- Maybe they can't see
the product on the other side of the computer.
- Pops, that's not how it works.
- Well, I know I should have gotten some orders by now.
- Well, have you checked your orders through emails?
- No.
I thought they would just send the check in the mail.
- And how would you know? Through telegram or Morse code?
Pops, you haven't checked your email in weeks.
- Oh, that's not true.
I haven't checked it ever.
- Okay, how do you expect to keep up with your customers
if you're not interacting with them?
- I don't want to interact with them.
I just want them to send in that money.
You heard me.
- Okay, but you have to enter the orders through emails.
I mean, you got a bunch of them just sitting here.
- Well, you handle that. I'ma make me a sandwich.
- What?
Aye yo pops! What's Hot in the A?
- I don't know. You're the one screaming.
- No no, you have an email from "What's Hot in the A!"
They want to do a virtual interview with you.
- Huh?
Oh, wait, "Hot in the A!"
Is that... Is it that show that uh uh put Ivy's Pies on the map?
- That's it. - Oh, you know what?
If we get on that segment,
then that's gonna really blow the sauce up.
- This would be really good publicity.
Good thing I went through these emails.
- You know what?
Move on over, move over, bubble.
Good job.
Let me go ahead and let them know they need to hear from me.
The Sauce Boss, I just got type right here?
- Are you serious?
Type "hello"? Like a power tool.
- Yeah yeah. - Okay.
There that "H".
There it is, there it is, "E".
- Are you serious?
- Shhh.
L, L, need two "L's".
Look at how many of them are there.
- You know what?
At this rate, a telegram would be faster.
Look Pops, his number is right there.
I'll just call them and see if they're still interested.
- Well, you call, you got to act
like my agent and be professional.
And don't be using that slang stuff.
- Hello?
Hey, is this, uh, Damon Belt's office?
Yes, well, this is Curtis Payne's office.
- Professional. Professional.
- Yeah.
I'm sorry about the late response.
We've been swamped over here.
Oh, yes, Mr. Payne would love to do your
virtual inter-- - Don't be begging.
Don't be begging.
- Oh, his schedule is wide open.
I mean, we would love to squeeze you in.
- Of course. Of course. Yeah, that works.
Well, thank you, buh-bye.
It's all set. - Yes!
- It's all set. - Yes! Ha, ha!
Good job, Son.
Hey, I'm about to be "What's hot in the A!"
And the B and the C.
And the D, and the whole damn alphabet.
You heard me.
The Sauce Boss!
- You need to learn the alphabet on these keys.
- [theme music]
- My two favorite ladies.
What-- what's going... Shouldn't you and the baby be
watching Nickelodeon or something?
Not this, what is it?
"New Life, New Love."
Why do you watch this stuff if it's
gonna make you cry?
- I'm not crying.
- Then what's that watery stuff running out your eyes?
- I mean...
It's tears, but they're the happy kind.
- Okay, well, next time I make
you cry, I'll just assume that they're the happy kind.
Stop it.
- See, that's what I'm talking about.
You need to be more sensitive, like old boy in the movie.
- Whatcha you want me to do?
You want me to cry and rub your feet
and make you dinner all the time?
- Yes.
- Well, I already do a lot of that stuff.
So what else is it that you want?
- I want you to be more sensitive.
- Whatcha mean? I am sensitive.
- When's the last time you cried?
- Oh, you remember that time
last winter that you slipped on that ice?
[chuckling]
Not bad. That right there.
I laughed till I cried.
- I'm talking about sad crying.
Not crying from laughing at me.
- Oh no baby, my tears don't know the difference.
- Malik, I just want you
to explore your feelings, you know, be more sensitive.
- Okay. Well, what do you have in mind?
Because I know you have something in mind.
- Hmmm.
Watch MaLisa for a little while.
Take care of her, feed her,
burp her, maybe read to her, play with her,
wash her clothes.
And while you at it, find her a daycare.
- Okay, whatcha gonna be doing?
