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Speaker 1: Thank you, nephew. Subject next door and down the street,

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Speaker 1: Dear Stephen Shirley. I'm married to a mister fix it All,

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Speaker 1: the friendly handyman that runs to help single women when

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Speaker 1: something goes wrong in their home. I hope he can

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Speaker 1: fix his marriage because I'm at the end of my

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Speaker 1: rope with him. He runs a landscaping business, and he

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Speaker 1: has awesome employees that work for him and execute his vision.

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Speaker 1: That frees him up to do a lot of customer

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Speaker 1: service type work. And when he sees a customer with

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Speaker 1: a need, it's his duty to provide a service. That's

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Speaker 1: what he tells me every time he gets in a

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Speaker 1: sticky situation with a quote unquote customer. Last week, I

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Speaker 1: got home from the gym and he was nowhere to

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Speaker 1: be found. I heard hammering next door, so I went

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Speaker 1: upstairs to peek over into my neighbor's yard. Her husband

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Speaker 1: died last year, so she's maintaining the house and taking

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Speaker 1: care of her young child alone. I've cooked for her,

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Speaker 1: and I'll keep her daughter if she wants to run

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Speaker 1: some errands. She's a sweet person. My husband told her

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Speaker 1: anything she meets, we're here for her. So I guess

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Speaker 1: she needed help with her fence, and he had to

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Speaker 1: for her. I watched him and her in the backyard

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Speaker 1: and the body language was very flirtatious. When he got home,

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Speaker 1: I asked how he got over there, and he said

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Speaker 1: she texted him. I didn't know they had each other's numbers,

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Speaker 1: but whatever it is, it's what he does to me

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Speaker 1: all the time. Just yesterday I saw his truck in

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Speaker 1: the neighborhoods skanks yard. And she's got to live in

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Speaker 1: boyfriend that's a flight attendant, so he's all ways gone.

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Speaker 1: Heaven knows what she needed. I'm sick of him being

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Speaker 1: openly disrespectful to me and our marriage. If he's a landscaper.

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Speaker 1: Why can't he just do that? Is he seeking praise

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Speaker 1: from the women or does he want more than that? Well,

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Speaker 1: it sounds like he wants whatever he can get, and

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Speaker 1: it sounds like he's either getting it already or he's

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Speaker 1: gonna get it taking a shirt off and all of that.

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Speaker 1: You said, he has awesome employees, so why doesn't he

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Speaker 1: just let them take care of his customers? Why doesn't he?

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Speaker 1: I mean, he's in no way obligated to take care

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Speaker 1: really going on with him? As a question, why does

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Speaker 1: the neighbor have his phone number? Why? Because he gave

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Speaker 1: it to her. That's what happened there. This is not

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Speaker 1: looking good for him in my eyes, and I'm sure

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Speaker 1: your eyes either. You gotta let him know what's up,

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Speaker 1: and not that you should have to, because he should

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Speaker 1: know better as a married man not to be doing that.

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Speaker 1: I mean, my question to you is have you said

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Speaker 1: anything to him about it? Because it sounds like you're

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Speaker 1: just sitting back and letting him do whatever he does,

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Speaker 1: whatever he wants to do. He might think you're okay

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Speaker 1: with it since you've been silent on silent, say something.

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Speaker 1: Let him know how you feel and that you don't

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Speaker 1: like it. Tell them to let those single women get

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Speaker 1: their own handyman and leave yours alone. Steve, you know,

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Speaker 1: it's really simple. Letters really like not she has no

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Speaker 1: proof of anything. She's just has some suspicions here, and

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Speaker 1: that's you know, it's hard for us to respond to

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Speaker 1: a letter with suspicions. But I do have a couple

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Speaker 1: of things of interest I found in this letter. Now

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Speaker 1: you're married to What she calls him is to fix

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Speaker 1: it all. A friendly handyman that runs to help single

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Speaker 1: women when something goes wrong in their home. See, married

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Speaker 1: people need handywork done too, But sometimes some me and

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Speaker 1: NA do it yourself as in some women are more

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Speaker 1: do it yourself as soul. But you seem to think

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Speaker 1: my rope with him now. He runs a landscaping business.

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Speaker 1: Now I know some people with landscaping business that's bushes, grass, trees,

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Speaker 1: lander escaping, that's what it is. He has awesome employees

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Speaker 1: of work. Maybe that's what he's interested in, is the

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Speaker 1: didn't really want to be a landscaper. He really wanted

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Speaker 1: to be a customer servicer. So that's what he's doing, right,

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Speaker 1: And that's what he tells me every time he gets

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Speaker 1: didn't cook for and keep her. She want to rust

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Speaker 1: the marriage. She's a really sweet person, so it really

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Speaker 1: her anything's and she needs we're here for her. So

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Speaker 1: I guess she needed help with her fence, and he

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Speaker 1: had to take his shirt off to nail a few

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Speaker 1: boards together for her. Right there, let's talk. I just

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Speaker 1: told you what landscaping was bushes grass and trees. He

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Speaker 1: over there hammering boards on a fence. Ain't got nothing

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Speaker 1: to do with landscaping. Now, landscapers do put over, but

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Speaker 1: he ain't over that making money. He over there helping out.

