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SC BOOKGAL & FRIENDS PODCAST EVERY 1ST-4TH TUESDAY WPATRICE GRIMBALL · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: K k.
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  Speaker 2: K k.
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  Speaker 3: K and gentlemen, I have your attention.
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  Speaker 4: Treats. The show starts in seven. Why Sunday, shit, God.
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  Speaker 2: My.
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  Speaker 1: Hey everyone, this is your girl sci book out A
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  Speaker 1: four three and it's a Sunday. It's a beautiful, blessed Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you guys had a great day. You went
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  Speaker 1: to church, spend time with your family, did that good
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  Speaker 1: old Sunday meal, because you know me and my kids.
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  Speaker 5: We did it simple Sunday and do big. We did
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  Speaker 5: it simple.
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  Speaker 1: We did some baked cabbage with some barbecue ribs and
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  Speaker 1: some rice, and they got all these snacks. You know,
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  Speaker 1: something simple, nothing big.
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  Speaker 5: But I know y'all wondering what in the world she
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  Speaker 5: back here again.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I'm back, another author, another book, and you guys
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  Speaker 1: this edition. Won't you call your kids in the room,
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  Speaker 1: because I have a children's after and I am so
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  Speaker 1: excited to have her with me.
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  Speaker 5: So let's let's paint this picture.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: We're not talking about the grandma's of the day. They
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  Speaker 1: are whole different ball game. Okay, we talk about them
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  Speaker 1: all school grannies. Them one used to get up early
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  Speaker 1: on a Sunday morning and fix you that cinnamentase bread,
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  Speaker 1: you know with bread with we put the bottle on it,
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  Speaker 1: put a little bit of cinnamon and a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of sugar stick in an oven. By the time you
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  Speaker 1: get finished putting your church clothes on, you can get
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  Speaker 1: a slice and walk out to do and get ready
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  Speaker 1: for church. You know the grandma's that used to come
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  Speaker 1: and pick you up for the summer and had you
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  Speaker 1: with them do all the church stuff. And you didn't
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  Speaker 1: even go to the church, but she made sure you
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  Speaker 1: were in there. All those grandmas where you used to
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  Speaker 1: just go to their house and chill and just eat
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  Speaker 1: the watermelon, sit on the porch for him, help them cook. Well,
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  Speaker 1: guess what we got to off that at us talking
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  Speaker 1: about that. Her book was called Baby Cakes and Grandma's
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  Speaker 1: Morning Magic. Y'all, this is the cutest little book, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the old school grannies. So I would like to open
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  Speaker 1: Miss kim ogles o the beasts.
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  Speaker 5: I told you I was gonna get a run. I
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  Speaker 5: knew I was going to. Now remind me again, how
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  Speaker 5: do you say it?
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  Speaker 2: Ohgos b ogs b all gohost b.
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  Speaker 5: I have no promise seeing it?
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  Speaker 1: Then I knew I got a bed. It was going
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  Speaker 1: to happen, I apologized, But welcome to sci bookyowsand friends.
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  Speaker 1: We are so honored to have you on this Sunday evening.
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  Speaker 5: How about you tell us a little bit about yourself.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I'm a Philly girl originally from Philadelphia, born and
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  Speaker 2: raised pretty much. If it wasn't for Granny, you know,
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't have accomplished and did the things that I've
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  Speaker 2: done so far. Currently working on my PhD. Have an
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  Speaker 2: awesome platform called Black Authors Association, Authors Association, Literacy Moments
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  Speaker 2: Magazine because I love reading, you know, books was from
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  Speaker 2: one of the things that I was like my escapes,
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  Speaker 2: and it was because of my grandmother that I fell
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  Speaker 2: in love with the book. So that's a little bit
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  Speaker 2: about me. That's all simple. See.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, y'all, let me tell you all the conversation we
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  Speaker 1: had behind the scenes. Okay, is she already laugh because
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  Speaker 1: she knows it is true? The grannies nowadays are not
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  Speaker 1: like the grandmother's we have back every day. Okay, I
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  Speaker 1: know if my cousin have to look at my show,
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  Speaker 1: she gonna box me in my right eye. But the
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  Speaker 1: grannies nowadays, they don't even want you to call him granny.