- Finishing an entire movie
instead of the opening and closing act.
I need a break.
- Well, why didn't you just say you needed a break?
- I need a break. - Okay.
You could take a break.
Later, because I had plans to watch a game and relax.
- And I had plans to have a baby when I was rich.
But you know what the book said,
the best-laid plans are wives and men.
- Uh, Baby, that's mice and men.
- Good.
You know it.
Now read it to your daughter while I--
- Take your break.
- Thank you.
- This is what I'm wearing for the interview.
How I look?
- Bright. - Good.
That way people can see what my future look like.
- Man, Pops, the interview isn't for three days.
Why are you wearing that now?
- Well, we're doing a dress rehearsal, right?
- Yeah. Let's practice.
You sit here.
- Okay.
Now, you get all these set up right?
All these set up--this crooked
because they said-- somebody told me
you make a lot of money with product placement.
- Pops, that's not how product placement works.
It's a virtual interview.
- Yeah, with the biggest show in Atlanta.
And it's going to make me the richest barbecue mogul in town.
You heard me.
- Yes, I'm so excited for you.
- Hey baby. Yeah, I'm glad you're excited.
You should be.
I'm gonna let you know right now,
when this thing blow up, I'm having some groupies.
Don't be tripping, okay?
I'm going to call 'em the Barbecueties. You get it?
- You gonna get it if you don't act right.
- Sit down, Mom.
Now, I'm gonna ask the questions.
You're going to look right here. All right?
This is where the interview is taking place.
Now, I did some research on media training and we're
gonna run through some scenarios to practice.
- Well, I don't need no media training, but do your worse.
Okay.
Welcome to "What's Hot in the A!" We are so happy
to finally sit down with the Sauce Boss.
- Uh, excuse me.
It's Curtis Payne the Sauce Boss...
Wipe me down.
- [laughter]
- Good to know.
Okay, so tell us about your culinary background.
- I thought we was gonna be talking about the sauce.
- Where did you attend cooking school?
- Oh, okay.
Oh, I went to... Le Cordon Bleu...
- [laughter]
- The backyard campus.
- [laughter]
- You heard me.
- Curtis.
- And-- and an art institute in my kitchen.
- So you actually have no training in food or cooking?
- Yeah, actually, it's a gift.
- Here it comes. - It's a gift.
I'm self-trained. I'm self-taught.
And, uh, but I will tell you about the secret sauce.
- Oh, no, sir.
Your secret is actually out. The Sauce Boss is a fraud.
- Got him!
- And just like that, the grand opening.
Grand closing.
- Hey, baby, uh, how much longer for your movie?
This girl got the colon of a grown man,
and we are almost out of diapers.
- This is the first act.
- Oh, cool. So you're done?
- Oh no, it's just getting started, but I'll stop.
- Okay, well, thank you. I appreciate it.
- And get some diapers.
Oh, no, no, no, no, I'm going to get the diapers.
I need a break.
- No, no, no, that's too bad, because I'm still on my break.
- Uh, baby, you aren't being real sensitive to me right now.
You're not being a very good parent.
- That's a good thing she has two.
I'll be back in a couple of hours.
- Hours? What...
You about to go and make the diapers?
- No, but I might as well get
some baby food and some baby formula.
My nails done and some pacifiers.
- Wait, hold on.
You just said get your nails done.
What does that have to do with the baby?
- I love you.
- Love you, too.
This just ain't right. This ain't right.
Oh, so y'all just going to do it in the rain?
Okay, I see why Lisa like this stuff.
Oh, you just gonna rip her shirt off like that.
Oh, you wild. You wild.
Okay. Let me... [unintelligible]
- Yeah, I do not need no media training.
Y'all need to stop throwing shade.
You heard me.
- No shade, Pops.
You just can't predict what they ask.
- So you need to be ready, baby, for everything and anything.
- I need to just be myself.
- No. That's the last thing you need to be.
- Well, what is that supposed to mean?
