The Refreshingly Normal Podcast with Kēfla and Cree

Holiday Cheating, Alexa Snitches, And Family Drama

• Kefla and Crecia • Season 1 • Episode 21

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Holiday cheer meets hard truths, and we’re not tiptoeing around either. We kick off with the real work of easing burnout—especially for educators—by building a simple, repeatable plan you can stick with when your brain is fried. No perfection. No spiritual gatekeeping. Just short meditations, one-minute box breathing, and the honest practice of noticing, naming, and returning. Our goal: you leave lighter, not just inspired.

Then the sleigh hits black ice. We dive into holiday relationship chaos where technology becomes the unexpected truth-teller. An Alexa command labeled “slow jams for grown folks” at 2:17 a.m. exposes a lie. A copy-and-paste mishap in a family group chat detonates an affair for everyone to see. We talk boundaries for hosts, dignity for spouses, and what to do when Grandma remembers last year’s “other girl” right as the wife walks in. It’s messy, it’s human, and it raises the question: in a season built on togetherness, why do some people double down on secrets?

We don’t stop there. We unpack compassionate but tough choices around pet care—when love turns into repeated, invasive procedures and what it means to honor quality of life. And we steady the room with gratitude: welcoming a new baby to the family, finishing a grueling semester, and a sharp book rec—The Book of Luke by Lavelle Holder—for fans of reality-TV scandals and smart storytelling.

By the end, you’ll have a pocket plan for stress, a clearer sense of your holiday boundaries, and a few stories you’ll want to text to a friend. If you enjoy candid conversation with practical takeaways and a lot of heart, hit play, then share this with someone who needs a laugh and a reset. Subscribe, leave a review, and tell us: what holiday boundary are you setting this year?

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The Refreshingly Normal podcast.

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Baby, all I want for Krima is you.

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All right, here we go. Welcome back, everybody. Thank you for tuning in to the Refreshingly Normal podcast. I am your host, Keith Love.

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And I am Lucretia.

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With that red lip looking like Miss Tina knows over there.

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Hello. It's for the holiday.

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All right, tears the Caesar. To be jolly. Fala la la la la la la la. Alright, you like that?

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No.

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She's a hater, man. She's a hater, mate. Alright, so let's get right into Okay. What you want to talk about today?

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Well, we usually start off with our week.

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I know. Keep talking.

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Um, so this week um was a pretty good week. Uh same things. Well, I actually didn't. Did I have any trainings this week? I feel like maybe I didn't. But I feel like something happened this week that I wanted to share. I don't know. And now I can't even remember what it is.

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You tell me.

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Um yeah, I can't even remember what it is that I wanted to share, but there was something.

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Maybe it'll come to me at another, another um another time, another place.

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Another time, another place.

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All right, so um this week for me, what what what great thing happened? Um, hmm.

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It went by fast this week. I felt like it was really fast. Yeah. Offer me of it.

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Y'all know I don't even want to say what I'm doing. What's that three-letter word out there?

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I.

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I've been doing a lot of that. Uh, and a lot of proctoring, testing, you know, going in to help test and stuff like that. And I had to give the test. So, you know, that's that's been the um the life I've lived this week. Um, but yesterday, which was Friday, was very, very productive, you know, doing all that stuff. So I'm good with it. Um, let's see. What else? What else did I do? That's about it, man. Um getting ready for this last week.

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Yeah.

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I can't wait for this last week. It's gonna be amazing.

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It is gonna be amazing. It's gonna be amazing. I can say that um I started working on a new PL this week. We'll see how it goes. Okay. Um, about burnout. Remember, we talked about that?

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Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Trying to uh create some support um for individuals who are just feeling a little burnt out and just feeling the weight of being an educator on their shoulders and so trying to give them things for relief and strategies and plans to help support. So I'm trying to be really um as I create it, I'm trying to think of not just things to kind of say, but actually they leave with a plan. Like you leave with actual things that you feel lighter when you leave.

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Yeah, that's that's that's the important part is when you go to these things, because a lot of times some some people are coming because I'm looking for help.

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Yeah.

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And and when you leave knowing or feeling like it's gonna be better, oh my God, that's a great feel.

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Yeah.

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But sometimes you'll leave like, I just wasted X amount of hours of my life, I'd never get back. Yeah. You know, that's disappointing. But um I hate the fact that, you know, district wise, kind of wise, you can't really do what's mindfulness. You know, you can't say that mindfulness meditation, because those are two key components into uh any kind of burnout, workplace burnout, uh, burnout from sports, yeah, burnout from just regular uh the mundane task of things.

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Yeah.

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You know, if if you could really I want to say preach on, well, yeah, I can say preach on because this ain't district related, but preach on the fact of how mindfulness and meditation is important to refreshing the brain, refreshing the uh the purpose. You know, that's it. I mean, that may be how you can reframe it.

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Yeah.

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Well refreshing the purpose.

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Yeah. Um, yeah, I that that's my biggest goal, is just try to figure out. I just want them to leave lighter. So as I'm creating and doing act the things and the content and activities, that is what is guiding uh the creation of it. And I will, and I know like um you are great. Meditation, meditation, I feel like it's hard.

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It is. That's the that's the that's the point, though. Um it's even professionals will have days or moments when they're not doing what we would think is right, but they'll tell you that's part of it. Noticing that I'm not fully in it is part of meditating. Because as soon as you notice that uh I'm not devoting all of my time in it, now acknowledge why. What are you thinking about? I'm so stressed about you know uh my job. Okay, well, acknowledge that. Don't don't try to cover it up. That's part of the meditation process. And that's that's the biggest misconception that uh I got over was learning um through the professionals and stuff that I would, you know, study with and stuff, is that it doesn't, I mean it's not supposed to have a per perfect way, yeah. You know, and that it is perfectly normal for it to be difficult.

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Yeah.

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You know what I'm saying? But the thing is, don't stop just because it didn't work that day. You gotta keep being consistent with it and keep with it uh, you know, the same format. And what eventually will happen is you will learn how to, like those blocks of thinking. Let's say if I meditate for five minutes and I'm thinking of other things for four minutes. Well, you keep doing it, then all of a sudden you'll be thinking for things for three minutes. Then you'll be thinking of other things.

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Yeah, that's what I was thinking of. Don't start so big in your meditation, but maybe just start with five minutes.

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Five minutes. Or some people, even a minute. Yeah. Even a minute of just a box breathing, you know, four seconds, uh inhale, hold four seconds, four seconds, exhale, hold four seconds, and then repeat that. You know. But uh it is difficult, but just but be consistent and it will be it is the best thing for I'll say for your life. Yeah, yeah.

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So anywho, that's it.

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My headphones don't sound right for whatever reason. I don't know. Your sound clear and loud? I think. Oh, child. Who am I dealing with, y'all?

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Not a tech person.

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But you a hit, you know what sound, you know it shouldn't sound muffled. Mine sound a little muffled.

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Oh, it does sound a little bit muffled, yeah.

