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Speaker 1: read something and I want to share it with you guys,
Speaker 1: and it says your relationship with change is a clear
Speaker 1: baron for the amount of stress that your mind carries.
Speaker 1: If you embrace change, the ups and downs of life
Speaker 1: will cause you less tension. If you have a combative
Speaker 1: relationship with change, then you will struggle when you repeatedly
Speaker 1: see that much of life is outside of your control.
Speaker 1: Time and life only flow forward in the form of
Speaker 1: an ever changing river. If inner peace is important to you,
Speaker 1: then you need to learn to move with the current
Speaker 1: as opposed to moving against it. I'm not going to
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Speaker 1: want you to listen to what it's saying, and it's saying, basically,
Speaker 1: excuse me, the sum of everything that I've been saying
Speaker 1: all year, which is, you got to be cool with
Speaker 1: the uncertainties of life. You kind of just gotta let
Speaker 1: life flow and flow with it. Imagine yourself on a
Speaker 1: lazy river, on a raft, laying in the little donut,
Speaker 1: looking up at the sky, with your sunglasses on of course,
Speaker 1: and sunscreen because you want to protect your skin. Just relaxing,
Speaker 1: not worrying about anything. That is kind of how we
Speaker 1: got to live. That doesn't mean that we don't take
Speaker 1: action or that we're not intentional. It just means that
Speaker 1: you kind of gotta just flow with life and let
Speaker 1: life do what it's gonna do. Because, baby, let me
Speaker 1: tell you something, life is going to do what it
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Speaker 2: I hope you listen to that.
Speaker 1: And reflect on it, sit at it, meditate on it,
Speaker 1: because that is a good word.
Speaker 2: That is a good word. I can't see that. Okay,
Speaker 2: what's up, y'all?
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Speaker 1: kenn It's me and me Resident Auntie Supreme here and
Speaker 1: hand me my purse. And today I am actually sipping
Speaker 1: on hell a different shit like I've just been drinking
Speaker 1: a lot of drinks today, not drinks, drinks, Okay.
Speaker 2: I was doing a bit of a.
Speaker 1: Colon flush, and I made myself some detox tea, which
Speaker 1: is essentially just dandalion root tea which is lovely for
Speaker 1: detoxing your liver. And I added some living living lemon
Speaker 1: and also a shot of this tincture t I N
Speaker 1: C t U R E tincture that I take that
Speaker 1: has apple cider, vinegar and some more herbs or whatever
Speaker 1: in it to help with my hormones and.
Speaker 2: Bloating.
Speaker 1: And I added that to my detox tea. I drank it.
Speaker 1: I also had a twenty four ounce smoothie that I
Speaker 1: made myself. And I don't know, if you've been listening forever,
Speaker 1: then you know that I used to subs.
Speaker 2: What in the heck I used to I used to
Speaker 2: subscribe think you me me to this. It was a
Speaker 2: powdered smoothie brand. It's called can Go.
Speaker 1: No, they're not paying me, but it's great for people
Speaker 1: who want smoothies and go. And I found out that
Speaker 1: they sell them in Walmart now, so if I want them,
Speaker 1: I can go there, even though I only going to
Speaker 1: Walmart at all, not a fan, but they sell them there.
Speaker 1: But I had like three boxes that I had opened,
Speaker 1: and I finally opened them and decided that you know me, me,
Speaker 1: why don't you just do what you need to do
Speaker 1: with these smoothies because they are not cheap at all,
Speaker 1: so start drinking them so they don't go to waste.
Speaker 1: And I said, today would be a great day to
Speaker 1: do that because I'm trying to detox, and so all
Speaker 1: they have is them in them is fruit, vegetables. It's dehydrated.
Speaker 1: They turn it into a powder boom. It's great and
Speaker 1: you get I want to say, you get five servings
Speaker 1: of fruits and vegetables in every packet. So I drink
Speaker 1: a smoothie and then I had some peppermint tea. Then
Speaker 1: I had some water. Then I had some unsweetened green
Speaker 1: tea that was really cold, and even though it didn't
Speaker 1: taste really delicious, it was kind of refreshing. I also
Speaker 1: had some ginger lemon water, definitely not delicious. I was
Speaker 1: really in my bag when it came to sipping. And so,
Speaker 1: needless to say, I feel a lot better. I feel
Speaker 1: less bloated, I feel less heavy and less dense. And
Speaker 1: every now and then you just gotta flush yourself on
Speaker 1: out and you know, clear some shit out literally and figuratively.
Speaker 1: Shout out to a wonderful detox friends and ken for
Speaker 1: two days jam. I chose a song that I wonder
Speaker 1: if a lot of you don't know, but guess.
Speaker 2: What you know it now?
Speaker 1: You know it now or you will in about two minutes.
Speaker 1: It is a song. It's a collaboration or a collab
Speaker 1: as the Millennials and the gen Z say, it's the
Speaker 1: main person or the main artist is his name is
Speaker 1: Jason or excuse me, it's uh. The song reminds me
Speaker 1: of a friend of mine named Jason who loves ty
Speaker 1: Dala sign which is why I probably said Jason. But
Speaker 1: it's by a gentleman named Jacob Collier and mahel Yah
Speaker 1: who is an artist from London or England and ty
Speaker 1: Dalad Signs And the name of the song is all
Speaker 1: I Need, and I just love the song. It feels,
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes there's some music or there's some art,
Speaker 1: specifically music for me because I'm a music lover. That
Speaker 1: just makes me feel good. This song makes me happy.
Speaker 1: This song brings me joy right, this song it kind
Speaker 1: of makes me want to be in love, like it
Speaker 1: makes me want to hold hands with somebody's son and
Speaker 1: walk on the boardwalk on Venice Bach, or drive down
Speaker 1: Pacific Coast Highway and a convertible with the top down
Speaker 1: and the wind blowing and blasting this song. Actually, I
Speaker 1: want to hear this song as I'm driving down PCH
Speaker 1: and it makes me long for warm weather. Which is
Speaker 1: heavy on the sunshine. I want a lot of sunshine
Speaker 1: and a lot of love and a lot of lust,
Speaker 1: and a lot of smiles and a lot of laughter
Speaker 1: and just good times. I just love the way that
Speaker 1: the song makes me feel. So without further ado, I
Speaker 1: want you to just get into the song. Okay, So
Speaker 1: let's do that right now. Let's just get into the song.
Speaker 1: And it may not make you feel the way it
Speaker 1: makes me feel, but at least you could say, this
Speaker 1: is a dope ast song.
Speaker 2: Let's get into it. Maybe what did you think? It
Speaker 2: was good?
Speaker 1: Like? I don't even you know. I say that because
Speaker 1: I want you to answer me when I ask you
Speaker 1: this question.
Speaker 2: But it was good.
Speaker 1: So just go ahead and do yourself the favor of
Speaker 1: listening to the song.
Speaker 2: It's in its entirety. You know.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put a link to the song in the
Speaker 1: show notes. I want you to listen to it, and
Speaker 1: I want you to listen to it on repeat. And
Speaker 1: I don't necessarily need you to listen to it until
Speaker 1: you feel what I feel, but I want you to
Speaker 1: listen to it on repeat. It just feels good, and
Speaker 1: that's the end of it. The song just feels good.
Speaker 1: It makes me feel good. The chords of the song,
Speaker 1: the lyrics, the vocals, the chord changes. Not to mention
Speaker 1: the artists. It's a hodgepodge of energies. But the ship
Speaker 1: just worked out perfectly. It's just the way it makes
Speaker 1: me feel. Just says everything. So just go ahead, listen
Speaker 1: to it, get into it, and you're welcome.
Speaker 3: Yeah to your other point about the preacher, the preacher
Speaker 3: who has a flat prosperity. Yeah, the flashy, flashy preacher
Speaker 3: with all the charisma and the prosperity and all show
Speaker 3: that shouldn't he though, there's that right, because it does
Speaker 3: say in the Bible, and Daddy Grace would reference this
Speaker 3: that you know, he's entitled to the riches that the
Speaker 3: earth had had to offer. So that's one thing. But
Speaker 3: the other thing is there is something to be said now.
Speaker 3: I know that I've heard from some members saying like, oh,
Speaker 3: you know, my mother or my grandmother gives all of
Speaker 3: our money to the church and they feel away about it.
Speaker 3: But when you needed something, the church would be there
Speaker 3: for you. They take care of their own. They have
Speaker 3: a lot of apartment buildings, they have them here in
Speaker 3: New York. They have him in La Baltimore, DC, pretty
Speaker 3: much anywhere there's a House of Prayer, Newport News. They
Speaker 3: have not only their church buildings that they own. By
Speaker 3: the way, this is the only church that I know
Speaker 3: of outside of the Catholic Church that has all mortgage
Speaker 3: free homes and buildings everything that they only paid cash for. Yeah,
Speaker 3: who's their accountant, I don't know, But Daddy Grace used
Speaker 3: to post this man was so he was so sensational
Speaker 3: that he would pull up, have his attendants come out,
Speaker 3: roll out the red carpet, and then he'd walk into
Speaker 3: the bank and he would buy a house, and his
Speaker 3: attendant would give the bag with the money and he
Speaker 3: just put it there, and of course that would be
Speaker 3: in the papers and all of that, you know. But
Speaker 3: that's why I think that that's one of the things
Speaker 3: that I think is interesting about the House of Prayer
Speaker 3: is that maybe they didn't take care of everybody, right.