- Look, I love you, Pops.
And I know you don't mean half
of the things you say. But--
- I mean every word that comes out
of my mouth, whether people like it or not.
- You don't mean that.
- I said what I said, Ella.
- Pops, I'm trying to stop you from getting cancelled.
- Ain't nobody canceling me.
I'm a child of God.
- Now you know you don't mean that.
- See. That's what I'm talking about.
You'd be making these
off-the-cuff comments that could be twisted and used against you.
The Internet is the wild wild west now.
- And you can't win with that six shooter you keep loaded with
"Tad-dat-dat-duh. I'm Curtis Payne. You heard me."
- Well, what am I supposed to fight with, Ella?
Because I'm not going to back down.
- That's the thing. You don't have to fight.
Just be prepared.
Don't answer their questions.
Just give them the messages you want them to hear.
- Like what?
- Well, if they ask you how long you've been a chef, you answer,
"I've been in the kitchen my whole life."
- Oh, I like that.
- Okay. And if they ask you where you
manufactured and bottled your sauce,
you say in a family-owned facility right here in Atlanta.
Man, you good. You lie a lot better than me.
- Do what?
- I'm talking about when I lie to other people.
I lie to other people. - ELLA: Mm-hmm.
I don't like this.
It feels like lying.
- Oh, but see, that's the thing.
It's not lying.
It's spinning.
- Well, spinning sounds like sinning.
- Well, no, Mama.
It's all about giving them
the message that you want them to hear.
Like if they ask you how many
bottles you've sold to date, you tell them...
- A kajillion.
- Now, that's a lot.
- No, you say, too many to remember,
and you've never had one returned.
- Dog, you good, boy.
You got that much, Son. Come here, boy. That my son.
I like that. I can do this!
- Curtis...uh-uh.
- We got a lot of work to do.
The interview is in three days and we don't have a lot of time.
It's "What's Hot in the A!"
- Okay.
- Curtis Payne's office.
- Office?
- Oh, of course. Of course, yeah.
I'll let him know. Thanks.
- What's wrong?
- Well, the interview is no longer in three days.
It's in 2 hours.
And it's live.
- So they're not going to be able to edit that right there?
- Mm-mm.
- Ready.
- So what happens now?
- I'm about to make it do what it do.
Turn it on for me.
There it is.
Okay, now, give me a mic.
- That's not the best idea.
- Son, in about 2 hours, I'm gonna have everybody
in Atlanta put my sauce in their mouth!
- That's why.
- Look, you need somebody on camera with you.
Like a media coach.
All the big names have them.
OJ, Martha Stewart, R. Kelly.
- So anybody who goes to prison.
- All right, you do it.
- No, Mom should do it.
No, no Calvin, you're what they call camera ready.
Excuse you?
No, baby, he's ready to go on camera and spin things.
You know, keep me on message.
He's camera ready.
You're church ready.
- Well, that's exactly why Mom should do it.
- Oh, hell no. - Oh, heck no.
- Well, it can't be me.
They've already talked to me.
We'll look like posers.
I can't be your assistant and your business partner.
Besides, besides, you know what?
Come here.
Mom, you sit off to the side
and Dad, you introduce her as your life and business partner.
Then you do your thing.
- Okay.
That boy is good. He good, Ella.
You were right.
There is hope for him.
- Curtis.
- Baby, I never thought he'd amount to nothing.
- And that is why you cannot have a microphone by yourself.
- So you'll do it? - I will.
But I will not spin or lie. Because spinning--
- [unison] "Spinning is sinning"
We get it.
- Well, what do we have here?
- Oh, uh, nothing.
Just was finishing the movie you left on.
- You did not watch that whole movie.
- Yes, I did.
I watched it twice.
Second time with subtitles.
- What did you think?
- Men can be so selfish.
Why couldn't he see?
All she wanted to do was follow her dreams.
- Are you okay, babe?
- No, no, I'm not.
All he had to do was get more in tune with her wants and needs.
