Domestic Violence Awareness

WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.040 --> 00:00:03.520 What's Good, What's Good? What's Good? Cousins and king folks, and 2 00:00:03.520 --> 00:00:07.120 it is your favorite podcast and mine. Welcome back, Welcome back to the 3 00:00:07.120 --> 00:00:10.839 newest episode currently under construction. I am your host. Thank you so much 4 00:00:10.880 --> 00:00:14.679 for joining us today. Man, I hope everybody said having a great day 5 00:00:14.720 --> 00:00:17.079 to day. You've been able to get up, you know, do a 6 00:00:17.079 --> 00:00:21.760 little something, get yourself together, half a peace of mind and a little 7 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:27.519 bit of shot on to today. Man, it's a beautiful day outside. 8 00:00:27.600 --> 00:00:31.559 The sun and shine and holiday a cloud and the sky man, temperature like 9 00:00:31.600 --> 00:00:34.479 it's gonna be pretty great today. So look, if you're not doing anything, 10 00:00:34.560 --> 00:00:37.719 you might want to get up, get out and do something, if 11 00:00:37.799 --> 00:00:41.119 not for yourself, with your loved one, with your family, with your 12 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:44.719 kids, whatever the case may be, just get out and do a little 13 00:00:44.719 --> 00:00:49.880 something for yourself and enjoy this beautiful day. Why because we only get today, 14 00:00:50.159 --> 00:00:54.359 we're not guarantee you tomorrow, and we definitely can't go back to yesterday. 15 00:00:54.640 --> 00:00:57.320 Man, it's good to hear from me all again. Man. I 16 00:00:57.359 --> 00:01:00.479 know it's been a minute. We had some things going on that we had 17 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:06.359 to reconfigure um behind the scenes for currently under construction, but we are back. 18 00:01:06.879 --> 00:01:10.920 We're back on track back for you. So look, I know y'all 19 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:15.640 been wondering, you've been messaging, you've been asking, we're back. I'm 20 00:01:15.680 --> 00:01:19.439 sorry it took me so long because the can't folks with y'all to my head 21 00:01:19.480 --> 00:01:21.920 and not my help. But you know I got y'all and I love y'all. 22 00:01:22.959 --> 00:01:26.760 Look, we're we're going towards the end of the month of October, 23 00:01:26.280 --> 00:01:30.359 and I hadn't touched based on this, yes ship, but I knew that 24 00:01:30.400 --> 00:01:34.879 I would because you are asking about it. Not only is it Breast Cancer 25 00:01:34.959 --> 00:01:41.400 Awareness Month, it is also domestic violence Awareness Month. Now, whether we 26 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:44.920 talk about it or not, we don't talk about it, we slipped up 27 00:01:44.959 --> 00:01:49.079 under the rug, or we just ignore it. It is there, It 28 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:53.359 exists, and a whareness needs to be brought to it as much as possible. 29 00:01:55.640 --> 00:02:00.000 So much happens on so many different levels when dealing with domestic violence, 30 00:02:00.920 --> 00:02:07.360 and domestic violence isn't always um physical. Domestic violence also can be mental, 31 00:02:08.199 --> 00:02:14.719 emotional, and so forth. But for the most part, regardless to the 32 00:02:14.759 --> 00:02:17.919 fact of whatever form that it flows in that it comes in, bottom line 33 00:02:19.120 --> 00:02:24.240 is it's not cool. Bottom line is it's not right. Bottom line is 34 00:02:24.520 --> 00:02:30.520 it's a play that's been around as long as most of us knew, most 35 00:02:30.560 --> 00:02:36.080 of us remember, And um, what I want to try to bring a 36 00:02:36.199 --> 00:02:42.840 light to today is let's stop normalizing it. Well what do you mean, 37 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:46.919 Oh, well, I'm glad you asked. I'm gonna tell you. Growing 38 00:02:47.080 --> 00:02:52.400 up, a lot of this we've seen, especially you know, way even 39 00:02:52.439 --> 00:02:53.879 way back in the days, even before you know, most of us, 40 00:02:53.919 --> 00:03:00.479 those of you who are in a Gen X bracket along with myself, and 41 00:03:00.800 --> 00:03:05.879 even before you know the baby bummers or whatnot. Um, it was normalized, 42 00:03:06.000 --> 00:03:08.560 it was expected, or it was put off saying, oh, that's 43 