The Refreshingly Normal Podcast with Kēfla and Cree
The Refreshingly Normal Podcast
Welcome to The Refreshingly Normal Podcast, where real life meets real laughs. We are Kēfla and Lucrecia (Cree), a married couple of 22 years, long-time educators, and now stepping into the world of mental health counseling. Think of us as your favorite Unc and Auntie of the podcast world, keeping it honest, heartfelt, and hilariously human.
We’re also proud parents of twin young men who just turned 21 and are officially stepping into adulthood, which means paying their own bills (finally!). From raising kids to letting go, we’re navigating this new chapter with the same mix of love, humor, and a little side-eye.
Each week, we dive into the ups and downs of parenting, love, marriage, dating, and everything in between, served with a side of humor and practical wisdom. Whether we’re sharing lessons from the classroom, stories from our travels, or awkward moments at the gym or dinner table, one thing’s for sure, we keep it refreshingly normal.
So grab a cup of coffee (or a protein shake) and join the conversation. It’s therapy meets kitchen table talk… and you’re invited.
The Refreshingly Normal Podcast with Kēfla and Cree
We Play Say It Or Sip It And Get Honest About Marriage
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A spring break week sounds simple until you stack it with real life: a last-minute Easter dinner, new food spots, a wine tasting on the beltline, a random celebrity sighting, and then the gut punch of HVAC quotes that cost like a car. We’re talking staycation rhythms, Atlanta date ideas, and what it looks like to enjoy your home while also paying to keep it running. If you’ve ever debated renting vs homeownership after a surprise repair bill, you’ll feel seen.
Then we shift into the heart of our relationship talk with a game we love: Say It Or Sip It. The questions start playful, but they quickly get honest about what we ignore, what gets on our nerves, what surprised us after marriage, and how jealousy and fear can show up during big moves. We also reflect on Love On The Spectrum and why watching people navigate love with clarity and courage hits so deep.
The biggest takeaway is a marriage communication truth that saves a lot of pain: “they should know” is not a plan. We break down why mind reading creates silent resentment, how asking directly protects harmony, and why intention matters when you’re trying to build a peaceful home. We close with gratitude for health, family, and purpose, plus what we’re looking forward to next.
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Welcome And Weather Check
SPEAKER_00The Refreshingly Normal Podcast.
SPEAKER_01Ladies and gentlemen, welcome back. Thank you for tuning in to the Refreshing Normal Podcast.
SPEAKER_06Podcast.
SPEAKER_01I am Kefla.
SPEAKER_06I am Cree.
SPEAKER_01And we are the Dynamic Duo, otherwise known as the Hairs.
SPEAKER_03Hey.
SPEAKER_01As your favorite couple.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Your favorite uncle.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And auntie.
SPEAKER_06That's right.
SPEAKER_01That's right. And uncle and grandma.
SPEAKER_06That's wrong.
SPEAKER_01So um let's get into it. It's a beautiful day today. It's starting to get warmer.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_01It was great this week for spring.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, the weather was beautiful.
SPEAKER_01A little chilly in the morning. When I take Cinnabon out to potty, and then uh when you finally decided to get up, it was, you know, getting better. You know, around about 10-ish. But um, it was amazing. Great weather. I was already, I was already probably on my second, third round of sets at the gym by that time, girl. And we know that's a lie. What do you mean?
SPEAKER_06You would have not been to the gym yet. When I was No, baby.
SPEAKER_01At 10 o'clock, I was.
SPEAKER_06You weren't.
SPEAKER_01Cree, yes, I was. I I was at the gym at 10 o'clock.
SPEAKER_06If that's the story you'd like to tell you, it is a story. Then believe it, brother.
SPEAKER_01It is the story. No. Believe it, y'all.
SPEAKER_06Okay.
unknownAnyway.
SPEAKER_01Ain't nobody got time for all that none.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, show down.
SPEAKER_01All right.
Spring Break Recap And Easter Traditions
SPEAKER_06Okay.
SPEAKER_01So talk to me about your week.
SPEAKER_06Well, of course it was spring break, so our weeks were very well, somewhat similar. Um, so Sunday. I don't even re I can't even, I'm so old.
SPEAKER_01She didn't do nothing. We didn't, I mean, we Sunday, was that when Nicole came over?
SPEAKER_06Oh, that was Easter.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, Easter. Easter.
SPEAKER_06Okay, okay, okay.
SPEAKER_01Go ahead.
SPEAKER_06Now my memory is refreshed.
SPEAKER_01Come on.
SPEAKER_06Easter, I got a beautiful Easter basket. All right.
SPEAKER_01Easter bunny always delivers.
SPEAKER_06He does. Um, I've always gotten an Easter basket since we started dating. Um 2000. Well, we were dating 2002. But my first Easter basket, because we weren't, was 2003. Correct?
SPEAKER_09Yes.
SPEAKER_06Yes.
unknownYes.
SPEAKER_01No, no.
SPEAKER_06That is true. Because we dart we started dating seriously, 2003. Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_01It was like May.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. So Easter had already passed. Right. So my first Easter basket was 2003. So that makes 26, 23 Easter baskets that I've gotten thus far. And my Easter basket had great healthy snacks in it. It had these shoes.
SPEAKER_01Yes, it did.
SPEAKER_06And a variety of gold hoops that I love because I needed some new gold hoops, which means somebody was listening.
SPEAKER_01That's right. That's what I do, man. I'm all ear.
SPEAKER_06So we did that. And then we decided last minute to cook like an Easter, somewhat Easter soul soul foodish dinner. So we had some meatloaf and turkey meatloaf.
SPEAKER_04Turkey meatloaf. Yes.
SPEAKER_06Turkey meatloaf, cabbage.
SPEAKER_04Yes.
SPEAKER_06Mac and cheese. Yes. Um sweet potatoes. Um, which we do it, well, I don't. Key does it. Um, the sweet potatoes, cut them in half, where you cook them face down, but it's like with honey and cinnamon, and it creates like this kind of crust on it. Um, I just I really like them. So we had those and cornbread and brownie sundays. Excuse me. Everything was very delicious. We tag teamed um on dinner. So we worked together. Um, so anywho, it was a delicious dinner, and we had that um for dinner on Monday and Tuesday too.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, some did we have any Wednesday?
SPEAKER_06No, I think we stopped after Tuesday, and you're like, that's plenty. Um, so we did that, and then um on Tuesday, we went to um three.
SPEAKER_01That was Tuesday?
SPEAKER_06I thought like it's I didn't want Tuesday.
SPEAKER_01Maybe it was, yeah. It was Tuesday.
SPEAKER_06Tuesday we decided to go out. Um, and so we went to lunch first. And then I don't remember what do we go for lunch? That's a good question, child, because I didn't even read.
SPEAKER_01Oh, we went to uh Shea Butter Jones.
SPEAKER_06Oh, how did I forget that?
SPEAKER_01Shea Butter Jones first.
SPEAKER_06Shea Butter Jones is a hamburger place, black-owned hamburger place. Um, delicious. I had the I wanted to try just a regular burger. Although I heard their lamb burger was quite delicious. So when we go back, I'll try the lamb burger.
SPEAKER_01They had the salmon burger. It was good.
SPEAKER_06She had the salmon. They don't do anything pork, yeah, just beef and fish.
SPEAKER_01Uh-huh. And chicken.
SPEAKER_06And chicken.
SPEAKER_01So if you don't like burgers, they'll have they could do salads or they can do pitas, but unfortunately at the time they didn't have the pitas.
SPEAKER_08No.
SPEAKER_01Um, they're getting ready to close down because they're moving to a new location in Decatur.
SPEAKER_08Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So right now they're in uh Druid Hill, Brookhaven area.
SPEAKER_08Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And uh it's very, very, very good. It's if you look up the best burgers in the Atlanta area, they always are in the top five, top ten.
SPEAKER_06And I wonder why they don't do a turkey burger.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I don't know.
SPEAKER_06No either.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_06But anyways, maybe cleaning the grill, maybe.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, maybe. C H E Butter Jones.
Wine Tasting And A Celebrity Sighting
SPEAKER_06Anyways, but it was very good. And then we went to three Parks. Three parks wine.
SPEAKER_01Wine shop, right? Wine shop. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06That was very nice.
SPEAKER_01The one in O4th War, there are two of them.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. Um, right off of the is it like is it the beginning of the belt line?
SPEAKER_01I I don't know where the belt line begins. I don't know where it begins. But so it's off the belt line.
SPEAKER_06It's off the belt line.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Um, but we went there and did a wine tasting um there, and the lady there was very sweet and talked about the wine. We got to try some like really different kind of wines from different places, some from France, Italy.
SPEAKER_02Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_06I forget.
SPEAKER_02They didn't have any local wines.
SPEAKER_06No, no local wines. Any local wines. Oh, the one was California, the orange wine. So it was France, Italy, and California. So that's where it was. And because it was an orange wine that we tried. Um, but yeah, it was really nice. We we sat outside and we were sitting outside. I went over to Missed it. I went over to the little ice cream place. Um, what's it called? Softies, yeah. Because somebody had it. And I said, oh, it looks like they might have some cookie butter. And so I went to go inquire about cookie butter ice cream.
SPEAKER_01All because of the cookie butter. She missed it.
SPEAKER_06And who did I miss?
SPEAKER_01So I'm sitting there, you know, um drinking my little wine. All of a sudden I look up and I said, Oh, she looks familiar. And probably about 10 feet away from me was uh Megan Good. And then I looked and said, Oh, that's Jonathan Major. So they both uh were coming towards us to go into the elevator. Um the elevator, I think where it's it's like a um Townhomes or not townhomes, uh condo. It's been it's like yeah, it looks like it's like business, it's offices slash businesses and whatever. But um, I don't know if they was working, but I also when I went on there on her page, I saw them working out and it was the exact same thing. So maybe they were on their way there, either on their way to work out or leaving working out, or something like that. So I was like, oh. And I and I thought I was being uh kind of sneaky trying to record, right? And I said, ooh, I got it. So I'm looking, and then all of a sudden I looked down, uh, they got on the elevator, I looked down, didn't even press record, but now I said lame, lame. Lame. But I missed it. But yeah, that was cool. Yeah. To see them. Because Jonathan Majors, you know, I'm a huge fan of his uh his stuff. Big fan. But um, it was uh, oh, the Three Parks uh wine shop is is real cool. They have a lot of events, a lot of culture events and things like that. So, because the where it is is so nice. It's right by a little um structured waterfall, and it's like a patio slash arboretum area, real nice. I mean, very, very nice.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, so Italian restaurant, that expensive smoothie place that's in LA. Yeah, E plus Rose. Yeah, that's right there.
SPEAKER_01If you go online, you'll see a lot of the events that they have, and so uh we definitely gonna try um to come back.
