What is going on? You're Robert Sykes, Keto
savage.com and we get another podcast episode for today at
this one is with my lovely wife Crystal.
We brought her on because we got some exciting news.
We want to kind of do a recap of 2024 and talk about some of the
highlights coming up in 2025, of which there are several.
One big one. So that said, let's roll the
intro and dive in. How's my hat look, Jim?
Goofbally. That looks awesome.
Like what? Goofbally.
Goofbally and. Center thing is supposed to be
in the center of your forehead, not on the side.
I like an offset. That's why you look like
goofball. Yeah, I do like goofball.
Let's just roll from right there.
We'll just start the podcast. So you call me a goofball.
All right, y'all, we got Crystal and myself.
Crystals. My wife, she's also the mother
of Rigel. Kind of interesting way to start
the podcast. How you doing, babe?
I'm doing great, doing great. So we have a lot to talk about.
We are recording this podcast because I don't have any other
podcast recorded right now and crystals like my backup babe
that didn't sound. Wow, I think I'm I'm pretty sure
I'm the first babe. But you know what I'm saying?
So from podcasting standpoint, I wanted to come be like a little
fiddler person for me. So we figured we take this
opportunity to talk about the main highlights of 2024.
We're in 2024, right? Yeah.
And then we're going to talk about some of the things we're
excited about in 2025, of which there are many.
We have a lot to talk about. We typically do like a year in
review and since we're recording this on December 4th, we're kind
of rolling all that into the year in review.
We also do a podcast together on the 100th episode of every
podcast, but we'll save that for episode 800, which is crazy.
That's going to be 800 episodes. Is that soon?
No, this is I think episode 730 or something.
So we got a little while. But that said, let's just dive
into 2024 highlight reel, kind of some of the main things.
Talk about 2025, what we got coming, and just some things
that have been going on behind the scenes that are not really
Privy to everybody else's ears because we haven't been vlogging
at all. We're terrible, terrible with
the vlogging, but we've got a lot of homesteading update
stuff, all kinds of stuff. So you want to just start taking
from the top, babe. So, highlights of 2024 that come
to mind for you? We got a dog.
We got a dog, we got diesel. Diesel, we got him.
We picked him out in January and we got him in February, right?
His birthday, yeah. I think we, yeah, I'm pretty
sure that's exactly how it went. I don't remember that exactly.
That we got him. I appreciate it was February.
His birthday is January 4th and we got him when he was six weeks
old. So he is not yet a year old and
he's every bit of 140 lbs? Yes, and full blown puppy.
He's pretty cute though. Yeah, he's pretty cute.
He's pretty cute. He has taken a liking to our
chickens so we have no more chickens.
So from the homesteading standpoint, we are now
chickenless because he learned to like chickens.
However, since then we've taken to the trainer and that did
wonders. So he is a well behaved
gentleman now for the most part. He was wild like he was.
He was something else. Love them to pieces but at one
point I was just like I have made the biggest mistake.
Like that breed, he's a Connie Corso.
It's like an Italian Mastiff. That breed is super protective
and they just innately know to protect us because we're his
family. So super protective of us but
not in like a negative way at all.
Yeah, like people can come over to our house and he's not going
to attack them. But like, there was a person who
was walking by our house the other day and I happened to be
there and he totally ran up on him.
And yeah, he definitely will protect us, but he can very
easily tell who we are allowing at our home versus who's not
supposed to be there, which is really cool.
Yeah, and his big thing now is just eating Christmas ornaments.
Yes. He does that, Yeah, he does chew
on everything. Yeah, that's like this breeds
thing. I follow a lot of like Facebook
pages for this breed and everyone said like, they're
super mouthy. They chew on everything.
Doesn't matter if you give them bones or not.
Like they're gonna just chew everything.
Everything. But it doesn't really chew like
our shoes and stuff. No, he chews like harder things.
Like the rocking chair that sits on our front porch.
Like he. Ate or charcoal?