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Oh. Huh. Interesting.

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I'm not sure why.

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Me neither.

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That sounds like it fixed something. That made it sound less. That sounds better.

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That sounds better. Okay.

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I guess to me it does.

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We'll move on. All right. Um so let's get down into it. It's the holidays, man. You know, holidays ain't just one day. You know, holidays is the holiday season.

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Yes.

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It starts holiday season starts September.

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Yeah, it certainly does because we go from You got your Labor Day. Yep, and we jump to Halloween.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, well, no, you got Labor Day, and then you got September the 10th. Oh. It's my birthday. National holiday. Come on, Cinnabons, lay down. So you got my birthday.

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Yeah.

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You got Halloween.

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Uh-huh.

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After Halloween, you got Thanksgiving.

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Uh-huh.

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After Thanksgiving, you got Christmas. Christmas.

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Uh-huh.

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And New Year's.

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Yep. So that's holiday season.

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Yep. Holidays. Yes. Fala la la la la la la la la. All right. So let's talk about some holiday stuff.

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Okay.

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So we um talked to our great friend, Mr. Chat.

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Actually, at work, he's my boyfriend.

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And guess what? I changed the voice of my chat to a female. So guess what? She's my girlfriend.

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Oh. I guess we both have side pieces.

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Yep. So do.

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Mm.

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Mm-hmm.

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They do that work, the ladies on my team ago. Uh, Kree, your boyfriend helped me out last night. I said, that's okay, girl. I share them.

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Somebody over there recording. Now y'all come to see. This is what they're doing over there. Share. They're sharing men. Somebody all in y'all's business. So we're going to talk about some holiday stories, all right? Um some holiday uh exposure stories. People getting caught in the act. Of cheating. Dun dun dun. During the holidays. You know, a lot of times you hear the stories of people breaking up with people during the holidays.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, I heard somebody saying that that they do it and then they do it all the way through Valentine's Day. And then they come back to get the person.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, if you if you if you live in an area where the the pickings are slim or whatever, you know, it that's possible. If you live in an area where as soon as you let it go, somebody else picking it up.

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Yeah.

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That's that's difficult.

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Right.

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Or either that thing good or you laying it down good, then that's how they'll come back.

SPEAKER_04:

Is it really just about the gift, though?

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It's about the gift. It's about the time spending. Because, you know, if you're a player, holidays mean I gotta lock down somewhere. I got somebody's expecting me to spend time with them.

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Yeah.

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So they like, I can't do that. Because I gotta move and shit. Because that's a special day. So if everybody's special, how much time are you gonna give to each one?

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So you can spread yourself, your royal oats.

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So if you break up with either all of them or maybe all but one or all but two, then now you can still maneuver how you maneuver. You know. Um back in the days, back in the olden days, um I knew somebody that did that. Yep, he did that during the day. It wasn't me.

SPEAKER_04:

What do you mean during the day?

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Um during the days.

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Oh, during the day during the holidays, like from Christmas to Valentine's So he wouldn't get caught up.

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And then he would take the gift back and re-gift.

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What do you mean? So he he would get Well, he didn't break up before the holiday then because he he was with us for the holiday.

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So let's say Christmas.

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Okay.

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Stuffed animal, you know, the high school gift. You know, back in the 80s.

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Okay.

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So think about in my life, who back in the 80s.

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Uh-huh.

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He would get the gift. I don't broke up, but you give me that gift back. So then round the corner, Valentine Day, he would he would either give that gift to the other one that he broke up with. You see what I'm saying? Because he'd break up with all of them. So then he would take the gift back from one and give it to the other one for Valentine. And then um, you know, they everything good. Or he would break up uh before Christmas. So, like right after Thanksgiving. Break up and then mess with nobody. Phone rang off the hook. You know, I'm lying for everybody. You know what I'm saying? Then they get back together around January. Break up again, February, and then get back together, March. But each time he got gifts because they felt like if I get him a gift, that'll get him back to me.

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So those ladies did not know their worth because I wish I would.

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But it could be that they knew their worth, but it was just uh not a lot of people in the market to buy, to purchase their worth.

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Would be single.

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It's okay to be single.

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It is, but you know, a lot of times, you know, kids nowadays don't they? Even then, you know, they don't think like that. You know what I'm saying? They ain't single, they don't want to be single. You know?

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I'll be single because you know, for me, I didn't have to worry about Valentine's Day. My mama and daddy were gonna make sure I got something.

SPEAKER_02:

I'm sure you still got something from somebody else.

SPEAKER_04:

I didn't say I did.

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All right, dear. So you don't know the feeling. Either way, I'm not putting up with the thing. You don't know the feeling. I'm not putting up with no foolishness of being, you don't, you don't know. Have you ever experienced a drought when you were thirsty?

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Why are you thirsty?

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And I'm not necessarily me being a thirst trap, but I'm saying uh you don't understand what I'm saying? If you if there's a drop when you're thirsty.

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But I'm not getting ready to give a trifling person a gift with hopes that he would choose me. Those were high school games.

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That was them high school games.

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I was in high school before, too. But let me tell you, I've been playing them games. I wish I would.

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Back in the day, boy, them thing was serious.

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Uh-uh. I wish I would. I wish I would.

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I remember one time I was dating somebody. This was probably like ninth. I thought I was dating somebody. And um Valentine gave her everything. Next thing you know, she walk around it, big old heart thing of candy.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh, from somebody else?

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Flowers and stuff.

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What did you give her?

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Um I gave her like the Were you in high school? Yeah, ninth grade. A bear. I gave her, I think like a like a bear, some candy.

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Yeah.

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Um I gave her, I gave her that first first period. Like right before first, because everybody used to get there early to hang out. And then I ain't see mine. But I saw her walking around that big ass box uh thing of candy, the bill heart of candy.

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Like, what the hell? Yeah. You said I ain't getting.

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So then I said, alright, well, because I would always see it like a from afar. Because I'm going to class. I ain't being late, you know, I get in trouble. So I'm doing my thing. So this time, I'm gonna be a little late. I see.

SPEAKER_04:

Why was she told?

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You know what I didn't I'm gonna hug the little cat. Oh, I know that joker didn't. So I confronted her at the end of the day. I said, uh, so why you ain't offer me no candy? She said, candy? You should have you gave the candy to me. I said, no, I'm talking about the other candy you got from the whoever else.

SPEAKER_06:

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02:

And she ain't saying nothing. I said, that's all good. Man, I said, if you dating somebody else, man, you know, just tell me. I said, because I don't want to be looking like no fool. I used to get played because I, like I said, I was too nice.

SPEAKER_06:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

But, and so she she said, uh, well, nah, they be coming at me. They be, I said, All right. They be coming at me. Well, look here.

SPEAKER_04:

She wasn't supposed to accept it.

SPEAKER_02:

That hug that I saw, that wasn't no coming at me. That wasn't no coming at me hug.

SPEAKER_04:

That was coming at each other.