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  Speaker 1: So when I see someone with the grandchild, I said, okay,
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  Speaker 1: what would.
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  Speaker 5: You like them to call you? What do they normally
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  Speaker 5: call you?
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  Speaker 1: So I've heard I have one of my aunts. I
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  Speaker 1: love her.
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  Speaker 5: They call her g Ma.
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  Speaker 1: I have a cousin. Her name is not granny. She
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  Speaker 1: gets mad when I call her granny. She's a sassy.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, they are.
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  Speaker 1: No more grannies. There's no more me malls. It's nothing
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  Speaker 1: like that now and days. We got the grain that
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  Speaker 1: we got the g mas sassy, the g ma not
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  Speaker 1: GM's but gim. I totally understand where you're coming from.
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  Speaker 5: So what was the inspiration for this sport?
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  Speaker 2: You know? I read so many books and then I
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  Speaker 2: was I actually was at my brother's house and we
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  Speaker 2: were cooking, and he was cooking cabbage, and I was like.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you got her recipe right down the back.
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  Speaker 2: So my grandmother was a cook. We were spoiled were food.
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  Speaker 2: And so I was talking to him about the cabbages
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  Speaker 2: he was cooking. I was like, oh, my goodness, you's
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  Speaker 2: got the recipeak correct. And so he was like, you
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  Speaker 2: know what, you always complain about people's food. I said, well,
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  Speaker 2: I was the one in the kitchen with her, you know,
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  Speaker 2: getting the little things together, the tasters, so I know
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  Speaker 2: what I'm talking about. So okay, okay, So that's what
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  Speaker 2: the inspiration was. It's just like it's time to pay
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  Speaker 2: homage to her, and you know, the things that she
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  Speaker 2: taught me in the kitchen in life, I can it's
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  Speaker 2: just amazing. But I wanted to start with the cooking
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  Speaker 2: part because that's where we connected. Every day we connected
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  Speaker 2: in the kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: Saving my grandma is still my grandma passed.
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  Speaker 5: It has to me more than getting close to ten years.
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  Speaker 1: And people still know my grandma for cooking, and then
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  Speaker 1: they expect, oh, your granted cook, cook.
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  Speaker 5: So I knew you could cook. I had little something.
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  Speaker 2: And all that. Oh yeah, I can't it some of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, Nor asked me for nothing from memory, because I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna look on the back of that box.
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  Speaker 5: Figure out what a sense.
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  Speaker 1: I am forty five and I'm finally getting macaroni cheese
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  Speaker 1: downpacked like two years ago.
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  Speaker 5: But I can front some chicken dog.
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  Speaker 2: Down that chicken right. Gotta get your chicken right, Gotta
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  Speaker 2: be seasoned to.
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  Speaker 1: The core, and do not season the flower. If you
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  Speaker 1: don't season the flower, I don't want you chicken, you'll
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  Speaker 1: do that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I don't do that.
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  Speaker 5: So let me ask you a question.
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  Speaker 1: What is the most fondest memory you have of your grandma?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? I think the one thing was when I was
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  Speaker 2: a little girl. I used to get up in the
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  Speaker 2: morning because I went I went to Catholic school, so
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  Speaker 2: she used to get me up early to do some
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  Speaker 2: magical things to my hair. The other think about was
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  Speaker 2: like a plant here, plant like four plants, and I
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  Speaker 2: thought I was the bomb. You don't talk about, probably so,
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  Speaker 2: but it was like, you know, you have to you
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  Speaker 2: have to eat breakfast in the morning. So I always had,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the egg sandwich, and she would get on
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  Speaker 2: me like her coffee. Her coffee was the best. I've
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  Speaker 2: never understood how she could cook. I mean, could make
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  Speaker 2: coffee in a coffee that percolates, but it was delicious.
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  Speaker 2: And she was like, you need to stop drinking that coffee.
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  Speaker 2: And I was like, oh, no, I can't. So it
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  Speaker 2: would me sitting in a chair her doing my hair.
