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Speaker 1: All right, guys, time now for today's Strawberry Letter and listen.

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Speaker 1: we're gonna read this one right here, right now. That's

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Speaker 1: got it for you here. It is the Strawberry Letter

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Speaker 1: subject My work wife is selfish and messy. Dear Stephen Shirley.

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Speaker 1: I'm a loving and respectable married man that likes to flirt.

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Speaker 1: My wife knows I'm a flirt, and she just tolerates

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Speaker 1: it because she knows nobody else wants me. I flirt

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Speaker 1: occasionally at work and it gets me a couple of

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Speaker 1: laughs and eyebrows raised, and the ladies flirt back. I

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Speaker 1: have a real life work wife that I work closely with,

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Speaker 1: and my wife has met her, so it's no big deal.

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Speaker 1: What my wife did not know is that my work

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Speaker 1: wife really likes me, but she respects the fact that

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Speaker 1: I married. We have younger interns that work with us seasonally.

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Speaker 1: Our most recent intern is twenty six years old and

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Speaker 1: fine as all get out. I made a few jokes

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Speaker 1: here and there to welcome her, but it all backfired

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Speaker 1: on me. This time. She doesn't understand that I was

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Speaker 1: only kidding with her, and now she started dressing sexier

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Speaker 1: and rubbing up against me and blowing kisses when she

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Speaker 1: passes by my desk. On Monday, she came over to

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Speaker 1: my desk and massaged my back and shoulders right in

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Speaker 1: front of my work wife. I could tell by the

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Speaker 1: look on my work wife's face that she was furious.

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Speaker 1: Instead of the work wife confronting me or the intern,

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Speaker 1: she called my wife. I had no idea what happened

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Speaker 1: until I got home and my wife would not speak

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Speaker 1: to me. After begging her to tell me what's wrong,

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Speaker 1: she told me that my workwife called her and said, girl,

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Speaker 1: he's not going to cheat on us with this young

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Speaker 1: FLUSI you need to put a stop to it. I

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Speaker 1: told her. Murder looks yeah, I told I told her

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Speaker 1: my work wife was out of line, but she sided

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Speaker 1: with the work wife and now she wants to come

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Speaker 1: up to my job to see what's going on. What

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Speaker 1: do I do in this situation? I think there will

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Speaker 1: be a showdown at work today because it's Friday, Steve,

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Speaker 1: I need your help. Brother. Oh nah, I don't call

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Speaker 1: on Steve now when it's when it's too late. Uh,

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Speaker 1: mister loving and respectable married man. You see where flirting

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Speaker 1: gets you? Huh? You see it gets you a selfish

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Speaker 1: and very message very messy, messy, messy workwife. Just as

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Speaker 1: your subject suggests, she is so wrong, she really really

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Speaker 1: is out of line. You're right about that. How dare

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Speaker 1: she call your wife with this? Really? So by that

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Speaker 1: I can say I agree with you again. She does

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Speaker 1: really like you, and if you weren't married, she'd be

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Speaker 1: trying to get at you. If she's not already, it

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Speaker 1: could have been. This could go really really wrong if

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Speaker 1: your if your wife comes up to the job, it

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Speaker 1: could go badly for you. Okay, And it's not over

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Speaker 1: because you were your Your wife could get you fired

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Speaker 1: if she comes up there and starts some stuff with

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Speaker 1: these women. So um, I really hope that she doesn't

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Speaker 1: come up there. You're gonna have to do what you

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Speaker 1: something works some magic at home. The young girl also

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Speaker 1: out of line? What is she rubbing on you for?

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Speaker 1: And huh, well, what is she rubbing yeah, she's twenty six,

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Speaker 1: but she still knows it that he's married. What is

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Speaker 1: she rubbing on you? For rubbing up against you, touching

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Speaker 1: on you, blowing you kisses and all that? All right,

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Speaker 1: come on now, I mean a lot of times there

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Speaker 1: is a little flirting that goes on at work, but

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Speaker 1: it shouldn't go any further than that. No touching, no

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Speaker 1: blowing kisses, no rubbing up against each other. You need

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Speaker 1: to stop flirting and allowing these women to touch you

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Speaker 1: and do all this stuff and blow kisses at you.

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Speaker 1: You sit down when you come to work. Okay, do

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Speaker 1: your work and go home to your wife and pray

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Speaker 1: that your wife does not come up to your job

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Speaker 1: and get everybody fired, because she certainly has a right to,

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Speaker 1: and the first one would be your so called work wife.

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Speaker 1: All right, Steve, you said you're gonna let Junior take

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Speaker 1: over this one. I know you want to get in

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Speaker 1: though I know you do. I know you do. This

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Speaker 1: is a ta a little bit though I just started off,

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Speaker 1: So Junior go here. Let me just start off by

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Speaker 1: saying this year, this is what I do know about

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Speaker 1: this man. Huh, this an ugly man. First off, you

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Speaker 1: need to understand this man is ugly. Okay, it's all

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Speaker 1: in the letter. My wife knows that I flirted, and

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Speaker 1: she just told her because she knows nobody else wants me. Okay,

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Speaker 1: only ugly people make these type of steak. Nobody has

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Speaker 1: some elp said, nobody don't want me? Oh no? And

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Speaker 1: then here's another telltale sign. I am a loving and

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Speaker 1: respectable married man that likes to flirt. No loving and

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Speaker 1: respectable man flirt. They can't be respectable and flirt? How

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Speaker 1: you do that? But see ugly people though? See only

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Speaker 1: ugly people think everybody woke in? Only people? They was

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Speaker 1: he the type of dude that walk in the rules

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Speaker 1: and stand in the doorway and poll see don't don't.

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Speaker 1: Nobody can't do that. Just how I know this man

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Speaker 1: is ugly? Now here another ban too? He owed too.

