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SC BOOKGAL AND FRIENDS PODCAST 7/20/25 · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 1: K k.
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  Speaker 2: K k.
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  Speaker 1: Luke luke.
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  Speaker 3: Lags and gentlemen, may I have your attention please? The
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  Speaker 3: show starts in three seven six god shool.
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  Speaker 1: Hey everyone, this is your girl sc 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 1: we did it simple Sunday. We didn't do it. We
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  Speaker 1: did it simple. We did some baked cabbage with some
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  Speaker 1: barbecue ribs and some rice, and they got all these snacks,
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  Speaker 1: you know, something simple, nothing big. But I know y'all
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  Speaker 1: wondering what in the world she back here again. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: I'm back, another author, another book, and you guys this edition.
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  Speaker 1: Won't you call your kids in the room, because I
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  Speaker 1: have a children's after her, and I am so excited
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  Speaker 1: to have her with me. So let's let's paint this picture. Now.
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  Speaker 1: We're not talking about the grandma's of the day.
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  Speaker 4: They are whole different ball game.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we talk about them all school grannies them one
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  Speaker 1: used to get up early on a Sunday morning, and
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  Speaker 1: fix you that cinnamentase bread, you know with bread. When
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  Speaker 1: we put the bottle on it, put a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of cinnamon and a little bit of sugar stick in
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  Speaker 1: an oven. By the time you get finished putting your
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  Speaker 1: church clothes on, you can get a slice and walk
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  Speaker 1: out to do and get ready for church. You know
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  Speaker 1: the grandma's that used to come and pick you up
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  Speaker 1: for the summer and had you with them do all
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  Speaker 1: the church stuff. And you didn't even go to the church,
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  Speaker 1: but she made sure you were in there. All those
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  Speaker 1: grandmas where you used to just go to their house
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  Speaker 1: and chill and just eat the watermelon, sit on the
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  Speaker 1: porch for him, help them cook. Well, guess what we
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  Speaker 1: got off that at us talking about that. Her book
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  Speaker 1: was called Baby Cakes and Grandma's Morning Magic. Y'all, this
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  Speaker 1: is the cutest little book, you know, the old school grannies.
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  Speaker 1: So I would like to open Miss kim ogle.
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  Speaker 3: O the Beasts.
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  Speaker 1: I told you I was gonna get a round.
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  Speaker 4: I knew I was going.
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  Speaker 1: Now remind me again, how.
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  Speaker 4: Do you say it? Oh goos b oh gos b all.
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  Speaker 1: Gohost b I have no promise seeing it? Then I
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  Speaker 1: knew I gotta be it was going to happen, I apologized.
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  Speaker 1: But welcome to SI Book galsand friends. We are so
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  Speaker 1: honored to have you on this Sunday evening. How about
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  Speaker 1: 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 raised.
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  Speaker 4: Pretty much.
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  Speaker 2: If it wasn't for Granny, you know, I wouldn't have
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  Speaker 2: accomplished and did the things that I've done so far.
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  Speaker 4: Currently working on my PhD.
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  Speaker 2: Have an awesome platform called Black Authors Association, Authors Association,
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  Speaker 2: Literacy Moments Magazine.
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  Speaker 4: Because I love reading.
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  Speaker 2: You know, books was from one of the things that
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  Speaker 2: I was like my escape, so and it was because
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  Speaker 2: of my grandmother that I fell in love.
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  Speaker 1: With the book.
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  Speaker 4: So that's a little bit about me. That's all simple. See.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, yeah, let me tell you all the conversation we
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  Speaker 1: had behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, is she.
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  Speaker 1: Already laugh because she knows it is true. The grannies
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  Speaker 1: nowadays are not like the grandma's we have back every day. Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I know if my cousin e 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 you like them to call you? What do
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  Speaker 1: they normally call you? So I've heard I have one
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  Speaker 1: of my aunts. I love her.
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  Speaker 4: 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. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: they are no more grannies. There's no more me malls.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing like that now, and Das, we got the green
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  Speaker 1: that we got the g mas sassy, the g ma
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  Speaker 1: not GM's but gim. I totally understand where you coming from.
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  Speaker 1: So what was the inspiration for this sport? You know?
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  Speaker 2: I read so many books and then I was I
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  Speaker 2: actually was at my brother's house and we were cooking,
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  Speaker 2: and he was cooking cabbage and I.
