Gather 'round as I, Charli Shanta, along with the always charismatic Marco Polo, take you through a year's worth of turmoil, triumphs, and the plain ridiculous. It's been an unpredictable roller coaster, from grappling with my son's hospital scare to sharing a laugh or two over local shenanigans, including a topsy-turvy vehicle that had everyone talking. We'll also let you in on the peculiar tale of a woman in Ecuador whose wake took a lively turn, sparking a whimsical debate on the ramifications of attending your own funeral rehearsal.
As we wave goodbye to the old and usher in the new, I peel back the curtain on the podcast journey that's been filled with the passion and persistence of early morning recordings to set the stage just right for you, the listeners. You'll be treated to an exclusive throwback to our Unpredictable Lifestyle Podcast days, reflecting on the growing pains and laughter that have shaped us along the way. We'll revisit a contentious moment that had the feathers of a particular demographic ruffling, Join us as we toast to the adventures ahead and the stories that bind us, illuminated by the steadfast belief that even in darkness, there's a beacon of hope waiting to shine.
Gather 'round as I, Charli Shanta, along with the always charismatic Marco Polo, take you through a year's worth of turmoil, triumphs, and the plain ridiculous. It's been an unpredictable roller coaster, from grappling with my son's hospital scare to sharing a laugh or two over local shenanigans, including a topsy-turvy vehicle that had everyone talking. We'll also let you in on the peculiar tale of a woman in Ecuador whose wake took a lively turn, sparking a whimsical debate on the ramifications of attending your own funeral rehearsal.
As we wave goodbye to the old and usher in the new, I peel back the curtain on the podcast journey that's been filled with the passion and persistence of early morning recordings to set the stage just right for you, the listeners. You'll be treated to an exclusive throwback to our Unpredictable Lifestyle Podcast days, reflecting on the growing pains and laughter that have shaped us along the way. We'll revisit a contentious moment that had the feathers of a particular demographic ruffling, Join us as we toast to the adventures ahead and the stories that bind us, illuminated by the steadfast belief that even in darkness, there's a beacon of hope waiting to shine.
Hello, hello, hello. Welcome back to the gag is podcast. I am your girl, charlie Chante, and of course, you see, I am not by myself. Of course, who else would I film the year in review with other than Marco Polo? You and I can't believe doing this long enough to where I can kind of do a little year in review. You know I, you know I feel a little same way about day. You know I'm excited.
Speaker 2:
There's enough episodes, enough content.
Speaker 1:
Now be transparent with y'all. So in my mind I'm like okay, we're going to do a year in review and this is how the set is going to be. However, little man got sick and had to go to the hospital, so that took away time for me to build the set. So I got to get this episode out before the new year, because it can't be a year in review. It is going to be a whole new year. So I got to get this episode out so had to make up set. But we're going to get through it. It's going to be the last time. It will not be.
Speaker 1:
It's the thought and the effort that I'm putting into it that counts. So y'all going to get something behind the scenes, a little bit of never before scene footage, and we're just going to take a little quick trip down memory lane, talk about some 2024 stuff and then go from there. So go ahead and grab a drink, grab a snack. You about to get some laughs. We're going to go over a couple of little stuff and remember that everything that you see on the show today, besides the behind the scenes and the unseen footage stuff, all of that you can watch on YouTube and on Apple. You can listen on Spotify. You can listen, or wherever you listen, to your nice little potty cast app. So let's go ahead and jump into our first clip, get into it. All right. So for this first clip. This first clip is a rebrand. So if you've been listening and supporting since day one then you know the original show was entitled Unpredictable Lifestyle. So in September decided to get with the company and rebrand it. The rebrand is the gag is podcast, which what it is now. So go ahead and let's take a look at the intro reel to what we'll call season two of the gag is podcast.
Speaker 1:
I believe I was in ninth grade, eighth or ninth grade, either way. I shouldn't have been nobody mama, but I was, because there were times where I wanted to give up and I couldn't because I had this little person who was depending on me. What message am I sending him if I give up? After high school, got married to my love. We were both in the military. I get a knock at my door to let me know my husband, who I had only been married to for five months, is no longer with us. I would say welcome.