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  Speaker 2: I'm eating breakfast, and I had to send her coffee
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  Speaker 2: before I went out, And when I went out the
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  Speaker 2: door before she would say, is don't forget You're blessed
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  Speaker 2: by the best. That was her line. And then she
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  Speaker 2: would put my head and then we would walk out,
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  Speaker 2: and she did that to all of us. She would
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  Speaker 2: put across in my head, you know, and say blessed
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  Speaker 2: by the best. And that was like her line for us.
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  Speaker 5: Oh that's so sweet. That is so sweet.
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  Speaker 2: Man.
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  Speaker 5: You your granny my granny know each other.
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  Speaker 2: My grand mother was Georgia, southern to the core to
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  Speaker 2: the court.
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  Speaker 1: They almost be like the plate because I had long hair. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I had long hair. One time, you guys, I kept
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  Speaker 1: chopping it off. And every time I chopped my hair,
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  Speaker 1: my granny would get mad to the point that girl
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  Speaker 1: she called me chicken bunky.
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  Speaker 5: One day, top of your heir looked like chicken book.
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  Speaker 5: Let's be Oh god, that's just her my heart. But
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  Speaker 5: then she rub her head, my head top of chicken.
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  Speaker 2: Both guess it's me.
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  Speaker 5: Just call my hair chicken book. She's hated, she hated.
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  Speaker 1: When we got out of his I'm like what you're saying,
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  Speaker 1: But your grandma is bringing back crazy memories of my grandma.
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  Speaker 5: It's it's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: So the illustrations in your book, these illustrations are along
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  Speaker 1: overdue to come back and The reason why I say
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  Speaker 1: that is because most of the book covers now for kids,
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  Speaker 1: they don't have that warm feel like yours has. It's
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  Speaker 1: one of those books where you would want to give
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  Speaker 1: you want to give this as a gift to the grandmother.
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  Speaker 5: At the BB You know what made you want to
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  Speaker 5: go with this stuff of illustration?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? You know, it took me a while and I
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  Speaker 2: was like, okay, what was the color of things that
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  Speaker 2: I remember so vividly about my grandmother. She had to
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  Speaker 2: have an apron on in the kitchen. That was like
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  Speaker 2: it was like hanging up and a certain spot every day.
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  Speaker 2: And even though she you know, her hair was gray
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  Speaker 2: and she had wore glasses, she's a little saxy. She
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  Speaker 2: had had her little perfect earrings on. So that was
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  Speaker 2: one of the other things. I was like this, you know,
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  Speaker 2: she had a little sasy that's a butter as well,
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  Speaker 2: but it was like the apron and just you know,
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  Speaker 2: well meat, no matter what. But you know, I also
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  Speaker 2: wanted to make sure that it was look look look
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  Speaker 2: close to her as well, but also, like you said,
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  Speaker 2: gave that warm feel like we are having fun in
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  Speaker 2: the kitchen. You know, that was my messed up ponytail
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  Speaker 2: was just throw it in a ponytail. But I just
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  Speaker 2: wanted the one it would be fun, but also give
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  Speaker 2: a little sass to it. And that's what I've made sure.
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  Speaker 2: I say, she always had earrings and a ring on
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  Speaker 2: her finger, but she had had that apron on. She
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  Speaker 2: was not cooking in the kitchen out of apron on.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my god.
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  Speaker 5: So now tell us a little bit about the book.
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  Speaker 2: It basically talks about how you know, it's actually a
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  Speaker 2: serious This one is our first, my first one, and
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  Speaker 2: talks about us making breakfast. My grandmother was known for
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  Speaker 2: making cheese and rice. That was like her signature dish.
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  Speaker 2: But also, you know, the pancakes. Whenever she made pancakes,
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  Speaker 2: everybody would come over. So that was like a special thing.
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  Speaker 2: But like I said before, you know, whenever she made
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  Speaker 2: anything in the kitchen, you know, it was like always
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  Speaker 2: Kim tasted. Let me know what I'm missing over Kim?
