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[upbeat music]

[wheezing]

I thought you were trying to kill me, Cuz.

It's the opposite, Cuzzo. I'm saving you.

[heavy breathing] Man, I don't think running's my thing.

Why you say that?

'Cause I can't breathe when I run.

Malik, you can breathe.

If you see me gasping for air like this,

[gasps repeatedly] that means I can't breathe, Cuz.

All right, well, it doesn't have to be running.

Next time, we could try another cardio.

Yeah, it ain't gonna be too many more

of these next times if I'm feeling like this.

Hey, look, I was just trying to get you outside.

Sometimes that could be more fun than being in a stuffy gym.

Hey, look, ain't none of this fun to me, okay?

I might as well just take my chances in the gym.

Okay, well, next time we'll put you

on a stair machine or something.

Yeah, yeah, or something.

Wait, are you off today?

No. What about you?

Oh, I get to work remotely one day a week.

I got a bunch of Zooms to hop on after I hop out the shower.

Oh. Hey, how you like working from home?

I like it.

You know, it's been a little harder since I've been dealing

with everything with Laura, but...

Dealing with what? I thought y'all broke up.

Well, yeah, but, you know, working from home,

you're supposed to be free of distraction.

I find myself preoccupied with Laura.

Next thing you know, I'm texting her.

Why? Y'all called it quits.

She walked out, left you cold and alone; I mean, let it go.

Do you like being an a-hole?

No, I like helping people see the truth, okay?

Did she leave you or not?

Okay, so you think the truth is that I don't belong with Laura?

No. That's not what I said at all.

I said she left you. That's what I said, okay?

Is that true or not?

-Well, yeah. -Okay.

And wait a minute.

Didn't... this isn't the first time she left you, right?

Something like this happened last year,

where she claimed she saw something

on your computer or something, right?

Well, yeah, but that's because Peanut used my computer

to arrange a hookup.

Now, that makes sense why she thought it was me.

Okay, well, that might be a little bit true, okay?

But she was still wrong.

And instead of coming and talking to her fiancé about it,

she left you.

Yes.

Okay, look, Cuz.

How many times does someone get to leave you?

Let me let you know something.

You only get one time to leave me.

Okay, so what do you think I should do?

Look, I think you should keep doing exactly what you're doing.

Spend some time with your kids. Spend time with your family.

Hey, you need to spend some time with yourself, man.

Yeah, I guess I'm just not good at being single.

Yeah, I mean, I can understand that.

And you probably should have spent some time being

single after Miranda.

Well, I would have, but I met Laura right after.

How'd that turn out for you?

Look, I can't give up on her unless I'm sure, Malik.

All right, well, I'll see you later, Cuz.

[gentle music]

[upbeat soul music]

[birds chirping]

[airplane flying overhead]

[car alarm blaring horn honking]

[sirens wailing]

[helicopter blades whirring]

Hey, fam.

-Hey! -Hi.

-Is CJ here? -No, he's downtown.

Damn, okay.

Is there something we can help you with?

-No, that's okay. -Oh... all right.

Well, you know, on second thought...

What do you need, Cousin Calvin?

Okay, look, I'm trying to send a text to Laura, and I need help.

You need help sending a text to your ex-fiancée?

No, no, no, no, I just need help wording it right.

All right, let's hear it.

Okay, okay, um,

"Hey, I know you asked me not to reach out

"to you so you can start to get over things and heal.

"But I can't help but wonder if we're making the right decision.

"I think about you often, and I miss you.

"I was kind of hoping that we can try dinner again.

"This time, I could take you somewhere where we're

"uninterrupted by anyone.

I miss you." That's all I got.

-I don't know, Calvin. -What?

What are you hoping to accomplish by sending that?

Well, I said it. I wanted to take her to dinner.

Oh, so you just trying to get a quick hookup?

[scoffs] You know you wrong, Cousin Calvin.

