Going to Bed Angry

Join Akeeba and Lyn as they explore favorite scents, family traditions, and humorous debates on topics like mumbo sauce, "arguing" styles, and card games. This episode blends humor, personal stories, and everyday insights for a relatable listen.

00:00 Introduction and Candle Review
01:29 Mumbo Sauce
04:30 Favorite Tradition
12:46 Wife Question - Get Over it Fast or Hold a Grudge?
20:11 Husband Question - If a Man Disrespects you,,,,,?
34:03 Outside Question - Yall Play Spades
28:50 Understanding Reactions in Public Situations
32:44 The Decline of Customer Service and Rudeness
38:34 Current Events and Personal Recommendations


 keywords

casual conversation, family traditions, favorite scents, mumbo sauce, arguing styles, card games, humor, personal stories


 resources

Bath and Body Works Almond Croissant Candle - https://www.bathandbodyworks.com
Support the author Tarina Michelle - https://www.amazon.com/author/tarinamichelle

Transcript

SPEAKER_01 0:02

Welcome to Score One for the Grays. Score one for the Grays.

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Episode six.

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You're the keeper of the episode.

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I'm the keeper of the episodes. Yep. Episode six.

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Episode six.

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Oh, yeah.

unknown 0:16

Yeah.

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It's been a little bit, hasn't it?

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Yeah, we had we had a little breaky break.

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We had a lot going on. But you know, we're back.

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Like we never left. But what we burn in the day, though, we burn it.

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Oh, okay. So excited. I am really excited about this flavor or this fragrance.

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But we burning.

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This one is almond croissant from Bath Body Works. Now, I'm excited because I have wallflowers that are almond croissant. And I love it. It permeates really well in the air. So I'm trying to see if I'm going to love this candle.

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So you already know you like the scent.

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I already know I like the scent.

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One more time with the scent.

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Almond croissant.

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Almond croissant. You're familiar with it. Because of the wallflower. Now you need to see how much throw the candle has and if it's holding some of that same scent.

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It's been burning long at all, but I already do smell it. So I'm really excited. I think this is going to be one of my top um scents.

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Well, I'll let you know what I think about it.

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Yes, you will.

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At the end.

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At the

Mumbo Sauce

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end. Okay.

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Um, please don't mind us. We're gonna um I hope it don't seem too.

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We're doing a dinner edition. So it's a dinner edition.

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I thought it was the ghetto edition.

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We are going. Okay, okay. How do you know? So we're in the south. How do you know where we came from?

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Where we came from?

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Yes. Where we are from. We are eating carryout chicken wings. And what are we putting on our chicken wings?

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Oh, the brand.

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The brand.

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I mean, the mumbo is mumbo is what she's talking about.

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Mumbo sauce, y'all.

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Mumbo is what she's talking about.

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And so that brings me to this. My sister and I were talking the other day, and she was talking about mumbo sauce. And she was like, she doesn't necessarily like it, but she was like, I can't describe what mumbo sauce is. Can you describe for people who don't know what mumbo sauce is what it kind of tastes like?

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Me? Can I describe it?

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Yes. What does it taste like to you?

SPEAKER_01 2:39

Regular mumbo, not the hot mumbo, but regular mumbo.

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Mm-hmm.

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Um, or you digging in. Well, I'm gonna go ahead and get me.

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Yes, we digging in.

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Let me go ahead and um you say what regular. Let me see what mumbo tastes like.

SPEAKER_00 2:51

Yeah, what does it taste like?

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You know what? Like a um Mumbo to me tastes like I only know the ingredients of mumbo sauce. But to me it tastes like a cross between um ketchup, um sweet and sour. Maybe a hint of vinegar. Hint a hint. Yeah. Um yeah. Um barbecue or something, maybe?

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Yes.

