An Overdue Weekly Savage Update

Savage stays busy. Sometimes we all just need to take a breath. That's the challenge waiting for you in this episode...

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ooh seven. I like to keep it real simple, all right.
I think I took last week off. I can't even
remember at this point, but this is my weekly, maybe
week and a half. I don't even know. I don't
even know what this. This is just my update, y'all.

(00:21):
This is my update of my life. And what's that
going on? I swear another week. I feel like I
blink and it's gone. I was having a conversation with
Josh that I feel like my minutes are more like hours,
and my hours are more like days. I know, I
know someone out there understands what I mean by that. Legit,

(00:44):
something happened maybe this morning, and I'm like, did that
happen yesterday or the day before? Uh No, it happened
this morning. So I don't know if that just means
that I'm literally running around like a chicken with my
head cut off, or that means I'm busy and that's
a good thing, because I feel like people with my
personality like to be busy and stay busy. So maybe

(01:05):
we don't realize how busy we are until it gets
to a point where we're like, oh, dang, hold on,
I need a second. So with that being said, I
know people out there totally get that, but this week
was pretty crazy. Radio show on Monday, I don't even

(01:26):
remember the day. I got to hang out with another couple,
which you're going to hear their podcast on Wednesday. The
Theed Couple. Really really like them a ton. I've been
really lucky as far as guests go, that they really
seem like genuine, good people. So I love that. I

(01:47):
love that when they come in, and maybe it's just
the fact that I get to hang out with them
and learn more about them and we talk even more
than what you hear on the podcast. So I think
we probably maybe had a conversation for about an hour
and a half two hours beforehand, and then I was like,
we gotta get recorded. Maybe yeah, I had to be
almost an hour and a half easily, and I was like,

(02:08):
we got we gotta get recording, because we just both
were excuse me, all three of us, We're just chit
chatting away and it was fun. It was fun to
get to learn who they are because you see people
you know behind the screen, You're like, oh, they seem genuine,
or they seem nice, or they seen this, or they
seem that it's really good when you get to meet
someone and you're like, Wow, their personality matches up with

(02:31):
the same personality that you see online. And look, no
disrespect to anyone. If you're playing a game and that's
your hustle of Okay, I'm playing a character. I'm playing
a game, and everyone knows that, then then that's good.
I just think I'm at a point where I want
to surround my people, you know, myself, I should say,

(02:52):
I want to surround myself with people that are genuinely
good people. And you know what, people make mistakes, people
do things, whatever, But I'm talking about people who seem
to genuinely care that It's not this facade and it's
not Oh, I'm only going to care when it's convenient
for me, Like, I honestly want to surround myself with

(03:13):
good people. So meeting this eater couple, I really like them.
I can't wait to do more things with them, more
fun stuff. We met at the studio, hung out there,
then we met later on at a place called Main Event.
I don't know who has them. I don't know if
it's a Midwest thing. I really don't know. I'm not
really sure, but most people know what Damon Busters is

(03:36):
Damon Busters. You know, games, claw machines, video games, skill games,
all of that stuff. So main event has bowling. They
also have laser tag. Then they have this. I think
it's like a tight rope type walking thing above all
of the games and the claw machines and all of

(03:56):
the skills stuff, which is pretty cool. I did not
end up doing that. I don't know if they did
that before we got there. I don't believe that they did.
But we got to hang out, play games together, watch them,
watch them do their live. I really like being able
to watch what other people do. So obviously I do
my own lives and people come in and hang out

(04:18):
on the live, but being able to watch someone outside
of my live or Josh's live watching them do their
thing and respecting them and enjoying watching their content, that
was really fun. That was really fun to see that
and see the people that are interacting and watching them
do their skill games and how good they are and
how they've mastered certain things. I really appreciated that, and

(04:43):
I don't know, it kind of took me back. I
was telling them the story that the first time that
I saw them, and the reason I kind of got
caught in their live and hung out and watched them.
Was I believe I was nine or ten, and we
were at Kings Island, because we're not very far from
King's Island, so at King's Island, and it's like these
giant whiffle balls and you throw them into these goblets,

