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DA CREW PODCAST SEASON 2_ EPISODE _28_ MEET DA HOST WITH PATRICE GRIMBALL · DA CREW Podcast

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A song for zupport. Hello, Hello, Hello, and welcome to
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the Crew podcast. I am the Visionary Queen Angela and welcome to season two.
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I want to thank you for tuning in and for all of your support
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throughout season one. We're back them devas of their ways, so thank you
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for joining us tonight. Share this with someone in your circle. Hey everyone,
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it's not Saturday night, so I know you're wondering, what in the
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world is she doing here? Well, y'all know it's season two and every
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third Sunday I will be interviewing a part of the crew. So tonight I
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have my sister with me, my South Carolina sister with me, and we
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are gonna chat it up about what you can expect from her and her show
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in season two. So we're not even gonna wait any longer. Come on
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up, Danya, and it's Latonia, but I Catania. I've got time
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for all that. Everybody call me Tanya. See see whole up now,
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everybody can't be me, so you know what I call you know, a
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stop girl. So welcome you guys to meet the host. Latonia is the
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host of the Layed but not Denied. And you guys, that's a statement
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all in itself, all in itself. So tell us a little bit about
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yourself. Not your show yet, but we want to know about you.
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Well. Uh, I am Tanya little John, forty five years of age,
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mother of two. Hold up telling you I just turned forty five in
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January and I had to pull you to because I feel old. Girl.
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Oh I feel it's married, not to marry meting it up, girl,
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tell me about it. But mother of too, grandmother of one, she
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is my world. Yeah, Arthur podcast host, I'm just me. I
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ain't nothing wrong with it. So I'm in Charlton, you guys, and
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you are in Spartan Bird. So we are going to really get to meet
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up this Friday. I hope you guys can come. We're gonna oh I'm
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coming. I'm coming, you know, meaning we have to talk after this
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because you know they changed the venue. Yes, yes, but I can't
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wait to see her in person. Gods, you just don't understand to have
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this beautiful, smart, intelligent African American sister from another mother who we talk
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on the phone afterwards and we text each other and to make sure it is
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just said beautiful and her spirit is just so lovely. And I see why
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you are the best hosts for your show, because nobody can use that show
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name but you and you know that right. Thank you. So tell us
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about Delayed but Not Denied. Tell us a little bit about your show.
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So Delayed but Not Denied. The title comes from my book, actually my
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very first book, Delay but Not Denied, the story of Tory. But
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my podcast, it's so much that can be said about that podcast. Like
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my platform is disabilities because I was born with spina bifida and hydrocephalus. But
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I've opened the doors for everybody because everybody's situation is not like mine. But
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everybody has a story to tell. Also, everybody has been delayed in something
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but still not denied in the other. So you know, we all got
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a story to tell So I've opened my my podcast to allow people to share
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their stories and heal, basically, get some healing from it. Nobody's perfect,
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and I mean, you know, I feel like where two are more
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gathered, you know, great things can happen. So and so you know
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how many of us saw together girl, Oh we God is great. That's
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coming out with right. Tell us a little bit if you don't mind about
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your disability. Like a lot of people are like, wow, I've never
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heard of that. Can you tell us a little bit about it? Sure.
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Spina bifida is basically where the the spinal cord isn't straight. It's it
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has a curvature towards the tailbone. For many people, it's called the snowflake
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disorder because it doesn't affect two people the same. There's actually levels to it,
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non severe, pretty severe, and some people they're not able to walk
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in our wheelchair bound. I am fortunate enough to walk and pretty much I'm
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independent. I do for myself, but it has its challenges because of the
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spine of biffia. I have issues with urinary incontinence and things of that nature
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that I have to be seen for periodically. You know, it's it's one
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of the things where I oftentimes feel like it's not normal, but it's my
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normal, So you know, I guess I was given this to show people
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that you can still live up fulfilled life even with the disability. The hydrocephalus
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is simply just fluid on the brain. I had to have a shunt placed
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in at birth and it drains the fluid off my brain and the bottom of
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it is in a valve behind my heart, so it drains behind my heart
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some somewhere it'll it'll never be taken out. They say it's not working anymore,
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so it's done. It's done it purpose, but they won't remove it.
