As a parent, nothing hits home harder than when your child takes a tumble on the sports field—cue the rush of adrenaline and a silent prayer that it's just a scare. That's why this week on Gag Is Podcast, we're putting the spotlight on Youth Sports Injury Awareness and Prevention. My personal journey through the minefield of my kids' soccer matches and swim meets has taught me a thing or two about the essential armor we call safety gear. With a mix of heartfelt stories and a nod to my confidante Tiffany's expertise, we peel back the layers on the importance of protection and preparation in youthful athletic pursuits. And because we're all friends here, I'll even let you in on my go-to sports drink flavor that keeps me company during those intense sideline moments.
But it's not all fun and games; the sobering stats on ER visits and concussion rates in children demand attention. That's why we're having a critical conversation about the potential life-saving role of EKGs in sports physicals and the measures we can take to safeguard our young champions' hearts. On the flip side, I'm calling all parents to the field—your involvement is a game-changer! From advocating for your child's health to modeling good sportsmanship, we've got some serious coaching to do. Let's face it, if we want to see our kids thrive, we need to ensure the field, the court, and the pool are as safe as they are fun. Join us for a candid chat that just might make you the MVP of your child's sports experience.
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As a parent, nothing hits home harder than when your child takes a tumble on the sports field—cue the rush of adrenaline and a silent prayer that it's just a scare. That's why this week on Gag Is Podcast, we're putting the spotlight on Youth Sports Injury Awareness and Prevention. My personal journey through the minefield of my kids' soccer matches and swim meets has taught me a thing or two about the essential armor we call safety gear. With a mix of heartfelt stories and a nod to my confidante Tiffany's expertise, we peel back the layers on the importance of protection and preparation in youthful athletic pursuits. And because we're all friends here, I'll even let you in on my go-to sports drink flavor that keeps me company during those intense sideline moments.
But it's not all fun and games; the sobering stats on ER visits and concussion rates in children demand attention. That's why we're having a critical conversation about the potential life-saving role of EKGs in sports physicals and the measures we can take to safeguard our young champions' hearts. On the flip side, I'm calling all parents to the field—your involvement is a game-changer! From advocating for your child's health to modeling good sportsmanship, we've got some serious coaching to do. Let's face it, if we want to see our kids thrive, we need to ensure the field, the court, and the pool are as safe as they are fun. Join us for a candid chat that just might make you the MVP of your child's sports experience.
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Hey y'all, welcome back to the Gag Is Podcast. I am your girl, charli Chanté. Of course that's me. Thank you for tuning in for another episode. Y'all know what I always say.
Speaker 1:If you're listening to me this is a new episode and it's a Friday. You know the best day of the week? Oh, my gosh, friday. Be taking so long to get here and I just really don't understand and I feel like this week has been such a long week New Face being sick and he's finally getting over his sickness, and man, it's just been a lot going on. Let me just take the time to say thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who has tapped in with me, who genuinely listens and who genuinely supports me. I greatly, greatly appreciate it. Thank you for rocking with me. You know I'm just getting started it. It's just the beginning. I have bigger, better ideas for this show and things I want to start, including guests and stuff like that. So thank you for rocking with me. Please continue to stick with me.
Speaker 1:Make sure you're going and leaving your reviews, because y'all have been telling me that y'all love, love, love. The new face stories Got plenty of them. I'll never run out of new face stories, so make sure if you're listening, wherever you're listening, make sure you're rating it, giving it five stars. You can leave a word review as well. Make sure you're watching on YouTube as well. Make sure you're not just listening. Make sure you are downloading as well. Now let's since we're talking about new facing children, let's just go ahead, and today we're gonna talk. April is sports awareness month and, just like myself and probably all y'all, y'all got kids and they play some type of sport, whether it be well band ain't really a sport, um, whether it be gymnastics, whether it be basketball, a lot of y'all kids play football. This episode is for you. So come on in, have a seat and let's get started.
