Reality TV nostalgia takes us back to where it all began

After 17 years away, we returned to Los Angeles for the Road Rules 30th anniversary celebration, bringing our 21-year-old twin sons to see where their story began. The journey was filled with unexpected moments from the start—narrowly avoiding staying at an Airbnb in a building under police surveillance thanks to our LA connections, and experiencing the shocking reality of California traffic (three hours to drive 60 miles!).

The trip became a beautiful full-circle moment as we showed our boys the hospital where they were born, our first apartment (hilariously still for rent after all these years), and the schools where we taught. But perhaps the most meaningful experience was watching them witness their father's impact on others—fans lining up for autographs and photos, sharing stories of how Road Rules influenced their lives.

Between nostalgic visits and reunions with castmates like Susie and Tina, we indulged in LA food culture from The Griddle's massive pancakes to Little Tokyo's treasures. Kee even auditioned for a character role in Snoop Dogg's "Doggyland" a C to the B Production—a fitting callback to his Hip Hop Harry days just before we left California years ago.

The trip wasn't without its adventures, including a celebrity sighting at Saddle Ranch (we're keeping that name to ourselves) and a luggage mix-up that had us driving back to Atlanta's airport at midnight. But these moments reminded us that sometimes detours happen for a reason, and there's always a story worth telling on the other side.

As we return to our routines and prepare for our 22nd wedding anniversary, this LA journey offered a perfect reminder of how far we've come and the beautiful life we've built together since those early California days.

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Speaker 2 0:21

the refreshingly normal podcast.

Speaker 1 0:27

Hello everyone and welcome to this week's Refreshingly Normal podcast with me, Cree and Kifla. So this week I think we're talking about our trip to LA and then just a little catch up on current things with us in regards to that.

Speaker 2 0:54

And starting school again. What are we most looking forward to?

Speaker 1 0:58

Yeah, school starting for us here actually tomorrow, so we'll talk about that too, here actually tomorrow, so we'll talk about that too. So we will allow Mr Keith LaHair to start the discussion.

Speaker 2 1:12

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Teaching and Education Challenges

Speaker 2 1:46

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Speaker 1 2:05

You want to start with LA.

Speaker 2 2:06

I guess, or what are we going to start with? We can start with LA Other than that. So what have you been doing this week?

Speaker 1 2:15

Working this week.

Speaker 2 2:17

I have too.

Speaker 1 2:18

So it wasn't my first Well, first full week of doing a lot of presenting this week, so I spent my week being in front of lots of adults.

Speaker 2 2:28

What is it that you do again? Please share.

Speaker 1 2:32

I am a wellness specialist. I do a lot of training.

Speaker 2 2:36

Medical wellness.

Speaker 1 2:39

No more so of social, emotional well-being. Um is what I do, and I do a lot of training for who for for for the school, like a major thing.

Speaker 2 2:54

Yeah, I didn't say the name, okay, just saying you do, what do you mean? Yeah, then what are you asking me? I'm I'm not saying the name, but but you, you, who do you? Who do you train?

Speaker 1 3:03

Okay, I train teachers.

Speaker 2 3:05

Right.

Speaker 1 3:06

I train um principals, um yeah and uh, even oh well, also well, and students and also uh families, parents. So good job. Yeah, I trained all those people, people that are important parts of the community.

Speaker 2 3:27

Good job Proud of you.

Speaker 1 3:29

Yes, so that's what I've been doing all week is training and preparing people for the first day of school or to begin the school year with some great strategies to positively support the social and emotional well-being of students.

Speaker 2 3:48

Because God knows we need it. You would be surprised that the teachers whose behaviors are similar to kids like for real. There are some teachers who you wonder why they're in the profession. You know what I mean. And it's crazy because all they are is just older kids.

Speaker 1 4:14

I will say, teaching is not an easy job.

Speaker 2 4:17

It is not.

Speaker 1 4:18

Especially not today. Yeah, your hands are tied.

Speaker 2 4:23

Yeah, Things you can't say, things you can't say, things you can't do. Yeah, um, you're almost being um, you're, you're, you're more so a um, conduit. You know what I mean, meaning that you're only like you know how water is only going to go where if you pour it through a pipe. It's only going to go where you direct the pipe. So that's how it is. It's like it. There's there's less of us being creative and individual teachers, and you know, within the profession and within the content, we're now being told what to do, how to do it, when to do it, to do how to do it, when to do it, and you're only being told from one perspective, as opposed to offering your creativity and things like that in the mix. It is different, it's very different, but you try to find those ways to do it you know to still make it your own, and I think that's different.

Speaker 1 5:24

Yeah. So I think that's kind of like. What you're saying is that it's different now in education and if you've chosen to be in education, then it's super important that you shift and change with what the need is now. So I think that's just the most important part. So I think that's just the most important part and I feel like that's a part of my. What I do is to hopefully move and change in any career, because things change and grow, but especially like now with the needs of students, that you have to shift and change and grow with them.

Speaker 2 6:15

To me to reach your ultimate success as an educator and for the success of your students, yeah, I think it's so, it's, it's so data driven that as a teacher, it's um, you're, you're, you're, uh, losing out on teaching the emotion because you're trying to teach the data. And you know what I'm saying?

Speaker 1 6:41

Because yeah, and what are the different? Like my brain, I'm just having just having a brain fog or a brain fart right now. We think about data we have. What are our two different data that are collect collection wise?

Speaker 2 6:55

Formative and summative.

Speaker 1 6:56

No, the data that is numerical and then the one that's more for observation. Gosh, that's going to kill um. Gosh, that's gonna kill me. That I can't data we.

Speaker 2 7:07

We should know it from statistics I'm just telling you, I'm saying all these different data, but it's just not the one you want no, it's not like when you're doing a study and you're collecting data.

Speaker 1 7:16

You can collect it where uh qualitative and quantitative yes, thank you.

Speaker 2 7:21

Okay, I mean we're going through all of our data points.

Speaker 1 7:23

Yes, yes, yes, I don't know why I had that part, but we do a lot of quantitative Right and then a lot of it when I see in some of the work that I do, that qualitative being able to see some things that if?

Speaker 2 7:41

that's what you're correcting. Yeah, you're correcting the qualitative aspect of the educator and you know the admin is really handling the quantitative part of it, but there is some great data with that qualitative yeah.

Speaker 2 7:56

Yeah, and you know that's, that's how they're based on school performance and all that stuff. But it gets lost in the shuffle, yeah, especially coming out of COVID. And you know, even still people say, well, covid was so long ago, but you got to understand in that time that COVID hit. It hit integral parts of students development. So those moments of development is lost and now it's like a, a puzzle that you put. You know, people make, put a puzzle together and they put on the wall when it's complete. What COVID did is allow people to put the puzzle together but there's two or three pieces missing. Yeah, and it's still on the wall. You know what I mean. And so for that, that that's a tough part, I know.