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So so they keyword they say it's not working. That's not what God
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has to say. So well, if God doesn't want it to work,
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then it's not working. And hopefully, you know, with them saying that
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it doesn't work, I'm hoping God was in agreement with that. That means
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that I don't need it anymore. But however, I just can't get it
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replaced, I mean, well taken out. So that means the reason for
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it being placed, did it did its purpose? Yeah? Yeah, yeah,
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that's the nice sense that I'm so proud, so what should we expect
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from season two. I'm like, any guesses that you have lined up,
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you know, just just what are your expectations for season two? So if
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I can be frank for a second, in this season that I'm in in
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my personal life, it hasn't been the greatest, so I feel like it's
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taking a toll on everything else. So I don't really have anything lined up,
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but I'm open to, you know, receiving what is meant for me
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because I know so many people have a story to tell and I want to
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help them get that story out. Again, I don't really have anything lined
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up, anything spectacular happening, but I do. I do feel a change
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in the atmosphere and I know it's gonna be great, and I'm just gonna
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move in it. Hey, how they say you let go and let God
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there you go? It might you might just be a vessel that he is
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placed there. But there is a reason for you being where you are.
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Absolutely absolutely so, don't take anything that you go through for granted, because
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I have learned so much from the things that I have been through, right
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I appli to those as I continue to go in life. So right now,
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you being delayed, absolutely it's never been there you go, So you
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remember that forget if you forget everything else, you remember that I know I
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know who I am, and I know whose I am, and you know
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everything everything's gonna hand out the way it needs to. And there you go.
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You have already told God everything will plan out the way it needs to.
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He's all right, cool, she already confessed that our angels, let's
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go ahead and make this with And it looks a little hard, yeah,
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but you continue to keep pressing, you continue to keep showing up. Absolutely.
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I mean it's storming, but he promised that I wouldn't get wet.
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So there you go. Plus you got a whole village of sisters that are
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behind you absolutely like you guys, we don't stop here. We just I'm
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on here, show you talk to you, bring you these wonderful, beautiful
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people. It doesn't stop here. There are times when we're texting girl looking
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here right on this list, because see, you know you play with it.
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There are times when we have there you go, we have other like
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that. Yes, and it's beautiful when we can do it right as African
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American sisters. No, you guys, I'm not saying that everybody doesn't do
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it. But we as African American sisters, have this stereotype that being caddy
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and that we can't that, you know, us being African American women,
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we can't come together in a peaceful manner and lift each other up. We're
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supposed to tear each other down and things of that nature. But that's not
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what any of us are here for. No, we're bigger than that.
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Bingo. I don't have no problem, my sister. Your crown to to
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this side. Hold on, let me let me let me get your right
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okay, hold on, hold on, you got a little caught. Let
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me let me get a little jail. Let me slick that to the side
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and make you look good. Right there you go. You guys, we're
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gonna take a break, and you know my show, the second half is
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the fun question. Mm hmmm. So I hope you're ready. So we're
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gonna take a break and we're coming back with little Tanya delayed, but not
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deny. Come back, you guys. Turn off the light tonightlemen, met
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let's take a shower shower together. I was abnded. You was my some
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ut wealthy and save Jace. Turn off. Come to girl. I want
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to give you a special treat. You're so sweet turn on. You know.
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I think she played that because she knowing our shows. We sitting back
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here dancing, Yo, Teddy Teddy gets you in trouble, Teddy making more.
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But that right was like Latania, I'm coming to Spartan Bird. You
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don't pack lunch. No, I'm not the pack of lunch. Pack like,
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you ain't gonna feed me girl, cook to sandwich. I can't even
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get a sandwich. I'll pick your sandwich. Okay, you think that sound
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So what what is it that you do for fun, Spartan Bird? What
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is up there to do? Mhm? Dodge bullets? Maybe? Yo?
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I've seen that on TikTok when they said what not to do with Spartanburg and
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it had Yeah, I see that. It's like overnight we made it to
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the top of the list of the worst. And I was looking. I
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was looking at a commercial where a new pastor has taken over I want to
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say, its first Baptist Spartanburg. And he's clearly not from here, and
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he was talking about how wonderful Spartanburgh is. I'm like, sir, what
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part of town are you all? Cause? Uh no, sir, but
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I was like, he's clearly new. But it is true because you guys
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took that title from here North Charleston. Absolutely one was for plenty of years
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years. Absolutely. I know now that things are changing because there's a lot
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of grassroots organizations that are now starting with minds of communication, uh activity,
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social gatherings, listening. I know we got the Whaling Project, you got
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mister Lewis, you got Uplift Chauston. So there's a lot y'all took that
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title. You know. I'm sorry, you know, thank you. We
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actually took it from Anderson because Anderson had it really bad. Oh wow,
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they were number one for a hot minute. But let's see, let me
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explain you guys. I am in the low Country. We both are in
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South Carolina. I'm in Chawleston, South Carolina. That's called the low Country.