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Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 3:43

A a little Polynesian sauce. I know you probably don't know what that is because you don't you don't eat that. But the closest way, mm-hmm, the closest thing to it would be polynesi Polynesian, Polynesian sauce. I I'm I'm saying it wrong, but you know, you know what I'm trying to say.

SPEAKER_02 4:05

Um So what we got for people today? Well, same old, same old format. Hugging question, outside question, little current events. Well, I don't have it. I was talking question. Mumbo. Okay.

Favorite Tradition We Created

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What are we doing? Who turn is it first? Is it you ask the question first?

SPEAKER_00 4:37

I can't ask the question first.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_00 4:39

It's gonna be easy, but I have to go to my phone.

SPEAKER_01 4:44

Your phone? Yes. I thought you were gonna be asking from the heart.

SPEAKER_00 4:48

I did, but I had to remember, I can't remember. So I had wrote it down.

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I put it in my phone. Um, tell you what, go with fried wings, and mumbo, and that's shrimp care.

SPEAKER_00 5:03

I know what it was. I told you I'd be forgetting. Okay. You ready? What is your favorite tradition we've created together?

SPEAKER_01 5:18

What is my what is our greatest?

SPEAKER_00 5:22

No. What is your favorite tradition we've created together?

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What is my favorite tradition that we've created together?

SPEAKER_00 5:30

Yes. It is so, it's, it's, it, it's small, but it's something that we do.

SPEAKER_01 5:38

Oh, you oh, you already know our answer.

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Yes.

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Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_00 5:42

Because you said it's like a quiz.

SPEAKER_01 5:44

Like you got, it's not just a question, like, it's one of them husband quizzes.

SPEAKER_00 5:50

And it's you. You're the one who created this tradition.

SPEAKER_01 5:54

I created a tradition. Yes. Um. That we do every year?

SPEAKER_00 6:00

That we do every year. And when we tell our moms, they're like, really, you do? Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, um.

SPEAKER_01 6:15

Is it Thanksgiving meal shopping early on Thanksgiving morning?

SPEAKER_00 6:22

Yes. Yes, it is. Like, the hustle and bustle is real. The hustle and bustle, and people run out of food, and you in the crowd, right? Trying to get your last minute Thanksgiving. But every Thanksgiving, it does not fail. We get up at like 4:30 in the morning, get dressed, and we go to the store. I'm not gonna tell you what story, because we don't want people to hear it and then do this. But anyway, we go to the store and it's freshly stocked. They got all this food out, no lines, and we're in and out. And you created this, this whatchamacallit, that tradition. But I was concerned there for a minute.

SPEAKER_01 7:13

Well, you know what we should do?

SPEAKER_00 7:16

What?

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We should tell them how that tradition was born.

SPEAKER_00 7:19

Um, I mean, if you want to tell, I mean back in the dizzy. Mm-hmm. Back in the day.

SPEAKER_01 7:27

Back in the day when we was broke. Broke as a joke. And we uh so one one Thanksgiving, we was like counting on the um the checks to hit. Like the day before Thanksgiving, and it never hit. So, so we was like, how in the world can we not get paid? And so we was counting on that paycheck for Thanksgiving dinner. So we literally stayed up all night long waiting for them deposits to hit the bank. And then when them Jones finally hit the bank, it was like not even light outside yet. And so once they hit the bank, we was like, put on your clothes, pew. We was going into the grocery store and hitting it up.

SPEAKER_00 8:28

And we saw that it's not crowded and it's freshly stopped. Uh from then on, we waited until Thanksgiving morning to go shopping.

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Yep.

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To this to this day.

SPEAKER_01 8:45

Yeah. Even when after we wasn't broke no more We still wait until Thanksgiving morning and go shopping for Thanksgiving dinner.

SPEAKER_02 8:59

Um the turkey in the hands, you know, that doesn't come from the store. Okay. Okay. We'll keep that Okay.

SPEAKER_00 9:16

So yeah, I I was just wondering if you could remember that. So the question that I have for you Huh.

