We Can Do More Together Than We Can Alone

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Cousins and King folks, cousins and
kend folks. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome

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to the newest episode with the currently
under construction. Thank you so much for

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joining us today. As we continue
on, it's still Women's Appreciation Month,

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and so much is going on this
month man, where we shout out all

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of our favorite queens and let them
know how much we love them, how

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much we appreciate them, how much
we admire what the impact that they've had

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on our life. We just want
to acknowledge that and bring it to the

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forefront. And this is what we're
doing all money. But on this episode,

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we're gonna take a pivot. Now. We're gonna pick back up again

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next episode. With this episode,
we're gonna take a pivot. Now.

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You don't know, uh, those
of us who've been following me from day

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one or you've been listening to Curry
me under Construction, uh for multiple seasons.

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You know, sometimes I could already
have an episode mapped doubt or Madden

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ready to go, and I always
pray before I record. You know that,

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you know, God continue to use
me as a vessel, and the

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vessel to present U this content and
this podcast or whatever information I'm going to

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present it for the benefit of helping
to encourage, uplift and support somewhat.

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Well, I took a whole pivot, and you know, every now and

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then, I'd have it already and
set to go in skirt. He was

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like, mmmm, we're not gonna
talk about that today. You won't talk

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about this today. And I'd be
like, but Daddy, I already had

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this. He'll kind of lined out
and s and set up and everything like

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that, you know, because this
is the topic we own today. This

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is the topic we own this money. He's like, hmm, what did

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I say. I gotta throw my
hands up. I gotta through my hands

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up. Obedience is better than sacrifice. And I'd rather be obedient when when

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when this spirit speaks, than uh
be disobedient go and hold completely differentation trying

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to do things on my own.
M M. I'd had enough of that.

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I've done enough of that in my
life. But again, that is

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another episode for another time, and
we're gonna get into that eventually. But

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today I wanna I wanna talk about
something that a lot of us UH have

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a tendency to do, including myself, And I'm gonna give examples of that

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of me me uh, doing it
myself, but a lot of us have

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the tendency to do this thing.
And I just want to talk today about

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help. Well, oh what you
mean help? I need you to clarify

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that a little bit for me there, Uh, mister currently in the construction

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house, like you know what.
I'm glad you asked that, So I'm

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going to do that. You see, we tend to want to do things

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and a lot of things alone,
and we struggle in doing so. We

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struggle in doing so. Sometimes we
may succeed with certain things, but we

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can do so much more together.
Well, oh, how, how how

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does that go in hand in hand
with help? I'm gonna get to that.

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So no one does anything in this
world, or go from one level

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to the next in this world without
some form of help, a chance,

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giving opportunity to present itself, or
being shown what to do. Regardless if

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it's you getting into a school,
getting a job for a certain company,

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a new position in a certain company, trying to achieve any goal that you

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sit, developing a business, whatever
it may be, we all need a

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hand at some point. There's this
old adage out there that's saying, hey,

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well, you know you just buckle
it down and you pull yourself up

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from your bootstraps. That's the biggest
bunch of crock in the world. And

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it's an old saying. I've heard
it as a kid, and it seems

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that I've made its way back around
here in the last few years or so.

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But it's a bunch of bull because
again, no one gets to any

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particular point without some type of help. It doesn't happen. Prime example,

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and I'm just going to I'm going
to use them. I'm on preface.

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I'm going to use them as an
example. Doesn't mean I disagree with the

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way that they do it, but
this is just something that I've observed in

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my life. So I'm the preface
by saying that, So don't come from

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me. If you do well,
it's all I'm gonna say. Don't come

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from y'all. Y'all work with me, because it's the kid folks. Y'all

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stay in here with me. But
some of our fair complexion brothers and sisters,

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they y'all know, I think about
when I said, when I'm gonna

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say, before I say that,
I don't just come straight up out to

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y'all, know, I think so
sometimes I pause so y'all stay in here

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with me. But sometimes that they
well they know sometimes to it. This

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is what they do. So one
could have have been successful, and you

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will have a younger one come along
and say, well, hey, you

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made a million dollars? What did
you do to make that million dollars?

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And this is what they say,
Well, hey, come along, let

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me show you what I did.
And they showed them, took him under

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their wing. They showed them possibly
giving them an in turn, possibly giving

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them a job after that, and
still winging them along until they got it.