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:15.199 just a man being a man. Well, no, that doesn't make that 44 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:21.360 right. It doesn't. It doesn't make it right in any shape form of 45 00:03:21.439 --> 00:03:28.560 fashion. And a lot of us saw this or it was Um may have 46 00:03:28.560 --> 00:03:34.159 grew up in those particular type of homes for that particular toxic behavior, and 47 00:03:36.759 --> 00:03:40.199 I think that it was normal. Well, there's nothing normal about that. 48 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:45.240 And it's a psychle that we definitely have to detect the initiative and take the 49 00:03:45.280 --> 00:03:53.639 time to break, because we already deal with a lot throughout days, throughout 50 00:03:53.680 --> 00:03:58.960 each and every day, man and woman. But it still doesn't give the 51 00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:04.360 right for that man or slash that woman and prior to contract with contrary belief, 52 00:04:05.439 --> 00:04:14.039 domestic violence isn't always man on woman. Sometimes it is woman on man. 53 00:04:16.279 --> 00:04:19.439 You know something. You probably sit there scratching your head like wait what 54 00:04:19.879 --> 00:04:26.279 Yeah, sometimes it's woman on man or how can it be put a pin 55 00:04:26.360 --> 00:04:28.720 in that? Right now, I'm gonna come back to that, Okay, 56 00:04:28.879 --> 00:04:30.560 says stay with me, y'all. You already know how I'm gonna do. 57 00:04:30.600 --> 00:04:33.560 Cousins and king folks, y'all know if I bring something up and say put 58 00:04:33.560 --> 00:04:35.800 a pen in, I'm gonna come from a circle back to it, and 59 00:04:35.800 --> 00:04:40.360 I'm gonna tired all together for you. But right now, just walk with 60 00:04:40.439 --> 00:04:43.519 me on this right here, right now, because this is a topic that 61 00:04:43.720 --> 00:04:48.920 is um they're in dear to me. This is a topic that um, 62 00:04:48.959 --> 00:04:55.759 I'm an advocate um about, you know, in promoting awareness to domestic violence, 63 00:04:56.000 --> 00:05:00.199 want to get to stop one of those that are stuck in it, 64 00:05:00.240 --> 00:05:04.759 that are trapped in it, to get help because again it comes in so 65 00:05:04.800 --> 00:05:10.959 many different forms. But again we need to stop normalizing that. Because I 66 00:05:10.959 --> 00:05:14.560 see where I grew up and how I grew up in the neighborhood. I 67 00:05:14.600 --> 00:05:17.040 did see, I saw a lot of it, but at the spite of 68 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:23.680 the same token and um, how I was brought up. You couldn't do 69 00:05:23.759 --> 00:05:28.639 that in front of me, because see, we were talked to protect women 70 00:05:28.720 --> 00:05:32.720 at all costs. I was taught to protect women, protect your sisters, 71 00:05:32.920 --> 00:05:36.959 protect your older sisters, protect your mom, protect your grandma, protect your 72 00:05:36.959 --> 00:05:43.040 aunties. So it was a thing for me to protect the women that were 73 00:05:43.040 --> 00:05:49.399 around me or that I saw from any type of physical home. I remember, 74 00:05:49.800 --> 00:05:57.439 Um, this guy one of my older sisters dated, and you know, 75 00:05:57.560 --> 00:06:00.959 now, don't get me wrong, my older sister's older system controul a 76 00:06:00.000 --> 00:06:03.000 hand to her step because that's who taught me how to defend myself, me 77 00:06:03.040 --> 00:06:08.000 and a couple other of our of our siblings, but she taught us something 78 00:06:08.040 --> 00:06:11.279 held her ourself. But this guy, and he was much bigger than her. 79 00:06:11.879 --> 00:06:16.439 But I saw him make the attempt to slap because they were arguing. 80 00:06:16.439 --> 00:06:20.160 He made the attempt to slap her, and she lit into him so quick. 