SPEAKER_06And their wines are reasonable prices. We left out of there with six, seven, eight, nine wines.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, like nine wines.
SPEAKER_06For$180.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Because one deal was six for ten. I mean six for sixty.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And then the other ones were like we bought uh maybe like a$40 one and then like a$30 bottle.
SPEAKER_06Um and then the others were like$15.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, like$15,$12. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06So they're very good.
SPEAKER_01Good deal. Good deal, good deal. I'm excited.
HVAC Sticker Shock And Homeownership
SPEAKER_06So, anywho, um, we did that. I didn't have to work, of course, the Monday or Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, I did, but we still try to get out and do some things. But um Thursday and Friday were spent um air conditioning stuff. We have to get a new air conditioning system.
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_06So we were full HVAC getting quotes on that, and so try to narrow down what is the best quote and best people to go with. So we have one more person coming out on Monday, and then we'll make a decision of who we want to give all of our thousands of dollars to.
SPEAKER_10Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Um that's how much an air conditioning costs. So sometimes I see why people are like, would prefer to rent because when you do own a home, it's a lot of little expenses. It's a lot of little expenses. And I just think if you were renting, you'd just be like Hey, fix it. Hey, fix it.
SPEAKER_01Yep.
SPEAKER_06And you don't have to um, you know, pay that, pay those costs. So I guess I don't know. It has its, I guess everything has its um pros and cons of of um of own home ownership or choosing not to do home ownership. You have your pros and cons with that. Um anywho, ending our week, we've tried some some new places to eat. I can't think uh we did the um we did the coffee shop. Oh, yeah, we tried a new coffee shop. We went to one of our old that we haven't been to in a while because I work in the evening, so we got to go to the Thai place that we like. So we did get to go to our Thai place, which we haven't been to in a while. Um, so that was really good. It's always good, and the people are always very nice there.
SPEAKER_01That little girl is good.
SPEAKER_06Oh, and then thank you. Yeah, where was the girl? One of the servers, she was like, I don't know, like she thought she was really in Thailand. Uh, she's back up. Asian culture. She's not even Asian.
SPEAKER_01Little white girl, she's back up and booked. Thank you. Yes, thank you. Oh, okay. I'll be back.
SPEAKER_06I'll be back.
SPEAKER_01And Simeon back. I'll be back.
SPEAKER_06I'll be back. She was so cute. And then um, oh, when we went to near our home, we have a wine bar.
SPEAKER_01Untapped.
SPEAKER_06And it's it's just right by the house. It's always nice.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_06The food is always good for me. I like it. I like the people that work there. They've always been so nice there. Um when we when they first opened, though, and I don't think they do it anymore. When they first opened, those pores were crazy. Those pores were huge from the tapped wine. I mean, like the wine that comes from the tap, yeah. You get that, you get a wine from the tap. I'm talking about a huge pour. You leave out that thing feeling good. Um, I don't feel like they do that anymore.
SPEAKER_01Well, we do we we don't even get tap now. We get something from last time I didn't know.
SPEAKER_06We'll do a bottle.
SPEAKER_01We don't we I haven't done a how the house tap.
SPEAKER_06Next time I'm gonna get house tap and see what see if it's still a heavy pour. Um, but they have great little um small plates, and and everybody in there is having an amazing time. Last night you could tell everybody's on spring break because normally on a Friday night they're busy and it was plenty of tables.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it was.
Love On The Spectrum And Why It Hits
SPEAKER_06And what was funny was I think that's the most black couples I've seen in there at one time, yeah, yeah. Which was like, oh, look at us how couples dates and look like all about our age. Decided to, you know, let's just go up there. So yeah, it was um we did that last night. So we've just been doing little bits of things here and there. Um, and it's been nice. I still feel like it was very relaxing. I got to catch up on rest.
SPEAKER_01Um, your show, your favorite show.
SPEAKER_06My oh, my favorite show, um Love on the Spectrum. This was the best season yet. It was so good. My favorite, they have a new little black boy, young man, he's not a boy because he is 24, 25 years old. Young man named Tyler. He is just awesome. I just really um think they did a great job of choosing people this time, and they um um have so much personality. So, yeah, they were so they it was really good. And spoiler alert.
SPEAKER_01Don't spoil it, it's not good watch it. Spoiler, we say a spoiler alert. So it's I don't care, spoiler alert. If you like the show, don't watch this part of the clip.
SPEAKER_06Yes, spoiler alert.
SPEAKER_01Turn it down.
SPEAKER_06We have our first sorry, we have our first engaged love under the spectrum couple. So we have a proposal, which was like, oh man, that thing had me in tears.
SPEAKER_01The proposal did.
SPEAKER_06Oh, it was so good, and I just think the way that they together and the way he calms her and he knows how to calm her, and how she's so aware of her autism and like what her triggers are, and how she's very aware of that, and she knows what she needs, and he knows what she needs, and they just man, it was just so uh it was so you even if I told you that there's a proposal, you still gotta watch it because it's so much more though. It's so much more that's going on. So, anywho, yeah, that's one of my favorite shows. I hate that it takes so long for the new seasons to come out. Um, it seems like it takes about a year or two years, it feels like that's how it is. Yeah, but probably with the with shows. But also, I'm thinking with the them being autistic, sometimes depend I wonder if that has something to do with how often they can film and like it in regards to their temperament, or do they find the ones who can handle it?
SPEAKER_01Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_06I mean, you can't handle that filming and everything.
SPEAKER_01The one thing about the world now is so many people that are out there willing to do things that you can build a cast easily. You know, you can get out there, but certain certain shows, there need to be there needs to be a break period.
SPEAKER_08Yeah.
SPEAKER_01You know, it's kind of like what do they they call it? The the um because of the anticipate, waiting for it. Yeah, like just say music artists, like, you know, Beyonce, Prince, those were the people like when they they come out and then they you don't see them nowhere.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So the anticipation is so strong for them. Whether it's good or bad, the anticipation is there.
SPEAKER_08Yeah.
SPEAKER_01You know, and so you know, for certain shows, that's why there's a huge break in between there.
SPEAKER_08Yeah.
SPEAKER_01You know. And also the producers can survive financially without having to push out so much content because you don't want to, you don't want to flood it. Because once you flood it, then it's like, oh, this is the same old, same old.
SPEAKER_06I hope they get compensated well, um, the the the young people on that show. But anyways, it was a good season.
SPEAKER_01So that they're on Netflix, so maybe that contract is pretty nice.
SPEAKER_06Maybe pretty nice now, you know?
SPEAKER_01And they're not competing with anybody. There's no love on the spectrum-ish. No, you know, it's it's it's them. So, you know, I think they're doing pretty good.
SPEAKER_06So, other than that, I did see clients and did all those things, but I still did have a great relaxing week. Anything you want to add or share about yours?
SPEAKER_01I enjoyed, I enjoyed the week primarily because the weather was so comfortable. I mean, it was like it was it was comfortable. Um and I and I wasn't stressed. Like I really wasn't stressed. The only thing that kind of stressed me was when the air conditioner, you know, because I was like, we were just, you know, we getting, oh, we got we can put this and do this, and then all of a sudden, bam. But that's how it is. You know, God, God does it where He makes a way. Like we're we're we'll be able to afford whatever it is, you know, through however we finance or do whatever. But we'll, you know, we're blessed to be able to do those things. So, you know, I'm thankful because we could have the problem without the means. And so, but um, but overall, like I was like every day I just like this has been a good break. Like a real good break. Like I I'm I really do not feel and you know, I probably some no, because it's it wasn't even that because I was just saying I'm not coaching this year because even last year I don't think we had any games I had to coach. But I just feel so free. Like I don't like last year I went back knowing I had baseball season. Like I'm just going back now knowing I just got school. Like I don't feel any stress.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Like I feel great. Um and I felt rested. Um just felt good, man. Just felt real good, real, real good. So it's it's it's just a blessing, man. I'm so glad that that this break this week went the way it did.
SPEAKER_06Um You're welcome for me not making the decision about doing anything.
Say It Or Sip It Starts
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah. It would have gone well even if we would have went somewhere. You know, we would have had fun. We have fun everywhere we go. Yeah, you know. Um, but that's it. All right, so let's get into it. Um let's do a game. Okay. Okay. Yeah. Um so this game It's called Say It or Sip It. So we'll read a question.
SPEAKER_06Okay.
SPEAKER_01And it's not to us.
SPEAKER_06Okay. Who's it to?
SPEAKER_01It's to the world.
SPEAKER_07The world. Yes.
SPEAKER_01So when I read the question, and if it's something you don't want the world to know, just take a sip. Like they're on the and the reason why I say because it's say it or sip it, we don't know y'all like that.
SPEAKER_06Shout out.
SPEAKER_01That's what it is.
SPEAKER_04Believe it.
SPEAKER_01Alright, so say it or sip it, we don't know y'all like that. So we'll take a sip and then we'll say respectfully.
SPEAKER_04Oh, that's what we say.
SPEAKER_01Because we don't know y'all like that.
SPEAKER_04Oh, okay. That's right.
SPEAKER_01Or you can say whatever you want to say.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_01But that's what it is. So uh it will be out soon. The games will be out soon. So we can't wait for you all to buy these games and support the Refreshingly Normal podcast.
unknownRefreshing.
SPEAKER_01We have a whole uh what do they call that?
SPEAKER_07I don't know.
SPEAKER_01A whole um rollout coming. Roll them out. We got everything coming. Tell them Craig. Roll out. We're gonna be everywhere.
SPEAKER_06Everywhere.
SPEAKER_01Everywhere.
SPEAKER_06Y'all gonna be sick of us.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, apparel, games.
SPEAKER_06Sick of us.
SPEAKER_01Yes. So be ready. Get your coins, stack your coins up.
SPEAKER_06Stack your coins. I know some of y'all stacking y'all coins for us. Chris breeze. Y'all ready for that? I don't know if I'm gonna do it or not. I see.
SPEAKER_01It depends on the money, on how much.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_01If it's okay, 350. A ticket I could do.
SPEAKER_09Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Not in no nose breeze, though. Yeah. That's all I'm doing. Because that's what we did for Beyoncé at the floor when she was splashing water on us.
SPEAKER_06Oh, remember when she splashed water?
SPEAKER_01We got water on us.
SPEAKER_06Beyonce.
SPEAKER_01In Miami.
SPEAKER_06Beyonce foot water.
SPEAKER_01For 350.
SPEAKER_06We were so close.
SPEAKER_01Yep. Getting splashed in the face.
SPEAKER_06Yep. I I'm not doing over that. I'm not. And I almost said, say my day, say my day. It was really good.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but 350, I was 350.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, that's all I can do.
SPEAKER_01I'm gonna rock with it. Yeah. Rock with it.
