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0:01 Cousins and Kenfolk cousins and ken Folds, get on in here. Welcome to the newest episode currently under construction. Thank you so much for joining me. I know it's been a little bit since we've had a new episode, but we would definitely be back in full rotation starting this week. So thank you all so much for joining us. I have so much to talk to you all about today, but I want to start it out with I thank you, Yes, I thank you. So. I know you all sitting there like, okay, what are you thinking? Is for? Because this week, as of a few days ago, we are now up to five thousand lists. I didn't see that coming. I had no inkling of it, and I am just still completely in all. Thank you. Thank you to eat. Thank you to each and every last one of you who have follow the since day one, who have listened to me since they one, who have supported these since they one, who have continued to pour into me since they want and want to thank you. Want to take this time, at this moment to thank you because if not for you all, we wouldn't be here. If not for you all currently under construction would not exist. If not for you all, I wouldn't have this particular platform. If not for you all, I wouldn't have had the opportunity to find a positive therapeutic outlet

1:33 that the most High was able to present to me and to use not only just for me, but to pour into others at the same time. So again, cousins and ken folks, you all know that you are my village. Thank you, Thank you. Let's continue to grow. Let's continue to keep this thing going. I know I got to do. I have to do my power. There's no offense about if we're going to continue to grow. I have to continue to do my power. So that means I have to continue to give you and pour into the best content that I can in doing this podcast. And I have to continue to encourage, uplift support all of our listeners while having meaningful dialogue. That is our mission here at currently under construction. But again, I am completely humbled. I want to thank each and every last one of you cousins again, folks, because you are the reason this has happened. You are the reason we are here. You are the reason why we will continue to keep going, and we're going to continue continue to keep growing. Thank you. Okay, So what I want to talk to you all about today is I know you all have asked me about it in the past, and on the last episode currently under construction, I said that I would definitely soon give you more information on it. Well, you know what. Here it is our Christmas Giveaway. Our Christmas Giveaway

3:07 will run from November fifteenth, twenty twenty three until December fifteenth, twenty twenty three. We will announce our winners on December twentieth, just like we did last year. We will then distribute the following day, or if not that same day, we'll revisit the distribution of it, but we will definitely be announcing our winners on December twentieth. The contest will run. Our giveaway will run from November fifteenth, twenty twenty three until December fifteenth, twenty twenty three.

3:53 Okay, this year, all I need for you all to do again, There's no purchase necessary, there's nothing you have to do, there's nothing extremuating I'm gonna ask you to do. All I want you to do is email us here at the show at under construction nineteen seventy four at yahoo dot com. For those of you who don't know it, For those of you, who do I mean, it's okay, I know you love to hear it. I'm gonna give it to you again. It is under construction nineteen seventy four at yahoo dot com. Email us here at the show. Tell us your favorite Christmas memory with your grandmother, if you have any, your favorite Christmas memory with your grandmother, whether it's a meal she cooked, whether it was something specific she cooked, a gift that she's given you, a conversation she's she gave you the opportunity to decorate the tree with her, a decorator house with her, put up Christmas lights, whatever the case may be.

5:00 Email us here at the show your favorite or your most memorable memory with your grandmother on Christmas. I want you to think about that. Good cousins and kinfolks, and I want you to get them in here like you did last year. Hit all of those responses, and if you start right now, that's fine, that's okay too. But again, the giveaway doesn't start until November fifteenth, So November fifteenth until December fifteenth, get all of those entries in. Get'em on in here, cousins and ken folks, because we want as many people to enter as possible. I want to see your stories. I want to read about them. I want to know what Christmas means to you, and just at having that wonderful memory with your grandmother on that day. Give us that. Hear it. Under construction nineteen seventy four at Yahoo dot com. Under construction nineteen seventy four at y'allhoo dot com.

6:04 All right, good deal, cousins and Ken folks. Look, our website is back up and running again. It is all new. It may look a little different to y'all cousins and Kent folks, but guess what, it's still the same. It just may look a little different. Some of it is my doing, some of it is the hosting platforms doing. So y'all just ride with me on that. Okay, man, It's so good to be back here with you all. Are so good to just sit down with my cousins and Ken folks and we have a conversation. Y'all know how we do here at currently under construction. We just sit down and we chop it up. And I chop it up with you my people, my village, my cousins, my kinfolks, my my family. We'll just chop it up we'll chop it up up by many different subjects. Again, we're gonna be back on track here like before. Now this is a bonus episode today.

6:55 We're gonna have another episode on our regular schedule date on tomorrow and and again on Friday. So y'all be on the lookout for that. Okay, another thing, so you all know that about our internet radio shows, the gospel get up to get down the smooth groove and end the mood. I'm taking a brief hiatus from that, but we'll be going back on track on Sunday, Sunday morning, a thirty a m. Be on the lookout on station head on station head for those of you are finding for those of you are not, I will put the link uh and up into the podcast so that when you'll be able to follow me and be able to listen in on us as we this Sunday, we bring you to our some of our favorite gospel songs and and and and just have a great time in getting you ready for church, getting you ready to go, get your praise on them, and get your getting your in your mindset and ready for a new week, getting you released from the week that you've had before, and the stress of it and everything with some wonderful and great uplifting gospel music and praise and worship.