Rocks get charcoal. He'll get in our fireplace and
take out pieces of wood or charcoal out of there.
It's just so weird. But he does, he definitely does
chew on everything and. We're doing straight up
carnivore with him so we use my pet carnivore and he's eating 6
lbs of meat, 4 to 6 lbs of meat a day, twice a day, 3:00 in the
morning, 3 in the evening and he loves it.
Yes. So he does love it.
We love diesel. That's a big thing from a family
standpoint, homesteading standpoint, yeah.
We butchered our Lambs. Butchered our Lambs, we.
Have no animals other than diesel right now, yeah.
We will get more chickens tonight.
He's been training. We will definitely get more
chickens. We may get pigs next year.
Yeah. But for sure chickens.
Right. We are going to get chickens and
diesel. We do think he would do really
well with them, but just to safeguard our chickens.
But also we're getting Robert's parents dogs while they sail.
So for this next year we're going to have them for at least
six months and they're bird dogs, so putting them with
chickens is probably not the best idea.
So we're going to get chickens, but we're going to like build a
a lot better like fencing and area for them to be in, which is
a little bit sad because we really wanted them to be just
like free range, just like pasture.
Just go do your thing. But they still have a good life
when they have. I mean, they'll still have
plenty, plenty, plenty of space, but it will be fenced in.
Yeah, it'll be good. What else we got from a business
standpoint, we had a lot of things happen this year.
We launched the course. So the Savage system at
ketobodybuilding.com is live. Super proud of that.
We're continuing to update that and refine it and Polish it, add
more content, improve what's already there.
But that was a huge weight on my shoulders throughout the
competitive season last year because I don't work on that for
like 4 or five years now. I think it's been a long time
coming, but that is now officially live and people can
get that. It's pretty much everything in
my brain laid out in course format.
And we've got a thriving tribe memberships.
It's like a private membership that people get if they get it.
And like we do weekly live calls there.
We had a weekly live call last night that's super engaging.
So yeah, I'm super proud of that and just excited to facilitate
this environment where people can grow together.
Yeah, I'm super excited for the community to grow because it
seems like everyone who is a part of the community is just
like, man, this is a really good, like positive, encouraging
group of people. And I feel like there's so many
groups that are not that way. And it's not like on Facebook,
you know, like there's a lot of like Facebook groups and things
like that. Like this is completely
separated. It is its own thing.
It's super easy to access 'cause it's literally an app on your
phone. But I just really like, I like
the feedback that you're getting on the community and how great
it is. But I'm super proud of you for
getting that done. And Chip, gosh, you guys have
put in a lot of work, a lot of work.
It was a it was a long time coming.
Yeah, but all good stuff. And then we're going to start
doing private retreats through that as well.
So people that are in the membership get first dibs on the
private retreat, but then other people can do the private
retreat as well. So we're.
Probably going to, but it's. Going to be steeply discounted
for people that are in the membership, but then I'm super
excited about we'll, we'll kick that off in 2025.
And I want to say that for the 2025 spiel.
But. That's super exciting because
we're going to bring in like an expert speaker.
We'll book out a big Airbnb and we just have like a weekend
where we're together intimately with everybody in the same spot.
Because like a lot of these conferences, I like, I love the
conferences, but it's just so chaotic.
Like everybody's flying in and then you've got like a million
different vendors and a million different speakers and people
are rubbing shoulders for like 2 minutes at a time with this.
It's like we're going to have a whole weekend together.
It'll be. Limited on the amount of people.
Probably like 20 people tops. And then we'll have like
fireside chats, cookouts and just be like real deal stuff.
Because I feel like with all the benefit that technology brings,
it removes a lot of that intimacy factor.
And I feel like people crave that.
And I just want to be able to offer that, you know?
Yeah. So that'll be good.
Yeah, I'm really excited for those.
Another big thing happened in 2024 was keto brick, cacao
crisis. So that kind of came to a head
and our prices, our ingredient prices went through the roof.
