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- I never thought-- - I could have told you Malik--

- I knew he could have a baby.

- Wait, Auntie, did you just say Malik's having a baby?

- You didn't know? - No.

- And I wasn't going to tell her.

- Wow, I can't even believe this is happening.

- MARCUS: You better believe it!

- Are you having sex? - No.

- Are you thinking about having sex?

- No! - Listen to me--

- Mom, I don't wanna talk about it.

- She will tell us when she wants to tell us.

She better tell us.

- JAZMINE: She still don't know I'm dating.

- Is someone pressuring you? - He kind of hints at it.

- We're gonna have a long talk. I told you, tell me everything.

You just come on in here. - Thank you, Auntie.

- And close that door? - Yes, Ma'am.

- [sighs] - You know, it's really nice

to finally be able to talk in private.

- Sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure, sure.

Okay. It really is okay.

Just...just tell me.

- Auntie, it's just really good to just be in private, isn't it?

- Yes. - It's just great, isn't it?

So I could just--I could just say what I need to say.

It's just--it's wonderful. It's wonderful.

- Hey, babe.

- There go the privacy.

- [clears throat]

- CURTIS: Hey, babe. - Hi, babe.

- How are you doin'? - I'm good.

- Hey, Jazzy. - Hey! Uncle Curtis.

[laughs] - Okay.

- Mm, hey, baby?

Dinner ready?

- Not yet. - Whatcha waitin' on?

- Curtis, I'm talking to Jazzy.

- You can't talk and cook?

- Curtis, what do you think I am?

- My wife?

- Right. Not your employee.

Come on, baby. - Baby, I didn't

mean it like that. You know I ain't mean it like that.

- Are you sure? - You know I'm sure.

Now clock in on this Crockpot.

- That Crockpot not even here. - You ain't bought one yet?

- I borrowed Janine's. - Oh, good.

Then it'll never be used. - I know, right? [laughs]

Sorry.

- Baby, please, come on, now. I just want to talk to Jazzy.

- Come on in the kitchen.

- Curtis, I told you. I'm not your employee.

- He sound like he think that to me.

- Now you, I can handle.

This is between me and your uncle.

- Yes, Ma'am. You're right.

It's grown folk business. I get it. I'll stay out of it.

- Good. Thank you. - My bad.

- Now, grown folk?

- What's happening, Captain?

- Baby, please get out of here so I can talk to Jazzy?

- Oh, okay.

Can't y'all go in the kitchen? - Curtis!

- You can talk right there, right there.

- ELLA: Curtis!

You know what? This is rude. Rude.

- See, that what I love about you.

You realize that.

You check yourself.

That's why I love you.

- Curtis, I just want to talk to Jazmine.

This is very important. Please.

- Okay. Can I say something?

- I'm sorry, baby.

- CURTIS: Baby, do you realize that very important

conversations go over so well while you're cooking?

The Emancipation Proclamation happened in a kitchen.

- [coughs]

- CURTIS: The discovery for cancer happened in a kitchen.

- You know what? - CURTIS: The Bible...

every book...

written in the kitchen.

- That's okay, Auntie.

I'm--I'm--we can do this some other--

- No, no, no. No, no, no, no, no.

No, no, no. You stay. You go.

Curtis! Go on, baby.

Let me talk to her.

- Okay, all right, fine. - Thank you!

- CURTIS: Go on and talk to her. Go on and talk.

I'll be in the backyard.

Babe, I'm going to the backyard, work on the lawnmower then.

- Oh, thank you. - I'll be working. Hungry.

Doing something constructive and not talking.

- Thank you!

Ugh.

Now. Now, what were you gonna say?

- That I don't ever wanna be like the two of you.

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- Jazzy...

we have been together for a long time.

A long, long, long, long, long time.

- [giggling] You don't seem too happy about that.

- I am. Stop it.

I know he doesn't mean any harm.

- It just seem like he meant you some harm to me.

- You think so?

- Come on, women of today don't let no man

just be talkin' to them all sorts of ways, you know?

