Lets Choose Love Over Hate

0:01 Cousins, Ken folks, cousins and Ken folks, and get on in here, Get on in here. It'd been a hot minute, but we are back. Welcome to your favorite podcast and mine currently under construction. I am your host, King Hub. Welcome back, Welcome back, Happy twenty twenty five. I know it'd been a hot minute since y'all the last heard his voice, since y'all our last seen the new pod, since y'all y'all the have last like, hey, you know what's going on. I've gotten your emails, I've gotten your uh messages. I missed y'all too. I missed y'all too. We had to take care of a few things. I know. For the last six months or so, we've had some ongoing and outgoing issues with the pod. I apologize for that.

0:44 Y'all know what time it is. It's season six? Uh again, I wanna uh since send my sincere apologies, cousins and kinfolks. Uh, it's been a lot going on. Had to get things straight. You had to get things straight as far as our sponsors. We had to get things straight as far as our finances. Because I've been going through a few things here. They're not all bad. Not all bad. I want to just make shit, make that clear for it. It's not all bad. But hey, it's a new day, it's a new chapter, it's a new episode. So come on in, grab a seat, sit down, put your feet up. Because it's been a long time since we talked. And I got a lot of stuff on my mind. Because it's a gift folks, not just for this episode, but upcoming episodes as well, So much, so much is going on. First and foremost, I want to come to you all and thank our winners, our friend and our drawing for our holiday giveaway. I didn't announce it. There's a reason that I didn't announce them.

1:45 I'll come back with that reason on a different episode. But I want to just congratulate and say thank you to those who participated and to give away those who donated for the giveaway undercover, those who you know, wanted to remain anonymous, those who wanted to remain out loud. I just want to thank you all from the bottom of my heart, and you know, helping me make this a success for another year. We're gonna do the same thing again this upcoming year. Hopefully we can make it a little bit bigger. A little bit better. But even if we don't, you know what, it's still a blessing to be a blessing to others. As I always say, cause can folks. For those families who had a great Christmas, you know, great holiday season, congrats to you. I'm glad we were able to help. I'm glad we were able to put a smile on your face, the face of you, the face of your families, and just you know, make your holiday full of what it should be, you know, full of happiness, full of love, full of you know, family, you know fun what the holiday is, because that's what the holiday season it's all about. It's all about love, It's all about family, and it's all about celebrating each other, celebrating in love, and celebrating the birth of our Lord and save with Jesus Christ. First, Who I want to thank for my continued ongoing health. Who I want to think that I'm still here. Who I want to thank for each and every day that I wake up? Because without him, I would not be here. Without him, I

3:16 would not be standing without him. I wouldn't be in my right mind without him. I wouldn't just nothing that I would do would work If not for him, if not for his grace and mercy. You know, that's first and foremost. Cousins and king folks. We don't give God enough acknowledgement throughout the day. We don't give God enough acknowledgment today period. And that kind of goes hand in hand with what I want to talk to you about. Cousins and ken folks. Again, it's been a minute since we spoke, so much has happened, you know, a lot of saying things are still going on, a lot of new stuff is going on. That's a whole lot of hate in this world right now, Cousins of king folks. It's been growing, it's been under underlining, under the surface, but it's it's come to a whole new level now, a whole new level recently. And I'm part of me is amazed by it and still shot. A part of me is hurt by but a part of me it's not surprised because it was foretold, but it is not surprised.

4:19 But still nevertheless, me being a human being, me being a child of God, me being the person that I am singing this mess it hurts a lot. It hurts a lot. So there's a new administration in the office right now. We all know what happened. We all know what transpired on January twentieth, Martin Luther King Day, and it's just been a whole heap of manure since that day. Our country is being torn down before our eyes completely, cousins and king folks completely on so many different levels, with so many different things. It is just blatantly. It's just out here now and the hate has come to a whole other level, a whole nother level. I am seeing more and more videos that people have sent me or people have reached out to me about, and it's like, hey, did you see this king Hub? Hey did you know what was going on with this king Hub? Some of it I've seen, some of it I've haden't, But by the same token, I'm not surprised by a lot of it.