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And so I was like, all right, well, maybe we need to take a break. And when I tell you that next day, she was with that person. Hugged up like a mug. I said.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh, like a mug.

SPEAKER_02:

Like a mug. That means they didn't have to hide it.

SPEAKER_04:

Nope.

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Hey.

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Mm-mm.

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I'm telling you, I could, I had every reason in the world to be a dog. To be a low dog, like that lady told me in the in the in the store. Low down dirty dog. Lady called me a dog because I wouldn't give her no money. First move to Atlanta.

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I'm a low down dog. Can I get sir?

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Can you give me something? I said, ma'am, I ain't got no money. You a low down dirty dog. I said, Oh shit. That's how they do you. I mean about the first week. And so I could have, I got every reason, man, to be a low-down, dirty dog. Like I said, when I was slapped by my ex that one time.

SPEAKER_04:

Why she slapped you?

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Remember, I didn't tell you on the bus? No, no, that's another.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh, wait, she, and then her mama brought up.

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No, that's another story. But the one that slapped me, she slapped me to prove to everybody that she didn't like me.

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Oh.

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And I thought we were going together. We used to whole hand and everything. But she slapped me. They said, You still like her? Nah, nah. Because she would, I guess the other boys, and then they finally wanted to talk to her. Because she started, you know, developing um puberty. Yeah, them uh Jordan jeans. And you know, they they was fit tight. Jordas jeans make anybody look like they were about something. And then next thing you know, we was outside and they were trying to get at her. And somebody said, nah, he her and Kefla go together. I don't like him. Watch.

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Pow.

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Mm-mm. I said, what?

SPEAKER_02:

I hit my face. And I looked at everybody. And you know how on the TV show when people laugh, it's like they're laughing at you like that. So they feel like, I just looked.

SPEAKER_06:

Oh no.

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And I just took off and I ran.

SPEAKER_04:

I think I'm choking on your Pala Santos.

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No, it ain't it. It might be. No, it ain't.

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But uh smoke.

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That's what it was, man.

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Man.

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Hey. And it's just so funny. All these, I got stories for days. But people like this didn't happen. I swear. All this stuff happened.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh my God.

SPEAKER_02:

I got a story for days. Thank you guys for putting me through these things.

SPEAKER_04:

Now, what's the one where the girl and then her mom brought her over?

SPEAKER_02:

So I don't condone ever hitting a girl. You know what I'm saying? But at the time. Oh, she scratched your back, though. Yes. And then with Lou, you know, boys don't really have restraint like you do as men. Because it's like, you know, sometimes some, you know, some of them girls we knew in the country, they fight, stand up like boys, and so my advice is kick them in the shin and then run and walk away. But she was on it, and she she this little girl used to like me, and and I didn't like her, not necessarily because she was ugly, but she had an ugly personality. They were mean. She liked to fight. Yeah, I, you know, it's you know, things like that.

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Yeah. Okay.

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So um, but I mean the looks didn't help. Um but so I'm sitting on the back of the bus, and I mean not the back of the bus, in the middle of the bus, and you know, Deep South, human. Hot, you own the bus.

SPEAKER_03:

Yes.

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Um, I mean, just hot. And so we're almost home, and she just kept saying, calling my name. Kefla. Keith.

SPEAKER_04:

Because she liked you.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. She liked. And I would tell her, girl, I don't like you.

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Okay.

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You know? Girl, I don't, I know her name, but just, you know, country. Girl, I don't like you. She kept on, and then she would like tap me, pop me in the head, and Keith. I said, look, stop. I don't like you. And you like me, you then I said, I don't like you. Leave me alone. And that's all I said. Next thing she took them fingers and clawed me in the back of my hand. I'm talking, she gripped my hand and said, and it like scratched, like it was a little bleeding. And I said, ah! I turned around, pop, slapped her. Because I mean, as soon as he hit it, I just turned like that. So whoever scratched me, whether the boy or a girl, that whole bus seat was gonna get it.

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Okay.

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And I just swiped through. And then Miss Wittlener was the bus driver. And she was like, I said, Miss Willenell, look at my head. And she saw that scratch.

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She said, He told you he didn't like you.

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So Miss Willnell heard all that. And my stop was coming up. So she pulled off. She said, Go inside. Get on inside. So I got off the bus, ran inside, and her stop was around the corner. So she let them off. Mom, mama was home. And so I came in now. I said, Mama, look at my head. Mama's looking at my head. Say, what happened? I told her. She said, such and such scratch me. And she said, Why is she straight? Said, because I told her I don't like her. And mama knew. So she was just laughing. Said, Well, you don't do a girl, boy. And I said, Mama, I said, when she did, I just swiped. And so about five minutes later, ding-dong. And I'm standing in the kitchen. You know how a window is in the kitchen. So we didn't have the carport or we didn't have the sunroom. So it's just a door, and I can look at the kitchen right there and see the door right next to it through the window. And so she came and said, Miss Linda, that's why I done hit my daughter. And she said, uh, and mama said, Well, he hit your door like she ain't know nothing about it. What happened? And she said, uh, and she said, Nah, he just hit me. And I said, No, and then I said it through the window. I said, No, she scratched my neck. And then I um I just swiped that and hit her. And that lady said, You know you don't supposed to be hitting girls. I said, That ain't no girl. And she said, You don't be hitting girls. Y'all need to be nice to each other because one day y'all gonna marry each other. I said, No, man, I ain't gonna marry your daughter because she's ugly.

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I ran to the room, and my mama said, And she took, she took it. She said, All right, I'll talk to him, I'll talk to him.

SPEAKER_04:

And then Oh my gosh. So a mess.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. And the only other time I ever uh put my hands on a girl was when I was in fourth fifth grade.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh, that girl called you the end. Yes.

SPEAKER_02:

It was in I was in the fifth grade, and uh we was on the playground. You know, you have hall monitors, playground monitors, and all that stuff. And so this little boy, we was playing dodgeball, and I hit him, boom, and I bust him, you know. And probably was a headshot when I hit him. But in other softball, everybody got hit in the head playing dodge, you know, kickball, dodgeball, whatever it was. And he said, Oh, you hit me in the head, nigger. And I went out and slapped him, boom. And so when I slapped him, she walked up to me, Oh, I'm gonna tell you, you don't hit him. Why'd you hit him? I said, because he called me a nigger. And she said, Well, you are, aren't you? And I said, boom. And I slapped her. And so, uh, and then, you know, we walked. I mean, they uh another teacher saw the girl crying, walked us both into a white teacher, walked us into her room, and the white teacher was like, uh, oh, we're getting to the bottom. This, why did you slap Nick, first of all? I said, because he called me a nigger. She said, and why did you slap her? I said, because she said I am one. And she and I looked at her, not smiling, nothing, and then she said, Okay, I'll take care of this. Uh, y'all two go to class, and then she kept me, she said, just try not to hit them, okay? I'm sorry that happened, but we can't be hitting people, okay? I said, Well, I said, I'm gonna let you know if anybody calls me a nigga, I'm probably gonna hit them.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay, I understand. And then she let me go.

