Womens Appreciation Month/ Big Mama, Madear.....ECT

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Cousins and kening folks, Welcome,
Welcome, Welcome to the newest episode or

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Colonel the under Construction. You already
know who it is. Thank you so

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much for joining us today as we
go into and stuff again to wrap up

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Women's appreciate your month. Man,
look before I get into it, cousins,

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the kind of folks. What I
want y'all to do is to show

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our queens appreciation. Whether it's your
mom, sisters, grandma, your spouse,

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partner, significant other daughters, show'em appreciate some this month. Let

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them know how much you love and
you would care about them, and you

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appreciate them, whether it's some small
gesture, whether it's something big and grandy

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else. They deserve it, and
they deserve it for so many different reasons,

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in so many different ways. So
from us here at currently under construction,

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to all of our queens, we
appreciate you, we love you,

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we dig you, we support you, we salute you. Care currently under

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construction. So today are we gonna
wrap it up? When I'm gonna talk

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about a figure that she's still around, but she's not as common as a

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couple of generations of over but she's
still around. And this figure. It,

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it epitomizes what family is all about. She's to strength, the heartbeat,

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the glue that holds everything together.
Y'all know who I'm talking for those

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of you that come from my generation
and right behind me and possible right behind

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it, you all know who I'm
talking talking about. I'm talking about whatever

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name that she goes by, she
goes by many, many different names,

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but all it's the same title for
her. And I'm talking about Mdel,

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not Tyler Perry's Mudia Mdear. That's
who I'm talking about. M A d

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e A R. Mdel. That's
who I'm talking about right now. Now.

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For some of us, Madel was
not Grandmama but great grandma. But

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again, Madel had different names.
Whether she was Madel, whether she was

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Big Mama to song, whether she
was Grandma to some, whether she is

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Memo to some, whether she is
Nana to some, all represents the same

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woman, that same figure. All
are rolled into one, you see.

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And like I said, she's still
around, but she's as scarce as it

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used to be. We gotta see. MDEA made everything all right. Mdel.

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It's the family matriarch. Mdel.
It's the keeper of the family.

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Chronicle. And see, the family
Chronicle comes in two different ways. It's

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verbally passed down and it's also written
down. Well, what is it written

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down here? Oh? It is
written down there, and we have all

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seen it, whether you've picked it
up and looked in it or just walk

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by it. It's there. And
I'm talking about that big old bible that

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looks like it's about four hundred and
fifty years old, and it's got some

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real super thick covers and big old
thick pages, and it is worn.

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It looks like it's old. It's
dirt, and it really is old.

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But that that bible holds the family
Chronicle and written form, date of birth,

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date of passing children, cousins,
aunt's, uncles, sisters, brothers,

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all going down, all going back
several several generations. It's written down

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in that book. You ain't gotta
go to Ancestry DNA uh uh uh me

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and me and twenty three and ancestry
d DNA dot com and all that.

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You ain't gotta go to all these
folks. Go holler in me, dear,

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go get that boog old bible that
she had and just look through it

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and you'll find out everything that you
wanna find out. Now, you may

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not know who these people are,
but you can ask, hey, who

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is such and such such and such? Oh yeah, oh okay, that's

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oh all right. But you'll know
who they are, and you can ask

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questions about them, and they'll tell
y'all all about them. I'll tell y'all

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all about them. Man madeal Mama
Deal. Let me let me, let

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me tell you a little something about
Mama Deal. Mama Deal was my great

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grandmother. She passed away in March
of nineteen age a matter of fact,

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that craziest I runny thing is,
and I clearly remember. Her funeral was

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forty years ago today, two day, forty years ago exactly. No,

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I'm I'm wrong. I'm wrong.
I'm wrong. I'm wrong. Hold on,

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Let me back up. I was
sa Let me back up. Was

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Sack forty two forty two years ago
today, forty two years ago today,

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Yes, nineteen eighty one. But
for these of us who are old enough

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to know and remember her, this
woman here was like no other. When

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I sit there and say madea and
I think they hauled low, but that

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she's cut from a different cloth.
She was hard, but she was fair,

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and like I told y'all before about
my mom, how important her family

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is to her and everything that was
Madel times a hundred. Her family was

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everything. But I'm gonna show you
something when when madea spoke, regardless of

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where you fell it in line in
the family, whether you wanted her children

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granted or whoever, whatnot, you
listen, MADEA said something, it was

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law, you was gonna do it. But they're ranny everybody house? Do

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you hear me? Mamma Dea?
She ran everybody house. So if somebody

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was in your house that Mada didn't
want there, they got to go.