Speaker 1:Look, does anybody else drink these? I feel like these are so good. I used to drink Pedialyte. I still do, when I go to the store and they have the kinds that I like. But this is, this is my kind right here, like this blue raspberry, and it's so bad. When I go to a gas station up the street from me and they don't have this kind, I'm so cool with the manager. I'd be like, hey, y'all got that blue raspberry right there. She'd be like girl, everybody come in here for that flavor. This flavor is busting very, very good. Um, so yeah, very, very good. And I think I got like another kind today, like a grape or something. It was two for five because your girl was running out of gas. But that's neither here nor there.
Speaker 1:Oh my gosh, youth sports awareness. And for this one I had to call my best friend, tiffany. Tiffany, thank you for all the insight from my nephew, because I thought I was the only one, like I'm the only parent that's out here dealing with this tomfoolery with these kids. So, marco Polo, he played sports, he played soccer and did he play baseball? I think it was just soccer and he was really good at it. But as he got older, I think he did play baseball I'm sorry, marco, if I forgot which one you played so he didn't really do a lot. And when he got into high school, he didn't really play sports, he was more Well, he did ROTC stuff. So I guess you can kind of consider that sport stuff. And he did air rifle, but it didn't require any equipment and there was very low risk of injury and things like that.
Speaker 1:But this other one new face, I'm thankful that we have insurance and they have not dropped him, because every sport that this child has played and it's been a lot of them every sport that he has played he has received some type of injury. He has played soccer, he has played basketball, he has played football and he has did I say baseball, and now he swims? O-m-g has. Uh, did I say baseball and now he swims? Omg. Let me see, when he played soccer he messed up his wrist, um, but he was a beast, that soccer. My boy, my boy, my kids were super good at soccer, like especially marco polo. Um, he was a he's super tall y'all, he's 6'5, so he's always been tall. So he was a banging goalie, like banging, banging, new.
Speaker 1:But he never sustained any injuries like he's. He said I'm gonna say that for the second child, that's second child activities, that ain't first child activities, so new face. During soccer. So he messed up his wrist, he fell and got a small concussion, he bit through his lip and so when if you've ever seen him in person or anything like, right here below his chin it's a line because he got, he had to get stitches right here and he bit through, but you couldn't stitch the inside of his mouth, so he has stitches right here.
Speaker 1:Let's see, when he was playing basketball, um, I think he just re-injured his wrist. Let's see baseball. Um, he wasn't telling me that his shoes was too tight and like I'm pretty good about, you know, like checking the shoes and things like that, but he wasn't telling me that he couldn't feel his toe on his left foot, which led to him having to get a cast on both of his feet, on both of his feet. So his baseball career ended real soon, ended really really soon. Let's see what other injuries did my boy have?
Speaker 1:And then, after he got well, he just didn't want to go back to that because he didn't want to wear shoes and he didn't want to injure his feet again. And I wholeheartedly get it because he missed the whole season his feet again. And I wholeheartedly get it because he missed the whole season football. I don't know he something happened, I think he. He ran into the foot issue again. Um, with football, um, he was a great defender, that little boy, strong. So that lasted, I think he played football two seasons. So that was that.
Speaker 1:And then, where we are today, swimming, swimming, he actually got a concussion because he, instead of sticking his hands out to feel where he was going, he ran head first into the wall and suffered a concussion. That was the first time. Second time he was in the water and he came up from the water and he wasn't paying attention and where he came up in the water just happened to be where the stairs were, and so he hit his head like that and he ended up having a big knot on his head. So, needless to say, new Face is very injury prone but thankful that you know he could get the care that he needed. And although he didn't officially play flag football, he did injure himself. He broke his thumb in flag football last month. So my baby is injury prone.
Speaker 1:I don't think there's any equipment that can keep him safe at this point. I think a bubble is the best thing, but he can't play any sports in a bubble. Swimming is fairly safe on him. It don't affect his feet. He just got to pay attention and make sure he not running head first into the wall.