5:40 It seems nowadays cousins and king folks it's more prevalent to hate or or to demean others, or to want to destroy them or destroy what they have going on, versus just minding your business, just minding your business. And we see we have a uh uh, a group of our cousins in this world that don't know how to mind their business, that they're always having a point to take, make a point to stick their nose where it doesn't belong. Why is that? Why does this group of cousins of ours think that that's okay? I mean, it's on a whole nother level. It's it's it's it's straight off the Richter scale. It costs you nothing to pay the business that pays you, which is your own, and to not tend to anyone else's business. What another person has going on in their personal life and their mind and their business has absolutely nothing to do with you. And I want this group of my cousins to sit and listen to this and listen to me clearly, and you all know who I'm talking about, this group of cousins of ours, my clear cousins. It it doesn't cost you anything to mind your own business. It costs you nothing to truck

7:11 to don't insert yourself in things that have absolutely nothing to do with you. It costs you nothing to sit and stop trying to to mean people or make yourself a part of something that has absolutely nothing to do with you. I'm gonna give you an example on TikTok. I'm not a huge I mean, I have a TikTok again, but I'm not a huge I'm not active on it or anything, you know. And there's a lot of people that I enjoyed following who I support, who I you know, enjoy their content or whatever, you know, but I don't post on TikTok anymore. But there's on TikTok. Hold on, he have me take a step back, y'all, be careful on TikTok because you know, we know what happened with the shutdown and then it was back up again, let's than ten hours later and everything. Just kind of be careful of that. You know. If you, you know, decided to delete your account, that's okay. If you didn't and you still have it, that's fine. But just kind of be careful out there on TikTok. You know, you can't update or anything anymore, and it kind of runs crazy here there. But that's neither hearing nor doub We're gonna that's gonna be another topic for another time, you know, where we're gonna get into the whole deal about the quick shut down, the back up, the reasoning why and why they're concentrating on that particular daga so much. That's neither hearing nor that I know. I'm kind of all over the places right now, cousins and can folks, But this is our first episode back, and I'm just needing a touch base with your cousins and kin folks. And there's a whole lot on my mind and sometimes my mind runs faster than my mouth will talk. Y'all know

8:45 how I do this? Stay new to y'all. For those who are new or are just now coming on and just not listening, Hey, this is something I do for my Day one followers. You know what time it is, You know how we roll. This is what we do. But anyway, back to the topic it hay, there's a group they're on TikTok. There has been a huge movement going on and of positivity of human talk university. So now you have a lot of professors uh and various different uh occupations and and and uh that are teaching different things, you know, for free. We're talking African American studies.

9:29 We're talking health, We're talking mental health, We're talking wellness. We're talking about cooking, We're talking uh something simple as spade playing, uh, financial literacy, so many other topics. And I'm like man, that's so amazing. It's amazing that the movement that this has become, how how this has become. I mean they even going as far you can go register, you know, you get a student I D you get uh your curriculum and everything, access to everything through Google Docs and whatnot. I mean, it is amazing the amount of work that was put into this and just how huge and amazing that it is. And it don't coast you a dye. It's free. That's the connect this right, this is free game, free education that's put together by a group of black professors and teachers and educators and people who are in these specific fields that are doing this.

10:26 And I love every bit of it because, you know what, that's what we do, that's what we do as black people. They're sharing the way, they're sharing the wealth. They're wanting to educate us, especially at this particular time and juncture of things are going on in this world and in this country, and I love it. I love it. But then you have this group, my group of clear cousins, who want to come in and want to insert themselves into it. This has absolutely nothing to do with you. This is for us. And when they got kicked out of it, then they want to make a huge issue about to talk about, oh well we want to learn, Oh well, why want you involved with? This should be something that can involve everybody. But it's not for you.

11:13 It's not for you. It has absolutely nothing to do with you. And see that's the thing that we're talking about right here, that this group, because it is always looking to willing to insert themselves into something that has absolutely nothing to do with them. This ain't your party, This ain't your party. This has absolutely nothing to do with you. And a lot of them got mad posting videos trying to get it banned or whatever case may be. But it didn't work, and it's not working. That's is strictly for educational purposes, but it's for us by us. This ain't got nothing to do with you. You can't be involved with everything that has absolutely nothing to do with you.

