The Gag is… Podcast
The GAG is" is a powerful podcast that takes you on a journey through the life of a remarkable black woman who defied the odds. Charli Shanta became a teen mom and a widow by 21. Now in her mid 30’s life has been unpredictable, she’s faced unimaginable adversity yet she's never given up. Join Charli as she shares her inspiring story, offering a message of resilience and hope even if it isn’t always perfect. Discover that even in the darkest times there are better days ahead. Laughter can always follow tears.
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The Gag is… Podcast
Confronting Cleanliness: Hygiene Habits, Roommate Realities, and Restaurant Revelations
TO CELEBRATE THE 1ST ANNIVERSARY OF THE SHOW, WE ARE THROWING IT BACK TO THE VERY FIRST EPISODE!!
Ever found yourself stuck in a standoff with a pile of dirty dishes or a laundry basket that's become a Mount Everest of socks? Join us for a hilarious and eye-opening conversation with Marco Polo as we confront the messy realities of adulting. We dish out personal stories and experiences, shedding light on the surprising (and sometimes gross) habits people have around cleanliness. From neglected shared spaces to the mystery of why some people just don't shower, we explore how these habits can make or break relationships and ruffle social norms. Laughter is our tool, and honesty is our weapon as we encourage you to reflect on your own hygiene practices and their impact on your daily life.
We also venture into the wild world of living spaces, where the battle against bugs and odors gets real. The challenges of cohabitating with less-than-tidy roommates are on full display, as we explore the art of maintaining peace when standards don't align. Swing by the nostalgic corner as we reminisce about the unforgettable series exposing dirty restaurants and the hygiene nightmares lurking there, while pondering the need for such public awakenings to return. Share your own roommate horror stories or restaurant grievances with us, as we wrap up with a heartwarming message of peace, love, and respect.
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Speaker 2:Hello, welcome to the Unpredictable Lifestyle. I'm your girl, charli Chanté. I got my boy, marco Polo, with me. It is the first episode.
Speaker 1:First episode.
Speaker 2:First one out here. It's only my first day out here, it's only my first day out here.
Speaker 1:It's only my first day out here.
Speaker 2:It's my first day out here and let's see how this goes, how you feeling today. I'm chilling.
Speaker 1:Me too, Thinking about some food.
Speaker 2:Food is always good. Food is always good. You know, you ain't eat, ain't no breakfast, so you just hungry, ok, so let's go ahead and jump right in. So adulting. Who raised you? Because there's some adults out here, somebody need to talk to y'all, so it's going to be me.
Speaker 2:Let's have a conversation about you, the things you do and why you do those things specifically around my age, the young adults, because y'all just nasty nasty like you was nasty like that, then you out here in the world being nasty like why we got to be subjected to your nastiness like everybody don't want to be exposed to that. We don't know you. We don't want to be exposed to your nastiness.
Speaker 1:It's nasty I think they just nasty. I think they're just nasty like especially when I was in the dorms thinking, oh, somebody else gonna clean up no, no because now I can't even cook food because I gotta clean off the stove and I'm not doing that. I'm not clean up after me, no, because now I can't even cook food because I got to clean off the stove and I'm not doing that. I'm not cleaning up after nobody else, man.
Speaker 2:You don't clean up after grown folks.
Speaker 1:No I don't.
Speaker 2:Now you see how I be feeling. Sometimes. I'm going to clean up after grown folks. Okay, folks, okay. So since we're on a topic of nasty, I decided let's look up some nasty things you know like what is considered nasty people's homes people's homes. If your house is nasty, why do you invite people over like, is there no shame there? No, oh, let me clean up a little bit before someone comes over, like you just inviting people to your house and your house isn't clean, why?
Speaker 1:Why would you do that? There's some stuff I'll let slide, but if it's not like, you ain't take the laundry out the washing machine for two weeks.
Speaker 2:What does that smell like?
