next week or something because I got more. That's why that was just you.

SPEAKER_01 29:04

Yes,

Gratitude And Global Listener Shoutouts

SPEAKER_01 29:05

you do. So and I'm sure it's gonna be just as good.

SPEAKER_02 29:09

But I do want to take a moment to be say some things I'm thankful for. So, one, thankful for the guy on the bus who was trying to do the right thing with his kids and you know, had do this pre-planning. Thankful for uh the windows on the bus that allowed good ventilation that day. So thank you for my husband for being so patient with me as I was breaching my my peopling meter, was there, but also extremely thankful for everyone who listens to our show. So we mentioned last episode that we've had a big growth, we're in 73 countries now. So Chrissy and I were gonna go over some more new cities and countries.

SPEAKER_01 29:53

I got so flipping crazy about the story, Carrie. Carrie Go. Okay, I'll go.

SPEAKER_02 29:59

I'm just I'm gonna rattle them off so I make sure that we we hit everybody. So we now have I haven't pulled up, but let me go ahead. We have Angola, Armenia, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Bosnia, and Herzov Herzegovina, Botswana, Georgia, not the state, the country, Georgia, Indonesia, Jordan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Mali, Nepal. Speaking of mountains, Nepal, they're gonna love this episode, I'm sure. They probably got a shitload of things to talk about similar to this one.

SPEAKER_01 30:39

Netherlands, they probably don't think much of your thousand feet drop-off.

SPEAKER_02 30:44

Well, no, those people don't drop anywhere, they just drop dead and freeze, and everyone has to hike over them.

SPEAKER_01 30:49

So Nicaragua.

SPEAKER_02 30:54

Nicaragua, Nigeria, Palestine, Paraguay, Romania, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Syrian Arab Republic, Thailand, Uzbekistan, and Venezuela. So thank you to everybody in the over 400 cities, 73 countries, 37 states across the world that sits here and listens to us every week. We greatly, greatly appreciate. We thank all of you, and we hope you keep enjoying as much as we enjoy sitting here doing these little episodes.

SPEAKER_01 31:32

So, yes, very much. I learned a lot about Harry during these shows, that's for sure. We also would like to talk

Lupus Awareness And Helpful Resources

SPEAKER_01 31:40

about our junkies care initiative this month. Absolutely, right? Yes, yes, let everybody know what's going on with that. Yes, so uh we're talking about lupus and lupus awareness. Yes, lupus, so and give us the website and all that information that's good for people to go to.

SPEAKER_02 31:57

Exactly. So if you don't know anything about lupus, it's an unpredictable autoimmune disease, no known cause to what how do you you contract it, although they do know it's not contagious, it affects your kidneys, your skins, your heart, and lungs. There is no single test. It often takes people six to eight years to get diagnosed and no cure, but there are some great medications that help mitigate the symptoms. So, as a lupus warrior myself, very familiar with this, but I tell you what, going to the lupus.org website through the lupus foundation of America, even me, this is a disease I have. I've been learning a lot of things, just a really a great website, wealth of information. So if you know anybody that has lupus and you want to be able to understand your friend or family member a little bit better, I highly encourage you go to their website. They have these really easy quizzes that you can take that are very informative and you will learn a lot, and it might help you understand your your friend or family better, member better, know what they're going through. So, lupus.org, lupus awareness month is the month of May. Wear purple to support them. So that is pretty much everything I have right now. So well, oh what?

SPEAKER_01 33:13

You he's over here, but what's the matter?

SPEAKER_00 33:15

No, I'm thankful today, too. I'm thankful that guy took his boots off on the bus because we don't have a really good episode today. Yeah, today's good one.

SPEAKER_01 33:27

I now you I think you're doubting our capabilities. But I don't know that I'm thankful for everybody out there walking around without shoes. Yeah, right.

SPEAKER_02 33:40

So yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:41

Okay, fine. Thank you to the barefoot guy.

SPEAKER_02 33:44

The barefoot guy on the bus, yes. Uh but so hey, if anyways, we

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SPEAKER_02 33:50

definitely encourage all of you to check out our website, uh dysfunction Junkies Podcast.com. Go to our Facebook page, go to our Instagram. We want to hear your stories. Tell me why you're over, people. Tell me what you've seen out in public, and who knows, Chrissy and I may be able to relate, and it might be the topic of our next episode. So please check that out. But otherwise, thank you so much, and we'll see you next week. Bye, everybody. Keep your shoes on, please. Shoes on.