Speaker 3: I'm sure that there were people that are not doing well,
Speaker 3: but they did have an obligation so they could offer
Speaker 3: you a job. They employed a lot of people the
Speaker 3: church with the restaurants as attendants things of that nature.
Speaker 3: But in addition to that, if you needed help, you
Speaker 3: could ask for it. And they have various mutual funds
Speaker 3: within the church, so they have like a life insurance fund,
Speaker 3: they have a fund if you get sick. So there's
Speaker 3: a lot of this is support there, right, So it's
Speaker 3: not like all the money is just going in and
Speaker 3: it's just being spent. That's not what they It's very
Speaker 3: clear what they're doing with money. This you know, particular
Speaker 3: program is available or this is happening. So there's two
Speaker 3: sides to that.
Speaker 2: Yeah, got it.
Speaker 1: Are going to say, Now, here's the thought that I
Speaker 1: had that I don't think that we've talked about, or
Speaker 1: maybe I did, maybe we did. When I look at him,
Speaker 1: I started to do some research of my own because
Speaker 1: I looked at him.
Speaker 2: I looked at his nails, I looked at his clothes.
Speaker 1: And he is the first account that I have ever
Speaker 1: seen a man in America, a black man in America,
Speaker 1: look that way. And then I started to make the correlation.
Speaker 1: And this is not to disrespect him in any way,
Speaker 1: shape or form, or disrespect a man of God at all.
Speaker 1: But I started to think about the trope, the pimp trope, okay,
Speaker 1: And I started to think about like Bishop Don magic
Speaker 1: wand and Iceberg Slim and how they look. They wear
Speaker 1: these gaudy suits. They have long nails, or at least
Speaker 1: one nail. We know why they have a lot, We
Speaker 1: know why they have a long, pinky nail, clearly, but
Speaker 1: they have these long nails. They drive these very loud,
Speaker 1: egregiously colored and decked out cars. They always have a
Speaker 1: lot of women around them. They flaunt money around, and
Speaker 1: they have permed long hair, and they wear these big hats.
Speaker 1: Nobody can look me in my eye and tell me
Speaker 1: that that trope did not come from Daddy Grace.
Speaker 2: Nobody can, because it's there.
Speaker 1: It's like a cutout, literally, like a color by number
Speaker 1: look literally. And now as I sit here and talk
Speaker 1: because I couldn't, I mean, I was researching, I read
Speaker 1: excerpts of Iceberg Slim, of his autobiography. I was really
Speaker 1: trying to figure it out. And now that I'm sitting
Speaker 1: here thinking and talking it through, it makes sense. Because
Speaker 1: pimps want you to believe that they have a lot
Speaker 1: of money, whether they do or not, and they want
Speaker 1: women to believe. It goes back to what I said.
Speaker 1: You want the women to want you, and you want
Speaker 1: the men to want to be like you. They want
Speaker 1: the women. They want women to believe that they have
Speaker 1: a lot of money so that they can bring them
Speaker 1: on to their team, so to speak. And if I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be out here looking like I'm rich, excuse my
Speaker 1: French because I'm about to curse, that's the motherfucker I
Speaker 1: want to look like. And it makes sense. His nails
Speaker 1: were like his nails literally looked like this Evan, maybe longer,
Speaker 1: and they curled over.
Speaker 2: It was a little creepy.
Speaker 3: Yeah, just a little bit, yeah.
Speaker 2: A little bit. And I thought about that, and I
Speaker 2: was like, hmm.
Speaker 1: And I couldn't find anything to connect it online, like
Speaker 1: anything of any value, of any substance. But I definitely
Speaker 1: thought about it, like this is the colorbine number. This
Speaker 1: is the blueprint for what black American pimps look like.
Speaker 3: Yes, I agree with you, and these were one of them.
Speaker 3: This was one of the many reasons why I was like,
Speaker 3: how come this man's story has never been told? Even
Speaker 3: if we talked earlier about coming to America before we
Speaker 3: got on this recording and the scene there, you know,
Speaker 3: where he's like, oh, we like the kind of cash
Speaker 3: that jingles, but we really like the kind that folds
Speaker 3: that's Daddy Grace. That's as came from Daddy Grace.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's it's.
Speaker 3: That whole trope, right of the creature with the long
Speaker 3: silky hair and the suit and all of that. All
Speaker 3: it did come from Daddy Grace. It did start there.
Speaker 3: I don't know why he hasn't been given his just due.
Speaker 3: Part of the reason why I did this show was
Speaker 3: to I'm glad to do it because I learned a
Speaker 3: lot more. Yeah, and and also too, when you think
Speaker 3: about that time, in that era, right, there were only
Speaker 3: a few spaces for a black man to shine, Yeah,
Speaker 3: and to be Flamborian.
Speaker 1: Sports entertainment right, and a man of God right or
Speaker 1: a revolutionary.
Speaker 3: Right or a revolutionary. But being a revolutionary could get
Speaker 3: you killed.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, well Malcolm X, both Malcolm X and Martin
Speaker 1: Luther both ministers, were both ministers, they were both men
Speaker 1: of God and both revolutions.
Speaker 3: Right, So clearly that was very dangerous also because people
Speaker 3: understood the power and this way that you had over people. Absolutely,
Speaker 3: but I think that that was one of the only
Speaker 3: spaces that somebody like Daddy Grace could have existed to
Speaker 3: achieve the level of success that he clearly had in
Speaker 3: mind for himself, whether he was coming from the perspective
Speaker 3: of a you know, wanting to grow a spiritual community,
Speaker 3: or just simply.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to I'm trying to come up. Yeah, I'm trying.
Speaker 2: I'm trying to work my plan.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: Sol If my plan benefits this community, great, But I'm
Speaker 1: here because I'm trying to get this money or in
Speaker 1: the words of Bell Calice aka Cardi B I'm trying
Speaker 1: to get this sh money money, Okay.
Speaker 2: And it worked for.
Speaker 3: Him, and it worked and you and in doing that,
Speaker 3: he had to put up with a lot of people
Speaker 3: accusing him of being different, you know, and and and constantly.
Speaker 3: I'm sure he got clown the Cape Verdians, the things
Speaker 3: that Kate Verdians say about him.
Speaker 2: How did you well?
Speaker 1: If you you, I highly suggest that, if you are
Speaker 1: interested in what we are speaking about, or you're intrigued,
Speaker 1: that you listen to Marcie's show. And I'm definitely gonna
Speaker 1: link it in this show notes. Because I was here
Speaker 1: for the show. I listened to it. I listened to
Speaker 1: every episode. I was here for it.
Speaker 2: I want to know.
Speaker 1: I want to know more about his kids and and
Speaker 1: his his descendants, where are they?
Speaker 3: They might be everywhere?
Speaker 1: Well because because because I was also thinking about that,
Speaker 1: because I wonder, yeah, we know, I know he was
Speaker 1: booking like crazy.
Speaker 3: Okay, First of all, I love that you use the
Speaker 3: word booking. I always say I never heard that before,
Speaker 3: and so from listening to your podcast.
Speaker 1: I got it from I want to say, this guy
Speaker 1: used to work with he is. His family's from Guyana.
Speaker 1: His name is Pete. I'm pretty sure that's what I
Speaker 1: got it from booking. His family's from Guyana, So that
Speaker 1: makes sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, In terms of Daddy Greece's descendants, where are they?
Speaker 3: There are he still has his uh well, his his
Speaker 3: children are a bit tragic in the sense that you
Speaker 3: know his children that from his marriages or a bit tragic.
Speaker 3: His daughter Irene died shortly after her mother, Daddy Grace's
Speaker 3: first wife. His son Norman, who was a veteran, died
Speaker 3: in a car tragic car accident right around Newport News,
Speaker 3: right around there. Really he was going to he was
Speaker 3: actually starting to train with. Daddy Grace died in a
Speaker 3: car accident. He was last Norman Grace Grace, Norman Grace.
Speaker 3: I think we should go to Newport. I would love
Speaker 3: that it would be.
Speaker 1: I don't know if I just said investigation, it felt
Speaker 1: like I said investigation, but either way, I meant investigation
Speaker 1: either way.
Speaker 3: And we can get some food too.
Speaker 2: I don't know about well, I don't know about food
Speaker 2: and Newport News.
Speaker 3: Now we can go to the House of bra I'm
Speaker 3: sure the food.
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, I'm sure that's great.
Speaker 3: Yeah. And then he had another son, Marcellino which is
Speaker 3: his given name, with his second wife. And he had
Speaker 3: two wives and they both ended in divorce. His second
Speaker 3: wife was like significantly younger than him. She was Mexican,
Speaker 3: Mexican American. She was an artist, she was a musician,
Speaker 3: a singer.
Speaker 2: California probably, Yeah.
Speaker 3: They got married in Arizona, though, so who knows. And
Speaker 3: she ended up after they got divorced, she became a
Speaker 3: Jehovah's witness and she was a preacher, well she wanted to,
Speaker 3: you know, she had some role of leadership in the church.
Speaker 3: But Marcelino, their son, was schizophrenic and had a lot
Speaker 3: of mental health problems, ended up in He was like
Speaker 3: in and out of jail, and Daddy Grace tried to
Speaker 3: help him several times, gave him money, bailed himut of jail,
Speaker 3: got him in a facility and all of that, and
Speaker 3: he just eventually cut ties with him and he ended up.
