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[bright music]
[slow music]
- What's wrong, honey?
- Nothing, nothing.
[James sighs]
- Sweetie, are you sure?
'Cause you're tossing and turning like waves in an ocean.
- Yeah, I'm sorry.
Oh God.
[audience laughing]
- Darling, do you wanna talk?
- No, no, no, no, no.
[James coughs]
It's okay, it's okay.
I don't wanna disturb you, you just go back and read.
- Okay, James, let's talk about it
'cause the first lady can wait.
- Wait, you're reading about our current first lady?
- Of course not.
I'm reading, "Becoming Michelle Obama".
She and Barack will forever be my only first family.
- Yeah, understood.
- Yeah, so baby, what's wrong with you?
- I don't know.
I don't know if I'm making
the right decision about retiring.
- What?
I mean, what are you talking about?
You've been looking forward to this for the last 10 years.
"I can't wait till I retire,
"when I do, I'm gonna have time to do this and do that."
- First of all, I don't speak like that.
[laughs loudly]
- Okay, but you know what I mean?
- I don't know.
I don't know.
I've been at that school for 25 years.
And in the next few months, it's all gonna be gone.
Poof.
- But isn't that exactly what you want?
- I don't know.
I thought it's what I wanted.
- Oh, honey, you know what I think this is?
I think, oh yes, I think that this is just a case
of cold feet and fear of the unknown.
- Okay.
- Because listen, we all have all this free time.
You'll have free time to sleep as long as you want.
You can play so much golf as you want.
- Oh, I like that. - You can go to the gym.
- Yes. [James clapping]
- You can watch watch ESPN till the cows come home.
[James laughs]
Oh, that's good, that's good, that's good.
- And just think of all the useful time you'll have
to make time we spend here a little bit more fun.
- Whoa.
[James laughs]
We have a lot of fun in this room.
- I wouldn't exactly say that, honey,
if you don't get your lighter out more often
this furnace is gonna go completely out.
[audience laughing]
- What are you talking about woman?
We make love at least-
- Once a month.
- I don't think so.
Gloria McKenzie, that's a lie, that's a lie.
- Here, let me check my records here.
- Your rec?
- Uh-huh.
- What?
Stop playing. - Okay, here we go.
May 25th, 9:45 to 10:02,
husband finally gave me some attention.
That was one month ago.
- You gotta be, you do not keep a journal
of our love making sessions.
You can't be serious?
- I am.
I am, I read it in O Magazine,
that Oprah, she keeps a record
of every good thing that happens to her.
- That is ridiculous.
- I like it.
- Let me see that.
- No, no, no, no.
This is mine, this is personal, get your own.
- What you mean?
I'm your husband, we don't have any secrets.
- No, no.
Honey, listen, listen, James.
Every healthy marriage deserves
a little bit of mystery to keep it popping.
- Girl, you better give me that.
- No, no, no.
- How long you've been keeping a journal?
- Oh, just about four months or so.
Okay, a little peak.
There.
That's all you get.
- Oh.
Look like a whole lot of empty pages.
[James laughs]
- Exactly, that part.
Oh, honey.
Listen, I'm just teasing you, okay?
This is a little something for me,
but don't you worry, darling,
you're retirement's gonna go wonderfully
and you'll have plenty of time
and you'll find plenty of things to keep yourself busy.
And you can always come and work for me.
[Gloria kisses James]
- Thank you baby.
- You're welcome.
- So you're not gonna read anymore?
- No, I'm good.
- Why?
You wanna talk or something?
- No, no, no, no.
[James giggles]
I was thinking about filling
some of those pages in your book there.
[audience laughing]
- Oh, you caught that hint, did you?
I am right here mister.
- All right, don't you need to take off something first?
[Gloria laughs]
- Oh, James, I stay ready.
I don't have anything on.
- Oh.
Oh.
[Gloria laughs]
Mrs McKenzie, after all these years,
you still have naughty little girl.
- No.
It's been a long time
since I've been a little girl, James McKenzie.
What you're fortunate to have in your bed
is a full fledged Nubian goddess.
Come on, handle your business player.
- You didn't say nothing.
Right here.
[Gloria shouts]
[laughs loudly]
[indistinct]
♪ My neck, my back, my
- Hildee.
- Oh, I wasn't gonna say it.
- Hildee, you out did yourself this morning.
Blueberry pancakes, eggs over easy,
maple cinnamon turkey bacon and fresh squeezed orange juice.
If you had helped raise me like I was one of your own,
I would have been took a marriage license out on us two.
- Oh, shut up boy, I'm way too old for you.
And besides I'm already taking.
- Who is it?
Roy Hankins at the church?
- Roy Hankins?
Hell no.
Roy Hankins will never taste
the fruit of my womanhood again.
[audience laughing]
And besides way too small.
- My bad.
Wait, Roy's six feet.
- Who's talking about height?
[audience laughing]
- Hildee.
- I'm just saying.
Let me go get breakfast ready for your daddy and mama.
[Zavier laughs]
♪ My neck, my back
[Hildee humming]
- What are you doing?
- I just finished eating.
Those blueberry pancakes were the truth.
- No, I mean, what are you doing here?
What are you doing here?
You don't even fix breakfast at your own house.
- Come on pops, you know nobody makes breakfast Like Hildee.
- Oh, yeah.
That's what you said yesterday
when you were here at lunch and the day before at dinner,
I'm just trying to figure out
why it is you moved out in the first place,
if you're always here?
- Pop, you know I'm too independent to be living at home.
- Independent.
- I need my space, my privacy-
- And my food.
[audience laughing]
Evidently my food.
- Touche.
- Exactly.
Your sister come down yet?
- How would I know?
I don't live here.
[audience laughing]
I'm gonna get some orange juice, you want a glass?
- I'm good.
- Hey, was that Zavier's voice I heard?
- You know it was.
He is here every day.
Listen, I can't understand why he has Hildee
fixing him a special breakfast.
- Oh honey, first of all, leave the boy alone.
I like him here.
And Hildee, she spoils him
and Regina all the time, you know that.
- Yeah, but he moved out.
[Gloria laughs]
So why is he here more than you and I?
- Because the boy can't cook.
[James laughs]
And you know that chick he's with,
she doesn't do anything but sit around
and stand around like a made up Barbie doll.
- Wait a minute, her name is Crystal.
- I know what her name is, James.
Sweetheart, why do you not like her?
She's a very sweet girl.
- Really?
Well, that's what you said about Sherry and Michelle
and Deborah and Diane.
- Wait a minute.
I do not like Diane.
- Yeah, I don't either, none of them.
And now he's onto the next one.
- Well, I think you should get used to it
because I think she might be here to stay.
- Really?
- Yeah.
- Please, that boy changes women like I changed my panties
and that's every single day.
- Speaking of panties,
[laughs loudly]
you were a little extra wild last night.
- Oh, was I?
Because I swore that was you.
"Baby, can we do it one more time?
"Please baby, baby, please baby, baby please."
- Well, can I help it,
if I have one of the sexiest woman I know?
- One of the sexiest women?
I would be the only sexy woman you know.
- All right, you said that. - You what I'm saying?
- Get a room.
[laughs loudly]
In front of your child too, that's just shameful.
[audience laughing]
- I think it's okay if the child is a whole grown ass man
and this is my house.
- Good morning, baby.
[Gloria kisses Zavier]
Pay your daddy no mind.
- Thank you mama, good morning.
- Good morning.
How's it going over at the center, love?
- Stressful as usual, I see about five or six kids a day
with all types of issues.
- Geez, I can only imagine.
- Yeah, some of the cases that come across my desk
can be heartbreaking.
So many kids lost with no direction
and eight to 10 of them have no father figure in the home
or in their life for that matter.
- That is so sad.
- My goodness.
Well, you know what?
I know that they are lucky to have you as their counselor.
What you do with those kids is just commendable.
- Maybe a little too much.
- What?
What do you mean?
- I had a kid come in last week,
a Baron Marshall, came in with his mom.
She was having behavioral problems with him at home
and he was messing up in school.
And he wouldn't talk to me at first,
so I asked moms to step outside and let us talk man to man.
- All right.
- And then he started to open up.
So I asked him what it's like to be at home, Baron?
And I could tell the question surprised him.
So I asked him again,
"Baron, why don't you like to be at home?"
This kid looked at me with tears in his eyes.
He said, Eddie. - Who's that?
- His mother's boyfriend.
- Oh God.
- So I asked, "Is Eddie doing something to you?"
I had to reassure him that he could trust me
and I couldn't help him unless he talked to me.
And he said, he beats her.
- [Gloria] Oh.
- He'll just haul off and hit her.
- Wow.
- And he asked his mom to call the police.
She said, "If I do and he gets arrested,
"who's gonna pay the bills?"
- Oh, damn.
I know you filed a complaint?
- I did. - Right.
- His mother denied it.
- [Gloria and James] What?
- She said, Baron just doesn't like Eddie.
So I put in a request to have a social worker
visit from time to time unannounced
to see if he's in danger
and needs to be removed from environment.
- Good.
Good for you.
- That poor baby.
- I tell you, working in this field
has really reinforced how blessed Regina and I
to have you two as parents.
- [Regina] Oh.
- I mean, we're not the perfect family
but the love and support we get, it means the world.
- Oh honey, that is so sweet.
- Well, I appreciate that son.
- No, I mean it pops,
when you've had everything given to you,
you tend to take things for granted.
And your mom worked really hard
to make sure we never wanted for anything.
- So is that why your sister still lives here
and you're back here every day?
- James, please.
[James laughs]
- No, it's cool, mom, pops is on once a day.
Listen, I can speak for Regina when I say
wherever we are in the world,
when we walk through those doors, we know we're home.
- Oh honey, you have to stop,
you're making my make-up run
and I don't have time to change it.
[James laughs]
- Mom, with or without makeup,
you're still the most beautiful woman I know.
- Oh, you hear that, James?
- You hear that, James? - The most beautiful woman.
[audience laughing]
Have a good day son.
- You too, mama.
- All right, darling, talk to you later.
- All right, baby.
Love you.
Have a good day.
- Yes baby, thanks. - All right.
You.
[James laughs]
You think you're so slick?
- What?
- Well, "Mom, with or without makeup,
"you're still the most beautiful woman I know."
- Come on, pop, mom is beautiful.
- Yeah, I know that.
- But you ain't never seen her without makeup.
[laughs loudly]
I have.
No, you're right, she is beautiful with or without makeup
but I am not falling for that charm scam of yours.
- Come on pops, listen, I think you're beautiful too.
[audience laughing]
- What?
Now you're a comedian?
[laughs loudly]
You'll never be no Tony Rock.
[audience laughing]
Hey, but listen, do not be late with this month's rent
or the will be late fees.
- Wait, pop, that's crazy.
