Thanksgiving with Cousin Benji

The family has a big problem with yo momma's dressing for Thanksgiving!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Coming up at the top of the hour, right about
four minutes after, it's today's Strawberry letter, the subject how
important is intimacy before marriage? You want me to say
something crazy, Well, it ain't important at all, don't matter.

(00:22):
Throw that out there, So I guess so I get
people to see. That's how you get times the radio.
Right now, it's the nephew the King of Pranks with
today's prank phone call. What you got? Thanksgiving is up
on us. You have people coming in family members. This

(00:43):
right here is Thanksgiving with cousin Benji. Thanksgiving with cousin
Benja cat dog. If you hood hello, Hello, what is
this this Clinton? Is this this bes? I'm calling? Is

(01:04):
ms Purvis though, Um, you know she's saying here right now?
But this is our daughter? Um? Is there a problem? Oh? No,
this this this beis this Mama Mama Lorid's nephew. Who
is this again? This Blenda? Mama, Mama Lowid, Mama loads
Ain't it? Ain't it correct? Mama Lord's persister. Okay, I'm

(01:25):
being I'm I'm her nephew from the other side of
the family. You say your name? Whatno glend? Okay, we'll
tell y'all supposed to get in and we should be
there by the afternoon. Okay, Uh is ms Purvis is
she is your mama making the the dresses? Yeah, she's
making enough for about forty five people. Um. We actually, um,
this was discussed about a month ago, right y'all on

(01:47):
the y'all they had the conference call, the conference good
family had the conference call, right, yes, sir? Okay, Nah, listen,
what reason why they got me to call? They wanted
me to go in and all, and and I was
trying to give me this pervious she's not there. You know,
she's not here. What's wrong? Uh? Okay, they're not gonna

(02:07):
They're not gonna need her to do the um to
do the dress. And why wouldn't they need to do
dress and she's been making it for ten years? We did,
We just discussed it. So what do you mean they
say that they got somebody down here there's gonna do
the dressing, especially since y'all traveling. Y'all ain't got to
bring it, you know, and be traveling with it. But
they got somebody gonna do the dressing. Okay, Well, first
of all, how are you you're you're Ben? What is

(02:30):
your name that wasnot my name Benjamin, but they called
me Benji. But but but, like I say, uh, I'm
on the other side of the fact, I ain't on
y'all side. Okay, Well, I'm still trying to kick out.
Why are you calling me? Because she's been making a
dressing for ten years? Like I said, And I mean,
it's been discussed. So I don't even know why why
you're calling me. I don't even know you. Okay, Well,

(02:52):
what I'm trying to explain to you this right here
is that they got some y'all. Y'all ain't got to
worry with bringing the dressing. They got somebody gonna bring.
They got somebody down here that's gonna cook it, so
and otherwhere with you know, if you can tell Miss
Pervish ain't got to worry about the dressing this year,
I'm like, you want me to tell my mama after
she'd been making dressing for ten years, that child say,

(03:12):
y'all't even worried about She shouldn't have to make this
ship because we're driving there. We drive every year. So
I'm not gonna do that to her. So I mean,
and I don't I don't even know who you are
to be calling me anyway? Why can't somebody calling me
that I don't know regarding it? Okay, okay, you're going
the right, I am blend all right, listen, let me
say this because I I don't mind saying what what

(03:33):
everybody thinking, but most people don't want to say. Let
me just say this right here. Really, what's going on
is just right here. A lot of people in the family,
you know, don't really don't don't really like miss Pery
of his dress, d Benjamin who he supposed to be

(03:54):
let me sporting something there my mom about making Chresten
you don't keep that and we ain't bringing that home.
Let us so you can tell your family that I
said that because you understand me. I mean, for first
of all, you got to understand that I'm bringing news
that that that people didn't don't voted on, and that's
what everybody want to do, don't nobody, Well, why is this?