SPEAKER_02 9:26

Mm-hmm. Um that would have been your favorite as well? Oh yeah, absolutely. Okay. You know me.

SPEAKER_00 9:43

I don't like big crowds. And I don't like the lines. I like to get in and get out. What?

SPEAKER_01 9:50

Are you you being funny? Oh. I'm being funny, although, you know, I was being facetious, but it really is like a you because you like you say you don't like big crowds, but who is the more likely person to totally make new friends and talk to strangers and now have a new friend?

SPEAKER_00 10:10

Okay. Just because I had an approachable face, that's the only reason a person will just be like, hi, and I'm like, huh. I'm not gonna be rude. Just like, you know, the guy that walks up and down.

SPEAKER_01 10:24

Uh-oh. What was that? Uh-oh.

SPEAKER_00 10:26

The guy that walks up and down. Any car he sees, he's waving at the car. So I will wave. You don't wave. And he might edit this out, but you know, I'm keeping it 100. One day you he waved and you didn't, and it hurt his feelings. It did. He was like, why, why didn't you? So now if you're driving and he does it, I wave across you and I do like this because it hurt his feelings.

SPEAKER_02 11:02

Oh. Talking about in a neighborhood. Mm-hmm. Okay. In a neighborhood. And so yeah. I know who you're talking about.

SPEAKER_00 11:13

Huh? You didn't know who I was talking about? Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 11:16

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 11:17

So, yeah. I just, I mean, it's not that I'm making friends. It's just, I mean, it doesn't hurt to say hello if somebody speaks to you. I don't. Do I have I started doing that? If I see somebody and I just be like, hey. Cause I'm not eating.

SPEAKER_01 11:34

I'm not talking about, I ain't talking about eating. That's up for you. Not eat. That's cool. Um, even though you like set me up. Let's eat during the podcast. I'm the only one feeding his face. Anyway. Um. So anyway. I'm talking about like, okay, when we out somewhere, or we on vacation, or we in a restaurant.

SPEAKER_00 12:00

On vacation, that's true.

SPEAKER_01 12:02

Get it talking to somebody, next thing you know, we got a new friend. Or even if we just in a line somewhere, and you're talking to the person at the register, like, you do that. You talk to like various people. I'm not saying it as a critique or any sort of criticism whatsoever. I'm not saying it as that it's bad or anything at all.

SPEAKER_00 12:26

I mean, I'm just kind. I am. I mean, on the cruise ship, out of all these thousands of people, how was it that the person standing in front of me went to the same high school that I went to?

SPEAKER_02 12:43

That was wow. Wow. Another

Wife Question - Do you hold a grudge or get over it quickly

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question for me?

SPEAKER_00 12:46

I had to. Because I thought the other one you were gonna get it like that, but you didn't. But you did get it on the first try. It took me to throw a little shade, like, wow, for you to get it.

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All right, second question.

SPEAKER_00 13:03

When you argue, do you tend to make up quickly or hold a grudge?

SPEAKER_01 13:10

Oh, that's easy for me.

SPEAKER_00 13:13

You think it's easy?

SPEAKER_01 13:14

This is easy for me. If I'm engaged in an argument, do I tend to hold a grudge or do I I'm making a match. Do I let go of it easy?

SPEAKER_00 13:22

No.

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Okay, I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_00 13:26

When you argue, do you tend to make up quickly or hold a grudge?

SPEAKER_01 13:32

I tend to make up quickly. I definitely do not hold a grudge.

SPEAKER_02 13:40

For me, it might not even be an hour. For me, it might not even be an hour, and I'm already, you know, moved on to the next whatever.

SPEAKER_01 14:03

Like, you know, I'm not really holding no kind of grudge at all. Matter of fact, yeah, I'm I'm I'm definitely done with it.

SPEAKER_00 14:12

Um why am I laughing?