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Technically I am in North Charleston. But Tanya is a spartan bird,
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and we called that the absolute it. You know what I can't so we
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called it upstate so Charleston. And then we have our producer. She's a
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myrtle beach, so she's on the Midlands. I think no, no,
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no, no, no, I think that might be Upstate. No,
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No, what did it called. I think that's Midlands. No, Midlands
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of Colombia. Oh, we have to figure that want out. Yeah,
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so we're watching TV, so you can't feed me? Can I can?
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I? Can? I please watch TV at your house? Absolutely? Okay.
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So what we're looking at? What you got? We got first forty
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eight. Since I'm in the middle of crime, USA, I might as
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well learn how to dodge a bullet. First forty eight. That's a that
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i'd be I can't look at I can only look at first forty eight during
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the day. So listen, let me tell you. Let me tell you
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first forty eight. For me, I don't really watch it for the sake
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of the people that passed away, but more so of how they get everything
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together to apprehend the person that did it. A lot of people don't know,
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but I found my biological family back in twenty ten. My adoption was
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closed, and you know, I used to walk around telling people, Oh,
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I do better research than the FBI. And you know that's one of
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the gifts I believe that God gave me. Like you, with most black
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people, well not most, some, you can hide things from them in
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plain sight. And you know, the little cliche is, if you want
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to hide something from a black person, put it in a book. And
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that's sad. That's sad. I ain't gonna preach that to the choir so
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many times, but it just goes to show how far back we've we've dove
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instead of moving forward. But yeah, I watched First forty eight. The
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detective in me wants to help them find these people, and you know,
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get along, get on with it, because the first forty eights don't always
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be forty eight. They the months and months. One show, one episode
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I looked at was like two years of the making. Absolutely, So if
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you don't mind, how did you feel when you met your biological family?
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Okay, so I have PTSD that I've had since I was a child.
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I remember being a die after eighteen months old. I'm forty five and I
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can remember back eighteen months old. It was it's been bittersweet finding my biological
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family. I prayed to God. My prayer was to allow me to meet
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my mother face to face before one of us passed away. So twenty ten
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I found her. We picked up like nothing ever ever happened. Like I
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look in the mirror and I see her literally, and I'm she I'm the
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middle child. I have an older brother. He was fine, so she,
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you know, she kept him. Me. I was born with the
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disability, and she had a disability, so you know, trying to maintain
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what she had going on and make sure that I had what I needed in
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life was hard. She was a teenager, young, well, early twenties,
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and you know, she had my sister when she was twenty four,
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I believe, but and she kept her because she's okay. But you know,
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I never questioned why, you know, why wasn't I good enough?
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You know, because I I've come to the terms everything just ain't meant to
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be and sometimes, you know, God allows things to happen to save your
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life. So wow, you know, huge, huge right there. Yeah.
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I mean I could look at it and say, why, you know,
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why wasn't I good enough? What makes them too better than me?
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Or you know, but how how fair is that to her? Because she
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suffered a low she gave me up, and so I wanted to enjoy the
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time that we had. She passed away February twenty fourteen, so we only
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had three years and eleven months together, So no questions. She can Actually,
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if if there was a phone in heaven, you could call her and
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ask her did I hound her about anything about why wasn't I good enough?
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She'll tell you no, I didn't. Wow, Mama. Yeah, because
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those answers. I mean, sure, you want those answers for closure,
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but they don't change anything. They changed nothing. They changed nothing. If
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anything, it adds salt to the wound, just sitting there, you know,
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picking up a scab that's been healed or whatever. So you know,
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it was an experience. When she passed away, the relationship with my siblings
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passed away with her. So and that's that's crazy because of the way they
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choose to treat me. It's but it is what it is. I don't
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feel a way about it because I was raised as an only child. You
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can't like hurt my feelings and make me feel some type of way when I'm
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not used to siblings. So I haven't talked to my brother in five years.
