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Speaker 1: four minutes after. It's my strawberry letter for today. Subject

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Speaker 1: my man lies like a rug. My man lies like

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Speaker 1: the rug. Right now, it's not about you, Jay. We'll

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Speaker 1: find out though. The nephew is here with today's prank

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Speaker 1: phone call. What you got for it's it's it's black history, Shirley,

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Speaker 1: you know. So? Hey? Yeah, slave four a day? Whoa, oh,

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Speaker 1: my slave four a day? I need you waited, Burlap

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Speaker 1: when you come in tomorrow? Okay, slave for to day.

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Speaker 1: Let's go. Hello. Hello, I'm trying to read James. James

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Speaker 1: please speaking. Hey James, how are you doing? This is

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Speaker 1: um Chad. So I'm calling from the from the job.

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Speaker 1: How are you tonight? I'm doing good. How are you?

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Speaker 1: I'm very good, very good. Giving you a call. Actually

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Speaker 1: the regional manager over the over your department. Okay, everything's

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Speaker 1: all right now. So they suddenly I just want to

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Speaker 1: make sure I'm still coming to work tomorrow. Oh, you're definitely, definitely,

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Speaker 1: nothing like that. You're definitely come to work. Now. Who's

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Speaker 1: your manager over at your office? Is it Brett? Right? Okay, Well,

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Speaker 1: here's what we're doing. Man, We're calling everybody in the

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Speaker 1: company first of all today, but more importantly, we're definitely

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Speaker 1: making contact with every African American in the company, and

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Speaker 1: I'm letting you know that we're paying homage and much

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Speaker 1: respect to Black History Month, outstanding that that's something that

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Speaker 1: we want to definitely let you guys know that's important

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Speaker 1: to us. I think that is outstanding. How can I

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Speaker 1: help well, Listen, we've got some things that that we

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Speaker 1: want to do for tomorrow and that's the reason why

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Speaker 1: you're getting a call today. Are you up for helping us,

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Speaker 1: you know, really really push Black History Month within the company? Chad,

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Speaker 1: I'm a team player. Whatever it takes, let's get it done. Okay,

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Speaker 1: good deal, Good deal. I'll tell you what. Here's what

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Speaker 1: we're gonna do. We've got a lot of people that

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Speaker 1: we've given a call to and everybody is gonna play

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Speaker 1: different roles tomorrow at the office. So we wanted to

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Speaker 1: give you a call. Do you mind if you're if

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Speaker 1: you're really the team player that we think you are,

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Speaker 1: and I think you, uh you you've already made mention

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Speaker 1: that you you don't mind doing what it takes. I

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Speaker 1: don't You're on the right track. Okay, good deal. Here's

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Speaker 1: what we're asking man. We would we would like for

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Speaker 1: you tomorrow to actually if you could find these type

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Speaker 1: of articles tonight, but if you could wear a bur

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Speaker 1: lap shirt, some cut off pants, and no shoes tomorrow,

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Speaker 1: that would really really help us out on the theme

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Speaker 1: that we're trying to get going for tomorrow. Well well, well, chat,

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Speaker 1: I think I hurt you, but I'm not sure. Can

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Speaker 1: can you please repeat that one more time? Leave? We

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Speaker 1: want you to wear a burlap shirt, some cut off pants,

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Speaker 1: and and just don't wear any shoes at all. That's

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Speaker 1: the that's the attire that we would like for you

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Speaker 1: to come into the office with tomorrow. Yeah. Yeah, and

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Speaker 1: we we're gonna give it a man. Everyone's excited about it,

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Speaker 1: and we would like for you to come in tomorrow.

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Speaker 1: Like I said, we'll chat, chat, let me, let me,

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Speaker 1: let me, let me give you I mean, since we're

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Speaker 1: gonna celebrate black sish and let me give you one fat.

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Speaker 1: The year sixteen nineteen was the first African American slave

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Speaker 1: arrived in Virginia. Today's Sundays twenty Do you think I

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Speaker 1: like that? I'm sorry, I didn't. I didn't. I didn't

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Speaker 1: exactly hear what you said at the beginning? What what

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Speaker 1: did you say? We have been over with ain't no

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Speaker 1: where in hell having to come into the office but here?

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Speaker 1: Why some flus your mind? What's wrong with you? Why

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Speaker 1: you ask me to put on a baseball two can

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Speaker 1: come here? Is Jackie Robinson? Why do you ask the

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Speaker 1: put on two piece suit to come in? Is here

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Speaker 1: a holder? What the hell is wrong with You'll? Well,

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Speaker 1: what we want to do here, and I don't want

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Speaker 1: you to get upset about this, James. What we want

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Speaker 1: to do is like you're asking me to do to

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Speaker 1: be a slave. Well, you know what I will doing here,

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Speaker 1: but I mean will come up there. I will come

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Speaker 1: me on your That's what I will do and show

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Speaker 1: you some real black power panther movement on your Would

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Speaker 1: you like that, sir? Sir? What we want to listen,

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Speaker 1: We're not here to create problems. What we want to

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Speaker 1: that's a problem, that's up the problem. Okay, okay, sir.

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Speaker 1: If we're gonna pay homage to black history, don't you

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Speaker 1: think that all of that is a part of black history.