Speaker 3: I feel like somebody, I feel like somebody killed him.
Speaker 3: I think I know, I know he he got arrested
Speaker 3: for some sort of like petty robbery and I believe
Speaker 3: somebody shot.
Speaker 2: Him in Arizona.
Speaker 3: No, that was in Pennsylvania. That was in Pennsylvania. So
Speaker 3: you know, those were those children. Irene had three children there.
Speaker 3: One lives in New York. One is Pastor Norman, who
Speaker 3: There were so many things that happened throughout this podcast
Speaker 3: that I discovered, interesting coincidences, just interesting things that I
Speaker 3: couldn't even or didn't put into the podcast.
Speaker 2: I want to know about them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, it was kind of crazy, so Pastor Norman. One
Speaker 3: of them is that I was telling my father, my stepfather.
Speaker 3: I had gone to the New Bedford Public Library, which
Speaker 3: I hadn't been in since I was a kid, and
Speaker 3: it was like porn raining cats and dogs. And I
Speaker 3: went into the public library and I said to the
Speaker 3: library and hey, i'm here. You know, I'm doing research
Speaker 3: on a New Bedford resident. Blah blah blah. Okay, well,
Speaker 3: what's his name? And I tell her his name and
Speaker 3: she goes like, white is a she? Like white is
Speaker 3: a she. I'm like, She's like, you're not going to
Speaker 3: believe this. I have just spent the last two weeks
Speaker 3: pulling all the research on him for a scholar that's
Speaker 3: in Mississippi that's reorganized PhD. And I just sent it
Speaker 3: to him. I have the flash She literally had the
Speaker 3: flash drive in her hand and so she's like, you
Speaker 3: want it. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. So she gives
Speaker 3: me that I'm copying, you know, I'm copying all the stuff,
Speaker 3: and you know, she comes over to me and asks
Speaker 3: me what I'm doing. I told her and she's like,
Speaker 3: I don't know. Maybe Daddy Grace does have some special
Speaker 3: powers here. I'm like, I don't know. Maybe get back
Speaker 3: into my car. I'm going over to my parents' house now.
Speaker 3: And someone tells me I'm going to see a rainbow today.
Speaker 3: I just had his feeling, let's see a rainbow. Get
Speaker 3: to the house, talking to my stepfather and telling him
Speaker 3: what I researched, and he's like, you need to go
Speaker 3: to the grave. Got to go to the grave and
Speaker 3: like get all the headstones around because a lot of
Speaker 3: the families. He goes, yeah, you know that when they
Speaker 3: installed the new mausoleum for Daddy Grace, I was the
Speaker 3: person who installed the gates on the mausoleum. That's interesting.
Speaker 2: He goes, yeah, he's buried.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he's buried in all that's interesting. And we talked more.
Speaker 3: He's like, yeah, and by the way, he's like when
Speaker 3: we were when he first died, the kids used to
Speaker 3: do a thing where they'd try to do like a
Speaker 3: little seance where they would, you know, like pray to
Speaker 3: see if Daddy Grace. Yeah, And apparently they were all
Speaker 3: there doing it and Daddy the phone rang. They said,
Speaker 3: Daddy Grace, if you're here, let us know, and then
Speaker 3: the phone rang. The kids all thought, oh my god,
Speaker 3: Daddy Grace is there anyway. So he, you know, he said, yeah,
Speaker 3: Daddy Grace has come up a couple of times. He said,
Speaker 3: don't you remember Pastor Norman. And I'm like, of course,
Speaker 3: I remember Pastor Norman. We used to go to his church.
Speaker 3: He's a really good sink. Like the choir, like the
Speaker 3: music there was always hidden and that.
Speaker 2: For me is always yeah, that's it.
Speaker 3: And so I'm looking at him and I'm like, yeah, passed.
Speaker 3: Of course, He's like, yeah, that's Daddy Grace's grandson, and
Speaker 3: I'm like what He's like yeah. So I'm thinking to myself, Wait,
Speaker 3: this church that I used to go to when I
Speaker 3: was a kid, all this time Daddy Grace. Then I
Speaker 3: found out that the house that I lived in, that
Speaker 3: I grew up in was owned by Daddy Grace's. He
Speaker 3: actually paid for that house. That house was owned by
Speaker 3: his nephew, was owned by his brother that went to
Speaker 3: his nephew, and he paid for the house that I
Speaker 3: grew up in. I always knew the people that lived
Speaker 3: there before were Grace's, but the connected yeah, like I
Speaker 3: just never connected the two so's things like that. But
Speaker 3: what was interesting that day when he told me about
Speaker 3: the pastor Norman, all of a sudden I looked on
Speaker 3: the TV and I see like there was a rainbow.
Speaker 3: I said, oh, I think I'm gonna see a rainbow.
Speaker 3: And then the woman who takes care of my sister
Speaker 3: in the back, she goes, oh my god, there's a rainbow.
Speaker 3: And there was this huge rainbow that spanned across like
Speaker 3: the whole back porch area. And I was like, I
Speaker 3: knew that was Daddy Grace. I knew it. I was like,
Speaker 3: that's Daddy Grace. And if you look at the House
Speaker 3: of Prayer imagery rainbows as most churches use rainbows. They
Speaker 3: were a symbol of hope, no resark and all of that,
Speaker 3: but they use it in the imagery in the churches.
Speaker 2: You see the rainbows.
Speaker 3: So there were like little things like that, you know.
Speaker 3: They just kept letting me know that I was on
Speaker 3: the right path. But when it came to his children,
Speaker 3: that Pastor Norman, I don't know. I haven't met any
Speaker 3: of the other children, any of the grandchildren. He's the
Speaker 3: only one that I met. He would of course wouldn't
Speaker 3: allow me to, you know, but there, yeah, but there
Speaker 3: have been. Yeah, he did, he did. He talked to me,
Speaker 3: he gave me a book. Very nice man. And he
Speaker 3: remembered my mom because my mom was also a music minister,
Speaker 3: so he remembered her. But yeah, you know, when it
Speaker 3: came to his children and his other descendants, he has
Speaker 3: a lot of his nieces and nephews that were greatly
Speaker 3: involved in the church. Great nieces and nephews are still around.
Speaker 3: Some of them are still parts of the church. I
Speaker 3: have a lot of family members that are still part
Speaker 3: of the church.
Speaker 1: And you found out that he was your family member. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's wild.
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 1: So this just goes right back to what we were
Speaker 1: talking about at the beginning when I said, like, God
Speaker 1: is a god of intention.
Speaker 2: God is not a god of coincidence.
Speaker 1: It's not Oh, this planet is this far from the
Speaker 1: sun and it's red and it's hot, and that's not
Speaker 1: how it works. Mars is Mars for a reason. It
Speaker 1: represents war and rage for a reason, right, Okay. And
Speaker 1: the reason that if there are people here that are
Speaker 1: smart enough to understand.
Speaker 2: Tectonic plates.
Speaker 1: And I have a cousin who is a biologist and
Speaker 1: she does research or she used to do research on
Speaker 1: silver nanoparticles, then there were people long ago that were
Speaker 1: smart enough to do research or understand things about planets
Speaker 1: and why they function this way and spirits and this
Speaker 1: and that.
Speaker 2: If you don't want to believe it, don't.
Speaker 1: But I'm just saying God is not a god of whoops,
Speaker 1: this fell in my lap. If anything falls in your
Speaker 1: lap is because God placed it there. And for people
Speaker 1: who don't believe in God, this is and I don't personally,
Speaker 1: I don't care if people believe in God or not,
Speaker 1: because it's not my business, and I'm very good at
Speaker 1: mine in my business. But I don't understand people who
Speaker 1: don't believe in God. I don't agnostic people. I get it,
Speaker 1: like you don't know who to something is there.
Speaker 2: I get it.
Speaker 1: But people will say, oh, no, this is all science. Yeah, no, sway,
Speaker 1: I don't even know.
Speaker 3: I actually don't believe that that's even possible. I know
Speaker 3: people say it.
Speaker 2: I know it doesn't make sense.
Speaker 3: And not only that, let me tell you something. When
Speaker 3: you are faced with death, when you are looking at death,
Speaker 3: I know because I've experienced it. When you are looking
Speaker 3: at a dangerous situation or your loved one, you remember
Speaker 3: that God exists real quick, no matter what, really at
Speaker 3: that moment. There are moments in life where you you
Speaker 3: will be humbled and you will be made to understand
Speaker 3: that there is something greater than you go into the
Speaker 3: ocean when there's a crazy wave.
Speaker 2: That's those kind of things. To me.
Speaker 3: It's like, yeah, if you don't believe there's a God,
Speaker 3: you're just lying. You just you or you.
Speaker 1: Just want to be combative. Yes, you will argue, you
Speaker 1: just want to argue. We ask you about who's the
Speaker 1: best basketball player in stead of whether or not there's
Speaker 1: a God, because I don't have time for that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I don't have time for that either.
Speaker 1: Another thing before we wrap up, I want to just
Speaker 1: share some things that my uncles told me because they
Speaker 1: were just kind of.
Speaker 3: Fascinated about that. That's my whole thing. When when you
Speaker 3: and I spoke, you know, finding out that your family
Speaker 3: has a connection to the House of Prayer.
Speaker 2: On those on two totally different sides.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and that's crazy, Yeah, that's crazy.