81 00:06:20.279 --> 00:06:24.360 He didn't even know what happened with was coming from or what the heck 82 00:06:24.480 --> 00:06:30.720 was going on. But um, at that moment, he even me seeing 83 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:35.040 him attempting to hit my sister. I immediately picked up the nearest things that 84 00:06:35.040 --> 00:06:38.439 I could put my hands on, which I saw at that time was a 85 00:06:38.439 --> 00:06:42.160 baseball bet and then't want to go we wear him out with it. But 86 00:06:42.199 --> 00:06:45.120 now my sister stopped me, you know, and he went on about his 87 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:49.279 business or whatever what not, you know, but she thanked me for um 88 00:06:49.279 --> 00:06:51.279 coming to a riscue. But she was like, I got that handled, 89 00:06:51.319 --> 00:06:54.839 you know. Don't don't worry about that little brother. You know, I'm 90 00:06:54.920 --> 00:06:57.800 good, I said, But I'm just doing what I told me to do, 91 00:06:57.879 --> 00:07:00.360 you know, to always protect my sister's mouth. Honestly said, you 92 00:07:00.399 --> 00:07:02.959 can see it, and that's what you're supposed to do at all times. 93 00:07:03.319 --> 00:07:09.959 But I got I had him. But um, I digress, y'all. 94 00:07:11.040 --> 00:07:14.639 But it was just the fact of seeing that at that particular moment and that 95 00:07:14.639 --> 00:07:17.399 that that stuck with me. And so I always have had that mentality to 96 00:07:18.240 --> 00:07:27.439 uh protect the women around me from domestic violence. Now, there have been 97 00:07:27.519 --> 00:07:30.800 times and I've seen this on the flip side and it really just blew my 98 00:07:30.839 --> 00:07:34.519 mind. And seeing it, I've seen it on the flip side of you're 99 00:07:34.560 --> 00:07:40.720 going to step up and protect a woman from domestic violence and she and then 100 00:07:40.800 --> 00:07:46.839 turns on you. Yeah, I've seen that that she didn't turns on you, 101 00:07:46.839 --> 00:07:48.279 were like, well, why did you do that? You didn't have 102 00:07:48.319 --> 00:07:54.639 to do that to him. But people that are stuck in those particular type 103 00:07:54.639 --> 00:07:58.439 of situations, I don't know how to get out of that. They're so 104 00:07:58.560 --> 00:08:05.160 used to that particular type toxic uh sit A situation that's a particular type of 105 00:08:05.240 --> 00:08:11.600 toxic environment and relationship that they don't know how to get They think that that 106 00:08:11.639 --> 00:08:20.639 person doesn't love them, unless that's actually happening. But those people still need 107 00:08:20.680 --> 00:08:28.639 help because again that is that there's nothing about that that's right. That's nothing 108 00:08:28.639 --> 00:08:33.200 about that that's right at all. M I've even heard and we need to 109 00:08:33.200 --> 00:08:37.120 get out of this as well. I've even heard it one particular point that 110 00:08:37.320 --> 00:08:41.679 you know, not that I try to get in any person's business, but 111 00:08:41.840 --> 00:08:46.559 when I hear that, and this is they'll listen to me good, because 112 00:08:46.600 --> 00:08:48.759 it's a kin focusing and I need you to listen to me good, and 113 00:08:48.759 --> 00:08:52.000 listen to me close and listen to me well. When I've heard before saying 114 00:08:52.039 --> 00:08:56.399 and we need to stop saying this. When and even when people say this, 115 00:08:56.440 --> 00:09:00.120 we still need to try to help as much as we can. What 116 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:03.679 happens between that man and that woman is between that man and that woman. 117 00:09:05.039 --> 00:09:09.159 Sometimes that's the case, but in a situation like this, that is not 118 00:09:09.279 --> 00:09:16.159 the case. It's stuff like that we need to break. It's that's that's 119 00:09:16.200 --> 00:09:24.240 how those generational curses continue on and going forward. That's how they continue on 120 00:09:24.360 --> 00:09:30.120 and keep going forward. True enough, most things between a man and women 121 00:09:30.159 --> 00:09:33.679 betwext is between that man and that woman. But if he's beating on her 122 00:09:33.440 --> 00:09:39.840 or she's beating on him, nah, something needs to be done about that. 123 00:09:39.519 --> 00:09:45.000 Awareness is to be brought to that that that that that they need help, 124 00:09:45.440 --> 00:09:50.759 because again that's a toxic environment, a toxic situation. And then they'll 125 00:09:50.799 --> 00:09:56.200 affect your children, because if your children see this, they'll begin to think 126 00:09:56.240 --> 00:10:01.399 it's normalized. If your children see this, they're going to begin to hate 127 00:10:01.440 --> 00:10:07.159 and resent one parent or another, if not both. If your children see 128 00:10:07.200 --> 00:10:15.960 this, and especially if it gets bad, one of these children could end 129 00:10:16.039 --> 00:10:28.200 up intervening and do something real detrimental, especially if it's a sign. Even 130 00:10:28.200 --> 00:10:33.799 a daughter. But they get tired of saying their mother being attacked, being 131 00:10:33.840 --> 00:10:37.480 beaten on, it everything, and they'll do what they can just to get 132 00:10:37.519 --> 00:10:48.519 it to stop. Domestic violence is not cool. Domestic violence is not normal. 