Ep 7: Life Lessons Amidst Holiday Hustle

Ever wondered what the unfiltered and raw truth behind the festive season chaos looks like? Well, wonder no more. Join me, Charlie Shanta, as I navigate through the holiday madness, share my shopping tales (no spoilers for my little listeners though!) and reflect on the tranquility of a mellow Thanksgiving. The holiday season is a rollercoaster, and I'm here to share the ride.

But it's more than just holiday chatter. This episode also brings to the forefront some real-life issues I've recently faced. The struggles of securing educational accommodations for my son and dealing with an uncooperative teacher are just the tip of the iceberg. It's been a tough journey, but through it all, the lesson remains - teaching our children to advocate for themselves is crucial. This is parenthood, this is life, and this is the Gag Is podcast. Buckle up for a heartwarming episode filled with real talk and raw emotions.

Transcript

Speaker 1 0:01

Hey y'all , welcome back to another episode of the gag is podcast . I am your girl , charlie Shantae . Welcome back . Oh man , it feels good to be back . I've missed y'all and I hope that you have missed me as well . You know , we just got over Thanksgiving . We in the month of December , getting ready to go into Christmas .

Speaker 1 0:31

So if y'all have not started y'all shopping already , what is you ? Wait now ? Because it's gonna get crazy and crazy the longer you wait to go out there and like do your stuff . Like I went and did some today . I did some , um , last week . I did just a smidge on Black Friday , but it wasn't nothing too Serious . I can't say what I've been buying cuz my kids listen and watch the show , so would hate to give away what it is . I Got them for Christmas . Hope you guys had a good Thanksgiving . Mine was nice , chill . We ate , we watched football , hung out with some close friends and , you know , just kept it real mellow .

Speaker 1 1:24

So let's go ahead and jump into today's episode . Today's episode I Don't even know if we on call it's a episode , but it ain't really a episode , if that makes sense . Like it's an unscripted episode , I felt like I Needed to tell y'all some realness , some raw . And First let me say I am very thankful for all my listeners , all my Subscribers and everyone who has followed me on social media . Thank you , thank you . Each time episode comes out , y'all are going to , y'all are downloading , I see y'all and I greatly appreciate it . Just know that you know it does not go unnoticed . So today's episode , like I said , is real unscripted because I want to talk about some realness . So Some of the things over the past couple of weeks have been Kind of crazy and they tie into the show . So Today I'm just gonna basically just touch on it just a little bit and then I'm gonna go into . Like each like little subject is gonna be an episode in itself , but I just would kind of want to catch all up on , like what's been going on .

Speaker 1 2:56

As you know , I do have kids and I do have a child who is in middle school and and for like the past , I want to say like month and a half Like I've been having to battle it out with his teacher because my son does have a disability and this Teacher did not want to do what they needed to do to give my child his accommodations , and the situation just got real , real dire . And I'm one of those parents that I tell my son and I teach my kids that they Should advocate for themselves because I'm not gonna always be there to advocate for them . Like you got to know and you got to learn . And this individual Without saying too much because it's still Ongoing kind of case or whatever , but this individual , just I just want to know what kind of adult has beef with a 13 year old ? Like , why is you beefing with a 13 year old ? Yes , see my blankie , because where I record is very , very cool , but as an adult , I don't understand . I don't know what bone you would have to pick with a 13 year old . It's just beyond me . And I bring it up because my children are very resilient and they've seen a lot and you know , not necessarily been through a lot , but there's some pretty strong kids and especially my 13 year old . He's very strong , he's been through a lot , seen a lot . At no fault of his own , like I stated , he does have a disability , so he's very sick and I just I'm grateful that I have children that are , like I said , resilient and they can advocate for themselves . I think , as parents , that's one thing that we don't . We don't like we . Your kid can mess up a million times over , but nobody , you're not going to let nobody mistreat your children at all At all . Like you will go to the depths in the ends of the world to ensure that your child is good . It's just . It's just . It's a crazy situation . Like I said , I can't really speak on it , but what I will say , I like the , I appreciate and it made me proud the way that my son handled himself in the situation , because there's a situation that could have went left real easy , but the way he handled himself , I'm so super duper proud of him .