Speaker 1:You know what it smells like. Well, no, I take my laundry out as soon as it's done. But like you know, when you leave it in over, like accidentally overnight in a washing- machine you got to rewash it. Put a smell on it, put a smell, m put a smell mildew like mildew, like you smell and you like oh yeah, or mildew and you like oh, like, yeah, like you gotta. You can re-wash it or like we just gonna throw this away Like a week old shower towel, oh Like just throughout.
Speaker 2:Why y'all out here living like that? That doesn't bother you.
Speaker 1:You don't smell that. That's how you live.
Speaker 2:And the crazy part about it I see people live like that and they got partners and spouses.
Speaker 1:I've seen this one TikTok where this girl discovered her boyfriend doesn't actually shower and I was like what do you mean?
Speaker 2:doesn't actually shower, like he don't get in there and turn the water on.
Speaker 1:He just stands in there and let the water. He don't actually like soap. None of that.
Speaker 2:Huh, mm-hmm, did burn, no, which is the worst part. So my question is and and baby, because I'm just gonna, and she probably out here. I, baby, you need help because you just as nasty as him, because that is disgusting fungus, bacteria. You putting all that in your mouth, like as soon as you found out little buddy don't shower, you got to go. I can change him. How you gonna change him, what you're gonna do? You're gonna bathe him like he's a child, a man child, no comment down below. If you found out your partner or your spouse or the person you're dating doesn't shower, would you stay with them, shower properly?
Speaker 2:they can get shower properly, like so bad, like I'm talking in between your toes. Like spread your booty cheeks, get all up in there, all up in your anatomy. Like get all up in there because I'm curious, like to know, because if you're not washing your ass, are you brushing your teeth? Because ill, ill, because hygiene is important. Me, I brush my teeth at least twice a day, at least. I'm talking brushing teeth, scrubbing my tongue, mouthwash if needed, and then, if I eat something that's stinky, I carry a toothbrush and a toothpaste with me and I'm gonna take me a bottle of water or I'm gonna go in somebody's bathroom. I'm gonna brush my teeth because you can't be out here talking to people and your breath is just like, like you
Speaker 1:can't see your breath yeah, like you and gum won't cover it up, like you're not gonna be in my face with your breath smelling like minty ass so if he don't take baths or showers and he just letting the water run like, do he get out and reapply?
Speaker 2:deodorant, I guess, and lotion, I wonder?
Speaker 1:I wonder, if you like, just scrub his like scrub his skin. It would be layers of just dirt I'm wondering what do he got rashes? He gotta have some like fungus.
Speaker 2:You gotta have something. There's no way. You bathing in, you standing in, are you mildewing? Because typically when you just let water run over something, it tends to algae and mildew. So are you.
Speaker 1:You laying on my, you laying on my sheets and you know, and you know them, sheets was white or like a cream.
Speaker 2:That is disgusting on so many levels. And then the fact that she's staying with him because she feels like she can change him. I can change him. No, baby, there's some things you can't. You might can change him, me. No, I ain't gonna be able to do it, because if he ain't handicapped and he can't bathe himself or some other excruciating or extenuating circumstance, Girl man. You big, grown out here not bathing and I bet you guys I sweat. Do you work a job?
Speaker 1:People you at work and you funky, I think I can pull up the video and show you.
Speaker 2:You at work, funky On how she found out how? How you at work and you funky and like, nobody has said anything to you. Or do you work from home? There's so many questions. I, I can't. No, like, no, because like, is your house nasty? It made me think that you got bugs flies, even because you have to smell like. Do you have to? No hell, no, ain't, no way, ain't no way and like ain't no way. Like I'm I, like I'm that during dating. Okay, so this bring me to next topic dating and nastiness. If we dating, or we trying to talk or something, yes, why no? What are you doing? What I didn't use that I didn't use that either. No, what? What did you use? The water, the water, I used the water, I used the water. How did you wash your hands? Okay, no, you can turn that off, because that's just all the way disgusting. And Buddy was dead.
Speaker 1:He's like I used water, water.
Speaker 2:What do you mean? I didn't use that. I didn't.