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  Speaker 1: Was like, 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
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  Speaker 2: Almo's got the recipeak correct. And so he was like,
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  Speaker 2: you 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.
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  Speaker 5: So okay, okay, So that's what the inspiration was.
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  Speaker 2: It's just like it's time to pay homage to her,
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  Speaker 2: and you know the things that she taught me in
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  Speaker 2: the kitchen in life, I can, it's just amazing. But
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to start with the cooking part because that's
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  Speaker 2: where we connected.
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  Speaker 4: Every day. We connected in the kitchen.
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  Speaker 1: Saving my grandma is still my grandma passed. It has
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  Speaker 1: to me more than close to ten years and people
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  Speaker 1: still know my Grandma for her cooking. And then they expect, oh,
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  Speaker 1: your granted cook cook So I knew you can cook,
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  Speaker 1: I little something in and all that.
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  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, I can't listen all of it.
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  Speaker 5: 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 figure out
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  Speaker 1: what it says. I am forty five and I'm finally
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  Speaker 1: getting macaroni cheese down packed like two years ago. But
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  Speaker 1: I can fron some chicken dog down.
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  Speaker 4: Chicken right. Gotta get your chicken right, Gotta be seasoned.
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  Speaker 1: To the core, and do not season the flower if
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  Speaker 1: you don't season the flower.
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  Speaker 4: I don't want you chicken. You'll do that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't do that. So let me ask you
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  Speaker 1: a question. What is the most fondest memory you have
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  Speaker 1: of your grandma?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I think the one thing was when I was a
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  Speaker 2: little girl. I used to get up in the morning
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  Speaker 2: because I went I went to Catholic school, so she
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  Speaker 2: used to get me up early to do some magical
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  Speaker 2: things to my hair. The other think about was like
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  Speaker 2: a plant here, plant like four plants, and I thought
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  Speaker 2: I was the bomb. You don't probably so, but it
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  Speaker 2: was like, you know, you have to you have to
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  Speaker 2: eat breakfast in the morning. So I always had, you know,
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  Speaker 2: the egg sandwich. And she would get on me like
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  Speaker 2: her coffee. Her coffee was the best. I've never understood
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  Speaker 2: how she could cook. I mean, could make coffee in
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  Speaker 2: a coffee that percolates, but it was delicious.
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  Speaker 4: And she was like, you need to stop drinking that coffee.
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  Speaker 4: And I was like, oh, no, I can't. So it
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  Speaker 4: can be her me.
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  Speaker 2: Sitting in a chair, her doing my hair. I'm eating
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  Speaker 2: breakfast and I had to send her coffee before I
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  Speaker 2: went out, and when I went out the door before
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  Speaker 2: she would say is don't forget you're blessed by the best.
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  Speaker 4: That was her line.
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  Speaker 2: And then she would put my head and then we
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  Speaker 2: would walk out, and she did that to all of us.
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  Speaker 2: She would put across in my head, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: say blessed by the best. And that was like her
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  Speaker 2: line for us.
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  Speaker 1: Oh that's so sweet, that is so sweet.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 1: Your grannie my granny know each other.
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  Speaker 4: My grand mother was Georgia, southern to the core. To
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  Speaker 4: the core.
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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 head,
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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 one day, top of.
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  Speaker 6: Your heir looked like chicken booky. Let's be Oh god,
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  Speaker 6: that's just her, my heart. But then she rub her head,
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  Speaker 6: my head top of chicken. Both guess it's me. Just
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  Speaker 6: call my hair chicken book She's hated, she hated when
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  Speaker 6: we got out of his and I'm like, what you're.
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  Speaker 1: Saying, But your grandma is bringing back crazy memories of
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  Speaker 1: my grandma. It's it's crazy. So the illustrations in your book,
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  Speaker 1: these illustrations are along overdue to come back. And the
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  Speaker 1: reason why I say that is because most of the
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  Speaker 1: book covers now for kids, they don't have that warm
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  Speaker 1: feel like yours has. It's one of those books where
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  Speaker 1: you would want to give you want to give this
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  Speaker 1: as a gift to the grandmother at the baby shower.
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  Speaker 1: You know what made you want to go with this
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  Speaker 1: stuff of illustration? Oh?
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  Speaker 4: You know, it took me a.
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  Speaker 2: While and I was like, okay, what was the color
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  Speaker 2: of things that I remember so vividly about my grandmother.
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  Speaker 2: She had to have an apron on in the kitchen
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  Speaker 2: that was like it was like hanging up and a
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  Speaker 2: certain spot every day.