Speaker 1: Yeah, because these uncles, sorry, these uncles are from Baltimore
Speaker 1: and they grew up in the they were born in
Speaker 1: the thirties, right, and so they were there when he
Speaker 1: was coming and having his tenth But then on my
Speaker 1: mother's father's side, nobody knows about this side but me.
Speaker 1: I'm the only person in my family who went to
Speaker 1: seek this out, went on this mission another not coincidence,
Speaker 1: and I went to the House of Prayer. Then I
Speaker 1: read the article about the obituary for my grandmother, I
Speaker 1: mean my great grandmother, and she had her funeral services there.
Speaker 1: I'm like, no, this is not a coincidence at all.
Speaker 3: It's not. But what's fascinating to me is that the intersection. Yes,
Speaker 3: all of that, but the desire to know your story,
Speaker 3: the desire to tell your story, is so important because
Speaker 3: if you didn't do this work, it could have been
Speaker 3: lost forever. Yeah, you know, your family history would have
Speaker 3: been lost. So you know that old man, you know
Speaker 3: that you ran into that was wild. You know, all
Speaker 3: of those little steps going on ancestry, finding my mother's brother,
Speaker 3: all of that, Like, had you not done that, you
Speaker 3: would be missing a part of yourself.
Speaker 1: And he just found another sibling. Because my grandfather apparently too,
Speaker 1: like Daddy Grace, was around laying it low and spread
Speaker 1: and wide. My uncle said that dreud Hill Park was
Speaker 1: supposed to be the original that's what drew Hill the
Speaker 1: group was named.
Speaker 2: So there's a park.
Speaker 1: Yes, that area was supposed to be the first potential
Speaker 1: location for the United House of Prayer, but it didn't
Speaker 1: come through because the neighborhood Association, an all black neighborhood association,
Speaker 1: opposed it and they shut it down because they didn't
Speaker 1: want him to build their church in their neighborhood, which
Speaker 1: I can kind of understand, but I can also understand
Speaker 1: because it's like, don't bring all this.
Speaker 2: Loud noise and drama around.
Speaker 1: And they also said that they but then that's when
Speaker 1: they built it on Liberty Heights. My uncle Bunkie said
Speaker 1: that a lot of the young guys would go to
Speaker 1: see Daddy Grace because they.
Speaker 2: Would do shut out to him, Uncle Bunkie.
Speaker 1: He said a lot of the young cats would go
Speaker 1: to the because they would do baptisms.
Speaker 2: In the street with water holes with water.
Speaker 1: No, this is in Baltimore, Baltimore, they would do baptist
Speaker 1: I imagine that they would do them in the James
Speaker 1: River because in proximity to that church right down the
Speaker 1: street past some of the projects is the James River. No,
Speaker 1: but in bald and super metropolitan, like down here in
Speaker 1: New York on fifty fifth Street, they would do baptisms
Speaker 1: with water hoses or fire hoses or fire hydrants. And
Speaker 1: so my uncle Bunkie said that the guys would go
Speaker 1: to see Daddy Grace not because they were going to
Speaker 1: get touched by the Lord, but because the ladies would
Speaker 1: be getting hosed down and they'd be in these wet
Speaker 1: clothes and that they were perfs. That's what my uncle
Speaker 1: Bunkie says. And I started to say, well, why did
Speaker 1: you go? Why did you go, Uncle Bunkie? He said,
Speaker 1: I went for the food. And I said, I believe you,
Speaker 1: because me and my family will like a good meal.
Speaker 1: They do dinners every Sunday. They recently had a convocation
Speaker 1: and I wanted to go, but I wasn't able to go.
Speaker 2: We should go next year, Yeah, let's go, all right.
Speaker 1: One of my cousins got married at the end of
Speaker 1: the United House of Prayer on Liberty Liberty Road on
Speaker 1: Liberty Heights.
Speaker 2: Let's see.
Speaker 1: They were just describing him as having long gray and
Speaker 1: white hair and long nail.
Speaker 2: They said he had a huge entourage at all.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm telling you it was a situation. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 3: It was a movie. And again, like he yeah, there
Speaker 3: was something about him that he just knew. And I
Speaker 3: also think that he was a bit concerned about his
Speaker 3: personal safety.
Speaker 2: It should have been. Yeah, I think the reason that before, yeah,
Speaker 2: it was true.
Speaker 3: Part it was one to create, you know, an air
Speaker 3: of nobility around himself and create that hierarchy of who
Speaker 3: he was amongst his congregants. But and it was also
Speaker 3: a privilege for the for people to be a part
Speaker 3: of that. Absolutely, you know, contingent of people that were around.
Speaker 1: Another thing that you talked about in the show, when
Speaker 1: you talked about like your family and like the pride
Speaker 1: and the pride in your family, like they didn't want
Speaker 1: to be associated with him. It's funny because one of
Speaker 1: my uncles told me about my great grandmother. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: my great grandmother was extremely prideful and it has passed
Speaker 1: down in the DNA of the women in my family.
Speaker 1: But he said that Daddy Grace had something that looked
Speaker 1: like a throne and he would put it up on
Speaker 1: a riser on a stage and sit on it, and
Speaker 1: that my and that he would sit on it. And
Speaker 1: so when my uncle was small, because he was still
Speaker 1: young and he was born in the late the latter
Speaker 1: parts of the thirty so maybe thirty eight or thirty nine,
Speaker 1: and he would go to want to go because he
Speaker 1: would want to go get the dinners because I told
Speaker 1: you I come from a long line of chunky people.
Speaker 2: We likes to eat.
Speaker 1: He said that my great grandmother would forbid him or
Speaker 1: forbid them from going. He said that my grandfather and
Speaker 1: my aunt was sneaking go, the two oldest kids were
Speaker 1: sneaking go, but forbid them from going to go eat
Speaker 1: there because she would say that we don't want his handouts.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I believe that. I mean that all sounds right
Speaker 3: on brand as far as you know what I've researched,
Speaker 3: and even what I know. What's trippy about that throne
Speaker 3: is that where is it that's every every single house
Speaker 3: on as a throne that's reserved only for the bishop.
Speaker 3: It's only for the bishops there.
Speaker 1: But when I think about I don't know about different denominations,
Speaker 1: but when I think about Pentecostal churches, there's always a
Speaker 1: throne that the pastor sits on.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean there's a that's every Look at Catholicism,
Speaker 3: look at all of the pomp and circumstances around the pope. Ye,
Speaker 3: think about that, think about That's what I feel like.
Speaker 3: Daddy Grace took a big page from probably the Catholic.
Speaker 1: Church because the pope always has an entourage around him.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I think I think he definitely took a lot
Speaker 3: from them. There's there's so many stories. I think it's
Speaker 3: fascinating that your family members were told not to go
Speaker 3: in there. I think that that was across the board.
Speaker 3: Something I heard very common. People that were part of
Speaker 3: the House of prayer. Other black people looked at them like,
Speaker 3: you're in a cult. You guys are hooting and hollering.
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that's but I also think that that's a
Speaker 1: Pentecostal church thing, because even amongst other denominational black churches, yep,
Speaker 1: that's what they were called. Because we speak in tongues,
Speaker 1: we pass out, and all of these things have happened.
Speaker 3: To me, me too, and they're real.
Speaker 2: Listen, it's not just real.
Speaker 3: It's not a part that people need to understand that.
Speaker 3: That was one of the big criticisms out that Charlaton
Speaker 3: came in, that people thought that that was all a show.
Speaker 3: It was in choreograph.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna sell you what I do believe. I do
Speaker 1: believe that in some cases it is a show. There
Speaker 1: was a lady at my church will every damn Sunday.
Speaker 2: Ms Edith would get up and speaking every Sunday.
Speaker 1: She'd be speaking in tongues, and I'd be like, oh,
Speaker 1: here she I mean. I would look at this.
Speaker 2: I can't.
Speaker 1: I think her name was Dominique, And I would look
Speaker 1: at her and be like, how long you think it's
Speaker 1: gonna take for she get up and start speaking tongue?
Speaker 1: Ten nine eight and before you know it, she's standing
Speaker 1: up rock and speaking in tongues.
Speaker 2: Was it real or not?
Speaker 1: Maybe if it had never happened to me, then I
Speaker 1: would think this is bullshit. But please be advised, it
Speaker 1: has happened to me too, and I did not have
Speaker 1: control over it.
Speaker 2: Yes, it happens. In addition to.
Speaker 1: That, I have done the whole They hit you on
Speaker 1: they and then you lay out and you open your
Speaker 1: eyes and.
Speaker 2: You're like, what in the fuck just happened? Why am
Speaker 2: I on the ground?
Speaker 1: Right?
Speaker 3: It's the strangest feeling, right.
Speaker 1: Because you don't know what what you're doing in your
Speaker 1: eyes and everybody's around you, and it's like, but you
Speaker 1: feel like you feel new, You feel different, right, you
Speaker 1: feel like clean. I'm not clean, but like something was
Speaker 1: all got taken off of you. That's what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: Like people like Christians kill me with like saying, oh,
Speaker 1: whodoo is the devil? And voodoo is the devil. We
Speaker 1: all out here doing a form of whodoo around here. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's just stop judging people for their religious beliefs, because
Speaker 1: I am living proof that speaking in tongues happens. And
Speaker 1: if I'm going to be very honest. Sometimes it happens
Speaker 1: to me now and I'm not in church. It happens,
Speaker 1: and it is the strangest thing, and somebody around me
Speaker 1: witnessed it. Actually, my nail tech was doing my nails
Speaker 1: and it happened, and she.