- I understand that. I understand that.

But hear me. I'm just old-fashioned, baby.

I think that a man is the head of the household.

- You do?

- Yes. - Even Uncle Curtis?

- Yes.

And I love cooking for him and taking care of him.

Just like he was taking care of me for all of these years.

Yes, he has. - He has?

- Yes, he has.

Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.

Baby, you think I do this because I have to?

[laughs] Oh, no, no, no, no, no.

No, Jazzy, I do it because I want to.

I love my husband. I love that man.

- Do you? - You stop it.

You stop it. You--you stop it.

- I was gonna say, Auntie, he was in here barking about food.

- And? - Like, come on.

- And? Am I cooking it?

- Uh, no.

- So stop trying to make this about me.

- [sighs] Auntie, once again, I really appreciate this.

- It's fine. Come on in the kitchen.

- Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait.

Where are you going?

- I'm going in the kitchen.

- I know you ain't goin' in there to cook.

- No, I'm not. - Well, wait.

Why are you headed in there? - Ooh, little girl, little girl.

- You're going in there to cook, ain't ya?

- Listen. Would you like something to drink?

- That's why you're going in there?

- Now, I'm going in there to get you something to drink.

- Well, there's no need. I'm not thirsty.

- You see that? - What?

- Me, offering you something to drink.

Huh, huh, huh? You didn't demand that I do it.

I just did it because I wanted to.

- I get it, Auntie. - And I love you.

- JAZMINE: I love you, too. - And Jazmine...

it is not weak when you serve.

- I'm sorry. - No, no, no.

You don't have to be sorry.

I'm not upset. I'm just telling you.

Just because people are doing it differently from the way

that the Bible says that it's supposed to be

does not make them right.

- I understand that.

- Mm-hmm. Yes. - I do.

- I'm telling you, if you get a man that will love you

and will take care of you, ooh!

And he--and he-- and he goes to work every day

so that you can have everything that you need. Oow!

- Auntie, is this everything you need?

- In return, you take care of him.

- Auntie, I get it. - I'm just trying to make sure.

- No, I do. - I--I do.

I do too. - I do.

'Cause, me, I'm the kind of woman

that wanna go to work every day.

And make my own wishes come true. Ha!

So he can be waitin' on me, okay?

- BOTH: [laughing]

- Well, you gonna be waitin'. [laughs]

[laughs]

- Auntie, Auntie, Auntie! - ELLA: Mmm!

- Where are you going? - I'm going in the kitchen.

- For what reason?

- Oh, okay, you don't want a drink.

- I already told you I wasn't thirsty.

- Oh, okay. Well, see, whoo.

- I'm not parched at all.

- [sighs]

- Are you sure you're ready?

- Are you sure you're ready to stop joking?

- I'm sorry, but you know Uncle Curtis be mad when he don't eat.

[laughs] You know? - You know?

- Yeah, he be like Godzilla. [laughs]

- [laughs] And...we're back.

What is it, honey?

- CURTIS: Baby!? - Aah!

You know what? - Got you.

- Curtis! - Give me some sugar.

- JAZMINE: [coughs]

- Please. - I need sugar.

- Please. - I need you to kiss my cup.

- Curtis, I'm not kissing that cup.

I don't know where that cup been.

- Hey, baby. - Curtis--

- Yeah-- - What, baby, what? What?

- I don't smell it. I don't smell--

- Now, now. You see this, baby.

Don't do that. - --that cookin' though.

- Curtis--

- I mean, she has tried to work her way into the kitchen.

- Thank you, Jazzy.

- Okay, Curtis, I have not started cooking yet.

- Ooh!

Baby, I'm so hungry.

I'm so hungry, baby, I'm so hungry!

- Curtis... - I'm so hungry.

I'm so hungry.

It remind me when I was a little boy.

I don't want no peanut butter and jelly.

- Curtis, stop it.

- ♪ I want food

- Please, baby, just stop it.

- CURTIS: ♪ I want food

- And I want to talk to Jazzy. - Uh, but, baby--

- Curtis, let me tell you something.