You're gonna charge your son a late fee?
- Oh, you damn skippy.
Listen son, I just wanna help you
with that independent lifestyle that you talk about.
[audience laughing] Don't be late.
[bright upbeat music]
- Well, the dead has come alive.
- Good morning, Hildee.
- Well, technically it is still morning
for the next 10 minutes.
Late night, last night young lady?
- Yeah, but not by choice, Kel through this big event
down at the Loose Balloon.
- The loose what?
[Regina laughs]
- Loose Balloon, it's a new club on a,
well, it's a club down on Third and Maine.
- Why do they call it that?
- Well, because the dance floor is constructed
like a big hot air balloon,
it actually looks better than it sounds.
- Oh, Lord have mercy, all righty then.
Whatever happened to a simple building, a DJ,
some chairs and a bar and a lit up dance floor,
girl, I was tearing it up back in the day,
you should have seen me, girl.
- Looks like you still got it Hildee.
- Did you have fun like I used to have?
- Nah, it was all right.
You know its' not really my scene,
I was just there to support my man.
- Oh, I see.
- What's that supposed to mean?
- Oh, nothing.
Nothing at all.
- I don't know why you all don't like him.
- I never said I didn't like the man.
- Well, you look says it all, Hildee.
And mom and dad won't even give it a chance
and I am sure it has a lot to do with his profession.
- Now listen, honey, I don't judge nobody that's decent.
And every time Kel has been over here,
he's treated me with respect.
And as far as your parents go,
I think they just want the best for you, that's all.
- But what if I feel like Kel is the best for me?
- Well, your happiness is all that matters.
- You know what?
I bet nobody would have anything to say
if he was a doctor or lawyer or a teacher,
matter of fact, if that were the case,
daddy would have met on the golf course.
- Somehow I can't see Kel
playing the game of golf with your daddy.
- Doesn't matter, I'm annoyed with him anyway.
- Why?
- So he invites me out last night
knowing I do not wanna be out late.
And he barely spent any time with me.
And every single time I looked up
some little hot tail thought was in his face,
like, "Oh, Kel, can you get me another [indistinct].
" Oh Kel, you look so."
- Did you tell him how you felt?
- Of course I did.
And all he could say was I'm being insecure.
Now you know I am not insecure, but what I won't stand for
is another female disrespecting me.
- Well, did those other women know that you're his lady?
- No.
- Well, does he introduce you as his girl?
- Sometimes, but in this case no
because he says it's bad for business.
- Well, I be damn.
Are you trying to say that he's ashamed of you?
- No.
I'm not saying that, he's not ashamed of me.
Look, Kel is a promoter, he's a man about town
and so females are automatically drawn to him.
Not just because he's hot,
but just because of the whole club scene in general,
it's just, he says it looks better
if women don't think he's in a committed relationship.
- Now that has got to be some
of the dumbest shit I have ever heard.
- Hildee.
- Listen honey, like I said earlier, I don't judge nobody
but if a man wants to be with me and claim me as his queen,
he better not have a problem introducing me to people
or we gonna have a problem, you feel me?
You see, you young ones today see relationships
different than folks my age do.
I'm used to a Nick, a brother claiming me as his queen
and I mean, that's everywhere we go.
Whether it be at church, in front of his mummy and pappy,
or at the club, you feel me?
Well, all right, remember that, Gina.
Oh girl, I don't know how I got off into all of that,
I got so much work to do.
Your breakfast plate is over there on the stove, baby.
- Thank you, Hildee.
- For what?
- Just always keeping it real.
- Oh girl, you know I keeps it 100,
I don't know how to do nothing else,
but that, that's all I can do.
[Regina laughs]
[laughs loudly]
[indistinct]
- What you're gonna say?
♪ We got it
♪ We got this
♪ Sister's gonna hola
♪ We got this
[laughs loudly]
- Oh, Tipper, girl, I cannot believe you had me,
you talked me into spending all this money.
- As I recall, I didn't have to do that much talking,
I just rang your cellular, said, "Let's go shopping."
And you said, "I'm on my way."
[laughs loudly]
- You are so right.
Well, can I help it that I'm addicted to pretty things?
And there's almost nothing I'd rather do
on a beautiful spring day than go shopping.
Almost nothing.
- Ooh, darling, are you a filling up your journal?
- Oh see, I can't tell you nothing.
- Oh, darling, I just love what you've done
with this living room.
- Oh, do you?
Well, yeah, we thought it was time for an upgrade.
- It was.
- It's so, how can I say?
Divine, darling, simply divine.
- Well, thank you, we like it.
Although I did have to talk James into it,
he's always so conscientious about how we spend money.
- Look darling, what else is money
meant for if not to spend?
Besides you are spending your own money.
Your interior decorating business is not only top-notch,
it is the most celebrated
and lucrative in the city, darling.
- Well, thank you, but we are a team.
We like to do it that way.
What's mine is his and vice versa.
- Oh, yes, yes, yes, I know
but miss me with all of that
Barack and Michelle fist bump moment.
- I love them.
- I love my Bama and Flotus too.
However, every woman should still have her own money
and make her own decisions how she should spend it.
- Okay, yes.
- Please, please tell me you have your own bank account?
- Well, yes of course I do, but we also share one as well.
- Oh wow, thank God.
I mean, Willard and I do too
but he also knows that Tipper St Claire
maintains a separate account.
- Yes ma'am. - Yes.
- Give me a minute, I'm gonna put these things away
out of James' eyes.
- Good idea, darling.
- I'll be right back.
Make yourself comfortable.
- I'm parched
Oh, yoo-hoo.
Hilda.
It's Tipper.
- Damn.
[audience laughing]
- How are you dear?
Great.
Could I trouble you for a few shaved ice cubes?
- It's Hildee, I'm fine.
And yeah, I'll get you some ice.
- Oh, thank you, dear.
♪ Sisters gonna hola
♪ We got this
- There you are, baby, did you make yourself comfortable?
- Well, I attempted to make myself a drink,
but there was no ice, so I asked Haley
to bring me a few ice cubes
but I don't know what's taking her so long.
Oh, darling, I understand it is so hard
finding good help these days.
- Tipper, you have to stop,
her name is Hildee and you know that.
And she's not the help, she's part of our family.
- Well, yes, I get it.
We love our Joseph just as much,
I mean, I have no idea what we would do without him.
- Here you go, Tipper.
Oh. - Excuse me?
Thank you.
- I'm sorry, Gloria, I didn't see you come in,
what would you like for dinner tonight?
- Thank you.
Hildee, why don't you make that wonderful shrimp scampi
that James and I love so much?
- Oh, okay, that'll be fine. - Thank you.
- Thank you, Hilda.
So nice seeing you again.
- Bitch.
[audience laughing] - What?
What?
- You know what?
I know what, what?
- Really?
- I like the name Hilda better.
I mean, who would name their child Hildee?
- Apparently her mother, Tipper.
- Word.
[Gloria laughs]
- Okay, okay.
Well, how are our daughter and your grandson?
- Please.
Don't ask.
- Why?
what's wrong?
- Well, Tariq is fine, but my daughter is another story.
- Well is Angela ill?
What?
- Yes, mentally.
[audience laughing]
- Tipper, stop.
- No, I love my daughter with all my heart
but sometimes her choices are a bit disturbing to me.
- Really?
I mean, aren't she and Henry?
[Tipper shrieks]
- Oh, I refuse to hear that man's name.
Why my daughter would marry a man
30 years older is beyond me.
- Well, you can't exactly choose who you fall in love with.
- She's 30, he's 60.
By the time she is his age,
he'll be on medicare and smelling a bengay
and wearing a de-pants and on top of it,
he wants to have more children with her.
- Oh my.
- Oh, she will wind up raising those children on her own.
I do not know why she has always liked older men.
I mean, I do to one or two years, but three decades.
- Oh, okay.
But Henry is fit and attractive.
- Yes, yes, yes he is.
But you know what they say, darling?
- [Gloria] What's that?
- Old people have old babies.
[audience laughing]
- Who says that?
- And old babies cry all the time.
Every time I babysit Tariq, he cries.
I tell her, you keep having babies with these old ass men
and you wonder why they cry all day and all night.
- They probably just want a warm titi.
- No, they want blood pressure medication, darling.
[audience laughing]
- Okay.
- I have got to run.
- All right.
Kiss, kiss, dear.
- It's all good because I'm rocking my Camilla's.
- That bought.
What you gonna say?
♪ We got this
♪ Sisters gonna hola
♪ We got this
♪ We've got this
- Ciao, darling.
- Ciao.
[audience clapping]
Tipper St Claire ladies and gentlemen.
Oh.
- Is the coast clear?
Girl, she got me feeling like Harriet Tubman up in here.
[audience laughing]
- She's gone, honey.
[Hildee shouts]
- Gloria, I know that's your friend,
but that woman is too much.
And she puts on too many heirs.
- Yes, yes, yes, she is a lot, I do know,
but she's been a mentor to me and like a big sister.
Sure, she puts on heirs but she's really harmless.
- They thought Lizzie Borden was harmless too
until she topped up her mama and daddy with an ax.
[Gloria laughs]
- Stop it.
- Well, okay, all right
She's your friend, not mine.
And like she always says, I'm just the help around here.
- Oh, go on Hildee, you know you are more than that,
you're family to us.
- I know.
You've always treated me like family, Gloria.
But the fact of the matter is,
I'm still just the help around here.
- Oh Hildee, I know you don't believe that.
- Sometimes.
I mean, yes and no.
But you know what?
I do wish I had children sometimes,
especially since I'm getting older.
- Yeah, well here's what,
you can have mine anytime you want to.
[both laughs]
- Now those two have been bringing me joy for years
and I'll take them.
- Well, it's a deal.
Let me go and call my attorney.
- For what?
- So I can get those adoption papers
ready for you, right now.
[laughs loudly]
- Oh girl.
- I predict Sean is going to the Olympics, Coach Mac.
- Well, I think he stands a good chance
if he just stays focused.
- Well, I just have never seen a kid run
a hundred consistently nine, eight, like that.
- Yeah.
- Do you see his form?
- I saw it, I saw it.
Like I said, he just needs to stay focused.
One of the things I asked my athletes
when they play more than one sport,
what is the one thing that you hate to do the most?
And all of them say run.
But in track and field, you ain't got no choice.
You gotta stay mentally prepared
so you can work hard to accomplish a goal.
- That part.
- Yes.
And ego, ego plays a big part in it.
Sean Matthews is just like every other star athlete.
He real popular with the ladies.
[laughs loudly]
I know you were loving that.
You right.
- It took my butt being suspended for a whole month-
- What, what?
- -before I saw a full year before I learned
there's a time and place for everything.
- Exactly, exactly. - Yip, yeah.