That's why I went to Brazil for 10 days trying to figure that
out. And we had, we were forced to
increase our prices and cause charge shipping, but that was
like a lot of sleepless nights. I remember waking up in February
of this year with a legit panic attack.
I think it was February of this year, but we had Rigel, we just
got in diesel and then everything that I knew about the
business got flipped upside down on its head.
So that was kind of scary. Yeah.
But we made it through. Sure did.
We're making it through. We're hoping that tallow we're.
Still pushing through, but we're.
Hoping that tallow kind of acts as a saving grace on that one
for sure, but that's been looking pretty positive so.
Far, we did a launch and it went really well.
Like, people seem to really like it, and so we're going to keep
pushing that and hopefully it just continues to go well.
It will. It will.
I feel optimistic about it. What else?
Big 2024? We had like a whole list of
things before we sat down to record and now we've.
Figured we're like relaunching the apparel.
Yeah, that'll be 2025 as well. Yeah.
But we did our like first relaunch, I don't know, a couple
weeks ago, Yeah. And we're really excited about
that. It's really hard because that's
it's like you. Probably don't believe us that
we're excited about. It, I know it just seems like it
seems like it's been on the backward and like we felt like
we've like relaunched it several times, but we actually have
Greg. That's another thing.
Greg joined us this year. That's been a huge, he's been a
huge asset to the business and to Robert and just that's been a
really awesome. My triceps are bigger than
Greg's though. I'm just going to throw that out
there right now. But yeah, now that we do have
Greg, that will be a little bit, I feel like it will be a little
bit easier to carry on with the apparel launches and like just
bringing on different ideas kind of like pushing things through.
But the apparel has like got the back burner so much.
But I feel like it could do so well and like we all, like all
of us here wear our apparel all the time.
So I'm excited to provide more stuff.
And like we right now we've done like a lot of T-shirts and
hoodies and things like that. But like, we are excited to do
things like leggings and shorts and joggers and, you know.
I want to get into like gear to like bags and duffels and like.
Really good quality things that we can offer.
And yeah, so I'm really excited about that.
Yeah. So we're going to revamp the
entire website. We're going to roll out like
giveaways with that. We're going to have like a
membership component to that. We're redoing the whole website
from the ground up, changing everything.
So that'll be a big project going into the new year that I'm
excited to unveil. So that'll be good.
And we've been kind of doubling down on just everything in
house. So we do all our own printing in
house like we do with the bricks alone production in house.
So that's been that's been good. What else?
There was a couple other big things 2024.
So there's one massive one that I'm forgetting.
What is it? I don't know.
And I always think business stuff, but I thought there was
like some personal stuff that was going on.
Let's just roll into 2025 and it'll come to me.
So like obviously the apparel stuff we're excited about and
then with the the Keto brick in 2025, we've got multiple new
tallow flavours dropping. We got a few flavours dropping
at this month there tallow, we got a big one in beginning of
next next year. So we're kind of kind of roll
into that world Carnivore month in January and kind of turn the
world upside down with some exciting things in that regard.
So stoked about that. We're just trying to streamline
everything. The whole manifesto for this
year was to just get organized, reflect, recalibrate and re
engage was the manifesto. So I just wanted to get
everything organized and it's been kind of like the main
focus. So just streamlining operations.
We invested in some new equipment.
I went and looked at some equipment earlier this week that
would streamline operations for the bricks as well.
So yeah, we're just trying to get things dialed in.
So many businesses, so many people try to expand before
they've got things streamlined and then they just crumble.
And I would rather grow more slowly and organically, but
soundly. And I think that's been the
primary focus for this year for sure because we we have a lot of
a lot of things, a lot of irons in the fire, so to speak.
Like you've got the bricks, the apparel, the course, the other
course, we've got the family component, the homesteading, the
live savage. We just have all these things
and it's been stressful, but it's all because everything that
we're doing, we're passionate about doing.
And you've taken a significant back seat role in the company.