Speaker 1:So what do you mean? I used the water. The water cleans me.
Speaker 2:Wait a minute, I'll say okay, I've been here for three minutes so I got two more minutes. Buddy, you just standing there you might as well be sewer water because I wish I might date somebody and we laying down and you get up next thing you just put some clothes on, like you're not gonna bathe, like you just go get dressed and we gonna go.
Speaker 2:Nah because like on particular, I don't do nasty like no, no, no, like I don't, you can't. Your house can't be nasty. Your car can't be nasty? No, because I don't like bugs. So if I see bugs, then no roaches, no. So, people, please be considerate of your nasty. Your nasty should not be my nasty, it shouldn't be his nasty.
Speaker 2:We don't want to deal with that. You keep your nasty there, this line, line right here, don't cross that. Okay, you keep that over there. And then, like what, there's too many questions about this, like I'm, it's so much to unpack and I just I just so if you were talking to somebody in like the first time, you'd be like, oh okay, you know, maybe they was outside. You know, I got a little little Roma to them, you know okay.
Speaker 1:You know, spend five minutes, five minutes outside in.
Speaker 2:Florida you get a little sweaty. Florida you walk outside, you get hot. So we need a little pass for that. So if the person don't go outside and they just in the house, funky like, how do you approach that?
Speaker 1:You don't, because there ain't no reason you should be in a house funky, I agree. If you don't want to show, I don't. I don't know why. I don't know, just like I don't know what to tell you as a grown-ass adult.
Speaker 2:If you don't have some type of disability, there is no reason that you should be baby wiping off or using some other type of. I don't even know if you wash in the in the sink, like you get a rag and you do water and you do soap and stuff and then you kind of do like that because you don't want to fully get submerged. I can kind of understand that to an extent. But if this is your everyday routine, you're sick you need help.
Speaker 2:You genuinely need help. Like uh-uh, like I can't no just me personally.
Speaker 1:I just don't understand that gotta be a psychological thing, if I can smell myself. If you can smell yourself, other people can smell you worse.
Speaker 2:Yes, it ain't nothing worse than being out somewhere in public. And I smell you, I smell you, I smell you like, but I'm not standing by you. I smell you, I smell you like, but I'm not standing by you. That, my friends, is Very Disgusting, disgusting.
Speaker 1:I didn't have a roommate. I couldn't, I couldn't have a roommate.
Speaker 2:I don't have a roommate. I couldn't have a roommate Because I me, I can never make, I don't have, I couldn't. I couldn't have a roommate because I know how I like things and I know what my clean is like and then when you get a roommate unless it's somebody you kind of grew up with and you know it's clean you know it's clean, then that's okay.
Speaker 2:But just out here posting online trying to find a roommate and you're like I would like somebody that's clean. And then they're like like, oh, I'm clean. You know, I do a 21-point inspection every time I clean and things like that. But then you move in and you find out they don't flush the toilet. You find out that they got bowls and plates and spoons and cups in their room and then their bathroom look like they've been washing motors in there. I couldn't have a roommate because I would end up on one of them shows.
Speaker 1:Let me come and visit where you stayed first, before you came here.
Speaker 2:Let me see your current living conditions, your current living conditions, the space that you occupy the most, then I can make a judgment, I think. I think when you start doing that, do people actually do that?
Speaker 1:because that's I would actually do that I would actually start doing that. See what other people live before they.
Speaker 2:You invite them to come live with you but then what if they try to like, dupe you and take you to somebody's house that's clean, that they know is clean, because they know that they nasty I'm going to need to see some identification.
Speaker 1:What's that address on that ID?
Speaker 2:say oh, you like the people. I need a piece of mail with your name on it to come to this address.
Speaker 1:Okay, it's like you're applying for something. I need something that shows your address. You can't take me Something got to say, marco Polo lives in one, two, three town usa right, you can't take me to know, to know apartment in midtown east and I'm like okay, cool.