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  Speaker 2: What do you think? So I was that person, you know,
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  Speaker 2: tasting everything. When she makes sweet potato pots. I had
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  Speaker 2: the bowl because it was mine, you know, So you
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  Speaker 2: know I had the bowl. You know she laid the cakes. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so you know, I just wanted to take a piece
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  Speaker 2: of one of our time together and put it in
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  Speaker 2: a book. There were so many, but the breakfast part
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  Speaker 2: was always my favorite. And you know it also brought
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  Speaker 2: my family together. Whenever everyone knew she was cooking breakfast,
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  Speaker 2: they would come over no matter what. And at the
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  Speaker 2: same time, she she had like she knew, you know,
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  Speaker 2: how to kind of love us in our own way,
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  Speaker 2: like she knew, like you know, this person was coming
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  Speaker 2: over at one o'clock. His plate was here. You know
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  Speaker 2: this person didn't eat this on me, put this plate
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  Speaker 2: together over here. So you know, Breaference was a really
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  Speaker 2: great time for our family.
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  Speaker 5: See you, guys, I said the breakfast.
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  Speaker 1: I remember my family would do the Sunday dinners always
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  Speaker 1: that thanks give any holiday.
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  Speaker 5: It was just ridiculous.
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  Speaker 1: It didn't make no sense. Holiday is how many pieces?
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  Speaker 2: I ham?
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  Speaker 1: This ham, that ham, black hand, blue ham.
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  Speaker 5: This was how many pieces?
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  Speaker 1: It was ridiculous. But I am remembering something that I
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  Speaker 1: saw on TikTok today and I'm asking you this question.
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  Speaker 1: There was a young man and he was saying that
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  Speaker 1: family is just not family anymore. And that's why I
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  Speaker 1: so much adored this book because this is where I
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  Speaker 1: felt after this generation of the Grandmas. They're leaving this earth,
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  Speaker 1: seems like that mantle was going with them.
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  Speaker 5: Do you feel the same way.
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  Speaker 2: Our family went through that a lot, you know when
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  Speaker 2: she passed away, because we wasn't sure who would pick
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  Speaker 2: up that mantle, and it took you know, and we
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  Speaker 2: were like when we are like five generations strong, so
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  Speaker 2: it's like, you know, what do we do next? And
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  Speaker 2: then we realized that, you know, we have to do something,
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  Speaker 2: so we did something, you know, just little small things
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  Speaker 2: to kind of bring us back together. But it was
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: and you felt the loss, but I think it also
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  Speaker 2: was us all grieving in our own way and then
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  Speaker 2: you know, trying to figure out what do we do next,
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  Speaker 2: because again, she loved us in our own special way,
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  Speaker 2: and when that was like a avoided peace, we were
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  Speaker 2: trying to figure out what we do next. I mean, honestly,
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  Speaker 2: it took me a while to go back to my
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  Speaker 2: grandmother's house and I moved because I was just like,
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  Speaker 2: because you know, she had been in our lives so
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  Speaker 2: much eighty four years, you know, we would spoiling whatever.
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  Speaker 2: So I think a lot of it was, you know,
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  Speaker 2: you don't go through the grieving process and as people
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  Speaker 2: we don't realize it's okay to get help through the
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  Speaker 2: grieving process as well. And then once you go through
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  Speaker 2: that grieving process, putting the pieces back together to build
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  Speaker 2: that strong foundation that you have. And we're like us,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, our family is there now. And we
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  Speaker 2: started something small like a group chat and it turned
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  Speaker 2: out to be the best thing ever, sharing birthday, sharing pictures,
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  Speaker 2: communicating with each other. But it's you know, that one
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  Speaker 2: little thing brought us back together, a simple group chat,
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  Speaker 2: even showing the elders how to use you know, all
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  Speaker 2: the elders got there, so don't up how to use
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  Speaker 2: the chat as well. Well, it's just that, won't.
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  Speaker 1: Baby, that get you noise what's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Turn this thing off, but not long be lose you
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  Speaker 2: in trouble. You ain't go me to that.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, and so I do understand that.
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  Speaker 1: I mean my family we do small things, like our
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  Speaker 1: biggest thing is Christmas at my Aunt Jackies. That's one
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  Speaker 1: of the biggest things. Sometimes somebody we had the Grinch
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  Speaker 1: one time. One year, we had Santa Claus one year.
