Email Q&A

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Welcome, cousins and Ken folks.
Welcome to the newest episode currently under construction.

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Thank you so much for joining us
today. Uh. We are still

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in the middle of Women's Appreciation Month, and all month we are celebrating our

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queens. But this episode gonna be
a little different. Cousins of Ken folks,

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We're gonna get back to celebrating our
queen's tomorrow's episode, today's episode.

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I just feel compelled to share some
of the emails that I've gotten we received

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here currently under construction from some of
our listeners and just the questions that they

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have, and it's just time.
It's amazing. It's some questions that we

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get here currently out of constructions.
Some are very good questions, some are

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very uh personal, some are kind
of ugly. Uh someone just downright one

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of those type of questions that make
you scratch your head and be like,

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wait, what seriously because it scamp
folks. But hey, it's it's all

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okay. Regardless of how will those
questions come and those emails that lets us

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know that we're continued to be engaging, that we're continuing to reach uh a

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more and more broad and diverse audience. And I'm okay with that, because

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that's what we want to do here
it currently under construction, we want to

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be able to spark uh dialogue and
some degree another wizard, whether it's positive,

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whether it's negative, whether it's something
that makes you happy, something that

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may bring you down, whatever,
but we want to be able to spark

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dialogue so that at the end of
the day, we have sparked some type

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of change here for us, for
for for our community, for us as

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a people, include even for me
over all as a person. I've said

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this more than once. It's it's
my preference, my pleasure, and my

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privilege to do currently under construction,
to be your host, to be able

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to come and sit down and talk
with you all, my cousins and kin

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folks when I do, and this
is a this is a privilege for me

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to do so. And it is
also therapeutic. This is this is pure

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therapy for me and I love every
bit of it. But uh, let's

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get into some of those questions uh
we have here in my email bag.

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Uh just that just a few that
I pulled aside that I was like,

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oh, oh well, okay then. Uh. One of the questions that

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we were asked was of the email
with hey, love the show, love

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what you do, continue to keep
doing. So why do you say uh

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all the time? Well, it's
the way I talk. I'm still getting

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used to the fact of us speaking
uh in public, speaking over all the

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way that I do, and pausing
sometimes when I talk. I'm the type

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of person that when I m okay, I was just reading something that my

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computer just brought up. I apologize
for that cousin king folks type of person

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that I'm. I think before I
speak, or I I try to so

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that way, the dialogue that I
had with you all is it's clear,

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it's clear, precise that way.
I'm not just you know, talking out

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at the side of my neck or
anything. I'm a person that thinks about

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what I want to say, how
I say it, and how I speak,

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so I in turn have to do
so. So that's why sometimes that

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you hear me say that, it's
just part of my natural tone. I

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don't have that straight run on a
radio or TV type of voice or TV

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type of talk. I don't have
that just yet. The more I continue

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to do this, maybe it maybe
that will lessen more and more. But

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for the most part, to answer
your question, that is the wise why

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I said, and a lot of
things when I'm talking, even if you

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have an opportunity to talk to me
in person, I tend to say that

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a lot as well. I don't
consider myself a great speaker in front of

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people, but I think I do. Okay, this is what I want.

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I was going to say this or
I think I'm gonna go and jump

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on this one right now. This
email asked said, hey, you know

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love your podcast? Uh it pops
up on a lot of different streaming platforms.

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Took a listen. I listened to
a few episodes. I was quite

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impressed. But I have a question. Why is it that you always say

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that you're doing this for the community, but everything that you talk about is

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either African American, this support an
African American that what about their other races

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and their cultures? Kind of seems
like reverse racism, doesn't it? Hm,

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reverse racism? Wow, Well I'm
gonna say this in response to that,

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cause again I was gonna save them
because this was a really, really

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good one. You know, I
kind of read this one a few times.

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Anyone who knows me knows that's not
a racist bone in my body.

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I'm far from being racist. Racism
starts at home. Racism is a lifestyle.

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Racism is a learned behavior. To
m racism is disliking a person,

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not knowing anything about them based on
how they look, based on their color.

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If you can, if anyone,
if anyone out there listening to the

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sound above, which right now,
if my cousins can, and ken folks

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can, go back from season one
too, now in this one hundred whatever

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episode of Currently under Construction, here
in season four, can find an episode

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of Currently under Construction where I,
your host, came off as completely racist.

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You find an episode, you email
it to us here are currently under

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construction. If you know me personally, you call me and tell me which

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episode that is. Because I'm far
from being racist, No, that it's

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not reverse racism. Let me explain
something to you. I'm pro black.

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I'm pro black. I support African
American businesses, I support things that are

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positive in the African American community.
I'm a black man in this country.

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I'm a black man in a part
of a country who doesn't love us back.

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So again, I'm pro black.
But just because I'm pro black doesn't

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mean I'm anti white, or anti
Asian or anti Latino and so forth.

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Far from it. Some of the
most coolest people that I've ever met in

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my life weren't African Americans. But
again, what's the difference in me so

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porting Nike, Macy's, Bloomingdale's,
Reebok, and so forth, or any

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of these companies that I just named
owned by an African American. No,

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So why can't I go support I'm
Your Diva, the Sweet Treats, Kecious

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Confections, Grits with a Twist,
Joe's Sweet Treats. Why can't I go

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and support those businesses because they're African
American businesses and I should and I do.