Speaker 2 8:41

I see it when it comes to the high school level because let's say, for example, recently, I know last year, was the first group of kids coming from who were homeschooled, like they didn't start middle school because came out of COVID and the parents like, oh, no, I'm not sending them to middle school because you know they socially, yeah, they're very shy and all that stuff. So they kept them at home six, seventh and eighth, and then all of a sudden these jokers come to high school, and they lost a lot of development. They lost the interaction, and, you know, the slightest thing gets them like riled up or gets them shut down, and so I had to deal with a lot of that. You know so, and I can imagine how it was with kids transitioning to middle school, which is a rough part. If they did transition to middle school, you know they didn't parents homeschool them for part of elementary and then sent them to middle school when they was, you know, getting out of the fifth grade, and so that was drastically a shocker for them.

Speaker 2 9:45

You know what I'm saying. So we're back at it, though. Hey, we do what we do.

Speaker 1 9:50

So tomorrow's the day.

Speaker 2 9:53

Summers are off still, so we love it.

Speaker 1 9:55

Yeah, we'll be with kiddos tomorrow. I'll be supporting some of the schools I support by being there helping on the first day.

Speaker 2 10:04

Yeah.

Speaker 1 10:05

And you'll be with all your kiddos.

Road Rules 30th Anniversary Trip

Speaker 2 10:06

Yeah, and it's a little nervous for me because I'm starting a. It's not a brand new position, because I'd had the position when I first moved into the county, but for eight years I was doing PE again you know which is what I got my degree in. You know health and physical education, so I was teaching health and then I was teaching classes in PE and now I'm back into the classroom as a support teacher with special education. So, which is cool, you know? One, I got a job. Two, I'm going to always do my best at everything I put my foot in and the time allows me to step away from coaching and work on my practicum and internship hours. For my was this be my fourth degree? Yeah, my fourth degree for my second master for clinical mental health counseling.

Speaker 1 10:56

Lifelong learner.

Speaker 2 10:57

Yep, yep, it is. So I don't know if we're boring y'all with this educational talk, yeah, but let's get down to LA. So the reason that we went to LA is because this year we're in the 30th year anniversary for the first episode of Road Rules. For the first episode of Road Rules and for those of you that need a little reminder of what Road Rules is or was it is a reality show that started in 1995. And it is the sister show, so to speak, of real world.

Speaker 2 11:39

Real world, they stayed in a house, you know film six strangers, you know, going through whatever. But Road Rules was six strangers in an RV traveling around the world maybe the US or wherever and doing crazy missions and things like that in order to replenish their money's supply. And so this was the 30th year anniversary for it. And so Challenge Mania, which is another podcast. They invited several people who were integral parts and road rules to Los Angeles to be on a panel and, you know, just introduce and be a meet and greet, stuff like that. And it was great to do it because I got a chance to see some of my cast members. Well, well, one of my cast members, susie, who was with me on season six in Australia.

Speaker 1 12:27

And then we saw Tina, we saw and Tina was with you when you were on the challenge.

Speaker 2 12:33

Yeah, my partner in Challenge, All Stars and Mark and I did the very first Road Rules Challenge Road Rules versus Real World Challenge and we won. So technically I am like one of the first champions of the show of the challenge.

Speaker 1 12:49

Um they won $2.

Speaker 2 12:51

It was more than $2, but it was like it wasn't what it is now and I can tell you that.

Speaker 2 12:57

Um, and we, we just saw a lot of different people, and so when they called me and said they were doing it, and I was like yo. And so when they called me and said they were doing it, and I was like yo, I'm going, you know, I'm going to be there. I told Kria. I said, hey, I'm going to LA, I'm going to make a final way to go to LA. And she was like, oh, I'm going. And I was like, but you'll be at work, I'm going, you know. So she was like and we're going to, and the boys are going, and I was like yo, this is dope, let's go because this would no.

Speaker 2 13:23

No, I did not say, the boys are going at first no, but I'm saying, okay, yeah, I'm putting it all together, okay, go. And so you know we was like this would be cool, because this is the first time that we've been to LA since we left LA in 2006. Yes, because we used to live there. We lived there for three years. We got married in 2003, moved to LA. Boom, like a week later and we were in LA and, you know, twins were born and it was like yo, it's expensive and tough, we need some more help. So we moved, packed up the family and moved to Georgia and we went to LA and it was great. It was so cool to to have the boys there and show them things that we talked about. The weather was amazing.

Speaker 1 14:15

Yes, the weather was so good because here in Georgia is so aside of today.

Speaker 2 14:22

Today is amazing.

Speaker 1 14:22

Yeah, today's amazing, but it's so hot and so I thought, because I've been hearing, I hadn't really watched the weather in la, but the last couple of years it's been hot in the summertime, um, in la, and I was thinking, oh my gosh, thank goodness we weren't there, because I remember in our apartment there is no central air.

Speaker 1 14:42

Um, there was, you know, you didn't really need it, yeah, it was just so nice and um, so I imagine when we went, when we were going there, that it was going to be hot and we got off of the plane, yeah, and I guess we didn't really realize, we got ready to go get the rental car and everything in the shade yeah, we were like oh, oh, my gosh a little breeze just the breeze and I was like in the shade and I was like, oh, let let me get in the sun.

Speaker 2 15:04

Yeah, you had to get in the sun.

Speaker 1 15:06

It is chilly. So that weather was like oh, can we package this weather up and take it back to Georgia?

Speaker 2 15:11

Clear skies. Yeah, beautiful, very beautiful skies. And then we got our rental car.

Speaker 1 15:19

Yeah.

Speaker 2 15:20

And we were driving to one of my former students. And we were driving to one of my former students. She lived about 50, 60, I think it was like 60 miles, 62 miles outside of the airport of LAX.

Speaker 1 15:31

Yeah, it was like 52 maybe, but anywho somewhere between 50 and 60. It was 60.

Speaker 2 15:35

Okay, that's what Google the map said. Okay, I stand corrected, so we got in there, because I said that was 20 miles an hour.

Speaker 1 15:46

Yeah, that was the average.

Speaker 2 15:48

Yes, okay, it took us three hours to get 60 miles.

Speaker 1 15:54

Yeah, from the airport to Corona California, from the airport to Corona, yes, and that was like 2.30. About 2.30.

Speaker 2 16:02

Yeah, 2.30 we got on the road and I was like yo, this is, and I didn't. I'm not going to say it was an accident. It wasn't an accident because of course they could have cleared it out before we got there, but we never saw an accident. It was just bumper to bumper traffic, and even that it was like leaving the airport was tougher than I remember, you know, back in the days. It was just, it was crowded and so, you know, we went out there, we spent time with them and then we came back.

Speaker 1 16:36

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Oh, go ahead. We forgot to talk about the drama before we even got there.

Speaker 2 16:42

What was the drama before?

Speaker 1 16:45

So listen, a couple of nights before we were going to la, we were talking to our la daughter we were talking to our la daughter britney oh yeah and she was like okay, uh, mom, where y'all staying? And, um, I called britney, our la daughter, britney because she is one of Keefla's or Kee's old students when he taught in California and she we have just stayed so connected to her.

Speaker 2 17:17

Yes, she's been out here a few times.

Speaker 1 17:19

She's been to visit us. She met us for Kee's 40th birthday in Vegas. Like, we have just stayed connected every birthday, we talk, we talk all the time. So that's our baby there and so, um, we were talking to her. She's like where y'all staying? So we had planned to have an airbnb. Now y'all know I'm on this like everyday running, I have to have a place to run. So the first airbnb we picked was in baldwin hills. We had told them about that one. They're like yeah, that area is great because I was thinking I'd run outside but in la, you never know you could run two blocks and all of a sudden it's like don't run in this neighborhood it changes, and so that made me a little bit nervous.