Like you're not nearly as involved as you were when we
started. When we started, it was you and
me making these things by hand in a kitchen with a freaking
fork in a measuring cup. And now you pretty much do
payroll and health department stuff.
That's pretty much in booking. You do a lot of my booking for
Airbnb's and flights and stuff like that, but you've been a
full time mom, so talk about that.
Yeah, I love it. I love being able to stay home
with Rigel. I will say that it is hard to
see things are happening with the business and I don't know,
just not being, not being able to be here.
And I, I could come, but Rigel is a little rambunctious these
days. And so it's a little harder to
contain him to have a meeting with Robert or whatever.
So it's a little bit harder to have to continue to take steps
back because in the beginning I was still doing a lot of things
and that like I slowly, slowly, slowly just stopped doing as
many things and just saying like, I think this is too much.
I don't have enough time for this.
And like Rigel's schedule has changed over the last 2 1/2
years. That it, it's like, OK, at first
he's not a, he's newborns are needy.
But I still had time because he was.
So anyways, I feel like I'm gonna go into a long store.
So I'm gonna just make it simple and easy.
It's wonderful. I absolutely love staying home
with Rigel. He is amazing.
It's it's a huge blessing to be able to be home with him.
But there's also the hard part where I want to be more a part
of what's going on with the business.
I want to have more of those adult conversations as well.
And purposefully saying no to things can sometimes be hard
'cause I want to be a part of it.
But then I'm like, but this is my priority right now and I need
to be OK with that. So it's, it's a bittersweet, but
like super sweet, sweet too, you know?
Well, this is kind of what we knew we wanted to do from the
very get go. But it's hard to transition it
because I was so involved and I was like, we were just in
everything together. And now we're both just like
doing everything together, but like, separately.
Yeah, but I feel like I'm, I'm very grateful for the fact that
we've created a life in which I can go and focus on my strong
suit and you can go and focus on your strong suit.
And we can both divide and conquer, so to speak.
And I mean, a lot of people, nothing against it, but like
they are in a situation life where they have to send their
kids to daycare and they're just at daycare for 810 hours of the
day. And I mean, Rigel's with you 99%
of the time and you're there for every moment, every, every
highlights, every, every, everything, you know, And he
feels very loved. And I don't think he can put a
price on that. And then when I come home, you
know, he and I spend a ton of time together when I'm home and
he just soaks that up and I soak it up.
And I think it's good for me because I can kind of step away
from the business and actually be present with him when I'm
home. And he's, he's grown a lot.
I mean, he's 2 1/2 years old now.
But like, the words he's learned, like he just, he knows
exactly what he wants. He knows what needs to happen to
get that. He's able to, like, implement
critical thinking. I mean, it's just pretty cool to
watch, you know? Yeah, it's super cool.
And he just, I don't know, like I'm excited to see his
personality start to flourish. He's super interested in all
things with wheels. Wheels.
And motors. Yeah, like he loves tractors
side by sides, dump trucks, excavators, motorcycles,
anything with wheel and motor he's all about.
So it's cool. It's cool.
I'm excited for when he gets old enough for me to be able to take
him hunting, take him fishing and just like, let him get
involved as opposed to just being a bystander and watching.
But I actually, you know, letting him do the thing.
So yeah, I'm excited. I'm excited.
What do you think? From like a parenting
homeschooling, because we're going to homeschool, at least
initially. When when you start doing that?
I need to start talking to people about that.
It's a lot of people do whatever they want.
Some people do preschool at home, some people do
kindergarten. I personally, from the research
that I've done and a lot of just gathering more information from
other moms and people who are teachers and lead in schools and
things like that, the best age to actually start a sit down
school is at six. So Rigel would be 6 and in May
and then he would go into that school year as a first grader
kindergarten, whatever that is. But we'll do like, we will do
some. I will probably the year that
he's 5, I will probably start to ease him into a little bit of
sit down work just so I'm not like all of a sudden just like
saying like we're going to sit down and do the work, you know?
But he's already doing like a lot of reading and stuff.