Speaker 2:But turns out you're living in the bronx, like no so they just didn't tell the truth about where they live. What did that got to do?
Speaker 1:because because it's dirty. They took you to a friend's house, to a friend's apartment, but what?
Speaker 2:if they took you to their real house and you was being biased because of where they live and you actually went to their house and it was clean.
Speaker 1:If you were, why didn't you just take me to where you live in the first place, if it was clean?
Speaker 2:Because you're stereotyped, because you already was off on the neighborhood and now you're stereotyping.
Speaker 1:I don't really care too much about the Bronx.
Speaker 2:I don't know, care too much about the Bronx. I don't know, because you can be dirty and comment down below roommates. Can you do them horror stories? Roommates outside of immediate family and friends like I need a good horror story. Like I had a roommate and you know I came home and there was on the wall. Like I need a horror story like that. Like I don't want to know, oh, they ate my food and they kept coming in my bathroom stealing my toilet paper.
Speaker 2:I don't want to hear that. I want to hear some nitty-gritty. They moved out, they took the carpet with them, they took the drywall, you know I I need to hear that they took all the knobs off the faucets. I want to hear, like that, that that's a horror story, that this has happened to somebody. We family, this has happened to somebody. I want to know. Go ahead, leave a comment down below. If you don't want to leave a comment down below, go ahead. Hit the email. Hit that email. You can remain anonymous. Like Crime Stoppers, you can remain anonymous. So moving on, moving on, moving right along, keeping with the trend of nasty. Can you deal with bugs in someone's homes outside of ants and spiders?
Speaker 1:Like roaches and bed bugs.
Speaker 2:No, so how would you address that? So like you spend a night and then you wake up and you got bed bug bites but you was on the couch, do you tell them like hey, you know, you got a little bed bug problem. Or I was on the couch. Do you tell them like hey, you know, you got a little bed bug problem?
Speaker 1:or I'll tell them so what if they be like oh yeah, I know then we're gonna have to fight at that point, because what you mean, you know. You. Let me come up in your house, sleep on your own on a surface that you know is infected with something yeah, with bugs, yeah, no, we're fighting at that point because that's disrespectful to me and we're gonna fight naked too, because I feel like at that point I can't wear any clothes because I feel like the bugs is gonna be in my clothes.
Speaker 2:So we're gonna have to fight naked because I don't want nothing to stick to me, you know. And then you run the risk of a bad bug being in your ass, like a bed bug latching onto your ass and it's like like a tick, like you got a bed bug crawling, and then it bites you on your.
Speaker 1:There's so many things okay and this okay when I was literally in the forest, I took it off in two days.
Speaker 2:Okay, we're talking about a bed bug like you was in nature, so those yeah that's what they live that's where they live. But bed bugs like you know how do you invite somebody over and you know you got pests in your home. That's over and you know you got pests in your home. That's okay. That's a different level of nasty and I'm gonna say a different level of disrespect.
Speaker 1:What if you go somewhere in public that that like frequently? But you didn't know that it was like that. That stuff was lurking in the in like a movie theater, because little tid, that's the most touristy area, so of course there's no telling what people are going to bring. That's why I stopped going to that movie theater in times square, why you thought big bucks. No, because I heard like from you brought something, no other roaches or something.
Speaker 1:No Other people said it happened to them, from multiple different people too, not even like within my friend group. So that's why I started going to like Kips Bay. It's a nice movie theater, yeah, like what? If you went somewhere like that and you found out like you brought something home from there, what you doing? You going to fight the management? No, I'm going to sue them.
Speaker 2:Because they need to get an exterminator out there immediately, immediately.
Speaker 1:Because Like a movie theater with cloth seats.
Speaker 2:Because I ain't going to lie growing up First of all. What movie theater still with cloth seats? Because I ain't no lie growing up First of all, what movie theater still has cloth seats?
Speaker 1:That's the first red flag, yeah the Times Square Theater and some of the theaters.
Speaker 2:That's the first red flag, yeah no Like.