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  Speaker 4: And even though she you know, her hair was gray
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  Speaker 4: and she had.
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  Speaker 5: Wore glasses, she's a little sasy. She had her had
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  Speaker 5: had a little perfect.
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  Speaker 4: Ear rings on.
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  Speaker 2: So that was one of the other things. I was
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  Speaker 2: like this, you know, she had a little sassy that's
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  Speaker 2: about her as well. But it was like the apron
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  Speaker 2: and just you know, well meat, no matter what. But
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  Speaker 2: you know, I also wanted to make sure that it
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  Speaker 2: was look look close to her as well. But also,
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  Speaker 2: like you said, gave that warm feel like we are
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  Speaker 2: having fun in the kitchen. You know that was my
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  Speaker 2: messed up ponytail. So it was just throw it in
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  Speaker 2: a ponytail.
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  Speaker 4: But I just wanted the one. It would be fun
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  Speaker 4: but also give a little sass to it. And that's
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  Speaker 4: what I've made sure. I said. She always had earrings
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  Speaker 4: and a ring on her finger, but she had had
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  Speaker 4: that apron on. She was not cooking in the kitchen
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  Speaker 4: with out an apron on.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god. So now tell us a little bit
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  Speaker 1: 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, pancakes. Whenever she made pancakes, everybody
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  Speaker 2: 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 4: What do you think?
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  Speaker 2: So I was that person, you know, tasting everything when
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  Speaker 2: she makes peo potato pots. I had the bowl because
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  Speaker 2: it was mine, you know, So.
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  Speaker 4: You know I had the bowl. You know, she laid
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  Speaker 4: the cakes.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So you know, I just wanted to take a
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  Speaker 2: piece of one of our time together and put it
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  Speaker 2: in a book. There were so many, but the breakfast
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  Speaker 2: part was always my favorite. And you know it also
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  Speaker 2: brought 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 like, you know, this person was coming over
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  Speaker 2: at one o'clock, his plate was here. You know this
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  Speaker 2: person didn't eat this. Let me put this plate together
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  Speaker 2: over here. So you know, breaference was a really great
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  Speaker 2: time for our family.
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  Speaker 1: See you, guys, I said the breakfast. I remember my
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  Speaker 1: family would do Sunday dinners always, thanks Giving, any holiday.
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  Speaker 1: It was just ridiculous. It didn't make no sense.
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  Speaker 4: Holiday is how many pieces?
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  Speaker 1: I ham? This ham, that ham, black hand, blue hamd
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  Speaker 1: this was how many pieces? It was ridiculous. But I
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  Speaker 1: am remembering something that I saw on TikTok today and
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  Speaker 1: I'm asking you this question. There was a young man
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  Speaker 1: and he was saying that family is just not family anymore.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why I so much adored this book because
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  Speaker 1: This is where I I felt after this generation of
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  Speaker 1: the grandma's, they're leaving this earth, seems like that mantle
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  Speaker 1: was going with them. 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
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  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 peace, we were trying
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  Speaker 2: 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.
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  Speaker 4: 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 showing up how to use
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  Speaker 2: the chat as well. But it's just that, won't.
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  Speaker 1: Baby get you noise what's going on?
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  Speaker 4: Turn this thing off? But not being lose you're in trouble.
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  Speaker 1: You ain't got me to that. Yes, yes, and so
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  Speaker 1: I do understand that. I mean my family we do
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  Speaker 1: small things, like our biggest thing is Christmas at my
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  Speaker 1: Aunt Jackies. That's one of the biggest things. Sometimes somebody
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  Speaker 1: we had the Grinch one time. One year, we had
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  Speaker 1: Santa Claus one year. It's yes, there's kids, yo. When
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  Speaker 1: the Grinch came through. I never seen kids run so
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  Speaker 1: fast before.
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  Speaker 4: 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 that the
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  Speaker 1: African American community can get back too that I would
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  Speaker 1: love to get back to that. So now I heard
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  Speaker 1: you say that this is the first book in the series.
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  Speaker 1: Can we get a little bit of what Granny about
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  Speaker 1: to do next? Oh, Granny is gonna take me down
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  Speaker 1: south to Georgia in the country for the summer time.
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna spend the summer with her in the country
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  Speaker 2: and do some things on the farm.
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  Speaker 4: 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 5: From getting the chickens out of the chicken coop to
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  Speaker 5: go I'm picking some peaches.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're gonna go through that process.