SPEAKER_01 14:14

You laughing because I'm sure you I mean, because you the opposite.

SPEAKER_00 14:22

What?

SPEAKER_01 14:23

You the opposite. Wait a minute.

SPEAKER_00 14:24

Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Hold on. You can answer that really quickly, but you cannot answer the tradition quickly. A tradition that you created, but you can answer that with how I feel real quick, right?

SPEAKER_01 14:39

I mean, I mean, because that was that was kind of, I'm not gonna say it was random. Um, I gotta put that that was pulling from several different experiences to what are you talking about? The the tradition that was pulling from like, okay, we've had all these years of different experiences to hone in on which thing could you be possibly talking about. And so then you threw me a little coop, you hip through a little alley oop, little, and I caught it, bow, banged it off, and and and and the rest was history. On this particular one, this is easy because I don't even think there's gonna be any type of um pushback or argument involved in it. And then if it is, I mean, then you'd probably only just be proving my point.

SPEAKER_00 15:31

So Elaborate when you say um I can hold on to that grudge.

SPEAKER_01 15:45

I'm saying, okay, all right, let's say the reasonable, let's say, let's say the reasonable um expectation, right? Okay, I said it might be under an hour for me, and I'm and I'm good. It might even be when I'm um at some point when it's bedtime, you know, I'm good. I would say reasonable expectation is that when you wake up the next morning, you just slept on it, it's cool, right? You we might have had an argument on Monday.

SPEAKER_00 16:19

Wait, because you're giving a day of the week. I want to know where you're going with this one.

SPEAKER_01 16:26

I'm saying you might have we might have had an argument on Monday.

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Uh-huh.

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And Saturday. Saturday. Saturday. I'm like, but what's wrong with you though? And the answer is, you know, I ain't forgot about what you said.

SPEAKER_01 16:49

Uh I'm like, wow, because I thought you might have would have forgot about what I said. Because it has been like, you know, five, six, seven days since that happened, since that occurred.

SPEAKER_00 17:04

Okay. Have you ever heard people say married couples should not go to bed angry at each other?

SPEAKER_01 17:13

I first heard that on the cosby show, Cliff and Claire, it was like, yeah, they had an episode where they was talking about we don't go to bed, we don't go into bed angry. And then they went to bed angry.

SPEAKER_00 17:23

But yes, that's kind of unrealistic. Do you agree?

SPEAKER_01 17:28

Yeah. I think it's unreal. I mean, I I mean it's a it's a I think it's a valiant thing to do, and and it's a it's a pretty good target. And who knows, maybe it's people out there that's really, that's really um living up to it. If you got somebody that's um like myself who can pretty much be over it in an hour or two, um, and then they get with somebody that's like myself, who knows? Maybe they maybe they can like consistently uh do that. Sometimes, I mean, you know, I don't know. Maybe that should be a target, but sometimes just like I see them in the morning. But you know what? They say maybe they say that because you shouldn't take that for granted.

SPEAKER_02 18:13

So I remember trying in the earlier part of the marriage, we did try that. And in some cases, it's good to just go to sleep and sleep at all. But sometimes you're right.

SPEAKER_00 18:33

It's gonna be there maybe a week or two.

SPEAKER_01 18:35

You know what? When you say about around the earlier pause of our marriage, I'm gonna say, yes, you're right, but by earlier pause, I'ma say um like the first couple weeks. No, that's not true. We tried that.

SPEAKER_00 18:55

But I do remember, I do remember.

SPEAKER_01 18:57

Okay, yeah, this ain't gonna be.

SPEAKER_00 18:59

Do you remember the conversation? When we did get into an argument, I was like, but we shouldn't go to sleep mad. But it was no way to like.

SPEAKER_01 19:11

I don't remember the particular argument.

SPEAKER_00 19:15

I don't either, but I just remember making that statement.

SPEAKER_01 19:18

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 19:19

The fun time. Okay, so what you got for me?