(04:15):
Knew we had a meeting from dress she been making
it ten years. Ain't nobody been saying nothing and against
what when them up in the house, Nobody did not
be walking up and through that. I'm talking about my
mama either, And you know I'm gonna eat Okay, we'll
see right there. Why why if people don't like the
dress in Glinda, why do you want to make submit
everybody to having to eat it if they don't like it?

(04:37):
You don't That's how I don't know. I don't know.
You want to call me, well, I don't know, No Benjamin, Benji,
who I want to do. I'm mama Lord's nephew from
the other side of the family exactly, and they don't know. Yes, okay,
and it really really to the bad all that I
don't really know you. But I'm but but I'm but
I'm man enough, I'm man another call you and tell

(04:58):
you what we're gonna do it where we are, ain't
go don't do well. I know it wasn't anteat it again.
She's gonna make that transfix you. I'm gonna eat it
and we're gonna und my name. Okay, okay, right there, listen.
And I know this might be hard for you. Don't
understand what you grew up with liking everybody else might
not like you even say what you want to. I

(05:20):
don't even remember you be white, so you weren't there
like it because you want in down around. But she
make it dress Now, first of all, when y'all get
down here, it's gonna already be some mo dressing hill. Okay, okay,
And she gonna make count her and said, and we're
gonna see down and yeah, I'm gonna eat. And it's
it's not even enemy discuss no friends in that. I said,

(05:41):
I don't like to say because your name's gonna hurt
my mama feeling. Okay, there ain't nobody to try. That's
why I'm trying to tell you to tell her don't
make it nah, so she won't even bring it down.
We can we get anyway. Hey, look, I'm gonna say
this hell because every dealer you ain't really understanding what
I'm saying to you. I'm gonna say it as clear
as I can say. If y'all come down here with
that dress, I promise you we already got dressing. Mate.

(06:04):
We're throwing that dressing in the trash so everybody can
get the dressing that we made fund him play Blake.
That's what we're doing. Please let me find something into you.
I'm gonna be undressing patrol, and if I find out
you then to my mama dressing in the trash. It's
gonna be something that we're gonna set that out. I'm
not playing with you. That's what's so funny to me.

(06:26):
I'm gonna call ain't tell me. We don't hide on
this cop coming. Ain't knowing the willow enough to cower us,
are telling just to buy. But now that they're gonna said,
she'll stop because for me, I don't even know. She'll
tell I can't they fail like you. The bad in
the world, the bes bens in my life, but I
don't even know your rap. I'm telling you now, I'm

(06:46):
telling that playing with you. I'm telling you anything my
mama feeling. It's gonna be some in then, and I'm
telling you all y'all gonna be yeah it down there,
but don't call it y'all out one. Let me say
I say something else to you. I wish you would.
Can I tell you what else they were saying? They

(07:07):
wanted me to tell you this, Glinda, this is nephew.
Tell me from the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Your cousin
Sheila got me the plank phone. Call you, Tommy. You
you're about to make me? Said it off? What that man?

(07:31):
This same people will see it wasn't gonna be no,
he remained, because I'm gonna have my brother's w ninja. Yeah.
I played to Tommy's going to be canceled. Many question
before I let you go? What is the baddest and
I mean the baddest radio show in the land Steve

(07:54):
Harvey Morning Show, call, ain't tillma, ain't nobody to say
nothing on the She was I'm gonna come up in there,
said blank and blank off. She was this. I feel
to be on blanketed, blank dressing blanking blank patrol, not

(08:18):
dressing patrol though, Oh man, stupid, but yeah, yeah, yeah,
she got tired to your stupid to talk to me.
I don't even know Benjamin benjie by folks, what is
your name? Man? You know hurt our mom's feeling, you're

(08:44):
not feeling. You don't like the dressing? You better swallow.
I'll tell you what. We're gonna bring your dressing down there.
We ain't bringing none back home. We're gonna make it
and y'all ends gonna eat it. Man, I love it
looks all right. Well, listen more of the Steve Harvey
Morning Show on the Strawberry Letter coming up. How important

(09:07):
is intimacy before marriage? Steve says is not important at all. Well,
right after this, you're listening to the Stave Harvey Morning
Show