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. I didn't say thank you for it because
Speaker 1: I said it's interesting. I'm jerking thank you. It really
Speaker 1: is an interesting question because, you know what, this is
Speaker 1: probably one of one of the things that that hit
Speaker 1: me the most. UM was at my grandmother's funeral. They
Speaker 1: you know, so obviously the funerals. It was in South Africa,
Speaker 1: and it was it was really small, and I was
Speaker 1: I was happy about it was intimate. Um and if
Speaker 1: if you've never been to an African funeral, basically the
Speaker 1: way they like they lost forever all right, I think
Speaker 1: we we basically it's almost like Africans have said, the
Speaker 1: funeral must be as long as your life was, so
Speaker 1: it was really long, but it was It was actually
Speaker 1: quite enjoyable because all of my grandmother's friends spoke, all
Speaker 1: the friends who were still alive, right, because she was
Speaker 1: ninety six and then all her friends were speaking, were
Speaker 1: still alive and then telling these stories and it was
Speaker 1: so crazy because they'd be like I remember, and they
Speaker 1: were saying it in possis like all of Frances you know,
Speaker 1: and they'll be like, I remember when I met her
Speaker 1: in nineteen forty eight and we went you know, we
Speaker 1: went out together and we partied, and I'm like my
Speaker 1: grandma party, you know. And then and then other women
Speaker 1: would talk about One of my favorite stories was one
Speaker 1: of her neighbors talking about how my my grandmother would
Speaker 1: always open her house to all the women in the
Speaker 1: community who needed it, you know, so some women who
Speaker 1: were being abused would go live with her. And then
Speaker 1: I didn't I didn't know these things about my grand
Speaker 1: you know, I didn't know who was living there was
Speaker 1: 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. If there's one way I would try and
Speaker 1: keep my grandmother's legacy alive is just by remembering the
Speaker 1: tiny impact you can have on somebody's life that may
Speaker 1: stick with them long after you're gone. That that that
Speaker 1: might be it. Yeah, so thank you for the question. Yeah,
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