Like we read books to him every night and he's like super
engaged with that like. He does love books.
He loves to read, yeah. He loves that.
So yeah, I'm excited about, I'm excited about all that stuff.
Having a kiddo is the best thing.
Like, I didn't know what I would think of having a kid in the
beginning. It was scary to me, you know, I
thought it would be like a distraction, kind of same thing
with having a relationship. I thought it would be a
distraction from my goals, but like, now that I've got a kid,
it's like he's the highlight of my day for sure, you know?
So it's it's the best. It's not me anymore, it's Rigel.
Yeah, it's definitely Rigel. He is.
He is the best though, for sure. And like he just, he's like a
puppy dog, like he loves you unconditionally.
And like we can get on to him and scold him for something.
He'll recognize that he's done wrong.
He'll probably do it in that couple times, see if he can test
this. But then like he's not mad at
us. Like it doesn't fester or linger
or anything, which is. Everybody should be like a kid,
you know, like everybody should be like a 2 1/2 year old with
most things. But yeah, that's exciting.
We got another big thing in 2025.
We've got the competition that we're hosting.
So super excited by that. We're going to, we're building
up the website right now. I got like 3 different website
designs going out simultaneously, but we're
building out the website. It's going to be Natural State
savages.com because we're hosting it in Arkansas, which is
the Natural State, and it's going to be for Natural
competitors. So we're going to be hosting
that. We've already booked out the
venue. The venue's super nice.
I've been on the phone calls all week with polygraph examiners,
hair and makeup team, tanning team, judges, MCS, all that good
stuff. So that's coming together and
that will be in September of next year, 2025.
Greg's doing the show. Several people that are in the
tribe membership will be doing the show.
So that's going to be awesome. September 27th.
Also, let me break this down for you guys who don't understand
the way competitions work. Our friends and we could even
compete at this show. Actually, I don't know that you
could. We're not going to.
Right, but we could compete at this show because we are not
allowed to be judges and it so there are specific judges for
the federation and those judges come to judge your show.
So these people who are judging don't know Greg is our friend.
They don't know you know anything about these people.
They just show up to judge the competition.
So there's no. Bias.
Yeah, there's no bias in it. And you know, I feel like with
some people who have competed again and again and again with
this federation, they will get to know those people.
But it's really cool because like our try, like Roberts tribe
members, they can all come compete and they these judges
have no idea who they are or where they're from or how they
know about the competition. They're just there to judge it.
And I think that's really cool. I think that that's like really
important to put out there because some people are like,
how is Greg doing the competition?
And like, what if he wins? Like we have nothing to do with
the judging. It just comes from like the
judges that are are brought on by this federation.
Yeah, and we're going all in with it, like a lot of a lot of
competitions are seemingly thrown together last minute.
There's a lot of inefficiencies, there's a lot of distraction,
there's just a lot of noise. And like from the very get go,
like the websites are all kind of super dated.
Like we're just going all in and doing this high end from the get
go because I want it to be an amazing experience for the
competitors, for the athletes. So yeah, we're pulling out all
the stops. We're going to make this thing a
freaking, you know, knockout. So if anybody's interested in
competing, definitely look into it.
It's going to be September 27th of next year.
We're going to have. It's going to be good.
Yeah, it's going. To be really good.
Your venue is awesome. Yeah, the venue is awesome.
Everything's going to be awesome.
So all going to be savage, but yeah, it's going to be good.
What else we get cooking next year?
We gots. My folks are sailing kind of
like you mentioned. They're set and sail in a few
weeks and they're going to sail to the Caribbean's in Bahamas
and I'm not sure where else they're going.
They're going to be gone for like 6 months or we're going to
watch their three dogs. So we're going to have a whole
lot more chaos in the house. Initially we made one of getting
three. That's true.
So yeah, that'll be chaotically exciting.
I'm excited for them. Like I'm super proud of them for
pursuing that and doing it. So that'll kind of have an
impact on us for sure, but all in a positive way.