Speaker 1 17:59

So we said, well, let's just do a condo that has a workout gym, and so we chose this condo. We thought it's great.

Speaker 2 18:08

It had great reviews it did the reviews, like everybody was saying great stuff. It's near the, uh like the pier and everything. It was uh marina del rey, like right up in that area.

The Airbnb Catastrophe

Speaker 1 18:19

We just, oh yeah, we thought we were fine, so we shared the address with her and she was like, next thing we knew, um, her husband was calling. And he was like next thing we knew her husband was calling and he was like, yeah, ok, stay there. We were like why can't we stay there? And he was like there is a big criminal that is in that building that we are surveillancing. So area is always, always being called.

Speaker 2 18:54

We are there, he's and I was like what?

Speaker 1 18:55

and I was like, listen, we get there thursday, y'all can't get them by thursday. And he was like y'all can't stay there, he goes. No, just let's make sure it's the right building and I can make sure that. What I was is that y'all are talking about the same place that I'm talking about. And so I did. I texted or messaged the Airbnb guy and he was. At first he was a little hesitant.

Speaker 2 19:17

Yeah, he was.

Speaker 1 19:17

He was very hesitant, he was hesitant about sharing the name of the condo.

Speaker 2 19:22

The condo, the actual building. I'll give you the address when you get here.

Speaker 1 19:25

Yeah, he said I gave you the address.

Speaker 2 19:27

Yeah, I gave you the address and some more details, like later, I was like no, no, no, no.

Speaker 1 19:31

We need to know now.

Speaker 2 19:32

Yeah.

Speaker 1 19:32

And so he finally shared it, and Dre was like mm-mm, that's the place no. That's the place. Do not stay there.

Speaker 2 19:40

So then we looked up the actual name of the apartment that the Airbnb was located in the apartment complex Come to find out when we researched it the apartment complex is a low-income apartment, the apartment complex also.

Speaker 2 19:59

The reviews from there were totally different. They was talking about how this lady gun was pulled on him in the parking lot, selling drugs. Selling drugs in the parking lot, selling drugs. Selling drugs in the parking lot, homeless people in the parking lot, harassing people in the hallways, getting into the building, you know, defecating in the hallways and all kinds of stuff. And so this is the same spot that had good reviews on Airbnb. So, folks, if you out there trying to get an Airbnb, get all the information you can about these places because they make them look good, and then it's totally different. And I know most people say well, airbnb reviews, if they're good, are you supposed to?

Speaker 1 20:40

go by that.

Speaker 2 20:40

Hey, trust me we was thinking the same thing until we went and reviewed the place and we saw that those reviews on Google and on whatever else apartment sites were off the chain.

Speaker 1 20:52

Yes, so praise Jesus.

Speaker 2 20:54

Yeah.

Speaker 1 20:55

That we had to connect.

Speaker 2 20:56

Yeah.

Speaker 1 20:56

That was able to kind of look into it.

Speaker 2 20:58

Now the other praise Jesus part was on the thing it said non-refundable Right and we just thought we had just lost all of this money and I was willing to fourteen hundred dollars, I was like well, it is what it is, we just lost fourteen hundred. Let's get a hotel, and I'm not even thinking twice about it anything else. Fourteen hundred dollars be like dang. That's messed up, yeah it ain't like we got it. I was just like I'd rather lose fourteen hundred dollars than for us to be there and it turns into a trip from hell, or even have to worry about fighting for our life or whatever.

Speaker 1 21:31

Listen the only thing that would have been left of us would have been a chalk outline. That's what I was envisioning. And I said we are not staying there.

Speaker 2 21:40

It would have been three chalks before it had been four, because they wouldn't get in Keith Anywho.

Speaker 1 21:46

So I was on that chat back and forth with airbnb and then finally the uh host of that place. But I think he knew once. I knew where it was. He knew because immediately when I sent him the message um about, we don't feel comfortable saying there what are all the things?

Speaker 2 22:06

that we said and all the stuff like that he said I will give you your full refund.

Speaker 1 22:13

Yep, and so we were able to get a refund, thank goodness. Um, I was like thank you, lord, he always takes care of us. I was like, thank you, and so that works out perfectly. Then we were able to because they had a host hotel. But we, we were able to because they had a host hotel, but we, like our boys, are 21. So we want them to have their own space and all the things and trying to get two rooms in one space. We had just come back from Tulum.

Speaker 1 22:41

Just financially it was like that's a lot of money to spend. And so we just really wanted to have a space that had two rooms, two bathrooms, like more, you know, like that. Space that had two rooms, two bathrooms, like more, you know, like that. So anyway, we kept looking, and right across the street from where everyone else was staying, and there was the burton beverly house. Yeah, the burton house that was in beverly hills loved it. It was perfect it had two bedrooms, two bathrooms, um they her treadmill, so it had the workout room so I could do my running every day that I needed to do.

Speaker 1 23:10

The staff there was super nice, like we walk in, no matter what time you walked in there I was like hey they were super nice yeah they had a beautiful bar.

Speaker 2 23:19

I mean it was very nice and it was in a perfect location location, yeah, so it all worked out and right around the corner was your coffee bean, coffee beanery. You could get your.

Speaker 1 23:29

Coffee bean that had the cookie butter latte that I thought I could only get at the Atlanta airport in Terminal A in Delta, but I was able to get there. I think I got it two times while I was there, so that was really nice. But it turned out nice. But listen, we was almost dead. Yeah, yeah, we was almost dead.

Speaker 2 23:48

Yeah, yeah, we was almost dead.

Speaker 1 23:50

Okay, go ahead and talk about going to Brittany's.

Speaker 2 23:53

So back to the traffic. You know it was just bananas. You know I didn't. You know LA has traffic. You know, we know that, but it was crazy. It was crazy and we, you know we got there, enjoyed ourselves. They have a beautiful home in the middle of I ain't going to say nowhere, but nowhere compared to LA.

Speaker 1 24:14

Yeah, compared to LA, yeah.

Speaker 2 24:15

It's out there. You know, like the same thing when people say to us, you know, we say Atlanta area, and then when they drive out they'll be like man y'all in the middle of nowhere, and so, but we had a great time with them. And then we drove into la uh, because the next morning I had a um audition, slight audition with uh, um c to the b productions. Well, c to the b production is uh, when I used to do hip-hop harry, I Hip Hop Harry 2. Go, harry, yeah, go, harry, go, go, go, go.

Speaker 1 24:51

Oh yeah, that's what it was Go, go go.

Speaker 2 24:54

I was in the costume and the other guy that was in the costume was Barney. For like 15 years he used to be Barney for 15 years this was in 2006 when we filmed this and so he was the main character. Now I did, you know, I did like nine episodes of Hip Hop Eric, and so what he does now is Claude. He owns Well, he, he works with Snoop Dogg to do his Dollyland cartoon slash live events, live shows, and so they needed someone to be a stand in for the Bowizle character. That Snoop Dogg what do you want to call it? They call it character acting.