He could have seen that they
could have built a beautiful life together.
- I know, right?
I mean, what about the horseback scene on the beach?
- Exactly. She just wanted to ride horses
and get away.
Goodness.
What...
Are we this movie?
- We could be if we're not more
sensitive to what each other needs.
- You know, you're right. You're right.
Well, we're both still new to all of this life partner stuff.
So what else do you need from me?
- You already gave me what I need.
A break.
Thanks for that.
Now it's time for me to give you what you need.
- Oh okay.
Golly, we gonna do this in front of the baby?
Okay, I'm cool with it.
- I knew how much you wanted to watch the game.
- Oh, yeah, yeah, the game.
Well, you know, that's all right because
I know how much you wanted to watch a movie.
So let's do that.
- You already watched it twice.
- Well third time's a charm.
And after we finished watching this,
I picked another movie for us.
It's called uh, Jason's Lyric.
- I love that movie.
You know, the guy, the main guy?
He kind of reminds me of your dad for some reason.
- Yeah. You know, he really does, that's crazy.
Probably just because they both light skin.
- Ready? - Yeah.
Okay
- DAMON: Hello, Curtis.
Welcome to "What's Hot in the A!"
the live online edition.
Say hi to our millions of followers.
- Hello.
Thank you for having us... Me.
- DAMON: It's so great to finally meet the Sauce Boss.
I hear people will soon be
wiping down your sauce all over town.
- Well, that would be a--
uh, a blessing.
- DAMON: So tell us,
what's your inspiration for this bomb-ass sauce?
- Oh, I've been in kitchens all my life.
I'm in one now.
- You heard me.
- DAMON: Uh, hello. Who are you?
- Hello. I'm Ella Payne.
Mrs. Sauce Boss...
Wipe me down.
- DAMON: You're life partners and business partners?
- Uh, yeah.
Yes, this is my wife.
The strong Christian woman by my side.
Ain't gonna fall in that trap.
- DAMON: Well, uh, this has been interesting.
Thanks for your time.
- That's it? - That's it?
- DAMON: Yeah, it's not working out.
I thought this would be more spicy.
- Tah-dah-dad-up.
- Ella.
- The Sauce Boss might make that flavor one day.
And it's hot.
- DAMON: Okay, uh, tell me more.
- Uh, well, my wife is
the inspiration for that soon-to-be-released sauce.
It's hot and spicy.
And have you begging for more.
You heard me.
- DAMON: Are there any other exclusive sauces you want
to tell us about?
- Well, yeah, yeah, I'm working
on one now called Hallelujah Habanera.
It's for those Christians
they like that heat in their mouth.
- Oh lord. Oh lord.
- DAMON: I love that one.
- And then I got another one called Devil's Breath.
It's inspired by my wife's friend Clarita.
It's hot and never goes away.
- Curtis.
- DAMON: Y'all are funny. Let's stop right here
Well is that it? Wait a minute, I didn't even tell you
about my What the Hell? Honey and Garlic sauce.
I got that one-- I got that one and so many more
coming out the factory soon.
- DAMON: I'm sure you do, but I want to kick this
up to our TV show.
Bigger audience, bigger reach,
maybe a little product placement.
I like y'all. God-fearing folks who aren't too uptight.
- You got that right.
Hell, I don't even go to church. - Curtis, Curtis...
- DAMON: It's gonna be amazing.
I'll talk to y'all soon.
- All right. Holla.
- That was so dope. You did it.
- No, Ella did it.
You spinning Christian.
- I did not spin.
- You whirled.
- I just encouraged you to let
them see the Curtis that I know and love is infectious.
- You mispronounced crazy.
- Now, right here,
they're lost in a field of poison poppies.
But don't worry, it's just a strip club.
- Malik, I told you she is too young for The Wiz.
- What?
You're never too young for the classics.
- Are you crying?
- No.
- Eyeballs sweaty?
- A little bit.
- Stop being so sensitive.
- What?
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