SPEAKER_02 19:30

Cosmic question. Mm-hmm. And you need to see what you sent me. But wait a minute. But did you I I didn't get your opinion.

SPEAKER_01 19:46

Did you, did you totally agree?

SPEAKER_00 19:49

Oh no, I totally agree. 1000% agree. And I do, I try, oh gosh, I do try to let go. I try my best, but sometimes I be so into my feelings and in my emotions, I can't. I can't. I I no, mm-mm. You're right. It's

Husband Question - Confront disrespect or walk away?

SPEAKER_00 20:11

I'm still a work in progress on that one. Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 20:14

Okay.

unknown 20:15

Yeah.

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Husband question. Mm-hmm. All right.

SPEAKER_01 20:22

We've been blessed enough not to have to have encountered a situation like this. So hopefully I don't talk it up by asking this question. But I've often thought about, like, okay, what you know, what would transpire if something like this was to happen. Okay, so this is the this this is the scenario, and you tell me what's your preferred outcome. We out and about, we outside, we wherever, doing whatever. And for whatever reason, we get into it with a very large male, for whatever reason, okay, who has now crossed over into disrespect land, and and and let me be clear, when I say disrespect, I mean he has disrespected you verbally, disrespected you verbally, either calling you outside your name or just whatever whatever manner in which this this joker was speaking, it was clearly disrespectful, and it was clearly disrespectful to you. However, he has not physically threatened you, nor has he made any attempts to violate your personal space.

SPEAKER_02 21:57

Those things.

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Being the case, how would you prefer I defend you in a situation like that?

SPEAKER_00 22:06

So words don't hurt me. And if it's I'ma I'ma weigh the situation. Okay. Number one, we have too much to lose. So I'm just like, you haven't done anything to me. I don't need to be here. We can just walk away from the situation. Cause you have not touched me. And whatever. And if we walk away, I don't feel like you a punk or anything like that. It's we have too much to lose.

SPEAKER_02 22:45

So, so okay, all right. Cause we've been out and about.

SPEAKER_00 22:52

You know, this one right here, she can, she can hold, hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up. Hold up. For me.

SPEAKER_01 23:03

She welcomes all the smoke. Like, oh. No, no, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_00 23:08

Let's be fair. Let me let me defend myself. Let me defend myself. With me, if somebody says something to me, whatever, I'm I'm okay, right? I have a slick comeback, but I'm good. What sets me off? What gets me from zero to 1,000 is if somebody says something to him. Like I'm straight up arguing with somebody because they didn't say something to him. Because it'll be another female. So I don't expect him to say nothing back, but you're not gonna talk to him sideways. If somebody says something to the kids, it's going to be it's almost immediate. It's a light switch. But somebody said something to me, it's just like, whatever, you know, whatever. But can't nobody say anything to you.

SPEAKER_01 24:05

Nothing. Well, you gotta add your mom to that list, too. I seen it personally.

SPEAKER_00 24:09

I seen somebody say something to your mother out the way, and I seen a The Flicker, you saw the light switch, right? Yeah. But men, when it comes to the words they say, it could potentially go into a physical altercation. Physical altercations don't typically end well. Okay. A female, we're just gonna talk junk. I'm not gonna go on the blows, but I'm I am trying to bite my tongue. I'm not worried. I'm just not worried.

SPEAKER_01 24:53

So, so, so big old Joker say, you know, and I'm and um we already kind of was uh on some back and forth a little bit, just a little bit on whatever the situation was. And then he turned it up to, you know, blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.

SPEAKER_00 25:16

It would be better if we walk away from the situation because my mouth can get us further into the situation. We have to walk away from the situation.

SPEAKER_01 25:24

Okay, so I say, so I say, Oh, see, this ain't even, you know, this ain't even this ain't even worth it. Come on, let's, let's, let's, let's, let's go. When I say come on, let's go, you ain't saying to yourself.