Speaker 2 25:32

And so you know me, with my great history of being the best mascot that Alabama State has ever had in the history of the university. You know I got a chance to show my chops again in the Bow Whistle costume. So I went there and did a little audition and you know I smashed it, I killed it and we did. We did some stuff for social media, so you'll see it out there. We'll kind of tag it in there. But it was great just to do that too, because when Hip Hop Harry the night we finished filming and we had our rap party, my older brother, kurtz, got a chance to go on set. The twins were on set for a short moment, kriya was on set, yeah, and your mom and my mom was on set. And then we moved the next day.

Exploring LA's Old Haunts

Speaker 2 26:21

The next day we got in the U-Haul, they flew out, me and Kurtz drove all across to Georgia and so to go full circle for the boys' first day back in LA, to really be back with that to see me. You know, see some work that I did to meet the creator, to meet David who does Hip Hop, harry still and Bowie still. I was like that's like a full circle moment. You know what I'm saying? Because out of all the stuff I've done acting wise and reality TV wise hip hop here is probably one of my proudest because of the people that it touched and because I love performing for kids. And it was just amazing, but that was Friday, what else we?

Speaker 1 27:04

did. So that was Friday. So Friday, that was a big chunk of the day on that friday. And then, um, we let you go home and shower, I mean to the to hotel, and shower, and then we did sushi. Did we go see evelyn that day? We did sushi and then, after sushi we did, we went to go see we that's when we did the drive.

Speaker 1 27:25

So the boys were able to go see where they were born, the hospital where they were born. They hear us talk about all these things, but they don't. They've never. I mean, they were there but they don't remember right. Um, and so we took them by the hospital where they were born and then we also took them by where we used to live and we had them take a picture in front of the apartment Well, duplex, kind of it's for rent again, because let me tell y'all that's a horror story too when we lived in California am I talking too loud? No, you're good, I just want to make sure you know. When we lived in California, the first place, when it was just Key and I before the boys, our one bedroom was in a it used to be Villa Azure. Villa Azure bedroom was in a villa.

Speaker 2 28:08

It used to be villa azure, and you know, basketball players celebrities used to stay we didn't know that.

Speaker 1 28:13

Yes, you know we didn't know that we just got a good deal that's where we were, and then from there we had the boys to have more space. Um, we ended up renting like a little two-bedroom triplex. And that lady was crazy. That was our um landlord. I mean. She would say the rent was late and all these things. She made it so challenging, like to get extra money, well, I mean.

Speaker 1 28:38

And then I don't know why we didn't expect that when we decided to move she was gonna be even crazier so, anywho, we go by there for the boys to take a picture, and the same apartment is still for rent and the crazy thing about it is remember britney would always keep us posted before she moved to corona.

Speaker 2 28:53

Britney would always say mom, dad, guess what? I drove by? Y'all all play your old place again and it's for rent. Or then somebody be in there and then she was like guess what's for rent? Again, we say not the apartment, yes, so she's always needing tenants, or I don even want to say she, because she may have sold it or whatever. Who knows what has happened. But maybe it's a curse on her because they mistreated us. That's right, because we are God's favorites.

Speaker 1 29:15

That is, we are God's favorites and listen they. I mean, she was crazy. She was awful, but anywho, we let. We took them by there.

Speaker 2 29:24

Went by your school when I used to work.

Speaker 1 29:29

We went by my school Because it was right around the block From where we used to live. Yeah, so we went by where I used to work, where I used to teach, and we went by where you used to teach.

Speaker 2 29:34

Yeah, westchester.

Speaker 1 29:36

Westchester and I was a parent in Englewood and we also got to see my private Jewish school. I taught at Harkam.

Speaker 2 29:42

Hill, that that was crazy.

Speaker 1 29:44

Yeah, we drove by and I said I think that's harlem and I was like that is so. I used to work at a private jewish school in beverly hills.

Speaker 2 29:51

It actually was right around the corner from the hotel we stayed where we're saying yeah, not too yet, because we didn't know that until we came back again.

Speaker 1 29:57

We said wait a minute, that's the school right there so then we passed by that one of my old students there that I sometimes talk to on social media, danielle. I said, danielle, I'm thinking about you. Um, she's not in la anymore, but I I sent her a message just to let her know I thought about her when I passed by there and um, then we went on to visit um, our aunt in um long beach, and evelyn, yeah, yeah, that she used to keep the boys, so we got a chance to see her, um, her grandson papa and her son emma.

Speaker 2 30:29

Uh, we got a chance to see them and I spent time with them for a minute, laughed and joked around like we always do it, ain't evelyn? And then, um, I hate that my cousin daryl and shara were in jamaica uh enjoying uh each other because they were uh celebrating their 25th right yeah 25th wedding anniversary. But that was our road dogs when we lived in LA. We could just be with them laughing and joking all day long.

Speaker 1 31:00

We always had a good time all day, but they were away so and they were actually in one of our. They were at one of our favorite all inclusive resorts away.

Speaker 2 31:09

So you know, and they were actually in one of our, they were at one of our favorite.

Speaker 1 31:10

Yeah, um all inclusive resorts, the excellence um oyster bay in jamaica so they were there enjoying that. But, um, yeah, we really were sad that they weren't there, but we know they were having a amazing time and so that was Friday, saturday.

Speaker 2 31:28

What did we do Saturday? Saturday was the. Was that the food day? Yeah, saturday was food day.

Speaker 1 31:35

Oh yeah, saturday was a food day. We went to the where's the pancakes?

Speaker 2 31:39

Oh, yeah, ooh, to the griddle, the griddle, the griddle off of Sunset. The griddle off of Sunset is huge. Pancakes man, 16 bucks. We got three. I got. What was it?

Speaker 1 31:54

I don't even know the diameter of those pancakes they have to be. What's the diameter you think?

Speaker 2 31:58

I'll say 10 inch, like a pizza yeah.

Speaker 1 32:00

Three of them.

Speaker 2 32:01

Three of them thick. They were about, oh man, probably about four inches. Yeah, maybe four or five inches thick, ridiculous, the stack itself. And you got three big pancakes, man, and it was insane. So I just cut me like a wedge between all three, just like one little which would be like a slice of pizza, and that was it. I'm serious. It was like I probably ate maybe a fifth of the pancake and the rest of it we didn't even take it with us, it was just too much um, but it's, they were still so good man, we went there and then went to tokyo?

Speaker 2 32:36

yeah, we went to little tokyo in downtown la yeah, our boys are really into uh anime, and anime and japanese culture we once had um, that's also our.

Speaker 1 32:47

We have another daughter yeah, how the way how the way she's in japan um. She lives um near tokyo in um she's from satama satama. She's from satama. Yeah, um, and she comes.

Speaker 2 33:01

It seems like she's coming every three, every three years she'll come, she comes and she stays a week or so with us.

Speaker 1 33:07

But yeah, that's another. We have a daughter all the way over here.

Speaker 2 33:10

Yeah, because she was our exchange student Stayed the whole senior year she extended her trip to stay with us more. Yeah, she stayed with us the whole year.

Speaker 1 33:17

And then she asked because she stayed through the summer. We were like, of course, you can stay. So she stayed with us past a year of school school so yes, so the boys really like that and um, so we did the tokyo little tokyo.

Speaker 2 33:30

It's pretty cool, you know. I had some good little stuff there, had a dope shoe store there well, you got some nice shirts.