I've been listening to you, but I mean,
he is being trained by the best.
So you know he's gonna pull through.
- I hope so, Jace, I hope so.
But listen, man, after this season I am out.
Sean and the rest of the team,
it's all in your hands, brother, it's all in your hands.
And this is his last year of college
so it's all up to you brother.
- I'm up for the challenge,
after all I've been trained by the best.
- Well, I'm happy to hear that.
[laughs loudly]
- Man, coach, I've just been working with you now
for over a year a little bit.
Just seeing what you mean to the school
and to the kids, especially.
Are you sure retirement's the next step for you?
- Wait, wait, who are you, Dr Phil?
[laughs loudly]
- I wish.
[indistinct]
For real though.
No, but seriously though, it's just gonna be a great loss,
we gonna miss you.
- Well, yeah, I appreciate that man.
But listen, have you ever though of the fact
that if I didn't retire, you wouldn't be up for head coach?
How about that?
- Right.
- That part.
- Yeah.
- [James] Beer?
- Yes sir.
- [James] Yes sir.
- So coach, one of the great things about retirement,
you have a whole lot of time to work on your golf game.
- Four.
[laughs loudly]
Yeah.
But listen, man, definitely it is time
for me to retire and move on.
And I can't think of a better coach
to lead these boys too, than you.
You're gonna do just fine, man.
- Appreciate it.
- [Regina] Hey daddy.
- Hey baby girl.
Hey, hey, hey, listen.
Somebody I want to you to meet.
This is Jace Moloi and he is my assistant coach
and soon to be my head coach.
- Hi, nice to meet you.
- You as well.
- So [James laughs] where are you running off to
in such a hurry?
- I'm meeting Kel down at the Bended Knee
for dinner and drinks.
- Kel.
Bended Knee?
- Yeah, it's a restaurant down on Lincoln and Stewart.
[James laughs]
- Whatever happened to the Red Lobster
or Ruby Tuesday or Sizzler.
- [Regina and Jace] Sizzler?
[audience laughing]
- Hey, don't sleep on Sizzler.
They got that 9,99 tri chip special
and the all you can eat shrimp buffet,
that's every Thursday at five o'clock
to seven o'clock, your momma won't go but I go.
- Jace, in case you haven't noticed my father is cheap.
Here you have a successful college coach,
probably one of the best in the state,
married to a very successful interior designer
with her own business
and he wants to go to the Sizzler.
- Oh, you better stop.
Look, look, how do you think your mother
and I stayed so successful all these years?
Well, not so much your mother
because once you get a credit card,
it's burning a hole in her wallet if she's not spending.
[James laughs]
- Okay, well, it's really nice to meet you, Jace.
Dad, I gotta go get ready.
Kel hates it when I'm late.
- Kel, [James laughs] like he got a real job.
- Nice to meet you, Regina.
[James laughs]
- Coach, I guess you really can't stand this Kel.
- Aw man, I can't stand that loser.
A 40 year old party planner or something like that.
- Wait a minute, you talking about Kel Monroe?
- Whoa, Whoa, please do not tell me
that you are friends with this clown?
- No, no, no, sir, I don't know that clown.
But I mean, he is a pretty popular party planner.
My sister and her friends, they follow him on the Gram.
- On the what?
- Instagram, swipe up, likes.
- Oh, yeah man, I know what you're talking about.
I have 15 followers.
- That many, huh?
You on your way coach.
- All right.
[laughs loudly]
- That's right.
- I don't know dude, but he's quite popular.
- Yeah, I wish he would just leave my daughter alone.
My daughter's tastes in men has never been too good.
- I mean, it's not serious, is it?
- Well, I hope not.
I can't imagine calling this clown my son-in-law.
- Ouch coach.
[laughs loudly]
I felt that, damn, no help for Kel.
- Yeah.
- You never know what the future holds.
- Right, right.
What about you man?
You got a special lady?
- Nah.
Not yet anyway.
- I see.
[upbeat music]
[bottles clinging]
Single.
- Yes, morning Alvin, yeah.
Okay.
Remember Millicent Gerrit,
she wants the triple fold drapes in cranberry and plum
for the den and then the ivory
inverted fold for the bathroom.
Yeah, I'll be in around 11,
I've gotta stop by Carlo's and get the bathroom tiles.
Great, text me.
- Morning mother.
- Good morning, daughter.
How are you? - You look pretty.
- Thank you dear.
How did you sleep, love?
- Pretty good, no complaints.
- Good, and what's your day looking like?
- Well, I have four students
and then Kelly Price is coming by for a vocal session.
- Kelly Price?
- [Regina] I know, yeah.
- Oh, I love her voice.
- Yeah, she's beautiful.
She's got that tour coming up in a couple of days
and then she's got the Good Morning America interview
in New York tomorrow.
So she just wants to make sure everything is nice
and lubricated in tune.
- Oh indeed.
I love her so much.
I mean, that sister can really blow.
- She can.
- She puts me in the mind of the great ones
like the Aretha Franklin, Gladys Knight, Chaka Khan.
- Yeah, mom, those are old school R&B.
- Well, aint nothing with old school R&B.
- You're right.
- All these singing sisters out today
are standing on the shoulders
of the divas that came before them.
I mean, besides Kelly, I also like Beyonce
and Jennifer Hudson and Mary J Blige.
- Yeah, they're good.
- I am so sorry I'm gonna miss Kelly.
- Well I'll make sure- - give her my love, will you?
- I will. - Okay my dear.
Listen, what about that concert?
You said she's she's coming, can you get me tickets?
And I'll pay for them, they'll don't have to be comp.
- No, I'll ask, for you and daddy, right?
- Yeah, sure, he likes her too.
- You guys are gonna make it a date night?
- Maybe so, but whatever, I am not going to Sizzler.
[audience laughing]
- I cannot believe he likes that place.
- I can't either.
All right dear, I've gotta go.
- [Regina] Okay, bye bye.
- Here, give me a kiss.
[Gloria laughs]
You have a wonderful day.
- You too.
- Oh, oh, baby girl,
you gonna have to make breakfast for yourself today.
- Is Hildee not feeling well?
[Gloria sighs]
- She didn't want me to say anything,
but Hildee found a lump in her breast
and she's going today to have it biopsied.
- Mom.
- I know, I know.
- We could have gone with her.
- Well, of course, I suggested that,
but she wanted to go on her own
but I've made a promise to give me the results
as soon as she got them.
- Well, that's gonna be on my mind all day.
- I know, I know, but I need you to keep it a secret,
I'm only telling you.
- All right, well, I will.
Daddy doesn't know?
- No, he doesn't.
Only you, sweetheart.
Don't worry, don't worry.
- Right.
- We'll handle whatever it is
and we'll leave it in God's hands.
All right?
She'll be all right.
- All right, you got it,
I want you to really open up on this one.
[Kelly screaming]
[Regina claps]
[Regina bangs on piano]
That's it, you are open enough, you're ready,
how do you feel?
- Oh my God.
- Girl, that shook my soul.
[Regina laughs]
- Geez.
God, thank you for taking me at the last minute.
Oh my God, I know how busy you are
and I know you stay booked
but you took me at the last minute,
I appreciate it, I appreciate it.
- Don't you even worry about it.
How's your tour going?
- You know what?
It's going really, really good, I can't complain.
God is good.
- Well, you so deserve it.
- Thank you.
- What are you gonna sing on Good Morning America?
- Do you wanna hear it?
- Kelly, don't play with me.
- Do you have time?
- Yes, sing.
Okay listen, just give me the performance
like you're gonna do it there.
- It's new, it's new.
All right, here we go.
[slow music]
♪ When love called my name this time ♪
♪ I was so afraid to answer
♪ The last relationship broke my soul ♪
♪ To the point where I'd given up hope ♪
♪ I built a wall around my heart ♪
♪ But he quickly tore it down
♪ Pushed you away
'cause I was scared ♪
♪ Told me I was worth the wait
♪ Said he wasn't going anywhere ♪
♪ He made me believe in love again ♪
♪ Better than my wildest dreams ♪
♪ He's better than my wildest dreams ♪
♪ Tailor-Made love just for me
♪ He made me believe in love again ♪
♪ All that rejection was my protection ♪
♪ Leading me in your direction
♪ Oh, 'cause you made me
♪ You make me believe in love again ♪
♪ All the love that he was trying to give to me ♪
♪ I had to learn to give myself ♪
♪ I had to give to myself
♪ It's amazing how it's so in-sync ♪
♪ Even if we disagree I know
♪ He never ever disrespect me
♪ Yeah
♪ It's a special, special kind of vibe ♪
♪ And I'm so blessed to have him in my life ♪
♪ And if I had to do it all again ♪
♪ Just to get to you
♪ It's exactly what I do
♪ Thank you for being patient
♪ Thank you for being kind
♪ The peace I have with you
♪ But I never, never, never, never, never find ♪
♪ But I was asking for too much ♪
♪ But I was asking for the wrong love ♪
♪ Now I'm here and open to receive ♪
♪ You made me believe in love again ♪
♪ You're so much better than
♪ You made me believe in love again ♪
♪ Yeah, yeah, yeah
♪ All of my rejection
♪ Yeah yeah, he made me
♪ Made me, made me believe in love ♪
♪ Better than my wildest dreams ♪
♪ Oh my wildest dreams
♪ Tailor-Made love just for me
♪ Yeah, he made me, he made me
♪ he made me believe in love again ♪
♪ Oh, oh, oh
♪ I'm so grateful, I'm so grateful for his love ♪
[audience cheering] [audience clapping]
Did you like it?
- I didn't, I loved it. - Oh my God.
- Kelly, that was beautiful and more than that girl.
You just gave me your word.
- Are you okay?
- I will be.
- Are you sure?
- Yes, thank you, thank you.
- Okay, but I have a question for you.
When are you gonna start singing again?
- Girl, listen, that is all in my past
and you know that.
- I don't think so.
- Ah, ah.
Listen, you get your things, it's getting late,
we gotta get you to the airport.
- I don't have my cheque book, but I do have my phone.
- Don't you worry about it, this is on me.
This is on me.
- No, it can't be on you.
- I insist.
I just got a concert in my living room from Kelly Price.
I think I am good.
[Regina laughs]
Thank you so much for that, I really needed it.
But let's get you out of her,
we're not gonna talk about the thing and stuff.
- [Kelly] No, we are gonna talk about it,
this conversation is not over.
- Okay.
I'll be watching tomorrow,
I wanna make sure you break a leg.
- Please watch tomorrow morning.
- You sound great.
- And sing.
- Yeah.
- [Kelly] Sing, sing, sing, sing.
- Bye. - Bye.
[audience cheering] [audience clapping]
[keys rattling]
[indistinct]
- Hildee.
Hildee.
What did he say?
What?
Oh.