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  Speaker 1: It's yes, there's kids, yo. When the Grinch came through.
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  Speaker 1: I never seen kids run so fast before.
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  Speaker 5: One kid was running down the street.
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  Speaker 1: It was like catching So I do understand that, and
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  Speaker 1: I'm one of these things. I'm hoping that the African
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  Speaker 1: American community back to that. I would love to get
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  Speaker 1: back to that. So now I heard you say that
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  Speaker 1: this is the first book in the series. Can we
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  Speaker 1: get a little bit of what Granny about to do next?
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Granny is gonna take me down south to Georgia
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  Speaker 2: and the country for the summertime. I'm gonna spend the
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  Speaker 2: summer with her in the country and do some things
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  Speaker 2: on the farm.
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  Speaker 5: Yo, y'all should bring it back all kind of memories.
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  Speaker 1: The things that I used to do from the street
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  Speaker 1: in the summer.
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  Speaker 6: From getting the chickens out of the chicken coop to go,
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  Speaker 6: I'm picking some peaches.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're gonna go through that process.
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  Speaker 5: Man, look at here.
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  Speaker 1: Well, why wasn't in the country.
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  Speaker 5: I was in the city.
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  Speaker 1: Things that I hoo Jesus, things that I did. I
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  Speaker 1: just hoped in and had and having a conversation, because Lord,
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  Speaker 1: when I get up there. So who is your target
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  Speaker 1: audience for Baby Cakes and Grandma's Morning Magic.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, it's for I really wrote it for the KO
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  Speaker 2: three but also those honestly adults that mister grandma, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just to bring them back to have some good memories.
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  Speaker 2: And so surprisingly, I've had some adults like like you did,
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  Speaker 2: I remember that? For real and it puts a smile
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  Speaker 2: on their face. And that's what I want. That's what
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  Speaker 2: I really really want, just to bring back some happy
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  Speaker 2: memories and make you have a good day with a
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  Speaker 2: good smile. That's all.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, And you know what that is awesome only true
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  Speaker 1: because my daughter has a video of her grandma, oh
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  Speaker 1: her talking trash to her grandma, like she was trying
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  Speaker 1: to get her to eat, and my daughter was telling.
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  Speaker 5: Her, no, no, no, no, I don't want that.
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  Speaker 1: And she every time she missed her grandma, she goes
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  Speaker 1: to her phone and she plays that video. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: so happy that she had that little bit of time.
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  Speaker 5: With her grandma. And then to be the only girl.
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  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yes, yes, So we're gonna step it up
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  Speaker 1: early for some fun questions. Okay again, So what was
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  Speaker 1: the nickname that your grandma gave you? And why did
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  Speaker 1: she give you that nickname?
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  Speaker 6: It was Babycakes, and I don't know what I never
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  Speaker 6: know what it meant cakes, And I'm like babycake, Oh
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  Speaker 6: I don't, and my aunt called me baby cakes.
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  Speaker 2: She was and still to today, my aunt said, hey,
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  Speaker 2: baby cakes, how you doing it? I'm like, I don't
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  Speaker 2: know what it means, but I like the way it sound.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, so that is so cute.
• 21:15
  Speaker 5: Now you're gonna laugh because I'm gonna answer that question.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: When I do the fun questions, I also answered them too, y'all,
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: this is not insulting.
• 21:24
  Speaker 5: Okay, my granny used to call us dumb behind but
• 21:29
  Speaker 5: what you're dumb behind? And then she was.
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: Dumb you're dumb behind it like Granny, like, seriously, what
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: did you do? But then she also had each one
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: of us had our own bowl nickname with mine was
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: Tresy or Frenchy. So that's why I asked that question,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: because granted, they used to give us some.
• 21:57
  Speaker 5: Crazy means back in the day.
• 22:00
  Speaker 2: Everybody had a crazy name.
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: Back in the day, everybody had I thought the means
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: to deem it crazy.
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: But when you look back then, yeah, all.
• 22:10
  Speaker 1: Right, that little girl in the picture, is you correct.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: Close to it? Well?