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It wasn't no norma deal. I
ain't fea and not that woman right there.

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If she said they had to go, they they had to go.

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Bottom line. There wasn't no if
as a bus about it. There wasn't

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no shades of grace. She was
absolute. Do you hear me? That

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woman? Now? Cause I'm a
little boy then so cause I had to

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kind of look up at her.
But but she she epitomized strength because really

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and truly she wasn't very tall for
a woman in statue hepe for a woman,

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she wasn't very tall. But at
the same time, I say,

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I started in my grandmother. I
saw that my mom two. But my

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mom was tall, which where I
this is where I got my hate from.

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But that's neither here nor there.
That's another story. We'll talk about

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that on another day. But my
my deal wasn't very tall. But again

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she exuded its strength, so asked
to me. I don't think Medeal was

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even taller than five two. But
at the same time, she walked like

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she was seven foot two. Even
outside of the family. When she talked,

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people listened. People listened to what
missus Grant had to say. She

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listened, you they they listened.
If she's saying, if send me to

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the store and stay, tell such
such such ass to send me five pounds

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of salt salt, uh salt meat
and and uh ten dollars worth of uh

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beans or whatever the case may be. And she may not send me in

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there with a die. But guess
what when I say, who done sent

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me? They gonna send it.
They gonna send it. No if ands

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or buts about it. Although my
hometown we lived in it. It was

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a small city. But but there
was the last person I ever saw the

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had a chicken coop, she had
hugs, she had pigs, she had

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chicken coop. We had fresh eggs. I literally have seen her, and

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I'll never forget it. I'll never
be in on it. And I actually

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had to help it. I have
actually seen her sloughter a pig, string

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it up, get that boiled hot
water, old big old black head of

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water ready with all and all of
that stuff they in to get them,

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old big old stiff bristol brushes dipped
it. You know what I'm telling y'all

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too much, my bear to the
yat to. But but listen, I've

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seen that. I've seen it.
Woman sit up there and cut that bad

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boy up and everything else like that. I'm talking to my friend and root

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to. The two had fresh meat. I've seen her go out there.

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She had in her garden. She
got okrah and and and uh a corn

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and greens and stuff all out there
that she had done, sit there and

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plant it. Although we lived in
the city, she worked the land.

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She still worked the land. And
she was the last that I see to

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do it. But she's had it. She had a nice, huge bit

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of property in her house, big
huge house. I mean, looking at

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it from the outside, it didn't
look that bill, you know, Yes

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it did, Yes, it did. It did still look big. It

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was maybe one, two, three, four bedrooms in that house, but

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she made one an technique was five
cause she made like the den out of

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a bedroom where she slept in there. She never really slept in her actual

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bedroom. But we did had a
cure for everything too. Something was wrong.

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She had a cure for it.
She did. She had a cure

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for it. Or whether it was
something in old school or wherever the case,

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maybe someone around yea, she had
a cure for it. And when

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winter time came, if one person
got sick, and this is where my

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great uncles got this mess from it, I couldn't stand it. But when

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when the time come in, one
person sleeves and got sick, sick,

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Okay, here we go. She
fixed it. Get everybody to the house.

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Were all about to line up,
and uh, it's most of y'all

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in my age group. You'll know
most of these these things. I'm about

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to run down. But you were
gonna get a dose of everything, not

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in this particular order, but you
fix it. Get one dose of all

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of them. About to name castor
or cod liver or three sixties cree emotion

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black draw Vix forty four you fixing
to get I think I like that,

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say everything. Yeah, uh,
you about to get a dose of all

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of that, and not in that
specific order. If you threw it up,

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shame on you. You fel to
come back and get another dose of

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everything again. Straight up, it
didn't matter if you wasn't sick, you

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still about to get a dose of
it again. There was no there was

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no there was no negotiating with the
game in madea It was her way,

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a no way, but it was
always gonna be her way. Believe that.