Speaker 1:
Back to another episode, but the gag is. We got a new title. I got a good story. I was relaxing at home sitting on my couch watching football. I hear a big, loud noise outside and I'm like what is that? A car has flipped over in front of my house. Like residential street, like I don't live on a busy street, yeah, why. Now, when, when it is fast forward, the fire department comes and this guy walks up and he's like why y'all caught a police? Huh, this vehicle flipped over you talking about. Why am I getting a police in these people business? Okay, yeah, you still rent. Okay, all right.
Speaker 1:
So you just seen the trailer from the rebrand I saw it on that funny about that truck and funny enough. So kind of a little update on that story. So the people next door, so their property got affected as well. And so when they got their little money, instead of getting their little property fixed, they got new floors and started an A house. I ain't mad at that, I just know. I just know.
Speaker 1:
I came home one day and they had new floors and I was like, hey, like I seen it out there, I ain't mad at that. But so that's like the little epi date for that one, all right. So this next clip we're gonna get into is about a woman and Ecuador who, yeah, so about the woman who woke up at her wake. You wanna go ahead and introduce this one, all right, so let's get into the next one. So the next one is about a woman in Ecuador who happened to wake up at her own wake and I will tell you, even though we had a good laugh and gaggle about this, I'm still like Mark O'Polo wanna know, since he gotta have two funerals to me, he wanna know can he get to two for one?
Speaker 2:
Can I not Like I didn't already, I've not already spent the money on one? I mean, Can I at least get like a two for one Bogo?
Speaker 1:
You go at least gonna change my clothes, like, can I at least have different clothes and different shoes? Like why I gotta be in the back and the same stuff that I was already buried in, like, yeah, I'll change it, I'll change it, but I gotta go back, okay.
Speaker 3:
I'll change the fit.
Speaker 1:
Okay, I can get new clothes off, so, all right, go ahead and take a look at this clip. Tell a therapist.
Speaker 1:
My mama died twice that If I tell them that they gonna want to raise my rate, If I'm a therapist and you come to me and you say my mama died but then she woke up at her wake and then we took her to the hospital and she died again, I would fucking. That might be the day I fucking quit, cause I'm like you in here telling fucking stories and you need more help than what I can provide.
Speaker 2:
I wanna send you right to right to site. I'm alive but I'm dead.
Speaker 1:
And so I knew we were gonna do this year in reviews. So I went and I got a little basis, a little backstory your girl's sleepy y'all. I went and got a little backstory on this story. So what happened was the mama wasn't feeling good. They took her to the hospital. When she got to the hospital they said you know she barely breathing and they actually declared her dead. Once they declared her dead, I guess it's custom and culture over there that they take them immediately for burial. So she died and they had to wake on the same day. So, like as soon as they the pronouncement at the hospital, they took her to the funeral home and then they started having to wake.
Speaker 2:
Like this is all within a span of 12 hours and so if you go Family and you was like you can get there in time. That's just short notice.
Speaker 1:
Well, they had been there five hours and I'm sure the family a little close, I mean, if you wasn't there, you wasn't there. So they showed, like the actual. I'll link the actual story. I'll link the story Cause there's actual pictures and stuff of which is kind of messed up in my opinion. Like somebody had took a picture of them opening the casket and holding her, like while she was in the casket, while they were waiting on the ambulance, people come. I was like that's weird, I ain't look at the rest of the pictures cause it was just too creepy for me. But then, like we said, like the rest of the story goes, she was back in critical condition and ICU and she ended up not making it again. I mean, that's weird to say she ended up not making it again, but I still stand on what I said in an original clip. If I was a therapist, I'm quitting because you making stuff up, you making stuff up cause this doesn't that kind of stuff like don't happen. Like you are legit making stuff up, so you-.
Speaker 2:
Right, like I feel like if I tell a therapist that they don't want to drop me.