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Speaker 1: I'm sorry. I just wanted to offer you a different

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Speaker 1: way to look at this A little bit. Coudn't stay

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Speaker 1: out of it. Go ahead. He may be ugly, but

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Speaker 1: it's a set up, he says. I'm a loving and

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Speaker 1: respectable married man that like to flirt. That's a set up.

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Speaker 1: My wife knows I'll flirt, and she tolerates you because

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Speaker 1: she knows nobody else wants me. That's a set. I

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Speaker 1: first flirt occasionally at work and it gets me a

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Speaker 1: couple of laughs and eyebrows raised, and the ladies flirt back.

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Speaker 1: Here we go, now they flirting back. And I got

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Speaker 1: a real life work wife that I worked closely, and

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Speaker 1: my wife is meta, so it's no big deal. Boy.

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Speaker 1: What yeah, yeah, too much bullcrap in this letter. Go ahead, Junior,

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Speaker 1: when we come back, Yeah, you finish up, and I

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Speaker 1: tag it? Okay, cool, Yeah, we'll have two response and

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Speaker 1: uh and Steve you just heard, is gonna tag it

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Speaker 1: coming up at twenty three minutes after the hour. Today's

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Speaker 1: subject my wife is selfish. My work wife is selfish

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Speaker 1: and messy. We'll get back into it right after this.

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Speaker 1: You're listening, all right, let's get back into the letter, guys.

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Speaker 1: My work wife is selfish and messy. Let's go Junior. Okay. Uh,

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Speaker 1: this man head is at work. He gots worth wife. Okay.

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Speaker 1: Now he has another little intern that's twenty six years

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Speaker 1: old that is messing around in his worth wife's relationship.

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Speaker 1: Now here's the one thing I don't understand. Where's the

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Speaker 1: other part though? There's something missing out this letter. Where

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Speaker 1: is the other part? What have you and the work

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Speaker 1: wife been doing? See that's the other part. I know men,

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Speaker 1: I gotta work White Monica don't do none of this

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Speaker 1: for me. I have the worth wife. All my work

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Speaker 1: wife do is fixed my plate, make sure I got

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Speaker 1: my plane ticket, make sure I got my hotel numb

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Speaker 1: Monica ain't leaned in it, kissed me not one time.

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Speaker 1: She just makes sure my food is good. Know what

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Speaker 1: the hotel room I'm supposed to go to make sure

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Speaker 1: my plane ticket straight? I get to my show, and

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Speaker 1: I sit where I sit. She ain't did none of it.

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Speaker 1: She ain't rubbed, no show. Just kiss now, Julie, let

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Speaker 1: me let Junior. Let me say something else. This man

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Speaker 1: is set up. This is a gangster move he's doing.

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Speaker 1: He say, uh, I have you know that he don't

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Speaker 1: have to wear a wife. Don't have to weary about

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Speaker 1: nothing because she knows nobody else wants me. Now, when

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Speaker 1: he flirt with the ladies at work, they flirt back.

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Speaker 1: He got a real life work wife. She won't him

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Speaker 1: as a work wife. And then what now, he says,

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Speaker 1: what his wife don't know? Is his work wife really

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Speaker 1: do like him? Now? You just saying, don't nobody like you? Yeah,

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Speaker 1: but now you got the work wife to really like you.

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Speaker 1: You got a twenty six year old has been failed

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Speaker 1: for you. And when you flirt with other women, they

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Speaker 1: flirt back. This boy is setting his wife up for

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Speaker 1: his ability to fool around under her nose without her

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Speaker 1: getting suspicious. Go head you Yeah, and that's the reason

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Speaker 1: why you introduced the work wife to your real wife.

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Speaker 1: That way is right out in public. See, now you

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Speaker 1: got room to play in now because everybody know everybody.

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Speaker 1: Everybody know everybody. Now we're there, Yeah, girl, cut flaying.

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Speaker 1: You know that's just keisho at the job. You know,

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Speaker 1: Keisha crazy. But now when the lights go off and

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Speaker 1: it's you at keisha, Okay, we're not playing. No. Now

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Speaker 1: y'all doing wife wife? Now you wife wife? Now your

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Speaker 1: wife wife. The boy's cool. We've all done this. I've

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Speaker 1: done this before. Just lifted her head up. Alright, alright,

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Speaker 1: so I know how to play this. But this boy,

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Speaker 1: like Steve said, all this is just set up. This

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Speaker 1: is all he doing. He's not doing. I told you

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Speaker 1: one thing. I tell you what if it was so cool,

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Speaker 1: if the work wife and wife so cool, did why

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Speaker 1: the wife get mad? Oh huh, but what the wife

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Speaker 1: get mad? If they're so cool? Hey, I gotta love

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Speaker 1: Foulk ain't not really going on, y'all just playing, But

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Speaker 1: you're gonna report him to the wife because this twenty

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Speaker 1: the real wife didn't even check her. What this is?

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Speaker 1: How you know they old? When the last time you

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Speaker 1: heard flusing? Yeah, that's how you know he ugly they

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Speaker 1: working together closely for some years. He ain't gonna chea

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Speaker 1: bunch of hell fuck scank anything you come back with flosing? Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I went up, Steve, there's something else going on between

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Speaker 1: mad behind No, you just because Monica don't get batter

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Speaker 1: she Now Wait what, Steve, what you saying? Oh, Monica

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Speaker 1: then got Maddy? You work My work wife got made

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Speaker 1: what happened, Steve? You know, you know when Monica, you know,

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Speaker 1: there to check on him. Yeah, Junior met some friends

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Speaker 1: the Strawberry Letter. What he didn't know? Strawberry Letter, I

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Speaker 1: didn't set up. You didn't see the whole letter? Is

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