And then what else? We got cooking.
We got you must say what we got going on.
Yeah, something going on in in June.
In June we got something going on.
We got another baby on the way. So Crystal is Prego.
Yep, at the time of this recording, 10 weeks. 11 weeks.
We're in our we're at the end of our first trimester.
Yeah. So and we're going to start
doing like last pregnancy with Rigel, we did trimester podcast
so we could talk about all of that so.
So far things have been the exact opposite, So it'll be
interesting to do these podcasts again and listen to the
difference in Rigel's pregnancy and this one because they're
just so different already. Yeah, but we're super excited
about it. I mean, we were thinking like we
plan everything and are very strategic with everything that
we do. So this was not an accident by
any means, but like, we were reverse engineering our life and
we were like, OK, if we get pregnant now, Rigel will be
three years older than his sibling.
And I wanted there to be a relatively close age gap.
Everything that we've studied shows that, you know, you want
to wait at least. Was it 2 years?
Yeah, I think, yeah, mostly you just want to like you want all
your minerals and stuff to be replenished.
And I did, I have done like mineral hair strand testing and
things like that to test for minerals, vitamins, etcetera.
And like actually all my stuff has been really like it.
It's looked really great since even like Rigel was six months
old when I did my first one. And everything has actually
looked really great even since then.
But I think that's a part of like fueling your body properly,
which is why we eat the way we do and why we work out and why
we do all the things. And I never, I never actually
darted, I never went into a deficit from months before I got
pregnant with Rigel until now. I've never been in a deficit of
calories and just been eating consistently good food.
But it is it is generally best for the healing of the woman's
body physically. Also having had AC section, it's
best to wait a like a they have different periods of time that
they suggest that you wait between birth to conception and
yeah, there's just different things.
But yeah, usually somewhere after two years is best.
I think like they say up to four and then after four there's not
really that big of a difference. Yeah, but for me, it's like I
wanted like I'm 2 1/2 years older than my brother and that
was pretty good. But I wouldn't necessarily want
rides to be 6 years older than the next sibling because I want
them to be able to play together.
Because Rigel loves kids. Like he loves kids.
And like when we go to church and stuff, he just wants to play
with the kids. Like whenever he sees kids, he
wants to play with them. So go to.
The park and play with the kids so.
I want, I want to give him another kid to play with.
So we're super excited about that.
We don't know if it's a boring girl yet.
That'll be at the 20 week mark that we'll find out.
So a few more weeks to go until we know that, and we'll do a
super deep dive, kind of like we did with the trimester ones
previously, because we'll do that every every three months
going forward until baby's here. But yeah, it'll be good.
We're excited. We're excited for sure.
You're excited. Do.
You think it's a boring girl? I don't know, I don't know.
I feel like because things are so different, it has to be a
girl. But in case you guys didn't
know, the Sykes only make boys so.
There's a couple girls in. Our there is a couple of girls,
but. Yeah.
It's a lot of boys. There's a lot of girls in your
family, so maybe it there. Is a lot of girls.
Cancel that or something, I don't know.
Yeah, I, I feel like they say that it comes from the guy.
I don't know. Who knows, but it might be a
girl. Yeah.
So that I don't know. I don't know, though.
I'm kind of just anticipating it being a boy, and then if it's a
girl, I'll be excited. I'm be excited.
Well, yeah, I'm anticipating it being a boy.
I'm excited about being a boy mom because I already am one.
And then but if it's a girl, it'll be like, oh, can we get
something different? Cool.
Yeah, as long as they're happy and healthy and Crystal's happy
and healthy, I'm happy and healthy.
So we're all good. So yeah, that's a big thing of
news for 2025, due end of June roughly, give or take end of
June. So we'll be sure and keep you
updated on that and what else we got cooking.
That's the main, that's the main thing.
That's the main thing for sure. Big, big pivotal moment for
sure. What's crazy is the last time we
were on the podcast, this was like the one where Rigel was
with us and we were like, our labs are mad, like they're
crazy. And it has not stopped being
crazy. It's it's simmered down a little
bit. I feel like, I feel like it's.
