Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Oh, how do I plan
Speaker 1: to keep my grandmother's legacy alive? That's an interesting question,
Speaker 1: you know. H. I didn't say thank you for it
Speaker 1: because I said it's interesting. I'm joking, thank you. It
Speaker 1: really is an interesting question, because you know what, this
Speaker 1: is probably one of one of the things that that
Speaker 1: hit me the most. UM was at my grandmother's funeral.
Speaker 1: They you know, so obviously the funerals. It was in
Speaker 1: South Africa, and it was it was really small, and
Speaker 1: I was I was happy about it was intimate. Um
Speaker 1: and if if you've never been to an African funeral,
Speaker 1: basically the way they like they lost forever all right,
Speaker 1: I think we we basically It's almost like Africans have said,
Speaker 1: the funeral must be as long as your life was,
Speaker 1: so it was really long, but it was. It was
Speaker 1: actually quite enjoyable because all of my grandmother's friends spoke,
Speaker 1: all the friends who were still alive, right, because she
Speaker 1: was ninety six and then all her friends were speaking,
Speaker 1: were still alive and then telling these stories and it
Speaker 1: was so crazy because they'd be like I remember, and
Speaker 1: they were saying it in possis like all of Frances
Speaker 1: you know, and they'll be like, I remember when I
Speaker 1: met her in nineteen forty eight and we went you know,
Speaker 1: we went out together and we partied, and I'm like
Speaker 1: my grandma party, you know. And then and then other
Speaker 1: women would talk about One of my favorite stories was
Speaker 1: one of her neighbors talking about how my my grandmother
Speaker 1: would always open her house to all the women in
Speaker 1: the community who needed it, you know, so some women
Speaker 1: who were being abused would go live with her. And
Speaker 1: then I didn't I didn't know these things about my
Speaker 1: grand you know, I didn't know who was living there
Speaker 1: was I don't know what their stories was. As a kid,
Speaker 1: i'd see people, but you know, I'm a child. I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna be walked up to people like what's your issue?
Speaker 1: So so what was fascinating was that and and I
Speaker 1: think what it left me with is my grandmother's legacy
Speaker 1: to me personally was like food and love. That's to me.
Speaker 1: But I realized her legacy as a whole was more
Speaker 1: how she treated the people around her, everyone she came
Speaker 1: into contact with, you know, that she felt she could
Speaker 1: extend her heart too. That was it was really beautiful
Speaker 1: to see and to see what she had left behind,
Speaker 1: you know. She she she left the legacy, She she
Speaker 1: left friends. I was it was wonderful watching all these
Speaker 1: grannies give speeches that never ended and then the past
Speaker 1: that would have to like come in stone. He's like okay,
Speaker 1: oh guy, it was like okays and like grab the
Speaker 1: microphone and be like it was like okay, okay, okay,
Speaker 1: that's enough. That's enough. And I think that was that
Speaker 1: was it. There's one way I would try and keep
Speaker 1: my grandmother's legacy alive is just by remembering the tiny
Speaker 1: impact you can have on somebody's life that may stick
Speaker 1: with them long after you're gone. That that that might
Speaker 1: be it. Yeah, so thank you for the question. Yeah,
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