Speaker 1 33:37

Oh, I did from uh up and coming, oh, man, what's it called from flowers?

Speaker 2 33:43

I forget no, for for you flowers or something. Anyway, I'll I'll tag him man, it's dope, you'll be wearing him pretty soon. Uh, hat and everything, but yeah, it was real dope. Um, and you see, after that we left downtown, did we go get something to eat that night?

Speaker 1 34:01

we did it, we went. The boys really wanted to try jolly bean oh yeah, jolly bee.

Speaker 2 34:05

yeah, they had a list of stuff.

Speaker 1 34:07

We wanted to go to Pink's we did go by Pink's, but the line was ridiculous.

Speaker 2 34:11

Yeah, it was too long.

Speaker 1 34:14

And then we saw Marathon Burger, nipsey Hussle's, that line was ridiculous Because that was on Melrose. Yeah.

Speaker 2 34:17

So I used to love to go to Melrose. I actually kind of wanted to stop at Melrose and just walk and thrift stores and stuff, like that man it was. I mean vintage stores, I'm sorry, not thrift stores, but vintage stores. But then we whipped back around, went to Jollibee and Jollibee is crazy because it has fried chicken.

Speaker 1 34:39

It's Korean fried chicken, by the way.

Speaker 2 34:41

Yeah, okay, that's what I didn't know. It's Korean fried chicken, so Korean fried chicken and spaghetti.

Speaker 1 34:48

Yes, but it's korean spaghetti because it got hot dogs in. It got hot dogs or some kind of dog and that's, that's country black spaghetti right there.

Speaker 2 34:58

That's some spaghetti o's in a can. That's what that is and that's why the korean folks like us so much because we everything is the same, yeah, but uh, we enjoyed that spicy chicken from Jollibee Delicious. Come on now. What they said gave Popeye's a run for the money. Actually, it's better, I think.

Speaker 1 35:14

Kimani thought Popeye's was better he thought Popeye's was better. I don't know, I don't know. I feel like it was just, I don't know, the season was through.

Speaker 2 35:23

Jollibee got them. Jollibee got them. Yeah, it was very good. It was very, very good. So shout out to Jollibee, which are a convenient chicken. You need an open one. You know down here in the South and it's off the chain. And of course they love Jack. Was it Jack in the Box?

Speaker 1 35:43

We did Jack in the Box on when we first got there.

Speaker 2 35:46

Yeah, first got there and then In-N-Out the day we left.

Speaker 1 35:48

Yeah.

Speaker 2 35:49

And so okay, then Sunday.

Speaker 1 35:51

No, and then Saturday y'all had y'all's pre-party.

Speaker 2 35:56

Oh, and you ran into that. Y'all saw the one.

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Speaker 1 35:59

I'm not going to say who it was. Why not? Because maybe they do not want people to know that they were out at a bar. All almost people didn't know that they were out at a bar. All almost hunching in the bar in the corner.

Speaker 2 36:17

I'm not going to share that actress or actors put it like this you share it and it gets back to her.

Speaker 1 36:21

That means we're ready, we're about to blow up your weight okay, well, I don't even remember her name, but I can tell y' you what she laid on.

Speaker 2 36:29

But the place, what was the bar called Saddle Ranch? Saddle Ranch off of Sunset. Yes, saddle Ranch off of Sunset, pretty cool spot. This is what good little bar chill spot. Celebrities come there, you know often People. It's a good little place. The parking lot was amazing. Amazing how the lights and stuff was laid out really beautiful free to get in in a.

Speaker 2 36:50

You would have paid something to get in to that. I think so if you're gonna have some people that pop in there I think it just depends on the crowd that does that isn't? Oh no, man, it's just yeah I don't know, but we do know that uh, a x xl suv was 30 bucks in la for uber, as opposed to here being 90 or 60 dollars, even if you're only going two miles yeah, it wasn't at all that pricey to get to get that.

Speaker 1 37:20

I was surprised that it was because we were tired of being stuck in traffic and driving and I won't say I wasn't driving but riding in traffic because he did all the driving. But the traffic in LA is ridiculous.

Speaker 2 37:32

Yeah, even in the side streets. Now it's gotten crazy. Yeah, it's just so bad.

Speaker 1 37:36

We were like I think one place was like four miles from the hotel and it took us like 30 minutes, yeah, no less than 30 minutes for four miles To get there, and it was just too much. So we also wanted to be able to go out and drink and not worry about driving, and that you know it's a good example for our new 21-year-old. Yes for our new 21-year-old.

Speaker 2 37:57

So we got you got a ride, share we got a.

Speaker 1 38:02

I think it was. Was it Lyft? Yes?

Speaker 2 38:04

Yeah, it was Lyft.

Speaker 1 38:05

It was Lyft black. What was it? Suburban, suburban, yeah and yeah, I was surprised by the price that it was like 37 35 dollars to get us to where we were going stepped out of that thing, like charles and nev, yeah charles, your lunch is ready yeah, anyway.

Speaker 2 38:30

Um, but there this celebrity, she was there and uh, so I well, let me tell you what she played on hold on after after, when we got there, it was just for everybody to meet up with each other, so we met. That's where I met up with a lot of the people.

Speaker 2 38:41

I did the the recent challenge with and road rules with. Uh ran into, uh, taylor hale, which was cool, the first black, uh female to win um big brother, big brother. So that was dope. She was very sweet, yeah, very, very sweet person and so we ran into you know people there and then we were distracted by all of that making out-ish stuff. And bullshit At the bar and then they went over to the pool table and it was like they were filming.

Speaker 1 39:13

Yeah, it really was almost like they were filming. They were a vibe honey. They were really into one another she played in Paradise, Yep Paradise.

Speaker 2 39:24

The show Paradise with Sterling K Brown.

Speaker 1 39:27

And she was in Sex Life. Is that the name of?

Speaker 2 39:31

it. I think something like that.

Speaker 1 39:32

I think it is called Sex Life.

Speaker 2 39:33

Yeah, she was in. My boys say she was in Rush Hour 3. Mm-hmm, yeah.

Speaker 1 39:41

Oh yeah, it was Sex Life.

Speaker 2 39:42

Yeah, so you know we let y'all go from there, let y'all figure out who it is. Yeah, but she was. I mean, hey, ain't nothing wrong with it, you know you out there. But hey, okay, then go ahead. It's a bad self, but uh, that's what we did that night. Got back to the crib and, you know, enjoyed ourselves, went to sleep.

Speaker 1 40:00

Uh the drinks were so big, though Ginormous, I ordered a drink. It was what are the things called.

Speaker 2 40:08

Is it A carafay, a carafay, yeah, something like that.

Speaker 1 40:11

C-A-R-A-F-E.

Speaker 2 40:12

Yeah, yeah, it came in that it was ridiculously large. King Money. We turned around, it was gone.

Speaker 1 40:19

Yeah, he said because it wasn't good so I just chugged it. Yeah, just chugged, and I was like, listen if somebody else is buying your drinks and you don't like it. Yeah, it was on them.

Speaker 2 40:27

Yeah, that night was the drinks that were on, and then Sunday we went to Brea.

Speaker 1 40:38

That was the day of the show.

Speaker 2 40:39

Yeah, that was the day of the show. So we drove to Brea, which was about an hour outside of LA, and that's where we had the shows at Brea Comedy Club, improv, brea Improv and so we did our thing on stage.