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  Speaker 1: Man looking here, Well, why wasn't in the country. I
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  Speaker 1: was in the city. Things that I hoo Jesus, things
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  Speaker 1: that I did. I just hoped then and had them
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  Speaker 1: having a conversation, because Lord, when I get up there.
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  Speaker 1: So who is your target audience for Baby Cakes and
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  Speaker 1: Grandma's Morning Magic.
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  Speaker 2: Honestly, it's for I really wrote it for the KO three,
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  Speaker 2: 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.
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  Speaker 4: And that's what I want.
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  Speaker 2: That's what I really really want, just to bring back
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  Speaker 2: some happy memories and make you have a good day
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  Speaker 2: with a good smile.
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  Speaker 4: That's all.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, And you know what that is awesomely true because
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  Speaker 1: my daughter has a video of her grandma, oh her
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  Speaker 1: talking trash to her grandma, like she was trying to
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  Speaker 1: get her to eat, and my daughter was telling her, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: I don't want that, and she every time she missed
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  Speaker 1: her grandma, she goes to her phone and she plays
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  Speaker 1: that video. I'm so happy that she had that little
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  Speaker 1: bit of time with her grandma. And then to be
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  Speaker 1: the only girl. Oh yeah, yes, yes, So we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: step it up early for some fun questions. Okay again,
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  Speaker 1: So what was the nickname that your grandma gave you?
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  Speaker 1: And why did she give you that nickname?
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  Speaker 5: It was Babycakes? And oh, I don't know what, I
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  Speaker 5: never know what it meant, babycakes? And I'm like, babycake.
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  Speaker 5: Oh I don't I called me baby cakes. She was
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  Speaker 5: and still to today, said hey, baby cakes, how you
• 21:04
  Speaker 5: doing it?
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  Speaker 4: I'm like, I don't know what it means, but I like.
• 21:07
  Speaker 1: The way it sounds. Oh man, so that is so cute.
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: Now you're gonna laugh because I'm gonna answer that question.
• 21:17
  Speaker 1: When I do the fun questions, I also answer them too, y'all.
• 21:23
  Speaker 1: This is not insulting. Okay, my granny used to call
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: us dumb behind, but what you're dumb behind? And then
• 21:32
  Speaker 1: she was dumb you're dumb behind. It's like you, Granny, like, seriously,
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: what you do? But then she also had each one
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: of us had our own bowl nickname was mine was
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Tracy or Frenchy. So that's why I sad that question,
• 21:55
  Speaker 1: because granted, they used to give us some crazy means
• 21:58
  Speaker 1: back in the day, everybody had a crazy name. Back
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: in the day, everybody had I thought the means to
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: deem it crazy. But when you look back then, yeah,
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: all right, that little girl in the picture, is you
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: correct close to it?
• 22:16
  Speaker 3: 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
• 22:35
  Speaker 1: actor actress? I'm sorry, it's going to play you? And
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: why then?
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: Oh wow, I would say the young Kiky Palmer like
• 22:50
  Speaker 2: from when you play in what's the spelling b movie?
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: Killing a Bee?
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I remember that one. Yeah, So why Palmer
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: 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 basted
• 23:27
  Speaker 2: with her mother.
• 23:28
  Speaker 4: She knew how Mama did play, but she still wanted
• 23:32
  Speaker 4: to do things. But she was like, I'm gonna do it.
• 23:35
  Speaker 4: I'll just get in trouble later.
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: I was that way too, and I always had like
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: that best friend like don't tell nobody, Like ain't gonna okay.
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: I ain't gonna tell nobody. Next morning, the girl let
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: me tell you what she did.
• 23:53
  Speaker 4: So, yeah, I had a little bit mad than me.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: All right, So we already have Kekey Palmer. So who
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: would play grandma? And why they get that on it?
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: The grandmother from Soul Food was the closest to my grandmother. Man,
• 24:12
  Speaker 2: every time I look at that movie, I tear like,
• 24:15
  Speaker 2: oh my goodness, ye had I remember that degreen.
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: You know that whole process of making that meal. Yeah,
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: that was that was my man.
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness. Okay, see you I went there, You
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: went there, You went there because now I'm thinking, man,
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: I might have to do a Sunday dinner next week.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: But guess what I got too, nephews who can't take
• 24:45
  Speaker 1: food right now.
• 24:46
  Speaker 4: So it's all good.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: Cabbages and chicken is every Sunday dinner. That's how signature
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: 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 dinner at your Well.