(05:08):
and the different colored goblets you win prices. So most
of the goblets are either clear or white. And then
if you land in a certain color like a blue
or red or pink or something like that. I want
to say it was a pink goblet and there was
only one and my ball landed in that, and I
was nine or ten, and I was freaking so pumped
because it lands in there, and I got the biggest

(05:30):
prize you could get. And I'm telling you right now,
my bright red hair, a little tank top, these terry
cloth shorts, and some freaking tube socks up to my knees.
But the biggest cheesy smile. Probably a little snaggle too
there a little I had a gap in my teeth
in the two front teeth when I was little, and

(05:50):
I was cheesing like no other because I was so
freaking happy that I won that bear. Now, look, it
was a bear probably awful wish that was supposed to
look like Yogi bear or something like that, but I
did not care. I won that bear. I carried that
bear around the entire time we were at King's Island
because I wanted everybody to know, everybody to know that
I want that stinking bear. So I just had that

(06:13):
memory flood in when I was watching them play games
and I told them, I told them that story. I said,
this is one of the reasons why. It just makes
you feel like a kid again. It makes you just,
i don't know, take that take that step back and
kind of escape a little bit. So I appreciate their content.
They do a ton of lives. They their I guess
short form, which would be like videos. They don't do

(06:35):
as many of those as I don't believe they do
as many of those as they do their lives. But
I always catch their lives. I don't I really see
their videos. I always see their live feeds, especially the
one that gets me the most, And I don't know
if people are you know other people like this. It's
the ladder, the one where it's like you're suspended. The ladder'

(06:55):
is suspended and you have to climb up the ladder
and ring the bell or toot the horn or whatever
it might be like where you're at, but you always
flip off the ladder. I don't even care. I don't
care if I accidentally walk by it. And at festival
at an amusement park, that's hooking me for a while
because you try to like usually the bird's like okay, okay,
I think they're gonna make it. Oh no, no, they're definitely
not gonna make it. And people surprise you. So I

(07:17):
always get hooked on that one. Anytime I see them
doing that or anyone doing that, I definitely get hooked
on that one. So that was a lot of fun
getting to hang out with them doing the podcast, then
being a mom doing all the mom things. My son
start school tomorrow. Well this is gonna air Monday, so today,

(07:38):
and he is in fifth grade, and that is hard
to wrap my head around. He's grown. He's like five
foot three, size ten shoe and now going into the
fifth grade. It is literally smacked me in the face.
There's still things that I'm like, he's still my little boy,
but it just is. It's coming. It's coming. Where there's

(07:58):
gonna be a day that he's just like, well, Mom,
you know I love you, but i'll see you for
bedtime basically, so I know that's coming and I'm just
trying to hold on. But he had soccer, he played soccer,
So being a soccer mom, going back and forth to practices,
trying to get dinner. Listen, anyone that wants to sponsor
me for meals not meal prep, because let's be honest,

(08:22):
even if y'all send me a box, I'm just kidding,
maybe I would do that. But even if you sent
me a box and said, hey, put this together or
cook this, I don't even know if i'd have time
to do that. I feel like I need meals just
served up where I can pull out of the fridge
and be like, Okay, this is my go to. This
is what we're gonna do, and do not at me
because I'm going to use a microwave ors so I

(08:43):
don't care. I literally now I have to tell you
this too. I'll come back to it. But I went
gluten free, so we'll come back to that. But I
feel like going back and forth with the soccer mom stuff,
having meetings, radio, podcasts, videos, lives, all of that stuff.
I wouldn't trade it. For anything in the world. Anything,

(09:04):
I absolutely love it. But being busy, there's certain things
that I feel like, when you have a million things
going on, something I feel like has to suffer. And
in my house, I'm telling you, it is the food.
Like I try to keep healthy food in there, but
then I'll look in the fridge. I swear for God,
I'll look in that fridge after I've gone to the