133 00:10:50.039 --> 00:10:58.559 Domestic violence it's a toxic, sickening disease that we need as a community 134 00:11:00.080 --> 00:11:05.480 as a whole. Cousin's in king folks, to cut it out, to 135 00:11:05.720 --> 00:11:16.279 extract it and completely eradicated. You hear me, Time is out for that. 136 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:22.159 There is nothing loving about that. There is nothing loving or showing love. 137 00:11:22.759 --> 00:11:30.320 Um, when you have a man or a woman beating the holy heck 138 00:11:30.360 --> 00:11:33.399 out of somebody and then you're saying, oh, it's okay, they just 139 00:11:33.480 --> 00:11:39.080 loved me. They didn't mean to do it, Yes they did, Yes 140 00:11:39.120 --> 00:11:43.480 they did. If that's love, you to be arguing with me, to 141 00:11:43.519 --> 00:11:48.639 be little in me emotionally, mentally, and physically. On top of that, 142 00:11:48.279 --> 00:11:52.679 and if they're supposed to constitute you loving me, if that you loving 143 00:11:52.720 --> 00:12:00.240 me, hate my guts, seriously hate my guts. If that warrants or 144 00:12:00.440 --> 00:12:05.399 that shows you constitute that you're supposed to love me, now m hate me? 145 00:12:05.519 --> 00:12:13.080 Then said hate me now? Because that ain't love. Loving is supposed 146 00:12:13.120 --> 00:12:16.840 to hurt like that. Loving is supposed to put bruises on you. Loving 147 00:12:16.960 --> 00:12:20.360 supposed to keep sending you to the hospital. Love ain't supposed to sit there 148 00:12:20.480 --> 00:12:24.120 and have you trying to cover this up and make excuses to people about what's 149 00:12:24.159 --> 00:12:28.240 going on. Oh, they're going through something. HI didn't mean to do 150 00:12:28.320 --> 00:12:31.039 it. Oh well, I kind of feel I walked into the walls or 151 00:12:31.080 --> 00:12:35.600 whatever the case may be. No, No, that is not love. 152 00:12:43.200 --> 00:12:48.120 Even when we hear people say, well, if they allow them to do 153 00:12:48.200 --> 00:12:52.960 that, then they must want it, because they won't leave. A lot 154 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:58.080 of times you a person doesn't know how to leave, even if they want 155 00:12:58.120 --> 00:13:07.600 to a lot of times they are so stuck into that toxic um situation until 156 00:13:07.679 --> 00:13:11.360 they will make excuses about it, they will begin to enable it. It's 157 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:18.600 sort of like Stockholm syndrome that you get stuck into something and you know what's 158 00:13:18.600 --> 00:13:22.919 not right, and you know what's wrong, and the person have done it 159 00:13:22.960 --> 00:13:24.960 till you, and have done it till you over and over again, to 160 00:13:24.120 --> 00:13:30.320 your mind begins to rationalize it and begin to picture and think that it's normal. 161 00:13:30.600 --> 00:13:33.720 To when it stops, you don't know how to respond to it, 162 00:13:33.799 --> 00:13:43.240 and you continue on with it because you think it's okay, because you think 163 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:50.720 that it's normal, But it's not. These people still need help because again, 164 00:13:50.799 --> 00:14:00.720 that is a extremely sick and toxic disease. That's nothing normal about this, 165 00:14:00.799 --> 00:14:07.720 Cousins and King folks. It needs to be stopped a huge number and 166 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:13.600 a lot of times it doesn't end up well. There have been a number 167 00:14:13.639 --> 00:14:16.919 that have gotten out of it, and I've and and and I've read and 168 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:20.399 have heard and have watched some of their stories, and I'm just like, 169 00:14:20.440 --> 00:14:22.759 wow, that is you know, to even come out of that and to 170 00:14:24.639 --> 00:14:28.440 you know, still have to go through therapy and and moving forward, and 171 00:14:28.600 --> 00:14:31.399 to you know, come out on the other side of the shining light. 