Speaker 2: Said, what the fuck is wrong with you? And I
Speaker 2: was like, girl, nothing, no worry about it because I
Speaker 2: know it's something over here happening. I know, I know.
Speaker 1: But we're just gonna keep it down because I don't
Speaker 1: want to be daddy Grace. I'm just gonna have this podcast.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do that.
Speaker 3: And there may be a new future for you. No,
Speaker 3: I certainly lucrative.
Speaker 1: Listen, and I'm looking for a new way to get
Speaker 1: multiple streams of income.
Speaker 3: Listen. One thing I love.
Speaker 2: Well.
Speaker 3: Yes, I don't know if I could be a full
Speaker 3: time member, but I'll definitely come. But if you you
Speaker 3: told me I had to come seven days a week,
Speaker 3: I don't know.
Speaker 2: I don't want to be there seven days a week. Evan,
Speaker 2: would you join my call? But yes, are you seven
Speaker 2: days a week?
Speaker 3: So my thing is I feel like your coat would be.
Speaker 1: It would be dope. Yeah, it would be centered around music. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm man listen music and good snacks. Who doesn't want that,
Speaker 1: don't get me started.
Speaker 2: I will get to work in my plan.
Speaker 1: Listen, I'll go to Daddy Grace's grave and get the praying.
Speaker 3: People need saving though you know that's the thing, is
Speaker 3: that people do need saving.
Speaker 1: But I think part of the problem, and the scary part,
Speaker 1: is that people don't realize that nobody is coming to
Speaker 1: save you. Yeah, nobody is coming to save us. And
Speaker 1: I feel like black people, poor people are always or
Speaker 1: disenfranchised people all over the world. It doesn't matter if
Speaker 1: you're Irish, it doesn't matter if you are the original
Speaker 1: people in New Zealand or Australia. It doesn't matter if
Speaker 1: you are Mongolian people in the mountains of China, or
Speaker 1: if you are Mexicans in Phoenix, with whoever you are,
Speaker 1: Black people in Detroit, Baltimore, Atlanta, New Orleans, Nobody's coming
Speaker 1: to save.
Speaker 2: Us, first and foremost. Now two, ain't nobody gonna save
Speaker 2: us but us.
Speaker 1: Stop looking for somebody to save you, because all the
Speaker 1: time that you expend looking for someone to come and
Speaker 1: fix it for you or save it to you, you
Speaker 1: could have been working on your plan right Shout.
Speaker 2: Out to Daddy Grace.
Speaker 1: Because he was like, fuck this, I an't wait, no
Speaker 1: nobody to save me, let me figure this out. I
Speaker 1: feel like if more people had that ideology and that
Speaker 1: way of like processing how to live, there would be
Speaker 1: less poverty.
Speaker 3: Yeah, because all it is.
Speaker 2: Is a fight against oppression.
Speaker 3: It is, but I do think I will say this
Speaker 3: is Daddy Grace, is what it looks like when you
Speaker 3: have no options.
Speaker 1: Well, I know a lot of people who don't have options,
Speaker 1: no options, and you also have a blind faith and
Speaker 1: determination and ambition and belief in yourself. But I think
Speaker 1: that goes back to what I'm saying. If more people
Speaker 1: had that, that's what I'm talking about, not if they
Speaker 1: had not even the marketing strategies or the intelligence, but
Speaker 1: if you had the faith in yourself to save yourself,
Speaker 1: I think there would be a lot less poverty. I mean,
Speaker 1: and I get it that there are systems in place
Speaker 1: to keep people in people's oppressed. I get that right,
Speaker 1: and to get people to believe that it's okay that
Speaker 1: it's that way. But I think that if more people
Speaker 1: had a blind faith or had an understanding that if
Speaker 1: I don't do it for me, nobody's going to do
Speaker 1: it for me.
Speaker 2: And I'm going to tell you why.
Speaker 1: I believe that that's important because there are systems put
Speaker 1: in place to make you think that they're saving you.
Speaker 1: Welfare in the seventies was set up so that poor people,
Speaker 1: poor women, could believe that there's no way for me
Speaker 1: to be successful unless I make sure that there are.
Speaker 2: No men in my house.
Speaker 1: I have these children with these men, but they can't
Speaker 1: be living. They can't live in my house with the
Speaker 1: children that they make, so that I can get government assistance.
Speaker 1: And think about all the women and all the people,
Speaker 1: and all the generations of children that are now mentally
Speaker 1: codependent on this system. Listen, if more people realize that
Speaker 1: nobody's coming to save us and not just and it's
Speaker 1: nothing against people who believe that Jesus or Allah or
Speaker 1: whoever is coming to save you. I want people to
Speaker 1: have faith and believe in whatever. I want people to believe.
Speaker 2: In, whatever it is that they want to believe.
Speaker 1: But I, as someone who grew up in a church,
Speaker 1: faith without works is dead. So if you do not
Speaker 1: do the work for yourself, God got a lot of
Speaker 1: shit on his plate, okay, or her plate. Whatever you
Speaker 1: want to believe, listen. The sun gotta come up, the
Speaker 1: sun gotta go down. You gotta walk, people gotta have babies,
Speaker 1: people gotta die, people gotta run, people gotta win the Olympics.
Speaker 1: Planes gotta fly, the wind has to blow. God is busy.
Speaker 2: Can you help.
Speaker 1: God out a little bit and do some of the
Speaker 1: work yourself? And I think if more people stopped and said,
Speaker 1: let me get it how I live, because that's all
Speaker 1: Daddy Gray said.
Speaker 2: I'm finna get it how I live.
Speaker 1: Exactly, and he got it. How I wish I had
Speaker 1: that kind of ambition. I need to channel it. I
Speaker 1: need to go to his mausoleum and put some oil
Speaker 1: on me or something, because I'm trying to get it
Speaker 1: to how he lived me too. Maybe I will start
Speaker 1: a Colts listen, don't get me started, don't even get
Speaker 1: me started. That was a SNL reference nobody got in. Sorry,
Speaker 1: but yes, I'm so glad that you. I'm so glad
Speaker 1: we did this. And the only reason, the only reason
Speaker 1: that I'm wrapping up is because I know that we
Speaker 1: can't be here that long.
Speaker 3: No, we can't be here forever. Yeah, we can continue
Speaker 3: to talk yes and keep yes. Seven days and you're
Speaker 3: it's cool. It's a cult, right, so if it's a cult,
Speaker 3: he's therefore commit. Yeah, we're committed.
Speaker 1: Can his girlfriend I was with, I don't want to
Speaker 1: be called master or anything.
Speaker 2: Mistress, mistress.
Speaker 1: That sounds like I'm a domination. Let me work that,
Speaker 1: Let me work that out. But I'm so glad that
Speaker 1: you that we got to have this conversation.
Speaker 2: I'm excited.
Speaker 1: I feel like it's not quite finished, but this is
Speaker 1: the start of the conversation.
Speaker 3: That's so funny that it doesn't feel complete. It doesn't well,
Speaker 3: there's so many there's so many different layers. What we
Speaker 3: talked about from that, you know, from Daddy Grace's perspective,
Speaker 3: is one thing. Your family story is another thing, my
Speaker 3: family story, telling our stories.
Speaker 2: It's so important.
Speaker 3: There's so many layers here. And I think that what
Speaker 3: Daddy Grace did give to the world, and what I
Speaker 3: would like for people to learn from his story is
Speaker 3: that you do have the power. You do have the
Speaker 3: power to create what you want. You do need to
Speaker 3: create systems to ensure your legacy, but also whatever it.
Speaker 1: Is that you got to do the work that I
Speaker 1: think that's where we falter as human beings. We don't
Speaker 1: want to do the work with anything, and there is
Speaker 1: no prize or there is no reward for not doing
Speaker 1: any work.
Speaker 3: There is. This is why Daddy Grace worked to the
Speaker 3: day he died. You know literally he yeah, literally.
Speaker 1: No, I know he listened. I listened to the podcast.
Speaker 1: I know he did know about the last speech in
Speaker 1: the bed.
Speaker 3: It's crazy, right, Yeah, do you know that in his
Speaker 3: very last the very I mentioned it in the podcast,
Speaker 3: but his very last letter to the church, he said,
Speaker 3: you know, prepare because I'm going to be flying. I'm
Speaker 3: going to be back on.
Speaker 2: The road soon.
Speaker 3: And he like the day that he said he was
Speaker 3: getting on the road was the day he died.
Speaker 2: He was getting on the road to heaven.
Speaker 3: Yeah, he knew what he was doing. And he also said,
Speaker 3: y'all need to get it together. That's basically what he said.
Speaker 3: And y'all need to get the same exact thing that
Speaker 3: you just said. You need to do it for.
Speaker 1: Yourself, to do it for yourself because nobody nobody coming
Speaker 1: to save us.
Speaker 2: Nobody's coming to save.
Speaker 3: And also stop trying to save people, well, which is
Speaker 3: a different that's serious.
Speaker 1: That that that those are two very important things to say,
Speaker 1: but that is kind of like the premise of my
Speaker 1: shows to tell stories in our community that don't often
Speaker 1: get told to me. That's why this was a natural
Speaker 1: fit to have you on the show and talk about this,
Speaker 1: because not enough people know about him, and I don't
Speaker 1: really know why his story isn't told, but well who
Speaker 1: for who?
