Matthew McConaughey and Camila Alves McConaughey can always count on a cup of tea to smooth things over.
During Wednesday’s upcoming episode of the Your Mama’s Kitchen podcast, host Michele Norris asks Matthew and Camila what they’ve learned in their kitchen about “how to argue productively.”
The question prompted the couple to talk about the cute morning routine they stick to even if they’re fighting.
“I don’t make my tea as good as you do,” Matthew told his wife in an exclusive clip shared with PEOPLE. “But the fact that you make me tea and serve it in the morning makes me think, ‘It just tastes better.’
He added: “Even if you and I don’t get along, the fact that you still make me tea in the morning, serve tea… that’s the difference between marriage and dating.”
In the podcast (produced by Higher Ground Barack and Michelle Obama), Camila joked that it’s not always easy to prevail during disagreements.
Camila Alves and Matthew McConaughey.
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“Yes. Trust me ladies, some mornings I don’t want to serve that tea,” she joked. Matthew replied, “But they’ll make me anyway!”
Matthew argued that performing a simple ritual, regardless of the situation, differentiates “marriage and dating.”
“[When you’re] you’re dating someone and suddenly you don’t get along [you think] ‘Oh, this is a sign of things to come. You better get out now.’ But you’re married and you don’t agree. You’re like, I’m not pulling the parachute,” he said. “This is the part I’m going to work through this. I will still serve my man his tea.”
He pointed to another example. If he’s making a “steak and sushi dinner,” he won’t just “stop serving” Camila if they fight. “I’ll still serve my lady steak sushi because I know she likes it, even though we may not agree,” he added.
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Michele Norris.
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Another way they find common ground through conflict is by finding something sweet to chew on. Matthew told Norris – who recently published his book Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity — that “sweet foods can de-escalate some things, even if it’s a nice piece of chocolate or some ice cream.”
The full episode of Your Mama’s Kitchen will be available on Audible on Wednesday, January 24th. Norris will also host Leslie Jones, Mark Cuban, Judy Blume, Bryant Terry, Tayari Jones and Maria Bamford in future Season 1 episodes.
Matthew and Camila recently teamed up for a joint business venture: their new Pantalones Organic Tequila.
In a nod to the name of their project, they announced the news in October with a cheeky video in which they were both pantsless. The couple was seen speeding away on their own motorcycles in a field of agave trees.
“When did tequila stop being tequila?” Matthew asked in the clip. Camila replied, “Is that right? Where’s the fun?”
Camila and Matthew McConaughey go pantsless to announce their new Organic Tequila Pantalones — watch
As the two wore coordinating aviator sunglasses and button-downs, the next shot revealed that was the extent of their outfits – although the screen was blurred under the belt, of course. Undeterred, they rode down the dirt track and looked ahead.
After the McConaugheys, who share three children together, toasted their new adventure, the footage showed them walking from behind as their pantless bodies were again blurred.
“Please don’t keep yours,” they both joked.
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