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But you know, I'm I'm open to it if they ever want to
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talk. But you know, but you act, you got a whole group
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of sisters right here for it, right, and so I'm not missing that
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on anything. I got nieces and nephews, and well, you can come
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get this niece right here, like you know what. I would take her
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in a heartbeat. Don't tell you did you give her back? I'm telling
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you, I promise you I won't. I got great heirs, y'all.
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I am only forty three. Girl. Yeah, you should see me curly
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in the morning. Here go a new one and she'll say something small and
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I'm like, yeah, three another one, proudly. I mean, listen,
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I've been where you're headed. I had my son, tam you said
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what I'm heading? M hm, yes, baby, you're just getting started.
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My son twenty nine. Ye, my son was beautiful. There's a
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difference between reason boys, boys and girls. Absolutely. When I got married,
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I gained a step daughter. She would beat me crazy if she heard
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me refer to her as a step But yesterday was our wedding anniversary twenty two
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years. So when we got got together, my son was three and his
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daughter was one, and they're literally like night and day, Like you tell
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him one thing and he does it, and it's could couldn't dry You tell
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her you you at circus of olla, like you going through twizz turns hoops
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and in that attitude, level me and my My oldest son is twenty one.
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I love my son. We sat down, we talk and we chill.
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When he was her age, she's nine now, he would we would
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call ourselves going on dates because I told him, I said, the first
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love is going to be your mother, and I'm going to show you how
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you should treat a woman. And so he would order my food and it'd
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be so sweet this one here, chick right there, yo, and naya
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king what mom? You just don't put the table with all the energy and
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don't let it be the wrong side of the morning m five o'clock prayer.
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I have to go back and listen to it again earlier. I'm sorry,
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i'na be nice yell, but but listen, I've been there and she's U
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turning twenty six this year. So you will live to fight another day.
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All right? That's all I need. I need that encouragement. When you
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guys, you have to end it tonight. You have to tell us worry
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about it your Facebook? When is your show? How they can be on
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your show? You know can skip a starting down so you can follow me
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on Facebook at Latanya Michelle little John. I'm a person. I like my
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middle name, so I make sure it's it's out there also on Instagram.
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I am I'm telling you, Little John. My shows are the second Monday
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of every month, in the fourth Friday of every month. And if you
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would like to be a guest my inbox, my d M. If you
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know somebody with my phone number, shoot me a text, text because I
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do not answer my phone. He's trying to stop like me. Yeah,
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girl, And if you're interested in any of my books, you can go
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to Amazon and just type in Latanya Little John and they all six of them.
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Yeah, so that means you're gonna have to come on my show,
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okay on a Saturday night me book me all right, So we got so
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we're looking in May because my show is booked up till May. Yeah,
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because you girl, girl, And I love bringing these offors. Man,
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they are so sweet, so kind, some of them like your book Erotica.
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Hey, so you guys, Black Diamond had an author on her show,
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Let's Pass Friday. That's her book, Wet Dreams and the Wet Dreams
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Be Wetting. That's The Wet Dreams Be Wedding. And you've heard that from
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sc Bookyald. Now there's some things that had to take off. But I
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would say if you're if you just need some poetry, don't even don't even
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say them, let them do, let them clutch them pearls. Okay,
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girl, okay, you see that book, you can't wear pearls. That's
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some Pea Valley book right there down in the bath girls getting that's that that
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that is what dreams. That's a p Valley type book. So I like
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that. Now I'm gonna have to come up with some some things for that.
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I like how we just did that. You don't have to talk.
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Yeah, thank you for being with me tonight. You guys, make sure
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you tune into a show. This is my pod sister. You know,
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we are a part of the crew. Kim, what is it? The
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queens? That's the queens. I like diva, but we can do diva
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queens at the airway. It is all put it together. How about that,
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ma'am? So you guys, thanks, thank for joining me tonight.
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Next Saturday, new author, same time, APM SC book coals. You
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guys have a great night. Thank you Latanya for joining me. Bye,
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hey, y'all, it's the Queen. It's the Queen. It's the Queen
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and I want y'all to join me May eighteenth at the Como Community Center in
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Fort Worth, Texas. I will be receiving the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award,
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so I want you guys to come out and support me and AA LAC.
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They're chasing your dream book tour. Join me.