SPEAKER_06I did not see Chris Brown, although I wanted to, but his tickets went so fast. I can only imagine how fast these are gonna go.
SPEAKER_01Or they're gonna go because bot's gonna get them, and then you know.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. But maybe we can catch a no, because everybody, even like when they said Jay-Z, where it said a million people were in the queue.
SPEAKER_01I'm like, and you know how we are. If it don't work, we just say, What do we say? It wasn't meant to that.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, it wasn't to be in that fine by the way.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, we we've seen us. And if we don't see them, we don't see this time.
SPEAKER_06I'm still alive.
SPEAKER_01Still alive.
SPEAKER_06And I can watch the concert on YouTube.
SPEAKER_01Come on now. I would love to be there because I like both of these cats.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, but still.
SPEAKER_01But hey, you know what I'm saying? So we ain't worrying about it. But anyway, say it or sip it. Alright. So here we go. So what's something you've thought about recently but decided not to tell me?
SPEAKER_09Okay, well, that's fine. Yeah. But what is it? Anything?
SPEAKER_04Oh, I can't even think about anything.
SPEAKER_06Oh, you didn't tell me you ain't gonna tell me.
SPEAKER_01They don't know me like that. I don't know them like that.
SPEAKER_06I don't even know if I said I don't know. That's a hard one.
SPEAKER_01Well, you know me. I'm always thinking.
SPEAKER_07Yeah, you always know. And you know my thoughts. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. And we done had all break off.
SPEAKER_07Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Without that extra visitor that was supposed to be here this week. Yeah who didn't show up. Came out. Oh gosh. Came early. Shout out to the moving on. Alright. Um so that was just a just a thirsty sip.
SPEAKER_05Yes.
SPEAKER_01Okay. All right, all right, all right, all right. So uh we're gonna be sipping the whole time.
SPEAKER_06I mean, you might. I ain't. Okay.
SPEAKER_01All right, here we go. What's one thing I do that you've learned to ignore instead of addressing?
SPEAKER_06Ignor your uh well, I've said it before. Okay, well your piles. Okay. Your the the disorganization on your side of the bed.
SPEAKER_01On my side of the bed.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. Long to stay on your side of the bed.
SPEAKER_01I appreciate you for that.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. What's for me? You gotta answer? Do you already answer?
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah. Okay. What's one thing uh you do that I've learned to ignore instead of addressing? Oh gosh.
SPEAKER_07Um I would say It must be a lot of things.
SPEAKER_01Well, some of them they like minor things, you know, like little stuff. But I'm trying to get one that would be noteworthy. Another I don't know.
SPEAKER_06But top tier.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Um, okay, I'll just say uh snoring.
SPEAKER_07I don't snore.
SPEAKER_01Because I'm quick to be nudged. Put your thing on. Put your thing on.
SPEAKER_06I did. I did talk to my doctor about it, a sleep study. But when they called and told me that the copay was$900, I said, he just gonna have to get this snoring because I ain't paying$900 to do no sleep study. But when they told me I'm gonna spend$900, I'd rather spend it on something else.
SPEAKER_01Y'all see that? But when they told me, I said, man, anything is gonna make my marriage.
SPEAKER_06It wasn't on$900, was it? I don't even recall that.
SPEAKER_01I don't know, but it was it was it was it was some change. Oh, well But you know me, I'm paying medical bills now because there's I said put on a payment plan. Because I can't, I I'm not finna be hurting.
SPEAKER_07Well, I'm not hurting.
SPEAKER_01I'm not finna be hurting. You know what I'm saying? So like when I'm That's just repeating.
SPEAKER_06Sometimes I have to go to the doctor. What is the point of the x-rays? What is the point of medical insurance that in order to do a sleep study where they're going to just put a thing on you that they can get the information through digitally?
SPEAKER_01You're gonna put the thing on.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. They get it now through the World Wide Web. I don't keep the device. I give you back the device, and you want to tell me that costs$900? I could do my own sleep study.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_06That's that's ridiculous. I just don't understand the cost of that. And I just cannot.
SPEAKER_01You might need to t go go to go through the uh who else that I went through? I figured out who it was, but you might need to go through somebody else.
SPEAKER_06Listen, I'm not paying$900.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. But um, um, I think your dentist does uh dentist did.
SPEAKER_04They do.
SPEAKER_01They do the uh sleep apnea stuff, they do a mouth device. But well, you know, and then dentists day insurance sucks. Yeah, I said y'all just about to say that dental insurance is horrible too. No, and we got good good men jobs.
SPEAKER_07All I'm saying.
SPEAKER_01And so I can imagine why people we see people, you know, with no teeth and all that kind of stuff. You know, you you don't know why. Like real talk, it's expensive. It's very expensive.
SPEAKER_08Yeah.
SPEAKER_01But yeah, just the snoring. Hey, put your thing on, put your thing on. My bad. Put my little sleep pep there.
SPEAKER_06Well, I'm sorry. You find me a cheaper sleep.
SPEAKER_01But I told the world, well, I told the person, it was like, well, it's gonna be this gonna be it. Well, you know what, man? I just want my wife to be happy because I last thing I want to do is, you know, have her where she can't get her sleep, and you know, I respect her enough to make sure she's getting enough sleep. That's what I said, world. But she said,$900. Forget him. Well, forget him. So y'all see my happiness is not worth$900. God, I'm about it. All right. What's something you've done when I wasn't around that I still don't know about you ain't talking about? For the world, because I don't know them like that.
SPEAKER_06I don't know them like that either.
SPEAKER_01I mean, I could tell you. You know.
SPEAKER_08Yeah.
SPEAKER_01But I can't tell the world.
SPEAKER_08Okay.
SPEAKER_01You know, you know, sometimes you have off moments and then you be like, you gotta get up and go to work. Yeah. All right. Number four. And I know you too. You did that too.
SPEAKER_10You don't know.
SPEAKER_01I know your eyes. I know your eyes. I know your eyes. What's a small lie you've told me that I never caught? A small lie I've told you I never caught. That you see, I don't see. Have I ever told you a small lie? Probably something that was saying I did something knowing I didn't do it.
SPEAKER_06That's what I was thinking about. I was trying to think of something specific that I said that I didn't do. Oh, it's something recent. But now I can't think of what it was.
SPEAKER_01I can't remember yet.
SPEAKER_06I don't know what happened to something, but I do know what happened to something.
SPEAKER_01Uh, you threw it away. I believe that. Well, okay. Well, you gotta sip anyway, since you don't know. And I'm gonna sip too, because I don't really know. I know everybody said they just want to drink. Child, we can drink with with or without y'all.
SPEAKER_06I wish I could think of what it was, but I can't.
SPEAKER_01All right. What's something you've Googled recently that you'd never say out loud?
SPEAKER_06I don't Google crazy stuff. I don't Google crazy stuff.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I didn't, I haven't Googled. Now, if I would have Google when I was a uh teenager, shh. I haven't oh, and yeah.
SPEAKER_06I don't Google crazy stuff. Now I do.
SPEAKER_01These are the tales. I did freak tales.
SPEAKER_05Oh my god.
SPEAKER_01These are the tales that I tell so well. I met this girl. Her name was Cree.
SPEAKER_07Stop it right there.
SPEAKER_01I'm just saying, if I would be, if I'd have had Google back then, oh, it'd have been.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I had something that came up strange on my TikTok with that lady I showed you that was beating them the thing that would look like somebody.
SPEAKER_09What was she beating?
SPEAKER_06With the red hat on and the dog. Remember the lady?
SPEAKER_01You yesterday. Yeah. Yesterday, right?
SPEAKER_06I think it was yesterday.
SPEAKER_01Last night, yesterday, last night, yeah.
SPEAKER_06I was like, how in the world did this come up on my thing?
SPEAKER_01It probably was something we said or something crazy.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, so crazy. So I had something like that, but I didn't look that up. Yeah. That just happened to come up on my face.
SPEAKER_01So you ain't Google nothing crazy?
SPEAKER_06I you know I don't care about that person.
SPEAKER_01How to slap your husband in the middle of the night, tell him, put that thing on. All right, number six. When was the last time I got on your nerves and why? Go ahead and tell it.
SPEAKER_06Let me think about when's the last time you got on my nerves.
SPEAKER_10Go ahead and tell it.
SPEAKER_09Oh.
SPEAKER_06Last time he got on my nerves. Okay, now y'all, I know he's been doing most of the chefing. But when we were doing Easter dinner, everything I did, he was over my shoulder. Everything you were saying a comment about. And I was like, can he just do yours? Everything I did. Like, we have responsibilities. I was doing the cabbage. Like, I was doing the cabbage. And so then he was like, uh, that one little season right there, uh, that'd be good. And that was in that cabbage. What da da. Did you put um chicken bouillon in there? Did you you cook your little turkey meatloaf? You don't worry about what I'm doing with this cabbage, okay? You just do you, but everything I did, he was over my shoulder. And I was like, you first of all, so everything I did, he was over my shoulder trying to say, what you this, he was getting on my nerves. I was about to say, you know what, you about to cook all this stuff by yourself. I'm about to be done.
SPEAKER_01I give you that. I don't know when the last time this happened, but I'll tell you what it is.
SPEAKER_05Okay.
SPEAKER_01When you don't put the top on.
SPEAKER_05The water.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, or anything. Like you'll leave it, you just set it on there.
SPEAKER_06Now he tried to get me the other day because I went to grab something off of his sink and the water spill. And he was getting ready to say, yeah, if it's happening. Then he realized it was my his water. What did I say? So then he said, Say what I said.
SPEAKER_01Say what I said. Because I strategically said it.
SPEAKER_06He said, Oh, I guess the top must have popped off of there because it wasn't even opened.
SPEAKER_01And I said that so to see if she would have said, Oh, yeah, I did take a sip out of it. But then I also knew. And I had it. I also knew that if she was lying, she would go to hell. So she either told the truth to me or I just wouldn't see her in the afterlife. No. So that's why I strategically said that.
SPEAKER_06Yes, because he would I know he was like, I was gonna make her suffer for her lies. It wasn't strategic because I knew he was thinking I'm gonna be a little bit more than a line.
SPEAKER_01No, it was still trust strategic because I could have said what, which would have turned the heat up.
SPEAKER_06You didn't put the top on her.
SPEAKER_01You see what I'm saying? So was that not a great strategy to keep because we both were still in good moods after that? Oh, I guess so. Exactly. It's strategy. That's what look. I'm planning every day how to keep this woman happy.
SPEAKER_05Oh, God.
SPEAKER_01I'm I'm very meticulous because I know, like they say, happy wife, happy life. Yes, I believe that. Happy house, happy spouse. Yes, I believe that. You know what I'm saying? So you gotta be smart.
SPEAKER_06You gotta be smart too. Happy husband. No, I'm saying.