SPEAKER_04:

Uh-huh. Mm-mm-mm.

SPEAKER_02:

Yep.

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That is.

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Shout out to the dirty south.

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That's how Alabama.

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That's how it was.

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I know.

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Yeah.

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Okay. Well.

SPEAKER_03:

But tis the season to be jolly. Fa la la la la la la la la.

SPEAKER_04:

Yes. We ended with such a story.

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I mean, it hey, I'm just saying.

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All right. Let's get to the holiday story.

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That was a holiday.

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That was a holiday.

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That was a holiday.

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And it was a whole bunch of what you say.

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I know that's right. Hmm. But now let's get to a little bit of what you say and some believe it, sister.

SPEAKER_04:

All right. So, our first story is the Alexa snitch.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay, what Alexa do.

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So.

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Hold on. Remember, we went to your auntie and Pat, and she they were trying to get her to learn how to say Alexis. Alexa. She kept saying Alexis.

SPEAKER_04:

Lexus. Hey, Lexus. Maybe y'all say.

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And they was like, she won't say nothing. Lexus.

SPEAKER_04:

Hey, Lexus.

SPEAKER_05:

All right, go ahead.

SPEAKER_04:

So the um boyfriend told um his girlfriend that he was home for the during his holiday season and he was just watching home alone. So she opens their Alexa app just to check the lights and see the last command. And guess what the last command was?

SPEAKER_02:

What'd it say?

SPEAKER_04:

Alexa, play slow jams for grown folks. Uh-huh. Time stamped 217 a.m. So she texts back with that uh what uh the last thing that somebody, the last command, and told him, Kevin McAllister, don't listen to this.

SPEAKER_02:

You know what Kevin McAllister was?

SPEAKER_04:

That's a little boy at home alone.

SPEAKER_02:

That's right.

SPEAKER_04:

That's a little boy at home alone.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh my. He over there getting it busy.

SPEAKER_04:

Uh-huh. With somebody.

SPEAKER_02:

Playing slow jam for grown for.

SPEAKER_04:

He was home alone, all right.

SPEAKER_02:

All right.

SPEAKER_04:

And got caught up. I wonder what he said back. So if she sent him that text with that, and Kevin McAllister don't listen to doesn't listen to this, what you think he said back?

SPEAKER_02:

It probably took him a second before he realized it. Kevin McAllister. Home alone. Oh shit, I told her I was home alone. Oh, this is a slow chance soundtrack. Oh my God. Dang it.

SPEAKER_04:

And some people probably don't even realize for Alexa that that that it will say the last command. Like you just think you're throwing out commands, but you don't think there's anywhere where that data is going to take place.

SPEAKER_02:

A lot of that stuff, you can say, hey, give me the last things I told you to do. You told me at 7.45 to say, You told me to turn the lights on at 10.15.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh, yeah, because she probably said, Alexis, tell me the last command. And then Alexa told her.

SPEAKER_02:

But in order for her to just say, tell me the last command, she knew something was up.

SPEAKER_04:

Well, that's true, because why would you say that?

SPEAKER_02:

Right. Because you're always trying, because if you're not trying to catch nobody anything, you're not just going to say, hey, tell me the last command. You know what I mean? Oh, that is true.

SPEAKER_04:

So people need to also understand all of these things as you committing crimes and doing certain things, and you got this smart house. That's a lot of investigation that can happen through your little smart house.

SPEAKER_02:

Who was that recently they caught them based off of their chat GPT thing that they were trying to do?

SPEAKER_04:

Well, they ask a chat B GPT how to kill something.

SPEAKER_02:

Yes, it was somebody recently.

unknown:

I don't know.

SPEAKER_02:

Some some assassination attempt or something. They said they went to the chat and they found out that the person was looking up information about how to either cover up or do something. Yeah. That's what it was. Uh-huh. Yep.

SPEAKER_04:

That is something. So all you people out there that um somewhere else where you're not supposed to be asking Alexa to do things.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. Yep. Alexa's a serious, you know.

SPEAKER_04:

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02:

Be careful.

SPEAKER_04:

Be careful. You better tell, you better figure out a way to erase it.

SPEAKER_02:

If you plan on cheating.

SPEAKER_04:

If you plan on being a cheater.

SPEAKER_02:

That's right.

SPEAKER_04:

Mm-mm. Okay, what about this little story here? Okay.

SPEAKER_02:

You forgot it?

SPEAKER_04:

No, I didn't forget it. Um, that's the petty. I wanted to get to this part. All right. Christmas Eve. Wrapping paper everywhere.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay.

SPEAKER_04:

Kids finally asleep.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay.

SPEAKER_04:

The wife's phone starts buzzing nonstop. Family group chat. She assumes it's a last minute food update. Okay.

SPEAKER_06:

Okay.

SPEAKER_04:

Instead is screenshots. Text between her husband and another woman talking about sneaking off after the kids go to bed. Hotel name. Hotel room. Heart emojis.

SPEAKER_02:

So somebody in the family had a screenshot.

SPEAKER_04:

The other woman immediately types, OMG. I sent this to the wrong chat.

SPEAKER_02:

So she's in the family group chat.

SPEAKER_04:

So somebody in the family group chat had plans on meeting somebody.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, snap. Yeah, that's yeah, that's right. That's right. So, oh. So somebody a a fairing in the family.

SPEAKER_04:

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02:

That's dirty.

SPEAKER_04:

That is.

SPEAKER_02:

Dirty dog.

SPEAKER_04:

What would what okay? So we what we have a family group chat. What if that did occur? How do you think they would respond? People would respond.

SPEAKER_02:

Um I mean, it'd be crazy because it's so many different responses in our family. People would respond so many different ways. You know what I'm saying?

SPEAKER_04:

Oh, wait, no, no, no, no. It was the husband who did it. He was chatting in the wrong.

SPEAKER_02:

He put it in the family group chat.

SPEAKER_04:

He's supposed to be texting his side.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, oh, sloppy boppy.

SPEAKER_04:

So he did that.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, confused Rufus.

SPEAKER_04:

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_02:

Confucius Rufus.

SPEAKER_04:

So, and and they put it in the family group chat so everybody knows.

SPEAKER_02:

Mm-mm. Goddamn. Oh, they looking at him like he's crazy.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, well, that you can Christmas is done.

SPEAKER_02:

For for a lot of people.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

Especially for you. Like you ain't coming to the crib. And it's and if it's your family, you still ain't coming.

SPEAKER_04:

Okay, so if he's not home and you there and you get all that, him not even being aware that would you say Somebody's gonna say it. Somebody's gonna say something bad.

SPEAKER_02:

Let's say if it if that was me.

SPEAKER_04:

Okay.

SPEAKER_02:

In our group chat.

SPEAKER_04:

Okay.

SPEAKER_02:

Somebody would text me and be like, hey, bruh. Oh, yeah You know what I'm saying? Yeah. So I would get a heads up. Yeah. Then I'd be like, oh my God, what am I gonna do?