172 00:14:31.440 --> 00:14:35.360 I mean, that is just amazing when I see these stories of men and 173 00:14:35.399 --> 00:14:43.039 women who have gone through that. But it takes all It takes a lot 174 00:14:43.120 --> 00:14:46.879 in it, and it takes a toll on them. I don't know what 175 00:14:48.000 --> 00:14:58.159 it's like personally myself, because I've never been a victim of domestic violence, 176 00:14:58.600 --> 00:15:03.320 one way or another. Me doing it because again, that is not me, 177 00:15:03.440 --> 00:15:05.279 That is not how I roll, That is not my mentality. For 178 00:15:05.320 --> 00:15:09.639 those of you who know me, are those of you that know me personally 179 00:15:09.799 --> 00:15:11.720 or no my mentality or no my personality, you know that ain't even me. 180 00:15:13.759 --> 00:15:16.399 I'm all about protection. I'm all about positivity and everything. But I've 181 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:20.960 never been wanted to do that, and I've never been a victim of it, 182 00:15:22.279 --> 00:15:24.679 but I have been. I do know what it's like to be in 183 00:15:24.679 --> 00:15:35.440 a toxic relationship that you um enable what's going on with it, even though 184 00:15:35.519 --> 00:15:39.639 you know it's not right and you know it's not good for you. I 185 00:15:39.679 --> 00:15:46.159 do know what that's like. I do know it's like to arguing with that 186 00:15:46.200 --> 00:15:48.080 person and then you just know overlook it. You know, you they just 187 00:15:48.159 --> 00:15:52.960 you don't want to argue with you or try to belittle you in some shapes 188 00:15:52.960 --> 00:15:54.759 of form, and you just like, don't say anything. You just kind 189 00:15:54.759 --> 00:16:00.120 of go along with it. I do know what that's like, and you 190 00:16:00.240 --> 00:16:04.320 just kind of go along to get along. I do know what that's like. 191 00:16:08.440 --> 00:16:11.679 And when I came out of it, I came out of it stronger 192 00:16:11.480 --> 00:16:17.120 um than I was when I went in, because I understood and understood the 193 00:16:17.159 --> 00:16:21.960 fact of my worth, understood the fact that I deserved better, and I 194 00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:27.840 didn't have to take that. Yeah, it is at that particular point, 195 00:16:27.879 --> 00:16:33.120 cousins and kin folks when you begin to understand that and know and they know 196 00:16:33.240 --> 00:16:36.120 that no means no, and that you don't have to deserve that, and 197 00:16:36.360 --> 00:16:42.559 that you have to begin to love yourself enough to get that. Sometimes it 198 00:16:42.679 --> 00:16:48.320 takes, but at the end of the day, we have to do what's 199 00:16:48.320 --> 00:16:52.840 necessary to help these people, even if they don't see it themselves. There 200 00:16:52.879 --> 00:16:57.519 are a lot of resources out their ownline, Domestic Violence Hotline, the Red 201 00:16:57.639 --> 00:17:04.279 Cross, UM, many many more places therapists out there that they can talk 202 00:17:04.319 --> 00:17:11.480 to. There's a lot of information and places out there online that you can 203 00:17:11.519 --> 00:17:17.039 look up and look at that will um provide you with all of the resources 204 00:17:17.079 --> 00:17:19.680 to help you not only get out of the situation that you're in, but 205 00:17:19.839 --> 00:17:26.599 help you move forward, help you get what you need, the the counseling 206 00:17:26.640 --> 00:17:32.079 and the therapy that you need to move past that to be able to begin 207 00:17:32.279 --> 00:17:37.839 healing and work on being a better you, and and and healing from that 208 00:17:37.960 --> 00:17:44.599 toxics, that toxic relationship that you were in. Domestic violence is real, 209 00:17:44.920 --> 00:17:49.480 cousins and king folks, It's real. A lot of people say it doesn't 210 00:17:49.480 --> 00:17:57.519 exist, but it is real. Let's stop justifying it. Let's stop overlooking 211 00:17:57.559 --> 00:18:06.160 it. Let's stop uh normalizing it, let's stop sensationalizing it. Let's stop 212 00:18:06.400 --> 00:18:15.839 it has to stop. It has to stop. It has to stop, 213 00:18:18.000 --> 00:18:26.799 and we we to get not just me, not just you. We together 214 00:18:26.000 --> 00:18:33.160 as a community have to stop it. And we