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Speaker 1: Time now for today's Strawberry Letter. And if you need

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Speaker 1: advice on relationships, on dating, on work, on sex, on parenting,

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Speaker 1: and more, please submit your Strawberry Letter to Steve Harvey

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Speaker 1: your letter live on the air right here, right now,

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Speaker 1: just like we're gonna read this one. Okay, love it? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: let's buckalup, been hold on tight, We got it for you.

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Speaker 1: Here it is Strawberry Letter, subject, keep your nasty hands

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Speaker 1: off me. Dear Stephen Shirley, I am a thirty year

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Speaker 1: old woman that's in a dirty situation with my man.

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Speaker 1: I love my man and couldn't have asked for a

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Speaker 1: better partner, but there's one thing about him that ticks

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Speaker 1: me off. He hates to wash his hands. We've been

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Speaker 1: together for six years and we just got engaged. We

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Speaker 1: moved in together last month, and that's when I noticed

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Speaker 1: his nastiness. He works long days at a factory and

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Speaker 1: when he comes home, he changes his clothes and flops

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Speaker 1: down on the bed. At first, I didn't want to

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Speaker 1: say anything and nag him about it, but last week

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Speaker 1: I couldn't hold it any longer. When I questioned him,

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Speaker 1: he asked me why was it? But was it bothering me?

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Speaker 1: Because they're his hands and his germs. I didn't care

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Speaker 1: to argue with him, so I let it go. Over

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Speaker 1: the weekend, he was in our garage tinkering around with

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Speaker 1: his car and working on his motorcycle. He came straight

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Speaker 1: into my kitchen and opened the refrigerator to get a beer,

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Speaker 1: and then proceeded to get the bread out of the

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Speaker 1: there and watched him so I could go behind him

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Speaker 1: and sanitize the kitchen when he finished. Whenever he's in

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Speaker 1: the bathroom, there's a flush and then the door opens

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Speaker 1: right afterwards. I decided to take the same attitude with him,

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Speaker 1: and I started with holding sex. Told him I didn't

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Speaker 1: want his germs from his hands on me. I told

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Speaker 1: him he would have to fairly wash his hands and

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Speaker 1: clean under his nails daily or he's cut off from

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Speaker 1: touching me. That caused an instant argument, and he says

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Speaker 1: he can't marry a woman who treats him like a child.

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Speaker 1: I can't believe that he's upset that he's that upset.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to get an infection from his nasty

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Speaker 1: hands on me. How should I handle this? Please? Help? Well?

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Speaker 1: I think you are handling it. I mean you have

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Speaker 1: asked him, You've asked him nicely. You've not nagged him

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Speaker 1: about it. You know, you've told him about the germs,

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Speaker 1: how you don't want to get an infection. You're not

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Speaker 1: treating him like a child. I don't think you're doing

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Speaker 1: that at all. You are expressing how you feel about

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Speaker 1: what he's not doing, and that's simply being clean. I mean,

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Speaker 1: you find out a lot about a person when you

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Speaker 1: move in together, and that's one of the things maybe

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Speaker 1: you didn't notice in the six years you guys have

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Speaker 1: been just dating before you got engaged. So now everything's

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Speaker 1: come to light. You know, it's just a matter of

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Speaker 1: simply being clean and good hygiene. Okay, for me, cleanliness

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Speaker 1: is just a deal breaker. It just is. Anyone who

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Speaker 1: doesn't wash their hands after using the bathroom, come on, now,

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Speaker 1: they're just nasty, just nasty. He's even all in the kitchen,

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Speaker 1: and stuff. No, you gotta wash your hands. What are

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Speaker 1: you doing? You know, so after you've done everything, including

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Speaker 1: I hope that's that's it. I mean, yeah, it would

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Speaker 1: do more than just tick me off. I'm just telling you,

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Speaker 1: I would be absolutely mad and a Paul. What makes

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Speaker 1: I just think? You know, what makes you think he's

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Speaker 1: gonna change after marriage? He's not gonna change. So if

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Speaker 1: you don't get this situation settled before marriage, you're gonna

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Speaker 1: be even more frustrated once you get you know, till

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Speaker 1: to deal with this, I mean, and he doesn't seem

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Speaker 1: so I don't know. This may not mister Nasty, may

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Speaker 1: not be your man after all, Steve, Surely I agree

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Speaker 1: with everything you said. So that's a wonderful letter. But

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Speaker 1: we're dealing with something here that is kind of crazy.

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Speaker 1: Now you've been together six years, and you got engaged,

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Speaker 1: you just now noticing last month he nasty? What what

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Speaker 1: do you must have been living in the most unobservational

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Speaker 1: six year period enter any relationship. He worked out a factory.

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Speaker 1: He come home, changes clothes, flop down on the bed,

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Speaker 1: right down. When you work in the factory, which I have,

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Speaker 1: you smell like the factory. It's a different air in

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Speaker 1: the oil, the machinery, the combustion, all of that combined.