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

You know? So I'm sure somebody in that family reached out and be like, Do you know what you just did?

SPEAKER_04:

Uh-huh. So then what do you think the wife would do?

SPEAKER_02:

She could do a lot of things. One, if if if they're let's say he done snuck away to the bathroom, whatever. You know, he's in the bathroom, just texting. He may accidentally do it. I mean Well, that's gonna be a big to-do. If if he's at What if he's not home? If he's not home, she probably uh, of course, locking the door ain't gonna do it because it's gonna have the key, but she'll probably be waiting, or she probably won't be waiting. She'll be like, you know what? I'm just gonna get a bag, another one. Oh, and go out.

SPEAKER_04:

But she got keys, or she got back to Kansas. Yeah, we're gonna spend all the time. Maybe like they would decide to spend Christmas, because Christmas home. And she said, Well, nope, I'm gonna go to my mama's, my parents' house.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04:

Take the kids with me.

SPEAKER_02:

That's what I would do. Like, if if if I saw that stuff coming in, and I would say, I'd be like, hey, hey boys, let's go. Um, we're just gonna get us a room real quick, put it on the card. Um, and and you know, and then obviously you would already know because the the uh you would look at the text probably, and well, somebody says somebody's gonna reach out and be like, Did you know what you just did? And then you're gonna be like trying to call me and about and try to fix it. Like, what are you doing? What are you doing? And then you're gonna look at location. Where are they? Where are they? Where are y'all going? And then you're gonna try to meet us there. I'm like, if this lady comes asking about us, please do not let her in. She's crazy. Don't call the police, just don't let her. Yeah, that'd be insane.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh my goodness. Okay, here's another one. It's a big family Christmas.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay.

SPEAKER_04:

Everybody's in matching pajamas. The hill, the house smells like cinnamon rolls and chaos.

SPEAKER_02:

I thought you could say cinnamon rolls and booty holes.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh gosh. Why would y'all be smell like booty holes?

SPEAKER_02:

Because this is Bob China.

SPEAKER_04:

Okay. So they probably already giving. Everybody's there. A man brings a woman he introduces as a friend from work.

SPEAKER_06:

Uh-huh.

SPEAKER_04:

She's nervous but smiling. Grandma looks at them too long and then says, Oh, so you brought this one this year instead of the other girl. And the room goes silent, the woman freezes, the man stutters. Before anyone can recover, the front door opens. And guess who showed up?

SPEAKER_02:

Santa Claus.

SPEAKER_04:

His wife.

SPEAKER_02:

So she was a side piece and a different side piece than the one he brought last year.

SPEAKER_04:

Yes.

SPEAKER_02:

So he owed that just exchanging gifts.

SPEAKER_04:

Yes, but my thing is as a family, knowing that he's married, why would y'all allow him to bring those ladies?

SPEAKER_02:

It happens. It happens. We we like you said, we know families that been going with, you know, older folks. You know, we know people, or we hear the stories of people in our families years ago who had a whole nother family. And everybody still chilling with it.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, I'm telling you.

SPEAKER_02:

You know what I'm saying? I wouldn't confront about it. I just wouldn't be around. I couldn't be around that. I couldn't say, hey, you over here cheating on you. I you know what? I'm out.

SPEAKER_04:

No, I can't say nothing if you at somebody else's house and they they f they let you bring your little side piece.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, you're not coming to my crow with nobody, no side piece.

SPEAKER_04:

Just know, you ain't coming with no side piece. You got a whole wife and family at home.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, you're not bringing a side piece to my house.

SPEAKER_04:

And I would gladly meet you at my door and say, oh, brother. No.

SPEAKER_02:

Or even if I realizing she's already here.

SPEAKER_04:

Y'all got to go.

unknown:

Amen.

SPEAKER_04:

Get your girl and gone.

SPEAKER_02:

Unfortunately, y'all gonna have to get up out of here.

SPEAKER_04:

You got to go.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. It don't look good.

SPEAKER_04:

Now you want to come back with Keisha?

unknown:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04:

Your wife, y'all are more than welcome to come back. As a matter of fact, I'm gonna call her and see why she's not here. So you might want to go on go.

SPEAKER_02:

But you know, we also know or hear stories where families don't ever spend the time with the other side. You know, you go to your family, I go to mine.

SPEAKER_04:

You know, they don't do it together.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04:

So it's that's strange to me, but I guess it's possible.

SPEAKER_02:

You know, that's the dynamics of their relationship.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

You know, there's no compromise because some people say, you know, my parents are expecting me to be at Christmas every year with them. Yeah. Well, mine are too.

SPEAKER_04:

And I always wonder how that works once you have kids, because how does that does there where do the kids go?

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04:

Like, how do you have the kids spend time?

SPEAKER_02:

I think they'll split.

SPEAKER_04:

Like, so maybe if he's going with his family, then this year they would they do Thanksgiving there and then Christmas with the other or whatever, however it works.

SPEAKER_02:

And then I I think, but I'm sure there's a lot of arguments. Excuse me, there's a lot of arguments in that regard too, because if you're selfish enough to say I'm only gonna spend Christmas with my side of the family, you're also gonna be selfish enough to say I only want the kids to spend with us too. Because my mom and dad are missing them and they want to see them for Christmas, you know. So I'm sure it's a lot of you know back and forth, you know, um, between each other. Which is not good. Not at all. All right, what you got?

SPEAKER_04:

All right, so this is the last one. This is the travel cancellation.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay.

SPEAKER_04:

She booked the Christmas trip, paid for everything, then found messages confirming he lied about a family emergency. He texts from the airport about to board. She cancels the reservation, sends the confirmation screenshot, and types, enjoy your emergency. Then turns her phone off. So he wasn't with them because he said it was a work trip. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

And kind of like that story we didn't say work trip.

SPEAKER_04:

And so she turned the phone off, but um, he was about to board, so I guess did he board or did he say shoot? What do you think he did? You think he board boarded the flight to go back, or did he just say?

SPEAKER_02:

No, I think I think he at that point when she said that, I think he went on like, well, let me just might as well go through my plans.

SPEAKER_04:

I'm thinking so too. I mean, it just depends on, I guess, how much he was feeling like he was losing.

SPEAKER_05:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04:

I can see some people still going and thinking, have that whole flight to figure out how they gonna work the mess out. Because lots of people, I feel like people who do all these things oftentimes feel like they can get themselves out of anything.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, of course. Um, many of them do.

SPEAKER_04:

Many do. Um, and so I wonder if he did go get on board, what did he say once he got there?

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04:

To try to win her back over.

SPEAKER_02:

Cause one thing that we're with these stories, the context that we're missing is is this the first time or not? Because if it's not the first time, a lot of these people are thinking that I'm gonna, like you said, I'm gonna get out of it. You know, if it's the first time, then some of them are part of panicking, then like, oh, let me help get home so I can, you know, do some damage control.

SPEAKER_04:

Right.