Speaker 1:Why are we Whose couch? Whose love seat is we sitting in?
Speaker 2:I don't know no, like growing up like I never had an experience with like bugs like that, like it wasn't until like I became a big adult when I had issues with bugs. And I don't like it, like, I don't like bugs. You know, I don't like bugs. Um, florida has a lot of bugs. Florida has a lot of. So I stay inside because florida has a lot of bugs. I don't lot of bugs, so I stay inside Because Florida has a lot of bugs. I don't want to be trying to go outside the bugs, be on your front door.
Speaker 2:On the front door.
Speaker 1:They only want you to leave.
Speaker 2:The little two. That's what them two. Love bugs, love bugs, midge flies, gnats, mosquitoes, and let's not forget the little geckos. Gecko be everywhere, gecko be everywhere, gecko be everywhere. Florida got a lot of wildlife too. Right now I got a duck in my yard that done, laid some eggs, so I'm housing them. I don't even know if you call a duck pregnant or nurturing or birthing. I'm birthing people Eggs. It's a nursery, it's a wildlife sanctuary at this point, at this point. But I can't do nasty and I can't do nasty restaurants, with the exception of waffle house, I will. I refuse to eat at a clean waffle house because the last time we ate at a clean waffle house, everybody got sick. Now see if you've never been to a waffle houseaffle House, because the last time we ate at a clean Waffle House, everybody got sick.
Speaker 1:Now see if you've never been to a Waffle House or not. From the South, that does this going way over your head. It doesn't make sense, but you have to.
Speaker 2:Don't be in a commissar and say, oh my god, you gonna go to dirty people house, but you'll eat at a dirty restaurant and will.
Speaker 1:Like it's and will Like it's just something about Waffle House, that's different Waffle House hit different.
Speaker 2:okay, it hit different. If you ain't never been, you need to find your closest Waffle House. You need to do an inspection report on it. If it looked too clean, it's not the one for you, You're gonna go to the next one and you're gonna find one that got a little build up round the little waffle maker. You know, look like it got a little extra grease on the grill.
Speaker 1:You'll be like, oh, I'm gonna go, for I'm gonna go to waffle house for breakfast. That is not the time to go, because that's when it's clean, that's when it's clean.
Speaker 2:You never go to waffle house for breakfast. You need to go after a couple of folks done been through there. You know I'm saying late night when they just trying to get you your food so you can get that alcohol out your system. But that is the only restaurant that will get a pass. I, it's the only restaurant that gets a pass from me. Any other restaurant that's dirty, that's nasty, not gonna be able to do it dirty.
Speaker 1:I miss that series I wish they would bring it back.
Speaker 2:They need to because people need to know, because people need to know, it was it need to know it was messy. It was dirty. It was messy and unfortunately people started getting hepatitis. That was real crazy. You were out here spreading hepatitis. That means when you go shit you don't wash your goddamn hands. You out here touching people's food, People's raw food.
Speaker 1:I get hepatitis from a restaurant. I'm coming in fighting every cook, every manager.
Speaker 2:I ain't never heard no stories of Waffle House having hepatitis. Comment down below Is there a restaurant that you just go to, regardless of how it look, or anything like that, because sometimes you just got to go to them? Little staples like that's what make it a restaurant, that's what make it homey, like oh, like oh. I feel right at home in my community. You know, let me know, like what, what restaurant is that to you? All right? So you know, let's get on up out of here. That's a little, you know. First episode. So you know we're giving you a little feel of what to expect.
Speaker 2:You know, if you ever have any show ideas or want to get anything off your chest, you know, know, make sure you hit the email. You can be anonymous. You can put bozo the clown in your subject line or for your name. You can't remain anonymous. Anything you want to get off your chest love, hate, anything I'm here for you. Let me know. If you want advice on it, I can help you out with that too. It's's unprofessional advice. I call it street advice, you know, because the streets is watching, you know. So anything like that Peace, love, treat others the way you want to be treated.
Speaker 1:Yeah, something like that.