can stop it. You 215 00:18:33.319 --> 00:18:41.599 and I together can stop it. Be your voice being advocate of it. 216 00:18:47.759 --> 00:18:55.920 We can stop it. It doesn't have to continue. On those of you 217 00:18:56.000 --> 00:19:00.519 that are sucking and those of you who may find yourself in this situation hearing 218 00:19:00.559 --> 00:19:03.200 at the side of my voice or listen to this particular podcast, just know 219 00:19:03.319 --> 00:19:08.000 that you are not alone. You are not alone. You have people that 220 00:19:08.039 --> 00:19:11.559 are pulling for you, have people that love you. You have people that 221 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:15.880 will help you. You have people that will do what's necessary to help you 222 00:19:15.839 --> 00:19:19.359 get out of that, heal from it, get you the help that you 223 00:19:19.400 --> 00:19:22.680 need, the resources that you need, and will do so. You are 224 00:19:22.720 --> 00:19:27.480 not alone. So, if in the sound of my voice you're listening to 225 00:19:27.519 --> 00:19:32.279 this podcast on whatever platform that you may be listening to it on wherever you 226 00:19:32.359 --> 00:19:37.119 listen to or get your podcast right now here today on currently under construction, 227 00:19:37.319 --> 00:19:45.359 you are not alone. We are here. If you don't want to call 228 00:19:45.400 --> 00:19:51.680 anyone or any resources, you can reach out to me here at this podcast. 229 00:19:52.640 --> 00:19:57.759 You know the email under Construction nineteen sitting there for at yahoo dot com. 230 00:19:57.799 --> 00:20:03.279 That is you in d R c O N S t r U K 231 00:20:03.200 --> 00:20:08.640 t I O N nineteen seventy four at yahoo dot com. And I will 232 00:20:08.720 --> 00:20:12.480 and we will do what we can to get you in touch with someone, 233 00:20:12.880 --> 00:20:19.759 get you the resources that you need to help you remove yourself from whatever domestic 234 00:20:19.839 --> 00:20:26.279 situation that you're in, man or woman, and it all remains confidential. 235 00:20:30.799 --> 00:20:34.480 It's time out for this foolishness cousins. Again, folks, it's time out 236 00:20:34.519 --> 00:20:45.400 forward. It's all about love. So again, let's stop normalizing this. 237 00:20:45.039 --> 00:20:48.119 Uh, what happens between the man and woman is between the man and woman. 238 00:20:48.200 --> 00:20:52.240 No, it's not, especially when it's been publicized, it's not. 239 00:20:56.440 --> 00:21:07.720 Let's stop that for the brothers that are experiencing domestic violence, because again I 240 00:21:07.759 --> 00:21:14.359 said earlier that there are even men that are stuck in domestic violence situations you 241 00:21:14.400 --> 00:21:22.039 know, um from women. Hey, don't be ashamed, brother, I 242 00:21:22.079 --> 00:21:23.880 know it may come off there we and feel that way tell you, but 243 00:21:23.960 --> 00:21:29.759 just don't be ashamed. You took a step up and get whatever help that 244 00:21:29.839 --> 00:21:32.880 you need. The same exact way, the same thing goes for you. 245 00:21:33.200 --> 00:21:36.599 You wanted to remain anonymous, you can, like I say, emails here 246 00:21:36.599 --> 00:21:40.960 at UH, at the podcast, we will do what we can to put 247 00:21:41.000 --> 00:21:44.839 you in touch with who we can UH therapist, counselor give you the resources 248 00:21:44.839 --> 00:21:48.319 that you need to be able to help you move forward, get out of 249 00:21:48.359 --> 00:21:53.960 that toxic situation and get the help that you need. We love y'all here 250 00:21:55.039 --> 00:21:59.400 currently under construction, cousins and can folks. Again, we are all about 251 00:21:59.400 --> 00:22:03.519 promoting positivity here. Those of you who can you know, if you know, 252 00:22:03.680 --> 00:22:06.039 listen, this is what we're about. This is what we do because 253 00:22:06.240 --> 00:22:11.160 we are a community, we are a family, we are a village. 254 00:22:14.200 --> 00:22:15.759 The saying that we say at the end, that I say at the end 255 00:22:15.799 --> 00:22:21.640 of the podcast isn't just the saying that goes along with it. We stand 256 00:22:21.680 --> 00:22:25.519 on that here. That's what we believe here, currently under construction, that 257 00:22:25.680 --> 00:22:27.440 is a part of our mantra, that is a part of what we are 258 00:22:27.519 --> 00:22:42.079 in the core of us here and currently under construction. October is domestic violence 259 00:22:42.160 --> 00:22:52.519 Awareness month. Let's be aware, let's put a stop to it. Let's 260 00:22:52.519 --> 00:22:56.200 do what we can to help those that find themselves stuck in these toxic situations. 