SPEAKER_02:

But uh for those that have done it several times, you said this before. You was gonna kick me out. I'm still here. I'm still here.

SPEAKER_04:

And he probably can go home and work it out. Like I saw this thing on TikTok where this girl was just fussing at her boyfriend because I guess he they were talking and he got tired of talking, so he just hung up. She was like, that was. What you tith like tonight, you hanging up on me? And so he decided what he was gonna do was in the middle of her fussing just kiss her.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04:

And she did. She caved.

SPEAKER_02:

I think that's uh set up. Yeah, that's those setups. Because you know how they'll say.

SPEAKER_04:

I feel like there are people you could do that too. Oh, there's a lot of people you can do. Okay.

SPEAKER_02:

It's just like makeup sex.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

When they start to say, Oh, well, you don't be doing that.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh no.

SPEAKER_02:

You know?

SPEAKER_04:

I would have been like, eh.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04:

But there are people that are easily. And then I feel like people who are those kind of people, they know who the right ones to choose. Yeah. That will allow them to um continue on.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. And it depends on when you're doing, if I stop you with a a kiss, it depends on the level of argument.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

You know what I'm saying? Because something horrible, you reach in, you probably get punched.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02:

But something that is kind of petty, you hold them enough, and then eventually they be like, why you keep doing what you like, Tiz? Oh no. You so you just know I get so bad. Never. Yeah.

unknown:

But never.

SPEAKER_04:

You never like this.

SPEAKER_02:

I bet I okay. Next time we have a slight discussion argument. Watch, that's what I'm gonna do to you. The slightest discussion argument. I'm gonna just you know what? I'm just go over there. Give you a kiss.

SPEAKER_04:

Please, please.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah. And if you don't accept my kiss, then that's being what? That's another argument.

SPEAKER_04:

Then what?

SPEAKER_02:

That's another argument. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04:

Right.

SPEAKER_02:

But you know, I'm gonna argue long. I ain't got time.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, argue, yeah. I don't think we both like to argue long. I'll just get silent.

SPEAKER_02:

I will too after a while. I'd be like, all right.

SPEAKER_04:

He does.

SPEAKER_02:

That's it. And it and it's not that easy. It really is that easy. It really is.

SPEAKER_06:

It really is.

SPEAKER_02:

It is because whatever happened is in the past. Tell me what to do to move forward, and we that's it.

SPEAKER_04:

Okay.

SPEAKER_02:

Then if I don't do it the next time, then okay. Yeah, I understand. But if I do it, then there's nothing else to talk about.

SPEAKER_06:

Okay.

SPEAKER_02:

It's like when you go to a restaurant and they mess up your food and they bring it back. You want you know, you eat it, you know. But you don't just go there and say, you know what? I can't stand default. No. When they bring it back, they correct it. The correction, so everything is. That's true. Boom.

SPEAKER_04:

Once it's fixed, it's fixed.

SPEAKER_02:

That's right. So why can't disagreements be that way?

SPEAKER_04:

That's true. All right. I want you to talk about the crazy story of the week, your student and their cat.

SPEAKER_02:

Oh my god. She has, okay, so I have a student, and um, she has like What kind of cat is it? No, she has like five cats.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh, she has a lot of cats.

SPEAKER_02:

They sometimes they do rescues.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_02:

But these cats have been with them for a while.

SPEAKER_04:

Okay.

SPEAKER_02:

It's two that don't come inside, but three do come inside.

SPEAKER_06:

Okay. Oh, God.

SPEAKER_02:

All right, so this one cat is real, real fat. Like it was sitting on the couch. Like a person. Yeah, like a person. And then one of them real fat.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh, you saw the picture of the cat? Okay.

SPEAKER_02:

Okay, so the one that ate the straw.

SPEAKER_04:

Okay.

SPEAKER_02:

So they had like some straw from Home Depot.

SPEAKER_04:

That goes in your yard. Yes. Okay.

SPEAKER_02:

The cat got sick. But it was like a small bag.

SPEAKER_04:

Okay.

SPEAKER_02:

So some kind of novelty bag or whatever you get. Because normally you buy them by bales. But she said the cat got sick, and they found out the cat ate the bay, ate almost a whole bag of cat self.

SPEAKER_04:

Just eat everything.

SPEAKER_02:

This cat, okay. Now this particular cat.

SPEAKER_04:

That's why he's so big, he just eats everything.

SPEAKER_02:

Right. But this particular cat has some situations. When it was born, it was, she said something that was like suffocating inside of the womb. So I don't know if they cats have umbilical cords too. I don't know what happened. But anyway, it was. No, they don't.

SPEAKER_04:

They don't got no umbilical.

SPEAKER_02:

I ain't no, look, I ain't never dissected a cat.

SPEAKER_04:

Okay, but they don't have umbilical. Right.

SPEAKER_02:

But I know I've dissected other animals, and I know possums don't think they just come out. So I was like, I don't know, cats might be different.

SPEAKER_04:

No, they are.

SPEAKER_02:

Because in zoology, I'm learning a lot of animals I thought was a certain way are not. Okay. So this Joker couldn't breathe. So it was a bad pregnancy, a bad birth, whatever it was. Okay. So he a little touched.

SPEAKER_05:

Okay.

SPEAKER_02:

He's different.

SPEAKER_05:

Okay.

SPEAKER_02:

All right. Um, so this cat, um, you know, making stupid decisions. Okay. That's why he ate the bag of straw. Okay. So they had to cut the cat. That was like$5,000. Cut the cat and, you know.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh, remove it all.

SPEAKER_02:

Remove all the straw and and it was, you know, poke, so they had to stitch up certain places inside of and stuff like that.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_02:

Um and so he eats everything. So one day he ate like a uh, they had a bag of cat food. He ate the whole bag of cat food. They came back from the store, he it was all, he was sitting on it like had to take him to the pet hospital for that, to the uh the the Urg Care. Uh huh. Pet urgent care. And uh help him pump his stomach. All right. So another cat that she So this okay, this cat is obese. This cat also go uh goes to obesity uh like classes, classes for for the obesity. So that's a a check for the cat that sit up the fat cat. Okay, he has he has like obesity therapy or something like that. Another, I think like 12 for the pump in the stomach.

SPEAKER_04:

Pump in the stomach, and he has classes that he goes to for obesity.

SPEAKER_02:

Yes, weekly obesity classes. Okay, now this other cat, um something happened with the cat's urethra. It was a male cat. So they had to surgically take the urethra inside out. So the the cat pretty much turn is transgender. So they had to do the surgery. Cut off the city.

SPEAKER_04:

No, that was a lot of money.

SPEAKER_02:

Yes. That was about 12,500. So they did that and um pushed it. Oh, and the fat cat, I forgot to say the fat cat got lipo. Because it was so fat that they actually did like a lipo, like went out, sucked fat all out, too. And it's because it's it keeps getting fat, so they have to suck fat out every now and then. And I was like, let the cat die.

SPEAKER_04:

Yeah, just let the cat die.