Speaker 1:
I would drop you too, because you in here telling stories, you in here for therapy to get help, but you in here telling stories, you telling stories, and you got to go, sir, because, although your money is good, you wasting my time. You have got the door, see yourself out.
Speaker 2:
I'm wasting my therapist therapy.
Speaker 1:
I Wanted to do. I know there is. They got to go to therapy because we coming in there, we dumping on them like who are who's? Who they listen it to, who they listen to? They got to her.
Speaker 2:
Therapist. Therapists like if I got a serious issue, can I just go to the therapist?
Speaker 1:
that therapist, that therapist is going to, because they got to be good to listen to all the stuff that they got to be gotta be good and I'm, I'm willing to, I'm willing to go. I wait, all right, so let's go, move right along. Y'all know I hail from the great state of Oklahoma. Where the wind comes, we bend on the plane.
Speaker 3:
I.
Speaker 1:
Know, I hail from the great state of Oklahoma. So this next story? Yes, of course. So this next story. A boy was fishing in his backyard and he caught a very Unusual creature. We know it was a fish, but this fish was very. He was very human, like let's take a listen. Yeah, you gotta find that word because we gotta remember. So we don't, we gonna pay our dues to the state that we both hail from, good old Oklahoma, where the wind comes, we bend on the plane England.
Speaker 1:
I always do that when people be like where you from, I'd be like Oklahoma. Where the wind comes, we bend on the plane. If you like, I'd be like. I don't know the rest of the song, I just like that part, but anyways, this happens somewhere that we are both familiar with, oklahoma City. 11 year old boy caught a fish with human like teeth in a pond.
Speaker 2:
Now oh yeah, I've seen that that was in Oklahoma.
Speaker 1:
Why the fish got veneer, the fish got veneers, the fish got the fish got better teeth than me.
Speaker 2:
What that fish munching on? What that fish need them teeth for? He a much clear, clearly oh my goodness.
Speaker 1:
But yeah, so the fish had real estate and kind of find out, the fish was somebody pet. They didn't want the pet anymore, they couldn't care for the pet. So they just thought, oh it's a fish, I can just throw it in the water. You can't do that because that's a invasive species. And he was in there eating other fishes out the pond. So they threw it back in the water. The lady was trying to catch it again because she wanted to frame it. They lost the fish and that's how that happened. And I couldn't see, I Couldn't see that happen in nowhere else but Oklahoma, because we unique, we different.
Speaker 2:
Imagine if the fish had had a grill. You think they can put a group, they can put a grill on a fish. I mean, it got human tea.
Speaker 1:
I mean.
Speaker 2:
It was. Got them gold caps. It look like it bite. Yeah, I want to see that now you know. You know, some people on the internet probably made them.
Speaker 1:
Oh it's oh yeah, Probably got a grill and chain. Oh, absolutely I.
Speaker 2:
Mean. Now I want to see if I can find that.
Speaker 1:
Hey, we keep you updated. We can find it. We don't definitely put it on here. Oh, all right. So you know we've had a couple of stories on here. So you know this hasn't always been. You know I'm still I'm very much a newbie in this game, so you know things don't always turn out how it normally is like. So yeah. So I thank y'all for bearing with me, thank you for still rocking with me. So on, this next clip is a behind-the-scenes between me, a little bit the little one. It's just a little behind-the-scenes and we are trying to figure out camera angles, trying to figure out lighting I'm a different things like that before the first episode was even recorded. So go ahead and check it out.
Speaker 1:
I'm just gonna read off of you All right. Welcome to unpredictable lifestyle podcast, where we talk about unpredictableness of life. I'm your co-host. Actually, I'm not the co-host, I am the host. Probably shanty and I have. I'm not a nerd. We don't give out whole governments, we're false idols. That's why your name is New Face. Nobody needs to know your name.
Speaker 3:
No one needs to know your full name.
Speaker 1:
They must start looking at you Right. So you just gotta go by. New Face, so you just gotta go by.