Speaker 1:You're just like, and I was just like, and I'm sitting there like this, like looking through the glass because this was at practice, and I'm looking through the glass. I'm like my kid, my kid, and everybody knew it was my kid because he don't a black kid out there. I'm just looking like, yeah, yeah, boy, tell you another trip to the hospital. And then, when I could take him to the emergency room, they're like, oh, oh, my God, he is such a boy Excuse me, what you mean. He needs to stop coming up in here because y'all might call CPS and think that I'm hurting a poor child or something. Just, I know Tiffany has said that my nephew has had some concussions and you know the one thing these kids going to do is get injured. Ok, just they going to get injured. You know they don't care at all.
Speaker 1:So let's talk about the price of this equipment. Now, as I said, new Face Swims. So if y'all ever go to the store and you see goggles, y'all see goggles range anywhere from like 10 to 20, maybe $22. So I buy new faces off of a particular swim site you know for like professional swimmers, because he is on a swim team, on a swim team man. Let me tell y'all them good goggles, like good goggles, that's like not store grade, that's like sleek on the sides, with the mirror kind of stuff, the anti-fog, like olympics, almost like olympic tier. Them goggles is like 35 a pop and I always buy two at a time.
Speaker 1:Because one thing's for certain, two things for sure my boy, he got a nice swim bag and everything. He gonna forget his goggles. And here I come to the rescue. I always keep a pair of goggles in the car because I just know, I just know he going to forget it, just know he going to forget it. And then, instead of putting the goggles back in the case when he done, he just throw them in his bag. And so, like now, I've thrown away probably three pair of goggles because the lenses have gotten scratched up. And I'm like boy, if you don't start taking care of these goggles, you're gonna be in that pool and that chlorine just gonna have to burn your eyes out. Because ain't nobody got time to keep buying these goggles, because you don't want to take care of them. They got a case, they got a little thing that you put them in. All I need you to do is put the goggles in the case, keep them safe. That's all I need you to do, bro. Bro, work with me, just put them in the case.
Speaker 1:And I talk to Tiffany all the time. I always call her when I'm on my way home from work. She'd be like girl, I ain't doing nothing Just on the way to the school because your nephew forgot his cleats or he forgot this, or he forgot to pack his snack today, and, like these kids, like y'all know, y'all play sports. We buy y'all these nice bags that come with snack compartments. We buy y'all the snacks. All you got to do is go in the pantry and grab the snack out, grab the little thing out. Your water bottles be washed. We got to pack this stuff. Like we participating in the sport too, ok, our job, our role is to sit in the stands, sit in our little foldy chairs and watch all. We should not have to be packing y'all sports bag. Ok, we should not, we should not.
Speaker 1:And I know Tiff has told me so many times she's like you know, like they get when you, when you play football, they give you the helmets. But a lot of people like these particular helmets and stuff. And I want to say she spent like six hundred dollars on a helmet and she's like he want to wear this helmet everywhere. But I'm, like you know, I pay six hundred dollars for your. Like you going to wear this for the games. Like you, not finna, just wear this to take pictures in.
Speaker 1:Like these kids do not appreciate the amount of money that we spend on this equipment. Like we not taking y'all to the Walmarts to get y'all cleats. We're not taking y'all to the walmart's to get you, your, your swim trunks and your I forgot what the little swimmer swim trunk is, the little skin tight ones. Like we're not taking y'all to walmart for this. Like we're going and getting actual quality stuff so that you can be a good athlete and you can be a safe athlete. This is, this is not for play.
Speaker 1:Play like I don't, I don't understand, I just I don't. I don't understand, I don't, I don't get it. I don't get it, just just I don't pack your stuff, I don't get it. Now let's get into a little bit more. Now that I didn't have my rants about this expensive ass equipment and how my child keep forgetting it and then how he mistreats it, let's move on to some positive, some benefits, good things about kids and sports and things like that. So, overall, like I said, every sports involves running, walking. It's cardiovascular based, and so when kids play sports in the long run, it's good for their cardiovascular health, like swimming.