- They saw something.
- Oh my.
[audience moans]
- It was small.
[Hildee sobs]
But they saw something.
- Oh darling.
- I'm so scared.
- I'm sorry sweetie, don't.
No, no, no darling.
Let's pray, let's pray.
Let's call on Jesus.
Father God we pray.
[indistinct]
- Hey mom, how did you say
Hildee's back east visiting family?
- Oh, just a few weeks.
- That long?
Everything okay?
It seems kind of sudden.
- Yeah, everything's fine,
she got on a flight last evening and said not to worry,
she'd be back as soon as she could.
- Listen, is sure was a surprise
you making dinner for everybody tonight.
- Oh, James, go on, you act like I don't ever cook.
Okay.
I know it's rare, but I can still burn.
- Oh yes you can momma. - Thank you very much.
- This peach cobbler, good Lord.
- Oh, sweetie, that was always your favorite.
- Now remember babe, you said you love the peach cobbler
over in Murray [indistinct] mother, Sue.
- What?
- I did, but nothing beats moms.
- That part.
- Okay.
Well then I guess I'm gonna have to get
that recipe Mrs McKenzie.
- To my peach cobbler?
- Yeah, the recipe.
- Oh no, no, no, no, no.
That peach cobbler recipe has been handed down
throughout the generations, from my great-grandmother,
to my grandmother, to my mother and then on to me.
We don't share it with anyone who isn't family.
So enjoying the cobbler now Crystal
'cause you ain't on that list.
[audience booing]
- Mom.
- No, really.
What?
- It's okay guys.
It's okay babe.
Listen, I get it.
A lot of families do the same thing.
- Well, I'm glad you understand.
- But who knows?
Maybe after we're married,
then I'll be able to trouble you for it
and then will make him one of these.
- After you what?
[laughs loudly]
She's gotta be kidding?
- I'm sorry, Zavier didn't tell you?
- [Parents] Tel us what?
- We're engaged.
[Gloria gasps]
- Oh my.
- Oh my God. - If you'll excuse me.
- You never told gigi and poppop, dad?
- I meant to.
- You told me you were gonna tell your family a week ago.
Oh, [Crystal laughs] oh wow.
Is that why you kept pressing me to give you ring
to go suddenly get it resize?
Wow.
Your mother already doesn't like me.
Now she's going to hate me, oh my God.
- Yip, I'd say you're probably right.
[audience laughing]
- Junie, go to the guestroom.
- What did I do?
- Now.
- Don't yell at him.
This is not his fault, you did this.
- All right.
- No, no, no, leave me alone, James.
- Stop.
- Leave me alone.
- Look sweetheart, I know you're upset.
- Upset?
No, James, I'm not upset, I'm devastated.
How could Zavier do this to me?
To us?
- Baby, I'm sure he has this reason for not telling us.
- Oh really, what could those reasons be, James?
He hardly even knows that girl.
And she's been trying to weasel her way
into this family since I met her.
- Maybe he was afraid you were gonna react
the way you are now.
- Oh really?
Really?
Well he doesn't know her one little bit.
- Sweetheart, will you calm down?
- Tell me to calm down.
- He's a grown ass man.
- I know how old my son is, James.
I carried him for nine months
and birthed him by C-section,
so I think I have a little idea.
- Okay, so I guess I had nothing to do with it?
- James, just leave me alone.
Really.
I can't take it.
- Stop.
If you remember clearly, we were dating for three months
before we got engaged.
- Maybe that was a mistake too.
- What'd you say?
- Go James, just go down there
and let me know when they've gone.
Leave me.
- Nuts.
- Our father.
[audience laughing]
- Hey pop, Crystal and I are gonna take off,
you mind if Junie spends the night with you guys
and I'll pick him up for school in the morning?
- Yeah, that'll be fine.
- Mr McKenzie, listen, I am so sorry,
I did not mean any harm,
I truly thought that David told both of you.
- It's okay, it'll be fine.
She just needs some time to process all of it.
- Okay.
- Would you mind if I had a word with my son please?
- No.
No, of course not.
Zavier, I'll be in the car waiting for you.
- What the hell is wrong with you?
- Pop, I was gonna say something,
I was just waiting for the right time.
- I think you waited too long.
You think that's the way
she wanted to find out something like that?
- No, I know mom is upset.
- Upset?
No, no, no.
She is hurt.
- Let me go talk to her.
- Oh, hell no.
You did enough damage for one night.
Give her some time.
- Pop, mom knows me, I can fix this.
- What did I say?
Now you get your ass out of here.
And I will see you in the morning when you get Junie.
- Yes sir.
- And let me make one thing perfectly clear.
Gloria may be your mother, but she is my wife,
and I will not stand around and watch her be hurt.
So you better fix this shit and make it right
or you and I, we're gonna have a serious problem.
Do you understand?
- Pop?
- Do you understand?
[audience clapping]
- Is that you, Regina?
- No gigi, it's me.
- Oh, Junie.
I didn't know you were still here,
you didn't go home with your daddy?
- No.
Dad asked poppop, if I could stay the night.
- What's wrong with you?
- Nothing.
I'm worried about you though.
- Me.
Why?
- Well, because dad upset you earlier.
- Yeah, he did.
And don't you worry about your old gigi,
she'll be all right.
- All right. - Come over here.
So what do you think about all this engagement mess?
- I guess it's all right, she seems to really like him.
Gigi, don't do that.
- Don't do what?
- That [Junie groans] sound.
We all know what that means.
- You like her?
- I do.
She's always been nice to me,
she seems to really like dad.
- And did they tell you about this mess they were planning?
- Yes.
- And you didn't tell me?
- Dad said he wanted to.
- Well, you see he didn't.
[Junie laughs]
- Does your momma know?
- Yeah.
- What did she say?
- She said don't get too attached
because it would probably be over before we know it.
- I never thought I'd agree with your mother.
- Can I tell you something gigi in secret?
- Yes.
I think mom feels that her and dad
are gonna one day get back together.
- What makes you say that?
- I don't know, I just got a feeling.
- Well, how would you feel about that?
- I love my mom and dad, but they are better apart.
- Really?
- Uh-huh.
Dad doesn't love her like that anymore.
- He told you that?
- Yeah.
We had a talk a couple of years ago before they broke up.
I asked him why they got a divorce,
and dad said, "I will always love your mom
"because she gave me you,
"but I'm not in love with her anymore."
- He's oversharing and having a full on
adult conversation with you?
- Yes gigi, dad has always been honest with me
about everything, you know this,
I mean, we got the best relationship.
Unlike some of the kids at our school
who complain about their dads all the time
and how annoying they are, the way I see it,
I'm blessed to have him.
- The way I say it, he's blessed to have you, oh wise one.
Junie it's getting late, where were you headed?
- To get some old peach cobbler?
I mean, you do make the best peach cobbler in the world,
not the world, the universe.
[audience laughing]
- That is true, but darling, it's too late,
your stomach will hurt.
- Can I get a little more please, gigi?
[Gloria mumbles]
- All right, go on.
What am I gonna do about you?
- You're gonna keep on loving me, like you do dad.
[audience moans] [slow music]
- No, no, you know we cannot do that in my parents' house.
- Why can't we?
Nobody's gonna know.
- Of course they will.
My dad would have a fit.
- So you gonna just leave me all hot and bothered?
- I told you not to start but you wouldn't listen.
- I know what we can do.
- What?
- We can sneak upstairs right now, nobody even know?
- My father will stab you in the face.
[Kel laughs]
- No, you told me that your dad,
when he sleep, he's out like a light.
[Regina shushes Kel]
Freight train could come through
and nobody would even hear it, right?
- Normally, but lately my mom says
he's been getting a lot of sleepless nights
because of the decision that he's made.
- Oh, okay.
What type of decision is that?
- Well, he's retiring this year,
he's not sure he made the right choice.
- Oh, okay.
- Your pops, he's like what?
70 now?
- Stop it.
- No, no, he like stabbing me?
He better quit before he pop something.
[Regina shushes Kel] [Kel laughs]
- You better quit before you wake them up
and he comes downstairs.
- Okay.
- Why don't we just go to your place?
- You know we can't do that, I got roommates.
[audience laughing]
Plus you said that you don't feel comfortable there.
- How could I forget, well, we can't go to my room.
- We could if you wouldn't be so loud
when I'm knocking it down.
- You sound crazy.
If my memory serves me correctly,
you the one that screams out like you being murdered.
[audience cheers softly]
No, but seriously, all jokes aside,
I had a really good time tonight.
Thank you.
- You see that?
You said you wanted to see me and I come through,
'cause I know you really wanted to see me.
- That you did, but didn't you wanna see me too?
- Yeah, but I mean, you're more mushy and all that,
it means more to you.
- Come on expressing love to your girl
and show her from time to time,
that's not being mushy Kel.
- Okay, you getting deep on right now.
- I'm not getting deep.
- Yeah you're getting a little deep,
I'm trying to have fun and keep it light,
stay in the moment.
- I am.
- Okay.
- I just thought maybe you're ready to go to the next level,
like engagement, marriage, kids.
- Whoa.
[Kel laughs]
You wild, aint it?
Look, you said that, I said that,
I like where we at right now,
things can go forward day by day type.
- Yeah, but we've been day by daying it for three years now.
- Okay. - I'm in my 30s.
I wanna start having kids before it's too late.
- Yeah, there's time.
I mean like what?
Halle Berry, she had a kid, I think at 40?
Janet Jackson, she bad, she had a kid at like 50.
- I'm not waiting until I'm 50 to have a baby.
- All right, you killing the vibe.
It's all good.
Listen, I came here, I thought we'd have a good time,
stay in the moment, be spontaneous.
You obviously wanna pull out wedding invitations
and do lists and all that.
So I'm gonna leave, take a cold shower,
I see you next week. - No.
No wait, I'm sorry.
Listen, listen, I don't want you to go,
I am sorry, I will not bring it up again.
It's just- - Look.
- -you're who I wanna be with.
You know ai love you.
- I know that.
But sometimes you're like, you're really self-conscious
and I don't like being pressured.
I got enough going on in my life.
- I understand.
- Look.
You know I got a lot of women
coming at me crazy in the club.
I could check my DMs right now-
- Yeah I know, I know, I know.
- So what I'm really trying to say is,
chill, keep your head up.
It's all right.
I got you, I'm here with you.
- Listen, I have an idea.
- What's that?
- You can stay if you think we can be quiet?
- I can be quiet, but what are you talking about?
I thought you said we couldn't stay.
- We can't go upstairs.
But the guest room is down here and it's empty.
- Oh, okay.
So what are you saying?
- What are you saying?
What you trying to do?
- I mean, you know. - Okay.
- That all depends on you.
- Oh.
You think there's something sweet
that you can get from the kitchen for me?