SPEAKER_00 25:36

This whole not at all. Nope.

SPEAKER_01 25:41

Oh. Okay.

SPEAKER_00 25:44

Not a little bit.

SPEAKER_01 25:45

Now, what if we walking away and my man like, yeah, that's what I thought.

SPEAKER_00 25:56

Okay. Cause see, sometimes your facial expressions.

SPEAKER_01 26:03

Mine.

SPEAKER_00 26:04

No, mine. A person's. A person's facial expressions says a whole lot more than words. So you might have said that, right? And I c I'll turn a back around and may look at you, and my look is more powerful than my words. Cause you the one that looked like the idiot. Not me.

SPEAKER_01 26:25

How they look like the idiot.

SPEAKER_00 26:27

You sitting here arguing with somebody trying to walk away. So you trying to defuse the situation, but you look like the person who can't control yourself. You're right. You're right. You did. It was it was an incident where we were at Pet Smart. Do you remember this? We were at Pet Smart. And the lady almost hit us because she's backing up out of the parking lot, a parking space, backing up. You almost hit. I don't say anything, right? But she rolls down her window and she says something to you. You don't hear, I hear. So now me and her going back and forth, a scene in the parking lot. Do you remember that? But then you get mad at me. You get mad at me. He got mad at me because he's like, I should not have engaged in that. What you want me to do? I could not walk away because it's a female talking to you. But then when I sat back and looked at the situation, right? She drove off. I'm in the store. It was people coming into the store when this incident took place. She's gone, but now they're looking at me like, mm-hmm, ghetto.

SPEAKER_01 28:03

I mean, it's a it's it's probably a time and place element to it. I don't, I don't recall being, I didn't, I didn't recall being mad at you. Um, but it's probably a time and place element to it and and just recognizing um, you know, just where you are and your surroundings and all that. But um, I was just curious, uh, because that that that particular thing has not happened to us. And so I was like, man.

SPEAKER_00 28:36

But I also am cognizant of trying to conduct myself in a manner in which I would not put you in a situation like that.

SPEAKER_01 28:47

And I appreciate that. I appreciate that. Because I'm, you know, I'll um, you know, I'll I'll do a hospital visit on your behalf, but man, that's gonna be a rough week if I gotta do a hospital visit on your behalf, man. It's gonna be a rough. No, no, mm-mm.

SPEAKER_00 29:07

Nope.

SPEAKER_01 29:08

My golly, man. Are you serious?

SPEAKER_00 29:10

You some music came on, and I accidentally bumped into somebody.

SPEAKER_02 29:17

And you were like, and I'm like, stop being alone.

SPEAKER_00 29:22

It's just an accident, you know. At the time, way younger. I didn't really get it. But as I'm older, I get what you're saying. A person can be just like this just by doing like this, like that. And you was just trying to protect me. You just did not want that uh situation to escalate because I'm having a good time. I'm so oblivious to my surroundings. And um, yeah. So that was a lesson that I learned.

SPEAKER_02 30:02

Yeah, don't want to put you in that situation. You wasn't expecting that, were you?

SPEAKER_01 30:11

No, no.

SPEAKER_00 30:12

What were you expecting me to say? I want you to stand up for me.

SPEAKER_01 30:17

Um, I didn't really know how it was gonna play out. I didn't know what I didn't know what to expect, really. Probably some element of that, but then but because I mean, okay, if you if you I it's even it's still even part of me that thinks, okay, let's say it's a dude, like I said, dude bigger than me.

SPEAKER_02 30:41

Get into it. He disrespects you.

SPEAKER_01 30:46

I check him. He don't take too kindly to that. He turned it up a notch. I send a little quick-witted little boop-boop, you know, one, two, with the words.

SPEAKER_02 31:00

He really don't like it.