Speaker 1:I tried to race this little boy in a pool one day and I've told y'all I I don't know how to like swim like he do, but I know how to not drown. I tried to race him one day. When I tell you after two strokes two little one, two when I tell y'all I was out of breath, I was like, ooh, my little lungs was like we're not, finna, do this. And he was like I was like you got it, that's you player. You got it, it's all you. I need to get my cardio together. But it just dusted me so like, if I don't got no cardio in the pool then I definitely ain't good in cardio in other areas of my life. So I need to, I need to work on that. Um, you know, because he not finna out here, just be out here out breathing and out hearting me. You, my little heart ain't beating fast enough. Yeah, my heart ain't beating fast enough.
Speaker 1:And then also it's good on social skills. It teaches kids about teamwork, camaraderie. You know how to be good little individuals, be good little humans. Hold on, my mouth is a're parched. You know, sports teaches them how to be good, good little human beings, teaches them social skills and teaches them how to get along. Sometimes you may have, they may disagree with a teammate teaches them positive conflict resolution. You know just how to talk things out and how to work things out Y'all. I'm sitting crisscross and my legs are starting to hurt. I got to remember that I'm old and I can't sit like that no more. When I finish recording, my hips is going to be hurting. So that's my injury for this sports related episode.
Speaker 1:But it teaches them good social skills and I like how, when I see kids playing and how they lift each other up and how they encourage each other, and this is just, it just warms my heart. Like when I see New Face talking to his teammates when they're doing their time trials and stuff, how he's cheering them on, how they're cheering him on. It's just, it's just really good to see. And you know we all need social skills because I don't know, in today's age it just seems like nobody got no social skills, like we just out here, just I don't know, ain't being social and the skills ain't social. We just out here speaking to people and the skills ain't social, they ain't sociable, they ain't appropriate, they not polite. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:So, looping back to injuries 2.6 million, 2.6 million, 2.6 million trips are made to the emergency room each year and I can say probably a million of them is new face, maybe a million and one. But 2.6 children have to go to the emergency room each year due to sports-related injuries each year due to sports related injuries. That that sounded like a lot, but probably it's probably not like. When you think about the the grand scheme of things, it's probably not actually. Um, it's probably not actually a lot. You know, and you know the most common type of injuries kids sustain that make them go to the emergency room are wrist injuries, because when they fall, you know your instinct is just to put your hands out or whatever and you fall. That's one of the most type of common injuries and that is new faces sustain that like two or three times.
Speaker 1:So polar buddy, his little hand, probably like why me, why me? And I'll be like why you? Little right hand and he's right-handed too which make it even worse. So y'all can. Y'all can just know that I've done a lot, of, a lot of homework over the past eight years.
Speaker 1:Um, ankle sprains, because you know they get moving too fast and then you try to look, I'm trying to show y'all and hit the mic. You know you try to do a little, one, two and the ankles is like wait a minute, wait a minute. One a time, you know one direction at a time, you know. So they sprained their ankle and I I don't care. Ankle sprains hurt and they don't feel good. And let me see, has New Face had that happen too? No, he has not had an ankle sprain. That's one of the ones. He has not had Concussions.
Speaker 1:Like I said, concussions are very. Kids don't even know that they be having concussions and they be wanting to go out there and play, but like you shouldn't. Concussions are bad and as a parent it's very scary for you because you have to watch your kid, because your kid has hit their head or something has hit their head and you know it's a little scrambled up in there. You know you got to wait for the. It's like a snow globe. You shake a snow globe open. You know you got to wait for all the little stuff to settle back down in the snow globe and that's kind of like what a concussion is. You know you just get all shook up in there and you got to wait for it to all falls down. Yeah, you gotta wait for it to all fall down and get back settled.