Speaker 2 40:52

It was where we had the shows at braille comedy club improv, improv, braille improv, and so, uh, you know, we did our thing on stage. It was real cool because they had a tribute video, uh, to people saying, uh, you know, happy birthday, road rules. Uh, you know people from different shows and stuff, um, I couldn't tell you who they were right now. You know right off the bat, um, but uh, it was cool, cool attribute. And they had another video showing all the different seasons of Road Rules, showing us winning our Hampson Rewards. You know, at the end, back then, that's when nobody was getting voted off you know you were staying together. You learned who the characters were, who the people were, and many of us grew through those moments. You know, and you know, our Hampson Reward was a motorcycle that I still have to this day at my parents.

Speaker 1 41:37

Um, and y'all had some old producers there.

Speaker 2 41:40

Yeah, we had old producers. We had casting directors. My casting director, the guy who found me at Alabama state, was there. Um, shout out to my boy, kenny Hull. Um, he's been dope ever since, I mean just from day one. I used to go to LA and I would stay with him. We hung out with Cyrus.

Speaker 1 41:57

Cyrus was there oh yeah, you know they had. Cyrus is from Road Rule, I mean from.

Speaker 2 42:02

Real World. Real World, boston. Yeah, and you know, so it was. It was real cool, man, it's always cool to meet people who who think that what you did was cool. It's always cool to meet people who think that what you did was cool.

Speaker 1 42:13

But the coolest thing was that the boys got to see. So they hear their dad talk about rule, rules and they've seen some of the videos with the snake and all those things. But we let them, we took our camera and for them to kind of get pictures, because when you're there there are real fans.

Speaker 1 42:33

And for them to kind of get pictures because when you're there there are real fans, like yeah, I've been, this is maybe like maybe my fourth one I've been to, third or fourth one I've been to um, and people are really there and they just really love I mean the, the cast from the real people from the real world, and the role rules and fans of reality really true fans, like I remember one lady and key has this book there.

Speaker 1 42:56

It's like a uh, a road rules book, um, that they sold and it has pictures of all of them and she had been saving this book because she said one day I'm gonna meet kefla and she brought that book from way from the 90s to have to bring to him to sign in one of the meet and greets and so for them to be able to see how much people love his dad and wanted his autograph and wanted a hug and wanted a picture with him and all the things.

Speaker 1 43:26

I thought that was a cool thing for them to be able to experience and see that maybe their dad is cool. So that was neat for them to be able to have that share in that experience. And then even the coolest thing, like they're 21, so we're sitting back in our little booth watching him and can order like our appetizer and a little something to drink, and it just was just a cool a grown up experience with them, and so I thought that was really cool for them to, for them to be able to actually see it and not for us just to come home and talk about it.

Speaker 2 44:01

Yeah, I wanted to think when you're saying how people you know appreciated us, it was big for me because at school, you know, the boys went to school with me and they, you know, they know how to.

Speaker 2 44:13

Oh, the students love my dad, the student love coach. You know the boys went to school with me and they, you know, they know how to. Oh, the students love my dad, the student love coach, you know whatever. And you know, for them to see it in a wider scale, like that, for people who've only seen me a few times or don't have the everyday interaction, that meant a lot because it made them really say, like my dad is kind of special. You know what I mean and you could see that and I mean they know it. But but, like you said, it's one thing for people that I work with every day, but then for people that from around the way to really want to talk and be in your presence, you know that that that was a good moment, a good father moment for me. Man made me feel pretty soft inside oh yeah.

Speaker 1 44:57

So yeah, we did that. That was the majority of the day. That's always a long day, yeah, um. So we, yeah, that was till almost later in the evening, and then we had dinner with britney.

Speaker 2 45:09

Yeah, we ended our dinner.

Speaker 1 45:11

Uh-huh, we got up out of there. Yeah, I will. I'm not going to talk about the restaurant.

Speaker 2 45:16

We got up out of there. Why are you going to talk about it?

Speaker 1 45:18

Listen y'all. We love Brittany and Dre and they wanted us to say they're going to be mad if they listen to this.

Speaker 2 45:28

Hey Britt, you hear your mom, you hear your mom. You always be mad at me.

Speaker 1 45:34

They want us to try this Mexican restaurant.

Speaker 2 45:39

They said it's the best Mexican food ever, and it was good, I think, britt got a little bougie now, yeah, she done moved out of the wood, you know, so she done, got a little bougie, I mean. So her Mexican taste has going up the sky.

Speaker 1 45:53

It was pricey Mexican. I don't know if it should have been that pricey, but it was very good. You know it's pricey because listen, one of my sons who will spend all your money and don't think twice about it. If he look at the menu and say empanadas $35 for some empanadas who buying that? You know Right. If he say it, you know it's expensive because he'll spend all your money. If you take him out to eat, he don't care about the price, he gonna order whatever he want.

Speaker 1 46:20

so for him to say that I said oh yeah, and then he'll say, oh, I didn't know what the limit was he'll say I don't know what the limit was, I just got lobster risotto right, that's what he'll do and won't think two cents about it. He even looked at the drink menu and said a margarita 28 we all had water that night. Margarita 28 now for me, like prices like that, I like I.

Speaker 1 46:50

I would prefer like to spend it towards like a nice steakhouse or something like that, um, but not towards I love mexican but if I'm gonna spend like money money, I want a good steak like little alley is one of our favorite steak places um, you know I'm gonna do seafood, so I'm going to the optimist to spend that kind of yeah, optimist. And then one of our, one of my new favorite steak places that we went to with our friends uh, marcells, I think that's what it was called marcells okay that egg and poe. Oh, that steak from there that we went with. Uh, megan and poe, that was.

Speaker 1 47:22

That was real well I didn't like my um have y'all been to the place where they bring you your fish and then they do all the deboning magic for you?

Speaker 2 47:33

he did all that deboning magic only for there still to be bones when he left Tons of bones, not like it was like a few, it was tons of bones in there.

Speaker 1 47:41

So his deboning magic did not work, did not work at all, and the fish was greasy.

Speaker 2 47:45

Yes, I didn't even eat it all. No, it wasn't good, but their steak was good.

Speaker 1 47:50

My steak was so good. But that's our group.

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Speaker 2 47:52

I love going out with them. We can go out with them and it's never an issue. The only thing is about we're arguing about pain. Like you pain, we're like, oh no, we got it. So I love when we go with them like that man. That's pretty dope. We always have a good time. It's always family.

Speaker 1 48:14

And we went to that restaurant afterwards. They're friends. Those drinks were amazing, amazing.

Speaker 2 48:17

I wish we could remember the name of it. We'll talk about that later.

Speaker 1 48:23

It was Thai, it's a Thai restaurant.

Speaker 2 48:26

That was just an interesting night because our waitress, she painted everything on the inside customized.

Speaker 1 48:35

Then the next day I was on to a conference, work conference, and they were trying to do shots, shots, shots, shots. I said, listen, I got to get up and go to this conference. I cannot. They were like, oh, you'll be fine, but it's always a good time with the two of them.

Speaker 2 48:53

So let's see, After we left the Mexican restaurant, we went back to our hotel. Since we didn't buy drinks, we had some some stuff that we bought from.