261 00:22:59.519 --> 00:23:00.799 Because the can folks, that is my time. We're gonna wrap it 262 00:23:00.880 --> 00:23:03.559 up and shut it down right here. Thank you all so much for join 263 00:23:03.680 --> 00:23:07.759 us to here today. I'm currently on the construction. You're going to have 264 00:23:07.799 --> 00:23:11.720 a bonus episode coming up here real soon. Whether it's today or it could 265 00:23:11.759 --> 00:23:14.599 be tomorrow, but either way, you have it and we'll be back on 266 00:23:14.599 --> 00:23:19.279 our regular scheduled program next week Tuesdays and Fridays. Tuesdays and Fridays, Tuesdays 267 00:23:19.279 --> 00:23:23.920 and Fridays. Listen, cousins and ken folks again, and it's yes, 268 00:23:23.960 --> 00:23:26.359 it's true. For those who you have asked me if you missed it, 269 00:23:26.359 --> 00:23:29.960 if you didn't hear before, here it is again. Yes, it is 270 00:23:29.960 --> 00:23:33.480 true. We are doing our Christmas giveaway again this year. We are feeding 271 00:23:34.000 --> 00:23:40.279 four families this year. I'm hoping with the position of a fifth. I'm 272 00:23:40.319 --> 00:23:42.480 not sure just right now, but I will know within the next two to 273 00:23:42.559 --> 00:23:45.559 three weeks if we're gonna be able to add a fifth, but right now 274 00:23:47.440 --> 00:23:51.680 for families we're gonna take care of. We're gonna feed four families this year, 275 00:23:51.880 --> 00:23:55.640 just like we did this with the two last year. We're going to 276 00:23:56.000 --> 00:24:00.720 for our regional slash local families that we're going to feel eat again. You 277 00:24:00.759 --> 00:24:07.119 have the option if you want us to um prepare the food for you and 278 00:24:07.160 --> 00:24:11.440 bring it, or we buy the groceries and then we meet up and we 279 00:24:11.480 --> 00:24:15.200 have it delivered to you, put into your vehicle that where you can pay 280 00:24:15.200 --> 00:24:19.759 it. Prepare it um to your specific specifications and satisfy and of how you 281 00:24:19.799 --> 00:24:23.880 want your food. But either way, that's what we're doing this year again 282 00:24:25.000 --> 00:24:30.920 three We're gonna feed three families regionally slash locally, one nationally and all you 283 00:24:30.920 --> 00:24:37.079 have to do to enter is to email us here at the podcast. Let 284 00:24:37.160 --> 00:24:41.759 us know your favorite episode of Currently under Construction, doesn't matter the season that 285 00:24:41.880 --> 00:24:47.680 is not your favorite episode, why it's your favorite episode? And share this 286 00:24:47.759 --> 00:24:52.039 podcast with two people. That automatically enters you into the drawing. Just that 287 00:24:52.200 --> 00:24:57.160 is that simple? That automatically enters you into the drawing. Uh. The 288 00:24:57.240 --> 00:25:03.720 deadline forward is December seventh. It's the final day we will announce our winners. 289 00:25:03.799 --> 00:25:10.599 We will we will make our determination our winners on December a, December 290 00:25:10.640 --> 00:25:18.200 twenty, we will make our distributions. So again, the deadline to enter 291 00:25:18.319 --> 00:25:29.920 iss December seven, December. Winners will be announced December twenty our distribution So 292 00:25:30.680 --> 00:25:33.599 again, let's get on that. It means because again it's still harder. 293 00:25:33.720 --> 00:25:37.000 Even though we're finally seeing daylight coming out of the tail end of this pandemic, 294 00:25:37.279 --> 00:25:41.720 it's still hard for a lot of families out there. It's still hard 295 00:25:41.720 --> 00:25:44.000 for us. It us a lot of people in us as a community. 296 00:25:44.039 --> 00:25:48.880 So this is to help and shed a light on those who are less fortunate 297 00:25:49.000 --> 00:25:52.920 right now that we want to help, that we want to be a blessing 298 00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:56.559 to here currently under construction. This is not about being put in a limelight. 