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They may not have the marketing or
the energy behind them right now,

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but if I can, if I
can help drive excuse me, help drive

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support behind them like so many others
do, then one day they may have

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that engine behind them to be able
to do that. So I'm far from

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being racist, and know me being
pro black isn't reverse racism, because there's

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I don't dislike any Caucasian person or
anything like or any other person of any

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different race because of how they look. Now, I might dislike how you

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treat me, how you've come off
to me, or how do you treat

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others. Now, I can have
a dislike for you for that, but

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not dislike you based on the color
of your skin. That again, it

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is racism. That again is racism. So I hope I was able to

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answer that question. So uh have
another one. Yeah, on your podcast,

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it seems like you always showing the
women love, but you don't never

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show no love to the brothers.
What's up with that? That was just

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how that email went. That's how
the email came off. So brother,

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I do show my brother's love.
I do. Again. I don't know

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which specific episode that you've been able
to listen to, or if you've been

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listening to us from the jump,
but if you have been listening to us

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here currently in the construction from the
John, I show my brother's a whole

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lot of love. I don't just
show the sister's love. Now. I

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do that a lot, because our
sisters have a bad rap right now.

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They they they they're really catching the
hard coming, especially coming from us,

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the the men who's supposed to be
protecting them. So yeah, I do

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show them a lot of love.
But I show my brother's love as well.

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Now, just because I'm not coming
out pumping your chest out and anything

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and everything like that doesn't mean I'm
against you, brothers. My whole thing

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is to help educate you in any
way that I can, about how to

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treat our sisters better, about how
we can probably come together to be better

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men, to do uh things right, to do things together that I do.

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I'm a father. I support all
fathers who are in their children's lives

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and those who don't get an opportunity
to be in their children's lives. I'm

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a huge advocate for for my brothers
like that. So again, my brother,

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I'm I'm I'm not upset with you. I'm not coming down on you

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or trying to demeanor in any way, but I need you to take a

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moment, go back and listen to
currently under Construction from episode one coming forward,

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and you will see how much love
I've pushed forward and have been an

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advocate for my my fellow men,
my fellow brothers. I'm far from being

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a hater. Anyone that knows me
knows there's not a hating bone in my

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body. I love to see us
when I love to see people who are

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out there getting it to make it, cause guess what, it's a lot

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of money out there for everybody to
eat, and we don't have to demean

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or demoralize anyone else or what they're
trying to do, or if they have

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a product that's similar to yours or
they're doing something similar to you, you

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don't have to demean them in any
type of way in order to do that,

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because again, it's enough out here
for all of us. I've had

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the privilege of being able to network
with and collab with a lot of other

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podcasters who taught me so much,
who's taught me a lot, who's had

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to opportunity to listen to currently under
construction of like, hey, I like

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what you're doing, let's get together. Maybe we could I could, I

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could be featured on your show too, and then you can be featured on

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mine. And those episodes are coming
up. Those episodes are coming up.

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Where I've had the opportunity to network
and collect with some wonderful and great podcasters

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that are doing great things in this
podcast world that has a lot of wonderful

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and and and and informational content.
I love that. I'm about that.

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I'm all about support, I'm all
about encouragement. I'm all about uplifting.

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That's not a hating bone in my
body, not one. I love to

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see us get it. I tell
anybody that I see what it's about.

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Hey, what can I do to
help support what you're doing right now?

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How can I help support? Can
I? Can I put your link into

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the bio of my podcast on this
particular upcoming episode so that my legeners can

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be able to click on that and
and and go to your site and see

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what's going on. Can I send
you a shout out on my podcast so

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that my listeners can hear what you're
about, Hear what you got going on

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here, what type of products that
you're putting out there, so that way

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they can patronize your business. I'm
a huge proponent of that because that's what

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we do here carminl Downer Construction.
That's what we're about. That's why our

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model still states to encourage and uplift
all of our listeners while having meaningful dialogue,

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because that's what we're about. That's
what we do. That's what currently

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under Construction is all about, building
up, not tearing down. We're not

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here to tear anyone down. We're
here to encourage, uplift, support,

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inform and help wherever we can.
That's what we do. Here currently under

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construction. Yeah, yeah, So
those were the emails that I wanted to

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share with you all today, cousins
and Kent folks. This is not gonna

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be a long episode, but I
just wanted to get into that and share

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that with you all today. Again. I had planned for my current episode

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of going on to our next Queen
that we're going to highlight and we're gonna

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talk about where we're gonna say that
for tomorrow's episode. That's gonna be on

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tomorrow's episode. I want you don't
don't don't miss it, don't miss I

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promise you it's the person I'm gonna
highlight is very near and dear to me,

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had very influential on part of the
foundation for me in my life and

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still is this this this this queen
still is and not just for me,

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for several other people who she's touched
in her life. You don't want to

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miss this, Cousins and king folks. I promise you you, you you

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won't be disappointed. But look at
her cousins and king folks. They're about

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to come fix my m my ac
uh, get it clean down, get

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it uh add free onto it and
everything. So I'm about to get on

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the put of her cousin and king
folks. But hey, thank you for

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joining us here on Currently under Construction
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all of your support. I appreciate
everyone who listens to us here at Currently

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under Construction, who continues to share
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internationally. I want to send a
big shout out to our international listeners.

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I love you all. Thank you
all so much for continue to share Currently

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under Construction, for continuing to listen, to continue to contact us on let

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us know how you know you're impacted
by our episodes the information we broadcast in

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our content. We love you so
much, Erek Currently under Construction and we

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want to continue to hear from you, continue to have your support, and

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you'll always have our love. All
right, cousins, king folks that I'm

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gonna get on up out of here, but bring it on there. You

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know what time it is. It
takes the village to make this thing happen.

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And you know you all are my
village, and we're gonna continue to

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keep building this thing together, step
by step, one brick at a time.

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Currently under construction. I love you
all, I talk to you all

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tomorrow. Everybody having an amazing day. Peace,