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But, Pop, come on, now.

You were a legendary player.

And that's not something

that I am proud of, son.

Listen, listen. Yes, all right?

Yes, I was out on the street.

But your mama still raised you

in church, boy.

I mean, I... Lord knows

I treated every woman wrong,

but I thank God

she kept praying for me.

Look, I still want

to get married, I do.

Just not now. I mean, right now

I want to focus on me.

My business.

And enjoy all these

beautiful women.

Uh-huh. You still think you're

going to find a good woman

after you done slept with

everything from here to L.A.?

Huh? Once you done laid up

like some used-up sponge

somebody down found

under the sink, you really...

You really think

that you still going to find

that same good woman, son, huh?

Don't you think the reason

so much happened

between you and Mom was because

you didn't get a chance

to scratch that itch

before you got married?

Scratch that itch!

Son, I could have ho'ed

for another 20 years

before I finished

scratching that itch.

Listen, listen, listen.

Everything that you are

and all that you will become

is written by the choices

that you make.

Unfortunately,

I did a whole lot of scratching

before I met your mama.

No, I got this.

Okay.

I hope you got it.

Because when I think about

all the years that I...

I missed with your mother,

and when I was finally

able to, you know,

get it right and ready,

it was too late.

I love you, son.

And I don't want you to make

the same mistake that I made.

Yeah. I hear you, Pop.

And I love you, too.

But...

I'm not sure.

I've said my piece.

All right, don't forget me

and the club.

Lounge.

Oh, whatever.

I'll bring the heat, son.

Have them jiggling Bambi.

I know you will.

All right.

You know we don't do this here.

I just miss you so much.

I saw you two nights ago.

I know, but I really wanted

to see you last night.

Yeah, well, I was busy.

Daddy, I need an advance

on my paycheck.

What?

I just need a little one.

Look, Kierra, there are no more

checks to advance.

You're already

into your next one.

Well, maybe you can go

into your private stash.

Cut it out.

Oh. I see.

You got what you want,

so now I'm expendable.

I left my other boyfriends

for you.

I didn't ask you to.

Hell, I'd prefer you didn't.

Let them chip in.

I see what's going on.

You want a beautiful woman,

but you don't want

to pay the cost to keep her.

The cost?

Okay, look,

what happens

in this place of business

is completely separate

from what happens outside.

Oh. You want to keep it

separate.

Yes. No more advances.

I understand completely.

So, since you're my man,

I'll expect my rent check later

on tonight when I come over,

because my boss

is being a real jerk.

Everything all right, boss?

No. That damn Kierra's

about to drive me crazy.

And our numbers here

have been down

for the last couple of weeks.

Yeah, I noticed.

We've got to change that

quickly,

or else this is going

to be the shortest trip

from success to failure ever.

Maybe we need to sex it up

a little bit.

What do you mean?

I mean, you know,

make it a place

where the fellas

want to come to, you know?

Hire some sexy waitresses,

fix the back room up,

make it into an exclusive VIP.

Sounds like you're talking about

making it into a strip club.

It's only a strip club

if they're stripping.

Sex it up, huh?

All right.

All right, I'll tell you what.

You help drive in the business,

I'll make you manager

Manager?

Yeah. I mean, you have just

as much invested in this club

as I do.

Hey, boss, look,

I promise you

I won't let you down.

I know you won't.

I'll be in the back for a while.

Cool.

Hey. Hey, what's going on,

Shanice?

How you doing, Omar?

I'm looking for Todd.

Oh, he's not in right now.

Maybe, you know,

I can help you out.

You know what?

I think I need to speak

with Todd.

Well, Todd's not running

the place anymore,

since he's made me manager.

Really?

Yeah.

You know, I'm working on

buying him out as we speak.

Wow. That's interesting.

Okay, maybe you can help me.

So my sorority is having

its annual get-together,

and I'm thinking this might

be the perfect place.

And I think you're right.

Yeah, maybe we can have it...

Make it one of those

theme nights.

I like that. Yeah.

Yeah, yeah.

You know, Shanice,

you know, I think it's cool that

you're supporting Todd and all.

Look, I know it's not

my place to say,

but sometimes

it's not the effort

that you make,

but where you put it.

I do not follow.

What do you mean?

I mean, why keep dumping money

into an old jalopy

when you can just trade in

for a new model?

Okay, Omar.

Um, I'm going to have

somebody call

to make those arrangements.

Okay.

Business before pleasure, huh?

Yeah, see you soon.

Thank you, thank you,

thank you, ladies and gentlemen.

Beautiful people of Chicago

at the Water Lounge tonight.

Give yourselves a round

of applause for coming out, man.

Hope you're drinking.

Drink, drink, drink, people.

It makes the comedy better.

Drink up.

Any single parents out there?

Single parents.

Yeah, give it up for yourselves.

Don't need no man for nothing.

Yes, yes. Yes, ladies,

you do need a man for something.

You know, not everything,

but for some things.

And children need a man

in their life.

You know,

I had a stepdad situation.

And when I say stepdad,

I don't mean

my mama wasn't married.

You know, she just went

with the man a long time.

You know, yeah, yeah.

Y'all go together. That's what

they used to call that.

Y'all go together.

You don't know where

you're going,

but you're going together,

you know.

Because you are one, you know?

It was my sister's daddy.

And he was a grown little man.

I don't know if you've ever seen

a grown little man,

but, you know,

they have a Napoleon complex.

He was trying to tell us

to do stuff,

and you'd be like,

"I'm not scared of you."

You know, because we felt like

we could whoop Frank ass.

But...

But he was a grown little man.

But he had other little issues

that we didn't know about.

He had like a glass eye.

And I don't know if you ever

seen nobody with a glass eye,

but it's kind of scary

because the eye don't do stuff

like regular eyes do.

You know, it don't blink

or wink or nothing.

It just look at you

all the time.

And you're a little kid,

that's kind of scary.

We was like, "Mama, Frank keep

looking at us."

And she was like,

"That man asleep. He asleep."

And we'd be like, Well, somebody

need to go shut that eye.

Because evidently nobody told it

it was bedtime, you know?

Because it just stayed woke

looking at people.

But we learned

to appreciate the eye.

You know, at least Frank

had an eye,

but he was an angry little man.

So one day he got to arguing

with the man next door,

named Tummy.

And Tummy told Frank, he's like,

"Frank, don't, man.

I'm gonna knock your eye out."

And, you know,

I heard people say that,

but you don't really think

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