- Baby-- - No, you listen.

You are not going to disturb me again.

Do you understand? Do you? - Yes.

- Do you, baby? - Yes.

- Okay. - I do.

- Well, then, get out of here, baby.

Thank you. Please!

- Okay, I'ma go. I'll just go.

- Thank you.

[groans]

Do you see? - Yes, Ma'am.

- Now, that was my

"I'm not playing with you, Curtis" voice.

- Okay, and that's supposed to stop him

from coming back in here? - Yes.

- You're sure? - Yes. Yes.

- Take a quick peak over your right shoulder.

He be going back in here.

- Curtis...

Ooh, please, baby.

- Okay, okay. - ELLA: Thank you.

Okay what?

- You know what?

I'm just gonna go put something on the grill.

All right? - Yes.

- I'll put something--don't even worry about cooking.

- Okay.

- CURTIS: Don't even worry about it, baby.

I'll just--I'll starve. I'll just...waste away to nothing.

- Oh, baby. - My belly just bit my liver.

So hungry.

- Thank you, Curtis.

- Yeah. All right, baby. Bye.

- You see?

- I don't know what you're trying to get me to see.

- Go on and tell your story.

Okay, wait, wait, wait. Let's just say it together.

You think about having--

- Okay, on three. One, two, three.

- A wedding. - Having sex.

- Who said? You said what?

- What was that? - I'm dying.

- What did you say? - I said a wedding.

- Oh! - What did you say?

- No, I didn't say nothin'.

- Curtis! Curtis, I'll cook! - JAZMINE: No, you won't!

Auntie! Auntie, wait! - I'll cook! I'll cook!

Girl, I gotta go cook. - Please! Where you goin'?

- Babe, I gotta go cook for my husband.

I gotta go cook for my husband.

[stutters]

- Auntie, Auntie, Auntie, Auntie, Auntie!

Where are you going?

- Oh--[laughs]-- I am, um, uh--

I had to thaw out these steaks for Curtis.

And thawing takes a long time. Uh, uh, uh.

- Okay. - ELLA: Okay.

- So... - Baby, what?

What?

It was just two steaks.

They were so frozen. - Auntie?

- ELLA: No, really. They were [grunts] frozen.

- Auntie. [giggles] - What?

- What do you think about what I just said in there?

- What did you just said? In there?

- Do you know what I said? You know, about me wanting to...

- Yeah. - To have--you know!

- Yes, Jazzy, okay. Baby, let me tell you something.

This is all I can say.

Curtis!?

[laughs] That's all I can say.

- Hey, baby. - Yes. Hey, baby.

- Oh, you got the steak! You got the steak!

You got steaks. - Yes, baby.

- How you want your steak? - Cooked.

- CURTIS: Okay, well? - Cooked well, thank you, yes.

- 'Cause I like mine well. - I know.

- You know I like mine well.

- ELLA: Yes, baby, I know you do.

- CURTIS: I don't want it burnt. I want it well.

- Yes.

- Mm, too much pink put me over the sink.

[laughs] You hear that, Jazzy?

- I did. - That was funny, wasn't it?

- Yeah, it's funny. I'm laughing so hard.

- [laughs] Well, you don't look like it.

- Ooh! - What?

- I'm talking to Jazzy.

- Yeah, what? Am I interrupting?

- ELLA: Yes, yes.

- Kind of like she did my dinner?

- ELLA: Curtis...

- CURTIS: What? I'm just saying.

Baby, you used to have dinner cooked and ready to go.

Just--pa, pa, pa! - Baby.

- ♪ Pa, pa, pa, pa, pa, pa

- Not today. Not today, baby.

- I wonder why.

Hi, Jazzy.

- Curtis.

- It must be a deep talk. - It is. It really is.

- You want a man's opinion?

- No, I really want my man's opinion to leave.

- Is this--you want me to stop?

It's like that woman thing? - Yes, yes.

- I don't want to hear that either.

- No. You shut up. - I don't want to hear this.

- I know, baby. So go. - Did it get room temp?