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And I watched her. I watched
her with my great uncles, and

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they was grown in their own house. You hear me now, I don't

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get me wrong, cause a lot
of stuff that I saw him a deal

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dude that I don't agree with.
I remember it as a kid. Looking

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back on it now as I look, I don't agree with. But for

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the most part, this woman was
was everything to her family, and her

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family was everything to her. She
wouldn't let nobody do anything to harm my

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family. She was gonna do everything
she could to keep everybody together, celebrating

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birthdays, holidays, or whatever the
case may be. She was definitely all

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about that. And even the way
she showed it and it may have came

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up hard or whatever, but she
again, the way she left her family.

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You don't see that nowadays, you
don't. But that mantle of hers

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that I can't quite describe it because
I'm a man and not a woman.

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But whatever that mantle is that she
had, that was passed down when she

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passed it the one to take care
of the family, to keep everybody together.

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See, for some reason, it
bypassed my grandmother and then went to

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my mom. So my mom in
turn became a deal because my mama took

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care of everybody. My mom looked
out for each other. Everybody came to

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my mama for everything. Stella,
how do you do this? Make it?

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How you do that? What can
I do to put on put the

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U T to put on this right
here? How can I fix this right

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here? She was the one.
I don't know how it's passed, but

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for me, I wanted to say, that's something we need to get back

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to as a whole, as a
community, as a family, because see,

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she not only was mcdea and everything
to us, but to everybody in

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our neighborhood. Everybody looked out for
miss Lett. That was her nickname.

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Everybody looked out for Miss Lett or
Miss Granted. Everybody. She was the

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neighborhood mama, grandmama and whatever whatnot. Everybody did. Everybody looked out for

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her. Everybody came to make sure
that she was okay. Even though she

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still got up every morning, made
her own bread and everything like that,

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still did for herself and everything like
that, but people came by to make

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sure Miss Grant was good, that
she was okay. Something need fixing that

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just you know, she couldn't get
up there fixing herself or one of my

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uncles s up there and do it. Guess what, somebody was coming to

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do it. Somebody was gonna come
do it. It was gonna get done.

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So she was like the neighborhood mom
and mama and grandmama to everybody.

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And we need to get back to
that. We need to get back to

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that. That's why I say she's
around. She's still here. It's just

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so so uh so, she's she
spreads so thin right now and she's so

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rare, But Mdea is still there. Mdel is still there. We need

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to get Big Mama to the love
that she's so properly deserved. We need

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to give her her flowers, not
just today and not just this muth and

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each and every day, because it's
women like her that was on their knees

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every night to the most high praying
for her family. That was her doing

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everything that she could to make sure
that her family was good, regardless how

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far down the line you were.
That was her to sit there and see

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when you then went too far to
the left or to the right, to

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sit up there and had to take
you say, hey, come in,

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you're doing too much. Put some
pump your brakes. Maybe not in those

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exact words, cause they don't nothing
about there, because if I mentioned something

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like that till right now, she'd
be like, what were you talking about?

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What is your malfunction? But that's
what they do. They have to

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forceight to see. They see things
that we don't see. They are in

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communication, even with the ancestors.
Cause there were things. But dear,

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I remember clearly I've heard telling me
about the ancestry ancestors that I'll never forget.

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At one point I took it to, oh, it was just a

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story she was trying to tell us. Nah, that wasn't a story.

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She was trying to tell us.
That was real that was real. It's

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things that but they're no and we
need to pay attention. So for all

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of y'all out there that still have
your medeas, your nanas, your ggs,

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your big mama's, see, Martin
made a joke about that, you

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know, uh uh talking about you
know uh what that was it, Martin,

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I'm sorry that was uh. Steve
Harvey made a joke of saying the

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big mama and around him all you
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the you know, slept Bernie Mack, Bernie Mack, y'all. I he

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did it on the Kings of Comment. I don't know why I thought,

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Steve Harvey. Bernie Mack said,
you know, she got a weird cock

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to the side when she walked in
her anchors, a little swollen, you

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know, and she kind of shuffled
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That's my deal. That's grandma.
That's now, that's j Yeah. Yeah,

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that's mean mom. Yeah, that's
who that is. But baby,

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if you get sick, you need
praying over, You need somebody to go

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to God for you. You need
somebody to sit there and and help you

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out with something. Cause my mama
Medea and everything. They was everything.

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They was your counselor, that was
your doctor. They was your prayer person,

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your prayer person. They was your
uh, your your advisor, your

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financial advisor. They had all of
that. I'm telling even if it didn't

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come off to something that you want
to sit at that time, I guarantee

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you ninety nine point nine percent of
the stuff that they told you work.