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Speaker 1: High like the positive, man, highlight the positive. You're paying

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Speaker 1: me the day to work for you. This ain't no

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Speaker 1: slave free labor. Do you understand that? No? I I

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Speaker 1: completely understand it. But what if we don't have where

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Speaker 1: where it's started from? You know, we have to have

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Speaker 1: we have to have all every single area of black history.

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Speaker 1: Don't you think we have to have the beginning, the middle,

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Speaker 1: and the ending. Okay, well, if you want to highlight

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Speaker 1: some of them to be Frederick Dustin's, let me slick

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Speaker 1: my hat back. But see the problem you got here?

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Speaker 1: His father was a white man. See y'all like looking

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Speaker 1: at our women, but y'all don't like uplifting the black man.

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Speaker 1: So how about I do that? Let me be Frederick Ellis.

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Speaker 1: Let's I like that, boss? How about you, Chad? You

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Speaker 1: like black women? Uh? I'm here? Or answer the question.

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Speaker 1: I like all all, like all people, sir. What I'm

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Speaker 1: trying to do is get a great, great environment within

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Speaker 1: the company. And everyone is not a great avina. Now,

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Speaker 1: the majority of the of the Caucasian people are gonna

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Speaker 1: be masters tomorrow. Okay, what did you say masters? Did

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Speaker 1: you gonna say masters. Yes, most of them are going

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Speaker 1: to be masters. Tomorrow. I'll be in there with my

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Speaker 1: turning to master ELC lawsuit on your how about that?

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Speaker 1: So do you have a problem with us trying to

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Speaker 1: trying to uplift the black community? Do you have a

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Speaker 1: problem with that? Man? You ain't uplifting thing. You know

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Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do. I'm coming in the marks the

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Speaker 1: rock Obama. But you don't like to do you. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: we're running around. You want to get somebody to come

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Speaker 1: in and be a slave, and you feel master master

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Speaker 1: this master me coming in as a black man like

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Speaker 1: I've been coming into working like I'm gonna forever coming

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Speaker 1: into work. We are a major farmer company and you're

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Speaker 1: calling me on a Sunday with like this. Are you

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Speaker 1: watch sir? Sir? What we're trying to do is uplift

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Speaker 1: the black community. That we're trying to do saying tom

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Speaker 1: bout slavery, lift and kiss my black that's what you do, sir.

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Speaker 1: I'm trying to What we're trying to do is play

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Speaker 1: a homage to black history. And here you are being

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Speaker 1: negative about the entire entire situation of what we're trying

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Speaker 1: to do being negative. I'm being like, man, you I'm

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Speaker 1: coming in a Barack Obama to Marrow, like I said,

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Speaker 1: and I'm like, hey, I'm like, choose on my Can

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Speaker 1: you up that? Sir? There's the There's one more thing

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Speaker 1: I need to say to you. Okay, there's one more here.

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Speaker 1: What a moment. I'm sorry you just said all you

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Speaker 1: had to say? What's your name again, Chad? Sir? Chad Billingsley?

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Speaker 1: What's here you got to say? Chad? All I wanted

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Speaker 1: to say to you is this, sir? Is I am

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Speaker 1: nephew Tomment from the Steve Albit Martin Show. And you

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Speaker 1: just got prank your co worker Kevin had to be

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Speaker 1: some kind of joke because y'all playing on a Sunday claim.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna kick my word about my job. I was

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Speaker 1: getting ready to coming out to Morrow and whoops every

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Speaker 1: wife boy I talk looked like a math and don't

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Speaker 1: let me see a brother dress like a slave. I

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Speaker 1: was on whoop him? Oh man, Hey, man, I gotta

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Speaker 1: ask you, man, you gotta tell me this. What is

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Speaker 1: the baddest and I mean the baddest radio station in

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Speaker 1: the land, man, the Steve Harvard Morning Show. You just

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Speaker 1: twenty four. I just wanted you to come in with

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Speaker 1: your burlap on. That's all I wanted. I don't think

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Speaker 1: I asked for too much. What y'all think you think

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Speaker 1: I ask for too much? I ask you to you

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Speaker 1: woun't asked to pick cotton. It's just come to work.

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Speaker 1: Just come to work, Ja, That's I'm with you. Want

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Speaker 1: it all. He wanted to come as but Rocke, that

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Speaker 1: is what you ask him to be. Some people, that's

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Speaker 1: not what I asked you. Baby, don't in Alabama, nephew,

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Speaker 1: coming March to seventh, baby dope, Alabama, March fourteen, Montgomery, Alabama.

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Speaker 1: That's right, my my way said, likes theou to Chalcolate.

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Speaker 1: I'm coming to Alabama March seventh. Dote that March fourteenth, Montgomery.

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Speaker 1: Tickets on sale read Nah, you don't want to getting

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Speaker 1: a good all? Right? Yeah? Do you boo? If you

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Speaker 1: figured out which route you're taking, I told you, But

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Speaker 1: how do you get I said, I see it from

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Speaker 1: its right though, He's right, what the interstate? Surely that's

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Speaker 1: I need more than from Dolton to know. What you're

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Speaker 1: trying to do is make this complicated. It's the interstate

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Speaker 1: would get you there, man, I'm just telling you in

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Speaker 1: estate all the way all right, we'll get you there, Tommy,

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Speaker 1: don't worry. We'll get you there in plenty of time.

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Speaker 1: Thank you. Coming up next, my Strawberry Letter Forward. Today's subject,

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Speaker 1: my man lies like a rug. We'll get into it

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Speaker 1: right after this