No, no, no, no, no, that's not where my head is at. I swear.

I just want to see her.

Okay, for what?

To talk, to vibe, to see what's up.

[sighs heavily]

Okay, Calvin, when women are trying to get over something,

we tend to cut all ties so we can truly spend the time healing

from the heartbreak.

Yeah, that's what Laura says.

So her seeing you is gonna throw her right back into it

emotionally when she's trying to get you out of her system.

So there's really no reason for you two

to see each other unless you sincerely intend

on getting back together.

Is that what you want?

-I don't know, maybe. -You don't know?

[disapprovingly] Mm-mm.

I agree with Mom on this one.

You don't need to reach out

at all unless you're sure you wanna get back with her.

Okay, so how am I supposed to know that if I can't talk to her

or see her?

I don't know.

You got to figure that one out on your own, bruh.

Exactly; do not play with her time and emotions, Calvin.

Well, I'm not trying to do that,

but I wanna know that we're making the right decision

before I close the door on this forever.

If you two didn't work before,

you need to quit trying to force it.

That's a good point. Don't force it.

What do you always say, Mom?

Square pegs don't fit in round holes.

If it don't fit, it just don't fit.

I agree with this.

Now we got to get these over to your mama.

[upbeat music]

All right, now I want you to put the sliced peaches in the jars,

fill the jars with the sliced peaches.

Ooh, but Aunt Ella, Tabitha Brown,

my good girlfriend, she be talking about you gotta

peel them first.

[Jazmine] I did that! Mama, I peeled them!

[Janine] But she's telling us not to.

Thank you, Tabitha.

Put the sliced peaches in the jars!

Auntie, who taught you how to can fruits and vegetables?

My mama! My mama taught me. My grandmother taught my mama.

And my great-grandmama, God rest their souls,

taught my grandmama.

And now you're teaching me and Jazzy.

As I should. And God be my strength.

[all laugh]

Wait, I don't see the point

in doing this though when you could just go

to the grocery store and buy canned goods.

Mm-mm, nope. No, no, no.

Jazzy, can't no grocery store canned goods hold a candle

to Aunt Ella's peaches.

-Thank you. -You're welcome.

That's actually true,

because I wondered why the peaches

tasted so good over here.

Thank you; I was hoping that my canned peaches

and jams tasted better than the grocery stores.

Mm-hmm.

But, Jazzy, let me tell you something.

People back in the day had to can foods so that they could eat

in the winter, okay?

This was before stores had canned goods.

This was before freezers.

Wait, so you don't have to put these in the freezer?

-Mm-mm. -No, no, no, no, baby.

We finna put this in the shed.

Auntie Ella, you better not.

[scoffs] Why not?

Because that's nasty. They're not gonna go bad?

If you do it right, these will last us all year long.

-All year. -All year?

-Mm-hmm. -[Ella] Yes.

-Not refrigerated? -[mockingly] "Not refrigerated?"

No.

So listen, we're gonna warm them in the jars

to a point where they kill all of the germs.

And if you then put that vacuum-packed lid on there,

just... we'll be all good.

That don't feel right.

Okay, listen; get the syrup that we put over here.

-[Janine] Ah, yes, yes, yes. -And I want you

to fill the jars.

-[Janine] Okay. -Um, so, Mom,

are you gonna tell Auntie Ella what her son is doing

or should I?

What? What?

All these lids around here,

and you still can't figure out how to keep a lid on that.

What is it? What is it?

Don't do it.

So Calvin is trying to get back with Laura.

-Say what now? -Mm-hmm.

I need a sharper knife.

Laura, you just not gonna respond?

Come on, come on. Please, please.

Pick up, pick up, pick up, pick up.

Hey, Laura, uh, it's me. I was just...

I was just hoping we could talk for a minute.

I hope you're having a good day. I miss you.

[knock on door]

Come in.

-Hey. -Hey, Pop.

What are you doing here?