Speaker 1:And then one of the newer I'm not gonna say newer, but it's something that's starting to happen more frequently is cardiac issues. I know there have been a lot of kids who have passed away or who have suffered cardiac issues and it's very alarming and it almost begs the question of should we start adding EKGs and things like that to a sports physical just to ensure that kids are not having these issues? Because from when I've taken both of the kids to get sports physicals, ekg and cardiac function has never been one of the things that they have had done. So, you know, it's kind of it's like should we be adding this in, just so we know that way we're being, you know, we're being proactive, you know, and trying to get ahead of something, and then that in the event that they do have something, we can go ahead and treat it that way. They can still continue to play sports versus something happening, and then we have to take it from there and then the child ended up not being able to play sports again, you know. So it's kind of like a toe edge sort. Almost Luckily, you know, neither one of the boys have had cardiac issues, but every year when we go back. I make sure you know that. You know, if there is something that I've noticed or something like that, I'm always telling the doctor like, hey, so can we do this? And New Pace has had the same doctor since he was four, so he's had the same doctor for 10 years. So his doctor has gotten to see him grow and he's very good about listening to what it is that I have to say when it comes to his health and we collaborate like that.
Speaker 1:Some of the things making sure how you keep your kids safe. You know, because, as a parent, we always want our kids safe and we're going to do whatever we need to do to keep our kids safe. What you, one of the things you can do is ensuring that your kid gets a physical every year. I know sometimes it can be time consuming and things like that. However, make sure you're going to your child's pediatrician or their primary care to get their physical.
Speaker 1:I know there's a lot of places like urgent care or the little clinics or whatever that you can go, pay and get your child's physical. But think about it these people don't know your child, they don't know your child's history, they don't have anything to base. You know if there's a pattern or a trend going on, their job is to provide a physical for your child in the present, you know. So they can present today and they can look just fine. But if they go to their primary, their primary can look at them now and they can look back on however long they've been getting physicals to make sure that there's not something that you guys have been watching and it's trending in the wrong direction and they can kind of grow and keep an eye versus if your child had something y'all were looking at last year and they're like you know we'll check on it this year, but this year rolls around and you haven't had the time to take your child to get a physical and you're just like I'm going to go up the street to the urgent care real quick and pay this little forty five dollars, get them a physical right and then God forbid they get out there playing their sport, their respective sport, and then something happens.
Speaker 1:So, parents, I know it's time consuming and you know we already got a million things going on, because we know the life of a sports parent is nonstop, that it's like seven days a week, like, even though they don't do something, seven days a week. They still need something seven days a week pertaining to sports. So just make sure you take that time and plan ahead like okay, I know New Face needs his physical. It's due every July, so I'm going to, with it being April, I'm gonna make sure in a couple of months because you can schedule 60 days out I'm going to make sure that next month I call and make him an appointment for his physical, because he got a host of health issues and I as a parent would not feel comfortable taking him to an urgent care or some other kind of little place to get a physical. Knowing that he has extensive medical issues. I would be doing him a disservice by taking him somewhere and not taking him to his doctor. That way his doctor can document how he is and then, if there's anything that we have been watching over the last, say, few years, we can have a. You know he's got his baseline. He can take a look and see. Make sure you know like, hey, you know he's still on the right track, or hey, mom, this is been coming up, so you know I think we need to go ahead and act on this or something like that. I always follow up with him having asthma. I always follow up with his pulmonologist every three to four months just to make sure he is doing well, if we need to taper his medications or what we need to do.
Speaker 1:But you are your parent, you are your child's parent. Do what you need to do, do what you feel best, if urgent care physicals work best for you not saying that's bad, but do what it is that you got to do. Another way to keep your child safe is to whatever. So coaches and staff. They kind of get an overview of your child and their physical. They don't know everything. So if there's other things, make sure you communicate that with your child's coach in their staffing team. That way, in the event that you know something happens to your child and they have to call someone and you're not there, they know what to tell them. Like if I'm you know, if something happens, they can tell like, hey, you know this child is new face and you know he's asthmatic and you know these are his allergies, blah, blah, blah, blah. Just make sure you communicate that, like with coaches and staff so that they know and they can better assist your child.