Marriage Surprises And Early Growing Pains
SPEAKER_01I'm saying what I'm listening. Y'all see, y'all see how she's always trying to want. I said, you gotta be smart. Now, y'all out there know who I'm talking about. I didn't say she gotta be smart. What I'm saying, you gotta be smart, and I was saying everything about me. So who am I talking about? Yes, you're right. I'm talking about me. She she got so offensive. Just inside, you gotta be smart too. That's who I was talking about. Me. I said me. Jesus Christ. All right. What's something about me that surprised you after we got married?
SPEAKER_06Something that surprised me after we got married. Oh, that he was great, like a great um with the newborns and everything. The the the um how comfortable like and confident he was with the the newborns because I was so nervous, but he was so calm and comfortable and confident, and so um that was very like helpful, and I was very surprised because most of the time I'm trying to think of in my life, my mama did everything. My daddy was like the man's man. Um, and so and other than that, I'll I think that's kind of maybe that's that generation, maybe.
SPEAKER_01You saying I'm generational daddy?
SPEAKER_06No, no, no. I'm saying my mom's and no, that's not what I'm saying, Tyrone. What I'm saying is the generation, my daddy's generation, they're all like the men's men. Like that's women's women's work.
SPEAKER_01That's a woman's work.
SPEAKER_06Um, and so I already knew you do, you know, wherever you can help, you're gonna help. But with the boys, uh, when they were born, just the involvement and scooping them up and changing the diapers and doing all the stuff, yeah, that was impressive. I was surprised by that.
SPEAKER_01I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Um, the one thing that surprised me about you after we got married was that it took a there was a warm-up period to being married. And I was like, because me, I was like, oh, marriage, hey, it's here, it's all in. You know, but for you, it was still like it's just another day. We're just increasing in our relationship. You know what I mean? So it was like, yeah, I think I was uh quite a few steps ahead than what you were. And so um it took it took me it took me by surprise, but it took some getting used to, and it took some understanding. Um and so I stayed the course because I was like, if I stay the course and there is no wavering in what I do, then eventually she'll realize that I am in this for what I am in it for.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01You know, but that's definitely one thing that did surprise me. Um but it's understandable. You know what I mean? Um because even when I talk to people about marriage, I see I see, you know, I see all perspectives and and I understand where it comes from. I mean, I just I not understand where it comes from, but I understand why or how you did what you did.
SPEAKER_06And and we everything went so fast for us. And then you do, you have um um thinking being discouraged or influenced by the opinions of others. So not you know, for me I I'm not as I was not as confident um in myself then, right? And so then other people's opinions and and thoughts can cloud your under you know, what you're trying to do. And so I think that also was a part of that because I was still to me, which I think makes sense. I was 26, 27?
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah, you were 24. When you moved to Dallas, 24. And so uh We got married in 2003, that's 24. No, you remember we were talking about that yesterday. We talked we did the the timeline when we moved to Dallas.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I'm just thinking about the time I was when we got married.
SPEAKER_01Oh, oh, when you're I was 24.
SPEAKER_06Right?
SPEAKER_01We got married. 2003. You were born in 77. Yeah. Yeah, so yeah, 24. 24. So you were 23 when we moved in. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. So, you know, um, yeah, I wasn't, I was still figuring out, which I think is still make, I mean, makes sense, figuring out who I was and what I was gonna be, and definitely not as confident as this person here. So that thinks that's where the kind of the difference came to be.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, because I'm a believer in when I make my decision, I I know how to live with it and make it great. Cause I knew, you know, I always say it ain't gonna be because of me. You know what I mean? And not that I'm perfect, but that means that I'm gonna do what I need to do to make sure that if you're in your right thinking, and if you're in, if you're doing what needs to be done, you know, for us to be right, then I know I'm gonna do it. So it won't be because of me. And I always try to, you know, have that in anything, you know, relationship, jobs, you know what I mean, teamwork, yeah, all that kind of stuff. I try I try to make sure. And it's a lot of pressure on me that I put on myself, but I try to be the the I try to be the best friend a person can have, but not going over like I don't do things to be the best friend. It's just in me. If you consider me your friend, and if if I consider you my friend, I'm gonna do what you're supposed to do as a friend. I'm gonna support you and things like that. If if as a son, I'm doing the things I'm supposed to do as a son, what I feel like. I'm just trying to be a good person. Yeah, and I think when you are a good person in a world like today, yes, you can stand out as being the best of that.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_01You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_06Well, and I and you're not a pushover though, so that's the thing about it. So, like you're gonna be do the best at whatever role you're thinking of, um, but you also won't allow people to take advantage of you.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I'm gonna I'm gonna try to do right. I'm I'm always gonna do right by people.
SPEAKER_06Until they do wrong by you.
SPEAKER_01Right. And I'm not gonna do wrong by you, but I'm just gonna leave you alone.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
Old Us Memories And Quiet Jealousy
SPEAKER_01Yeah, but I'm always gonna do the right thing. What I feel like God says is what I should do, or what I feel like, you know, I was born and inherently raised to do. All right. So what's something you miss about the old us?
SPEAKER_07I don't miss anything about the old us.
SPEAKER_01I miss, but I understand why. Because we're busy now.
SPEAKER_06Well, I only reason when we say old, what's old?
SPEAKER_01The old us, like the the when you used to cut your belt loose off your pants, us.
unknownWhat?
SPEAKER_06You mean like before marriage?
SPEAKER_01All the the old us, even before during like them early years, old us, child. Y'all, she used to cut them. Hey, y'all, there was. I don't even know what he meant. So she had on some jeans, right? But she would cut the belt, you know, the part of the strip that the belt goes on to. She would cut those off. We did a pair. Remember we because she uh because I kept saying it, and she can't she did a pair. And little booty was sitting there.
SPEAKER_05Oh my god.
SPEAKER_01And little thing, boy. And she used to wear them hard uh Norwegian clogs back then, too. She had some Norwegian clogs, them hard wooden wood. But but hey, and she was, you know, she was aerobic instructor. So them thighs and that and the uh calves, everything hit that whole muscle flex right there. And when them jeans was cut off, and you can see them little dimples right there at the back. And if she sat down, she had to be, she had to hold them when she sat down, because then you see a little slither. Hey. Check, please. And we would go back to the apartment.
SPEAKER_06Oh my gosh. So I know him when he's thinking of all the earlier dating.
SPEAKER_01But we A.
SPEAKER_06I know he's thinking of the red fur coat and all the you better sip.
SPEAKER_01You better sip, you're gonna get in trouble.
SPEAKER_03You better sip.
SPEAKER_01But I'm saying that's him. Yes. I need to buy you a fur coat, another red one. And we can hang it up right outside the door right there.
SPEAKER_06So, but for me, I say no because I just like how um comfortable I am with myself now. Yeah. So I think if we thought about those, I guess there was some confidence there though, too.
SPEAKER_01There's a lot of confidence there.
SPEAKER_06But it was secret more with you. You know what I'm saying? Like in regards to uh I don't know, it's just a little bit different in regards to I just feel more confident. Maybe for maybe just overall, in like all areas. Does that make sense? So, like I the kind yes, that's always been. But professionally, um, who I am just as a person in general, I feel like it's I won't worry about your profession. Oh gosh. That's more now. Um so I like that part. Me, and then I feel like I now I'm just like okay with uh I'm not doing that or da da da. And not letting as many things like impact or bother me in that way. So I don't know, but yeah, I know you're talking about.
SPEAKER_01I'm finna buy some fur coats. Oh lordy. Hey, we now we had we had about four four months. We had about four months of that. We it brought it came back a little bit, but then we was empty for a minute.
SPEAKER_06Next question.
SPEAKER_01All right, all right. What moment were you low-key jealous but didn't say anything? Well no. Jealous of you? Was there ever a moment that you were low-key jealous but didn't say anything?
SPEAKER_03Of you?
SPEAKER_01I don't know. Anyway, me or successes or anything. You know, me or somebody or something. He's like, oh, who is you? Get off of there. Has there any been any any low-key jealous moments?
SPEAKER_06Um, I will say like when we first moved to LA and we would go places and people are like, Kiva! Yeah, I didn't like that.
SPEAKER_01I understand that.
SPEAKER_06Um, and then of course, like that's completely new. Like, who have I dated where I go out and people are like, ow! Um, and then I think on top of that, like more jealous and like past dating, like now what is this all gonna be? Like, are you gonna be able to handle like all of these, this? Um, that part, like just wondering, like, okay, like what what is he gonna be able to handle like this attention and this sort of thing? Because we were like newly um newly married. And so I was just kind of like, is he gonna be able to handle all this? Yeah, like that, that kind of stuff. So that part, um getting comfortable with that.
SPEAKER_01I understand that. Because that was that was the reason why my engagement before, you know, kind of went away because it was something that listening to people who were not in relationships or didn't really know me were putting in their head, and I was like, this it's not gonna work. You know, I you know me. You know I'm it's you. It's you know, I entertain people when it comes to can I take a picture and all that stuff, and it's always respectfully introducing, you know, but um I don't know, it just she couldn't. I don't want to say she couldn't handle it, but at that moment, it was something she wasn't willing to deal with.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. So for me, in my brain, I just said, listen, I don't have control over any of it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_06So if if it if he can't, then it is what it is. Yeah. You know, like um, if they can, I always say if they can take them, they can keep them.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_06I mean, because that's really pretty much what it is. And so I just tell myself that.
SPEAKER_01But, you know, you still have a little bit of like, you know, quit looking at trying to you know, and because it's always, it's not necessarily what they're thinking, because if you know the position that your person is in, you understand why, but it's also understanding your person. Now, if you know your person is like, all this stuff don't mean nothing to him. You know, it's important because he's being seen in the public, you know, all this stuff is great, but I know I'm his person. I'm his everything. I'm introduced as this, I'm doing that.
SPEAKER_08Yeah.
SPEAKER_01But some people can't deal with it. Yeah, it's it's tough. And I I will I will admit. I would say um, I don't I'm not gonna say jealous, but I was like, oh man, I what is gonna happen to me? Like when we went to LA and I didn't get the job, I didn't get any offers.
SPEAKER_03Oh, yeah, I remember that.
SPEAKER_01And I was like, shit.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, you almost got beat up.
SPEAKER_01Because because the the problem with that was it was it was my reasoning for coming out here, and I was like, here I am, can't even provide because I can't get a job. So that's what it was for me. And so I was thinking, like, well, I'm not even gonna be able to move to LA. So I'm thinking, like, you know, when you got a call and I didn't get nothing, I say, well, we're gonna have to move back. And I don't have a plan B. I literally, because we when we came that first time, we brought stuff.
SPEAKER_08Yeah.