It's definitely crazy, but it's like it's like with everything,
you just your perspective shifts and you just adapt and overcome,
you know, and that's what we'll do.
We'll just keep on adapting and keep on overcoming and not
sacrifice or anything that we feel strongly about and just
keep on rocking it, you know, so but I'm excited about I'm
excited about the way everything shaping up.
We got an awesome team right now with the the business, so I can
just let them roll with things and I have to worry about it.
That's huge. We got an awesome family in the
works that we're building up and everything's everything's good.
So as crazy as it all is, I wouldn't want anything to be
different, you know? So it's nothing but positive
vibes and blessings for sure. Robert might be spending a
little bit more time at home. I don't know.
It's hard. It's like he literally was like,
I hope, you know, I'm going to be travelling a lot and like,
it's probably going to be a little bit extra.
And I was just like, Oh my goodness, what am I gonna do?
We're gonna get a travel trailer.
Yeah, we're gonna, I think we're gonna have to invest in a travel
trailer eventually. So if anybody's got any
recommendations, let us know. Because we travel non-stop.
We do. I mean, it's kind of crazy how
much we travel. We do travel a ton and some
things like it won't make sense to have a travel trailer for,
you know, like it would make more sense for Robert just fly
for a weekend. But even like sometimes, yeah,
sometimes the conferences, like people are going for these
conferences on Friday and Saturday, but Robert usually
flies out like Thursday, doesn't come home till Monday.
Like it's a long time. And then I'll be home with the
kids and the animals and stuff, which I love.
But we would rather also. Be so we need to travel trailer
with like a freaking. That's the part of the that,
well, that is just like something that we'll have to
work through because like when we had when we got diesel, like
we knew like we're like diesel could come with us like that
would actually be good protection for us.
Like wherever we are, like he will have diesel and then we got
maybe three more, 2-3 more we're.
Gonna have to get a tram trailer.
With the chicken. Coop built in and chicken coop.
Yeah, see the chickens. The chickens are so easy because
like they have like self waters and self feeders and we have an
automatic door that opens and closes with the sunset and the
sunrise. And so really someone just needs
to go in, make sure that the doors are working properly,
collecting the eggs, making sure the girls are all happy.
They're actually pretty easy. But, you know, dogs, you can't
leave them like they need their people, like chickens do, too.
But dogs, like, need their people.
Chickens are like, what's up? I want to follow you around the
yard. Kind of.
Yeah, you know. Yeah, it'll be a whole other
level of chaos in a few more months, but I guess we'll just
take it in stride, you know, that's all we can do.
Yep. But yeah, nothing but positive
vibes. We're excited about everything.
2020 fives coming and bringing, grateful for 20/24.
What are you doing as far as like the coaching stuff that you
want to talk about that at all? Focus on full time.
Mom can keep that on the back burner.
In the interim, Crystal is probably going to do the show.
Not this year, but maybe sometime eventually I.
Will have had a baby three months prior.
Once the baby making is done. Yeah, when we're done having
kids, I would love to compete again.
I think that that's going to be my goal.
And like right now my goal is just to like build as much
muscle as I can for competing again.
I, I hadn't known like up until, I don't know, a few months ago,
I think I didn't really know if I wanted to compete again.
But now I'm like, I definitely want to.
Like I think I really want to again.
But you know, we're going to have this one.
We'll see where we're at after that and.
And we'll talk about this in depth on the trimester podcast
too. But like, same as last time,
we're going to do, you know, crystals, full keto throughout
the pregnancy. Rigel's been full keto since
birth. And he's like literally tipping
the charts on all the growth metrics for everybody his age.
Like he doesn't look like a 2 1/2 year old.
Like you put him next to another 2 1/2 year old, he looks like
he's 3 1/2. He's very tall.