SPEAKER_02:

Going through a lot. They was like, no, you gotta understand. We love our cats. You know, I love my cat. And my mom, she has, you know, money to do. I said, okay, then.

SPEAKER_04:

Okay, well.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, I said, so do they what I I said, hey, y'all, do y'all do human lip holes? Yes.

SPEAKER_04:

Y'all want would they like to sponsor a woman by the name of Lucretia Hare?

SPEAKER_02:

Hey, I said, look, you know, I I don't want no veneers, but I would like to, you know, work on my teeth again, get them all right, you know. And so uh, but then their cat that got that got a transgender cat, so they took his urethra, pushed it in inward. So now he peas almost like a woman cat or a female cat. You know. Uh and then I think there was another cat situation, but um, yeah. And with that, and me and my coworker, we was like, look, just just hey, just let the cats go. Like, let them be euthanized because that's that's a lot.

SPEAKER_04:

That's the one thing that I I know that people love their pets. We have our pets in a bun. But some of these things that we do to extend their lives, that they actually, we actually kind of like somewhat torturing them. That's not the circle of life. They aren't supposed to live as long as we do. Like, there are certain time frames for certain uh certain dogs and cats. I mean, whatever it is, they're only supposed to live a certain amount of time. And when we do all these things because we can't let them go, like you are actually doing harm.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04:

Um, instead of loving on them.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, like you see them pets be blind and then can't even walk. And then they got uh three legs, and or some of them had a little wheelchair leg.

SPEAKER_04:

Listen, this lady this week I was talking to, they had a dog, they they had to finally let the dog go because the dog, I forgot why the dog would couldn't get up and move, or lost it like like bowels and all of that. And so it would get so like it liked to sit on the vents because it would get so um hot. So get on the vents, can't get up fast enough, couldn't control bowels, poop in the vent. They wake up, they wake up or come home, house just smell like dog, you know what. And they have to go clean out the vents, or they wait, and I'll and she said, So finally, we just had to let them go.

SPEAKER_02:

Let them go. Let them go. All dogs go to heaven anyway.

SPEAKER_04:

And they tried to like put something around the vents, and he would just push it out the way and go loud and then shit in it. Like, I can't imagine waking up and my whole house smell like dog doo-doo. Like, that is crazy. You got to go. So when it's things like that, they can't control their bowels.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, you gotta go.

SPEAKER_04:

Well, I mean, it's time to let them go because Yeah, I'm gonna let you go once you can't control your bowels. Listen.

SPEAKER_02:

Euthanize.

SPEAKER_04:

Guess what? I'm gonna let you go too.

SPEAKER_02:

You hey, if I can't control my bowel, that's just me. That's a good day.

SPEAKER_04:

Oh my God. Well, yeah, that is true because his bowels are in control.

SPEAKER_02:

Yeah, baby. Locked up. You won't let me out.

SPEAKER_04:

Anyways, yeah. So I thought that was a crazy story.

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When um the boys called me last year for Cinnabon when for her annual, and they said she needs uh heart medicine. They was like, Pops, um, the vet said she she got a heart condition. I was like, a heart condition. Yeah, she's gonna need some medicine for her heart. I said, Well, uh, you know what your mama said. Yeah, I'm not spending thousands of dollars. It's too expensive. She gotta go. And I said, uh, and and hey, so if if the you know, how much is the medicine? I said, because we it might be cheaper to uh let them just put her to sleep while y'all there. And they said, uh, and then and she told, he told the vet lady, it was funny, because he said, my dad said, um if the medicine outweighs the the uh cost, then y'all have to euthanize it. What? And he said, yeah, he said, because it's either can't, you know, afford it. It's only$25. I said, oh, okay, we good, we good, we good. She go ahead and get the medicine.

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They're like, what? Y'all euthanize her over$25. So, so you know But no, it like like we said, like with your student, like$10,000,$5,000. No, I'm not five and ten thousand dollars. Listen.

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$350, really my limit.

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So uh listen, we might do three. Now we could do a 350. We could do 350 for 500, that's it.

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Anyways, all right.

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She's right here. She's gonna hear you. Right. So she might be getting deaf. Lord, she uh she's not deaf. She's getting old for sure. She is, she's an old lady.

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It's like, it's like like how I feel sometimes. After like sometimes I just be like, why am I left side hurting? And that's how she'll go up the stairs.

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One time she can go up, and the next time it'll be like cocoon.

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And then two hours later, she's fine.

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Cocoon, yep. Just gotta get herself together. She is an old lady. She is how old? Uh 13.

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We got her in 2013. Yeah. No, 2014.

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So she's 11 years old. Yep, she's 11 years old, going on 12. So, all right. Time to share.

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All right.

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Do you have any side eyes for the week?

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Uh, side eye for the week is uh really is that's my side eye was. All that cat stuff. Yeah, because I was like, you know, I'm looking at my cowork and I'm like, girl. Are you serious? How in the world are you gonna pay like over$25,000 for these cats?

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Yeah.

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And these are cats that's just what they call rescue cats. These they didn't buy none of them.

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Yeah.

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Just a cat off the street.

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Yeah.

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I said, man, so that's my that's my side out of the week is is I ain't gonna say for people that spend that much money on that. But because if you got it, you got it. You know what I'm saying? Hey, you know, I'd be like Beyoncé, ain't nothing to spend money on their cat.

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Right.

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You know. But um, nah. I I just can't do it. I'm not spending that much money. I love my little dog, but uh That's crazy. Yeah, 25,000, shh.

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That's that's a car. Yeah, that's true. That's a whole car. A little piece of car, depending on what kind you want, but it could be a whole car. You're right. Yeah. Depending on what it is. I think you can might get a key of soul for 25.

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You can. And just put a little pitch on a keychain or something.

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Yeah, in memory of.

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Yeah, put a little leash on the shift. Yeah, you'll be fine. But that's my side eye of the week. What about you?

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Trying to decide between two, but one I probably shouldn't say, so I'm gonna say the other.

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Okay, say it, and you say that other one for another time. Don't nobody know what it is. You didn't tell us, or you could say this will happen to me this week.

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I'm side eye. I know what my good news was.

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You side eye right now, side eye. And you can your good news could be your grateful. Oh, go get it real quick.

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Okay, well, let me tell my side eye. My side eye is to my niece Deja. So she texted me earlier. Says, And Cree, I want to talk to you about, I don't know, maybe something with wedding engagement things. And um, she said, Are you gonna be available this evening? I go, Yeah. I said, I um just gotta go home and run. And then um the boys are on uh dinner duty, so I don't have to cook, so yeah, I'll be available. So she said, Okay, I'm gonna call you. So then she texted me about 8:30 and said, You still up? I said, Yeah, I'm still up. And so she said, Okay, I'm gonna call you in 20 minutes. So by that time, I'm like showering, getting ready, getting my bonnet on. Oh, there's the other night. Yes. So she calls me and like we are usually in the bed.

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8:30.