11:56 That's why you mmm see, y'all wanna say if somebody didn't need to say, well, we're gonna keep it, We're gonna keep it clean, we're gonna keep a professional, were gonna keep it on the up and up, cousins, the kin folks, because y'all know me I'm very passionate when it comes to my people. Y'all know who I am. I love y'all. I love y'all like a fat kid loves cake. And I'm a fat kid and I love cake. I can't be I don't need to be eating cake no more. But again, I'm a fat kid who loves cakes. So I love it just like that, right there. No, but serious, I love y'all. I love my people. I love the creatity, the creativity, the ingenuity of how we do things and how we're putting things together. And we're always when we sit and we allow others to infiltrate or to come in on things that we put together that we take the time that we we uh uh have the ingenuity to put together. Then they try to circumvent that cause if they can't be a part of then they want to try to do their best to tear it down. But this is not happening. It's not happening now. That's how that I hope that they can continue on through TikTok, or they'll be able to move it to its own specific platform. I don't know. I've had a conversation with a couple of professors that and they said, that's something that they're working on and trying to do, and I really hope that they're able to do that to move it to its own platform in itself, so that way you can really close the ranks in on it and just really take it and block and forth a blossom. But for right now, human talk is

13:27 on TikTok and it is amazing. Cousins and ken and folks, this is just it's I love it. I love the fact that we have black educators and people that are out here and they're just willing to educate your taking the time out for themselves to educate others on so many different things. That's going to benefit you in every day life. Everyday life. Have better taking care of yourself mentally, taking care of yourself physically, you know, learning more about your history and your culture, learning more about how to cook, how to properly cook things to take care of you that that's going to be beneficial to you. Learning if you have food allergies or not, you know, how can you determine if you are going through something you know?

14:21 And to be able to have resources out there and available and where to find these resources to get your help. You know for your mental wellness and everything that is amazing. I love this. I love this on so many levels because we're looking out for each other. Y'all know. I've said so much on here, and it's part of our mantra about the village, and it takes a village for us to make this thing happen. I loved it because guess what, the village is coming back. The village is growing again. I see it. I've said for so long that the village is on life support, but I still believe in the village. I still believe in each and every day that if we come together as a village, as a people, there is nothing and I mean nothing that we cannot do and accomplish together. And I see it.

15:14 I see it happening, and I love every bit of it because that's what we do. That's what we're about. When we can learn to get out of our own way, when we can learn to set the foolishness to the side, and when we learn as a people to come together for a common goal. And it's the amazing things that we can do, the amazing things that our ancestors done. The ancestors are speaking and walking through us right now each and every day, cousins and king folks, and I love it. I love every bit of it. This world is devoid of a lot of love right now. We need that, we need to bring that back. There is a lot of love that is not in this world right now. It is devoid of it. And it seems that it's more prevalent to hate right now than to tend to love. And it's so hard to love those who were always a spew and hate. But God commanded us, commanded us to love each other the greatest commandment, the greatest commandment. We can go and quote down to ten commitments and everything, but they all wrap up to one thing.

16:38 Love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, minds, souled in strength, Love your neighbor as you love yourself. That means love God and put God above any and everything else. And for us to love each other like we love ourselves. If you're constantly walking around with hating your heart and you want a game bang on bacon and breakfast and you want a game bang get up mad every day for no reason, then you have a lot of hate in your heart. You need to take a look in the mirror. You need to get on your knees and ask God to show you, to show you what it is to love. God is love. God is love. God is love, and he commends us to love each other. He loved us so much that he created us in his image. We are his image. We are his image, each and ever last one of us.

17:42 We are his image in spirit. And when we begin to live, that is that we become more of his image in the physical sense. When we can sit and get out of our own ways and begin to love each other with that a God, babe, love like God loved us, the whole world changes. We can begin to make change. But it hurts your heart when you sit here and see children. I saw a video the other day and it just blew my mind. And they think and just even the response that I saw from the adult in it, it blew me way even more. This child there was a video of these students. Uh, and this child is this? This student in the whole way haulds off and slaps a teacher and they begin to fight.

18:40 And the adult in the video, I'm not sure if this was this child's mother, guardian, I'll tell you whoever. She said she didn't see it for a week because the school didn't call her, but somebody showed it to her because it was air dropped among the students, you know from ife on the ipe on the air was air dropping into each other. But she said she didn't know anything about it for a week. And then she she said, well, what prompt what the teacher could have said that could put to provoked this child to do that? Wait, what excuse me, ma'am? You have this backwards. Why is this child in this adult's face? Why is this child putting his hands on adult? Regardless of whatever was said, This child has no business putting their hands and bulling up on a man. And then she then go from there to state, well, I don't want him to lose his job, but maybe he could go back to training, or he could have restrained himself more and just grabbed him.