299 00:25:56.640 --> 00:26:02.119 This is not about uh likes and giggles. This is not about any 300 00:26:02.160 --> 00:26:07.480 of that. Is not anything of that particularly, This is about love for 301 00:26:07.599 --> 00:26:11.880 your fellow man, love for your neighbors, wanting to help in your community. 302 00:26:12.240 --> 00:26:17.839 This is what this is about for this giveaway here on currently under construction 303 00:26:17.880 --> 00:26:22.599 this year. So y'all get those emails in. We still have a little 304 00:26:22.640 --> 00:26:26.759 more than a month plus in doing so, so get those emails into us 305 00:26:27.039 --> 00:26:30.839 so that where we can, you know, continue to be a blessing for 306 00:26:30.880 --> 00:26:33.359 you all here at currently under construction, because we do this because we love 307 00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:37.440 you and we want everybody to have a wonderful holiday season and just be a 308 00:26:37.440 --> 00:26:41.720 blessing to those um who are less fortunate who are having a little hard right 309 00:26:41.720 --> 00:26:45.599 now. But anyway, you know, you can catch us and listen to 310 00:26:45.680 --> 00:26:49.519 us wherever you listen to where you get your podcasts. U you can listen 311 00:26:49.559 --> 00:26:55.839 to us on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Pocketcast, 312 00:26:56.160 --> 00:27:00.160 Radio, Public Radio One, uh Cast, Box, uh I, Heart 313 00:27:00.240 --> 00:27:04.519 Radio, many many others. Again, you can listen to us on Apple 314 00:27:04.559 --> 00:27:11.200 Podcasts, Google podcast, Overcast, Overcast, Pocketcast, Spotify Radio, Public 315 00:27:11.400 --> 00:27:15.279 Radio One, podcast One, Cash stro I, Heart Radio, Deezer, 316 00:27:15.359 --> 00:27:21.480 and many many others. So take a moment, you know, if you 317 00:27:21.519 --> 00:27:23.599 can, you know, to radius review us and I'll hope you'll give us 318 00:27:23.599 --> 00:27:27.039 five stars and in less than it it'll really have hurt our heart. But 319 00:27:27.119 --> 00:27:32.640 hey, we want you know, genuine and honest uh reviews from you, 320 00:27:33.160 --> 00:27:36.400 feedback and let us know how we're doing, what we can do better, 321 00:27:36.799 --> 00:27:41.799 What what topics we can um um talk about for you that you want to 322 00:27:41.839 --> 00:27:45.720 hear about, that you want to uh us to elaborate on a touch based 323 00:27:45.720 --> 00:27:48.480 on or whatever the case. You know, continue to email us at the 324 00:27:48.559 --> 00:27:51.920 podcast and let us know how we're doing with what more we can do, 325 00:27:52.000 --> 00:27:56.599 what better we can do to bring you the best what's your that we can 326 00:27:57.079 --> 00:28:02.839 on this platform as you continue to support us here. I'm currently under construction. 327 00:28:03.400 --> 00:28:06.160 You know. I love y'all and and I love the support that you've 328 00:28:06.200 --> 00:28:08.480 given us for those of you have rolled with us from day one. As 329 00:28:08.480 --> 00:28:14.640 we continue to grow, Um Phoenix Fire still in the mix. It's in 330 00:28:14.680 --> 00:28:17.880 the making. It's still in the making. Don't forget things. Fire Radio 331 00:28:18.079 --> 00:28:22.400 is coming three. So I'm gonna have some more specific dates for you coming 332 00:28:22.440 --> 00:28:23.799 up as we get towards the end of the year and preparing for the new 333 00:28:23.880 --> 00:28:27.200 year. But the Phoenix is coming. Get ready to get prepared because the 334 00:28:27.200 --> 00:28:30.799 phoenix will be rising. Alright, cousins, ken fols, I'm gonna get 335 00:28:30.839 --> 00:28:33.920 on up out of here, but y'all come on, get in here with 336 00:28:33.960 --> 00:28:36.640 me, and let's say it. Y'all know what time it is. It's 337 00:28:36.640 --> 00:28:38.519 our thing. It's not just the same. It's not I think we're staying 338 00:28:38.559 --> 00:28:41.880 on. It's from the core of us. It takes the village to make 339 00:28:41.880 --> 00:28:47.200 this happen. And you all are my village, and we're gonna continue to 340 00:28:47.319 --> 00:28:52.000 keep building this thing together, you and I step by step, one break 341 00:28:52.039 --> 00:28:55.640 at a time. Currently under construction. I love you, all. I 342 00:28:55.680 --> 00:28:57.160 will talk to you all in a couple of days. I love you. 343 00:28:57.240 --> 00:29:00.599 Get out in the joil your day to day, get out to get out 344 00:29:00.640 --> 00:29:02.880 and do something. Peace, love y'all.