Speaker 3: Everybody? He had so many people first Adam Clinton, Paul
Speaker 3: Senior and Junior hated him. They detested him. So there
Speaker 3: were a lot of black elites that really could not
Speaker 3: stand him. They felt like he was low class and uneducated.
Speaker 2: And you know, she think it was because he was
Speaker 2: an immigrant.
Speaker 3: It was a combination.
Speaker 1: Sometimes people sometimes I'm not even gonna sometimes Black American
Speaker 1: people can be nastygrants to black immigrants.
Speaker 3: It was partly because he was an immigrant, but it
Speaker 3: was also because of the members of his congregation. They
Speaker 3: felt like, you know, they had all the high falutin
Speaker 3: people up you know, Riverside Drive at the church, you
Speaker 3: know what I mean. So it was a different class
Speaker 3: his church, Adam Clinton Powell scene and yeah there church.
Speaker 3: So looking down at.
Speaker 1: Grace, looking at because Daddy Grace used to come to
Speaker 1: the neighborhood where my family is from and say both
Speaker 1: both families exactly. And I went to Newport. I know
Speaker 1: about the neighborhood in Baltimore. It's still the hood, yeah,
Speaker 1: very much.
Speaker 3: So all of the churches are in places Newport News.
Speaker 1: When I went there, I was like, well, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of projects around here, all right. Are there any
Speaker 1: high rises?
Speaker 2: No?
Speaker 3: None, there's only a few neighborhoods that where the church is.
Speaker 3: That it's you know, changed significantly that you know, it's prospering.
Speaker 3: Most of his churches are in the post. Yeah, but
Speaker 3: they just needed.
Speaker 1: Yep, and that's where they should be because also, you know,
Speaker 1: even though I say, like nobody's coming to save you,
Speaker 1: people need hope.
Speaker 2: But sometimes when hope.
Speaker 1: Is misguided, it can turn into delusion, which is scary.
Speaker 2: MARTI, thank you so much.
Speaker 3: Thank you absolutely tell your stories.
Speaker 1: People, do your research. Find out who your family is.
Speaker 1: I bet we're family.
Speaker 3: I bet we are. Yeah, it wouldn't take too much.
Speaker 1: On none of my things it says that I'm my
Speaker 1: family's from Cabo Nor Does I love how I said it.
Speaker 3: Like, yeah, that was really good. See you are Cape Verdian.
Speaker 2: Or I just speak two different languages.
Speaker 3: Do you speak?
Speaker 1: It's a little bit of Spanish and a little bit
Speaker 1: of French. Yeah, you got it, that's what it was.
Speaker 1: Or it doesn't say that in any of them. It
Speaker 1: doesn't say anything about Portuguese ancestry. I think I saw
Speaker 1: something about Basque.
Speaker 3: Oh really interesting.
Speaker 2: That was weird. I don't even know what. I have
Speaker 2: to look. I have to look. It's not a Nigeria
Speaker 2: and is definitely the largest one.
Speaker 3: Related to my son, the largest portion of I've taken
Speaker 3: a lot of those tests, and one of them said
Speaker 3: that I was forty four percent.
Speaker 2: I was like, can I get a town or something?
Speaker 2: Am I owed something? Please?
Speaker 3: To start your cult? Yeah?
Speaker 2: I don't know.
Speaker 1: Oh town, No, I'll pass on that. I'm just gonna
Speaker 1: keep helping the people around me. Okay, thank you again, Marcie,
Speaker 1: thank you Evan for sitting for this engineering this.
Speaker 3: Ed got up, big up.
Speaker 2: And friends again.
Speaker 1: I will link in the show notes Marcy's podcast, and
Speaker 1: I have a feeling that this won't be the last
Speaker 1: time Marcy will be on me.
Speaker 3: My first, My god, I would love to come back.
Speaker 3: This is so much fun.
Speaker 1: Absolutely because she's got the g That's why we're here now.
Speaker 2: I heard studios in New.
Speaker 3: York a studio. That's exactly what you need.
Speaker 2: We're in the Red Story studio. That's exactly where I
Speaker 2: need to be.
Speaker 1: All right, friends again, So for today's straight fact question.
Speaker 1: You know, this question is a little bit different. It's
Speaker 1: not like our traditional or our usual question. I won't
Speaker 1: say traditional because there's no traditional question, but it's not
Speaker 1: like our usual question here on stray Fax, where you know,
Speaker 1: they lay out the story, they're going to tell us
Speaker 1: what's going on. It's a very specific question to a
Speaker 1: listener's life or to the person's life. This is just
Speaker 1: a very general question.
Speaker 2: And I love that.
Speaker 1: And that question is what are your I love that
Speaker 1: they asked me. What are my unfiltered thoughts? What are
Speaker 1: your What are your unfiltered thoughts on how to be
Speaker 1: your authentic cell as far as sexuality that is not
Speaker 1: commonly accepted? And that is from Anonymous in Atlanta.
Speaker 2: Well, let's get into this. Why don't we let me
Speaker 2: read it again?
Speaker 1: What are your unfiltered thoughts on how to be your
Speaker 1: authentic self as far as sexuality that is not commonly accepted? Well,
Speaker 1: anonymous in Atlanta, Aia Ayah. Let's just say her name
Speaker 1: is Ayah, Aia I'm gonna just say this your question,
Speaker 1: let's take off the end. What are your unfiltered thoughts
Speaker 1: on how to be your authentic self? Let me start there.
Speaker 1: My unfiltered thoughts on how to be your authentic self
Speaker 1: is to allow yourself the freedom to be your authentic self.
Speaker 1: You can put anything on the end of that that
Speaker 1: you want, as far as your sexuality that is not
Speaker 1: commonly accepted, as far as someone who wants to have
Speaker 1: a small dog instead of a large dog, as far
Speaker 1: as someone who loves the efrenchise in their bed, as
Speaker 1: far as someone who doesn't want to have a relationship
Speaker 1: with their mother, as far as someone who thinks it's
Speaker 1: okay to fart in front of your partner, as far
Speaker 1: as someone who doesn't think it's okay to fart in
Speaker 1: front of your partner. Whatever you put at the end
Speaker 1: of that question, it's going to start with you allowing
Speaker 1: yourself and you've given yourself the freedom to be your
Speaker 1: authentic self. And at the end of the day, I
Speaker 1: feel like we all deserve and have earned the right.
Speaker 2: To be who we are. First of all, being who
Speaker 2: you are.
Speaker 1: Is free, Okay, So when it comes to your sexuality,
Speaker 1: that is not commonly accepted. It's free to just be
Speaker 1: who you are. Does that mean that being who you
Speaker 1: are is going to be easy?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 2: Does that mean that being who you are is not
Speaker 2: going to come with criticism and or feedback?
Speaker 3: No?
Speaker 1: Does that mean that being who you are is not
Speaker 1: going to come with any repercussions or any there's cause
Speaker 1: and effect, you know what I mean. But the reward
Speaker 1: for sitting in the seat that God has declared for
Speaker 1: you far outweighs the risk of, you know, doing something
Speaker 1: that is not commonly accepted. If you feel in your
Speaker 1: heart and your spirit and your mind, your body, your soul,
Speaker 1: your bones, your toenails, that whatever sexual preferences or whatever
Speaker 1: your sexuality looks like is for you. Fuck what anybody
Speaker 1: else has to say. And I know sometimes that's hard
Speaker 1: because some of us are people pleasers. I am a
Speaker 1: recovering people pleaser. I know that's hard because we do
Speaker 1: care about what people have to say, and we don't
Speaker 1: want to disappoint people, and we don't want to upset people.
Speaker 1: And we want people to like us, and we want
Speaker 1: people to love us, and we want people to be understanding.
Speaker 2: But guess what, sometimes they ain't gonna be. Sometimes it's
Speaker 2: not gonna always be what you want it to be.
Speaker 1: And so I think it boils down to what's more
Speaker 1: important for me. It's important for me to be who
Speaker 1: I am. It is if you could see the response
Speaker 1: that I experience when I'm not able to be my
Speaker 1: authentic self, or the response that I experience or that
Speaker 1: I have when people around me are not being authentic,
Speaker 1: and when it's egregious, like it's almost like my flesh
Speaker 1: gets hot or starts to itch, and I gotta like
Speaker 1: remove myself being who you are, being your authentic self.
Speaker 1: First of all, you gotta figure that out. Okay, First
Speaker 1: of all, figure it out who am I? And once
Speaker 1: you figure that out, if I could be honest, the
Speaker 1: work that it takes to figure out who you are,
Speaker 1: you know, nobody ever talks about how hard it is
Speaker 1: to figure yourself out, you know. And you know, I
Speaker 1: have kids at my school who's like, I know who
Speaker 1: I am?
Speaker 2: Child? Please?
Speaker 1: You don't even know how to wash your butthole right yet? Okay,
Speaker 1: you're scared to tell somebody that you got discharge man
Speaker 1: or woman? And what are they doing upstairs? Sounds like
Speaker 1: they're having a river dance competition anyway. I just feel
Speaker 1: like when it comes to being you, that is your assignment,
Speaker 1: that's the assignment that God gave you. And I feel
Speaker 1: like it is an full opposition of the job that
Speaker 1: gave excuse me, the job that God gave you here
Speaker 1: on this earth, in this realm, in this lifetime. To
Speaker 1: not be who you are, it's in direct opposition of what.