- Aint I enough?
- Of course, you're the sweetest.
- All right, I'm gonna go check and see what we have.
- All right, I'm gonna watch.
Hey.
Yeah, I'm with a client.
I don't know if I'm gonna be able to make it in.
Just working on this account.
It's crazy.
[audience laughing]
What?
I know what time it is.
Are you questioning me?
You don't question me, you don't ever question me.
You hear me?
Now go to your corner.
That's right.
Kneel.
Pray for yourself. - Look what I found?
- Hey.
- Some peach cobbler.
Yeah.
You can stay all night, I locked the door.
Nobody even comes down here
unless we have overnight company.
- I'll be out before your peeps even wake up.
- Where you two think y'all going?
[audience laughing]
[doorbell rings]
- Hey coach, what's happening?
- Hey Sean, come on in man.
Have a seat.
You want something to drink?
- No sir, I'm fine.
Thank you.
- You looked pretty good on the track there today.
- Yes, sir.
Thank you.
- Listen, man, I had to leave school early today
but I knew you lived close by, so I want you to come by
so we could talk, just rap a little.
- All right.
Did I do anything wrong, coach?
- Well, you tell me?
- Sir?
- Listen, I'll just cut right to the chase.
Listen, man, I think you're an extraordinary athlete,
one of the best.
I think you have the potential to go to the Olympics.
- But that's the goal coach.
- Is it?
- Yeah.
[James laughs]
- Listen, man.
Once a long, long, long time ago,
I was right where you are right now.
I was the most popular in high school,
I had all the ladies chasing me.
I could pick any table that I wanted
in any local restaurant whenever I wanted.
Everybody was catering to me.
My professors, they were passing me,
even though my my grades were so poor.
All day have a star athlete represent the college
for the opportunity to be considered
for the Junior Olympics.
Been there, done that.
- Yes sir, I hear you.
- But here's the thing man.
You can't let all that other stuff, get in your head.
I started believing the hype man,
you couldn't tell me nothing.
I became downright arrogant.
I started missing practices
and staying out and partying all night, drinking,
everything I wasn't supposed to do.
That was Jimmy Mick, I was the fastest runner
in high school and in college.
And just like that, I wasn't anymore.
- What happened?
- Well, I started believing my own press releases.
[James laughs]
And as I was screwing up,
there was this other cat, Billy Lewis,
who was watching me and he was making waves
and I was helping him.
So he was on his way up and I was on my way down.
- Look, coach, I get what you're saying,
for real, I hear you, but we all make mistakes.
And if you even half the Jimmy Mick
that I've heard so much about over the last couple of years,
I know you could have bounced back.
- You're right, you're right.
They do and I did but not in the same degree.
The scouts weren't checking for me anymore like that.
Opportunity only knocks once, at least in my case.
So you just gotta be prepared, you gotta be ready.
It's okay to have fun, you're young, you should.
But there is a time and a place for everything.
- Yeah.
Hey, I gotta admit, sometimes it does get to my head.
But in my defense, everywhere I go
people are treating me different.
- Well, yeah.
- I have no privacy.
I'm one tweet or one party away
from my whole life being derailed.
And regardless of how regular I try to stay,
I'm constantly in a spotlight, coach.
- Fame is fleeting though,
tomorrow there'll be on to someone else.
So how is your family handling all the success?
- Honestly, they're tripping.
Stepdad's kind of cool.
Far as a man sleeping with your mother goes.
But my mom's all like,
"I'm your momager, so all these scouts
"have to go through me."
Like I'm still some type of child.
- That's mom's.
She just wants what's best for you.
If she don't wanna see anybody else
thinking that they can get over on you.
- Yeah I know.
But sometimes it gets to be too much
and it leaves me thinking,
what if I don't make the Olympics?
I'll be letting her down, the school down, you down.
- Whoa, whoa, whoa, wait a minute, son.
Listen, the only person you've got to worry
about letting them down is yourself.
Now I know it's rough and I know it's a lot of pressure,
but I know you can do it.
And listen, if you need to talk to me
or you need me, I'm right there.
- But you leaving me, coach.
You know things aint gonna be the same.
- Boy, I am not moving.
[James laughs]
You gonna have access to me.
- I know.
- All I ask is that you give Jace a chance.
- Jace is cool.
And for most part, the team likes him
but honesty and he aint you, big dog.
- No, no, he's not.
[laughs loudly]
But he trained under me.
So I just need you and the rest of the team
to give him a chance.
- You're right.
At the end of the day, I trust you, coach.
I mean, look at me, I'm doing it.
- You're right.
- Plus with all this retirement time
you could finally work on that
Bronco Charles Barkley shot-
- Don't talk about my golf swing.
[James laughs]
- No, but unless there was anything else
you wanted to discuss?
- Oh, no.
- I got to meeting with the Momma G,
you know how she gets.
- I got you, I got you.
Listen, give your family my best
and remember what I said,
you are a champion no matter what, understand?
- Understood.
- All right.
- Appreciate it, coach.
- All right, you sort yourself out
- Hey Sean, how are you?
- I'm fine, Mrs McKenzie, good to see you.
Come here, give me a hug.
- Oh my goodness.
[indistinct]
Word on the street is that you are off to the Olympics
and we are so proud.
We want you to stay humble as you ever are.
- Yes ma'am.
- Yes, very good, good to see you.
- Likewise.
- Hey baby.
- Yeah?
James, why aren't you dressed?
I promised the St Claires
we'd be joining them for dinner.
- That's tonight?
- Yes, it's tonight,
I told them we'd meet them at 8:00.
Sean, you'll have to excuse coach
'cause he's got to go get dressed.
- Yeah.
- Come on, honey.
- Okay.
I'll be right there.
[James laughs]
- James.
- Listen, man, stay single as long as you can.
And matter of fact, don't get married.
- Heard you.
- Just have fun.
[James laughs]
- Wait, you just said, time and place for everything.
- I know, I know.
But you're gonna have to go to dinners
with people that you don't like.
- [Gloria] Sean, we're counting on you.
- Yes ma'am.
- See?
- You see what I'm talk about it?
- I got it, I got it.
All right man, I'll catch you later.
- I'll see you at practice.
- [Gloria] James.
- Yes, I'm coming.
[audience laughing]
I don't know why I have to do things
I don't like to do.
[audience laughing] [upbeat music]
I don't even like that lady
or her hand picked, stuck up husband.
[audience laughing]
- Girl, shut up.
- I'm serious.
- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.
So, you mean to tell me that your brother's girlfriend,
wait, what is her name again?
- [Regina] Crystal.
- Right, Crystal.
So what did your parents say?
Scratch that.
What'd your momma say?
- Well, I wasn't there, but I was told mom hit the groove.
- I know she did.
Why he just didn't tell your parents at first?
- Well, he said he was waiting for the right time,
that he knew how she would react.
- I don't know.
Something don't seem right.
I don't think he too sure about this engagement,
you think she pressured him or something?
- You know nobody pressures my brother to do anything.
Actually think that Zavier really loves her.
- What's your daddy say?
- Well, you know my dad, like whatever,
he was more upset that he upset my mom than anything.
- I'm pretty sure they'll work it out.
Your momma, she loves you
but she crazy over that brother now.
- Oh, thanks Carol Baskin.
[audience laughing]
- Okay.
Okay, somebody's got jokes.
Now you know that that woman
killed her husband and them tigers ate his ass.
[audience laughing]
- [Both] Allegedly.
- Okay.
- So what's your thoughts?
- [Regina] About?
- The girl, Crystal, their engagement?
- Listen, he didn't tell me either,
my dad told me this morning.
My mom didn't even bring it up, so I didn't bother.
As far as Crystal, she's all right.
She got issues, but who does it?
As long as she treats my brother good, I'm good.
And as far as the engagement,
Zavier needs to calm his ass down.
- But you know he got a rep.
- Wait, what?
- A reputation.
- You're right. - Right, exactly.
He's known as a ladies man.
Now.
So what's up with you and all over town, Kel?
- We're good, I guess.
- No, no, no, no.
Tell me what's going on?
- Honestly, I don't really know what's going on.
Sometimes I feel like we're traveling down the same road
and then sometimes I feel like
we're two cars passing in the night.
It's like he's going up when I'm going down
or I'm going up when he's going down.
- Well, you know what?
I'm not gonna judge you.
You already know that because we like who you like,
but after all this time, if he's not meeting you halfway
there are some things that you have to rethink.
- Yes I know.
I just don't feel like I have the strength to leave him.
It's like every time I think I've had enough,
he does something so sweet
and it just makes me change my mind.
Can I be honest with you?
- Hey, we always honest with each other.
- I think he's cheating.
- What?
No, no, no, no, what?
Again?
What is this?
- I'm not sure. - The third, fourth time?
What?
- I'm not sure, it's just a feeling I have.
- But you know what I always say,
you know my take on this.
A ninja cheat once, they'll cheat twice, you know that.
- Not always, Carol, people change.
- Okay, I don't understand it,
I don't know why women do that.
As long as you keep allowing Kel to keep doing what he doing
and taking him back, his ass ain't gonna change,
'cause as long as he do something sweet or tap that ass,
then all bets is off, then what?
Huh?
What?
He gonna be right back in it again
like everything is everything.
- That's not gonna happen this time.
- Okay, but that's what you said before.
- If he's cheating, I'm done, that's it.
- Okay.
- I'm serious.
- Okay.
- Done.
- Yeah, that's what your mouth say.
- The very next time.
- Well, the next time might be tonight.
- What are you talking about?
- You follow Kel's Instagram?
- No.
We kept getting into arguments because I kept asking him
about pictures on his Instagram, so I followed him.
- You remember Loose Booty?
[audience laughing]
- Who?
- Rachel.
The girl we used to see all the time when we would go out,
that had the boy shorts, all nasty, butt all out.
- Oh yes, yes, what about her?
- You named her.
Okay, so I'm not on his Instagram
but I'm on hers and she ain't alone.
And that ain't no picture from no club, that's a bedroom.
[audience gasps]
I'm gonna get me a drink.
[audience laughing]
[Gloria laughs]
- Well look at that, James,
you actually survive dinner with the St Claires.
- Yeah, sweetheart, you know I do not like
Tipper and Willard, we don't have anything in common.
Willard, the only thing you can talk about
is the stock market and the good old days.
Their good old days is not our good old days.
[Gloria laughs]
- That's true.
- Tipper and Willard are not my cup of tea,
I only do it because of you.
- I appreciate that darling.
Thank you.
- Have you spoke to Hildee?
Do we know anything about our family situation?
Look, I am so tired of ordering in and eating out.
The other day I could not find
my favorite pair of golf gloves.
I looked everywhere.
Hildee has a system for all that.
- Yeah.
Well maybe, honey, we should just become more independent
and not lean on her so much.