Room temp. - Curtis!

- Okay. Uh, baby, where's my seasoning?

Where's the seasoning? - Curtis, I already--

- The seasoning go on the beef-- - I already seasoned it.

- You already-- - I already seasoned it.

- Oh, thank you, baby. - Yes.

- Did you put enough on there?

Okay. Okay. I got it.

You kind of cooked. You kind of cooked.

Yeah, yeah, look. - Baby, baby, thank you.

- Thank you. I love you. - I love you, too.

- Jazmine, you want some steak? - No, sir, I'm good.

- CURTIS: You sure you won't like--

- Yeah, I'm positive.

- You know you don't eat much anyway.

You've never ate much. - Small stomach, yeah.

- We only got two, so...

I don't know what Ella gonna do.

Okay, and you got seasoning on them already.

- Ooh, ooh, ooh!

- I'm gonna put 'em on.

- ELLA: Curtis, close the door, baby.

- This door? - ELLA: Yes, Curtis.

- You want me to close? - ELLA: Yes.

- Okay. So now, um, what did you say?

- You know he comin' back.

- Okay, Jazzy, sit down. Let me tell you something.

Let me tell you about waiting...

and being abstinent.

- Auntie, you already have.

- Well, I wanna tell you again.

So, indulge me.

Jazmine, baby, listen.

There is something so special about waiting for the man that

you're gonna spend the rest of your life with.

- But what if I don't wanna do that?

- Well, you don't want to be a number.

- Auntie...

- What?

- Do you know how-- how things go nowadays?

- What do you mean? I think I do.

- Let me show you. Check this out.

- Check what out? - Okay. Look at this.

This right here is called social media.

- I know about social media. - Oh, okay.

- Chit-chat, snip-snap.

- That is what girls send to guys nowadays.

- What? - Take a good look.

- Ooh, Jazmine! And--and, um--

Ooh-hoo! And they do--

- Right. They send something called a DM.

- A DM? - Mm-hmm.

- Devil mail. Devil mail.

That, that, that, that, that, that--

- Whatever you wanna call it.

- Listen, that is not good. - I know, look.

If you like a guy nowadays,

that's what you have to deal with.

- Well, you don't have to deal with it if you get a man

that loves you and tells you that you're special,

and knows that you're special, and he waits with you.

- He'd do that? - If he loves you.

- Okay. Where he at?

- You gotta wait, baby.

- [sighs] I hear you.

- Now, let me tell you something else.

- Okay.

- If you make a man wait for you...

they have more respect for you.

They don't respect none of those girls.

They don't respect them.

- Yeah, I know. - But if you know that,

you don't wanna be one of those girls.

- But they seem to be having so much more fun than me.

- Who cares about fun?

- I care about fun. - Okay.

- Auntie, young people care about fun!

Old people don't wanna say I don't care about fun no more.

- Okay, Jazzy. Pull it back out

and look at what they're saying about her in the comments.

You don't wanna be like that.

You want them to talk about you like that?

- JAZMINE: No. - Does that sound fun?

- No, Ma'am, it doesn't.

- Take your time. Just take your time.

- I'll try.

- Here's what you do. Tell him you're not doing it.

And if he leaves, he was only trying to get in your pants.

But if you tell him that you wanna wait,

and he waits with you, then you found someone special.

- But what do I do if he actually does leave?

- Let him leave! Let him!

He's a bozo!

'Cause if he says that he wants to, and you say you don't,

and then he pressures you--"You gotta do this,

you gotta do this, you gotta do this--

then he's trying to control you.

And you know you're smarter than that.

- Yeah, I am. - I know you are.

- Thanks, Auntie.

I think I'm gonna go home.

- Just like that?

Mwah.

- I love you. - I love you, too.

Are you gonna talk to your momma?

- Uh, I'll--I'll--I'll get around to that.

I appreciate you, though.

- ELLA: You don't want to be a number!

- JAZMINE: I'll see you later.

- God, please bless that child.

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- [crying] Let her wait, Lord.

Let her wait.

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