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I can't me tell you that.
Tell me. Will tell me If I'm

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wrong, Email the show and tell
me. Under construction nineteen seventy four at

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yahoo dot com, tell me I'm
wrong. For those of you who know,

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you know, do you know the
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using right now to record this podcast, the listener that sent me this last

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year, Missus Johnson sees in that
category because she said, I prayed by

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it, and the Lord told me, I know what you're doing. I

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like what you and I need you
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when she sent it to me,
I tried to send it back and she

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hit me with them. She hit
me with the mama voice, and all

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I could do was yes, ma'am. Then shut you down quick, don't

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They got to holler hoop and holler
at you cut you out and all it

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right? Though, do you know
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We didn't all heard that she hit
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done deal. She said what she
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That wasn't no sending back, and
I had to receive that blessing. That's

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big mama, y'all. That's what
deal. That's what they do. That's

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what they do. And these ladies
may or may not have been the most

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educated, most some most are.
When they're telling you something, don't sit

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there and think that they're, Oh, they just talking about something back there.

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They don't do that. Well,
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Best to believe whatever they're telling you, it applies now, it applies now.

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That's timeless advice, that's timeless love
that they give you. They didn't

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help paved away, They help paved
away. And the strength that these ladies

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have is immeasurable. You can't you
can't count it, you can't put a

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price tag on it. Nothing,
you can't at all. So again to

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all close out our women's appreciate your
mother, my dear grandma, granny,

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me maa big mama, whatever name
she is. To you go hug her,

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Go tell her, thank you,
tell her how much you love her.

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Because these women, they deserve their
flowers, not just today, not

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just this one, with each and
every day. Don't wait till they go

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on to be like, Oh I
miss hers so much and I just wish

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I would have done X y Z. Now they still here, Go do

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that, Yeah, go give me
her love. So for all of them,

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ladies, I salute you. I
love you, and thank you for

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how you pour it into me over
these years. These women know who I'm

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talking about. But also that also
that shout out to my own, my

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dear, my own grandma, I
love you. I miss all three of

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you, but dear my mama and
my mama, I miss all three of

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you. But thank you for everything
that you all poured into me. For

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all the listeners you taught me,
and and our listeners you're still teaching me.

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Even though you're not here physically,
you're still pouring into me and teaching

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me to this day. Thank you. I love you. And for older

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the big mama's and I'm and the
grandmama's and the ggs and uh uh that

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I out there and everything, but
deals I love y'all. Too. I

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may not know either one of y'all, but guess what, I love you.

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We love all of y'all here Curl
Down the Construction Cousins and King folks.

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So again, go get him lady
some love you hear me? Gon

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show them lady some love right,
Cousins of Ken folks, were gonna get

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them up out of here. Thank
you so much for joining us on this

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episode of Current with Under Construction.
We know we had we've kind of been

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off schedule lately, but we're gonna
we're getting back on had some things going

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on and whatnot, but we're straightened
out now and we're good, so we're

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gonna be back on schedule, back
on track. We're getting ready to go

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into the month of April. We
have a giveaway coming away this month because

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we are coming up on our third
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turns three. Yes, we are
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you all, thanks to your support, thanks to your love, thanks to

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all that you do to help us
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to bring you great positive content and
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and encourage all of you and the
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our mission. Cause again, we're
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say it y'all for us. Those
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and you've been with us here since
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not something that we just say here
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I feel. We are family.
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always blood doesn't make you family,
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why I call y'all my cousins and
kin folks. That's why I love y'all

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the way that I do. That's
why I'm going to continue to do what

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I can to keep bringing you great
positive content and to love on y'all,

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to pour into y'all, hy'all,
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and we're going to continue to keep
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go to under construction dot com that
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under construction dot com and on our
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voice clip of MISSISSI you may want
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and we'll receive it, we'll respond
to you, and again, y'all be

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on the lookout in the next couple
of weeks or what we're gonna do with

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our giveaway. We're gonna do two
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two giveaways, So be on the
lookout for that. You know, hey,

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you never know. Maybe it may
be you know, uh prize that

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you would get sent it, maybe
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I don't know, but you're gonna
have to continue to tune in right here

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on this podcast. Will we do? What? And what are you all

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to me? Takes a village to
make this thing happen, and you all

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are my village, and we're gonna
continue to build this thing together. You

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and I step by step, one
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Cousins of cam folks. I will
talk to you all as soon.

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Have an amazing day, peace,