Speaker 3:
New Face. Right, yeah, what's your name? New Face. Um, what do you call you? You're changed. Why do I call you New Face? They call me. They call me New Face. I need to go. I don't want to explain why my name is New Face oh.
Speaker 1:
I was getting chased by someone holding a mushroom.
Speaker 3:
Then I tripped it.
Speaker 1:
You was getting chased by somebody with some ketamine. No, they were holding a legit mushroom.
Speaker 3:
A wild mushroom. New Face, new Face, new Face.
Speaker 1:
They did it on mouth face.
Speaker 3:
No.
Speaker 1:
Alright, let's pretend, 30 minutes goes by and then, Thank you for tuning into another episode of predictable, unpredictable lifestyle power cat. I'm your girl, charlie Shante. You guys are New Face. Remember predictableness is boring.
Speaker 3:
Always live outside the box.
Speaker 1:
Alright, so that's just one of the behind the scenes that we got for y'all today. So this next clip. Um, I had recorded an episode and I was getting ready to record another episode and I was sending a snapchat to my best friend and I was telling her. It was at this point that I knew that podcasting was not going to be easy, but that I was dedicated to doing it and getting it done, because, I want to say, it was probably like midnight and I was super. I've told you all before, most of the time when I record, it's after 10pm or before 7am. So I'm either sleepy and tired or sleepy and tired because it's early in the morning. But, however, that's just what worked for me. Um, I don't think that I would like to do my recording during the day, I just like doing it at night. It allows me to give you all the light, the ambiance and everything. So yeah, so let's check out this next little clip that I sent to Bestie. You know what time it is, it's a job, your girls getting tired, all right. So when I first started out, I thought that I kind of had the direction, but little did I know that I didn't know anything at all. So this next clip that you're going to see is my intro that I created of how I thought things should be and, needless to say, it doesn't necessarily mean it is wrong. This was just the first little run through of my quote. Unquote intro of unpredictable lifestyle. Let's check it out. Who is Charlie Chantay? Charlie Chantay is the friend you didn't know. You needed Ratchet hood, sophisticated, educated little bit of Midwest Southern charm. You know you need me in your life. The unpredictable lifestyle came about because I tell stories to my friends. You know things like that car rider line kids, dating, disasters, all of that. So if I'm going through it, you're going through it too. Why not have a discussion together? Drop me a message, need some advice? Get some off your chest. Ask me some questions. Hit the email theUnpredictableLifestylePodcast at gmailcom or give us a like at the Underscore UnpredictableLifestyle on Instagram. I'm a newbie in this game.
Speaker 1:
This next clip is very interesting because my show has a demographic, but it doesn't have a demographic, so I'm going to talk about our race specific In this instance. In this particular episode, I was talking about how people treat other people and I made the comment of I don't like church folks, but I love Christians In the African American community. People know exactly what I mean. Just because the person goes to church and they do stuff like that. That doesn't make them a good person. It doesn't make them a good Christian.
Speaker 1:
It's in all communities, but it's very prevalent in that community. So my statement was taken very much out of context and some folks tried to cancel me on YouTube. Oh, is that? That was the clue. So, with that being said, I was able to go back and look at the demographics of the people who were commenting, people who were disliking and who had something to say, and it just happened to be that the demographics of the people that didn't like that video were men age 28 to 40, white it's always a white man, leave it to the white man.
Speaker 1:
Yeah. So I mean, the clip was never made to be offensive, it was just a statement, it was just an opinion, and only in America can you have an opinion, and it still be wrong. So, with that being said, let's go ahead and check out the clip and when I tell y'all, let me, let me, let me make some good eye contact with y'all, when I tell y'all, it's some folks that I don't mess with, I love Christians, but I don't like church folks, all right. So that is how that little clip, see, went Like I said, I never say anything you said Clipsy, clipsy Winsky.
Speaker 1:
So it's a made up word and I say is never meant to hurt or offend anyone. So yeah, so those are all of the clips that I have. Y'all know I do Lyric of the Week and different stuff like that. We've had some amazing lyrics of the week I'm going now. When we first started out, I was letting the kids read the Lyric of the Week, and so some of those I have not been listed on YouTube, nor have they been listed on in any platforms. So I'm going to do like a little close friend slash Patreon type of thing and post those on there. So you'll have to go there to get those episodes and that information.