- Seriously, do you know when she's coming back?
- Well, actually, James, I should have told you.
- What is it?
- Hildee has breast cancer.
- What? - Yeah.
Yeah, she asked me not to say anything about it,
she wanted to handle it herself.
- Oh my gosh.
Where is she?
She's in Philly with her sister,
she's a nurse at Temple University Hospital.
And Roxy wanted her close to her
because she could make sure she's getting the best care.
- I don't believe it.
Is there anything we can do?
- I know, honey, there's no way you could've known.
- I feel so bad.
Here I am going on about meals
and missing gloves and our good friend
is dealing with a life threatening illness.
- I know, I know.
There's no way you could have known that.
We're just gonna have to have faith
that she'll get through this.
And keep her in our prayers.
- Yeah.
[light music]
[doorbell rings]
- Coming.
[door bell rings]
Coming.
- Hey, you haven't been answering my calls
or my text, what's wrong?
- Don't act like you don't know what's wrong.
Good bye, Kel.
- No, I don't, what's the problem?
- My problem is you.
- What are you talking about?
Are you gonna let me in?
- No, I'm not.
You know what?
Come in, close the door.
- So what's up?
This whole week, you've been ghosting me,
not answering my phone calls,
not answering my text messages, I miss my baby.
- I asked you for one thing in this relationship,
just one thing.
- [Kel] Okay.
- And it was the truth.
- What are you talking-
- I saw the pictures of you and Miss Loose Booty.
- Who's that?
- Rachel.
- Rachel who?
- Oh, now you got so man, you're forgetting their names?
- Baby, what are you talking-
- [Regina] Really, Kel?
- Literally, are you that insecure?
That you're making up women, that what?
Oh, I meet them at the club, they take a picture with me,
they're have a fan, they put their arm around me?
- Okay, this picture wasn't taken at the club.
You wanna see it?
- I don't wanna see anything.
What?
Okay, I get drunk.
Women all over me, I got to deal with that.
- Just stop it, Kel.
- Either way, maybe what? - Stop it.
I am not stupid. - Maybe what?
A kiss happens at the most?
At the most.
- Stop lying.
You didn't even know this picture was being taken
because you laying up there naked and asleep
and you wanna tell me it was just kissing?
Boy, bye.
- Baby, how many times I asked you
to come to the club with me?
No, how many times?
How many times I ask you to support your man?
You know I'm gonna be out here all night.
I'm trying to get my own club.
- So now you wanna turn this around on me?
Kel, I don't go out to the club
and stay until 3:00 in the morning, because I have a life.
So you decide, you wanna go and sleep with some chick
and then come to my house
and I have the nerve to lie to my face.
I am done.
- You done?
- I'm done.
- You done?
You done?
You crazy.
You done.
All the damn time I done put in this relationship
and now you done?
No, you don't get to be done.
I'm done.
If anybody done, I'm done.
You must have forgot who I am in his town.
You done.
[Kel laughs]
Crazy.
Done.
- I didn't forget who you were in this town.
I realized just now that I never knew who you were.
the man that I fell in love with is not you.
I was just too blind to see that.
Everybody else could see you
for exactly who you were, who you are.
You just a grown ass child,
trying to be Peter Pan and stay young forever,
you never wanna grow up.
But I deserve more than this cheap existence
that we're faking right now.
I want something more than temporary.
And this is the last time that you would disrespect me
and take me for granted.
- 'Cause you've been disrespected, yeah.
And this relationship that we both in, this is temporary?
Temporary?
- That's exactly what it is. - Yeah, wow.
[Kel laughs]
If I walk out of here, I'm not coming back
and you're lost, you're lost, baby girl.
You really are, it's crazy, wow.
You know what?
When I met you, you were insecure, broken.
Your music that was broken.
Self-esteem broken, everything in your life broken.
And I come into your life and I try to be something to you
and then what you try to do?
You try to break me.
Oh.
But you can't do that, why?
Because I'm the life of the party.
Yeah.
I'm sorry, I'm a host or the thrill
and you too lame to hang out with it.
I'm a ultimate party.
[blows sharply]
- I do love you.
I really do.
But your life is in the party, Kel.
It's more like a cheap circus
and you're not even the ringmaster,
just a clown doing tricks.
- You're gonna be back, watch.
[door slams]
- Not this time, Kel.
[upbeat music]
- I see you still have my keys.
[audience laughing]
- Hey mom, you got a minute?
- Not really, I'm trying to finish this book
and then your father is taking me to lunch.
- Oh, he didn't go to work today?
- It's Monday, he has half days on Monday.
- All right.
- Yeah.
You seem to be forgetting a whole lot of things lately.
you're too young to come down with Alzheimer's disease.
- Mom, I'm sorry, I really am.
I didn't mean to hurt you, you know I tell you everything.
- Oh, evidently not.
- Okay, I was wrong not to tell you about the engagement.
[Gloria laughs softly]
But everything was moving so fast.
- And why is that?
- And I knew how you would react,
so I wanted to come and talk to you alone.
My intention wasn't for it to go down the way it did.
All I can say is I'm sorry.
- I thought we were close, Zavier, I really did.
I thought you thought enough of me to come
and actually talk to me before you made a big huge decision
like this in your life.
- Mom, I love Crystal.
- Boy, please.
Do you know how many times I've heard you say
that exact thing about some other woman?
- Not this time, momma, I've given this a lot of thought
and I truly believe that God
has brought Crystal into my life, she is to be my wife.
- Oh, so it's God who's done this?
Not her big breasts?
- No mom.
- Have you given any thought to this woman's condition?
- What?
- Didn't you tell me she had bipolar disease?
- Yes, I did mom, and everything's okay.
She's been in treatment and it's not bad, I told you that.
She's adjusted and her meds are working well.
- But what if she goes off her meds?
People do that.
And I'm just so concerned about you and about Junie,
have you thought of him?
- Junie's fine mom.
Crystal adores him and he likes her a lot.
Everything is okay.
- Listen, I know it's not her fault
that she has this condition, but I'm just concerned.
What if you guys decide to have children?
You know there are studies
that it can be passed on to your offspring.
That's why I was always so concerned
about having my own children.
And when Junie was born,
I prayed to all mighty God, that he'd be okay.
- Mom, Junie is fine.
You worry too much.
- Don't tell me that.
I lived this Zavier.
My mother struggled with mental illness, her entire life,
you have no idea what your auntie and I went through
because this condition affects everything
and everyone they touch.
Your auntie and I never knew who we were waking up to,
which mama we were gonna get.
And then when Denise got into college,
signs of it started showing up
and she's been on medication ever since.
And I always was concerned
that it would get triggered in me too.
So far, so good.
- Mom, you're fine.
Your children are fine.
Your grandson is fine.
We can't live in fear of the unknown.
Crystal was honest with me from the very beginning
and I could've walked away
but I didn't because I love her.
People live happy, productive lives
with this diagnosis every day.
- Okay, you're right.
I've given you my thoughts.
I don't agree, but it's your decision to make.
You're my first born son and I love you.
- I know you do, mom.
I was wrong not to tell you about our plans.
But Crystal's a good woman and I know
or at least I hope you give her a chance.
- A chance to do what?
- To be your daughter-in-law, get to know her better.
She already feels like you don't like her.
- Well, she's right, I don't.
But fine, I will give her a chance.
I know that's what you want.
Honey, I just care about my family so much.
You and Regina, Junie and James,
you mean the world to me, you really do.
- I know momma.
- I know I can be over-protective sometimes.
- Sometimes?
- Oh wait, all the time.
And I'm not gonna change one little thing about it.
- Well, mom, I wouldn't have it any other way.
So are we good now?
You still love me?
Am I still your Pooh bear?
[laughs loudly]
- I haven't called you that since you were very little,
your daddy was always mad when I called you that.
- You know pops is jealous of the kid.
- I think you're right.
[Gloria laughs]
[both sighs loudly]
- I'm so glad we got past this.
I was scared to come home for the past week.
- Scared to come home?
Are you out of your mind?
Listen, whatever's going on between us,
you can always come home.
This is your home.
- No.
Have you walked around
like the ice goddess, not talking to me?
No thank you.
Had to give you time to warm up.
- Sure.
Well get on outta here and let me finish my book.
- What are you reading anyway?
- "The Power of Forgiveness and Artful Patience",
why your daddy thinks I need this book is beyond me.
[Zavier laughs]
- Yeah, imagine that.
Mom.
- Yeah?
- Thanks.
- For what, son?
- Giving Crystal a chance.
- You're welcome.
She'll never get my peach cobbler recipe.
[audience laughing]
[soft music]
[doorbell rings]
- Oh, hey.
- Hi.
Regina, right?
- That's what they call me.
- Hey, Regina.
- Hi.
[Jace clears throat]
- Coach Mac, I mean, your dad,
he asked me to bring this by for him.
- Oh, sure.
Jason, right?
- Jace, but Jason's close enough.
- I'm sorry, I'm horrible with names.
Come on in.
- Oh, thank you.
- Can I get you something to drink?
Pretty hot out there.
- Yeah, it is mad hot out here.
Sure, if it's not a problem.
- No.
Do you want water or fresh squeezed lemonade?
- Whoa, some lemonade would be nice,
if it's not too much trouble.
- Of course not make yourself comfortable,
I'll be right back.
- Okay, thank you.
Make yourself comfortable.
Make myself comfortable.
Don't mind if I do.
[soft music]
- You play?
- Maybe a little some.
- Well, that's surprising.
[Jace chuckles]
- Why is that?
- 'Cause you don't find too many
sports guys who play the piano.
[Jace laughs]
- Check this out.
[light music]
[Jace humming]
- Oh, he plays and he sings ladies and gentlemen.
- Just a little bit.
- Oh, I like it.
- Thank you.
- I like it a lot.
- Thank you.
Appreciate it.
- How long have you been playing?
- Oh, since I was nine.
- Yeah.
Funny, me too.
- Oh, okay.
Let me hear some, your turn-
- Oh no, no, no. - Oh come on.
- That's all in my past.
- Don't play me, play this piano,
come on, I wanna hear what you got, come on.
- No, no, no.
I just teach and give private lessons and advanced training.
- Oh, okay.
At a school or?
- No, just here.
- Oh, well, all right.
I guess I'm gonna remember that
when I need to brush up on my skills.
- Yeah, drink that before it gets cold.
I mean before the ice melts.
So how's it working with my dad?
I know he's a real taskmaster.
- Yeah, he is a real task master, but you know what?
It's really cool.
And I'm honored to be by his side.
And even more so, the fact that he convinced the school
that I should be the one to take his place
when he retires, it's just awesome.
- He must think pretty highly of you.
He takes that very seriously.
- Yeah.
As he should.