Speaker 1 6:20

Next year I will have an episode about resilient children and you will get to hear the perspective of the 13 year old and then my big baby as well . Well , also within the next probably a couple of weeks or whatever , we'll have an episode on grief during the holidays , more so . My situation is just very unique and I will say over the last couple of weeks that I have been struggling a little bit . My husband's birthday came up and some years I'm okay , some years I'm not okay , and this year it just happened to be a year that I wasn't okay . Normally I'll post all like knowledge , his birthday , you know , and do a cute little , you know . Love you , baby , miss you , I know you , and heaven's turning up , you know , don't do too much and get kicked out . This year I couldn't even bring myself to do anything . I couldn't get out of bed . It was just a bad day . And what makes it so bad is Thanksgiving . His birthday , my birthday and Christmas all fall within 40 days of each other . So in the next couple of episodes I'll be talking about dealing with grief during the holidays and then how I deal with the grief the grief of his birthday , my birthday and the holidays . It's like a quadruple whammy . A quadruple whammy .

Speaker 1 8:10

Let me see what else I had going on that I was gonna tell y'all . You know Christmas coming up , so I hope y'all paint your skin , started shopping , cuz it's getting tough out here in these trenches . I'm glad that I don't gotta buy no toys , no more . Yeah , I ain't gotta buy no toys , no more , no , no . But this episode is gonna be nice short , brief . Just want y'all to know that I have not forgotten about y'all . 2024 is among us .

Speaker 1 8:50

Who got the updated bingo card of everything that's going on this year ? Like I need to update a bingo card . So if you got the updated bingo card , go ahead and slide that in my email . My DM at the gag is pod at Gmail . Hit it to me on Instagram . I need the updated bingo card . Let's see what else we got , since this was like a unscripted off the record type of show this week .

Speaker 1 9:23

I'm not , I didn't want to do a segment , but I think I'm gonna do a segment . I think I'm gonna do a you can't make this up segment . And dating a widow is real different . Okay , we love fragile , you know , and we fragile . So let me tell y'all . I decided to jump back out there and go on a date and I'm like , okay , this is cool . And you know , my best friend is like okay , go ahead , you gonna have fun , girl Y'all . Why ? Buddy show up . And he was the same height as my 13 year old . My 13 year old is five foot five . I am five eight and a half . Yeah , yep , I got past that . I was like I can deal with that , I can deal with that . Then he ghosted me without I don't know if he knew he was ghosting me , but he was ghosting me .

Speaker 1 10:48

So in Florida we have a game called the classic . It's probably called that other places too , with HBC use or whatever , I'm not sure . But from where we live in Tampa to Orlando is a little bit over our . He's like I gotta go take care of something over there and I probably not going to make it back today because you know the classic is today and the traffic going to be crazy . Sir , if you wanted to go to the classic you could go . You ain't got the lot of me . Why lie ? Anyways , long story short , y'all . He was weird , and so now I am traumatized and I don't think I want to date anymore right now , like for a little minute , like I ain't going to tell you how to rest of like what he did . You girl is traumatized , trauma , hi . So I'm going to be in the house for a minute . I don't , I can't do it . Trauma ties at this point he's going to have to break in the house and get me and be like girl . I like you , I don't broken your house . Don't press charges . Oh Okay , I won't press charges , sir , but yeah , again , thank you all for sticking with me , thank you all for rocking with me .

Speaker 1 12:11

Um 2024 , we going up . I got some things in the work that I can't wait to tell you all about Um , I'm a keep building sets . Yassi got a different set . Now , um , I'm very creative . I will say that I am grateful that I finally found something not found , finally found something . Let me rephrase that . Let me say that I am glad that I took a step in a leap , to go ahead and start this podcast . It has been nothing but positivity for me and for others . I can , I can be me , I can be free , and the creativity in the creativeness that has been brought to the surface and not just a thought or memory is exciting for me and , like I said , in 2024 , I'll get to put that on display . I'm so super excited about that . Like you just don't even know . They say you know every everybody wants to . You know , be something and do big things , but nobody wants to put the work in and to be putting this work in . I'm so , so super proud . Um , yeah , I mean , I really , I'm just really full of gratitude at the moment .

Speaker 1 13:59

I know it seemed like I'm all over the place today but , like I said , this is an unscripted episode . You know there was no basis , there was no format . I was just coming and let y'all know your girl is still here . You know we just had to take a pause for the calls Just for this niche light , but I am back and I am happy to be back and I hope that you are happy to be back . But , um , yeah , if you haven't already like , go to YouTube . Pull us up . The gag is part . Pull us up , like , subscribe , share with your friends . We are on Instagram as well . At the gag is pot . I am your girl . Charlie Sean say you can pull me up as well . If you go to Instagram , all of the links are in the bio . You click on that that link , tree link and it'll bring up the YouTube and it'll bring up the Apple . It'll bring up the Spotify Wherever you listen to your podcast . All right , y'all , until next week . Your girl is out .