What? Seeing about what you doing.

Oh, just finishing up some work stuff.

-Oh, how's work going? -It's going.

-It's going good. -Are you staying focused?

Yeah, I'm trying to. Everything good?

Yeah, pretty good. I just came out to talk to you.

Okay... Uh-oh.

Looks like it's one of those talks.

Well, just a father coming to check in with his son.

There's been a lot going on, man.

Oh, yeah. But I'm, uh, I'm good, Pop.

You sure?

I am.

So how you doing with you and Laura breaking up?

I'm, uh, I'm getting through it. I'm managing.

Mm-hmm; have you been reaching out to her?

-Not really. -Hmm.

Okay, here and there.

-Well, stop. -Stop?

Yeah, Laura and her father called me.

-They called you? -Mm-hmm.

Laura doesn't want to talk to you anymore.

So she wants you to stop calling and texting her.

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[upbeat music]

Wait, what?

Laura wants you to stop calling and texting her.

She said that to you?

Yes.

Well, why she wouldn't just say that to me?

Didn't I just tell you she didn't want to talk to you?

And besides, she said she told you several times.

Okay so, what did her father say then?

I think he made the call.

He gave her the phone, and she talked to me.

Okay, what did she say, Pop?

[sighs heavily]

What did she say?

She said, with all due respect, she's moving on.

And me and the family and you are in her best wishes.

And we're all in her prayers and blah, blah, blah.

She has decided to put the "pain chapter" behind her

because it's been too painful.

You know, I'm just playing with the words.

You know how corny and dramatic she is.

Okay, Pop, what else did she say?

That's it.

I can't believe this.

Well, it's okay, Son.

No, Pop, she's trying to make me seem like

I'm stalking her or something.

No, no.

I think she's just...

asking you not to call her or text her anymore.

That's all.

Pop, I was just trying...

Whatever you were just doing, stop.

Pops, we were engaged to be married.

Yeah, and now you're not.

So that's it?

Yeah, that's it.

Life happens, move on.

Well, I will,

but I don't appreciate her bringing you

or her father into our business.

I get that.

And I know you want to tell her, don't you?

-Hell yeah, I do. -[Curtis] Well, you can't.

Because you can't call her or text her anymore.

Because then you will seem like a stalker.

By sending her one last text?

Yes, Calvin. And saying what?

I don't know. My last thoughts. Goodbye or something.

That would only make the situation worse, Son.

Now, I know you think it'll make you feel better,

but after she doesn't respond to it, you'll feel worse too.

Look, Pops, it's not about making me feel better.

It's just...

Look, Calvin, it's over. Let it go.

[upbeat music]

I don't think Calvin is in love

with Laura like that, Miss Ella.

I don't know. Maybe he is. I don't get it.

No, no, I don't think so.

I think that Calvin is just preoccupied.

He's never had to spend any real time with himself,

for himself, by himself,

and he just really needs to understand we have to do that,

all of us, at some point.

He should have stayed with Miranda.

I said the same thing when he said they were divorcing.

So did I. But did he listen? No. Now look at him.

He's all turned upside down and all the way...

It's just what he gets.

I'm about to turn this right back to these peaches.

What are we doing now? Okay, where are we?

Where are we? Oh, right here. Right here.

Take the tops that we have in the pots, please.

I've already boiled them.

And twist them tightly on the jars.

I am so excited I'm learning how to do this.

We should do this every year.

I do.

But we're not in the dark ages, okay?

This was for when we didn't have freezers and grocery stores

with canned food.

Oh, there's just so much you young people do not know.

Touché, but times have changed.

[Ella] You know what, Jazmine?

What you guys do not realize is that life, life is long, baby.

Auntie, you just told me yesterday that life is short.

Uh-huh, I did. And it's both. It really is.

Right now, I am saying

that life can take you through so many different ups and downs

and times and changes.

You don't know what you're going to have to deal with tomorrow.

