Mental Health Awareness Month Part 2

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Cousins, Ken folks, get on
in here. Welcome to the newest episode

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currently under construction. I am your
host, King Hub. Thank you so

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much for joining me today. Again
we go back into it. May is

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mental health Awareness Month, and in
our last episode, that's exactly what we

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were talking about. We were touching
base on mental health wellness all through this

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month. I'm probably gonna be touching
base about it here and there on a

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different episode, so be on the
lookout for that. Let me pat you

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with me on it, because again, you know, it's very important.

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I've spoken on it. I'm a
huge advocate of it, cousins and ken

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folks, and I really want you
all to take the time that you need

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to check up on yourself. There's
nothing wrong with it. Like I said

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in an earlier earlier in my last
episode and in a previous episode. You

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know, in the black community,
especially, we come up with this stigma

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that you don't open up about mental
wellness, you don't be accepting of that,

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that it is taboo to either talk
about it. You're supposed to take

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it, push it down, shove
it somewhere, hold on to it,

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don't admit it. But when you
do so, it always comes our wrong.

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It all comes out wrong the wrong
way. So that's what we're wanting

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to prevent. That's what mental help
wellness is about. That's what this month

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is about. That's what each day
should be about. Doing what you can

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to ensure that your mental wellness is
met. Now, we meet all the

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other things that we go through,
you know, with our bodies. We

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see about that, and we see
about our physical wealth, our heart health,

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our eye health, our that's gonna
be real about it, cousins and

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Ken folks, our sexual wellness,
do say about that, and saying just

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to make sure that we're not encountering
or developing issues that could hurt you know,

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we have to deal with going down
the line like high blood pressure,

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like diabetes, you know, those
underlining issues. The same thing goes with

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mental wellness. If left unchecked,
and hear me, cousin of the Ken

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folks, if left unchecked, it
can come out so wrong and it can

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hurt you in the long run.
It can hurt your relationships that you have

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or your developing in the long rung. It can hurt your family in the

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long run. Now, in our
last episode, I was giving you those

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three instances where I was dealing with
depression based on two of them, and

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I said, this episode, I
would come back and I would cue you

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in on the third one. Well, that third instance, for those of

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you who know me, know about
this instance. And again I'm being transparent

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and I'll talk about it. The
third instance was the loss of my daughter.

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Now I know I'm not the only
parent who's ever lost a child.

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My mother experienced that more than anything. She experienced it twice. But it's

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a difference when you have a chance
to that child, has a chance to

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grow up with you, and to
have it done senselessly the way that it

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was. It put me in a
very very dark place, very dark place.

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Cousins and folks. That's that's still
a pain that I'm still dealing with.

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That's still a hurt that it's hard
to swallow. Some days, it's

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hard to to to get through,
even when you you do the things that

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you know can help you. You
try to remember the good times, You

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try to remember the laughs, you
try to remember all the fun she had,

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you had with them, But then
that hurts. Nit seeps in and

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it makes it so hard for you
because you still want and ask yourself,

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why, why, why did it
have to be hurt. Why? Why

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that instance? Why she didn't deserve
that, she still has so much of

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her life ahead of her. Why
And it makes you even question the most

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High? You know, now,
I know you know. The old saying

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is, you're never supposed to question
God, but we do. If you

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if you've ever been through anything in
your life, and you sit and tell

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me that you have never questioned God
to why once something has happened in your

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life, or why something is not
happening, you've never been through anything,

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I'm sorry you're not living. We
all question the most High at some point

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in our lives. We all do. We all do. And at that

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moment I did. I questioned them
ast How, Why? Why take my

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baby from me? Why she didn't
deserve that? She wasn't out here living

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Levita Loca. She was out here
living her life. She was out here

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trying to become a successful entrepreneur.
She was out here just being a young

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lady that's still growing, that's still
finding her way and forging her path in

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this world. And that was taken
away, and they put me in a

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very very very It helped me in
a very very dark place. Cousins and

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Ken folks, it did, it
did. But like in last episode,

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I'm grateful for my support system.
I'm grateful for those who reached out to

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me, who who comforted me,
who encouraged me, who uplift me.

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You know, it doesn't matter how
strong a person is, or how strong

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you can be. I've had this
conversation with a friend recently. You know,

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who do It doesn't matter how strong
you are or and and everybody comes

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to you. But who do the
strong ones go to when they need to

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vent? Who do they go lean
on? And I know most people sit

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and say, well, well,
there's God. Yes we can go to

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God. His word says that we
can go boldly to his throne. We

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can do that. But at the
same time, that's why God gave us

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each other. That's why He positioned
certain people in our lives so that we

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can go to those people and He
can use those specific people for the benefit

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of Him to help us. That's
why he gave us each other. So

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who do the strong ones go to
when they need to need a shoulder to

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lean on, when they need to
go somewhere because they feel like they're about

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to bust? But I'm grateful I
had those type of people in my life

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to check on me, to see
about me, to make sure that I

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was okay, me having the ability
to pray and go to God. I'm

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never saying that you shouldn't trust me. Prayer works. Prayer works may not

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work in the time that we think
it should, but God answers prayers,

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he does. Cousins and king folks, I'm here to tell you. I'm

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not telling you what somebody told me. I'm not telling you about what I've

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read in something. I'm telling you
about what I know for a fact.