Speaker 1:Um, and then, of all things, allow your child rest days we want was best for our child. We all do. We all do. However, just like we are adults, I gotta stick my other leg out. Now. Y'all come help help hip injury. Um, we, just as we, as adults, we take time for rest. Just because they're kids and they're younger don't mean they bodies don't need rest as well. They probably need more rest because they are growing. So, as much as we want our children to succeed, remember helping them to succeed also looks like rest mental rest, physical rest also looks like rest mental rest, physical rest. You know our bodies need rest. They little bodies need rest. So make sure you are allowing your child the time to rest.
Speaker 1:And one thing I also do with New Face is I get him like an Epson style kind of bubbly bath type of thing. That way he can sit and soak, you know, because, like, soaking the body is good. Sometimes we go to the gym and he'll do his laps in the pool and then he'll get in a hot tub after that. That's how he unwinds his body. He's to the age where he can unwind, he knows how to unwind his body and you know, all kids are not that age, like smaller kids, like under 10, but he's 14. He knows how to unwind his body and I wholeheartedly support how he unwinds his body. He also unwinds and relaxes his body by making sure he drink on water to keep him from cramping, and things like that.
Speaker 1:Now let's talk about the dirty side of sports. Okay, youth sports at that. Um, parents, some of y'all parents is a little out of control, like y'all. Y'all too old to be acting the way y'all acting. These kids are kids and we always say you gotta let kids be kids. Well, how come that don't translate over into sports? How come let kids be kids doesn't translate into sports? How come, when kids have a disagreement on the field, why do parents like? Why y'all feel like? Why do parents feel like they gotta jump in, they gotta intervene their kids, they know how to work it out? Like they don't need they don't need your, they don't need your help. Like they got.
Speaker 1:Like parents like there is no reason that you should be at a game or an event being anything but respectable. Because if you, as the parent, are not being respectable, what example are you showing to not only your child but these other kids? Because the one thing that I don't want to happen is them to say new face, mama, marco Polo's mama is cutting up. No, if I got an issue, I'm gonna address it quietly, I'm not gonna be yelling, I'm not gonna be causing a scene, because think about that, that's embarrassing to the child. And then you got all these other people around and then people like, oh, I ain't gonna let my child hang out with them because, like like she don't know how to control herself, like like my child not finna be around, that like we, we ain't gotta cuss, we don't, we don't have to act out to get our point across. And then that right there causes the other parents to get enraged. And when those parents get enraged it just catches like wild. And now you got parents cussing, you got parents fighting and it's a child's game.
Speaker 1:And sometimes I almost feel like I almost feel like some games should be played without spectators, because I feel like the spectators make it worse for the kids, and a lot of time the spectators that are having the issue are not even spectators of a particular child or a particular team. They just come out because it's events I know here in Tampa. I want to say it was a few years ago, but there was a disagreement at a little League football game I don't know if it was a game or if it was like a jamboree or what have you but parents were shooting. What at a Little League football enrages you so much that you have to start shooting and putting the lives of hundreds in danger, like so unnecessary, so uncalled for? Because what if a child would have got hit? What if a child would have got hit and killed over two grown people and it's mostly men? Nobody should have to die because two grown men can't agree on something.
Speaker 1:So sometimes I feel like, especially with football games, because I feel like football games and basketball games are the two games that the spectators get a little wild at. I almost feel like those two type of events shouldn't have any spectators at all Because you know, like I said, one bad apple spoils a bunch. But I feel like people don't know how to act in some of these games sometimes and it's embarrassing to the kids. You know the kids are just out there to have fun, be competitive. There's a way to be competitive and there's a respectful way to be competitive and I just don't think that the parents are showing respectful competitiveness. And we got to understand we can't live vicariously through. Our kids can't do that, you know, because y'all a parent down the line, can you know, be out there yipping and yapping and causing problems how you know it's not recruits and scouts in the stands watching these games, but they see how you act and they want to recruit your kid but they don't want to recruit your kid because they see when they recruit your kid act and they want to recruit your kid but they don't want to recruit your kid because they see when they recruit your kid that they're going to be recruiting you and your problems as well and them. People don't be wanting that for their programs and organizations. Don't. Nobody want that. I definitely.