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That's one example. But I used
an example to to to to to

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give you all the get you all
on the same page with me, and

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and and seeing what I'm saying,
even because in in in life, especially

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life, we all need help or
someone to help push us along, or

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someone to help give us a boost. Households. Some households can run great

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when it's just one person, a
single parent. But guess what, that

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household can run so much better if
there are two to working towards the same

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goal, and it runs so much
better because they're a team. It can

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run so much better. I saw
a story online that at this college in

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California, this this really really uh
well known mathematician had a group of students

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Asian and black, and he noticed
his Asian students were doing very very well,

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but all of his African American students
were flaming out so to speak,

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or flunking out of the class.
Or he was wondering, like, okay,

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what's going on. So he went
and talked to one of his colleagues

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about it, and his colleague was
like, oh, well, maybe they

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just didn't the school that they came
from, it wasn't that grade. Maybe

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it was they just not uh ready
for the material. He's like, no,

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to get into this school, you
you you got to hit all of

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those chick marks. You you have
to be able to come with it.

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So he asked, you know,
some of his students are like can.

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He observed them for the next few
weeks, and what he noticed was that

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his Asian students when they studied,
they studied together, they studied as a

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community, whereas the African American students
they studied alone. So he then begin

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to winner like okay, So he
made it mandatory in that class that everyone

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you know, working assignments and study
together as a community. And it's flipped

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everything, because now his African American
students began to boom, boom, hit

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it hit. It wasn't just one
or two here and there, it was

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each and every last one. Let's
stop trying to do everything alone. Let's

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stop trying to do everything alone,
cousins and can folks. We can do

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so much more together. We can
achieve and build so much more together.

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Our ancestors they had that concept,
they understood that, that concept of togetherness,

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of unity, that if we work
together as one unit and we all

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move in the same direction, we
can achieve so much more. But we've

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lost that somewhere or another. See, we can still move forward together,

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and we can still do so much
as a unit, but still maintain our

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individuality. We can still do this. But nowadays everyone is so worried about

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if someone's in their business or someone
is trying to get over on them.

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And I'm not saying that doesn't happen, because it does. But that's what

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the sermon comes in there. That's
why we have to be cognizant and discern

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and and and as to the most
high to give us the sermon of who

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is truly there to help or and
who is there to hinder, that's where

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that comes in. That But we
need to really really take a good hard

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look at this, cousins and king
folks, because that's how we're falling off

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as a community, as a people, as a country. It's happening.

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We see it day end and day
out. You can't tell me you don't

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see it. I know you see
it. I see it day that I

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know and if I see it,
I know you see it. Because it's

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again, folks, your cousin,
never try to tell you anything wrong.

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I know you see it just as
much as I do, and it has

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to bother you the way it bothers
me. Again, our ancestors didn't make

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the sacrifices that they did for nothing, and it seems like we've forgotten what

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it's like to help, what it's
like to stop trying to do everything by

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ourselves. When I was younger,
and I've talked about this before, so

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if it sounds repetitive, tell you
y'all just run, just just just ride

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with me on this right here.
When I was younger, I lived in

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a community that understood togetherness, that
understood we can do much more together than

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individually. Because everybody looked out for
everybody. It was a true community.

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It was it it it. If
Miss Martha didn't have any sugar, she

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could come, send one of her
or one of one of my friends,

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or one of her children over to
the house and and and ask cause my

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mama sending her some sugar. Or
if she needed some eggs for something,

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she could come to my mama and
get it. Or if my mama needed

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a state or some pork chops or
whatever or not, she would send me

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to Miss Martha to go get it, and they would get and and and

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she would cook enough. She'd send
enough to where my mom would also cook

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enough for her children and her family
that was looking out for each other.

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But one didn't have, the other
one dead, the other one was there

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to pick that next person up.
If Miss Martha was off and my Mama

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didn't want me at home by myself, or if I had uh scouting meeting

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or something like that, or I
forgot my key, then I was to

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go to Miss Martha's. And I
was stay at Miss Martha's. Miss Martha

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just like I was one of her
kids. You know, do my homework,

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get my bath and everything like that. Get up and there. You

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know, when h go to sleep
until my mama come home some time,

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my mama come get me that night. It depending on how late it was

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or how sleep I was, that
i'd I'd go home the next morning before

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school. But we have to stop
trying to do everything on our own now

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again, I'm not minimizing no one's
individuality. I'm not minimizing your ability to

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or take care of you and yours
but you not tip but no one takes

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care of you, you and them
and theirs by themselves. And we have

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to stop normalizing this thing of I
don't need nobody to do X, y

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Z. When it's it's it's it's
a whole contradiction. It's not true.