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: Of course, she cooked breakfast and everybody either before church
• 25:05
  Speaker 2: after church, came got your breakfast. But it was just
• 25:08
  Speaker 2: really weird because at breakfast, if you wasn't coming back
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: the dinner, your dinner was ready.
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: No one had to cook Sunday dinner in our family,
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: no one.
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: You 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.
• 25:33
  Speaker 3: It was so good.
• 25:35
  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, always cabbages.
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah good. She even won to award for her cabbages.
• 25:53
  Speaker 4: That's how good they were.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: What we con gradually?
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: Why do we say?
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: Can I hear your grandma's first last night? Her name
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: was Mary Oglesby, Miss Mary, Oh, miss mird. It was
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: merry here, I can get some of your cabbage. Okay,
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: I'm a factor like hard. I ain't got no problem
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: say that hungry with each of you, I got no problem.
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: Don't don't tell me to come and eat some dinner,
• 26:24
  Speaker 1: because I come and I'm be right there.
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: She wasn't gonna let you leave lest you ate anyway.
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: You gotta have something when you walk in the door.
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: Talking about So let me ask you a question. Did
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: your granny cook on Sunday or did she cook Saturday afternoon?
• 26:40
  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. Are
• 26:54
  Speaker 1: you trying to sleep in all years?
• 26:56
  Speaker 4: Clin yes or smell or something.
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: Or okay. So with my mother's mom my Granny Bingie,
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: I would hear James Cleveland more, Charley Caesar. Yes, my
• 27:12
  Speaker 1: mother Granny, I would hear, uh, what's that? She was
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: big into the choir things, so she not John py King,
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: but them old old school Mississippi mass choir. I remember
• 27:28
  Speaker 1: one time we went to the club. We came back
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: and it's like maybe two three hours later, she been
• 27:35
  Speaker 1: in the kitchen cooking. I'll never forget. Somebody went in
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: the kitchen and they gave her that little boy. The
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: rest of us saying we were sleeping. We get home
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: from church when we ain't trying to go to that.
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: Because they got the lashing.
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: I was like, dang, how you walk out of that one?
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: But what would you say to readers that have these
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: wonderful memories of their grandmas? What would you say to
• 28:12
  Speaker 1: them how they can capture those memories? What would you
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: say for all those memories? What would you tell the
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: reader to do with that 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
• 28:29
  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?
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: Who had to picture books? And that was one of
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: the things I was glad our family did.
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: We took a lot of pictures, so we were able
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: to kind of pull things together.
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: But I would tell them write it down, you know.
• 28:50
  Speaker 2: When before my grandmother got a little sick, I actually
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: recorded some things from her as well, so that was
• 28:56
  Speaker 2: that's one of the things, and that was one of
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: the things that kind of helped a lot of our family,
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: my mom and her sisters and brothers hill because.
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: They need to hear her voice.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: But also the pictures we you know, kind of put
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: together collages and also it was a fun time like
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: who is that that picture?
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: What they doing?
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: And so some of the things that kind of got
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: our family together as well, because we talked about those memories.
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: And I am the oldest grandchild and.
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: Then there's more grandchildren nine years later, so I know
• 29:29
  Speaker 2: a lot of things that they don't know or seen
• 29:32
  Speaker 2: or met a lot of our family that they don't know,
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: so that you too. So you know, those pictures helped
• 29:39
  Speaker 2: me tell stories about the family that they didn't meet
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: or didn't know, and things of that sort. So I
• 29:44
  Speaker 2: definitely would tell them take pictures, don't don't sleep on pictures.
• 29:49
  Speaker 2: They last a long time. But also write things, writ things.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Yes, you're so right writing things down. I never thought
• 29:58
  Speaker 1: about that. I think that's what I'm gonna do. I mean,
• 30:02
  Speaker 1: my mother is no longer here, and I ain't got
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: no grandkids. You better not giving none either. But I
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: do have aunts, and I do have this one, aren't
• 30:14
  Speaker 1: we really kind of she kind of stepped in as
• 30:17
  Speaker 1: that grandmother. So I never thought about doing that. Now.
• 30:20
  Speaker 1: The pictures, Yeah, there's some incriminating pictures, all right, everybody
• 30:31
  Speaker 1: got that what is that the burkeny pitcher from back
• 30:36
  Speaker 1: in the day.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, you had your diaper on, looking crazy as yet
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: and they got to carry you like.