Speaker 1:If I was a scout or recruiter and I seen how some of these parents act and like why, as parents, are we fighting kids? Like I've seen several videos where parents are fighting kids. Like what makes your grown behind want to fight kids? Oh, because they was messing with my child. Okay, your child needs to defend theyself. And if you feel like your child cannot defend theyself, then if you feel like your child cannot defend theyself, then you need to go through the proper channels. You fighting the kid ain't going to do nothing, because now that's child abuse, because you done put your hand on somebody's child and with child abuse, depending on how severe it is or how the coach treats you, they can say you can't be around children, including your own, so you willing to take that risk, that gamble, all because somebody was messing with your baby. Now, if another adult was messing with your baby, I get it, but a kid and you're going to do that, like that's just dumb, like that's just stupid.
Speaker 1:I remember one time when my son was playing football, when New Face was playing football, I got into it with the coach's wife because I was like you know, right is right and wrong is wrong. There's other people's kids on the team. You know your child is not the star, you know, and we had already built this team, and then you come in and then you mess up the dynamic of you know of it all because you want your kid to have playing time. You know why you have all these other kids who are sitting on the bench. How do you know a child is good if you never play them? So that was, that's how that go, and you don't. I don't argue with people. You know. If you, if you right, then okay, go ahead be right. I mean, it don't even um, it don't even make me none like I'm, I just it's whatever. I mean, do do you cause? At the end of the day, it's all about the kids and us as parents. We make so many sacrifices when it comes to our kids playing sports and new faces on a swim team, and he'll be in high school next year, so I know there'll be meets or what have you, and I already know I'm finna be strung out like from here, there and everywhere. But I wouldn't trade it for the world because it brings him joy and it brings me joy to see him happy. Now you can't make this up. My this can't make you up.
Speaker 1:This week is um about new face, of course, cause y'all love these new face stories and I don't understand how y'all love these new face stories. New face was playing soccer and they had a um, they had a potluck. So I'm bringing a chicken. You know, um, you're not really allowed to bring. Well, the rules are a little different when it's sports. You know, you bring the little stuff, but we don't eat from everybody house. So I went to Publix, got some chicken and you know, wham bam, we there, whatever, whatever. So the next day new face gets sick and you know to the point where he had to go to the hospital and I like okay, food poisoning y'all.
Speaker 1:This boy got so sick from that potluck. He was in the hospital for five days and lost 10 pounds. They don't even know what he had like. They did all these blood tests and they said we don't know what he had. Like boy was sick as a dog. I mean sick as a dog like oh my gosh. So when he have sports and stuff and they have potlucks and stuff, I feed him either before or after the said potluck, because we're not finna. Go down that road. He traumatized, I'm traumatized. I might let him have a cupcake or something like that, but when it comes to food he can't handle that because we're not finna. Go that down this road, um, and we're not finna. Go and end up back up in um children's hospital.
Speaker 1:Okay, so for my song of my lyric song of the week, um, of course um of it's going to be a song dealing with sports. Of course it is so. For my song of the week is we Are the Champions by Queen. We are the champions. I don't know the rest of the words. I'm not finna, embarrass myself like that, but thank y'all for tuning in for another week of the gag is podcast. I am your girl, charlie Shantae. Please remember to like, download, subscribe, go, follow us over on Instagram at the gag is pod. Hit us up on YouTube where you can watch the visual of this and if you want to collaborate you want to be a guest on the show or anything hit me at thegagispod at gmailcom. That's down in the description box if you forget it. Yeah, so until next week. Bye, guys.