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We all do, we all do? I myself have the tendency. And

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I'm gonna be real transparent with y'all
right now, and those of those of

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you all who truly know me know
this is something that I have a tendency

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of doing. And I've been praying
with the Most High that he helped me

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to get out of this mindset and
do better with that. But I have

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the tendency, and I've been getting
and I have been getting better at it

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too. When I'm going through something
I should, now did I try to

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go through it and deal with it
by myself instead of allowing those who love

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me and who care for me to
be there for me. But on the

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flip side, I'm always I do
everything I can to be there for them.

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I had to learn to stop trying
to do everything by myself, that

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there are people in my life who
love me and who will help me to

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get through whatever it is that I'm
dealing with emotionally, spiritually, physically,

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whatever the case may be. Help
help, that's help. We need to

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stop normalizing trying to do everything on
our own. And again, your cousin

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just put it out there. That's
something I've had the tendency of doing and

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I had to stop. And I'm
still working on that. I'm I'm not

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gonna sit there and say I'm all
the way there just yet, because I'm

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not. But i am because I'm
letting those who love me, those who

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are in my life, in my
circle, be there. I'm starting to

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allow them to do that. And
yes, it's hard. I'm not seeing

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none of this. It's easy.
Cousins are kin folks. It's not.

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It's not easy. But we need
to stop normalizing that. We need to

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get back to working together to achieve
our goals or to just just in everyday

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life. We need to get back
to that. We weren't created by the

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Most Hid to be alone. We
won't. We're not. I mean you,

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you have to know that. You
have to feel that in your very

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essence. You have to feel that
in yourself, and you can't help put

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the feel it in yourself. It's
embedded into us. It is. It's

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embedded into us by the Most High. It's a part of our complete genetic

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makeup. You can ignore it,
but you know it's there. You feel

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it. You feel it, and
we have to stop normalizing that. We

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need each other, cousins and king
folks. We need each other and we

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need to do better and being there
for one another, working together to help

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each other be better students, better
parents, better teachers, better business people,

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better church members, better community,
better family. Yeah, better family.

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But again it it, it doesn't. I'm not minimizing no one's individuality.

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Again, that's where the Most High
comes in. It that you pray

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and ask the Most High for discernment
and then determining who is there to help

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and who is there to hinder and
your Cousin's not here to hinder no one

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at all. I'm here too,
as we all are here currently under construction

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to help encourage, uplift, support, and help bring together in any way

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we can, because you deserved it, because that's who we are. That's

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part of our mission. That's a
part of our mission. To take a

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moment, cousins and getting folks and
just think about that. Just think about

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it, and you realize we can
achieve so much more together than we can

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alone. Just think about some things
over your life. It may look like

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a lot of things that you've done
that you've done it on your own,

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but I promise you you've had some
some form of help somewhere. But let's

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not forget the ultimate help from the
Most High. He's there every step of

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the way. So I acknowledge him
above all. I know where i'd be

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if not for the Most High.
I know where I would be, and

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I'm I'm I'm completely grateful for it. I'm grateful for everything in my life.

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I'm grateful for the people in my
life. I'm grateful for my job.

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I'm grateful for my health. I'm
working on getting better at that.

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I'm working working on that re working
on that. I'm but I'm grateful for

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that. I'm grateful to have you
know, uh, all of my giving

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faculties that I'm in my right mind, that I can see, that I

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can hear, that I can touch, that I can walk, the little

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things that we take for granted,
each and everything. I am grateful for

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all of that. I am grateful
to the Most High for all of that.

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That's why I give back so much, because I'm grateful. I know

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where I've been, I know where
the Most Times brought me through and where

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He's brought me from. So I
have to continue to give back in whatever

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way that I can. Cousins Again, folks, and it's okay to ask

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for help. And whatever you're dealing
with or whatever you may or may not

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be going one through in life,
it's okay to ask for help. It

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is. Don't be so prideful that
if the most hide put someone in your

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life to be a blessing to you, whether it's monetarily, whether it's emotionally,

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whether it's to help get you a
job, or help you with your

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children, or to cook for you
or whatever, if the most hides,

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put someone in your life to help
and be a blessing to you. Don't

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be so prideful that you don't receive
it. Let's not do that. Let's

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not do that. We can do
so much more together than we can apart.

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Remember their cousins a kind, folks. That is my word for you

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today. Help. We can do
much more together than we can alone.

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Well, I'm gonna ready to get
on a bout of her cousins and king

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folks. I think that's my time. I didn't. I didn't talked to

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your ears off. I didn't then
went all the way in left field.

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I didn't talk about some stuff that
probably didn't make a bit of sense to

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you, but hopefully yet some particular
point you got the You got the message.