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I am witnessed to that God answers
prayers. He does. We do what

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we need to do, and we
put it in the work and what we're

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praying for, and we can learn
to get out of our own ways so

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God can move and I behalf.
I promise you you'll beginning to see God

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working in real time, and it's
amazing. It's mind blowing when you see

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it. It is. I ain't
trying to preach right now, Cousin the

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king folks, I'm really not.
I'm just trying to here to tell you

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and get you to understand God answers
prayers. And again to the fact that

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I found my great therapist that helped
a whole lot as well. It does

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never be afraid to ask for help. That's where so many of us fall

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short and end up dealing with things
that can continue to be ongoing because we're

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too stubborn or we're too prideful to
ask for help. There's nothing wrong with

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asking for help. It is okay
to ask for help. Nobody does anything

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in this world or achieve anything in
this world without help. You can't.

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It's impossible, you can't do it. It it's nobody does anything in this

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world without help. So don't be
afraid or be ashamed or too prideful,

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cousins a kin, folks to ask
for help, especially dealing with your mental

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wellness. It's important. It's just
as important as everything else that you go

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see a doctor about. It is. Don't let depression pull you to a

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place to where you can't crawl your
or you can't climb your way out,

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or feel that you can't or feel
that the only way that you can get

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relief or move past it is to
do something real, drastic. It's not.

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It's not. It's not. And
I'm here to tell you. I'm

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here to speak to and and I'm
also want to speak to a specific group

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of people. You people out there
and hear me and hear me well for

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those of you who are listening,
who this falls upon, who you fall

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into that category. I'm not talking
about everybody, just a small group of

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people who think it's okay for you
to sit and make fun of a person

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who's doing what they need to do
to check their mental wellness or see about

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themselves. You're stupid, You're an
idiot, because you never know what that

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person is going through, or what
they had to fight their way out of,

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or what they're still fighting their way
through. You never know because it

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could be you. It definitely could
be you or hit home to somebody that's

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real close to you. So if
you're not gonna do anything to help that

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person that you see is doing what
they need to do to take care of

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their mental wellness, to see about
themselves, to make sure that they're okay

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any emotional and mental level, just
keep your mouth closed. Straight up.

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Cousins, Kenith, I'm sorry,
I didn't mean to go there with that,

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but I'm just again, y'all know
this is something that's near and dear

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to me, and I'm talking about
that small specific group of PEP people who

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want to make fun or demean or
diminish a person that's going through something,

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that's trying to do all that they
can to help and deal with their mental

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wellness and their mental health so that
they can be okay day in and day

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out. I just had to put
that out there again. I didn't mean

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to go to their cousins and king
folks, but it's just y'all know,

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I'm very passionate about this. There
are a lot of tools out there.

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Cousins and king folks who take advantage
of it. If your job that you

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work and they offer in your insurance
sessions for therapy or counseling or whatever,

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hey take advantage of that. Take
advantage of it. If they offer it

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and it's there and it's available to
you, take advantage of it. Don't

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be afraid to do so. But
more than anything, cousins and can folks,

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don't just sit there and and just
wallow in it and feel that you

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have to suffer in silence because you
don't. You don't. You don't have

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to do it. Help is out
there, Help is available. It is

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just talk to somebody about it.
I mean, even if you are not

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sure what to do, talk to
somebody that you're close to to do so,

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Hey, look up online and there
and and google it. There are

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anonymous UH agencies and resources out there
that you can reach out, and you

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can remain anonymous and you can still
try to position yourself and get the help

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that you need. Just it's there, it's available. Just don't let it

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be out there and you don't take
advantage of it. Help you, help

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help you, help you, you
hear me. I know that's not grammatically

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correct or may even sound right,
but that's what I'm That's what I'm coming

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with right now. Cousins and kin
folks. Help you to help you,

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Okay, only you can do this, And I know you got this.

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I know you got this because I
believe in you. May is Mental Health

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Awareness Month and I'm bringing awareness to
it and I'll probably be ringing awareness to

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us to on some level or another
throughout this month. On each episode of

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Currently Under Construction. I am this
is Mental Health Wellness Part two. Mental

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Health Wellness Part two, Cousins of
kin Folks. I'm not gonna hold you

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a loan. I just wanted to
make sure that I look back that I

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brought continue to bring awareness, and
I brought to you what I promised you

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that I was going to bring you. And the third thing that instance from

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me dealing with depression. Remember Cousins
of Ken Folks. We broadcast every Tuesday

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and Friday. I know this episode
is going to coming off a little late.

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Had a very rough weekend, and
I apologize for their cousins and kin

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folks, but I want to ensure
that I got this out. Be on

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the lookout also, and it's coming
right after this our Mother's Day episode that's

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right where we salute the moms we
do. We do it every year here.

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I'm currently under construction, so be
on the lookout for that episode that's

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coming right after this one. And
then we're going to have every Tuesday,

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every Friday. You're a regularly scheduled
episode. You don't want to miss that

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next Tuesday, that Tuesday episode that's
coming up, you don't want to miss

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it, Cousins and Ken Folks.
But I'm gonna get on out of here.

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means, please do so. I'm still

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grateful for the following that I have. Hopefully we'll continue to grow over the

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next few years. We continue to
keep this thing growing. We've grown and

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leaps and bounds since day one.
And for all of you who have been

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listening and who've been rocking with me
since day one, y'all already know what

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you all mean to me. Y'all
know y'all have a special place in my

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heart. I love each and every
one of you, but my day ones,

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y'all already to know what it is. You know what it is that

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rocked with me from anchor on going
forward. And I love y'all. I

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love y'all immensely. But I'm gonna
get read to get on nobody here,

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cousin king folks. But like I
said right after this, be on the

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lookout for your Mother's Day episode.
Get on in here. Cousins and king

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folks. You know what time it
is. It takes a village for us

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to make this thing happen, and
you all are my village, and we're

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gonna continue to build this thing together, you and I, step by step,

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one brick at a time, currently
under construction. I love y'all,

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cousin and king folks. I'm thank
you. Our Mother's Day episode Peace,