He's built an amazing program
and it's gonna leave one hell of a legacy.
It's just hard to see him retire now.
He's got so much fire in him.
- Yeah.
I feel the same way, but it's his choice though.
Got to let the man live.
- Yeah.
- Can I get you some more?
- No, no, I'm fine.
This is really good, it's perfect.
Actually, I'm gonna finish this up and I should be going.
- Oh, okay.
Okay, sure.
- Thank you.
- Sure.
- That was really nice having a chance to chat with you.
- Yeah, same.
- We should do it again some time.
- Yes.
- Yeah?
- Yeah, it would be great.
- Yeah, it would.
- When?
[audience laughing]
- Whoa.
You let me know.
- Yeah, just-
Whatever.
- You were dating, so I don't want to be disrespectful.
- But here's the deal, I was dating,
we broke up a few days ago.
- Oh wow. - So I'm single now.
- Great, that is cool.
- Yeah.
- I'm so sorry, no, it's not, but you must be hurting.
I'm sorry.
- No, I should have done it a long time ago.
- Cool, yeah.
- Yeah, this is good stuff.
- Moving on.
- Yeah, right.
- Well, in that case, I'd like to take you out to drink-
- When, exactly?
[audience laughing]
- I should maybe call you and find out.
- Yeah, just kind of let it happen organically.
- Yeah, we should.
- Just kind of chit chat, talk.
- We can do that.
- You gonna have to give me your number.
- Yes I will.
- Okay.
- Oh, wait a minute.
- That's just work.
- Oh okay.
- Ms Regina, I will call you in a few days.
- Okay.
Oh, Jace, you said a few days, I was just wondering-
- 'Cause I wanted to give you some time,
you just broke up and you-
- Why wait, do you know what I mean?
- You are right.
- Yeah.
- Seize the day.
- Hey.
I guess I'll talk to you tomorrow.
- Yeah sure, or tonight, I'm free.
- Okay then.
Shoot you a text.
- Absolutely.
Organic, easy.
Okay, bye.
Easy, organic, smooth.
[laughs loudly]
- I know.
Oh my goodness what a service.
Rev Gleason, sure showed out this morning.
- Oh yeah.
Then he sent the plate around for the second collection.
- James, you always counting the church's money.
- Oh stop it, Gloria,
you know that's what they do.
They wait till the end of the sermon,
Then they get people all riled up, then bam,
they send that plate around for the second collection.
- Okay, okay.
Well, it takes money to do the Lord's work, James.
- Can I get a hallelujah?
- You can get a hallelujah.
- Can I get a amen?
- You can get a amen.
[James laughs]
- Let's send that plate around
for the second collection.
- Hallelujah.
[audience laughing]
- You better stop playing with God.
Junie, don't let your granddaddy prepare you
for a lifetime in hell.
- Gigi, relax, we're just having some fun, that's all.
- At the Lord's expense, I don't think so.
- Oh, stop, baby, we aren't mimicking the Lord.
Just Rev Gleason.
Gimme some, gimme some.
[Junie grunts]
[James laughs]
- You know James, if you're on your way to hell,
that's quite all right,
but please don't take my grand baby with you.
- Oh, you stopped being so serious.
Come over here and give me some sugar.
- James stop it, don't you see
the baby's sitting right here.
- Gigi, relax, I'm not a baby.
poppop is just showing you a little love, that's all.
- You see that Gloria.
- I like the way poppop teases you gigi,
he's just showing you how much he loves you.
- You know.
- My man.
- See?
Get on off of me, why don't you show me some love?
Sure, sure, sure.
And take that suit off before you get it all wrinkled.
- All right.
Oh, am I staying for dinner or is that coming to pick me up?
- Oh yeah, your dad a text while we were in church,
he said something about a kid having a problem,
so you might have to get you late.
- You know that center, they never give him a break.
I mean Sunday, it's a church day with your family.
- Sweetheart, you know our son.
- It's okay, gigi, I like that Dad is like that.
He cares about everyone and I think more people should care.
- There you go.
- Look at this.
[James laughs]
I guess you right, but your gigi just sometimes
gets in her feelings
and wants things the way she wants them.
- I'm hungry.
- What do you want for dinner?
- We should get some Chinese.
- Chinese.
Chinese, that sounds good.
- Y'all don't want me to cook?
- [Junie and James] No.
- Well, what does that mean?
[James laughs]
- We just mean that we have a taste for Chinese.
- For Chinese, that's exactly what he just-
- Okay, you're very, very funny, but fine,
Chinese it is then.
- [Junie and James] All right.
- I got your back.
- Yes sir, yes sir.
- That boy.
- That is some boy we got right there.
- He's so sweet, kind and loving, just like his gigi.
- I guess I have nothing to do with his traits, huh?
- Very little.
- What?
- No, of course he takes after you too.
- Well, thank you Mrs McKenzie.
What?
My good looks, my personality or my swagger.
- Your swagger?
[Gloria laughs]
James, sweetie, you are so funny.
That's what he takes after, your funny bone, Your humor,
[Gloria laughs]
your swagger.
- Hey.
- That's it.
- [James] I got swagger.
You don't know swagger.
- Okay booboo.
[bright gospel music]
- I got, it's not that funny.
[doorbell rings]
- Junie, I'm sure that's your daddy.
[knocks on the door]
Oh, why do you forget your key, my dear?
- Good evening, Mrs McKenzie.
- Hi, what?
Zavier is parking the car?
- Oh no, he's not with me tonight.
He asked me to come pick up Junie for him
because he's still handling that case with one of the kids.
- Oh yeah.
- May I come in?
- Oh yeah, sure, of course, of course.
have a seat, I'll go get Junie,
he's probably still got his headphones on or something.
- Mrs McKenzie.
- Yes.
- Can we talk first?
- About what, dear?
- Look I know that you don't care for me much, but I-
- Crystal, it's not so much that I don't care for you,
I just don't know you.
- Yeah.
Maybe I used the wrong choice of words.
Look, let me just start by saying that I apologize,
I was wrong for just springing the news
on you like that of our engagements.
But I honestly thought
that Zavier told both you and Mr McKenzie,
I shouldn't have blurted the news out to you like that.
And I am so sorry.
- Crystal, I do not blame you for the faults of my son.
Besides Zavier and I had a talk and everything's fine now.
- Okay?
- Okay.
That's good because I was really hoping
that we would get a chance to get to know each other better
because we are getting married Mrs McKenzie.
[audience laughing]
Are you okay?
- Yep.
[Gloria burps]
- Are you sure?
Are you okay?
- Yeah, I'm fine.
[Gloria gags]
[audience laughing]
I forgot to take my antacids
this this morning before church.
[Gloria burps] [audience laughing]
Now, what were you saying?
- I was saying that I hope in time
that you and I can get to know each other.
- Crystal.
- Yeah.
- Have you and Zavier set a date for the grand nuptials
because my son conveniently forgets to tell me
what's going on in his life.
- No, no.
No, not yet.
Mrs McKenzie, Zavier told me
that he mentioned my medical condition to you.
- Yes, Crystal.
And frankly, that is the thing that concerns me the most.
- Okay.
But can I ask why?
- Did Zavier tell you that mental illness runs in my family?
- Yeah, he mentioned it lightly,
when I told him about mine, when we first met.
- Lightly?
Well, let me hip you to a few things.
You see my mother suffered from mental illness
her entire life and my sister.
And I was so afraid that it would also get triggered in me.
And I was afraid when I had children
and when Junie was born, you can imagine.
So I wanna know, are you and Zavier
planning to have children when you get married?
- Yeah.
Yeah.
We talked about it, but not at length, not yet.
- But don't you think this is something
you should have discussed at length?
Because as far as I know,
you cannot be on any kind of medication
when you're pregnant.
- I know that.
- Do you?
- Yes.
Mrs, look, what are we supposed to do?
We love each other.
And we just wanna spend the rest of our lives together.
What do you expect?
We suppose to just move in fear?
- No.
But you can move with caution.
You can talk at length.
Make a plan about all the kind of possibilities.
And make sure that you're ready for whatever the Lord-
- I am ready.
- Are you now?
- Yes.
We're both ready.
And you know what Mrs McKenzie,
I have a strong faith in God
and I believe that he's gonna work all of this out
because prayer changes things.
- Yes, indeed, it does.
But the Lord also gives us a mind
so that we can make a plan as well.
- I agree.
- Finally.
Oh God, Crystal.
- Yeah?
- I wanna ask you a personal question.
It's none of my business, but I would really like to know.
- It's fine, go ahead.
- What kind of medication are you on
and how often do you take it?
- I take my medication every day.
Once a day.
It's called sertraline.
It's just another name for Zoloft.
- Zoloft, yes.
I know.
I told you, mental illness runs in our family.
I know the drugs.
- Mrs McKenzie, listen,
I just need your blessing, that's all.
And I just want you to give me a chance, please.
- Did my son put you up to this?
- No.
- Did he ask you to come and speak to me?
- No.
- 'Cause this sounds really familiar.
- No, I promise you.
This is something that I needed to do for me.
This was important to me.
So when he asked me to come over tonight to pick up Junie,
I was just really hoping
that we would just get a chance to connect like this.
- So you're in love with my son?
- I love him more than anyone else in my life.
Well, outside of my mommy and my dad.
[Gloria laughs]
- I like that.
And I must admit, you are the first woman
I've heard him say, "I am in love with."
- He said that?
Like he really said that to you?
- He did.
- Because he is my everything, Mrs McKenzie.
- Wait, your everything?
Sweetheart, no.
No man is your everything, even if he's my son.
You've got to have your own path, be your own woman.
Lots of married women make that mistake
when they get married
and they fold their life into their mans
and lose their own identity.
I've been married to the same man for a lot of years
and I am my own woman.
We're not attached at the hip.
You understand what I'm saying?
- Yeah, yeah, I hear you.
- All right, let me go see about Junie.
You can take him to his daddy.
- Oh okay.
- He's knocked out asleep.
Just tell Zavier, I'll take him to school in the morning,
he's got plenty of clothes here.
- Oh, okay.
- Well, [Gloria yawns] goodnight.
- Oh yes, right, sorry.
Thank you so much for the talk Mrs McKenzie.
- You're welcome.
- Okay.
- You remember what I said, dear.
- Yes, of course.
No man is my everything, even if he is your son.
I got it.
- That's right.
- Goodnight.
- Goodnight mom.
[audience laughing]
Too soon?
- Yeah.
- Okay.
- Nightie night.
Long as her ass stay on those meds we'll be all right.
[audience laughing]
[James singing]
- Hey baby girl.
Hey baby girl?
- Oh, hi, sorry daddy.
Hi.
- You okay?
- Yeah I'm fine.
- Yeah?
- I never could lie to you.
- No you could not.
[James laughs]
What's wrong little princess?