(09:25):
grocery store and I'm like, I don't have anything to eat,
and it's just it's making it, it's cooking it, it's
putting it together. It's all those things. So if there
was a meal company that's like, we're good, we're gluing
for the Listen, we got you here. You go, just
take out the fridge, popping the microwave, pop in the oven.
We got you. Hit me up or you guys can
send me a DM or you know, do your thing,

(09:45):
let me know, alert the press, whatever it might be,
let me know, because I have to. I have to
get on that. Seriously. At this point, it's like, Okay,
at six o'clock, what am I gonna do for dinner? Uh?
Who am I calling? Who's del what? Door to Ashley?
It's it's getting out of control. It's literally getting control.
And then in the the one that really just works

(10:08):
my nerves. Breakfast, Okay, fine, you can have cereal. Okay fine.
There's only so much cereal that you can have, and
then you get tired of it and you don't feel full.
Okay fine. I have my protein shake where I put
its pea protein right instead of the way protein or soy,
so it's pea protein. Okay, fine, chocolate protein. Then I
put a scoop of peanut butter in there, put my

(10:30):
banana in there, put my ice in there, put my
water taste like a shake. Okay fine, all right. Eggs.
There's only freaking so many ways that you can make eggs.
Outside of that? What else can I have for breakfast?
I need somebody and something. Okay, it will time out.
Because I said I went gluten free, French toast is
my go to. I love it. I would eat it

(10:50):
probably every day. But because I went gluten free, I
can't have that. And I've tried two different kinds of
breads and they do not taste good at all at all.
And I'm finding myself looking for gluten free junk food.
What is wrong with me? I legit need some kind
of meal service. This is gonna say, Okay, we got you.

(11:11):
Says here, here is a good healthy meal. Sprinkled it
a little bit of junk food maybe, or sprinkled it whatever,
but here's a good healthy meal. You just pop in
in a way. You go, Okay, let's talk about why
the whole gluten free. It's about to get real. I
am sure there are many of you out there that
are the same way, and I'm not even a thousand
percent sure that this is what the issue was, but

(11:33):
I'm gonna go ahead and research it. So two and
a half years ago, two years ago, I had a
kolonoscopede done because they say they're supposed to do that
now at forty five and not fifty. And I will
tell you it saved my neighbor's life. So go check
with your doctor, little PSA. If that is your age, right,

(11:53):
or you're around that, or you're past that, you need
to talk to your doctor. So I had a kolonoscapede done.
I was having lots of just constipation bloating, and I'm
telling you, I know so many people are the same way.
The bloat game was on point. Like I would be
like master chief level if someone had to like rank
me in the bloat game, and it'd be funny because

(12:14):
I would do videos and someone's like, oh my gosh,
she put on waiter. Oh my god, is she preak? No,
I'm gassy, I'm bloated. Calm down, relax, Let me go
take a dump, Let me let that gas out, and
maybe it'll look different. But it was at a point
where in the morning I would look in the mirror
and my stomach will be I'm not gonna say super flat,

(12:34):
like you know, washboard flat, but my stomach will be flat.
Then by the end of the night, I'm like, dang,
I don't even want anything on my stomach. So I
got the kolonoscopy done. They're like, there's you know, little
polyoper or whatever here. We took that out in a
big deal, blah blah blah, but no, we don't see
any allergens or anything like that. Okay. Well, the week
before that, I was like, I'm gonna go gluten free

(12:56):
and just see. I'm gonna see whether or not this
is an issue until they tell me yes or no.
So I went gluten free and I felt completely different.
Had the kolonoska be done. They're like, nop, don't worry
about it. I went back on gluten and I'm like, okay, fine,
and it is nuts. The cycle that I have will
be like I'm fine, I can eat whatever. I can
eat whatever. I'm still bloated. But you just it's annoying

(13:18):
because you just get used to it. It's almost like, okay,
well this is just normal for me, Like this is
just what I want to do. And then maybe every
other month it's like, okay, it is real. The bowels
moving is all that stuff is real? Like it's insane.
I just got tired of the Okay, this is just normal.