Speaker 1:
2024, I'm looking forward to 2024 because 2024 is where I'm going to do my big one, because this year, this year, I feel like it was my test and my trials and tribulations and I feel like I'm just getting my feet wet in this game. So I do want to say thank you to everybody who has supported me. Rather, my information and whether any episode was, you know, touched you or it didn't have anything to do with you, you couldn't relate at all. Thank you for still sticking with me and thank you for rocking with me. Thank you to the ones who have texted me and have shared it. It doesn't go unnoticed to the ones that swear they got my back but still ain't reported either way, no love loss. Just remember when things go up. Keep that same energy. Keep that same sentiment.
Speaker 2:
Keep standing on that business.
Speaker 1:
Keep standing on that business because it's time to do some things. To make people chest hurt it's not a problem, but what I do, it is a problem, and now it's time to make people chest hurt. You know, I'm always remained humble and remember where I came from, and this ain't easy, but I'm committed and I'm finally doing something that I love and that I enjoy. With that being said, in 2024, I am changing up the lineup of how the episodes are released. So, instead of releasing on audio on Thursday and video on Friday, audio is also dropping on Fridays, now Fridays at 12pm.
Speaker 3:
Eastern Standard Time.
Speaker 1:
Two for one. They're going at two for one. Two for one. Who has two for one these days?
Speaker 2:
I don't know I was trying to think of that, no-transcript.
Speaker 1:
I don't think anybody has two for once anymore.
Speaker 2:
No, because I know even like places, like people know they have like it's, it'd be like some random being like some random does like three, four, not three, get one free. But it's mostly not buy one, get one for anyone's. Buy one, get one fifty percent off.
Speaker 1:
Alright, so yeah, so two for one. So audio will be dropping on listening platforms at 12 pm Eastern Standard Time on Fridays and the visual will drop at 5 pm or Easter stick five people in system time Eastern Standard Time on Fridays as well.
Speaker 2:
With that being said, last, both on the same day, both on the same day.
Speaker 1:
Now I Got some news. Drumroll, please. We got a new introduction. So as a treat to y'all and as an ode to the new year, I'm a bless y'all. And the intro for 2024 on this video only is gonna be the outro. So you seen it here first. Stay safe and I hope y'all have an amazing new year. See y'all in 2024.
Speaker 2:
Peace y'all. And can I just say this is dropping on YouTube to it's dropping on YouTube. Yeah, so go ahead and drop down in the comments, like what are you looking forward to for 2024? Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:
What am I looking to? You know what else? Before we end the day intro, you know we should do the updated bingo card.
Speaker 2:
That's getting to my. This has been a year like there is like I think back on like dang.
Speaker 1:
No, that was here yeah yeah, but yeah, the bingo card, I seen it and I'm I'm not gonna win nothing. I didn't even get like two on there, like my bingo card was just bloat. But uh, yeah, maybe we'll do a bonus episode. Talk about the bingo card, because that bingo card is interesting.
Speaker 2:
The bingo card is some. It's a card I don't know about. No bingo.
Speaker 1:
It's a wild card or is it a Joker?
Speaker 2:
It's both of them.
Speaker 1:
All right, sounds like a bonus episode card.
Speaker 2:
You ask how did this even get in the deck? Now I get in it. No, for real.
Speaker 1:
All right, y'all. Happy 2024, 20. No, that wasn't the thought that I had. Happy new year to you. Goodbye 2023. What up 2024? Um, so, let's go ahead and do our big one. I'm out. Welcome to the gag is podcast with me, your host, charlie shunt, a where I share the roller coaster of my life, the highs, the lows and Everything in between, after becoming a teen mom at 14 and a widow by the age of 21. It's a journey filled with tears and laughter, reminding you that even in the toughest moments, there's hope. The gag is life may be unpredictable, but it's always worth living.