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Guess what they want to cast her in the movie
• 22:23
  Speaker 1: Baby Cakes and Grandma's Morning Magic for the up Channel
• 22:30
  Speaker 1: where they do all the little family dramas. Who childhood
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: actor actress, I'm sorry, it's going to play you and
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: why then?
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: Oh wow, I would say the young Kiky palmery like
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: from when you play in what's the spelling b movie? Be?
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I remember that one.
• 23:02
  Speaker 7: Yeah, So why Palmer at that age?
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: Because one she was inquisitive, but she still was very nice,
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: well mannered, knew that mama didn't play, and she basked
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: with her mother. She knew how mama didn't play, but
• 23:32
  Speaker 2: she still wanted to do things. But she was like,
• 23:34
  Speaker 2: I'm gonna do it. I'll just get in trouble later.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: I was that way too, and always had like that
• 23:42
  Speaker 2: best friend like don't tell nobody, like I ain't gonna
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: tell Okay, I ain't gonna tell nobody.
• 23:48
  Speaker 5: Next morning, the girl let me tell you what she did.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I had a little bit mad than.
• 23:55
  Speaker 1: Me, all right, So we already have Kekey Palmer. So
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: who would play grandma? And why they get that on?
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: The grandmother from Soul Food was the closest to my grandmother.
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: And every time I look at that movie, I tear like,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: oh my goodness, yead, I remember that Degreen and you
• 24:17
  Speaker 2: know that whole process of making that meal. Yeah, that
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: was that was my Oh my goodness.
• 24:25
  Speaker 5: Okay, see you.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: I went there, you went there, you went there, because
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: now I'm thinking, man, I might have to do a
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: Sunday dinner next week. But I guess what I got too,
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: nephews who can't take food right now.
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: So it's all good cabbages and chicken is every Sunday dinner.
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: That's how signature Sunday dinner for our family.
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: Okay, so tell us what was on the menu for
• 24:58
  Speaker 1: a signature Sunday at your home.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Well, of course she cooked breakfast, and everybody either before
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: church after church, came got your breakfast. But it was
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: just really weird because at breakfast, if you wasn't coming
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: back the dinner, your dinner was ready. No one had
• 25:14
  Speaker 2: to cook Sunday dinner in our family, no one. You
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: could come and get some cabbages, baked or fried, chicken,
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: some corn bread, either some hams or potato salad, depending
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: on how she felt, but you did not have to
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: worry about cooking Sunday dinner ever. And the summertime she
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: would do like this cream corn It was so good,
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: but every Sunday it was ready either we ate breakfast,
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: or if you came back to church. But the cabbages always,
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: always cabbages.
• 25:48
  Speaker 5: Always cabbages.
• 25:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah good. She even won to award for her cabbages.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: That's how good they were.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: What well, con gradually, why do you see? Can I
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: hear your grandma's first last night?
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: Her name was Mary Oglesby, I'm miss Mary.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Oh, miss Merry. It was Merry she been here. I
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: can get some of your cabbage. Okay, I'm a factor
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: like hard. I ain't got no problem, say I hume
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: grand with each of you. I got no problem.
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: Don't don't tell.
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: Me to come and eat some dinner, because I come
• 26:25
  Speaker 1: and I'm right there.
• 26:27
  Speaker 6: She wasn't gonna let you leave less you ate anyway.
• 26:30
  Speaker 6: You gotta have something when you walk in the door
• 26:34
  Speaker 6: talking about So let me ask you a question. Did
• 26:36
  Speaker 6: your granny cook on Sunday or did she cook Saturday afternoon?
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: She prepped on Saturday, but everything was cooked by seven
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: or eight o'clock in the morning on Sunday.
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: So she was one of the grannies that got up
• 26:50
  Speaker 1: at the crack of dawn and started cooking everything.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Are you trying to sleep in all years? Click yes
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: or smell or okay.
• 27:02
  Speaker 1: So with my mother's mom my, Granny Banie, I would
• 27:07
  Speaker 1: hear James Cleveland or Charlie Caesar. Yes, my mother Granny,
• 27:14
  Speaker 1: I would hear, uh, what's that? She was big into
• 27:19
  Speaker 1: the choir things, so she not John py King, but
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: them old old school Mississippi mass choir. I remember one
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: time we went to the club.
