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Speaker 1: baby let You're gonna love this letter, Steve Subject. I'm

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Speaker 1: a star, but my friends say I suck. Dear Stephen Shirley,

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Speaker 1: I'm forty nine years old, but I look thirty. Praise

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Speaker 1: the Lord. I'm an entertainer by nature. I love life

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Speaker 1: and I celebrate it every day. I'm high energy and

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Speaker 1: always the life of the party wherever I go. Recently,

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Speaker 1: I started an Instagram account to showcase my talent, and

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Speaker 1: I have a few hundred followers that like my work.

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Speaker 1: I learned from you, Steve, that it's never too late

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Speaker 1: to pursue your dreams. So here's my issue. It's never

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Speaker 1: too late. So here's my issue. My so called friends

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Speaker 1: told me that I'm not as good as I think

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Speaker 1: just for a good laugh. They told me that they

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Speaker 1: have been laughing at me and not with me for

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Speaker 1: tell me. Can you imagine how I felt. I was

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Speaker 1: down and felt defeated at first, but then I said,

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Speaker 1: scrow them. I miss hanging out with my friends, but

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Speaker 1: I know in my soul that I'm bound for greatness.

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Speaker 1: What should I do now? I need support and positive input,

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Speaker 1: not a bunch of haters laughing at me. Where do

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Speaker 1: I go from here? Should I stay on track and

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Speaker 1: pursue my passion or listen to my hating friend. I

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Speaker 1: want to leave my job and pursue this full time,

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Speaker 1: so please help me. I don't want to make a

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Speaker 1: big mistake. Well, um, this entire letter, you didn't say

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Speaker 1: what your talent is. You didn't say if you were

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Speaker 1: a singer, dancer, actress, comedian, et cetera. You didn't say,

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Speaker 1: I'm guessing possibly a comedian. Since you say they're laughing

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Speaker 1: at you and not with you. I knew you were

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Speaker 1: gonna say that, Steve, she could be a singer though.

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Speaker 1: I'm sure when they told you that. Yes, of course

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Speaker 1: you felt if eat it not to mention hurt, and

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Speaker 1: you are right. It's never too late to pursue your dreams.

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Speaker 1: You shouldn't give up on your dreams. Uh. Many talented

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Speaker 1: people say, uh, you know they got their starts later

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Speaker 1: in life. And maybe your friends are hating you don't know.

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Speaker 1: So what I say to you is you need to

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Speaker 1: you know, if you have some talent or not, and

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Speaker 1: you can you know, then decide if it's something you

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Speaker 1: want to pursue. But please, Lord, please do not quit

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Speaker 1: your job before you get a professional opinion. Okay, because

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Speaker 1: I hate to say it, but but what if your

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Speaker 1: friends are right and then you quit your job? Okay,

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Speaker 1: don't do that? All right, Just get in front of

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Speaker 1: some professionals. Um, you know, if you have some tapes,

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Speaker 1: if you have some videos and stuff, send them around, uh,

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Speaker 1: to see what they think. Some real people, all right,

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Speaker 1: who are in the business. All right, Steve, you ain't

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Speaker 1: gotta do none of that. Later here to professional right here,

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Speaker 1: let's just go and get this. Cut the music off

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Speaker 1: and make sure she hit me clear this up. Let

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Speaker 1: me show you, line by line how this is not good.

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Speaker 1: I'm forty nine years old, but I look thirty to who.

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Speaker 1: I'm forty nine years old, but I looked thirty to who?

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Speaker 1: Next line, Praise the Lord? Ready for this one. I'm

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Speaker 1: an entertainer by nature? The hell do that me? I'm

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Speaker 1: of the word natural, meaning I'm an entertainer naturally now

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Speaker 1: let me explain something to you. When you're naturally in entertainer,

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Speaker 1: it don't mean you're good at it, right, your ass

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Speaker 1: just like a fool around and clown. And then here

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Speaker 1: celebrated every day. I'm high energy. I'm always the life

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Speaker 1: many people it's got ain't making a damn dollar at it?

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Speaker 1: You ready for you next one? I started in Instagram

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Speaker 1: account to showcase my talent. I have a few hundred

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Speaker 1: followers that like my work. Uh excuse me. I don't

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Speaker 1: know how long you've been doing this, but a few

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Speaker 1: There's people that sit on Instagram all day and hit

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Speaker 1: that don't mean nothing has in there. Man, You can

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Speaker 1: She like a musical like, Yeah, she like a music Oklahoma. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: she'll be talking you know what. And then it's came

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Speaker 1: I ain't definitely ain't told you you look thirty. I

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Speaker 1: let's recap today's letter. But somebody think they molding I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm forty nine, but I look thirty. Right there, She's

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Speaker 1: Tommy fit, Tommy phill up. Comedy clubs, venues sell out

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Speaker 1: The fact that you won't tell us what you do

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Speaker 1: I'm entertaining and I'm with Shelly not Do you tell

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Speaker 1: Or is it when you start singing, it's a damn joke.

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Speaker 1: My so called friends told me I'm not as good

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Speaker 1: I can't let me. I can't. I can't relate to

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Speaker 1: this story here now, I don't know what you're talking about.

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Speaker 1: You come to my show laughing at me. I had

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Speaker 1: you had houling and rolling. I make people get up,

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Speaker 1: Ain't that what we do? Tommy Junior sid Can you

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Speaker 1: imagine how I felt? Now? Hell? No, we came. I

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Speaker 1: screw them. I miss hanging out with my friends. But

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Speaker 1: I know in my soul here well, here go my

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Speaker 1: favorite life. But I know in my soul that I'm

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Speaker 1: bound for greatness. You know that's probably heaven. That's probably

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Speaker 1: what you bound for greatness. Yeah, you've brought up soul

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Speaker 1: here and being a successful entertained by nature. What should

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Speaker 1: some positive input. Shirley told you, whatever you do, don't

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Speaker 1: quit your damn day. John Sharty told you that. I

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Speaker 1: agree with Sherley. What Shally said? Whatever you do, don't

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Speaker 1: quit your job? You said, where do I go from here?

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Speaker 1: looking every bit a sixty nine. Yeah, I'm gonna tell

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Speaker 1: thing for me. Learn this from me. Learn it's never

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Speaker 1: don't give fifty ye old people record deals. Yeah she's

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Speaker 1: just trying to you how they don't do it. Now

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Speaker 1: next to your bus stop and he talking to yourself

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Speaker 1: be because it ain't that you didn't gain weight. It's

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Speaker 1: you you're not fitting, be no stock in your mind.

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Speaker 1: Just be a great person. Try to make it to heaven.

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Speaker 1: Your reward is in he calls it ain't down. After Philip,

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