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Speaker 1: It's just in the air. Every factory has a certain

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Speaker 1: blindfolded by the smell, gets in your clothes, it's in

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Speaker 1: your hair. Now, it's all under his nails. You just

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Speaker 1: not noticing it. Then you questioned him about it, and

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Speaker 1: he asked you why I was bothered him because they're

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Speaker 1: his hands and his head germs. Well, your hands and

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Speaker 1: your gems touch me. So you've done what you should

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Speaker 1: have done. You've retracted from having sex. Now he's mad

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Speaker 1: at you. And now he said he don't know if

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Speaker 1: like a child. He didn't open up the pantry with refrigerator.

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Speaker 1: I mean the bread made a sandwich. You got a

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Speaker 1: visible trailer all in grime everywhere. He touched nasty. He

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Speaker 1: making sandwiches, reaching down in the bread. That ain't what

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Speaker 1: You open the refrigerator over? How many times have you

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Speaker 1: got slept up? Subject? You don't come in this house

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Speaker 1: and open this trigerator without washing your hands. Took a

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Speaker 1: many as whippers for that, right, Hang on, stay here. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: twenty three minutes after the our subject keep your nasty

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Speaker 1: hands off me. We'll get back into it right after this.

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Speaker 1: You're listening show, all right, Steve, Come on, let's recap

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Speaker 1: today's strawberry letters. Subject keep your nasty hands off me.

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Speaker 1: It's an interesting letter. The woman's been dating this man.

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Speaker 1: She's thirty years old, dating this man for six years.

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Speaker 1: They finally got engaged. She moved in, and she noticed

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Speaker 1: the last month his nastiness. He worked in the factory,

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Speaker 1: comes home, changing his clothes, flops down on the bed.

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Speaker 1: She mentioned to him that that was bothering her. He

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Speaker 1: didn't understand it. He said, why are you tripping these

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Speaker 1: is my hands and my gams. She wanted to wash

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Speaker 1: his hand. She want to argue with the man. So

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Speaker 1: then he was outside working on the car and a motorcycle,

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Speaker 1: trail of grime. He made a sandwich without washing his head.

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Speaker 1: You can see grime everywhere. Goes in the bathroom, she

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Speaker 1: hears a flush. The next thing you know, here in

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Speaker 1: the hallway talking. I'm out. I'm just dours, no watch.

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Speaker 1: So she decided to take the same attitude with him,

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Speaker 1: and the ladies started with holding Secks. Told him I

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Speaker 1: as he thoroughly washed his hand to clean under his

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Speaker 1: nails daily, or he's cut off from touching me. It's

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Speaker 1: an argument. This fool, mister Nasty says, I can't married

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Speaker 1: a woman to treat me like a child. Well, she

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Speaker 1: came man man to act like a child. So what

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Speaker 1: is your two kids getting mad? Right, it's time to

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Speaker 1: break up. But I think I have a few solutions.

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Speaker 1: There are some things that you might have to try, lady. Obviously,

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Speaker 1: withholding set, he's not equating that to clinic because now

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Speaker 1: he tripped. I think you gotta do little things to

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Speaker 1: attract his attention. All of this has to do with

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Speaker 1: the kitchen and things you can do to get him

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Speaker 1: to understand the necessity for clintic. Here's a couple of

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Speaker 1: suggestions you might want to try the next time. Y'all

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Speaker 1: sit down and eat the meal, take your shoes off,

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Speaker 1: put them on top of the table. Don't say nothing.

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Speaker 1: Just keep eating. Don't say anything. Here's another suggestion. You

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Speaker 1: come out the bathroom and while y'all in the living room,

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Speaker 1: while y'all in the kitchen fit eat, Just bring some

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Speaker 1: tarlet tissue in there. Set it in the middle of

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Speaker 1: sugar bowl, go outside, put some dirt in it. Put

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Speaker 1: that on the table, and when you make his food,

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Speaker 1: open it and just sprinkle a little dirt around the

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Speaker 1: of the table. It just it'll make him feel more

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Speaker 1: at home. Don't say nothing. Don't say nothing. From now,

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Speaker 1: when it's time to make his sandwich, I want you

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Speaker 1: to start reusing as much bread as you can. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, just reach out in there, get the end

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Speaker 1: out to trash and put a little peanut butter on it.

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Speaker 1: Make little lord Derk prices and just make a plate

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Speaker 1: with just broken pieces of bread. Reuse bread a matter

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Speaker 1: of fact, before you make his sandwich with the bread,

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Speaker 1: wipe off the counter with a slice of bread. Make

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Speaker 1: his damn sandwich. Wow, you got to do serious to

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Speaker 1: take his draws. Take a pair of his draws. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: just a house with it, wax the furniture, and then

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Speaker 1: day at work with him on that's how you draws. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you have to do things to people who are nasty

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Speaker 1: and don't even mention it. Baby, what did you? What

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Speaker 1: Just wear I'm don't wear about it? Just John, You

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Speaker 1: gonna do things fellas? You have any suggestions, Yes, I

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Speaker 1: have some. I have a couple right here. What do

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Speaker 1: you have to lead his underwear, his underwear that he

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Speaker 1: I got most men like you know, we like bananas,

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Speaker 1: up socks, Jay, I have a number wash his factory

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Speaker 1: socks in a pot on the stove. I was, but

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Speaker 1: serve it also as socks soup. Yes, but add to that,

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Speaker 1: chicken sock soup, they're gonna need something to drink up. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna need something to drink that bad fruit. Get

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