• 30:46
  Speaker 1: This pictures I totally understand. So you guys, you know,
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: take that hand, make those memories, take those pictures, because
• 31:00
  Speaker 1: who knows how long we have on this earth that
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: we really do need to enjoy ourselves and our family
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: and keep that generation generational information. We shouldn't have to
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: try to go back and find this person and how
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: that person was to this person. It should be easy
• 31:20
  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
• 31:33
  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. I understand that
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: you have an author community, tell us a little bit
• 31:48
  Speaker 1: about that. 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: Ogilsby dot com or my Instagram which is Beach Girls
• 32:02
  Speaker 2: pr And also I actually am the founder of the
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: Black Authors Association, so you know, always find me on
• 32:10
  Speaker 2: there helping some authors as well making sure they post
• 32:15
  Speaker 2: their books. My thing is, you know, we as a
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: black and brown pew that have written some great books,
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: so I want to make sure everyone knows that. So
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: that's one of the things that Black Authors Association definitely promotes.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: And also we have I have Literacy Moments magazine and
• 32:30
  Speaker 2: that pretty much is a magazine at Spotlight's authors so
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: that we can get into schools, libraries, and bookstores and
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: all that great stuff. So it also helps those inspiring
• 32:41
  Speaker 2: authors get some tips and timbits on how to get started,
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: because I know the author journey it can be difficult
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: and just not knowing.
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: How to start.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: You know, you may need that one that community or
• 32:52
  Speaker 2: just something a reading resource. So that's why we had
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: literally wellness. So but one other thing I just want
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: to say. You know, one of the that we do
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: every year, which is coming up this weekend, My grandmother
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: used to feed the community on her birthday. She used
• 33:06
  Speaker 2: to speed about two hundred people, and since she's been gone,
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: we actually do that. So this weekend we are is
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: her Her birthday is on the twenty fifth of July,
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: and on that Saturday, we actually feed the community in
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: Philadelphia where she used.
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: To live at.
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: And you can't miss it because we were able to
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: get the street where she lived at named after her.
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: So those little things that we did to honor her
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: because she was a pillar of the community, and we
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: actually have kept that tradition going because she was she
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: was she was mom, she.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: Was a person. Well, make sure you send me some
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: information so I could share it out to everyone that
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: I know, and y'all go out there and support. You know,
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: there's there the the times that we're in y'all, the
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: need is there.
• 33:55
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so all we have to do is.
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: Show up and meet the need. Yeah. I always tell
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: people put the question and the answer together. Okay, So
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: I thank you for joining me. You Downe brought back
• 34:09
  Speaker 1: all these memories. Now I'm about to go find some
• 34:12
  Speaker 1: of my baby pictures. I might post them up online.
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: There is one picture my uncle have me and my cousin.
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say her name.
• 34:23
  Speaker 3: She could be me.
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say her nickname Danky. Okay, yeah, like Danky.
• 34:30
  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. She could have let
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: me keep my giant, but she came three months after.
• 34:42
  Speaker 1: We have a picture with our uncle Mark and Lord
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: that puture. Every time I look at that picture, I said, man, why,
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: just just why y'all just had to snap that, didn't you.
• 34:52
  Speaker 4: He's quite smiling from her air.
• 34:56
  Speaker 1: I think that putok lost. But he had the two
• 35:02
  Speaker 1: girls with him. He was smiling.
• 35:04
  Speaker 4: It is because.
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: Our uncle, Oh, our uncles don't play but us.
• 35:13
  Speaker 4: He just sat out there, he's smiling. It is and
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: just like, what is it.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna find y'all. I'm gonna find that picture. I
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: know who got that picture. I'm gonna find that picture.
• 35:23
  Speaker 1: But thankk you for bringing these beautiful memories and helping
• 35:28
  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
• 35:42
  Speaker 1: it's scrolling at the bottom. That makes a perfect gift
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: for the grandma to be or grandma's in general, to
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: take that book and read to their kids, their grandkids.
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: I wouldn't even say it for the holidays. I'll just
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: say any time. Okay, you can for be with us tonight.
• 36:03
  Speaker 1: Thank you guy, You're welcome. You guys. Remember there's no
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: such thing as an old book because not everybody has
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: read every book. I see you guys Tuesday with another author.
• 36:16
  Speaker 1: Good night everyone, bye, and let me think about the
• 36:26
  Speaker 1: old school days. Boy, I'm a fine