(13:39):
I'm like, I got to figure out what this is.
Whether I need to add more water. I've been drinking
at least sixty four ounces of water. I'm like, I
think it's sixty four hold on, yeah, sixty four ounces.
I had to do the mouth real quick, so I've
been drinking my water. Maybe that's it doing me relax,
which was what my doctor told me I should be doing.
The gastro was like, yeah, I do that, and then
don't do as much like cut back, do half whatever.

(14:01):
So you put me on that regiment. Sometimes I forget
so I was like, maybe that's the case, Maybe that's
what it's gonna be. I did not think this is
the way that my review of the week, my recap
was gonna go about boop. But that's okay, here we are.
So I said, I'm gonna figure out what else it is.
Is it because I need to increase my fiber? Is
it because I need to just get rid of process food?

(14:21):
What in the heck is this? What is going on
that I need to shift around? So I was like,
I'm gonna go back and I'm gonna go gluten free again,
because that week and a half, almost two weeks that
I went gluten free was freaking phenomenal. It just felt
so I felt so different. I didn't feel heavy, I
didn't feel bloated. So I've been gluten free now for

(14:41):
about two and a half weeks, and I have to
say I feel different. I definitely definitely feel like less bloated,
less heavy. Here's the crazy thing. And I'm not an
advocate saying you should do this. You should whatever, do
what you feel is right for you, research whatever whatever

(15:02):
you need to do. But I when gluten free and
I was like, I'm going to weigh myself I'm just
gonna check this out. I'm going to see if it's
a big difference. I'm going to see what's going on.
And I believe three and a half pounds was what
I stepped on the scale, like what the difference was
in less than two weeks. So my I don't know
if I was just huller shit, it's probably or you know,

(15:27):
is it that I mean healthier as well? So there's
not a lot lack of carbs for sure. The carb
game is like minimal, very minimal, trying to find things
gluten free when we're out. It's not very easy to
go grab something which I didn't eat a lot of
fast food anyway, like I would get Jimmy John's subway

(15:49):
things like that, but I didn't do a lot of
the fried food, So I can't say that that's eh,
that's hard hard, But it's hard knowing that I can't
go to the same place and find something that's gluten free,
even if it's a salad or whatever that might not
be gluten free. So then I got to go find
a different place or go to the few places that

(16:10):
I know for sure. So it is hard because you
don't realize how many things have that gluten in it
and all that stuff, but it's doable. Again, it makes
me have to plan out, which, like I said, when
you're doing like bazillion things, something suffers, and I think
the food thing suffers. So if you guys have any recommendations,

(16:30):
please set me up and let me know for sure.
But that's something else I have been working on the
last couple of weeks. So hanging out, being a soccer mom,
being whatever it is, I'm being radio podcasts, all that
fun stuff. I also, I know people or should know
this about me. Giving back is more important than I

(16:55):
think most people know about me. I leave on like, hey, yeah,
I've done a few things, but I haven't gone into
great detail every single time of this is what I
just did, this is what I'm doing, this is what
I'm doing. So I feel like I might need to
make a better effort, not necessarily saying exactly what it is,
but making sure people know, hey, this is what I'm

(17:17):
working on, or this is kind of where my heart is.
So make a wish is very near and dear to
my heart. And if you don't know this story, I'll
tell you the story super quick. Josh, my boyfriend, sent
my son axe lottles. He sent my son these axe lottles.
They ended up not making it one there were three.
One didn't even make it from the mail. It was
gone before we even got it. The other two lasted

(17:40):
a month or less. And he loved those things, and
he was devastating. So I was not happy with him.
I didn't talk to him for almost a month. But
when he told me like I was just trying to
make him happy, I'm so sorry. I was like this.
He said he wanted him, he wanted him, he wanted them.
It was his dream, that was his wish. I was like,
this does not make a wish. He did not have
this grandiose wish and requite like no, So I challenged