SPEAKER_01We brought stuff with the intentions of moving. And so I was like, yo, and it was, we was leaving pretty much in two days.
SPEAKER_08Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And so I got a call the next day, which we were supposed to pack up and leave the day after that. And I was just like, I wasn't, it wasn't a jealousy, it was more so like, what am I gonna do? And I was, I was, I was.
SPEAKER_06But it came across in that way.
SPEAKER_01And what it was for me, it was it was fear.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_01That I won't be able to provide and do to keep you mentally safe to knowing that I'm a it's everything's gonna be all right.
SPEAKER_06But for me, that was the problem. But the part for me was I wasn't, and I think that also was a thing. I did not know that you didn't really have like a plan plan. So that was actually protection for me. Because I didn't really know that you didn't have a plan plan.
SPEAKER_01No, and my plan was that only.
SPEAKER_06I know it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it wasn't, it wasn't going back.
SPEAKER_06There was no pl there I never plan on going back. I soon found out there was like not uh a plan, not even in regards to where to start with auditioning and all the things. I did not realize the plan was just to get there.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, you gotta get there.
SPEAKER_06That's how I and so I did not realize that. So that I'm a planner.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_06So if it was vice versa and I was the one planning to go and do what you were pursuing, oh, this girl would have had it mapped out because that's just who I am. Yeah. I soon learned that's that's we are the opposite of.
SPEAKER_01Sometimes for me, my and the reason why sometimes you gotta get in there because if you wait to plan it out for the plan to be right, it's that wave hits and it goes. Well, I understand what you're saying, but I'm saying my this is my thinking.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I'm not correct, I'm not negating you, but I'm saying so. For me, sometimes I gotta jump in it.
SPEAKER_06But I wish he would have told me, because guess what I would have done? If if you would have told me, um and go ahead.
SPEAKER_01Because what you're gonna say is gonna be what people are gonna say, and what people are gonna say, then they're gonna say it wouldn't be.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, it wouldn't be. But what I'm saying is, like, I know it's not the world that we have now where you can go on the internet and find all the things and do all the things.
SPEAKER_01But everything worked just right.
SPEAKER_06I would have at least said, because you know people there, so like even if it was like, okay, let's line up some lunches. Yeah, like go have lunch with this person, go to this lunch with this person, go talk to this person, go, like, I would have that would have been like you know what I'm saying? Like, I would have been like, okay, let's look, like, how could it be? How could you say, like, what like kind of how like now when you with something getting into motion, I'm like, okay, let's think about it. And then you're like, okay, okay.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_06But that we learned that later, but I would have.
SPEAKER_01But it wasn't, yeah, it wasn't. I understand.
SPEAKER_06I mean, this it was what it is, what, I mean, we can't, you know.
SPEAKER_01But the thing about it is, is that you still did that and you did that at the right time. Because when you did do that, I did what I needed to do.
SPEAKER_02Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_01And it I landed it. So, um, of course, we can't say, well, what if we did it earlier? We'd have been, no, we wouldn't. No, no, we can't. We wouldn't even been in a different uh position because we probably would not have had the attention and even with the boys and all that stuff, you know, at the birth and the stuff. So it it it happened when it was supposed to happen.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And I'm the gl and I'm glad everything was delayed in the happening because exactly what you're saying you would have said, you still said. And exactly what I needed to do, I still did.
SPEAKER_06When the time was right.
SPEAKER_01Exactly. And and it and everything everything came at a point it was supposed to come.
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_01But I knew if, like you said, if you would have said it before, if I would have said what I needed to say before, it we wouldn't be sitting in these chairs right now.
unknownUh-huh.
SPEAKER_01You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_05Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Because you would have been like, nah, I'm not going.
SPEAKER_07Because you're not ready.
SPEAKER_01And I would have went.
SPEAKER_07Yeah. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And you would have been just a girl that I dated in Texas. And I would have been a guy you dated in Texas.
unknownSure.
SPEAKER_01That's all it would have been.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And we wouldn't have the boys. Uh-uh. You know. You know what I'm saying? I mean, we would probably would have had kids, but it wouldn't be how it is now.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And how it is now is uh purposeful for not just us. Because like like a lot of people say, they do look up to us as humans in relationships when they see us reacting and acting towards each other. People love that. Even my students say that all the time. That's why they, oh, I love a Miss Hair Cons. I like to see how y'all, you know, act with each other. You know, so all of those things happen at the right moment.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. Challenging.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. But it's I know.
SPEAKER_06I'm not saying it's a big thing.
SPEAKER_01No, no, no, I'm not saying it to you. I'm saying it to the world. Yeah. It's supposed to be challenged. Yeah. Everything has, like, even when you plant fruit or vegetables, you gotta tear the dirt up.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_01You know what I mean? You can't just put the seeds on top and expect them to grow.
SPEAKER_06Well, yeah. You gotta tear the dirt up. Anytime there's growth, same thing with working out.
SPEAKER_01What do you do with your muscles?
SPEAKER_06Yeah, tear them up.
SPEAKER_01You break them down and they come back stronger if you if you feed them right. Yeah. If you treat them right.
SPEAKER_08Yeah. Yeah. You know? So everything.
Stop Expecting Mind Reading In Love
SPEAKER_01So yeah. There's challenges with it. Let's do two more. Okay. Um, what's something you wish I did more of, but haven't said?
SPEAKER_07What's something I wish you did more of haven't said?
SPEAKER_09Um.
SPEAKER_06I can't say because you do a lot. Um, compared to some other thousands of people that I know, um, I feel like you do more than the average husband.
SPEAKER_01More than the average.
SPEAKER_06But I also say I have learned from women um in my life over years. Um I'm a I'm a person who will look at something, and if I don't like it, I immediately say, oh, that ain't gonna happen to me. Um, and I make sure like certain things that I see that are challenging for other people and thinking of people in their marriages and uh family members or or whatever couples I've interacted with. Um, and a lot of the times I have seen where people are running around upset and mad because their spouse won't do this thing. They should just know. They should just know what they don't know. Some people, I mean, these are first-time marriages. Um, marriage does not look the same in every relationship. Um, and we don't have the same brain.
SPEAKER_01I said that to you a long time ago.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_01I remember in a conversation, and I think it was, I would, I would like to say I'm the person that lit that fire in you to make you say they don't know, you know, yeah, because I sincerely, I think it was in a Yeah, we had a sincere conversation. And I said, listen, you I and I and I and I didn't say you know me, but I said, listen, I try to do everything I can to make sure you're happy. If I don't know something, I would never keep doing it purposely to upset you. I said, if I don't know, it's because I don't. If I'm not doing it, it's because I don't know.
SPEAKER_06Not because you don't care.
SPEAKER_01Right, not because I don't care. And I think that hit a light because it it came, it didn't come immediately because you were still in that mode. Yeah, in that feeling. But then as you, like what we said earlier, as you grew and really understood who I was, and you knew like this man really wants a marriage, a marriage, he wants balance, he wants everything to happen for me.
SPEAKER_08Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And I think, and that's also where your confidence came because you felt like you could say anything to me. Yeah. You know what I mean? Right. You could be like, you know what I don't like right now? Yeah. And I'll take it and be like, okay, well, what do I need to do to change it?
SPEAKER_06Yeah. It wasn't um our conversations for I think hopefully it was both ways eventually.
SPEAKER_01No, it it it always I mean, not always, but it definitely was because I'm the kind of person where really I'm gonna hear what you say. And if it don't like if it ain't against my morals, okay, what I need to do.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. I think that that is also something for people to understand in marriage, is that um it's not about winning, but it's really about thinking about whose needs need to be met for you all for you both to be happy.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. What does success look like within your own marriage?
SPEAKER_06It's give and take. And it's not trying to mirror somebody else's marriage or relationship because you aren't those people. Personalities are not those same people, but being able to be open and having the conversations, and we've had some intense conversations, um, and we get through them.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Um, but you have to talk. And so that's a thing where I'm saying, like, if there's something that you don't like or that you need and they aren't doing, that you have to speak up about it, you cannot think that they should know. Um, because that's just dumb. Yeah. To think that somebody else is psychic and can read your brain and know. For one, we all have so even if it's something where you're like, he didn't pass by this basket of clothes and won't take it down or put it up. Just because you see the basket does not mean that he sees the basket in the same way that you see the basket.
SPEAKER_07Right.
SPEAKER_06And so if you want him to do something with the basket, tell him, can you put these clothes up? Can you take that down to the laundry room? Can you tell him what you want or tell her what you want? Because nobody can read your mind, and you running around upset, and everybody's trying to figure out well, what in the hell is wrong with her? Yeah. Or what's wrong with him? Because they honestly do not know. So I think to me, that is the biggest game changer in a marriage or a relationship.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that he that he should know or they should know. But they should know. That is the that phrase has started many of arguments silently.
SPEAKER_06Silently and he should know.
SPEAKER_01I shouldn't say I ain't gotta say nothing.
SPEAKER_06It has led to people being divorced. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like to me, that's like that is not a reason to to divorce.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_06You know, and I know other things happen with it, but it can lead to such a disconnect.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Um, and then you look up and your communication, you're disconnected, then intimately you're disconnected, and and you just real you end up in these two separate, isolated places because nobody is willing to just say what they need.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, even if it's something that they have done time and time again, and you say, but you've always done that. Like, really ask, like, Babe, um, could you please get XYZ? Because I I seen you walk by before. I know you normally get it, that's why I didn't say nothing earlier. And you'd be like, oh, but you know what? My mind was on the job. My mind was here. And so now you've written him off based off of something he was really contemplating elsewhere.
SPEAKER_06And and people or they were contemplating elsewhere. And they take it personal, they think you want it on purpose to make them mad, or you just, and it has nothing to do with that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, and that's what that's where I had to come and and and really like tell you, like, you know, I'm never doing anything to harm you or anyone in our family. So if there's something that is not right or you don't like, just tell me what it is. Don't, please don't say he should know. Please tell me, because for me, I'm willing to to like my happiness is based off of my family's happiness. So sometimes I can let go of something I thought was gonna make me happy. Because if they're happy, I do know that's still gonna make me happy. You know what I'm saying? So that's just me. And so I've that's one thing I had to tell Kree, like, look, babe, just please tell me, because when you're happy and you come home ready to see your man, or you you want to lay by me and touch me and those things, I said that's all I want. All I want is to be cuddled, touched, made to feel special. So whatever it takes on my end to do that for you, please let me know.
SPEAKER_06And I think the other thing is being careful who you talk to about specific things, because honey, they can get you all riled up. You like, yeah, he ought to know. Yeah, you have to be mindful of who you're speaking to about specific things. Um, are they married? Are they happily married? Yep. Um, that sort of thing.
SPEAKER_01Or they preying on your downfall.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. Beat meals fast. Just being reflective in that um is all. So say what you want and what you need.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_06Don't be thinking that somebody knows.