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Listen before we get up out of
here. I don't normally do this,

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but I want to send I aposthumous
shout out to I blew our soul

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brother Bobby Carwell, who passed away. Mostly y'all know you know who I'm

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talking about. You know what you
wanna do for love? His his his

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biggest head that's been sampled in so
many different ways by so many artists.

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And that was the influence that he
had on uh, the music industry.

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And uh our culture. Uh he
was seventy one, and a lot of

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people, you know, especially younger
folks, didn't find it until a few

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years ago. There was a video
going around showing that they was like,

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I didn't know he was black.
I mean I didn't know he was white.

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I thought he was black. Yeah. Yeah, but uh, the

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record company, as I understood that, the record company that signed him,

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but when he got his break,
most of their artists were uh r and

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B artists and that was his music. So they didn't know what to do

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with him when they wanted to put
his album out, and uh just didn't

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want to put a regular picture of
him on the cover. So his idea

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was to uh take a picture of
him one of his favorite pictures that pictures

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on him initially on his album,
sitting on the bench, and he did

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a silhouette of it, so you
didn't see him, You just saw the

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silhouette of him. And I put
it out. And when he went on

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tour with the late great uh Natalie
Cole, that's when people be getting to

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find out, like, hey,
wait, he's the one who sings this

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song, and they realized that hey, he was just he was light skiing

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l light light skinning. But by
that time they was like, hey,

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you know what, Hey, we
already in on this hit. So hey,

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you all right, you you can
come to the you you can come

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to the cook out. But I
want to send that shout out to him

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and he and his and his family
also we want I want to seeing my

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condolences for my guard brother, Uh
Terry, who uh also asked away earlier

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this month. He lost his battle
with E s RD. So he's in

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a much better place. Uh,
he doesn't have to hurt or suffer anymore.

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Praying for his family and loved ones
and uh and for us because I'm

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family to him. That was my
mom's other son. So yeah, he's

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up there with mom right now.
And uh, give a hug for me,

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Terry. Yeah, give a big
old hold for me. But rest

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on, brother, you don't have
to hurt anymore. And you you you

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got your wings. But listen,
cousins can't for us. We're gonna get

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on the body here now. Uh. Remember you can uh listen to us

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wherever you get your pie cash.
Remember we broadcast on Apple Podcasts, Google

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podcast Overcast, Pocketcasts, Spotify Radio, Public, Deezer iHeart Radio Castro,

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Then remember you can email us here
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O N S T R U K
T I O N nineteen seventy four at

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yahoo dot com. Who I'm gonna
be so tired later on to day cousins,

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the kid folks. But guess what, I got to get it.

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I got to get out there and
get it. I got to hustle.

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I got to get my hustle on. But I get it from my mama.

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We hustle about all in any means
necessary, So I get it from

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my mama. But look, y'all
be good to each other. Cousins,

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the kid folks. I love y'all. Thank you for your support. I

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will be bringing forth more we're information
on our giveaway for our three year anniversary

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next month and also more information and
upcoming weeks on the long away to launch

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a Phoenix Fire radio. UH.
That's been a long process for us,

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uh Man. We had to jump
through so many different hoops, especially UH

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after having to change hosting platforms twice
and to get the set up making sure

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we have the proper software, which
we're still working on, but we definitely

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have that launch day comments, so
be on the lookout for that and the

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upcoming uh weeks and months, and
uh, we're gonna get that thing going,

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Cousins a kain folks. I know
y'all have been waiting on it.

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I've been waiting to bring it to
you and give it to you, so

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hopefully you'll enjoy Phoenix Fire Radio when
it launches. Remember, the Phoenix is

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on the rise, so be on
the lookout, get on board and enjoy

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the flight. I love y'all,
cousins and kin folks. Thank you so

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much for continue to support us.
Thank you for emails that you send in

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different people that you would like us
to talk about in topics. Our next

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episode will be tomorrow. Uh we're
definitely gonna bring you that then, and

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we're gonna we're going to send our
shout out and our support to our next

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queen as we continue to celebrate uh
Women's Appreciation months, So be on the

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lookout for that. And uh,
I'm gonna getting up out of your cousin's

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kid. Folks, y'all get on
even with me because it takes a village

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to make this thing happen, and
you all are my village. And remember,

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we're gonna continue to build this thing
together, you and I, step

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by step. Carol Ly under construction, one break at a time. I

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y'all thought I forgot, I did, I did. I'll take that.

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I'll own that, cousin, the
kid folks, Carrol Lee under construction.

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I love you all. I would
talk to you all tomorrow. Enjoy your

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day, make the best of it, and y'all be good to each other.

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I love you. Peace,