- I always loved it when you call me that.
- Well, you will always be my little princess
no matter how old you get.
So what's going on?
- What am I gonna do about Kel, daddy?
- Kel?
I thought you guys broke up for good?
- We did.
And I know your mom don't like him,
but I can't turn my feelings off that quickly.
- Well, no one said you had to, sweetheart.
[James laughs]
And you're right, I do not like him.
But as an adult, I can't tell you who to date.
- Yeah, I know.
You've always been the more understanding parent.
- I didn't say I understood.
[James laughs]
I just know when to mind my own business.
As long as the man doesn't put his hands on you.
I'll stay out of affairs.
- But why do you think I love him so much?
- You want an honest answer?
- Of course.
- Maybe the reason you love him so much
is because you've been in the longest relationship with him.
You gotten comfortable.
It's hard to start all over
when you put so much time and effort into someone.
But settling, sweetheart, settling is not the answer.
There are plenty of other fish in the sea.
You gotta make sure the one that you love, loves you back.
- But Kel does love me in his own way.
I wish he would change.
- But what if he doesn't?
What if this is the man he is?
Love is a two way street, not a one-way boulevard.
So if the traffic isn't moving in the right direction,
maybe it's time to pick a better route.
You can't let the one that doesn't treat you right
keep you from the one who will.
You'll find someone, you'll see.
- It seems like I fail at most things.
- What?
What have you failed at?
- My singing career, for one.
- Sweetheart, you didn't fail,
you signed with a record label when you were 18.
You had a hit record.
You traveled the country.
- And then they dropped me when my second album tanked.
- Well, sweetheart, that is the nature of the business.
It's unpredictable.
But you could've signed with another label,
but you said yourself
that you were quitting the music business
and we just stood by your decision.
- Yeah, but I just said that because I didn't wanna deal
with the hurt and embarrassment again
but sometimes I just wish...
- What?
- It doesn't matter.
You know what?
You and mom, you always make us feel welcome.
No matter how old we get, we feel safe, we really do.
I thought I was safe with Kel
and then I realized I wasn't,
so I had to muster up the courage to leave him.
- No, no.
You broke up with Kel because you realize deep down inside
that he wasn't the man for you, plain and simple.
And this house, this house will always be a home
for my children, no matter how old you get.
- Thanks daddy.
And you're right.
[James laughs]
- You deserve the best.
- You know Jace and I've gone out a couple of times.
- Yeah, I know.
- You knew?
[James laughs]
- Yes.
He asked me would I mind if he took you out on a date.
- And what did you tell him?
- I said, hell no.
I'm just playing.
Actually, I thanked him for being respectful
since he works for me and you're my daughter.
And then I gave him my blessing.
You like him?
- I do.
He's a nice guy.
We have a lot in common and I enjoy his company
but it's nothing serious, just great company for now.
- Let it happen naturally.
- I was very organic.
[James laughs]
How did you know mom was the right one for you?
- She told me, for one.
No, seriously.
The moment that I laid eyes on your mother,
I knew she was the one for me.
The eyes, they're the windows to the soul.
And so after about the third or fourth time
I asked her out, that she finally said, yes,
we went on that first date
and we both knew that this was something special.
And here we are today, walking down life's road together.
- I really needed this, thank you dad.
- Sweetheart anytime.
- So are you ready for this retirement party
mom is throwing you on Sunday?
- Do I have a choice?
- No.
- Yes, exactly.
I told your mother I didn't want a party
and she doesn't listen.
- Just let mommy show you how much you're loved.
- Couldn't you just buy me a gold watch or some golf clubs.
And to make matters worse, she wants to have the party here
and you know how I feel about strangers in my house.
- Daddy, nobody who is coming is a stranger.
Everybody who was invited, you know and like.
- Your mother's always bossing me around
and frankly I'm tired of it.
I just wanna be left alone, I wanna relax and play golf,
should have never married her.
- I'm sorry, didn't you just sit here
and tell me the eyes are the window to the soul.
- I did, I did.
I should have just looked at her a little harder
so I knew exactly who she was and kept it pushing.
[audience laughing]
- [Gloria] Stand straight, James.
- I'm trying.
I don't understand why I have to get
so dressed up in my own house
- Because, honey, you are so handsome
and you're so sexy when you pout.
- Yeah, but if it's supposed to be my party
why can't I wear whatever I want to?
- Because you're doing it for me, darling.
And I really appreciate it.
- Yeah, all right.
So who all are you inviting?
- Oh, just close friends and family.
And of course faculty from the school.
- Oh my God.
And this isn't gonna be all night, is it?
- James, stop being such a party pooper,
we wanna celebrate you.
- Okay.
A gold watch, how about that?
A gold watch and some new clubs, that would be fine.
- Come on downstairs, everybody's waiting.
- All right, well, I'll go down there,
I'll be just a minute.
[knocking on the door]
Come in.
- Hey poppop, what's up?
- Hey, how you doing Junie?
- What you doing?
- I'm just looking at some old stuff here.
Look at that.
- Is that you?
[James laughs]
- That's your grandpa right there.
- Oh, wow, you left all the other runners in the dust.
- Yes sir, I was super fast.
State champion, three years in a row.
- Oh.
I am so proud of you.
- Why?
Because I'm the town hero in sports?
- No, because you are our hero, poppop.
You are the glue that keeps it all together.
We never have to worry about anything
or anyone when you're around
'cause you take care of the whole family.
Gigi said that you were having second thoughts
about retiring and if that's true, then just don't retire.
Do what you love.
But if it's not true, then that's good for me.
- How so?
- Well, then you'll have more time for me.
I mean, who else is gonna teach me fishing
or how to play golf?
- Boy, what you talking about fishing?
I never knew that was something you wanted to do.
- It's not.
I just thought it sounded like something a grandfather
and grandson would do once he retired.
[James laughs]
Sit in our fishing boats with our fishing gear on,
with our lines in the water waiting to reel the big one.
- What is wrong with you?
Let's go downstairs before gigi has our hides.
[laughs loudly]
[slow jazz music]
- Dear, dear.
The champagne is burnt.
- Mrs McKenzie, your guests has arrived.
[guests clapping]
- Oh, she's finally made it,
we're so glad you're here.
Thank you my dear.
- Thank you for having me.
- Thank you for coming and share this with us.
And look. - The guest of honor.
- The guest of honor has finally arrived
ladies and gentlemen.
[guests cheering]
Speech, speech, speech.
Say something.
- For years I waited for this day to retire.
And however, as the days drew nearer things changed.
A couple of weeks ago, I started having second thoughts.
Coaching track has been my life's passion.
- Yes, honey.
- And I have been blessed enough
to be with one of the best colleges in America
for track and field.
Surely retiring would give me more time
to do my other passions, golf,
[guests laughing]
watching ESPN, maybe catching a game,
instead of watching it.
- Or filling out my journal.
- Yeah, that's personal, honey.
But would it be enough?
That was a question.
And then it came to me.
I mean, more importantly, I would have more time to spend
with my lovely wife
[Gloria giggles]
and my children and my grandson.
- Hey.
- Yes.
- Family is where life begins and love never ends.
The love of one's family
and good friends is life's greatest blessing.
- Yes it is, amen.
- It's okay poppop, we're all here for you.
[James laughs]
- And I get to go fishing with my grandson.
[laughs loudly]
- Fishing?
Since when James, you don't even like the water?
[laughs loudly]
- In conclusion, I wanna say how grateful and blessed
and thank you all for coming out.
It means so much to me.
- Yes, honey.
And you've got one more special guest.
Come on out.
♪ My neck, my back, my
- [Zavier] Hildee.
- Oh, I'm just playing, I wasn't gonna say it.
- Hildee.
Hildee.
- Oh, in living color baby.
- Oh.
[James laughs]
[guests clapping]
When did you get back?
- This morning.
This morning.
- Is everything okay?
- It's going to be.
- Praise God.
Yes and ladies and gentlemen, my lovely husband here.
A few hundred years ago, I was lucky enough girl
to marry the man of my dreams.
And during that time we went on our first date
and it was pretty magical.
I took you to that club,
do you even remember the name of it?
- I do not.
- I didn't think he would.
But we got on the dance floor
and we did a little something called slow dragon.
- Oh yes.
- Now some of you might not remember what slow dragon is,
that's when two people get on the dance floor
and drag it out, okay.
[laughs loudly]
- Come here, baby.
- Oh, no more for you.
- Okay, yes.
But honey, I got a little something special for you
and I wanna show it to you.
Just stay right there.
Kenny, start.
[slow music]
♪ I found my true love in you
♪ We were on opposites sides
♪ Fate that we collide
♪ That first night
♪ I saw something special in you ♪
♪ And when I looked into your eyes ♪
♪ I could see you felt it too
♪ Yes we found love
♪ On a two way street
[guest cheering]
[slow bright music]
- What a wonderful surprise.
- Anything for you my love.
- And you singing me that very special song.
- Did you like it?
- Oh my gosh, it was great.
And Kelly Price showing up.
- Right.
- Stop.
- Well, we have Regina to thank for all of that,
it was her idea to bring Kelly and for me to sing,
I really wanted Regina to sing,
but she said, "Mom, I'm just not ready.
"Maybe I'll sing for you and dad's anniversary."
- That's okay, she'll sing when she's ready.
- That's right.
[James kisses Gloria]
- Oh, I'm gonna sleep good tonight.
And just think I don't have to get up
until I am ready in the morning.
- James, are you really tired?
- Oh, I am exhausted.
Aren't you?
- No, baby, I'm wide awake.
[James yawns]
Honey?
- Yes, darling?
- What do you remember
about that first time we went dancing?
[James laughs]
- Well, I remember I picked you up
in a 1979 four door Oldsmobile.
- Yes.
- And you were wearing a yellow beautiful dress
with a jean jacket.
- Yes.
[James shouts]
- And your hair was in those two giant pompom afro puffs.
- Afro puffs.
[laughs loudly]
Power to the people.
- Yes, yes, that's what I remember.
- Well, do you remember anything else?
- No, I don't.
- You don't remember that before you took me home,
we stopped by your place for-
- Had a little night cap.
- Then we did more than cap the night.
- [Both] The first time we made love.
- What do you say, James, if we recreate that night?
- You want me to go downstairs and get a bottle of wine?
- No, we can just skip the wine
and go right to the next step.
- Oh, oh.
Are you sure you don't need to check
with Oprah or your journal there?
[Gloria laughs]
- I can write it down later.
And Oprah better figure out what's going on
with her and Stedman and Santa Barbara
because we all right over here.
[audience laughing]
Ooh, I see not everything has retired.
- Yes.
Yes sir.
He's alive and standing at attention.
- Oh, well handle your business player.
[audience laughs]
[James laughs]
[bright upbeat music]