8:09 So the gospel get up Sunday mornings a thirty eight m Central Standard time. I will put the again, I will on station head. I will put the link into the podcast so you can definitely go check it out wherever you listen to your podcast, wherever you get your podcasts. Okay, cousins and ken folks, So y'all be on the lookout for that, and y'all come on in listen to some great music and continue to support your cousin because I'm just trying to do a few more things. I know. I've talked about it with you all, and we're gonna continue to talk about it, and we're gonna continue to do that thing. Okay, Man, I love y'all so much. Again, y'all have poured into me so much, y'all have I've read your emails over the last month or so. Man, Just the love and the prayers that you all send me and everything. It just it's what's up, okay. So for those of you who don't know, are having been rocking with me from the beginning this time of year, is a little hard for me, especially this month and leading into this month. So that's really why I took the time away to process that, continue to go through that, and continue to allow myself to deal with that and to grieve in my own way. But for those of you who who don't know already, my second oldest daughter was murdered four years ago around this time of year, So it's a little still a little hard for me. I'm I'm I'm

9:41 dealing with it. I'm not trying to push it down, to push it away. I am grieving in my own way, and it was hard for me to give you all the energy and all that I needed to give y'all, and I'm dealing with that. So I appreciate you all's patience. I appreciate you all sticking here with me. For those of you who knew that reached out and send your condolences or asked what was going on is it's pertaining to the death of my daughter. I really appreciate you all for that. Again, the way that you all have poured into me and you still pour into me, and you pray for me and with me, it means everything, because again, that's what it's all about. That's what a village does.

10:30 We pour into each other, we help each other, We by any and every way possible. So right now, I just wanted to let you all know that and I'm here, I'm standing, I'm back. We're gonna continue to do this thing where we're building, we're moving forward. And again, I love y'all so much and I thank you, and I just thank y'all so much. Man, it so much has been happening in the world. We're going to get into that. We're going to talk about it. Man, who this is gonna be a long episode. I just wanted to come back in and just let you all know that I'm here, that we're back. We're back in full swing again, and we're gonna do this thing, and we're gonna get ready for our holiday giveaway and possibly another was suggested to me and I've been thinking about it. I'm trying to put the parameters together for you. But possibly another giveaway we may do prior to Christmas, So be on the lookout for that, cousins and ken folks, be on the lookout it for that. Listen, this is what I want you all to do for me, So you all know that I'm huge on support.

11:43 I'm huge on encouraging others and supporting it any and every way that I can. Well, I've been introduced to a new friend that I've been able to network with and that has a podcast, has a YouTube channel. She does. She does a lot of amazing work. She has a book out on Amazon, and I really want you while to go check that out and really do what we can to support this young lady. Her name is Calandra Harlan. I think I'm pronouncing her name correctly. You can follow her on ig at Calandra Underscore Monique and you can click on the link in her bio and it'll take you to her site for her Amazon book. And the title of that book is Faith Walk to Healing. Faith Walk to Healing. You'll see you'll know when you see it. It's a purple covering white letters with butterflies, but it's Faith Walk to Healing. On Amazon. You know, you can get the kindle version of it for nine nine or the paperback. I'm also going to be placing the links to these also into the podcast as well, so you'll all be looking for that, and let's go support this young lady. You know, she's just amazing, amazing things she does. I am ordering the book on Wednesday and I'm going to read it, Yes, i am. She also again, she also has a podcast as well,

13:16 just like you're just like your cousin. Uh. It's called Minutes of Inspiration with Calandra. You can listen to it on Spotify and wherever you listen to your podcast song. So let's make sure that we go and subscribe and follow her and support, you know, let's go on to get out in droves like we do, cousins and Ken folks and support. Okay, let's make sure that we do that. Okay, and again it's on Spotify. It's again hers on Spotify and Minutes of Inspiration with Calandra, Minutes of Inspiration with Calandra and of the same name on YouTube. Okay, the same name on YouTube. Minutes of Inspiration on YouTube as well. So let's make sure we get out and droves, cousins and Ken folks, and we go show our love and go show our support to one of our new family members and pull it together like we do as the village that we are. Okay, all right, cousins, the ki folks, I'm gonna get ready to get on a body here. Like I said, this wasn't gonna be a long episode, but be definitely be on the lookout for tomorrow's episode and we're gonna we're gonna pick it up. I'm gonna I got something for you, so just be on the lookout for it. Remember you can listen to us on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Overcast, pocket Casts, Spotify Radio, public Our Heart Radio, Deezer castro Cast, Possible, wherever you listen to your podcast.

14:41 Once again, remember you can listen to us on all of those particular platforms and more. Okay, and remember again for the contest, email us here at the show, or if you have any show ideas or whatever the case may be, email us here at the show at under Construction nineteen seventy four at yahoo dot com. That is U N D E R C O C O N S T r U K t I O N nineteen seventy four at yahoo dot com. All right, cousins, No, I'm gonna get on up out of here. I gotta go get me something to eat. I'm starving right now. Oh another thing, So I'm going to go on to give you all the news right now. Don'tlet people know about this right now. It's my family. But your cousin is right now preparing to have bariatric surgery in January. I am moving forward with my procedures to go in and have the gastric sleeve. So y'all pray for me. I'm gonna have to make a lot of lifestyle changes, but you know what, it's gonna be for the benefit of me, the benefit of my health overall, because I want to be here as long as God will permit me to do so, so I have to do my part in helping me be here as long as possible. So yeah, I'm excited about it. It's coming in January.

16:00 I'm really ready. I'm getting prepared, Cousins of canfl So y'all pray with me. Y'all pray with your cousin because this is definitely gonna be a long road, but it's gonna be worth it in every shape, form or fashion. It's gonna be worth it. All right, cousins, I'm gonna get on out here, so y'all get on in here with me, because you know it, know what time it is, Come on, get in here with me. You know what it is. It's because it takes a village to make this thing happen. And you all are my village, and we're gonna continue to build this thing together, step by step, one brick at a time. Currently under construction. I love you all, cousins. I'll talk to you all tomorrow. Everybody, have an amazing day. Peace.

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