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Speaker 1: Coming up at the top of the hour, right about

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Speaker 1: four minutes after today's strawberry letter. You guys are not

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Speaker 1: going to believe my letter for today. The subject is

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Speaker 1: over seventy and selling sexiness. Almost wait till you're here,

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Speaker 1: Just wait till this one is crazy? Right? That was

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Speaker 1: my grandmother's name. All right, uh, right now though, the

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Speaker 1: nephew in the building with today's prank phone call, what

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Speaker 1: what you got for his nap? God ain't through with you,

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Speaker 1: but we are. God ain't through with you. Tell me

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Speaker 1: you're asking for it, but we are Okay, this is ok.

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Speaker 1: He may not beat through which, but we are we

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Speaker 1: through which. Let's go cat though. Hello, Hello, I'm trying

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Speaker 1: to reach us so to Takara. This is brother Brinklet

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Speaker 1: from the church. How you doing? Oh hey, how is it?

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Speaker 1: It's I'm at work. Can I call you back? Uh? Well,

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Speaker 1: this is this is kind of urgent. I call your

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Speaker 1: your house phone and I didn't get an answer, and

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Speaker 1: I had this other number on file, so I wanted

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Speaker 1: to reach out to you. But what I won't take long.

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Speaker 1: But it really is an earth that urgent matter. If

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Speaker 1: you don't man, all right, hold on, hold on, let

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Speaker 1: me let me step away from my tubero. Hello. Hello, Yeah, okay,

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Speaker 1: so what's uh but the brinkly speech? Really Okay, we

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Speaker 1: have a bit of a problem here and we're gonna

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Speaker 1: try to We're trying to clean up a lot of

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Speaker 1: things here at the church in you know, I hate

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Speaker 1: to be the one to bring you some bad news.

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Speaker 1: Let me just start by by saying that God might

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Speaker 1: not be through with you, but we are here at

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Speaker 1: the church. It has been brought to eye tense, uh,

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Speaker 1: sister car that you guys are halfway coming to church

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Speaker 1: and you you you might come once once out of

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Speaker 1: a month. You're not tithing as we expected. You know,

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Speaker 1: the church can't really depend on you. Um, it's you

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Speaker 1: you got you know, you bring your kids. I think

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Speaker 1: your brother comes to the church. But everybody is coming

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Speaker 1: every now. We need We cannot depend on you all

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Speaker 1: to be the members and have the expectation of what

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Speaker 1: we're trying to do. Held hold on hold to hold

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Speaker 1: on hold of what you say. You say your name

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Speaker 1: is yes, you work on you work on the edition.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry, I've never heard of you before. I I

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Speaker 1: have been officiated by the pastor as I'm over Actually

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Speaker 1: over the finance, and we're going through all of the

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Speaker 1: books and looking at all of the numbers of the

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Speaker 1: of the members of the church and directory, and we're

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Speaker 1: noticing what people are paying time, what people are fan tid,

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Speaker 1: who's coming to church, who's participating in different and different

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Speaker 1: UH ministries and whatnot. And since it the car I got,

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Speaker 1: I had to be honest with you. You you am

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Speaker 1: maybe once every one of the mine. We might see

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Speaker 1: you might not see you, you know, and like I said,

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Speaker 1: God may not beat through with you, but we are okay.

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Speaker 1: You been saying that it's undersening why I don't understand,

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Speaker 1: like y'all monitoring my my my church going like I can't.

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Speaker 1: I can't. I have to go every single week. I

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Speaker 1: mean when I came, Why are you absent so much

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Speaker 1: at the church? Explain that? I mean, I have three kids,

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Speaker 1: you know, I mean I have two jobs. Sometimes I don't.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I still pray. I don't understand how a

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Speaker 1: church can are you yall? You got two jobs? But

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Speaker 1: we're not getting tired Like you got two jobs. You're

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Speaker 1: not kind and like you got two jobs? Channel Ford.

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Speaker 1: You just you just said I got two jobs. That's

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Speaker 1: what you just said, and that those two jobs are

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Speaker 1: in supporting my chid. I mean, I can't support the

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Speaker 1: church and my kids is the same term. I can't

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Speaker 1: do both? I mean I do, I give what I can.

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Speaker 1: Let me ask you something, what are you making on

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Speaker 1: that other job? Are you serious? Are you really? You? Really? You? Really?

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Speaker 1: I didn't know the church that God is this deep

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Speaker 1: with you really asking me how much I make and

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Speaker 1: my fuckings all that I chape to support my kids? Cool?