• 27:30
  Speaker 5: We came back.
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: And it's like maybe two three hours later, she been
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: in the kitchen cooking.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: I'll never forget.
• 27:38
  Speaker 1: Somebody went in the kitchen and they gave her that
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: little boy.
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: Hey.
• 27:44
  Speaker 5: The rest of us said, we were sleeping. We get
• 27:46
  Speaker 5: home from church when we ain't trying to.
• 27:47
  Speaker 1: Go to that because they got the lashing. I was like, dang,
• 27:53
  Speaker 1: how you walk out of that one. What would you
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: say to readers that have these wonderful memories of their grandmas?
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: What would you say to them how they can capture
• 28:16
  Speaker 1: those memories? What would you say for all those memories?
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: What would you tell the reader to do with that
• 28:21
  Speaker 1: those memories?
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: I would actually tell them, make sure you write it
• 28:25
  Speaker 2: down and also gather some pictures and create a collage
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: for yourself. That's one of the things we started doing.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: You know when Unfortunately when people passed away, we would
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: always kind of figure out, well, where's the pictures? Who
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: had to picture books? And that was one of the
• 28:42
  Speaker 2: things I was glad our family did. We took a
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: lot of pictures, so we were able to kind of
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: pull things together. But I would tell them write it down,
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: you know. When before my grandmother got a little sick,
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: I actually recorded some things from her as well, So
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: that was that's one of the things, and that was
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: one of the things that kind of helped a lot
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: of our family, my mom and her sisters and brothers
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: hill because they needed her voice. But also the pictures,
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: we you know, kind of put together collages and also
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: it was a fun time, like who was that in
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: that picture? What they doing? And so some of the
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: things that kind of got our family together as well,
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: because we talked about those memories. And I am the
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: oldest grandchild and then there's more grandchildren nine years later,
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: so I know a lot of things that they don't
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: know or seen or met, a lot of our family
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: that they don't know, so that you too, So you know,
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: those pictures helped me tell stories about the family that
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: they didn't meet or didn't know, and things of that sort,
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: So I definitely would tell them take pictures, don't don't
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: sleep on pictures. They last a long time. But also
• 29:52
  Speaker 2: write things, writ things.
• 29:54
  Speaker 5: Yes, you're so right, the writing things down.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: I never thought about that. I think that's what I'm
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: gonna do. I mean, my mother is no longer here
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: and I ain't got no grandkids.
• 30:09
  Speaker 5: He better not giving none of either.
• 30:11
  Speaker 1: But I do have aunts, and I do have this one,
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: aren't we really kind of she kind of stepped in
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: as that grandmother.
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: So I never thought about doing that. Now.
• 30:21
  Speaker 1: The pictures, Yeah, it is some incriminating pictures up all right,
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: everybody got that what is that the burkeny puts you.
• 30:35
  Speaker 5: From back in the day.
• 30:37
  Speaker 1: Yeah, you had your diaper on, looking crazy as yet.
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: And they got to carry you like this.
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: Pictures I totally understand.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: So you guys, you know, take that hand, make those memories,
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: take those pictures, because who knows how long we have
• 31:02
  Speaker 1: on this earth that we really do need to enjoy
• 31:05
  Speaker 1: ourselves and our family and keep that generation generational information.
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: We shouldn't have to try to go back and find
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: this person and how that person was to this person.
• 31:20
  Speaker 5: It should be easy.
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: We really do, especially my generation in the generations to come,
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: I think they kind of lost that link. So let's
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: go ahead and try to build that link back together.
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: But we are getting close to the end, but before
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: we go, we need to rundown. We need to see
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: find out where we can get baby cakes and Grandma's
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: Morning Magic, how we could follow you.
• 31:44
  Speaker 5: I understand that you.
• 31:45
  Speaker 1: Have an author community, tell us a little bit about that.
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: Just go ahead and give us a rundown.