SPEAKER_05Oh my goodness.
SPEAKER_06All right, you said one more.
SPEAKER_01All right, yes. And the last one is um, did I say this? What's something you wish I did more of, but haven't said?
SPEAKER_06No, I said it wasn't any.
SPEAKER_01Okay, yeah. All right.
SPEAKER_06So it'sn't on me. What's something you wish I did more of? You didn't answer it. Oh my God. Probably had something to do with that thing you sent me on.
SPEAKER_01Because I don't know y'all like that.
SPEAKER_05Oh, what's the name?
SPEAKER_01But what y'all gonna know about me is y'all know. Oh my god.
SPEAKER_05A mess.
SPEAKER_01Yes. A mess. All right, so um This thing must be broke. We just gotta tighten it. Okay. It'll be alright. Um, what's something that people assume about our relationship that is completely wrong?
SPEAKER_05I don't know what people assume, because I don't ask people.
SPEAKER_01I don't either, but I would possibly say I thought they think we don't have disagreements. Yeah. That's what I was about to say, because my students always say, y'all don't ever uh be mad at each other. I say I say, I'm not gonna say we're mad at each other. But we are, but there's some moments where I'll be like, oh. Those moments. You know, I'm I'm never mad. I may not agree with what she did or agree with what she said, or but that's it. You know what I'm saying?
SPEAKER_06It's it's I might be mad for a day.
SPEAKER_01I can't even be mad. I mean, I could I could be, I think mad, for me, mad is different because I've been mad.
SPEAKER_06Oh, maybe it's not mad.
SPEAKER_01Right. I've been mad.
SPEAKER_06Maybe just prove my point.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, see, I've I've been mad. And mad ain't that.
SPEAKER_06Okay.
SPEAKER_01Mad is when I was a little boy.
SPEAKER_08Woo!
SPEAKER_01And I used to say stuff.
SPEAKER_02Oh my god. You say it's a bum!
SPEAKER_01That's me. Okay. I ain't never been that for you. Okay. But I've been, I've been to the point where I say, you know what, I'm gonna give her a time, I'm gonna give her a space, or I need um, I need to just chill and relax, and then we'll approach it differently. You know? She ain't ready to talk. I'm always ready to talk.
SPEAKER_05Oh, yeah.
SPEAKER_01And she ain't ready to talk. Yeah, she's I ain't saying nothing to you. Well, you just gonna listen. Um, but that's the only thing I would say uh is that people would think that we don't have disagreements or Or here's the other thing I
SPEAKER_06I think I think people think that we put on like we're so happy, and maybe they think that can't be happy.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah, of course. Of course. You like you say a coworker, somebody said you can't be always happy or whatever.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, no, I um Well, because happiness is a also a choice to me.
SPEAKER_01It is.
SPEAKER_06Um, that's what I think people don't understand. I feel like happiness is a choice. Are we saying that we've never had a disagreement or been upset or had some challenges in our marriage? Nobody's saying that. But um it's it's about the recovery and also about not letting things linger. No, we don't believe in letting the things linger.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Um, and we don't hold on to that.
SPEAKER_01I'm not gonna let that happen.
SPEAKER_06We don't hold on to well, yeah, that's probably one thing that he's not gonna um yeah.
SPEAKER_01So not the not the uh what what I call you, not the person that uh the get get you backer.
SPEAKER_06I am a get you back. I'm not a I don't think he ain't done nothing for me to have to get back to.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I don't I don't let the I'm a get you backer exist in the home.
SPEAKER_06Yes.
SPEAKER_01Even when it is about someone else, I try always talk you off the ledge because that messes up our harmony.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, that's true.
SPEAKER_01Because you're mad at somebody else now. I'm like, oh shit, I'm looking at them thighs.
SPEAKER_04Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_01If you're mad at somebody that did something, I I'm not gonna get the you know the benefits.
SPEAKER_04So some of y'all ought to be grateful.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that I'm talking her off the ledge because she probably would be thankful. Yeah. But I do, I I will agree that um people assume that our relationship is not as fun as it is. Oh, they ain't having fun. Yes. I would honestly say we do we are different. I'm just gonna be real. We are different. And and we make it an effort, not necessarily to be different, but we make it an effort to be happy, to make laughter, to enjoy. We make it a daily effort to have a purpose, yes, come home, or a purpose to want to be around the other person.
SPEAKER_06And it's e I mean, I think we've done the work for that. To make it easy, yes. Yes, we've done the work to make it easy.
SPEAKER_01Because it's little things we could do that make us be like, you know, get out of here, throw a p a pillow at you or something like that, that make us be like, go, look, all right, now you're finna start something, you know, like that. That's the ease because we've we know the the ins and outs of each other and and we're pleasurable around each other. You know what I mean? Like her company is good around me, my company is good around her in all kinds of spaces.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. And it's not us ignoring if there is a problem or something upsets us, we don't ignore and act like the thing is not a thing. No, we think it's still a thing, and we are able to.
SPEAKER_01Because we know that ignor ignoring the thing disrupts our harmony.
SPEAKER_06But I also think that the biggest part of is knowing the other person's intention.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Um, so I would say at the beginning, when I would think about not you not doing this or not doing that, that that was something I wasn't aware of of thinking um about or reflecting on what is his intention as as a husband or as a spouse, like not understanding that part and you being able to have that conversation to help me to understand what your intentions because I wasn't at that um level of thinking, I'll say, in a marriage or in a in a relationship, to even think that because I was so used to dealing with bad intentions, right? And so um that that's where I think it's so important for us to understand what are thinking of what are the intentions of this person, like think about who you marry, who is this person, very important, you know? Um, and then that can help you through um challenging times, and that's a whole nother topic.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, that's a whole nother episode because you said thinking about who you marry, you gotta think about who you're dating. Yeah, are you intentionally dating somebody that meets your needs, yeah, but are you also willing to meet the needs of them?
SPEAKER_06Of that person, the needs of that person, yeah, and and and thinking about um some people get so focused on being married, yeah, um, that they ignore some of those things. Yeah. And there are people who have showed you they don't have nothing but bad intentions from the jump.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Um, and you are letting you're ignoring it.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_06And you're letting it go on year after year, and you end up marrying a person who never had a good intentions.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I I like to look at it like because I always want to be married, but I always also wanted to have a person. So I like to say have a person first, and then see if that person is one that's uh able to go to the next level of being into a marriage.
SPEAKER_08Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Because I I don't want to date somebody that's a headache.
SPEAKER_08Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Even if it's just like a n, even if it's not even sexual. You know what I mean? Do I want to date a person that's you know, hey, can we go to the movies? No, I can't go this week. They're not making themselves available for me. I can't go this week, but let's try this time. You know what I'm saying? A person that's willing to be around you with you, support you, help you. That's a a good person that you want to be in your in your circle.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, let me see what else I Right.
SPEAKER_01And so I've always desired a great person. Also with my friends, like my immediate friend, my immediate friends that you know of.
SPEAKER_07Are awesome.
SPEAKER_01Right. That they speak to on a regular or the people. Solid people. Solid people. And so you have to act, you it's there's there's a relationship between it all. My solid people are the same solid people that say my wife is a solid person. My wife says my friends are solid. So you know what I mean? You can't have a jacked up situation here, but expect a perfect situation here. Yeah. It just can't coexist. So that's okay. Let me get off of that. That's another episode. That's episode 40 when we do our new season, which is in two episodes. Because this is episode 38.
SPEAKER_04Yes.
SPEAKER_01All right, so let's get up out of here.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
Believe It Sister Diaper Assault Story
SPEAKER_01So we got a Believe It Sister. Uh-oh. Now, this Believe It Sister was sent to me by who is uh yo, yo, who is your T Pora? Nicole Foga Wilmington Johnson Wilmington, all of it. Fam, you graduate. Yes. Mm-hmm. Work work for the work for the government.
SPEAKER_07Work for the government, the government, yeah.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, Foga Nicole out there in them in them screets. Said. But she sent me this story. So here's the story. There was a nurse who was found guilty of assault. And I'm gonna tell you what kind of assault she was found guilty of. What she did. So this lady, according to prosecutors, the chain of events began when a coworker reported this lady for refusing to care for a patient who was experiencing a prolonged nosebleed and for failing to administer prescribed medications. So the facility management then instructed Mitchell, which is the lady's last name, to return the keys to her medication cart and leave the premises. Give me them keys and get up out of here.
SPEAKER_06Mm-hmm. You believe it, sister.
SPEAKER_01But she said, Mm-mm.
SPEAKER_04She said she wasn't leaving?
SPEAKER_01Oh no. She refused to leave and began acting erratically, blaming the co-worker who contacted the management and said, yo, y'all need to get old girl. She acting a fool. So she over there mad at the co-worker now because the co-worker is the one that got her in trouble. So law enforcement was called and they came to the scene and they waited approximately two hours as a situation. Yes, because they was, you know, they was like, well, you know, let's be peaceful. Because it's an old folks' home. Okay. Let's chill a little bit. You know, we, you know, plus they they on the clock anyway. Okay. Ain't nobody threatening them. Okay. The least that's gonna be thrown at them is some saga titties.
SPEAKER_06Oh.
SPEAKER_01You know what I'm saying? That's the least. And if you ever been hit with I ain't never been hit with no sagg titties.
SPEAKER_06I was gonna say, we been hit with a saga titty.
SPEAKER_01But I can imagine a saga titty, a saggot titty would probably feel something like uh what would it feel like? Maybe like a little lettuce leaf. Wet little main leaf. Little whole thing.
SPEAKER_06I think a sag, it could be a little heavy.
SPEAKER_01Like a banana peel.
SPEAKER_06Like a balloon.
SPEAKER_01Balloon.
SPEAKER_06With water in it.
SPEAKER_01No, like a real sagging one. Like it ain't got no, it ain't got no nourishments in it.
SPEAKER_06Oh, I don't know. Maybe like a okay.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. Yeah, something like that.
SPEAKER_06Oh, maybe like a balloon with um, with um um, what is it?
SPEAKER_01Whipped cream.
SPEAKER_06Whipped cream or face or shaving cream. Shaving cream. Okay, yeah, something like that. That's what it would feel like.
SPEAKER_01So they was chilling. They was like, you know what, man, we ain't in no rust. We chillin' here. We on the clock, you know. If we go out back in the street, cancel it, we might get called in for something else. But somebody can call us now and say, hey, we handling this.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, that's right.
SPEAKER_01So they chilled there until the stuff unfolded. So the lady began to, the nurse began to, uh, it's she was all upstairs. She entered the patient's room where the co-worker was. So the co-worker that told on her, the nurse went in there and said, Yeah, I'm going to all the health in there. I'm finna go in there with a heifer at. And I'm finna watch this. Watch this. Watch this. So what she did, according to authorities, she put on some gloves. She put them gloves on, she said, and then she picked up an adult diaper, a used one now.