Speaker 2: God wants for you.
Speaker 1: And so some people may not agree with that, especially
Speaker 1: when you're talking about sexuality, because people don't go out
Speaker 1: of their way, okay to make other people feel bad
Speaker 1: about who they love. Listen, they gonna do that. Excuse me, Sorry,
Speaker 1: I sniff like that that was inappropriate. I apologize. People
Speaker 1: are gonna go out of their way. They're gonna use religion,
Speaker 1: they're gonna use societal norms, they're gonna use race, they're
Speaker 1: gonna use gender, they're gonna use class, they're gonna use
Speaker 1: all of the things when it comes to other people, fucking,
Speaker 1: sucking in, loving on other people, when in reality, it's
Speaker 1: none of your damn business. But I fundamentally believe that
Speaker 1: if you believe that this is what you want to do,
Speaker 1: and this is what you feel is your you feel
Speaker 1: like this is you. Whatever your sexuality may look like,
Speaker 1: whatever your sexual preference is, that's your business, because I
Speaker 1: can promise you that none of those people when it's
Speaker 1: time to meet your maker, whoever it is you know,
Speaker 1: whether you be Christian, Buddhist, Muslim, whatever it is you are,
Speaker 1: when it's time to meet your you're an answer for.
Speaker 2: Your life. I can promise you that.
Speaker 1: Whoever your maker is, whoever your creator is, is not
Speaker 1: going to say, oh, my child, the man that lived
Speaker 1: down the street from you he liked men, and you
Speaker 1: have to answer for the answer for that.
Speaker 2: It's not how it works.
Speaker 1: So I say that to say, be who you are,
Speaker 1: and be proud of yourself, and be proud of the
Speaker 1: courage that it takes to be your authentic self, because
Speaker 1: it takes a lot of fucking courage to be your
Speaker 1: authentic self in a.
Speaker 2: World that tells you that whoever you are is not enough.
Speaker 2: It takes a lot of courage.
Speaker 1: Be brave, Be brave, because realistically, and I'm going to
Speaker 1: close on this, realistically, what is the fucking alternative living
Speaker 1: a life that's a lie. No no, no, no no,
Speaker 1: that is sheer and utter, living your life that is
Speaker 1: a lie, do you know the physical implications that that
Speaker 1: is going to have on your body. We're not even
Speaker 1: talking about your mental health. I'm not even talking about
Speaker 1: your mental health, your emotional health, your social emotional wellbeing.
Speaker 1: I'm talking about your physical person being somebody else. The
Speaker 1: stress alone, your cortisol levels are going to be through
Speaker 1: the roof, the stress that it's gonna the toll that
Speaker 1: it takes on your physical body trying to be somebody else.
Speaker 1: It's not worth it. And you deserve so much more.
Speaker 1: Whoever I'm talking to, you deserve so much more.
Speaker 2: Just be you, Be you.
Speaker 1: The shit is free, It's awesome. And guess what, There
Speaker 1: will be people to love you and like you just
Speaker 1: as you are, regardless of your sexual preferences, regardless of
Speaker 1: your sexuality, regardless if you dye your hair orange, regardless
Speaker 1: if you dye your hair green, whoever you are, however
Speaker 1: you are, somebody is gonna love you and like you.
Speaker 1: But guess what the mother fucking key is for you
Speaker 1: to like you? You gotta love you first. It ain't
Speaker 1: no way you can love yourself when you out here
Speaker 1: parading and pretending to be somebody that you're not. And
Speaker 1: that's it. Because if you don't love yourself, how in
Speaker 1: the hell is somebody else going to get it? Get
Speaker 1: into that? Please? Okay, Happy fucking holidays to that. I
Speaker 1: love y'all, ye friends and can. This quote comes from
Speaker 1: a poet. Her name is Elizabeth Alexander. Elizabeth Alexander was
Speaker 1: born in New York City, but she owes her wonder
Speaker 1: to none other than Washington, d c. Shout out to
Speaker 1: Chocolate fucking City, chocola city. Ain't that chocolate no more?
Speaker 1: But that's a different story. I love that when I
Speaker 1: am guided to some of these quotes and songs and
Speaker 1: whatever it is I'm sharing with you, and that I
Speaker 1: find during my research that I learned that so many
Speaker 1: people come from right here in this area, or as
Speaker 1: we say around here, right here, from this area this area. Yes,
Speaker 1: that is a very regional way of saying area. We
Speaker 1: say area. But anyway, I'm going to say this. If
Speaker 1: you want to know more about Elizabeth Alexander, i'd say
Speaker 1: google her. Just know that in twenty twenty two, Time
Speaker 1: magazine named Elizabeth Alexander one of the one hundred most
Speaker 1: influential people in the world. That's that's stern, honey, that's serious.
Speaker 1: One of the most one hundred, one of one hundred
Speaker 1: most one of the one hundred most influential people in
Speaker 1: the world.
Speaker 2: That's heavy. Okay.
Speaker 1: Anyway, when I chose this quote, or I should say
Speaker 1: when it chose me, I have to say that it
Speaker 1: just fit perfectly with the close of this series or
Speaker 1: this conversation, this series of conversations, or it was really
Speaker 1: just one conversation and I just gave it to you.
Speaker 1: In a series that I have with Marci, Marcy Depina
Speaker 1: told the story. She was brave enough and bold enough
Speaker 1: to tell the story of a sweet Daddy Grace, who
Speaker 1: was a man that I feel we should all know about,
Speaker 1: just based on the barriers that he was able to
Speaker 1: knock down in this country being black. Whether he felt
Speaker 1: like he's black or not, that's none of my business.
Speaker 1: But I think he understood that he was a black man, black,
Speaker 1: He was an immigrant, he was an African immigrant, and
Speaker 1: not to mention he was something else, honey, he was
Speaker 1: something else. He was on some other stuff. Okay, And
Speaker 1: I want.
Speaker 2: I really google him and see what you can find.
Speaker 1: Google him and see if there's a United House of
Speaker 1: Prayer in your area, because they'd be selling dinners on
Speaker 1: Sunday and on Friday, So go get some goods of food.
Speaker 2: Dooobe banging. Anyway, let's get into this quote.
Speaker 1: Elizabeth Alexander said this, and like I said, I feel
Speaker 1: like it resonates and it's a good way to close
Speaker 1: out this series of words that Marcy and I shared.
Speaker 1: It says, and I quote, these women heal us by
Speaker 1: telling our stories, by embodying emotion that our every days
Speaker 1: can't hold. Come on, now, come on, let me say something.
Speaker 1: I took that a little personal in a good way
Speaker 1: because I feel like, here I hand me my purse,
Speaker 1: and in any and everything that I do, when I
Speaker 1: use my voice, when i'm speaking and when i'm sharing,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to tell our stories because it's important to
Speaker 1: tell our stories because that's how we heal. I feel
Speaker 1: like that's how we heal. This is so crazy because
Speaker 1: I said this, and it's in my bio.
Speaker 2: For handing my purse. It's in my bio.
Speaker 1: And I say that by sharing our stories, we heal ourselves,
Speaker 1: and we hear heal excuse me, our communities. This lady
Speaker 1: said these, and I quote again, these women heal us
Speaker 1: by telling our stories by embodying emotion that our every
Speaker 1: days can't hold. Child, I don't even know who these
Speaker 1: women are that she's talking about, but I don't need to.
Speaker 1: I don't need to, because these women are me, These
Speaker 1: women are you. These women are my ancestors. These women
Speaker 1: are my elders. These women are your ancestors, your elders,
Speaker 1: the older women that work at your job. Shit, sometimes
Speaker 1: it might be the younger women that work at your job.
Speaker 1: These women are us, and it's our responsibility to heal
Speaker 1: our community. And as poet Elizabeth Alexander said, these women
Speaker 1: heal us by telling our stories, by embodying emotion that
Speaker 1: our every days can't hold. I want that on a
Speaker 1: T shirt. I want it on a T shirt. Before
Speaker 1: I get into saying thank you, thank you, thank you,
Speaker 1: I have an announcement, So get ready. I am going
Speaker 1: on a break for the holidays, which is something that
Speaker 1: I do historically. Here, I hand me my purse the podcast.
Speaker 1: Because life gets to lifing around December, a lot of
Speaker 1: things happen. My best friend's birthday is in December, so
Speaker 1: I be having a good time. Okay, life also gets
Speaker 1: to life and because you know, sometimes during the holidays,
Speaker 1: I get a little sad. And this year's the first
Speaker 1: year that I will be spending my Christmas without hearing
Speaker 1: my grandmother's voice, without seeing her face, without being able
Speaker 1: to touch her. Huger, Okay, sir. So I'm just anticipating that,
Speaker 1: you know, maybe I just need some time to be still, Okay,
Speaker 1: And so that's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna be still,
Speaker 1: and you should be still too, or you don't have
Speaker 1: to be I'm gonna be still, though. I'm gonna be still.
Speaker 1: You don't have to do anything either way. Gonna be still,
Speaker 1: Gonna work on doing some rest and some resting and
Speaker 1: some reflecting.
Speaker 2: I'm going to.
Speaker 1: Really start to focus and prepare myself for the new year.