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Speaker 1: And now did this gotta be something? This is I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna say this to you again. God may not be

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Speaker 1: through with you, but we are. You are gonna pay

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Speaker 1: your ties. If you're not gonna come to work on

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Speaker 1: a consistent basis, then what what do you benefit? The church?

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Speaker 1: Is that what the church is about? This can be

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna say this. I'm gonna say this to you.

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Speaker 1: You you let me tell you what the church is

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Speaker 1: all about? The churches? Hey, and do say we go

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Speaker 1: with you again? One more time? I'm serious. No, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna tell you this. Somebody is that what the church

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Speaker 1: is about? Let me tell you what the church is.

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Speaker 1: The church is a hospital for cripple souls. You understand

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Speaker 1: that that's what. Okay, that's what the churches. But when

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Speaker 1: when we have the souls that are coming in to

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Speaker 1: be saved, we are doing our job. And guess what

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Speaker 1: those people that are coming and you know what they're doing.

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Speaker 1: They're tithing. That's what they're doing. They're tithing you, sister Takara,

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Speaker 1: and I'm sure your soul is crippled. You're not coming

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Speaker 1: and you're not tithing. You may give us a little

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Speaker 1: some something when you show up. If you show up.

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Speaker 1: Am I right? A wrong? Okay? Hold? Does let me

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Speaker 1: get this straight? This is what you called me for

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Speaker 1: in the middle of my work day to tell me

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Speaker 1: that you're kicking me out the church because I don't

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Speaker 1: give enough money to the church while I'm at my

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Speaker 1: job that I can bury afford to pay my bills

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Speaker 1: with that of fact, I don't even know who you are.

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Speaker 1: I've never met you in my life, and I don't

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Speaker 1: you know what this church? You know? This church. I

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Speaker 1: hate to say it, but if that's what the church

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Speaker 1: is about, you had the nerve to call me. Okay, no, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 1: let me say something now. You're being very Unchristian like

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Speaker 1: na just to the car. You're gonna watch your tone

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Speaker 1: in your language. Jim, this is not Christian life. Well

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Speaker 1: do you do you know? Brother Dwayne isn't at your brothers? Okay,

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Speaker 1: and my brother Dwayne is who told me to call you?

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Speaker 1: Really my brother? So so what is this about? Brother whatever?

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Speaker 1: I don't know. What is your name? My name is

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Speaker 1: nephew Tommy from the Steve Harvey Morning Show. Your brother

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Speaker 1: Dwayne got me to pray phone call you. No, oh

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Speaker 1: my gosh, he's not to get me by you took

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Speaker 1: this job. I mean the lobbying for looking at me.

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Speaker 1: Oh my USh, what's up? No? No, normal, Oh my god,

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Speaker 1: Oh my god. My heart is racing. Tell me that's

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Speaker 1: the car. What is the baddest and I mean the

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Speaker 1: baddest radio show in the land. Steve Harvey. God may

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Speaker 1: not be through with you, but we are church. Steve.

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Speaker 1: Get your nephews fussing in that lobby. Let him go ahead.

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Speaker 1: But see but see that's what it is. Let me

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Speaker 1: get away from my cubicle because what I don't want

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Speaker 1: to do is lose my church and my job. Okay,

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Speaker 1: may not be with you, but we are. You're gonna

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Speaker 1: quit all lit halfway tithing came on when you're coming here.

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Speaker 1: We don't want you here no more. That's how we're

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Speaker 1: doing that. That's how we're cleaning house. And I'm telling

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Speaker 1: some churches did that. Uh my, go Aroundabama, y'all getting

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Speaker 1: ready to Nephew coming to town baby, March the fourteenth,

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Speaker 1: Saturday night at the Montgomery Performing Arts Center. I think

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Speaker 1: it's gonna sell right now. The fool is coming to town.

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Speaker 1: It's that twenty twenty fool, that twenty twenty straight up ignorant.

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Speaker 1: Oh my god, fool, get you take us, come see

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Speaker 1: me up close? And personal ignorance comes around every three folk, yea,

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Speaker 1: come when we get it? Yeah, you're lucky every day

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Speaker 1: spreading some of that, spread some of it around. God

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Speaker 1: may not be through with you, but we are a ministry,

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Speaker 1: all right, nephew, thank you. Coming up next, it is

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Speaker 1: Today's Strawberry Letters, subject seventy and selling Sexiness. We'll get

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Speaker 1: into it right after this. What do you hear this