SPEAKER_07With doodle it.
SPEAKER_01Containing urine and fee seeds.
SPEAKER_07Oh no.
SPEAKER_01Kiss it. And then she grabbed the co-worker by the hair.
SPEAKER_07Oh.
SPEAKER_01And she smeared the diaper in her face like that, right there.
unknownOh no.
SPEAKER_01The co-worker then pushed her away. Oh my God. It defist. If y'all don't get this lady. Oh my God. And so the police officers took the lady away. Took her into custody.
SPEAKER_06What was her, what was she charged with?
SPEAKER_01She was charged with assault. Because you know, any kind of bodily fluids, it's like somebody spit on you. You can somebody spit on you, you can charge them with assault.
SPEAKER_07Oh my God.
SPEAKER_01You know, black boat. You can't spit on black boat. But put we are doo-doo.
SPEAKER_06We fightin.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_06Oh, we fighting.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_06I'm fighting with pee and doo doo all over my face. You're gonna get this on your on you.
SPEAKER_01I'm gonna get her her face. I'm gonna put it right in her face. I'm gonna beat it. Oh my god. And I'm gonna get Miss Um Mamie Jamie sag a titty and.
SPEAKER_05Slap her with it.
SPEAKER_01Like whip it, because it's elastic. The titty elastic. And I'm gonna pop her with it. But she got charged with a class B misdemeanor in Tennessee.
SPEAKER_07Oh my God.
SPEAKER_01While not a felony, the conviction carries a criminal record and was a result of a failed jury trial rather than a plea deal. So she didn't even like when she went to court.
SPEAKER_06Oh, she said she didn't know plea deal. She said, take me. She wants to do the trial.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, she got a because she didn't think she was wrong. Yeah, she wasn't wrong in what she did.
SPEAKER_06Oh my God.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, she said I wasn't wrong. So she got a trial and she got a Class B misdemeanor.
SPEAKER_07Oh my God.
SPEAKER_01Convicted of assault, but she's on her record now.
SPEAKER_07Oh my God.
SPEAKER_01It ain't no felony.
SPEAKER_07Oh my god.
SPEAKER_01She's gonna have a problem getting another job.
SPEAKER_07Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_01Yep. So that is our believe it's of the week.
Side Eye For Bad Lunches And HVAC Quotes
SPEAKER_07Oh my gosh. All right. Side eye story.
SPEAKER_01Yes, it was. Side eye of the week. My side eye goes to um, I guess you could say, we didn't. Well, I put the notes for you because you was like, number two.
SPEAKER_04Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Two days in a row, bad lunch.
SPEAKER_06Bad lunch.
SPEAKER_01So you want that to be your side or you had another one?
SPEAKER_06I'll take that. My side eye is the bad lunch. Two days in a row. Went to one place, I was like, ooh, I like a nice good sandwich. Now, the place I really wanted to go to was more a further away, but we had to get back for one of the air conditioner people, which was late, so we could have gone to that. Yeah, we could have. We went to this little sandwich place. I think it's called Ale Sandwich Place.
SPEAKER_01It's something it's downtown Ackworth.
SPEAKER_06So that sounds sad.
SPEAKER_01Across from the Railroad track.
SPEAKER_07Cross from the railroad track.
SPEAKER_01We should have gone to that sandwich place that uh Chalismania guys took me to, Scott. Well, not Scott Scott and them ordered from.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. Oh man. I like a good sandwich.
SPEAKER_01Um do that next time we'll maybe so.
SPEAKER_06But that little sad sandwich, I could have made a better sandwich myself.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. You said you wanted one from who?
SPEAKER_06Oh, the brat. Uh Ricky.
SPEAKER_01The B R A T.
SPEAKER_06They say the brat make a good, mean, good sandwich.
SPEAKER_01So, Bratt, if you out there, you and um Judy.
SPEAKER_06Judy, come make us a sandwich.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, come. We would love to have a sandwich with y'all. And uh we, you know.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_01We different. We ain't like crazy.
SPEAKER_06No. But I really want one of Brat sandwiches because Ricky says she makes it with live.
SPEAKER_01I think the Brat and them would be good friends of us. Of ours.
SPEAKER_06I know. I love the Bratt and Judy.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, me too.
SPEAKER_06Um, it is that was a bad thing. Then today we tried a new little kind of fast food. Yeah, because we was just supposed to be authentic Mexican.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, we was in the area, so we were trying to find something in the area.
SPEAKER_06We tried it and try. It had good reviews. It had good reviews too, but I don't know. People don't know authentic Mexican. We are travelers of the world.
SPEAKER_01That's right. We've been all over the world, even though one of our best Mexican places right up the street. Was it Taco del Travel? Yes, it's good. It's delicious. Yes.
SPEAKER_06But anywho, that was sad too. So I feel like I had two sad lunches.
SPEAKER_01So we gotta make up for it before the break.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. So maybe we have a better lunch tomorrow.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. But I bought you some uh some um lamb chops from Costco.
SPEAKER_06Oh, yeah, that's pretty cool.
SPEAKER_01You might create it, yeah. Well, that's maybe tomorrow. Tomorrow. You lamb chop tomorrow or tonight?
SPEAKER_06Tomorrow.
SPEAKER_01Okay, tonight. All right, tomorrow.
SPEAKER_06Tomorrow, lamb chops tomorrow. But that is my side eye. So I'm just saying, if y'all, that place is in Hiram, so Hiram, that's an old sonic.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, old sonic, or they're by the car dealership.
SPEAKER_06Listen.
SPEAKER_01Mm-mm. Yeah.
SPEAKER_06And the little sandwich place downtown, Kennesaw. Y'all, if y'all get upset about it, or downtown Ackward.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, Ackward.
SPEAKER_06I'm sorry if y'all like it. I didn't.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
unknownYeah.
SPEAKER_06And that little pasta salad that came with it, child, mm.
SPEAKER_01A mess. No, no, I took one bite of there. Tastes like nothing. Yeah, I I couldn't.
SPEAKER_06It tastes like nothing.
SPEAKER_01Yeah.
SPEAKER_06Nothing. The sandwich tastes like nothing.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I was like, uh, mm-mm mm mm. I can't do nothing with this.
SPEAKER_05I didn't like it.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, the sandwich place in in uh Atlanta is called Bona Fide. So if y'all know Bonafide, B-O-N-A-F-I-D-E. They say that sandwich place is amazing. What was that?
SPEAKER_06Oh no, I think I think I did it. Um, I will say we did try a new coffee shop at Downtown Aquare. What are you doing? I don't think that's me. Maybe it is. Um Downtown Aquare. Dang, I can't even think of the name of it.
SPEAKER_01I don't know either. But it's by real cool.
SPEAKER_06It had um, it's a Cuban coffee place. Now, my Cuban coffee, although it's not traditional Cuban, I think it was me. I think I was hitting the stage.
SPEAKER_01I'm about to say, Charles, I need to go and get that thing.
SPEAKER_06It's a Cuban, it's supposed to be Cuban coffee. However, it is not traditional Cuban. Um, it's a take on Cuban, but it was still very good. Now, the Cuban coffee, I would say the best Cuban coffee I ever had was was from in Miami.
SPEAKER_01Oh, yeah. That was some good old. When we went to the Beyonce concert, of course. Anyways, what anywho, what's your um my side eye goes to all of the people giving us all these quotes on these uh AC HVAC units.
SPEAKER_08Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Everything is pretty much like even if they're saying the same thing, the prices are different.
SPEAKER_08Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And it makes no sense. And it's really the price of a Toyota Corolla. Or Honda Civic.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_0135,000 plus. What 30? Okay. 16, 16 to 35,000 is what our range has been.
SPEAKER_06Yes.
SPEAKER_01You know what I mean?
SPEAKER_06I feel taken advantage of.
SPEAKER_01I really do too. It's one of those moments when I wish I went to trade school and got an Ace VAC certification and could have gone up there and said, like, yo, bro, this is look at my look at my wall, my certifications. Y'all BSing me over here. But I do know people need to make money, but I also know that the current situation of the world is where money, things are not getting to where they need to be, or they're using that tagline as a reason to charge more.
SPEAKER_07More money.
SPEAKER_01So it's it's it's really pissing us off. So we got one more quote coming tomorrow. Not tomorrow, Monday.
SPEAKER_08Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And we have to make a decision because we're not going to be caught off, you know, doing whatever we do. And God is gonna prepare us.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, he's gonna put the right it's gonna be a good one. He's gonna do it right. So let me tell y'all what this person has done. His he's been chat GP in it.
SPEAKER_01Come on, chat GPTing yourself.
SPEAKER_06And uh, so when the people come, he said, Well, yeah, you know, I have a friend.
SPEAKER_01Come on now. Come on.
SPEAKER_06I have a friend.
SPEAKER_01Friend starts with what letter? What my friend name starts with?
SPEAKER_06Chat.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, come on now. Oh chat.
SPEAKER_06That's his friend's chat, but he keeps telling people, yeah, I have a friend that's in um.
SPEAKER_01And who else?
SPEAKER_06Relatives, a relative.
SPEAKER_01Relatives that work in HVAC.
SPEAKER_06HVAC. That's what he's been saying. I'm like, who your relative? Chat.
SPEAKER_01Mm-hmm.
SPEAKER_06Anyway.
SPEAKER_01Chat Hell. Chat Page.
SPEAKER_06Now I will say chat did help us with the one because they came back and changed up their whole little two.
SPEAKER_01Of course. Yes, they did.
SPEAKER_06So uh our relative, aka my boyfriend, uh, chat did kind of get up, get the numbers a little bit lower. So yeah, we're still working. We're trying to get that number just a little bit lower.
Gratitude For Health Home And Purpose
SPEAKER_01We're gonna get it though. It's gonna work out. Yeah. All right, so what are we grateful for moving into our well, into our life period? What is something that you can pinpoint that you're grateful for? I would like to say that I am honestly grateful for my health. You know, I've had a lot of health situations recently, you know, within I say the past eight years. Um, you know, body aches and pains and torn muscles and ligaments and nerve damages and things like that. But even through it all, I'm grateful that I am healthy.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Um, I can still work out, not the way I want to, like I still have nerve damage, severe nerve damage in my left leg, in my foot, um, that affects me. Um, but other than that, man, I am just so glad that I can get up in the morning, walk, ride, bike, exercise, lift weights, you know, see my family and all those kind of things, man. So thank you, Lord, for my health. I appreciate it. Um and I'm actually, like I said, what I've been doing since about a year. Cause I really once once I found out I wasn't gonna be coaching anymore, I had to go to the gym that day to exercise hard. And that was the day that I said, I was I've been consistent since then, which is about a year ago now. And I've I can tell, I'll I'll be 52 this year, but I can see the difference in my body changing. And you know, most times people say when you're 50, turn 45, really, your body changes. Four 40 it starts decreasing because testosterone decreases males, and 45 is a drastic change. You're not gonna be the person you were at 35. But I can honestly say that I'm seeing changes in my body that is making me feel good.