Yeah, and I'm not very tall. So he's very tall and like
stout, I don't know, Just like people pick him up and they're
like, whoa, this boy's got some weight to him, but he's not
like. He's not fat at all.
Yeah, he's not. He's not overweight.
He's not like, not leading on to like being.
He's getting ample protein. He's getting like a lot more
protein than directly. I mean, I think the
recommendations. Are cool.
It's cool to see him grow and be like, wow, like, our kid is like
super healthy, Yeah. Because he's eating real food.
So yeah, definitely advocate. We don't as parents, it's very
easy to like fall into the trap of judging other parents and
we're all guilty of it. Don't ever want to do that.
But I would definitely advocate any parent feed their kid real
food. And I think it's a bad thing to
suggest because they're in such a pivotal, crucial time for
their body development, but also their brain development.
And if you're giving them ample fats and proteins, they're going
to just thrive. And I will say a lot of people
were like, man, you just wait till XY or Z, the you wait till
Halloween, you wait till Easter, you wait till their family, your
family gives them this or that. And he is only 2 1/2.
But I will say up until this point, it has been easy for us,
for our our family with Rigel, it has been very easy to avoid
giving him anything. He eats keto treats from time to
time, like on special occasion like he's keto.
Bricks like crazy. He does eat keto bricks like
crazy, but you know, he goes to Sunday school at church and they
all have snacks and it's like goldfish or whatever and.
He picks them up and says trash. He does.
He picks them up and says like trash, trash and like he'll
throw them away. And he has his own snack and
like he's happy with his snack. He doesn't really care about
their goldfish. Like he has his own thing that
he likes. So it's honestly been easy.
And I won't say it's going to be easy for all the kids.
I won't say it's going to be easy in the coming years as he
gets older and like recognizes that candy aisles are a thing,
but I will say for the 1st 2 1/2 years of his life it's been easy
and so worth it. What's his favorite food right
now? Steak, steak, your mom asked
him, what do you want to what do you want to have when you come
to Grammys? And he, he said steak.
Yeah. See that's we're raising him
right. We're raising him right.
Gosh, funny. Boy, what else we get, babe.
We're having somebody watch him right now as a recording, so
probably go check on him. You got anything else to
highlight before we wrap it up? Had been a good year for you?
Yeah. Yeah, it has been a good year.
We have not had to travel as much and I love that.
Well, you've traveled a lot, but like last year was our crazy
travel year and this year I'm grateful to like just be home a
little bit more with you guys. Yeah, we're going to do a lot of
stuff to the house. We're going to like demo that
old house. We're going to build a shop.
We're going to a bunch of homesteading stuff this year,
hopefully, if all goes well, because I like her home.
I like her cozy little home so lots of exciting things 2025
y'all but none of this is possible that y'all so just
wanted to take a moment to express our gratitude and
appreciation and appreciate y'all sharing in our excitement,
enthusiasm and. We'll do another podcast in
sometime in January. Yeah, for the first trimester.
So let us know if you got any questions on pregnancy.
We'll take all the questions, yeah.
Yeah, hit us up with any of that stuff because it'll all be
relevant convo for the Trimester podcast.
We're super excited about everything.
Super grateful, Super blessed super.
Super everything. Super everything.
So that said, where do you want to direct people to you babe?
Oh, we were just, you were just asking me about coaching and
stuff. I'm just here, I mean, I have my
Instagram, my Instagram's back up and running.
I did not have, I took took my Instagram off for like 8 or nine
months I think and brought it back.
And so that's the dot lady, dot Savage.
And then we have our family one that is at Liv Savage and that's
pretty much where you can find me.
I turned off my website. I am not really taking on
clients anymore, especially with having another one on the way.
Yeah. So that's pretty much where they
can find. Me boom I like it.
Well babe, always a pleasure. I love you.
Good seeing your smiling face. Hope you have a happy healthy
pregnancy and birth and all that good stuff.
Appreciate y'all tuning in and we'll be in touch.
So you'll have a amazing into 2024 and hit the ground running
with 2025.