SPEAKER_01 31:02

He turned up the heat and it turned into a physical altercation, right? This dude who's very large, if I happen, if I just so happen to be on my one-two that day, and I mop this dude up, you're gonna have a little hot flash or two. Yeah, you're gonna have a little hot flash too.

SPEAKER_00 31:35

Make it me flash.

SPEAKER_03 31:40

Well now. Well, I'm about to turn it pink.

SPEAKER_01 31:53

Yeah, I guess you picked the wrong one. Yeah, that that's that's yeah. So, so that's I mean, so knowing that and knowing, you know, I guess you probably do have a level of maturity that would that would hopefully, when needed, would be on display. But I I mean, I also'm curious. No, no, I'm not curious. I don't, I do not want this to happen at all. I'm not curious. I don't want this to happen. I want to be put in this kind of circumstance. I'm a man of peace. And tranquility.

SPEAKER_00 32:32

Right. Uh there's certain movies you don't even want to watch. I'm a lover.

SPEAKER_01 32:37

I'm a lover, not a fighter. I'm a I'm a lover, not a fighter.

SPEAKER_00 32:42

Um It'd be times when people look like they're having a bad day. I might just speak to you because it looks like you're having a bad day.

SPEAKER_01 32:53

You know, this I'm looking at myself. I got five different shades right now. My face is one complexion, my chest is one complexion, this arm is one complexion, and this arm is one complexion. I got like five different complexions right now.

SPEAKER_00 33:13

Lynn, really? Are we keeping this? Cause I want to know how we just got there.

SPEAKER_02 33:22

I was looking, I was like, one, two, three, four, five.

SPEAKER_01 33:31

Oh my gosh. Every little, every little is like complexion in the garment, complexion in the garment, complexion in the garment, complexion in the garment.

SPEAKER_00 33:40

That was rude.

SPEAKER_02 33:44

I was talking. Yes, my bad. I'm just messing with you.

SPEAKER_00 33:51

I'm just messing with you. I'm just messing. I'm just messing. I'm just messing.

SPEAKER_01 33:57

Just messing. It doesn't matter.

SPEAKER_00 34:00

It doesn't matter what you think.

Outside Question - Yall Play Spades?

SPEAKER_00 34:03

My imaginary friend thinks I'm special.

SPEAKER_02 34:16

Outside question Um said then someone familiar.

SPEAKER_01 34:24

Um was do we know how to play spades?

SPEAKER_02 34:31

Oh yeah. Oh, absolutely. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 34:42

We know how to play spades, but there is room for improvement.

SPEAKER_01 34:47

Well, what the what the what the what? Oh, that's not how this goes.

SPEAKER_00 34:52

Not not with you. I'm not saying with you. So I can play spades.

SPEAKER_02 34:59

But you know where I struggle? Where do you struggle? Counting my books.

SPEAKER_00 35:07

Because, like, if I was to play my hand, I feel like I'm playing your hand too. So, for instance, if I had a jack in my hand, I'm not gonna count that as a book. What would you count that as a book? A jack?

SPEAKER_01 35:24

When it's time to bid your hand, it would I count a jack as a book? It depends on what the house rude going into it is.

SPEAKER_00 35:31

Oh, true.

SPEAKER_01 35:32

If if it depends on certain factors. Can we lead with spades? Are we playing Joker Joker Deuce? Uh those those those couple of factors weigh into whether or not I would bid a jack as a book.

SPEAKER_00 35:47

Are you an aggressive bidder?

SPEAKER_02 35:49

How many other are a conservative bidder? I like to think that given the rules of the day that I'm great at bidding my hand.

SPEAKER_01 36:07

Now, especially if we play in bags, meaning Oh, yeah. Meaning you can get set by getting sandbag, right? By accumulating ten bags. And you can get set by accumulating ten bags over a period of um however many hands. Accumulate ten bags, you get set.

SPEAKER_00 36:33

So when you play in space, do you feel like it's fair that husband and wives play together?

SPEAKER_02 36:41

Sure, it's fair.