We just get so used to everything being so good

and perfect in this country.

But baby, there's always a time... when a storm will come.

That's a very good point.

It is.

What you going to do when the situation's come

and you don't have electricity?

You remember that snowstorm we had? Mm-hmm.

There was nothing in the grocery stores.

And when COVID hit, there was nothing in the grocery stores.

You think that crazy things can't happen?

Crazy things can happen. But I don't care what happens.

The electricity can go out and there can be no food

on the shelves in the stores.

Me? I'm going to be alright right here.

-[Janine] Mm-hmm. -I'm going to have

my canned peaches, my smoked meats,

and all of my vegetables right out there in the shed, baby.

Yes!

You know what? That's a good point.

And if that goes down, I'll just come over here.

You're not going to come over here, baby.

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

If you come over here, I'm not going to give you nothing.

I'm going to say, "Well, wait a minute, Jazmine.

Didn't you can your peaches at harvest time?"

-Auntie. -[Ella laughs]

I'm going to say the same thing. Don't look at me.

You're going to say the same thing?

Exactly.

Y'all going to do a girl like that?

Y'all just going to leave me out there, huh?

We're going to leave you out there just like that.

Like Noah did those people who laughed at him.

He left them outside the ark.

Sure did. Sure did.

So I'm just going to be left outside the ark?

Outside the ark with no food.

[Jazmine] None.

Dad, I wanted a family.

Calvin, you have a family.

No, a traditional family. I wanted a wife. I wanted kids.

Son, now you stop now. You have all that.

If you want another wife, you can have that again.

But it takes work.

Why do you think I'm reaching out to her?

Dad, I'm trying to put in the work.

I'm trying to save us.

Son, you can only put the work in with somebody who wants

to put the work in with you.

And that's not Laura.

I didn't want to speak on it. But it ain't Laura.

Pops, honestly, I don't even think you guys gave her

a fair chance.

Calvin, it's not about us.

You and Laura were toxic together.

Pops, [sniffles] every couple, they go through it.

They have their issues, man.

Mm-mm-mm. Not like that.

[heavy sigh]

Look, Calvin.

When it's right, Son, you know it.

How, Dad?

You feel it. You feel it.

I mean, you know, you have a squabble here and there.

But you have comfort through it all.

And you're at rest. You will be at rest.

So with Mom, that's how you feel?

-You feel like you're at rest? -Absolutely.

Let me tell you something.

All the chaos that followed me with those other women, man,

it stopped when I met your mother.

Son, the noise in my head, it stopped.

And I could be myself. But I knew I was okay.

That's all I'm looking for.

I want to build the type of home that you provided for me.

You're going to build the home that you have made for yourself.

-[Calvin crying] -God has a plan and a purpose

for each of us, Calvin.

And the plan God has for me?

It's going to look different than the plan God got for you.

What you looking at me like that for?

Did you just talk about God?

Yeah, I know God. I just ain't all mushy with it.

Mm-mm-mm; well now I understand what Moms is talking about.

Life is long.

Hell, you never know what surprise you're going to get out

of Curtis Payne.

Son, are you done?

Yeah, I'm done, Pop.

[upbeat music]

Come in. Ah, there he is.

I didn't think you were going to show up.

Yeah, I wasn't.

Why did you?

You know what you did. You know what you did.

First my dad came and got me up. Then my mom came.

Then Jazzy. I mean, who didn't you call?

Hey, I just had to make sure you showed up, bro.

I want you to live a long life.

Well, I think I'll be just good getting my steps in at work.

Well, that's good, but a rigorous workout is even better.

Come on. Let's get it in.

Okay; hey, whoa, I'm not doing no running.

-Okay. -And none of them big ropes.

I'm not doing that. None of the rope stuff.

Okay, Malik.

Oh, and none of that kettle ball bull.

Blah, blah, blah. Blah, blah, blah, blah.

Let's go. [upbeat music]

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