• 31:51
  Speaker 2: Okay, Well, you can definitely get the order to book
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: from off our website. It's just simply my name kim
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: ovisby dot com or Instagram which is Beach Girls pr
• 32:04
  Speaker 2: And also I actually am the founder of the Black
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: Authors Association, so you know, always find me on there
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: helping some authors as well, making sure they post their books.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: My thing is, you know, we as a black and
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: brown pere that have written some great books, so I
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: want to make sure everyone knows that. So that's one
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: of the things that Black Authors Association definitely promotes. And
• 32:28
  Speaker 2: also we have I have Literacy Moment's Magazine and that
• 32:31
  Speaker 2: pretty much is a magazine at Spotlight's authors so that
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: we can get into schools, libraries and bookstores and all
• 32:38
  Speaker 2: that great stuff. So it also helps those inspiring authors
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: get some tips and tidbits on how to get started,
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: because I know the author journey it can be difficult
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: and just not knowing how to start. You know, you
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: may need that one that community, or just something a
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: reading resource. So that's why we had Literacy Wellness. So
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: but one other thing I just want to say. You know,
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: one of the things that we do every year, which
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: is coming up this weekend, My grandmother used to feed
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: the community on her birthday. She used to feed about
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: two hundred people, and since she's been gone, we actually
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: do that. So this weekend we are is her Her
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: birthday is on the twenty fifth of July, and on
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: that Saturday, we actually feed the community in Philadelphia where
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: she used to live at, and you can't miss it
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: because we were able to get the street where she
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: lived at named after her. So those little things that
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: we did to honor her because she was a pillar
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: of the community, and we actually have kept that tradition
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: going because she was she was she was momb she
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: was that person.
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: Well, make sure you send me some information so I
• 33:43
  Speaker 1: could share it out to everyone that I know.
• 33:45
  Speaker 5: And y'all go out there and support. You know, there's.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: There the the times that we're in y'all, the need
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: is there. Yeah, so all we have to do is
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: show up and meet the need. Like I always tell people,
• 34:01
  Speaker 1: put the question and the answer together. Okay, So I
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: thank you for joining me. You Downe brought back all
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: these memories. I'm about to go find some of my
• 34:13
  Speaker 1: baby pictures. I might post them up online. There is
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: one day picture my uncle have me and my cousin.
• 34:23
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say her name.
• 34:24
  Speaker 3: She could be me.
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say her nick name Danky. Okay, yeah, like Danky.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: You know, we gotta we gotta put you both of
• 34:33
  Speaker 1: us back in the day because I was the oldest
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: and she came three months after.
• 34:38
  Speaker 5: She could have let me keep my giant, but.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: She came three months after. We have a picture with
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: our uncle Mark and Lord that put you. Every time
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: I look at that picture.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: I said, man, why, just just why.
• 34:50
  Speaker 5: Y'all just had to snap that.
• 34:52
  Speaker 2: He's quite smiling from her air.
• 34:56
  Speaker 5: I think that you lost.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: He had the two girls with him.
• 35:04
  Speaker 5: He was smiling in.
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: It because.
• 35:08
  Speaker 5: Our uncle, Oh no, our uncles don't play but us.
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: You just set out there.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: He's smalling it is and just like, what is it.
• 35:18
  Speaker 5: I'm gonna find y'all.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna find that picture.
• 35:20
  Speaker 5: I know who got that picture. I'm gonna find that picture.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: But thank you for bringing these beautiful memories and helping
• 35:29
  Speaker 1: us to develop these memories with our kids, our future kids,
• 35:33
  Speaker 1: future generations. You guys, go out there and get baby
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: cakes and Grandma's Morning Magic off her website. You see
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: it's scrolling.
• 35:43
  Speaker 5: At the bottom.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: That makes a perfect gift for the grandma to be
• 35:49
  Speaker 1: or grandma's in general, to take that book and read
• 35:53
  Speaker 1: to their kids, their grandkids. I wouldn't even say it
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: for the holidays. I'll just say any time.
• 35:58
  Speaker 2: Kay.
• 36:00
  Speaker 1: Thank you Kim for be with us tonight. Thank you, guys,
• 36:06
  Speaker 1: You're welcome. You guys, remember there's no such thing as
• 36:10
  Speaker 1: an old book because not everybody has read every book.
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: I see you guys Tuesday with another author. Good Night everyone. Bye,