19:43 What man or person do you know at that moment somebody put their hands on them are going to restrain themselves. But that's just the hate that I see in this world that's responsible for that. This starts at home. Cousins of king folks, This starts at home. Now, I'm not gonna get too deep into it, because again that's another topic for another day that I'm going to get further into that because we got we got to parents, We got to take some responsibility for this right here. We have to y'all know, I don't cuss or anything like that on this pod, but I'm just gonna say something.

20:24 I'm just gonna call it for what it is. Right now. A lot of it becomes a punk ass parents straight up, and this guy's this has to stop. This starts at home. But again that's another topic for another day. This is our welcome back episode of Colonel under Construction. Cousins and king folks, we need love. We need more love in this world, Cousins of king folks. That's the only way to combat hate is with love. That's the only way we can do this. Hate can't stay in the occupy the same place as love. It cannot. It has to flee.

21:08 Just like darkness has to flee when light is brought into it is brought into the picture. Hate has to flee when love is involved. And that's the only way you can combat hate is with love. You can't combat hate with hate. It begets more hate. It increases from there and it goes to a level that something is going to happen on a whole nother level and everything, Cousins of kin folks, so hear what I'm saying. The only way that we can combat hate is with love. That's the only way that can happen. Cousins of Kin folks. We are backed. This is our returned episode to currently under construction, So we're gonna get ready to get up out of here. Again. This is just the first episode, but be on the lookout, cousins of the Ken folks, because we're gonna get more in depth on everything that we were discussing I was discussing just now. But again, this episode is about love. We cannot continue to accept the hate that we see going on in this country and in this world, Cousins ain folks, and the only way that we can combat it is with love. God commanded us to love each other. And God is the end all, be all, He is the epitome of love.

22:25 Cousins and king folks. I'm just telling you, cousins and kin folks, we can't do this like that. We can't. This world needs love. This world needs love. Well, look, cousins and kN folk, I'm gonna get on up out of here. I'm gona get out your yelled. I've been in here ell long enough. We are back. We are back. We are back, cousins of King folks. Remember, you can listen to us wherever you listen to, wherever you get your podcast. Remember, we broadcast on Apple Podcasts no longer Google Podcasts, Spotify, Overcast, Pocketcasts, Radio Public, iHeartRadio, castro Cast, Box podcast one, and many many other platforms. Or you can listen to us, you know, straight on on our website.

23:14 You can go to us at www Dot underconstruction dot com www dot underconstruction dot com and you can sign up for our emails notifications and then they'll notify you in the new episodes available and you can go in and you can listen to it and where just hey support us, Listen, cousins and ken Foe. There's a lot that's going to be happening in this world. We see it and every day and everything. I need you all to be strong. We need to hold on. We need to continue to come together as a people because this is not gonna stand. It can't stand, and only we as a people can do something about this. All of us together, all of us together, all of our cousins and Kin Folks together, all of us together, Cousins of Ken Folks. Again. I know I'm all over the place with this episode. This is our first episode back Cousins and Ken Folks. And this again, this episode is about love.

24:32 It's about love, it's about the village, It's about oneness. It's about us standing up and combating hate with love, combating hate with love. We're gonna be back broadcasting every Monday and every Friday, so being a look out for that. Be on the lookout also for our new podcast. Yes, I do have a secondary podcast that is on the way. I'll give you more details about it and the upcoming episodes, but be on the lookout for it. You're gonna love it. You're gonna get in on it. It's more so on our spiritual journey and whatnot, you know, so definitely be on the lookout for that. Cousins and Ken Folks. You know, just want to be able to share that with you and different inspirational things and tell you out of the word and hey, look listen, you just want to just be prepared to tune in when I announce it to that way, you know, today is where you can listen to it. On or where you can see it. Oh yes, because you will be able to see it because it's ken the folks. Well look again, I'm gonna get on up out of here. I'm gonna get on up out of here. But before we do, you already know our model.

25:45 You know how we roll, you know what we do. So come on, get on up in here with me. Because it takes the village to make this thing happen. And you all are my village, and we're gonna continue to keep building this thing together, you and I step by step, one brick at a time. I'm currently under construction. I love y'all, cousins and kennifos. I love you immensely with every fiber of my beand and I will talk to you alls peace