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8:30. We're not asleep, but we're just relaxing. And we're in the bed either, you know, most of the time, scrolling through, laughing at things online, music's playing, we're just relaxing, winding down. So she calls and she likes to talk on FaceTime most of the time. Yes, and she calls on FaceTime, and so she says, Oh, hey, Creed, it's dark. It's dark. I thought you were awake. I said, I am awake. She goes, I go, and so he says, Well, if you called her not on FaceTime, you will still talk. Oh, Creed knows that we talk not on FaceTime on our on her ride and my ride home from work. But then the other times, if we're home, it's FaceTime. So I'll just call you back tomorrow because I really want to see your face. I was like, girl, is it that serious? But it really was that serious to me. It was serious for her. It was really that serious to her. So I was like, okay, we'll try again tomorrow. But my good news was Okay, so what are you grateful for?

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Is that it? Oh, yes, it can go with grateful. Okay.

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Um, I am grateful for the new addition to our worlds and family.

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Oh, yeah.

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Skylar Rose. So our little, she well, she's grown up now, but Brittany from Los Angeles, California, had her baby on Wednesday, Miss Skylar Rose. And she is beautiful.

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And she looks like a mixture of her and Dre.

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Yeah, she does.

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And um I'm just saying that because all babies look the same at the beginning. So she really looked like everybody.

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She does not look like everybody's baby.

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She does. She looked like anybody you know, light skinned.

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She looked like That's what she looked like.

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A baby light skinned.

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Okay.

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That could be anybody. Chris Brown.

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Oh, God. Oh Lord.

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Alice Keys.

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Anyways.

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Rihanna.

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Skylar Rose Beyonce is in the world now. And so um, yeah, excited. Everything went fine with the C-section and and she was fine, delivered fine, all fingers, toes, and all the things. So that's grateful that they were, she was able to hold her full term and grateful nice healthy baby. Yeah, so grateful that um they are now blessed with the baby girl, and they are now proud parents and now are a mama and a dad.

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That's right. Yeah, that's right. So, what are you looking forward to next week?

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Woo! We'll be already that's right. Also, looking forward to everything's holiday this week. So Monday is our team gathering. We're doing a charcuterie party. Um, yeah, just it'll be all fun things next week. Nothing too serious going on. Um, but yeah, just fun holiday things. That our next week is our theme week. Where certain days are you gotta dress certain ways? So we got an all-white day for snow something.

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I'm surprised we haven't got an email about that yet. Yeah, we I might participate in this.

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Now we got like a pajama day. I'm surprised we got a pajama day, but we do. Oh, yeah, that is good. Yeah, so we got a pajama day. I can't think of all the other things that are on there. I think one is uh flannel day, but I can't.

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We got plenty of flannel shirts in there. I got some.

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Yep. So um, yep. So next week is just kind of rolling into um the holiday break. So looking forward to rolling in and rolling out.

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Rolling with the homies.

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All right. So I am grateful for it. Yes, go ahead. Okay. I'll let you leave and I'll tell the world what I'm grateful for. So I'm very grateful for um that I'm done with this semester of uh school. Um it was a tough one because I had this one professor that I wasn't supposed to have. And man, this lady was so difficult. Uh messed around and got a C in this class. But hey, I still got my GPA where it needs to be. And you know, I ain't worried about a C because as long as I get the degree, you feel me? Um, that's all that matters. That's so I'm grateful that this class, that this semester is over. Uh it was a tough semester. A very stressful semester, uh, which was crazy. I didn't think it was gonna be that stressful, uh, but it was. Um and I am looking forward to the break. Next week is full day Monday, full day Tuesday, full day Wednesday, half a day Thursday, half a day Friday. But it's busy. I have an IP Tuesday, IEP Wednesday, progress reports due Thursday. Friday. So it's gonna be busy, but you know, due to the fact that it's uh the you know the last week of the first semester of being a uh spare teacher again, you know, I'm I'm good, but I'm looking forward to it. All right, so we have this book, it's called The Book of Luke, okay? We met the writer, um, the author of this book, uh, Lavelle Holder. What you throwing right now?

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Oh, sorry.

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Lavelle Holder, okay. Lavelle Holder and that was his friend, right? Yes. When we went to, I went to LA uh for the uh 30th anniversary of Road Rules, we had a um meet and greet. And so we had a pre-like dinner gathering the night before, and we met him and his friend there at this bar in California. We talked about that bar where we saw that one lady from the show Paradise all up on that man. And um when I tell you everything was going on, but we were having great conversations with them. And uh, I mean it was real, that's that's how I'm always anytime I go anywhere, I always speak to the people. You know what I'm saying? I don't get caught up in the lights because I'm just a people person. And so we were in there just laughing and gossiping and joking and all that stuff. And and I read the first part uh few pages of the book, and very well written. It's about uh scandals and reality shows. And um, very good book so far. All right, and I'm saying so far because I haven't read the whole thing, but I'm sure it's gonna continue because God knows it's not just gonna drop off. No, you know what I'm saying?

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But yeah, yeah, if it's starting strong, yeah, it's only gonna get better. Yeah. So it's gonna be my holiday reading. But yes, we got a pre-he sent us a book. Yeah, before it came out.

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That's what that's what made me feel good.

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Yeah.

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Sent it to us before the book even hit the shelf.

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Uh-huh.

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So if you're into like uh the drama, you know, the scandals, the yahs.

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Yah.

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Yeah, that's what the book is about. Uh, the book of Luke.

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Yeah.

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Um, by Lavelle Holder.

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Thank you for sending it to us. Thank you so much. I will share more about all my like thoughts of it when I get to my break and have time to read. But um, absolutely. So we're just so thankful that you thought of us to send it to us. Yeah, no, that's real dope. Yeah, yeah. So thank you so much.

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And so as as she reads a little bit, I'm gonna actually um record some of her uh thoughts on the book. And then we'll post them periods.

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Yeah, we'll do it weekly, like a weekly check-in with this book.

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Yeah.

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And I'll kind of let y'all know where it is.

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Yeah, yeah. I'm gonna look it up, see if it got an audio book because I love audio book. Because I like today, I was raking leaves and I was listening to an audiobook.

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Oh, that's cool.

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So, all right. So we're about to get up out of here because we're getting ready to go get something to eat.

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Show you.

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Yeah, and uh, I don't know where. Oh, no, we're still. No, we're going to your West Cobb Down there with my uh student.

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We're going to go visit one of the babies that want him to come see them at their job.

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Yeah, so we'll be there. So y'all say no to drugs, no to crack, quack is whack. Leave the men on the steps.

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Who quacking? I said quack. You said leave the drugs alone, quack is whack.

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Well, quack and crack is whack.

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All right.

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All right. So, as we say every week, I hush. I'll see you when I see you. I am Keith, your host that has the most sense of the Refreshingly Normal podcast, and my lovely wife.

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Who has the most sense? Curry.

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Thank y'all.

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There.

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Peace.

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Oh, okay. Let's go. I'm home.

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