Speaker 1 49:05

Yeah, it was actually a spark from the little Tokyo. It was a sparkling plum wine, yeah, sparkling plum wine. We never had the sparkling plum yeah.

Speaker 2 49:13

It was pretty good, yeah and um, and that was it, and then we flew back, uh, and oh, and to end our trip.

Speaker 1 49:24

To end the trip, it's always a crazy beginning or ending, ending and so we are like oh, not too far, we're halfway home. Halfway home and the lady from Delta calls and says yes, do you have your luggage? I say, yes, ma'am, I have my luggage. Are you sure? I'm sure I got my luggage? Well, I got a bag here right now. Do you have a Samsung? Now, listen y'all, I don't know the brand of my luggage. We've had the luggage for so long yeah, I don't know what it is.

Speaker 1 49:58

And she says you have a samsonite, is it samsonite? I said no, does it have a lock on it? I didn't even realize it had a lock on it. I said no, no, she was going all and I said I don't think that's mine. So then I told you, I said can we just pull over? So we had the boys in the back said can y'all please look? They look, honey, I got somebody else's luggage, so I call the lady back. I said we, I do, I do have like. So we had to turn all the way back around.

Speaker 2 50:24

Now, mind you, from our house 10, 30, 10, 30 our house.

Speaker 1 50:29

the airport to our house is about 45 to an hour drive, so we had to go back to the airport. I felt bad because whoever's bag I had, they were waiting on their bag. So I felt bad about that. I will say I was not the one to pick up my bag off of the carousel, the person sitting next to me did?

Speaker 2 50:50

I grabbed it. I sure did. I was ready to go. Anywho, so I get there never seen a luggage, so any luggage that looked exactly like ours no, because it really is not. One that's like a black one, or yeah, I mean it's like electric blue yeah and it's yeah, never and it was, it was right after. Yeah, we got, because I got one and then I said, oh, there's the other one and I snatched, snatched, just like that.

Speaker 1 51:13

Yep, and so sure that was crazy. I went back up there to give it back and the girl saw me with her bag, because our bags look are identical. So I went up and the ladies, and here go the lady. Now this is Atlanta airport, so when y'all things where?

Speaker 2 51:29

people talk about Atlanta. It's true.

Speaker 1 51:31

It's true. This is what she said to me. Oh, I thought you said you didn't have it. I asked you was it Samsonite? You said no. I said, does it have a lock? You said no, I guess you don't know your luggage. I said I guess I don't, and so I just took it a whiff. I was like good Lord, just give me the suitcase. I mean. So by the time it was all said and done, we hadn't eaten because the flight is four hours, and so we finally just did Whataburger, and we got home about 1230. Yeah, and I was the only one who had to get up and go. Oh no, I'm sorry, that was LA. You had to go to work too. Yeah.

Speaker 1 52:11

So we both had to get up and go to work the next day. But yeah, it was a long night, but it always ends with something, and that was the ending.

Speaker 2 52:20

Yeah, we're going to have an adventure on every trip some kind of way, but we're always also favored too, like it always works out for us, but it gives us something to talk about and laugh about. I don't know why, but you know, it's just the way it works, but I'm glad that we always come out on top.

Speaker 1 52:42

And I will say I have come to the thought process although I didn't, but you kind of swayed me towards that way is that if something happens that puts you a little bit behind schedule or you have to go out your way to do this or do that, I always think of what is it preventing from happening? Or like there is a reason for why things happen the way that they happen. And although it could make you, you know, a bit frustrated or you're possibly late for something that I don't know, for now I'm just like it is what it is. I used to get all bent out of shape and frazzled, but I always feel like I've learned that life, things happen the way they're supposed to happen, for whatever that reason may be.

Speaker 2 53:26

Yeah, and I think even sometimes it could just be for you to take a beat and know that it's not the worst thing that can happen.

Speaker 2 53:35

You know, yes, you're a couple minutes late, or you know you forgot something at home. Just turn around and go. If you need it, get turn around, because if not, you're gonna be constantly reminded that I don't have x, y and z at work and so it's like, oh, I can't do this, oh, I can't grab it, I can't get it, I can't, so just go ahead, take your time, turn around, get it. Go back to work. You're an adult. You explain it to them. They don't, um, accept your, you know, reasoning for being late, that you didn't do it intentionally.

Speaker 1 54:04

That's on them and I guess to think about it also if now this happens often, then you got to reeval yeah, you got to reevaluate yourself.

Speaker 2 54:10

Yeah, yeah, you got to reevaluate what's going on with you.

Speaker 1 54:13

But things that happen, not often Some stuff happens not because of our fault.

Speaker 2 54:18

Yeah, you know what I mean. And you'd be like oh, it was an accident. Now I'm stuck in traffic.

Speaker 1 54:21

Right.

Speaker 2 54:22

Even when you did leave on time. You know what I'm saying, so it's not your fault. But, like I said, you never know. Know, did this accident prevent me from being going through a green light that somebody ran a red light of? You know what I mean? Did it? Did it prevent me from being next to somebody swerving on the highway, right? So you never know. And you know, as long as you're in one piece, man, just stay positive with it'll be all right. There's worse things that could be going on right now. So, and that was LA- that was LA it was a nice.

Speaker 1 54:59

I think it was a very nice vacation. I really enjoyed it. I loved the full circle moments and opportunities to show boys things that we talked about, and it was just really nice. Only thing that wasn't nice was the traffic, but everything else was perfect.

Speaker 2 55:18

The weather was amazing.

Speaker 1 55:20

It was perfect.

Speaker 2 55:21

And we came back, we was like oh, my God. It was so hot. It was so hot, I mean, it was just disrespectful how hot it was, disrespectfully hot. And it was like man we should have. Why can't we stay in LA? But I understand why. When we had to go to the gas station and the car we was renting it was like 580 something.

Speaker 1 55:41

Yeah.

Speaker 2 55:42

A gallon to fill up, I was like oh no, yeah.

Speaker 1 55:45

Even just regular places to eat, like going to the coffee shop.

Speaker 2 55:48

Yeah.

Speaker 1 55:48

And getting four coffees and peanut butter toast.

Speaker 2 55:51

And where was that at?

Speaker 1 55:53

Now I don't want to. I'm not talking about this place because I will say my coffee was amazing.

Speaker 2 55:59

It was good. My PB&J jelly toast amazing and I wanted to support her and we did.

Speaker 1 56:11

So, it was Hilltop Coffee. I think it's called Hilltop Coffee. Yeah, Hilltop Coffee.

Speaker 2 56:13

I think it's called Hilltop.

Speaker 1 56:13

Coffee. Yeah, hilltop, it is. Issa Rae is has ownership in that. She's not the sole owner, but she has ownership in that. But we went to the one in Englewood. It was delish, it was great, but it was pricey.

Speaker 1 56:32

And so the funny thing to kind of connect the two, I did a training with the staff and I said something oh, when I talk about being that, I used to work at a Jewish school in Beverly Hills. The young lady sitting next to me was from LA and she was Jewish. She said what was the name of the school? I will know if I know it. And she knew it. And she said they moved from LA. Was Jewish. She said what was the name of the school? I want to know if I know it. And she knew it. And she said they moved from LA too. She says it's just so expensive, she goes. When I went back, it reminded me we went somewhere. It was like $15 for a cup of coffee or $15 for whatever it was. She goes. And I was like, oh no, now this is why. And so things are. Just see her there.