SPEAKER_00 36:43

You don't the spouses having an upper hand? Because I could do like this. And I'm not I'm not saying that we do this. I'm not saying that at all, but I could do like this. No, that's too obvious. I could do something like that, and you think, oh, she's giving me a sign.

SPEAKER_01 37:05

I think that if you want to cheat, and if you are a cheater, it doesn't matter if it's your spouse or if it's your BFF or whoever it is, you're gonna find a way to cheat. Them signs and stuff you're talking about, it don't take no time to develop them signs. It don't take 20 years of marriage to develop them signs. You develop them signs in 30 seconds. So if you're a cheater, then you're gonna cheat. That's what I think.

SPEAKER_00 37:29

Obviously, we don't cheat, because you know, we're having this conversation.

SPEAKER_01 37:32

Yeah, we don't cheat at all.

SPEAKER_00 37:34

And that's why I said, do you feel like we might practice, but we don't cheat. But do we even really practice fades?

SPEAKER_01 37:45

Come h come see about us if you want to.

SPEAKER_00 37:48

But we're not afraid.

SPEAKER_01 37:49

Come see about us if you want to. I can hear some of y'all. I can hear some of y'all right now talking about, man.

SPEAKER_00 37:56

Just because we having this conversation.

SPEAKER_01 37:58

Come see bottles if you want to.

SPEAKER_00 38:00

Just because we're having this conversation does not mean that we play like we're having this conversation. Don't don't let that fool you, but no. Um we haven't had a good spades game in a minute.

SPEAKER_02 38:16

Um, see, that's like the thing where you you you set them up to think we can't play, and then I balance it out with the extra bravado overly confident.

SPEAKER_00 38:34

The current events, what's happening? Or are we still in the the spades?

SPEAKER_01 38:40

No, I guess we can move to current events. You had the NFL draft.

SPEAKER_00 38:44

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_01 38:46

Um How'd it go for you? I mean, it was a pretty decent draft. We had uh six picks out of out of a seven possible. Um they said we got the best value, whatever that means, out of um all 32 teams. Well, I know what it means. I shouldn't say whatever that means. They're saying we picked our our picks, when you looked at it where they were projected to go, they were always incrementally higher, projected to go higher than they ended up going um to us. And so that was supposed to be some sort of plus. But I don't know if I subscribe to any of that anyway, because ultimately these guys gotta show up on the field.

unknown 39:28

Okay.

SPEAKER_01 39:28

And make winning plays and make plays towards winning.

SPEAKER_00 39:34

Well, I have something to say. You see that right there? Why didn't you save me?

SPEAKER_02 39:41

So Why didn't you save me? Yeah, that book. Oh. Why didn't you save me? Right here. Yeah.

unknown 39:51

Okay.

SPEAKER_02 39:52

That book.

SPEAKER_00 39:54

Go out and get that book. Terina Michelle, she wrote her book for the first time, and she uh did an amazing job. You can get it at Amazon, Barnes and Oval. And um, she'll kill me if I can't I can't remember the other platforms that she said. Yeah, go get that book.

SPEAKER_01 40:12

Why didn't you save me?

SPEAKER_00 40:14

The heaviness of unspoken words. And there she go, right there. The author.

SPEAKER_01 40:19

Like I like the feel of it.

SPEAKER_00 40:21

Right?

SPEAKER_01 40:22

Nice, nice, nice cover.

SPEAKER_00 40:24

Right. That cover is like amazing.

SPEAKER_01 40:27

Like the graphics of it.

SPEAKER_00 40:28

Yep. And again, Amazon, you can get it on Amazon and Barnes and Noble. Supporter. Yep.

SPEAKER_02 40:39

That's what's up.

SPEAKER_01 40:42

Well, this would um conclude another episode of Score One for the Grays.

SPEAKER_02 40:53

Until next time. I'm gonna eat my food.