Speaker 1: Basketball season starts very soon. Remember I coach high school cheerleading,
Speaker 1: and basketball season is intense. So I just really want
Speaker 1: to focus on closing out the year with a grateful
Speaker 1: heart and with a peaceful spirit. I spend a lot
Speaker 1: of my time, like I said, focus on rest, relaxation,
Speaker 1: and reflection. I have to reflect on what has happened
Speaker 1: in twenty twenty three, look at some things that I
Speaker 1: could have done differently, celebrate the things that I feel
Speaker 1: like I did wonderfully and prepare for a new year
Speaker 1: of creating those kind.
Speaker 2: Of moments all over again.
Speaker 1: You know, taking time out for my own self care
Speaker 1: is really essential for my.
Speaker 2: Mental health and well being.
Speaker 1: And I suggest that you do the same thing. And
Speaker 1: one thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna take care
Speaker 1: of me.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: Self care is essential. It is what I do, and
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do it every single time. So we will
Speaker 1: be going on a two week break and we will
Speaker 1: return on January the second with a brand new, fresh
Speaker 1: episode for y'all with some hot out the fish grease
Speaker 1: energy ready to tackle the new year. The question is
Speaker 1: will you be ready? The answer is you got two
Speaker 1: weeks to get ready, damn it, so do so. Okay,
Speaker 1: now let's go ahead and get into these thank yous.
Speaker 1: Why don't we let's move forward. The first thing that
Speaker 1: I want to say is thank you to God first,
Speaker 1: because God is supreme. God is everything. God is my everything,
Speaker 1: and whether you acknowledge it or not, God is your
Speaker 1: everything too, Okay, And I recognize and appreciate the grace
Speaker 1: that God extends to me every single day.
Speaker 2: Of my black, fat ass life.
Speaker 1: Okay, I want to say thank you, to my people,
Speaker 1: to each and every one of you that's been rocking
Speaker 1: with me since day one, and that is since March
Speaker 1: the first of twenty twenty. Thank you, I thank you,
Speaker 1: I thank you. I trulyate appreciate you for being here.
Speaker 1: It sounds like I said, I truly eate. Maybe that
Speaker 1: should be a word.
Speaker 2: I truly ate. I like that, Okay, I like it
Speaker 2: girl bad.
Speaker 1: Anyway, I truly ate you for being here, which means
Speaker 1: I truly appreciate you for being here. And even if
Speaker 1: you just started listening to day or last week or
Speaker 1: last month, I thank you for that as well. I'm
Speaker 1: grateful either way you cut it up, I am grateful,
Speaker 1: and I'm thankful for my family. I'm thankful for my friends,
Speaker 1: my friends and Ken, all my supporters, all my supporters, and.
Speaker 2: Of course, most importantly.
Speaker 1: Every single one of you out here listening to hand
Speaker 1: me might purse the podcast. I actually love you, guys,
Speaker 1: like deep down from the bottom of my heart, and
Speaker 1: it is nothing short of an honor and a privilege
Speaker 1: to share my time and energy with you every single.
Speaker 2: Week, especially if you keep coming back.
Speaker 1: Though, like I don't think I think that y'all think
Speaker 1: that just because I say this over and over every week,
Speaker 1: and I say the same thing. You know, I might
Speaker 1: cut it up a little different, and I julie in it.
Speaker 1: I might, you know, chop it or dice it, But
Speaker 1: essentially I'm saying the same thing that I'm grateful and
Speaker 1: I'm appreciative of you, and I thank you.
Speaker 2: But I don't think you understand how much it means
Speaker 2: to me that you keep coming back.
Speaker 1: For those of y'all that keep coming back and keep listening,
Speaker 1: it means so fucking much to me. I don't even
Speaker 1: know how to explain it, but it does. It means
Speaker 1: a lot. I'll be trying to explain it, and I'm gonna
Speaker 1: keep on trying. I look forward to the next time
Speaker 1: that we get to do this with one another, which
Speaker 1: will be on January the second, two thy twenty four. Now,
Speaker 1: before you exit out of whatever streaming service you're using
Speaker 1: to listen to this, stop what you're doing. If you
Speaker 1: haven't already done so, look for the subscribe or follow button.
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Speaker 2: Click on it.
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Speaker 1: Leave a review, reviews, make make me happy, leave a review. Okay, friends, again,
Speaker 1: be sure to share Handing the podcast with your friends,
Speaker 1: your loved ones, and even the people who get on
Speaker 1: your fucking nerves that you don't like. Because the best
Speaker 1: way for people to find out about this show is
Speaker 1: by you, guys telling them all about it.
Speaker 2: So what what should they do? What should they do?
Speaker 1: They should tell a friend, to tell a friend, to
Speaker 1: tell a friend. I want you to submit your questions
Speaker 1: for the straight Facts segment by clicking on the link
Speaker 1: and the show notes that says submit a question for
Speaker 1: Straight Facts.
Speaker 2: Who with a thunk?
Speaker 1: It, or you can click the link in my Instagram
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Speaker 1: question for straight facts like It's real simple. I've tried
Speaker 1: to make it really easy over here for y'all. Who
Speaker 1: knows your question may be featured on an upcoming show. Also,
Speaker 1: remember that show notes are always available in the episode description.
Speaker 1: Wherever you are listening to Hand Me my Purse, be
Speaker 1: sure to take a look at the show notes because that,
Speaker 1: my friends and my kin is where I put all
Speaker 1: of the links and any other information that I mentioned
Speaker 1: during the show that you may want to check out,
Speaker 1: in addition to some stuff that I just might want
Speaker 1: to share with you that I think is cool. Also,
Speaker 1: just so you know, the music for Him my Purse
Speaker 1: is provided by none other than West Baltimore's own Gloomy Tunes.
Speaker 1: I want to give a shout out to Gloomy Tunes,
Speaker 1: but I'm going to tell you why. At my school,
Speaker 1: my school is a six through twelve right in the
Speaker 1: heart of West Baltimore, there were some gentlemen. We used
Speaker 1: to have a music program at my school. I can't
Speaker 1: tell you what it was called, but I thought it
Speaker 1: was really weird A little bit corny and the kids
Speaker 1: really liked it, and I was like, whatever, anything to
Speaker 1: keep them off the streets. And they're doing something that
Speaker 1: they like. Two of the young men who were in
Speaker 1: that music program, and the music program was rant by
Speaker 1: all white people.
Speaker 2: I was like, what is this.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what though, two of the young men
Speaker 1: that were in that program they created all of the
Speaker 1: music that you hear on this podcast. I like to
Speaker 1: pay it forward. I like to look out for my people.
Speaker 1: I like to look out for the kids that I
Speaker 1: work with. And I just want to say, if I
Speaker 1: am being grateful and showing gratitude, I want to say
Speaker 1: thank you to Gloomy Tunes because they kind of laid
Speaker 1: the foundation and they were here from me and here
Speaker 1: with me from the very beginning. So shout out to
Speaker 1: Gloomy Tunes, and shout out to West Baltimore, and shout
Speaker 1: out to that music program. And I don't remember what
Speaker 1: it was called, but shout out to that music program
Speaker 1: and the rich white guy who started it and who
Speaker 1: ran it. I think his name is Kenny. But anyway,
Speaker 1: I digress. Last, but not least, I want to give
Speaker 1: a big oh shout out to Rando Banjo in the
Speaker 1: dirty throats.
Speaker 2: That's me, my producers.
Speaker 1: I hope that all of you have a wonderful holiday season,
Speaker 1: and please do nice things for yourself, and do nice
Speaker 1: things for the ones that you love, and do nice
Speaker 1: things for.
Speaker 2: The people that you like to.
Speaker 1: I will see all of you in twenty twenty four
Speaker 1: with a new focus, a new mindset, a new smile,
Speaker 1: a new renewed sense of gratitude and appreciation, a new
Speaker 1: love of self, because those things should be new, a
Speaker 1: new love of self. I love you all so much,
Speaker 1: and I look forward to you, looking forward to listening
Speaker 1: to Hand Me my Purse the podcast.
Speaker 2: Let me say this way. Wait wait wait wait wait
Speaker 2: wait wait hold up, hold up.
Speaker 1: During this break, go back and check out the catalog. Okay,
Speaker 1: during this break, go back and listen to listen to
Speaker 1: some shows show number two through forty nine. That's your
Speaker 1: Homework two through forty nine. Listen to some of the
Speaker 1: bonus episodes that I usually do during the holidays. Listen
Speaker 1: to episodes two through forty nine, not all of them
Speaker 1: if you don't want to, but check some of them out.
Speaker 1: Some of my favorites are episode ten, episode twelve, and thirteen,
Speaker 1: Episode fifteen, No, No, No No. Episode sixteen, episode seventeen, episode
Speaker 1: twenty three and twenty four, Episode twenty, episode twenty two,
Speaker 1: episode twenty nine, episode thirty nine. Just go back and
Speaker 1: check the catalog out, okay, because there's some good shit
Speaker 1: in there, some good conversations that I had. An episode
Speaker 1: that people love is episode forty one. I was talking
Speaker 1: to my cousins and three of them are divorced and child.
Speaker 1: They had a lot to say, okay, and my other
Speaker 1: cousin was there and she is currently married, and it
Speaker 1: was just an interesting time.
Speaker 2: But I love y'all.
Speaker 1: And as I said, whereas I was saying, I look
Speaker 1: forward to you looking forward to listening to hand Me
Speaker 1: My Purse the podcast, And the next time you will
Speaker 1: get a new episode, we'll be on January the two,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty four, and I'm out this bitch.
Speaker 2: Piece.
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