Speaker 2 57:16

I told her I saw, but the coffee was delicious, but I guess they do get paid more there than what we get paid here, so maybe it all balances out, it balances out.

Speaker 1 57:20

We went there with our georgia money, so if we were there with la money, maybe we would have felt different yeah, but we were there with our georgia money and so, uh, but the coffee was delicious. Would I buy it again? I absolutely would, if y'all have not been to the coffee I would go again, you know.

The Luggage Mix-Up

Speaker 2 57:39

And Delicious I like the vibe it was. The vibe was awesome, beautiful. In the wood it was in like they had a lot of little like across there was a little Black Beauty, you know, had the bookstore across from that and I'm a fan of Issa man, so you know I'm going to support everything she do and she does. I mean, like it was just cool, it was cool.

Speaker 1 58:02

It was really cool. We were on our way to the airport, but I just think that it was right.

Speaker 2 58:08

I mean five minutes from where we used to live, so it definitely would be a spot that you probably, if we lived where we live, we would have been there online just, you know, using the wifi, whatever vibe.

Speaker 1 58:19

Yeah for sure.

Speaker 2 58:19

Yeah, cause we missed we missed the opportunity to go to one of our favorite restaurants the serving spoon that is now owned by one of my students, Jessica, and so we we which is a historic restaurant in Englewood, the Serving Spoon. So we didn't get a chance to go there, but it was a few things Like we didn't get a chance to see certain people that we wanted to see Cam and Brian, but you know it was cool.

Speaker 1 58:45

Yeah, it was just amazing how fast the time went. We were there.

Speaker 2 58:48

Thursday.

Speaker 1 58:51

And I remember because, trying to figure it out with my work schedule, because I was already back at work, but we wanted to have a good amount of time there but, yeah, we could have really done a whole week, a whole week, yeah, a week there.

Speaker 2 59:03

And still would have felt like we didn't do something. Yeah.

Speaker 1 59:05

So, anywho, it was an amazing trip. We enjoyed ourselves.

Speaker 2 59:08

Yeah, we did, definitely did.

Speaker 1 59:11

Sure did, definitely did. Sure did, yeah, and we got to see Suzy. Yep Got to see my girl Suzy as always, yeah, and Tina, and Tina laughed with them. Yeah, I got to laugh with them.

Speaker 2 59:20

Yep, that was good, and so you know great people, great fam, mm-hmm. All right, so that was it. We just wanted to catch up on L.

Speaker 1 59:28

Oh, I got a question, though, before we leave.

Speaker 2 59:30

Okay.

Speaker 1 59:31

What is something that you are looking forward to this week?

Speaker 2 59:37

Oh man, well, I'm a little nervous about I'm more so nervous. I said what are you looking forward to? I'm looking forward to it, okay. I'm looking forward to discovering my practicum site, okay. But I'm a little nervous about it because I'm kind of behind the eight ball, like I wish I had more time to search for different places to do my practicum internship with um, but I'm looking forward because I it's going to be good, it's something new um I'm looking for. I'm always looking forward to seeing my students and that's really it man.

Speaker 2 1:00:24

Well, you won't be going with us, but moving Kamani back into his room for his final year.

Speaker 1 1:00:28

So I'm looking forward to that. You know his final year of undergrad, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 1:00:34

So at old mother, dear the alabama state university, yes and uh. So I'm, I'm looking forward to that because, uh, I remember when, um, I remember me, like I still have it, my, my, uh registration slip for my senior year you see my one shoebox I got and I was like with all the many other things and shoeboxes around here.

Speaker 1 1:01:00

He's got lots of things in shoeboxes so, uh, I'm looking forward to it.

Speaker 2 1:01:06

What about you?

Speaker 1 1:01:17

I was hoping he wouldn't say this. I'm looking forward to our 22nd wedding anniversary, that is this Saturday. 22 years of love on Saturday. He didn't say that y'all, but I did. I remember when he tried to say I remember the year, this is my trick'all. But I did Remember when he tried to say I remember the year, this is my trick, this is what I did.

Speaker 2 1:01:36

So have y'all noticed that she already pre-planned this she comes in with the stuff ready.

Speaker 1 1:01:43

I didn't know what you were going to say. What you said.

Speaker 2 1:01:45

I was hoping you was going to say that, Meaning that you already planned that. Oh, if he don't say it, I'm going to say it.

Speaker 1 1:01:54

Any that you already planned that? Oh, if he don't say it, I'm gonna say it. You know I win, I'll give it. I'll give you that. No, I'll give that to you. No, looking forward to that. That's saturday, so we'll probably just do dinner, something, nothing major, and then, um, also with um, I don't get to go to move kimani, and I've been every year to help move him in. This year I don't get to go because I went to la and so I was gone from three days from work. So, um, yeah, so I won't be able to move him in, but I did. We did do a little shopping yesterday of some of the things he'll need for his dorm, and um, dad's gonna take him down and do the rest for his senior year. So, yep, um, anywho. So looking forward to hearing about how everything went with his move in and celebrating this Saturday 22 years of love. L-o-v-e.

Speaker 2 1:02:44

So maybe we'll film an anniversary episode where we talk about how it all started.

Speaker 1 1:02:51

That sounds good.

Speaker 2 1:02:52

Yeah, so after you get your run and stuff, maybe we'll talk about it then go to dinner after I get my run, yeah get your run, and that's because it's on a saturday oh, on saturday you get your run. Then we'll be already dressed, yeah, and then we'll oh, that'd be good, and then go to dinner. Then go to dinner. That way we could talk actually about like how it all started, you know.

Speaker 1 1:03:14

Sounds like a plan.

Speaker 2 1:03:15

Yeah, about how I had to fight this restraining order because I was being stalked. Oh please, you know what I'm saying. So I gave her a chance.

Speaker 1 1:03:25

Slap.

Speaker 2 1:03:26

And it was a chance that she needed.

Reflections and Anniversary Plans

Speaker 1 1:03:28

Slap Sounds like a plan. So, no, whatever, don't listen to him, yeah.

Speaker 2 1:03:35

You know. So, guys, don't be so quick to give them a restraining order. You know they might just have a little more sense than they put on. It might work out.

Speaker 1 1:03:46

If you believe that you a fool.

Speaker 2 1:03:50

All right, everybody, but uh, we appreciate y'all, man. Thank y'all for listening. Again, remember, comment, like and subscribe and share. All right, continue to rock with us. Let us know what you want us to mention. If you got a question, we're getting ready to get into some relationship stuff in these next ones. I'm a relationship guru, so holla at your boy. I got you, I'm going to have you set up. Trust me, she knew it. She wouldn't be where she is right now if I wasn't a relationship guru. Okay, huh, yeah, exactly, she's a little speechless.

Speaker 2 1:04:37

Can't say nothing at all speechless doesn't always mean you have nothing to say. Yeah, what does it mean then? Exactly, thank y'all, we will see you when we see you adios amigos all right. Thank you for listening to the refreshingreshingly Normal Podcast. Bye, love you guys. The Refreshingly Normal Podcast, thank you. So Thank you.