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Speaker 1: But he took his shirt off. I have seven questions.

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Speaker 1: How many boys was he hammling? And how hot was it?

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Speaker 1: I gotta take your damn shirt off. Now. I'm assuming

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Speaker 1: he's fit, because you going to the gym to make

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Speaker 1: sure you fit. Now you look out there, he got

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Speaker 1: sweat rolling down off his chocolate body, just hamming this

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Speaker 1: helpers fits. Hold that thought, Steve, hold it, Hold it

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Speaker 1: right there. We'll have part two of your response coming

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Speaker 1: up at twenty three minutes after the hour. Today's Strawberry Letters,

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Speaker 1: into it right after this. You're listening Morning show, All right,

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Speaker 1: Come on, Steve, let's recap today's strawberry letter. The subject

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Speaker 1: is next door and down the street. Well, let's just

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Speaker 1: real soon. But this woman has suspicions about her husband,

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Speaker 1: who's in the landscaping business, and he has some really

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Speaker 1: great employees that carry out this vision. So he's more

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Speaker 1: into the customer service part of it. You all have

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Speaker 1: a next door neighbor who's a widower now because her

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Speaker 1: husband died a year a little year ago. She's a

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Speaker 1: sweet person, you say, and you all agreed to help

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Speaker 1: her out with anything she needed. You go to the gym,

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Speaker 1: you come home, you hear some hammering. You go upstairs.

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Speaker 1: You look over in the yard. He over that hammering

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Speaker 1: and some boards up against you. He's a landscaper, bushes grass, landscaper.

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Speaker 1: But now he over that. Nah he now he just

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Speaker 1: you know, now he do fist work. Yeah, he's a

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Speaker 1: shirtless landscape but na, you look over that. He hammering

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Speaker 1: question before we left was how many boards was he hammering?

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Speaker 1: And how hot was it? And then you looked at

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Speaker 1: over there, and this food said, She text me what,

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Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't I didn't even know they

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Speaker 1: dummy told you this, what should he said? Steve? Well,

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Speaker 1: I came home and I saw her trying to put

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Speaker 1: finger and I said, hold on, let me help, y'all,

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Speaker 1: and you know that, you know, you know then you

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Speaker 1: could say it. You can heave it out. You know

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Speaker 1: when she smashed her finger, you know, at least I

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Speaker 1: on star had any boards? Oh? Because you know, well, yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, you know when you smash your finger for

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Speaker 1: a thing you wanna do and put it in your mouth.

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Speaker 1: So lest I ain't go that far trying to help,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm saying. And then next thing, you know,

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Speaker 1: She gotta live in boardfend a flight attendant. He ain't

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Speaker 1: never home. Heaven knows where she needed. I'm thinking of

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Speaker 1: him being openly different, respectful to me in our marriage,

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Speaker 1: and he's a landscaper. Why can't he just do that?

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Speaker 1: Is she's seeking praise for the women or does he

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Speaker 1: want more that? The question is, is he's seeking praise? Well,

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Speaker 1: let me just say this right here. He don't do

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Speaker 1: pranks on the Steve harm more than show. That's the

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Speaker 1: most person. He's not new Tommy. So he can't possibly

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Speaker 1: doing that. But what I will show you is his

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Speaker 1: to do a live of reenactment. I'm gonna show you

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Speaker 1: how he gets all these extra jobs. I want you

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Speaker 1: always at least single women's hut. Just ask me any question, please,

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Speaker 1: any question anything? Okay, listen, are you are you gonna?

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Speaker 1: I need someone to drive the kids to school for

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Speaker 1: me tomorrow? Can you do that? Please? Oh? You know, driving,

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Speaker 1: I'm saying Now, I could drive them for you, but

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Speaker 1: Next question, I have a question about lightbulbs. Led light bulbs,

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Speaker 1: can you help me. It's hard for me to make

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Speaker 1: a decision as to what kind. Oh I see what's happening?

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Speaker 1: You want a light bulb? But Led led simply spells led.

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Speaker 1: So I'm being led into your arms to put this

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Speaker 1: Next question, you know, I like, Um, my husband isn't here,

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Speaker 1: and I like basketball, and but my TV is not

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Speaker 1: help me fix my TV? Because I do like to

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Speaker 1: watch basketball? Oh yeah, yeah. You probably like yeah because

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Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying, that ball pounding on that hardwood.

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Speaker 1: pounders to ever get in the landscaping business. How are

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Speaker 1: the boards were loose on the stairs. You said you

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Speaker 1: there and caught you, it would have been on and cracking.

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