SPEAKER_08Oh, that's good.
SPEAKER_01Yes, so there's gonna be a lot more. Hey, she's gonna be crazy over in these screens. But uh, but no, I'm grateful for that. So, yeah. And and for our and another thing was for our home. Um, even though we're getting things repaired and replaced, we still have a the guy said, man, your home is very homey. I said, that's our I said, that's our that's our goal. Our goal is to, when you walk into it, you feel at home, whether it's the presence, the atmosphere, or the look. And and I'm also the last thing that I'm super grateful for is our relationship. Because we do have a bomb ass relationship.
SPEAKER_02I will say that.
SPEAKER_01We do have a bomb ass with our boys, with our parents, with our in-laws. Um like I can say a joke to her mom and dad, and they laugh. And she can say a joke to my mom and dad and laugh. You know, it's just, we just have a great relationship. So that's what I'm grateful for.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. Well, you took so many.
SPEAKER_01But I've been like I'm telling you, this week, this spring break, when I tell you, I didn't have nothing else to do, so it allowed me to sit in my moments and to really count and be like, man, this is feels so good. It's just it's been I needed this. I needed this for her. And I think anytime I have a moment like this on that other side, it's crazy. It's getting ready.
SPEAKER_06Oh, yes, I love that.
SPEAKER_01Anytime.
SPEAKER_06Um, well, all the things for you that are I would ditle all of that, but to add on, um, because I have been saying all the same for you for all week, just kind of while like because we can get a chance to be in our house I think it was purposeful for us to be in our house this week. I I feel like it's purposeful because that's how I felt. I just felt like man, it just feels good, and like just want to go sit on the sofa and do that, and then yeah, then let I'm gonna make a charcuterie board, a little bit of that. And then like in the bed. Oh no, I'm staying in the bed till 10. This feels good. I'm gonna do this. And then I was like, you know what? I'm not watching TV downstairs, I'm gonna go in my city area in my and I have my breakfast in the came up, child, what you doing up here?
SPEAKER_01After the where I after the gym. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Yes, you was up there, and I was like, what are you doing in you watching TV up here?
SPEAKER_06Not only that, but that was cool. I went to Hobby Lobby one day before break, and they our kitchen is navy blue and white and gray, and they had these cute little plates that were navy blue. So I made my breakfast in my cute little navy blue plate, and I made my coffee in a real cup in the coffee cup.
SPEAKER_01And I just like really like enjoying what we pay for. Like what people say, I'm enjoying this mortgage.
SPEAKER_06Yeah. So, anyways, I did do that and I enjoyed that this week, being able to do that. But um, so that kind of ditto some of the things that you said. And um I will also add to that, I have one of my clients who is going through a tough, tough, tough, tough time. And when I say she be trying to make her way on that day for her thing, she says, because I need this with you. And so I just you know, am glad that even though she has this challenges coming up, part of it, her doing, part of it, not her doing, just who she is, but the idea that um you you are her peace.
SPEAKER_01Yes.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Your reason is her peace. Yes, your existence is her um second chance.
SPEAKER_06Yes.
SPEAKER_01And and and you know, don't get emotional, but those that's what we live for. We live to be yeah, you have to have a servant mindset. And the moment you realize that your purpose on this earth is to serve others to be a serve serve yourself to be better, but help to be a servant to others. Oh man, it's it's uh the blessings pour out. Yeah, they pour out, and it's not even anything that you're trying, like you're not, you're not going to let me see what I can do to serve somebody today. No. You're just doing what your DNA is designed to do.
SPEAKER_06And I will tell you, when my first start with this client, I was like, I don't know if I'm gonna be able to help her. I remember I'll tell you that. I was like, I don't know if I'm able to help her. I I've I really feel like this might be out of my wheelhouse, and I'm you know, I pray about everything, and so yeah, it was like, no.
SPEAKER_01And I want to give you this have you done anything that you wouldn't do to anybody else?
SPEAKER_07No, I mean Exactly.
SPEAKER_01That's all I'm trying to say is you didn't go out of your way to do anything to help her. What you're doing is what you normally do.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, for anybody.
SPEAKER_01Right. That's when you know that's who you are. Yeah. So when that's who you are, it's easy for you because it's just like like you say, it's it's easier being the true you than it is blind, trying to because you gotta remember all that stuff. But you didn't do anything any different to do to help this person. You're designed to help this person, you're designed to be the person you are. Yeah. And when we when we realize that all I can do is what I'm designed to do, like I said, that's when the doors oh, because God opens doors uh fit for you. And the doors that are fit for you, He allows you to be rewarded exponentially in ways you never would have thought.
SPEAKER_08Yeah.
SPEAKER_01So good job for you, man. Good job. And I'm bl and I'm proud that this lady is um finding relief, I guess you could say, or finding peace, or finding strength, or finding help in you.
SPEAKER_06Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Because a lot of people never they search and never find it.
SPEAKER_06And I have had some challenging, tough conversations with her, but you know, we've she is it's just what it's supposed to be. Um, and anywho, so I'm just thankful for that. I'm thankful for that.
SPEAKER_01All right, what are we looking forward to? Uh well got a few more weeks for big dog.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, uh yeah.
SPEAKER_01A few more weeks.
SPEAKER_06Till Key Vani's graduation. Less than a month. I'm I'm still I'm looking forward to finalizing what his celebration will look like.
SPEAKER_01John already finalized.
SPEAKER_06Uh he has, he's told me what it is. But I there are other little, you know me, I like details. So we do know what it's gonna be, but in regards to specific details to ensure it's special for him. The one thing I will say, you know, the boys are on their own little paths. But what I'm love, what I what I think is gonna be so great, they usually have to do every celebration together. So what's gonna be nice is I didn't think about that. Each get their own celebration, right?
SPEAKER_01I didn't think about that. That is gonna be great.
SPEAKER_06I just love that that they're so when Kahari's done with what he's doing, he's gonna have his own celebration that's his they get to celebrate each other each other in their own celebration. That has never happened, that's never happened, and so um, and that's where I'm that's that's what I'm seeing it as, not uh wishing that Kahari was there. No, because Kahari's path is Kahari's path, and we're we're okay with where both of the boys are. So I'm excited that we get to celebrate Keemani and then we then would there'll be the opportunity to celebrate Kahari separately.
SPEAKER_01And so they both I've never thought about that, creep, so until just now. That's gonna be so amazing.
SPEAKER_06So I'm excited for that, for the both of them, that we they get a chance to do that with celebrate each other, but then be able to have a time where it's just about each of them, you know? So yeah, I I thought about that. So I'm looking forward to being to that.
SPEAKER_01Well, I'm looking forward to going to Los Angeles uh for rehearsals for Bow Wizzle. You know, I do character acting, you know, so since I am one of the greatest Hornet mascots that Alabama State has ever seen. Um what would what's um um yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh I already know what you're gonna say. Uh-oh. I thought you were gonna say what he wanted me to say in the thing. Son. What would he say?
SPEAKER_06What's his name again? Parker. What would Parker say?
SPEAKER_01No, Parker would say that because Parker would, Parker would say, my frat Parker, little brother, would say, I am the reason that he wanted to do the mascot because he saw how much fun it was.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_01He would say, he would probably say I was the greatest because out of respect for the OG.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_01And he would say, but he but everything he learned was through me. Not saying that for his era, he wasn't right. Yeah. Yes. Um, but he'll say the OG was the greatest, but I'm in that conversation as well. Okay. You know what I mean? That's what Parker would say.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01And I think Mr. Lane would would agree. Okay. Because that, yeah. And we both held high to name.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
Tech Purchases Wrap-Up And Goodbyes
SPEAKER_01Um, but uh, I'm looking forward to uh so I will be doing live shows for Snoop Dogg's uh children's character, by whistle. So um I have to do all these different little um uh practice yeah, rehearsals and stuff. I gotta learn the choreography and stuff. I'll do appearances here and there, and prayerfully that it'll work out accordingly, where we can actually do two. So if Bow Wizzle One, which would be David filming somewhere or doing a live appearance here, and I could be Bow Wizzle 2 in the southern area, East Coast area, so we can able to monopolize, you know, the the need for uh the entertainment world. So uh it'll be cool. I and um, you know, I'm I love I love doing that. It's crazy because I want to be an actor actor, but I love doing the costume acting, even though people don't see me. It's I love it. You know, it's it's it's cool, it's cool stuff. So uh I'm looking forward to that. I go to LA this weekend to do the rehearsal, pick up my own costume, and then in May, we do the actual live show. And so we'll see how well everything goes. And I know it's gonna go well because I'm covered. I got fever. But uh that's it. So uh you ready to wrap it up? Sure. We got to think about food and stuff for today. I don't know what we're gonna do. This is probably our last night eating out. Um, we got Sadie coins, child for this AC.
SPEAKER_05And then also, I don't want to be getting all fat and sassy.
SPEAKER_01All fat and side safe. Yeah. Um, but somebody had to buy a new Apple watch today. Cause her little watch, child.
SPEAKER_06I don't even know what happened to it.
SPEAKER_01Hey, so y'all see this little thing? This is how her watch was dangling on her own, like this. The little watch. It was just dangling off of her watch. I said, What's wrong with your watch? I don't know. She said, what? And she looked at it. She lifted the face up. It literally lifted up off of her watch band. Just the face of the watch.
SPEAKER_06I don't know what happened. I wonder if I step on it like going to the bathroom at night.
SPEAKER_01I don't know what happened, but anyway. Ladies and gentlemen, we uh we had to get her a new watch. And I had to, and I returned my pocket three DJ, DJI Osmos Pocket 3 for content creation because the new one is coming out February the 16th. February. I mean not February 16th, April the 16th. And you know one thing about technology and me is what?
SPEAKER_05You want the new stuff.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm that kind of person.
SPEAKER_06So uh Best Buy only has a 15-day return policy. Yes. So if you don't know, now you know.
SPEAKER_01Unless you buy membership, which is uh$50 a year or a hundred, two hundred dollars a year, it extends it to 60 days return.
SPEAKER_06Anyway, so just know that.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's not worth it.
SPEAKER_06It's not worth it, and I was disappointed. So now I have this speaker that we'll have to figure out what to do something with. So anyhow to do that rip that was one of my side microphone, really. So my microphone, sorry, microphone. That was that I meant to make that my side eye, but anyways.
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