(18:02):
him and myself, I said, I am now going to
go to make a wish and work with them, and
you have to do the same down in your area.
So last year I went and I worked with them
last August, so it's been a year. Was able to
help grant a kiddo's wish, was able to be a
part of another one. So anyhow, long story short, this
past Saturday, I went to their gala or gala some

(18:24):
people call it gala some people call it gala, but
it's a big fundraising event. It's their large fundraising event
for Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana and they actually raise a
record breaking amount for them this year. So I was
so so excited to be a part of that and
help out in any way that I could help out.
But they are amazing everything that they do, the wishes

(18:46):
that they grant, the lives that they touch, the family everything.
It is just if you have a chance to get
involved in any capacity, I would definitely say, even if
you volunteer for something, I would definitely say, find to
make a Wish in your area, reach out to them.
That's what I did. I just reached out and things
just kept going from there. I will also have an

(19:08):
event in October. I will start releasing some things here
soon now that their gala is over. I will release
dates and what we were doing for the fundraiser for October.
So their fiscal year ends in a couple of days,
so I will have their first, like really really big
fundraiser for next year. So I'm super excited about that.

(19:29):
So after the Make a Wish Gala, game back got
in bed. Had to get up early the next day
because my son was in a tournament this weekend, so
it was game game, I don't know. I think I
had something pressing. And then I had the make a
wish event and then wake up another game, and then

(19:50):
another game, and in between trying to do a little
bit of work stuff. So the weekend was a little crazy.
And now, like I said, it will air Monday morning.
I normally do these Sunday night. My son's starting the
fifth grade, and I had to get everything ready. I
rechecked all the school supplies. I'm sure, Mom, Dad, whoever's listening,

(20:12):
I'm sure you did the same thing. You know, you
bought all the school supplies. You've had them for a month,
or had them for however long. You got to recheck
them at least three, four or five times because you
don't want to send them to school without the required
pencils or glue or scissors or Clorox whites or whatever
it is. I had to make sure that I had
all of it. So I did that this afternoon. In

(20:33):
between games. I said, we gotta do this, we gotta
do that. We got to pick out your outfit. We
have to do all these fun things. And I don't know,
I'm sure everyone's back to school at this point. But
I started this his kindergarten year, his I guess open house.
His teacher gave him this little thing and it was
called Ready Confetti, And you read this poem and you

(20:53):
put the confetti underneath your pillow, which is super sweet,
and you go to sleep, and then you're supposed to
have the best for stay in the best year possible.
And since he was five, right since kindergarten up until
even last year, he'd put it under his pillow. And
I promise you that would stay under his pillow for

(21:14):
as long as he would let me keep it there.
So I don't want to be like, oh no, I
never washed his sheets or anything, but it was one
of those things that would take the confetti, take the
sheets off, put it back underneath his pillow, and he
loved having it there. So I'd put it on the
night stand as I was washing the sheets and stuff
and put it back and yeah, yeah, yeah, please put that,
put it back, put it back in there. So I

(21:34):
made the confetti this year for him. It's sitting right
here as I'm looking at it and realizing all of
these things that we do for our kiddos are so special,
not just for them, but for us and all of
the memories and traditions that you're starting. I know he's
going to remember this. I know if he becomes a

(21:56):
dad one day, he's going to want to do this
for his kiddos. And reading the book at night and
laying out the outfit, you know, the night before the
first day, and just all of those things. It's really
cool to know that you've started a tradition and it's
something that your kid would look forward to year after year.
So I'm looking at this cyam and green and red

(22:20):
and light blue confetti just waiting for me to put
under his pillow tonight and read his little poem. And
with that, I guess I just have to say, no
matter how busy we are, no matter how busy you are,
these little things matter so much. And I don't want
to regret, Hey, I was too busy to do this

(22:41):
little traditioner. I was too busy for whatever he might need.
So I'm going to challenge you and myself to take
a breath, definitely make sure that you are doing those
little things that are so important to you, your kiddos,
your significant other, family or friends, and on that note

(23:07):
I'm out.